Be Thankful !

Ok I can hardly contain my excitement!!! My daughter Julia and I are crafting again. Which means we will set up shop slowly and go from there. Years ago I had an Etsy shop and made crafts and sold and shipped them. It was going great but I wasn't in a place that I could continue that busy life. I'm thankful that I can start up again. I don't know if I will start an Etsy shop again but you never know. For now its just out of the home. We will soon have a link for a blog dedicated just for crafting. I cant wait for that.  It really gives me such joy to express myself in my crafts and creativity and if nothing comes of it,  Oh Well! At least I get to do what I love.

Sports!

 It has begun!! It is the time that our schedules will soon no longer belong to us anymore. Lowell and Isabelle are in soccer, luckily the same team this year. Logan is in his Junior year of high school and is on the Varsity Football team. Logan pretty much is at football everyday twice a day, except weekends. He loves football and loves his team, he hardly complains about anything that is hurting him. I just love Logan!  Lowell and Isabelle took some time off of sports which was good because we all were just drained. They moved to the bigger field this year and Isabelle is nervous about that. Lowell he hasn't said it but I think he missed playing soccer a lot. I'm so glad they are back at it again. Oh and I'm team mom! Yay me!

This is a terrible picture of football practice but its so hard to capture one of Logan while he's doing his thing. Game pics are going to be so much better!

Oh Wonderful Day...

I just loved today!

The Sabbath day is such a wonderful day. We are able to go to church and renew are baptismal covenants and remember our Savior.

Then come home and rest or watch family movies or play games or nap. My favorite is taking a nap!

Yesterday was my birthday and it means I'm crawling faster thru my 40's, BOOOOOO!!!!

I don't feel like I should be turning 42, I really don't. I don't feel I should be any certain age I just don't feel like I should be getting older. I don't know how to explain it, its just how I feel about birthdays.

My family made me feel loved yesterday and while Mikey took me out to ummm........

Well it wasn't what you would normally do for birthday celebrations but I just wanted to hang out with Mikey and I'm very simple and don't need extravagant parties to feel special.

So.....

Yes, we did errands but we were together.

If you understand me you understand  why this right here is good enough for me. I needed a new prescription glasses and guess what!!!! Mikey needed hearing aids! Oh my goodness yes my hubby needed hearing aids. So yesterday proved to us that we are getting older but wiser for sure. I don't even know what this contraption is on me in the pic but it helps I guess.

Then we went to lunch and that was yummy.

When we got home

 I had a yummy Chocolate Buttermilk cake with Whipped vanilla cream and Isabelle decorated my cake with Sixlets. Yum!!

It was a great day and I have some exciting things coming up. I'm finally getting into crafting again and loving it.

Happy Birthday to all August birthdays out there.

Mom and Belle

I've been slacking on the whole taking turns with each of my children out on a mom\child date. So the other day I needed to make a point of doing that with the youngest.

She was having a bad week and I knew just the thing to lift her spirits. Isabelle LOVES to go to the pet store and look at all the different animals and then she asks to take them all home.

She was checking each little critter, kitten, birds, reptiles (gross) and anything that was living. I let her look until she feels she got enough time with each. Of course she wanted to name each one.  Then of course her favorite ice cream to top it off.

On our way to our outing Isabelle saw some people with signs asking for food or money. She was very concerned with them and wanted to help. She then said "is there anyway we can cook some food and give it to them?" I told her she has a serving heart and that I love that she wants to help someone in need. So our next mission is to help the homeless somehow and I will have Isabelle help take charge of this. I love her tender heart!

Peaches & Campout

My family LOVES Peaches

We love peaches in cobbler, yogurt, ice cream, by themselves and in muffins.

So this past weekend Mikey happened to be off for three days and decided to campout with the kids out on our trampoline. That's a favorite of the kids to do with their dad in the summer time.

So for breakfast I thought Peach muffins would be delicious to wake up to. I was right and I actually didn't even get one because by the time I went to eat they were all gone.

That's ok because that means I can make them again and I know they will be eaten.

 This is on my Pinterest page under recipes, this lady's recipe was awesome!

 I made mini and regular size and then it had a drizzle to go on top.

Delicious!

My baby is not a baby anymore

How can this be possible?

Oh how time flies is what I think all the time as I see my children grow. But my youngest being almost 10 and into the double digits (Which is a big deal in our house) is so hard to believe.

My family bought me a new camera so it has been a lot of fun to capture moments that actually turn out good and not blurry or just off color.

Isabelle has kept me on my toes for her whole life. She is a joy, and every thing she does I think she is just the smartest. Isabelle at 2 days old passed out and started convulsing and scared us really good. For almost 10 years this has continued with her even hitting her head on furniture as she was passing out. I remember her being on top of a hill in our backyard and I look at her and see her starting to pass out and I start running to her to catch her. I couldn't make it in time and she rolled right on down. She was ok but the thought of not being able to reach her in time was painful.  Her young body has been thru so much and she struggles with many things but her joy is wonderful and she deals with these trials so much better than I. I love her so much and thank my Heavenly Father for her sweet spirit in our family all the time.

Champ loves friends

It's so nice to have family over and especially Mikey's brother David and Angela and the kids. They are a breath of fresh air and are just very loving people. My niece Felicity is usually scared of dogs and she just sat right down next to Champ and started petting him. Of course he soaked all of it up. Logan is pretty much laying on the floor not wanting to move because conditioning week started for football.