Today i am grateful for my job!
In a time when its so hard to find jobs i am so grateful to have a job that I like and feel appreciated in! I love my employers they know how to treat me right. Its nice to not hate or dread going into work everyday! :)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Gratitude a day #1
Well its November! Do you know what that means? Well let me tell you. My Favorite Holiday! YAHOO! I am a Thanksgiving lover. Its my favorite holiday by far! Why you might ask? Yes I know Christmas is so close to it, but really I love Thanksgiving because its simpler :). No gifts to get or give just time with family and yummy food and a chance to remember how blessed we all are. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Christmas. I just really enjoy Thanksgiving! No Christmas Music or decorations at my house until after thanksgiving! :)
So to kick of Thanksgiving I am once again going to do my 30 days of Gratitude! I challenge anyone to join! Its really fun and really helps kick of the holidays! It also helps YOU feel better about everything in life. I am a big believer that when the going gets rough you have one option to get through it. Be HAPPY! That is only going to happen by looking at the good in your life and not focusing on the crappy :) (yeah yeah i know it needs to be addressed, but trust me as you switch your focus from neg to pos it makes a HUGE difference!)
So day #1
Today I am grateful for my dad!
My dad is an awesome dad, and the most wonderful grandpa! I LOVE seeing him as a grandpa! Its been so fun to watch him love my girls. They both get SO excited at the chance to go to grandpas house! They love sleepovers or anytime grandpa is coming! He is such a great example to them of how to be a great person and how to love and care for others. He is so supportive of my girls and wants to be there to watch them succeed!
He is also such a great dad! He loves to call and check up on me and see how things are going. He always has great advice and is so willing to help out! He is supportive of me and my family. I could not have asked for a better dad growing up (and now!) My dad truly is one of the best men i know! I only hope i can be more and more like him as I get older!
I love you daddy! Thanks for all you do for my family!
So to kick of Thanksgiving I am once again going to do my 30 days of Gratitude! I challenge anyone to join! Its really fun and really helps kick of the holidays! It also helps YOU feel better about everything in life. I am a big believer that when the going gets rough you have one option to get through it. Be HAPPY! That is only going to happen by looking at the good in your life and not focusing on the crappy :) (yeah yeah i know it needs to be addressed, but trust me as you switch your focus from neg to pos it makes a HUGE difference!)
So day #1
Today I am grateful for my dad!
My dad is an awesome dad, and the most wonderful grandpa! I LOVE seeing him as a grandpa! Its been so fun to watch him love my girls. They both get SO excited at the chance to go to grandpas house! They love sleepovers or anytime grandpa is coming! He is such a great example to them of how to be a great person and how to love and care for others. He is so supportive of my girls and wants to be there to watch them succeed!
He is also such a great dad! He loves to call and check up on me and see how things are going. He always has great advice and is so willing to help out! He is supportive of me and my family. I could not have asked for a better dad growing up (and now!) My dad truly is one of the best men i know! I only hope i can be more and more like him as I get older!
I love you daddy! Thanks for all you do for my family!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Abbys birthday
Well i am FINALLY posting pictures just over a month late.......no comment on why just not a blogging fool this year like the last....and just BUSY! :) SO here are a few. Y'all are friends with me on face book you can see more there
Abby loves clothes and shoes she would not put the shoes down that she got!
more shoes HOW EXCITING! this girl is crazy into shoes
SHE LOVED her party...even if the game did not go our way. She loved the attention and the presents and cake :)
It was a fun day and we love that we have so much family and friends around to party with us! :)
It was a fun day and we love that we have so much family and friends around to party with us! :)
Monday, September 26, 2011
yeah yeah i know
I am sure you are all thinking, "where is Jessica's blog post on Abby's birthday, and Where is Jessica's blog post on Jackie's first talk?" Well they are coming. When ever i have time when i am at home i will post them :) Just know Abby had a blast despite the horrid game and Jackie rocked her talk!
Now on to what I wanted to write. I want to talk about being a mother. Can I just say how blessed i feel to be a mom. I love it! Being a mom has completed me and made me into a person i never thought possible. I cherish moments with my daughters when we can just play and have fun. I love to watch the world through their eyes. They are so sweet and so innocent. They love to hang on to every word, and watch our every move.
Sometimes i am amazed that someone decided we should be allowed to have such sweet kids and be left to raise them :)! I hope and pray daily that I am making good decisions and parenting them in the ways that they need to grow up and hold true to what we have taught them.
Know don't get me wrong parenting is in no way all roses and butterflies. We have our 2 year old melt downs, our four year old defiant days our mom is so tried she needs a break days, and the days where i want to pull my hair out. But you know what life goes on, its all part of it. I am learning how to take those crazy moments and love them more, move past it and cherish every moment.
Being a mom/dad rocks! I hope we can all take time in midst of all the chaos of parenting and remember how lucky we are to be a parent, and how lucky we are to have our darling kiddos in our life! :)
Now on to what I wanted to write. I want to talk about being a mother. Can I just say how blessed i feel to be a mom. I love it! Being a mom has completed me and made me into a person i never thought possible. I cherish moments with my daughters when we can just play and have fun. I love to watch the world through their eyes. They are so sweet and so innocent. They love to hang on to every word, and watch our every move.
Sometimes i am amazed that someone decided we should be allowed to have such sweet kids and be left to raise them :)! I hope and pray daily that I am making good decisions and parenting them in the ways that they need to grow up and hold true to what we have taught them.
Know don't get me wrong parenting is in no way all roses and butterflies. We have our 2 year old melt downs, our four year old defiant days our mom is so tried she needs a break days, and the days where i want to pull my hair out. But you know what life goes on, its all part of it. I am learning how to take those crazy moments and love them more, move past it and cherish every moment.
Being a mom/dad rocks! I hope we can all take time in midst of all the chaos of parenting and remember how lucky we are to be a parent, and how lucky we are to have our darling kiddos in our life! :)
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Happy Birthday Abigail!
My dear sweet Abigail,
Oh sweetheart i love you so much! You are a wonderful little girl who has added so much to our family. You are definitely your fathers child. You have his temperament and his personality. You will be happy one moment ANGRY another and right back to happy :). You are my stubborn baby, you will do what you want when you want to do it. When mommy wanted you to give up your bottle you did not want to do it until you were ready, but when you were ready to do it you did it and had no issues with doing it when you were ready to do it. I am going to assume potty training will be the same :) I have learned that when your upset you just need time to get over it and you come running back happy as can be.
You are SO dang sweet and cute. You love to cuddle, hug, and kiss. I love that when i am sitting down you want to just come up and cuddle with me (or dad) and snuggle :) It makes my day and i always need and abby cuddle fix to get through!
You are going to sleep just fine now with out anything, makes my day! Before you go to bed though you love me to come lay down in bed with you and we sing wheels on the bus a few times. Then we say prayer which you love to say all by your self, then you tell me KISS, then you give me a kiss and say love you night! Its super cute and I love our little routine.
Jackie is your best friend. You love your sister so much. You always want your sister to be with you and do what ever she is doing. When she goes to preschool you point to her seat and ask me "wheres jackie? i need my jackie this is jackies seat" its funny and cute. I will say I love our mommy and Abby time while Jackie is at school. You seem to really love the mommy only attention and i love having some time with just you!
You love to talk! Everyone tells me how good of a talker you are. The last few months your vocabulary has exploded! I love it! :)
Most of all Abby, I could not imagine my life with out you. You have added and brought so much into our family. Your cheese grin is my favorite thing to see when i pick you up after work, when i get you from a nap, or up in the morning. I sure love you!
Love forever and always,
Mommy
Oh sweetheart i love you so much! You are a wonderful little girl who has added so much to our family. You are definitely your fathers child. You have his temperament and his personality. You will be happy one moment ANGRY another and right back to happy :). You are my stubborn baby, you will do what you want when you want to do it. When mommy wanted you to give up your bottle you did not want to do it until you were ready, but when you were ready to do it you did it and had no issues with doing it when you were ready to do it. I am going to assume potty training will be the same :) I have learned that when your upset you just need time to get over it and you come running back happy as can be.
You are SO dang sweet and cute. You love to cuddle, hug, and kiss. I love that when i am sitting down you want to just come up and cuddle with me (or dad) and snuggle :) It makes my day and i always need and abby cuddle fix to get through!
You are going to sleep just fine now with out anything, makes my day! Before you go to bed though you love me to come lay down in bed with you and we sing wheels on the bus a few times. Then we say prayer which you love to say all by your self, then you tell me KISS, then you give me a kiss and say love you night! Its super cute and I love our little routine.
Jackie is your best friend. You love your sister so much. You always want your sister to be with you and do what ever she is doing. When she goes to preschool you point to her seat and ask me "wheres jackie? i need my jackie this is jackies seat" its funny and cute. I will say I love our mommy and Abby time while Jackie is at school. You seem to really love the mommy only attention and i love having some time with just you!
You love to talk! Everyone tells me how good of a talker you are. The last few months your vocabulary has exploded! I love it! :)
Most of all Abby, I could not imagine my life with out you. You have added and brought so much into our family. Your cheese grin is my favorite thing to see when i pick you up after work, when i get you from a nap, or up in the morning. I sure love you!
Love forever and always,
Mommy
Friday, September 16, 2011
life
blargh! That is how i currently feel right now. This day really needs to end. 54 minutes I can make it! :)
Whats going on with us you would ask, well life is crazy as usual! Derek is STILL working 2 jobs which means he works ALL DAY AND NIGHT YUCK! Great news today is his last day working 2 jobs! YAY! :) He will be HOME at night (unless there is a game of course!) so yes we are excited about that!
The girls are doing good at going to a sitter, jackie says that she misses us but she has fun.
I am liking my new position and only working 1/2 days T TH :) life is good! Abbys b-day is tomorrow so a post will happen! :)
Whats going on with us you would ask, well life is crazy as usual! Derek is STILL working 2 jobs which means he works ALL DAY AND NIGHT YUCK! Great news today is his last day working 2 jobs! YAY! :) He will be HOME at night (unless there is a game of course!) so yes we are excited about that!
The girls are doing good at going to a sitter, jackie says that she misses us but she has fun.
I am liking my new position and only working 1/2 days T TH :) life is good! Abbys b-day is tomorrow so a post will happen! :)
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
We made it to year 6!
So i am a blogger slacker. Yes i am bad lately. I am busy, life is crazy.
I should blog though lots has changed and happened! What i want to blog about first is our 6 year anniversary!
Our anniversary feel during labor day weekend this year. We decided to go to Las Vegas so we could hang out with my family and go out on our day and have a sitter! :)
Our anniversary also feel on the opening day of college football! Since BYU was playing and we are who we are i asked Derek if we could find a sports grill/bar and watch BYU and eat some yummy food! We went to Buffalo Wild Wings, and WOW they were AMAZING to us! They were so nice and sweet and gave us the best customer service we have ever had! haha It also helped that our cougars figured out how to pull out the win! It was a good fun anniversary and just perfect for our us. It was fun to just hang out eat yummy food talk and of course watch our Cougars without children around!
I still find it crazy that I have been married for 6 years. Its been a fun crazy 6 years full of ups and downs, twists and turns, changes, changes and changes! I would not change any of it though, I love my husband I love our time together, I love our kids and our life. Marriage has been a million times different then i thought it would be. It's also been even more wonderful and difficult then i ever thought possible. I know i have grown and learned while i continue to try to give up more of my self and learn to care more for others.
I love you Derek! Thanks for a wonderful 6 years, i am sure the next 6 will bring more twists and turns, ups and downs, but i am excited to see what happens!!
I should blog though lots has changed and happened! What i want to blog about first is our 6 year anniversary!
Our anniversary feel during labor day weekend this year. We decided to go to Las Vegas so we could hang out with my family and go out on our day and have a sitter! :)
Our anniversary also feel on the opening day of college football! Since BYU was playing and we are who we are i asked Derek if we could find a sports grill/bar and watch BYU and eat some yummy food! We went to Buffalo Wild Wings, and WOW they were AMAZING to us! They were so nice and sweet and gave us the best customer service we have ever had! haha It also helped that our cougars figured out how to pull out the win! It was a good fun anniversary and just perfect for our us. It was fun to just hang out eat yummy food talk and of course watch our Cougars without children around!
I still find it crazy that I have been married for 6 years. Its been a fun crazy 6 years full of ups and downs, twists and turns, changes, changes and changes! I would not change any of it though, I love my husband I love our time together, I love our kids and our life. Marriage has been a million times different then i thought it would be. It's also been even more wonderful and difficult then i ever thought possible. I know i have grown and learned while i continue to try to give up more of my self and learn to care more for others.
I love you Derek! Thanks for a wonderful 6 years, i am sure the next 6 will bring more twists and turns, ups and downs, but i am excited to see what happens!!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Our family is a growing!
By one car that is!! (please tell me I got at least one person on that!) And by car I do in fact mean Van. That is right we bought a van. There is a long list of stories that go a long with why so lets start back at the beginning :)
A while ago Derek had an interview with the Utah Grizz. We did not hear back from them so we did not think much of it.
About a month ago now he got a call asking him to come back for an interview. So he went in and the job sounded perfect for my husband. The job was to help the community love hockey and plan events for the games. Go to schools and do assemblies.
They called him back and offered the job on a Friday and wanted him to start the coming Monday. So we talked about it and got excited and then realized all the CRAZY amount of things that would need to be done to have him work. We felt great about the job as long as he could wait a week to start.
So he accepted and we had to find sitters for our daughters and another car since he needs a car for his job, and i needed a car to transport the kiddos. So we went car looking and found HOW much car prices have gone up since we bought our car last year. I was shocked. So i decided why not just buy a van they cost the same as a car right now. So we did it. We want another kid in a year or so....so it made sense. I LOVE having a van can i just say! Its so nice to have a bigger car and one that can hold others if needed!
We were lucky and able to find some sitters for the girls and they seem pretty happy with them :) I switched my Tuesdays and Thursdays to half days so i could take Jackie to preschool and be home with them more.
Oh also did i mention, i got a promotion at work? They made me supervisor which means my raise will pay for our extra car payment! YAY for things finding a way for working out.
Derek is still working his other job and being superman doing both....we figured why not we could use the extra money to pay down some debt.
This week has been crazy and hectic i DO hope it slows down a bit and feels more normal as we all adjust. Good news is, my kids still love me :) they don't hate me for sending them to a sitters.
I am so grateful for the Lord and to know he is watching out for us.
So to wrap up i am not pregnant, Derek has a new job, our life's are crazy but we are happy!
A while ago Derek had an interview with the Utah Grizz. We did not hear back from them so we did not think much of it.
About a month ago now he got a call asking him to come back for an interview. So he went in and the job sounded perfect for my husband. The job was to help the community love hockey and plan events for the games. Go to schools and do assemblies.
They called him back and offered the job on a Friday and wanted him to start the coming Monday. So we talked about it and got excited and then realized all the CRAZY amount of things that would need to be done to have him work. We felt great about the job as long as he could wait a week to start.
So he accepted and we had to find sitters for our daughters and another car since he needs a car for his job, and i needed a car to transport the kiddos. So we went car looking and found HOW much car prices have gone up since we bought our car last year. I was shocked. So i decided why not just buy a van they cost the same as a car right now. So we did it. We want another kid in a year or so....so it made sense. I LOVE having a van can i just say! Its so nice to have a bigger car and one that can hold others if needed!
We were lucky and able to find some sitters for the girls and they seem pretty happy with them :) I switched my Tuesdays and Thursdays to half days so i could take Jackie to preschool and be home with them more.
Oh also did i mention, i got a promotion at work? They made me supervisor which means my raise will pay for our extra car payment! YAY for things finding a way for working out.
Derek is still working his other job and being superman doing both....we figured why not we could use the extra money to pay down some debt.
This week has been crazy and hectic i DO hope it slows down a bit and feels more normal as we all adjust. Good news is, my kids still love me :) they don't hate me for sending them to a sitters.
I am so grateful for the Lord and to know he is watching out for us.
So to wrap up i am not pregnant, Derek has a new job, our life's are crazy but we are happy!
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