Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Alaska! We hope you all have a wonderful time with families and friends!

We are fast approaching Christmas! Can you believe it? I can't. Another year come and gone. Time to start thinking of the new year's "resolutions". Lol....what a joke:) They don't change much year to year,...eat better, lose weight, do better in a church calling, read the scriptures. It certainly would be nice to accomplish all of those things and turn them into habits. Ah well. Anyway! haha. This past weekend was good for us. I went shopping with my MIL on Saturday while my son and his uncle spent some time together and were able to see a bald eagle. If you haven't seen his pictures yet, go here.
Then on Sunday...yes I know, we took B to see Santa at the mall. He was fairly excited to see him. He's getting more and more excited for Santa to come this week. :)




I was BUSY yesterday! This is the kitchen before all the festivities started. :)



I looooove love love my mixer! I should clean it up more than I do but then you don't get the ambiance that a mixer is supposed to have. The flour spewed every where, stuck on molasses from ginger snaps:)



The final product form a hard days work. Treats in a cute ginger bread man bag. I had fun but it certainly was tiring.


I also took Miss C to the Dr's yesterday. Her general visit went well except for the fact that I have apparently (without my knowing) haven't been feeding her enough. Yes, I have been breastfeeding 5-6 times a day but my body has decided not to produce the amount she needs. So, besides feeling like a failure, she is on the bottle now. I definitely have mixed emotions about it. I was ready to stop, but wanted to do it on my terms, not because I had to. Blah blah blah right:) Hope everyone's holiday season is going smoothly!

Meg

This and that

It's the third week in December. It has snowed and been super cold up until this week. I have been studying and researching photography, web design stuff, and figuring out how to work Abobe. I will say that my brain is tired, but I'm loving it. Life is so much better when you have things to keep you busy:)



Miss C has been a riot this week. She is perfecting a new "screech" that she's figured out she can vocalize:) It cracks me up. I don't remember laughing at B like I do her, but I was telling my preggo sister that I think it's because I need the comedy relief from the stress of my 4 year old!




Yesterday was full of productive-ness! My MIL and I (and a little help from B) made some fun Christmas food. She found a recipe for soft sugar cookies. So we made some up.




yumm-o! They were soft and were quite close to the cookies at walmart with all the fatty frosting on them,...you know the ones I mean:)



We only had one casualty batch!




I had the pleasure of making my FAVORITE cookies ever. I thought they were some awesome secret family thing, but after looking on the label for calories, (these are 192 by the way!) I saw the recipe right on back. So go buy some white chocolate bark(my personal fav) and whip up a batch:)



Merry Christmas!
Meg

6 years

It's officially the Christmas season! Goodness:) We had a very nice weekend. It started out normal, hanging around the house in our sweats, but we ended saturday night with a trip to Salt Lake to see the lights. It was gorgeous. Words really can't explain how pretty it was. We have been here about 3 1/2 years and this was our first trip downtown to see them. How sad is that! But we took the train down because we thought Mr. B would really enjoy it...and he did:) He was the conductor:) It was very cute.

I'll have to say that I'm quite sure winter is officially here also....it was COLD! It had snowed earlier in the day, not enough to do any real damage, but enough that it stayed with the cold weather. We bundled up the kids the best we could, and I think Caitlyn was the warmest one:) She was in her baby tai on me under blankets. When I took her out of it to eat she was very toasty. We had a wonderful time:)



And to the title of this post...it has been 6 years today that I have been a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. How amazing is that! It was really neat for me to have this anniversary be on fast Sunday this year. I was the only one that was able to make it to church today and in doing that I enjoyed the very sweet Spirit of my new ward. It reminded me a lot of our branch in NH. There wasn't 10 or 15 minutes in between testimonies, and they were so strong with the Spirit. I was so moved that I even got myself up out of the back row and bore mine!!!! HOLY MOLY!

I'll reiterate and expound on what I said and what I would have said if I wasn't a blubbering fool! :) I'm thankful for my membership in this church, the blessings it has given me in my life. My family, my self worth. I know without a doubt that I am 'somebody' to my Heavenly Father and he IS watching over me. I'm thankful for this humble ward we are a part of right now. I'm thankful that my Savior Jesus Christ laid the way for me to realize the path I needed to choose in life and help me on it. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and hope that you can feel the love that I have felt today throughout this season. :) Much love,


Meg

When it snows tomorrow...

Well today has been AWESOME! So awesome I thought I'd share the awesomeness!!!!! B and I puttered around the house for a bit this morning and then headed over to the in-laws for our usual afternoon lunch/visit. Lunch was good. K asked me if I'd be willing to go do a DI run with her because she has boxes that are filled with...let's say...less than valuable things. :) So we tackled the garage to get more boxes with filled "awesome" things:) Well the last time that we endeavored this together, my son saw Grampa's model train and has had eyes for it ever since. But it's a Christmas train...that will only come out at Christmas! That doesn't compute in a 3 year old's head....for all he knows,....xmas is tomorrow! So...lol...trying to put it in more 'understandable' terms, I told him when it snows he can see it. So...now..."Mommy, we can see rampa's train when it snow's tomorrow"! Yes B...you wait for it to snow tomorrow:) And I'm really not sure when he woke up and decided to be a crackhead everyday...but it's wearing me out. :)

So...now we come to the second part of my "awesome" day! Are you ready? And I'm probably going to burn at the stake for complaining publicly about my husband.,...but I guess I'm willing to risk it:P Matt works at home now. He works 10 hour days...which exhaust him. So he's home by 5:30 and by 8 is passing out wherever he may be sitting. I don't mind that. Even though it is like conversing with a zombie...at least he's in the room and I can see him. He has a new calling at church. He's the Elder's quorum secretary. He's a home teacher. He's also made up his mind that he wants to be a "1" instead of a "3"...which I really am happy about. But it takes him away....generally not too long. Tuesdays are gone with him now. Wow...I'm rambling...I'll just get staright to the point...lol. The point is I expect Matt to be home by 530 like every other night so when I get calls of him telling me that he won't be home because he had to take his boss/friend to the hospital .....I'll be honest...it peeves me. And on top of that he has EQ/home teaching! So I'm angry...or irritated(because that makes me sound less stupid...lol) and when I get home(bc i ate dinner at his parents bc I thought he would show up too) he tells me "Meggan, you , B, C, and I have the rest of our lives together". lol. REALLY! That's what I want to hear...is that you are too busy having a bromance with your friend(also the one he watched UFC with...to have his Matt Time) and I shouldn't worry about it because we are set in that dept. Thanks hunny! Well fine....you don't care about the time we spend bc it's infintisimal to what we have left...then go drop off this application, and fax these pay stubs...AFTER your meeting! -sigh-

He thinks I only act this way because I don't have any friends...and he would never get mad at me if I did want to hang out with them. And he thinks I can't handle him being away...guess what...I did it when he was traveling didn't I? lol...He asked what the real reason was that I was mad....because I can't really be upset I'm not spending time with him....what is it? You can't handle B? Thanks again hunny. Glad me wanting your company is because I'm a nut-job and can't handle our son.

Well...-chuckle- now that I've let out more than I should have. And I'll post this and feel bad. But this is the 88th post and I'm not sure I've complained yet. We'll see how smoothly this one goes. So till then,

Meg