**ATTENTION: GIRL SCOUT COOKIES

Are you ready for Girl Scout cookie season ?
It's that time of year again...all of you wishing to buy girls scout cookies I will take your order now. No money is due till the cookies arrive in March. I will make a trip to salt lake city to deliver them anywhere from March 14th to the 21st. These really help my girls out in there girl scout club and they are yummy to eat.

Here is what they have:

Samoas - coconut and choc
Thin Mints - choc mint
Tagalongs - peanut butter patties
Do si Do's - peanut butter cremes
Trefoils - old fashioned shortbread
S. F. Choc Chip
Lemon Chalet - lemon sandwich
Dulce De Leche - latin inspired caramel

* Reminder they are $3.50 a box/ I need your phone # when you order so I can call you
I WILL COME TO SALT LAKE AND BRING THEM

leave a blog comment or call me 435-587-9924

I will be taking orders till February 1st

Not a picture man!

The kids came home from primary today with a letter from the primary presidency stating that as part of their theme this year, they would like to post photos of families. So as we walked in the door I told everyone to hurry and sit on the couch while I took a picture. Jason is not the type that will exactly jump in front of the camera. He hates taking pictures. I asked him a couple of times to sit forward and straight up, well as you can see this was the result. I think it's funny. He definately is not a picture man!

New Years Resolutions

I have made plenty of new years resolutions in the past, most of which failed by April. Well this year I intend to make them stick! I will not let things get in my way, and I will do what I have to to make it through. One of those is to be a better blogger. I intended this blog to use as a family update and inform all of our family members as to what is going on in our lives. I was good till October then I let work, holidays, and what not get in my way. Wheather that be blogging every week or every other week, it will be done. I hope I can be an example to those wishing to be better at their new years resolutions...we can help each other out.

By the way I know it's late, but we hope everyone had a great Christmas, and we wish all of you to have a healthy and prosperous New Year.

Feeling SCROOGED...but not so much anymore.

That's kind of how I have felt up till this weekend. I just could not get into the christmas spirit and get excited..even after decorating and shopping, sad huh? I really was not looking forward to Christmas this year until this weekend, what fun. Saturday we went out as a family and cut down our tree, which here in Monticello only costs $5 and $.50 per extra foot on top of that. So this is what happened. It started out looking for trees,

which turned into this,

SNOWBALL FIGHTS..YEAH! Which we did not come too well prepared because we were wearing this,

yep regular shoes, not boots. Guess we need to pass that note onto santa soon.

But in all fun we eventually found the right one which was this,

it's not too bad. So after bringing it home, and decorating I was starting to feel kinda excited, and then we went to go listen to the live broadcast of the First Presidency Christmas Devotional on Sunday. That just set the tone for the season and got me feeling better. To put the icing on the cake, our little town had it's Christmas light parade tonight,

Ok, ok, not so grand, and it was a really lame parade this year and it was really cold outside, but it was the fact that we were all there together as a family enjoying the beginning of the Christmas season.

Some HELP please!!??

Before I got a job I found myself to post one blog per week. Now that I work from the time the kids go to school and don't get off till they get out of school, I have surprisingly been very tired by the end of the day. Why is that? It's not like I'm overdoing it. I have so much to think about and do in the next week it's not even funny. One thing on my mind right now is our ward Christmas dinner party that just so happens to be scheduled for Tuesday December 2nd. Right after Thanksgiving. Well as I am on the activities committee I have been put in charge of coming up with the program for that evening. I am so lost, I don't even know where to start. I want to start the program off with a reading and play of Jesus' birth. Our theme for this party is "Christmas Around the World". As we thought it would be fun to tell short stories of different countries and how they celebrate Christmas. The only problem...what to do while you tell that story. What is some fun things to have people do for the program to tell the tale of another country? Example: like in Switzerland on Christmas day they have bell ringing contests. People in the villages hope their bells will ring out with the most beautiful christmas sounds. So that would be fun if we could come up with enough bells. And my other problem is..it needs to last at least 45 minutes.??? I have 15 different countries and their stories to tell, but I am very OPEN to any suggestion that any of you who read this may have. I know there are more creative people out there other than I, so any input would be fabulous! The down fall....it all needs to be planned and ready for that Tuesday after Thanksgiving; that's just a whole 11 days left...Some HELP please??? I am open to anything.

DDD

What does this rebus represent?


shadddes