Neglect

I've been neglecting this blog of ours lately.  Sad day.  I blame it on life. 

My first semester at school in 7 years has definitely been an eye opener.  Generals are gay.  End of story.  I don't want to be a historian, so why do I have to take history?  Blah.  Don't get me started on my public speaking class either...

We're weeks away from nursery.  Maybe then I can actually enjoy church again?  Those poor nursery leaders...Mara and Logan together for 9 months in there....plus their cousin?  Poor, poor nursery leaders.  Atleast Dylan (their cousin) is the most mild mannered kid I've ever met.  He is beyond adorable to boot.  Love him.

Sean just switched to graveyard shifts.  Eeek.  I'm not a fan of sleeping by myself.  At least I know I've got Sean's parents right upstairs to save me when the boogeyman comes. 

Upside of graves is that we will see Sean more (believe it or not).  No more of this class at 8 get home by 1 leave by 1:20 for work and come home at 10 go to bed, repeat.  He will be crazy sleep deprived though.  Pray for him ;)

Aren't I negative today?  I don't mean to be.  Hmmm...what something positive to blog about?...OH YEAH HOW COULD I FORGET?!??!  Project get out of debt is almost 75% complete.  I say almost because debt #3 is getting paid off at the end of this month.  Just one more to go!!!!!!!!  I'm already feeling so much better about life just by having these bills paid off!  We actually own a car (and our children....what would've happened if we hadn't paid off IHC?  Would they have repossesed our children?)  Shortly here we will have my school loan gone too!  Just my car left.  Wowsa.

Pictures will happen eventually.  I haven't even loaded them onto the computer since before Christmas.  Oops.  Another day.

2010.......

As the NewYear always does, it leaves me reflecting the year before.  Did I make good choices?  Was I a good mom?  Did I learn from my mistakes?  Did I handle the hard times well?  Did I serve others?  Did I share my testimony often enough?  Ultimately my question always is: would Heavenly Father be proud of me?

Hmmm...

Without devulging too many details December was a hard month.  Like, really hard.  Trials came up that I always hoped and prayed I'd never have to deal with.  Don't we all have those?  The things we say: Heavenly Father better not give me that trial because He knows how much I can handle and I definitely can't handle that.  Welp, never say never--because here I sit.

Through this experience I have come to realize that I can do anything with the help of Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ.  I have to constantly remind myself of that, because it is so easy to let Satan tell me otherwise. 

So for 2011 I am not making any crazy resolutions.  Nope.  I'm just going to keep on trucking and trust in the Lord.  By doing that I think I'll ultimately become a better person than I ever could on my own. 

Playtime with Tayton

You can click on the image to enlarge it.  I figure, why type it twice?  :)

P.S. I've been sick this weekend so I haven't been doing much of anything...other than scrapping of course!

German Santa

The German Nikolaus visits on December 6th.  This year he made an exception because he understands how hard it is to get everyone together all at once with our busy work schedules!  So he came to our house December 4th this year!  We had a delicious brunch, and had a blast opening all the presents.  He definitely spoiled us rotten!  Thanks Nikolaus!

GingerBread Houses

Mara did a fantastic job decorating the Gingerbread house.  As did Logan.  His contribution was the 1/2 gingerbread man on the roof..he couldn't resist eating it while we were decorating.  Mara totally got into it this year and went to town!  If you couldn't tell....she has also enjoyed picking candies off and eating them! 

I'm glad I caught this last picture on camera because it's what Logan does when he is tired.  He cries and smacks his face.  I don't know how that makes him feel better....but it does.  It's pretty hilarious!

Playing in the Snow

Have I ever mentioned how spoiled I am?  By me, I mean my kids of course.  My mom LOVES to spoil her grandkids.  Last year (after winter was over) she bought them both winter coat and snow pants sets, and we finally got to put them to use this winter!!  It was so fun.  Getting Logan dressed was definitely a chore, as you can tell by the pictures.  He did NOT think getting dressed was cool.  He screamed the entire time.  Mara on the other hand knew what it meant and was super excited.  Logan did not last long outside because the wind was blowing--but it was fun while it lasted.

I often feel bad that I have more pictures of Logan, but if I could get Mara to hold still for even 2 seconds---I'd have oodles of pictures of her too!!!  She is definitely a crazy little thing!!

I've started "cheating" on my scrapbooking....I use the same layout for both kids.  Lazy?  No.  I think SMART!  It sure makes it go a ton faster!  St. Nikolaus was very generous to me this year, so I spent a little (ok, a lot) on a splurge of digi supplies!  I am in HEAVEN.  So you just might be seeing more pages up on the blog. :)

Mystery Man

All right my friends. Let's all take a good look at this here picture. Stare closely now. Who is this handsome little guy. We'll get to that in a second.

All right. Now lets move on to my little dude. Pretty much the most handsome little guy I know. P.S. I'm a little biased since he's my little dude, but who wouldn't be? Just look at the guy.

So who is the little stud in picture number one? That would be my dad.. Mr Steven Evans. For everyone who says that he looks like a Miller baby, you are correct. But guess what? I think you're overlooking the fact that Brittani and I pretty much look like siblings. So there. He's definitely my little dude, the Evans/Miller baby.