Gratitude

Before this weekend escapes, I need to write down the things I am grateful for!  

1.  I am so thankful to live in a free country where I can worship as I please. 

2.  I am thankful that Ben has a good job and we are out of debt. And for the hard worker he is.

3. I am thankful for the ugly kitchen floor that I have because I am still out of debt. 

4. I am thankful for my children that still make me smile everyday!

5. I am thankful that I still have my parents and the time I am able to spend with them.

6. I'm thankful for chocolate and diet coke!

7. I'm thankful for the warm home that I am able to decorate for the holidays. 

8. I am so thankful for the Gospel and for my calling in the Young Women. 

9. I am thankful for my health and the health of my family. 

10. I am thankful for my testimony. 

Just 10 simple things there is much more I could write but these are the things that come to mind as I sit here thinking of how blessed I really am.   Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  

Sweet Liberty Seniors

Lauren, Kelsie, Laura

Kelsie is so lucky to have 2 of her best friends as team mates.  They are the only seniors on the team this year and are all doing solos.  They performed last week at the girls basketball game and they all did a great job!  Next is their first competition in Utah, and boy those Utah girls can dance!  Good Luck Girlies!

Wisdom Teeth

Kilee with her swollen cheeks!

Kilee got her wisdom teeth out last week.  Since we had a 4 day weekend we decided to get them out since they were bugging her.  A lot of people have commented on how old she is (14) but I guess when I think about Kilee and teeth she has always been ahead.  She got her teeth early, lost them early, got her 12 year old molars at 10 and braces soon after.  So when the dentist told me they were ready to come out before her 17 year old sisters I wasn't that surprised.  Kelsie's are ready to come out too, it's just getting her to stop everything and be down for a few days.  I guess when they are bugging her they will come out!  Luckily her face is almost back to normal after many ice packs, lots of pain pills, antibiotics and JELLO!  Two down one to go!  One funny story....the first night I slept on the couch while she slept in the recliner.  At 1 a.m. she woke me us shouting.."MOM! Harry Potter is in here with 100 other people."  First being screamed at while in a deep sleep is jolting but then trying to understand that she really thought that Harry Potter was standing in front of her was so confusing!  Needless to say the pain pills didn't last long after hallucinating and then throwing up we decided that ibuprofen would have to do.  

Catching up

So this somehow got deleted so now the pictures are in the next post!

Wow, I can't believe how time flies!  I'm not really sure if I've been having fun but I know it is flying by!  A lot has happened since Kayla left in August!  I have pictures for some events and no pictures for some.  First to catch up then pictures to come...
September the girls went back to school, Kayla a Junior at BYU-I studying Health Education with a minor in Biology (not sure if she is really my daughter...I hated science, she loves it.) Kelsie is a Senior :( her last year of high school drama!  Her last year of dance, last year of paying for dance! :) Not that college will be any cheaper!  Kilee is in her first year of high school as a Freshman and the drama is just beginning.  I can't believe they will all be gone in less than 4 years.  
Kelsie went to Homecoming with a friend, Kevin.  They had a lot of fun.  She was also in the running for Homecoming Queen but the drama girl won again.  Guess she had more friends?Even though she didn't win it was fun for her to walk out on the football field in her formal with her dad.  She also played powder puff football where the Seniors beat the Juniors.  Some of those girls play dirtier that the boys!  
Kilee played Co-ed soccer with me as the assistant coach.  It was a fun season, it was fun watching her go up against boys and taking them out.  Yes she got called for a couple of fouls taking boys out...I mean actually pushing them to the ground.  One of my favorites was when she kicked the ball so hard, hit the boy in the stomach it knocked him to the ground and the ball went out of bounds, and Kilee being the competitor she is didn't ask if the boy was alright, she grabbed the ball and threw it in while he was still laying on the ground.  Jeff the coach who was next to the boy said "you just got taken out by a little girl!"  The boy got up immediately and started playing.  She had many shots on goal but they just never seemed to go in UNTIL...the last game she finally scored! YEAH!
October was beautiful, the best fall I can remember in a long time.  The trees were beautiful, the weather was more than beautiful, (except for my birthday weekend when it snowed!) the grass stayed green and it was actually warm playing soccer!  I spent my birthday weekend with Kayla in Rexburg for mothers weekend.  (No pictures, by the time I figured out we hadn't taken any Kayla was getting ready for church with wet hair and wouldn't let me take one.) It was such a fun weekend.  We went shopping, of course for groceries, went to a scary dance off, went to dinner and a movie and just talked and spent time together.  I am so proud of her and the goals she has set and the things that she is achieving in her life.  She is still waiting for her missionary.  He has been out 81/2 months.  
Ben took me shopping for my birthday, I got 2 pairs of jeans and 2 sweatshirts.  He also game me a gift certificate to the movies.  He also took me out to dinner before I left to go to Rexburg at Red Robin.  Love the chicken teriyaki sandwich...and those fries...it was my birthday!
My mom and dad asked me to take some pictures of them for their Christmas card so we went to Kathryn Albertson Park and did a little photo shoot.  No I'm not a professional but I think they turned out pretty good.  I took some pictures of Kelsie and Kilee together and had mom take some of the three of us.  
My oldest brother that lives in Texas was in a horrible motorcycle accident and was badly broken up.  He broke his shoulder, arm above the elbow, shattered his wrist, broke his hip and has a compound fracture in his leg.  BUT... he is alive and for that we are thankful.  
To end the month, Kilee and I carved pumpkins together.  The only patterns left at the store were kid ones so it didn't take us to long.  We cleaned the seeds and toasted them, they were so yummy!  
Now on to NOVEMBER!  

Finally Catching Up

So here are the pictures that go with my last post.  Am I caught up?  No but much further than I was two days ago.  So hopefully I will be a better poster and a little more prompt.  

Elder Heap with Courtney the girl he baptized.  And some other cute missionaries. Elder Heap is the 2nd one in on the left side. And below the girl that is still waiting!

Kayla and 2 of her roommates dressed as gangsters for Halloween.  

Me and Kilee carving pumpkins for Halloween

This is my oldest brother being put in an ambulance and his bike that smashed into a car that failed to yeild!

Cutie girls!

 Sisters!

My cute little mom and dad!

Kilee elbowing a much larger boy!  Good thing the ref was behind her!

Kilee getting fouled while breaking to the goal.  No it didn't get called but then again she did her fair share of fouling with out getting called!

Kilee playing against much bigger players...look who has the ball!

Kels on the sidelines letting me take her cute picture.

That's Kelsie the closest to the bottom on the left.  She played defense and was so happy when they won!

Laura Monroe, Lauren Matthews, and Kelsie getting ready to dance in the homecoming assembly.  They are the only 3 seniors on Sweet Liberty this year. 

Kelsie and her dad on the football field.  Pretty in Pink!  It was raining and quit for a few minutes while they were on the field, then started raining again right after. 

Kelsie and Kevin her date.