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Coming soon!

I am currently working on a new BLog that I will be opening up for visitors very soon. You will soon notice that any craft ideas/cleaning and organizing ideas will be dissapearing from this blog. The reason for this is I really want to keep this blog as a Family Record. My new blog will be simple but full of fun, inspiring ideas to hopefully motivate you. I will be putting tutorials of fun (easy) projects. It will mostly be my personal blog about what makes me happy. Since I am a horrible phone talker it will be a way for my friends to stay up on what I am doing. Keep a look out for Unnecessary Necessities!

Grandparent visit!

We had a great weekend with my parents. My kids loved having them here and so did I because there was yummy food and great babysitters! My parents have more energy for my kids than I do. Thank you dad for chipping out all of the ice on my driveway and thank you mom for making the best Texas Sheet Cake ever! We love you guys so much!

Little Tate!

Oh how I miss this age! I would just kiss his cheeks all day long! Why do they grow up and become stinky boys?!!?

2 years ago today!!!

Livia Lee- 2 years ago on Valentine's Day. I always feel like time moves so slowly until I see pictures like this and I realize just how fast they really do grow up. I miss her curly hair! It was just so fun to do. Had to post these............................................

Happy Valentines!!

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Again, I cannot express how much fun it is to have this little girl in my life- She is about as girlie as they come. In this particular footage we had just given Liv the works- nails, hair, makeup and even a shirt from my closet! (please try hard to not focus on the woman in the hideous jammies and headband in the background we hadn't gotten to my makeover yet!)

So much fun.............

Oh how important it is to get away from your kids!!!!!!! We had a divine time in Salt Lake. I shopped until I dropped and Chad talked until he was exausted about bulls and bucks! it really was a fun time. I especially loved doing a session at the Temple and Seeing the Conference Center in real life. We ate good food and hung out with great friends. I really missed my kids! it was great to come home to my sweet life after taking a breather. Thank you to Tess, Brian, Darwin, Andrea and Jill for helping with the kiddos and Thank you Shepherd family for watching our Stinky Crab!!!!!!

Too Funny.....................

Hilarious song to make you smile!

back from the dead...................

I am so glad Chad and I finally bought a King size bed last year- We always said we loved to cuddle and would never get one- after kids come along sleep becomes so much more imortant so we could easily justify the purchase. The past few days we have all been sick with the flu. we have lived as a family in that bed. I got the flu in my muscles and I have felt almost paralized. Chad even had to get me out of the tub the other night- Humiliating! I think next year we might just get those flu shots after all. So when we all went to the doctor on Thursday they told me that the flu is passed through the air like when we cough- me being the complete germaphobe has gone through two cans of Lysol washed all of the sheets 4 times and I keep opening up all of the windows to air the house out- Chad thinks I have completely lost my mind. On Saturday I had to go to the Stake baptisms- my dear Presidency has been so good to cover me the past few months so I knew I would just have to muster up the strength and do it- I am glad I did- Livia came with me so I would not have to leave two kids for Chad to deal with- and she was just full of questions. It was really fun to experience that with her- she is growing up way too fast. Kind of a random entry I know but this is my journal and these are some things I want to remember................. We are all feeling better thank goodness because we leave tomorrow for Saltlake for the Hunting expo to promote an sell Chad's new hunting movie! Too exciting.

Rocket Rage.....................

I bought this rocket for the kids the other day- let's just say it was so stinckin' hard for me to figure out how to put it together that I felt like a complete loser in front of my children. I am an engineer's daughter after all! I guess his smarts in that area skipped a generation! The kids hide out in this rocket for hours playing "Infinity And Beyond!!!" I just love buying a gift for the kids that really is a gift for me- what a selfish mommy.......

Livia & Tate

We love.....................

a morning surprise!

Look what I woke up to this morning!- My sweet smelly husband surprised me and came home early!!!!!! He drove all night to get to me- I am so happy right now to have him home even if he has not showered for a while! He had a great time on this hunt. I love a happy husband (even though he looks grumpy in this pic)

A Frickin Elephant

My Grandma sent this to me and I had to share:


A Frickin Elephant
>
> Jake is 5 and is learning to read.
> He points at a picture in a zoo book and says,
> Look, Mama! Its a frickin Elephant!
> Deep breath...
> What did you call it?
> Its a frickin Elephant, Mama!
> It says so on the picture!
> and so it does...
> A-F-R-I-C-A-N Elephant
> Hooked on phonics strikes again!
>

Livia

A serious child full of life with eyes so deep in mystery and surprise- a child full of thoughts- full of compassion and love -who was sent to be with me from above. My daughter- my sweet- I love you so- I love being the observer of how you grow. You teach me each day the right way to be- simply giving your love and by how you hold onto me. Thank you my child for the gift you have given- I am blessed- my heart has risen.

Going through some boxes today I found this poem that I had written when Livia was a baby. I was so in love with this baby girl. I know I am not a poet but I wanted it to be in my journal of our life so I can remember the sweet feelings of motherhood. I find it so interesting that I knew her so well when she was so little- my thoughts from that time are still true to who she is today.

snow again!

Snow
Love: that it makes everything look so clean- how excited my kids get to play in it- how cozy it feels inside by the fire- how it always makes me want to bake!
Hate: Having to drive on Milton in it- Having to shovel my own driveway because husband is gone- getting the feeling of cabin fever!

Sorry for all the posts today- I just had some catching up to do!

P.S. I hate you................................

O.k. so the title to this post might sound harsh- but I am bitter today............Wendy and I went to see the movie "P.S. I love you" last night and I bawled like a baby for the entire duration! I know that one of my gifts is having a sensitive heart but sometimes I hate feeling things so deeply. The movie's sadness was not helped by the fact that my husband is out of the country and I miss him so badly I am sleeping in his t-shirts at night. I have not spoke to Chad with the exception of one brief phone call last night. He just makes things better in my world when he is home. He makes me laugh and everyone knows I love to laugh. The movie was basically about losing a soul mate and it haunted me all night- when I woke up this morning my eyes were so swollen- the nice thing about swollen eyes is that you don't have the lines and wrinkles that magically appeared the day I turned 30. So I guess I will just go put on some makeup and enjoy my fresh young look for the day. Good things come from bad at least I feel pretty today...............

Had to share this one.........

For those of you who view this blog that are not member's of the Rhoton bunch I just had to share a post from my sister in law's blog for you to enjoy. Tess's blog is one of the most entertaining blogs- I love how she writes. This entry was way too funny not to share with more readers- I don't know if you all are aware of the show "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel- It is basically a Show where they do a half hour documentary on some of the dirtiest jobs in the world. This post is So True!!!!
Tess's Post:

I have had this idea in mind for awhile and soon to follow this post there will be a photo journal to match (hopefully. I can't really be counted on to follow through so I will try, but you may not want me too anyway.) One of Taylor's favorite shows is Dirty Jobs. I am repeatedly surprised that being a mother is not on their top ten list. Here are some things I have had to clean-up lately off the top of my head.

Dirty Jobs

1. Clean-up rice soup puke from the kitchen floor. (Clean up puky child as well.)
2. Clean-up roast/green bean dinner puke from the bathroom floor. (Don't think I'll crave any of those things soon)
3. Wipe a million poop smeared bottoms. (Because according to Avery we don't wipe our own until we are 4!)
4. Clean poop out of a million pairs of panties. (Oops, didn't make it in time.)
5. Changed a blown out, exploded up the back & front poopy diaper or two or three. (And managed to keep little hands out of it a few of the times.)
6. Clean nasty streaked and smeared toilets.
7. Of course plunged a few toilets or two as well.
8. Rescued several cherished toys from the porcelain throne. (did I mention it was after the act)
9. Wash walls along sides of toilet for sprayed particles, by little boy visitors. (gotta love play dates)
Okay enough with the puke and poop I know all of us mothers have a million of these stories.

10. Scrub boogers (yes disgusting and dried up) off of wall by kids beds, stair wall, couch, random spottings, and the back of Taylor's Clothes (Thanks Avery). I am sure I am missing a few locations. This is not an easy task either, it is like separating paint from the dry wall and it might be easier with a chisel and a hammer instead of a soapy rag. At least I know they aren't eating it. However, they have been threatened if I ever find another smeared booger they had better hide.
11. Wash a million booger smeared sheets and pillowcases.
12. Pick and wipe a million noses (come on, we all have picked a nose or two.)
13. Spot cleaned a million chocolate milk, spaghetti, macaroni and cheese etc, spilled on shirts and pants.
14. Cleaned-up after a million messy high chair meals.
15. Clipped a million dirty fingernails.
16. Combed through hair with dried up food in it (poor Taylor)
17. Cleaned a million wax infested ears.
18. Lathered a million rashy bottoms.
19. Finger swiped baby for choking hazards routinely.
20. Helped wiggle loose teeth (this one is the worst for me)
21. Wiped dirty hand prints from every glass surface and walls.

Okay so you get the idea. Could there be a dirtier job. If anyone ever wonders about becoming a mother they had better be capable of handling all of this and more because this is the easy part. Can you even imagine what the photo journal would look like? I can! I have mastered the art of thinking of something nice while doing something nasty.

"I am just a kid..........."

Today I am a little under the weather with a cold that is just draining me. I have been making too many demands on Livia- "Liv, would you please go get a diaper- can you please take these and put them in the sink- would you mind running upstairs and getting mom's slippers?" Finally Livia looked at me with her adorable little face and said sweetly- "I am just a kid......" I guess I was stressing her out with all of my needs. Why can't I be Just a kid today?