I am alive, but tired

It has been a while since my last post, and I just have not felt like posting anything lately. Of course I have not felt like doing anything lately. I have been so VERY tired for the last two three months now. I had been sick with strep throat, double ear infections, double sinus infections, bronchitis, poison ivy and poison sumac. I have tried everything under the sun, change of diet, exercise, medications, homoeopaths, blessings, and prayers. My immune system just does not want to cooperate with me. The Dr's even wanted me to stay home from everywhere, even church. To me that is just not acceptable, and with my calling almost impossible. I have had a very loving and supportive husband through all of my sickness. I just hope that I am on my way back to recovery. They have tested my blood and said that my B6 and B12 levels were low, so I am on a supplement of both of them with a folic acid. It does not seem to be working though. I hope to get back to my normal life, cause I feel like it is passing me by. I just am so fatigued. :(

Taylor's Birthday

Today is my baby's 9th birthday. I can't believe she is already nine. It just seems like yesterday when I had her. She is a blessing in our home and we would not know what to do without her. Doug was reminding me of a what happened when Taylor turned three. We told her Happy birthday and that she was three years old now, she replied with "I don't like twoses, I only like threesies." It is bitter sweet for me to see her growing up before my eyes. Doug is always telling me she is a little miniature Renee. She loves to scrapbook, cook, read, play with her barbies, littlest pet shop, she likes Hannah Montana and she just loves her dad to death. His lap is her chair, still to this day.

Well since today was Sunday and General Conference we had a very relaxing morning with our traditional conference breakfast, which Taylor picked for her birthday breakfast too.

She helped make the sugar cookies for the fruit pizza.

Enjoying her breakfast Fresh fruit, with miniature fruit pizza's.

Opening up some presents. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!

New Table & Chairs

BEFORE

AFTER

I am a little crazy when it comes to picking furniture out for my house. I have lived in this house for two and a half years now. Since we have moved here I have been looking for a new table and chairs. I have finally found what I wanted. It is all solid hard wood, every bit of it and it is super heavy. The kids can't try and lean back in there chairs now either. I know what I want and I don't mind waiting for it. So now I go from a table that was the one that I group up with, the chairs were just folding chairs to a beautiful table with 8 chairs. I put the two extra chairs in my entry on either side of my piano. Now I am looking for a desk for my office. I think I have found the one I want to, but I will look everywhere first.

I am Loved

Ever since my kids could eat solid foods I made heart pancakes for breakfast for Valentines day. I would always put a note in there lunch with a special treat, and a little box of chocolates. This year it was on a Saturday, so no note in there lunches with a special treat. I did make them our annual heart pancake breakfast. My hearts did not turn out as great this year, but I was in a hurry because I had a Stake Young Women's Leadership meeting in the morning from 10 to 12.

We had some extra special kids with us on Valentines day morning. Who enjoyed our tradition. Jessica and Hunter are not in this picture, because they were just getting up.

I left that morning in such a hurry I did not have time to clean anything up and left my house a mess. I wished everyone a Happy Valentines day and left for my meeting, which was 30 minutes away. When I got home I was really wishing that my family would have cleaned up the huge mess I had made from that morning. This is what I encountered when I came home:

This beautiful note on the back door inviting me:

It immediately put a smile on my face. I walked into the house and it was immaculately clean and the table was set just like this. A peach rose from each on of my kids and white roses from Doug, with a special note/card from each of my children and a love letter from my husband.

With a dinner Menu of what they were going to serve that evening for dinner. I had to wait in the other room till they were finished and they called me into dinner and this is what the table looked like. I wish I would have taken one with all of the kids sitting down. Doug made it all. It was heavenly, and plenty left for the next day and it was just as good the second day. Thank you Doug, Jessica, Hunter, Spencer, & Taylor for making me feel so loved.

I love you!

Happy Birthday Spencer

Doodlebug, Little Man, Spencer Doodle,

The Lucky Toad, Supermandebale, Tooter Frooter, Ratsicle, Rat Baby,

The Toad Miaster, Oh dear fat one.

You are the only one in the family that has so many nicknames. We love you so

very much. It seems just like yesterday that you were born.

Happy 10th Birthday!

I kept asking you what you would like for your birthday and you could not come

up with anything for weeks. You love, love, love games. Any kind

of games whether it be board games, video games, outside games, or card games.

You just LOVE games and you are good at them too.