Hansel

And here he is our new little one.
we have been playing with the idea of a puppy for a while now and hubby has been on ksl looking at pups to get an idea of price and cuteness. well on Monday he saw this little one and fell in love then showed it to me and i fell in love, we went to meet him that night and felt like he was meant to be part of our family. "Hansel he's so hot right now."
it is work to train a puppy, but worth the work because we love him.
*I am really sorry for fooling everyone, in my mind it seemed like a fun way to tell everyone we got a puppy when we are so close to having our baby, but as the joke has played out people where really acting like i had a baby and offering to bring me meals and watch my kids...sorry, i did not think that would happen. I PROMISE that i will not joke like that again and will only post about our new baby when it really has come. please forgive my half thought through joke it was only meant to be funny not worry or to get free dinners. thanks though for all the love and well wishes, i hope you will be excited again when our baby does come.

its a BOY

so we got a little bundle of joy 1 1/2 months earlier then planed, but he sure is a cutie, and we did not even have to go to the hospital to get him. His name is Hansel, he is blond, weighs about 5 lbs so pretty small but oh so sweet. pics soon to come we are so excited.

Pride

"Pride, lets just say that if pride was a sickness then some one in this audience is contagious!" (i may be miss quoting.) 10 points if you know what movie this is from.

Pride, we all have it and it seems like the one's who are not as loud about it have a harder time working on fixing it, because it does not feel like a problem.
when i the one's i am referring to myself. i have pride and i mean the kind you don't want. the kind that says it does not matter what the argument is "i just want to be right". "everyone else is always right, i want to be right i want to be smart."
lies, lies, lies, these are the lies that my pride feeds me to get me upset at others and make me unhappy. truly these thoughts make me depressed, and have of late been on my mind a lot.
but in my prayers to help me overcome this trial last night i had was given an answer to my prayer. "it does not matter who is right, but what is right."
if during a time that i feel like fighting for being right i think of this statement then it should help me shift gears from pride to valiant servant. because i really do want to stand up for what is right and if i feel like i am standing up for right then i will have a hard time listening to the lies that say "i am never right, i want to be right."
i don't know if this makes much sense to others but as revelation usually works, this is exactly what i needed to hear NOW and am so grateful to my heavenly father for not giving up on his oh so stubborn daughter, and answering my prayer.

After vacation

so we are now back from lake Powell, it was fun and we got no sunburns. pictures to come.

i have really good kids they are really good at adjusting to new situations, they where great at Powell, in fact i hardly saw the older 2 and spent my week playing with duku. now that we are back it is re-adjust time, this is where my kids have a hard time. going from full freedom to rules and adults and nap-time is hard for them. this is not new or unexpected, we have learned that a few days of extra reminders on normal rules is in order after vacation. and i must say that knowing what to expect makes it a bit easier to deal with, non the less it is a work out having to be on double duty for reminding kids of the rules, and double duty on enforcing those rules. so this is what we are doing this week, the week after a vacation.

some of the highlights of the trip:

• mace went kneeboarding, impressing all of his older cousins
• sister made a best friend out of her older cousin cass, sister just wanted to do everything she did and i am pretty sure cass loved the attention.
• duku learned to fall asleep any where including in the water, there is a pic to come, but as he and i where out in the water with life jackets he had a baby one on that had a little pillow in the back to help babies get their heads up, well this made for a comfy sleep position apparently because he just fell asleep floating their in lake Powell.
• hubby landed 2 tantrums in a row a first for him

• and i went wakeboarding and climbed to the top of a sand hill and "washing my hair with the girls"
  

there was a lot of good food, and good family. it was a fun trip.

Happy Fathers day

2 of my most favorite people are celebrated today my wonderful daddy and my hubby (my children's wonderful daddy). i am so blessed to have had such a wonderful example of what a father should be in my great dad, it had not been very hard to know how to raise a family in the gospel because of my fathers great example, of honoring his priesthood, presiding over the home in love and righteousness, and in his sweet thoughtful nature. having such a good father has made it so easy for me to understand the love of my heavenly father. i love you daddy.
my hubby is such a good father he is all the things my father is and is doing such a good job of being my kids favorite dad. for this day we took on some of his jobs and mowed the lawn/groomed the yard a bit so he would not have to. we love you daddy/hubby.
i could not have such a great hubby if it where not for his great father, his example of how to be a good and fun dad. one of the reasons i married my hubby was because i saw what a good father he had that (and how well he interacted with my nieces and nephews) i know he would make a great dad, and i was right. i love you, my love.
i hope every one can have a great fathers day and

can't hardly wait

no not the 90's teen flick...VACATION!
in one week from tomorrow after church we are headed down to...LAKE POWELL and i can't hardly wait i am so excited, wakeboarding all week, food all over the place, family out the ears and sun sun sun. this is our family reunion vacation so i guess we should get our talents ready, i have so much food to buy that i am holding off on so i don't have a kitchen full of food for a week just because. this reminds me of what a nerd i am at heart. when it comes to fun i do not like to miss out, for girls camp my first year i had my everything packed and ready to go for a week before( this was a bit hard when most of my cloths where in the bags) for many a school dance i have showed up like 5 minutes early only to find that dances really do not get going (cool kids come) until like an hour after the dance starts, so there i am at the dance alone and so glad i am not missing anything. over time i have learned to tame my urges to get ready way to early, and channel all that energy into getting Christmas presents done in like august (this just makes for much less stress and is the one time early really has worked out well, oh yeah that and Halloween too.)
well now i think i am just rambling, but you get the idea that i am VERY excited for our vacation.

summer dinner

i have no motivation to use my oven, it is too hot, and we are trying another summer without AC because we could use the extra $100+ AC would cost in much better ways. so we are using the drier sparingly, and the oven sparingly. only problem is i only have a few summer recipes, i have a taco salad, pasta salad, and i guess any tortilla Mexican dishes, but our family can only do about i Mexican meal a week(i could do it every day but i am out to feed more then just me) so i am on the look out for tasty yet economical summer dishes. do you have a favorite summer dishes, or good crock pot dinners or a good website, really i need ideas fast. please help me if you can:)