Scotti 8 Months Old

 

So since I last blogged about Scotti she is crawling EVERYWhere. Man this girl is fast. One minute she's right there and next I'm searching frantically to find her. I love her smile. She has also started to play hide and seek with me (but with her blanket or toy). She will cover her face and then I say, "Where's Scotti, Where's Scotti?" She starts to laugh and peeks out at me and I say, "There she is!!!!" And she laughs even harder. i love this kid.

Raising Scotland

Scotti is 7 months now. She is growing so fast and so big. I love being her mom. Her beautiful eyes express so much more than her lack of speaking ever could.
She doesn't crawl (yet) but mostly because she rolls to everything she wants. It's the funniest thing to watch. She is starting to pick up food (and pretty much anything else) and put it in her
mouth. But it's funniest to see her try and eat her toes. Her brothers and sister adore her.....maybe a little to much at times (I have to stop Parker from loving her
tooooooo much!!!)

2 Months Old

A New Start

I know the new year brings on a lot of hope for the future. But after awhile that HOPE gets beatin down. President Monson (of The Church of Jesus Chist of Latter-Day Saints) said, "At the advent of a new year, I challenge Latter-day Saints everywhere to undertake a personal, diligent, significant quest for what I call the abundant life—a life filled with an abundance of success, goodness, and blessings. Just as we learned the ABCs in school, I offer my own ABCs to help us all gain the abundant life.


Have a Postive ATTITUDE
BELIEVE in Yourself
Face Challenges with COURAGE




Read "Living the Abuntant Life" here http://lds.org/liahona/2012/01/living-the-abundant-life?lang=eng

My favorite quote from this article is "You can achieve what you believe you can." I'm so grateful for a Prophet that gives me hope and encourages me to keep going. Especially in a time when it feels like there is so much doubt. Please believe in yourself and keep trying. This NEW YEAR is going to be GREAT!!!!!!

I'm a Slacker!!!!

To be honest with you I've been a slacker for a reason. I've been trying to figure out my blog page/layout/background. It's taken me a long time. But the bottom line is I FINALLY figured out the problem. Back in June when Scotti was born I put a picture up and it was to big. It messed up my whole layout. Things were not where they were supposed to be. I've erased (helpful hint don't do that until you figure out the problem) and deleted things I should NOT have erased. So now I think I'm back on track. I'm just not thrilled with my background picture.....so you just might see some different background pictures for awhile. So this past month has been a lot of fun. Christmas time always is. We stayed here in MO because Billy's job makes it a little hard to leave. The peace and calmlness we were looking for this Christmas came and we loved it. I switched some things up when it came to the presents and how we approach the Christmas Season. I got the idea from a good friend from church (Thanks Sister Lykins). She gives out just 4 (yes I said 4) gifts per child. 1-They Want 2-They Need 3-They Wear 4-They Read. This made shopping easier because I had a purpose. I have to be honest I was a little worried our kids might freak out when they only had 1 toy to open. So Christmas morning when we woke up a little late and ate our Christmas Crunch super fast because church was at 9:00am I honestly panicked. My first thought was 'Look you've ruined Christmas!!!' But at church we had a family give their talks and it changed my panicked heart into peace. The father of the family spoke on the importance of tithing. He had me in tears and I don't cry easily. He spoke of his struggle to go to church but that through it all he never struggled with the importance of tithing. It was AWESOME!!!! I love Our Heavenly Father and how he teaches me through others. So going home and openning the presents was a breeze and the kids were awesome and loved there presents. Especially Broc who was very excited about his socks and unders that he said, "Oh THANKS MOM I really needed some new ones of these. My other ones were getting wholy." Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

Thanksgiving with Family

I can't remember the last time we had Thanksgiving with family. Tuesday night my parents drove in from Utah. Thursday Tom and Renee, (Billy's brother) and Chris and Kristin (Billy's parents), all made it in time for dinner. Tom and Renee drove from Indiana and as they drove through St. Louis they picked Billy's parents up at the airport as they flew in from Japan. It worked out great for everyone. It was a lot of fun. They all came not just because of my amazing cooking (*wink, wink*) they came because Ireland chose to be baptized. I'll show pictures of that in my next post. This week was a lot of fun.

I'm Thankful for....

I'm so thankful for a new PC computer for our home. For the last 6 months my laptop has been out of order. So I've been trying to steal Billy's laptop when I could.....but just a helpful hint don't steal a guys laptop when he's trying to get his 2nd Masters Degree, he gets a little freaked out (just kidding Billy). I'm also so thankful for these guys

I'm also really thankful for Billy. He works so hard for us. He comes home after an 18 to 20 hour day and stills tries to squeeze in time with us even though he's exhausted. Man did I pick the greatest guy. I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.

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