Baby It's Cold Outside!

We got snow!!!!

Embarrassing Photos!

Poor Brady. Lately he has been taking some not so flattering photos and as the bad mother I am, I think they are hilarious and am posting them for all of you! Enjoy!

 That is some pretty good rice cereal eh?

 Milk Drunk???

 OK! OK! I will redeem myself as a Mother and post this super studly one! Look at my cute boy!

The Stockings Were Hung...

So Ike's Mom is really incredible when it comes to cross stitching. She made unique cross stitched stockings for all of her 10(!!!) children and when Ike and I got married, she even made one for me. Well now that we have kids I want them to have unique and beautiful cross stitched stockings. Well, I felt bad asking my mother in law to make one for each of my children so I thought this might be a good opportunity to learn a new skill. Cross stitching can't be that hard right??? WRONG!!!!! In theory it is easy, but actually making all your stitches look right and not losing count (my biggest problem) is not easy. My blood literally went into this stocking. I don't know why I decided to make Brady's first but I did. After much frustration and ripping out stitches, It is complete!!! I will be the first to admit that it is not my best work, but I am proud of it. I think it will stand up with the ones from my Mother in Law. The only bummer is that it took me so long to make Brady's that I don't think I will have Jackson's done in time for Christmas. He will probably use Ike's mission stocking this year and next year he will have one of his own.

Brady's Stocking!

 Ike's, Mine and Brady's!

 One more shot of Brady's!

You Better Watch Out. You Better Not Cry...

Christmas Spirit

Today I received the December Ensign in the mail and when I read the first presidency message I realized that I could do so much better this season. President Monson talked about Rediscovering the Christmas spirit.

When we have the spirit of Christmas, we remember Him whose birth we commemorate at this season of the year: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11).

In our day the spirit of giving gifts plays a large role in commemorating the Christmas season. I wonder if we might profit by asking ourselves, What gifts would the Lord have me give to Him or to others at this precious season of the year?

May I suggest that our Heavenly Father would want each of us to render to Him and to His Son the gift of obedience. I also feel that He would ask us to give of ourselves and not be selfish or greedy or quarrelsome, as His precious Son suggests in the Book of Mormon:

“Verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who … stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another.

“Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away” (3 Nephi 11:29–30).

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to love and give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. Today there are hearts to gladden, kind words to say, deeds to be done, and souls to be saved.

His message just made me realize that I have focused so much on presents and material things this Christmas season that maybe I have overlooked the true meaning. So starting today I am going to try to do things to keep in mind the true meaning of Christmas and try to rediscover the true Christmas Spirit in my life.

HOW THEY BE SO CUTE?!?!?!?!?!

So I don't really gloat that often. But I would like to today. Not the sinful bad kind of "I will compel you to be humble" gloating though.  More like the GAHH MY KIDS ARE SO CUTE motherly kind.

Behold! My children and their cuteness!!!!

The Avengers Challenge

So Ike and I watched The Avengers a few weeks ago and even though we liked it, we were left with a few questions. We had not seen all the movies leading up to it that we should have and were frankly unprepared to see the movie and enjoy it the way it was meant to be enjoyed. Luckily, our branch has a family that I feel comfortable calling experts in comic book knowledge and after discussing with them what we thought of the Avengers, they gave us some homework to help us better appreciate it. We did it and now both Ike and I feel much more competent (and not to mention cool) because we have all this new Super Hero info in our brains. So now I pass what they gave us along to you! I challenge you to do the homework then re-watch the Avengers. I promise you will enjoy it more!

You have to start by watching these movies in this particular order: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America. Then as you watch these movies you have to answer the following questions. Some of these may require the help of the internet. In exactly 7 days (Which I think should be enough time to complete this assignment) I will post all the answers to the questions and you can see how well you did!
These are the questions exactly as they were assigned to us:

Iron Man

1. An old man appears in all of these movies. Who is he? Why do we care?
*After credits: Appearance of Nick Fury! Big geek moment!

The Incredible Hulk

1. What is the bad Hulk's comic book name? (A_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ N)
2. What other Hulk villain's origin is shown in this movie? (L_ _ _ _ R)
3. What other Hero makes an appearance? (After the credits)
4. Who played the computer department guard and why do we care?

Iron Man 2

1. What are the comic book names for these actor's characters?
- Scarlett Johansson (B_ _ _ _   _ _ _ _ W)
-Mickey Rourke (W_ _ _ _ _ _ H)
-Don Cheadle (W_ _   _ _ _ _ _ _ E)

2.Which two items appear in this movie that belong to other Heroes not yet seen  at that point in time? (Be sure to watch after the credits!)

THOR (This one was totally my favorite in case you were wondering.)


1. Thor mentions "Yggdrasil". What is it?

2.Which other Hero movie is it mentioned in?

3. How is it tied to the glowing cube?

Captain America

1. What other Super Hero has Chris Evans portrayed?

FURTHER HOMEWORK!!!
Re-watch the Avengers and don't be so ungeekingly clueless!

So there you have it! Do the homework and in 7 days I'll post the answers! Have fun!