Michelle's Quelf Makeover

Most of you know that we have game night every Sunday at our house. We play some pretty awesome/ weird games. The weirdest being Quelf. Michelle drew a card that she couldn't complete and the only way to avoid the penalty was to allow one of the other players to do her makeup. Well as my son says "Tom is more girl than boy" so she picked him hoping he'd be nice. He wasn't. :D

Five Successes (just a little late)

This week is a tough one so bear with the ones I'm stretching a bit :)

1. Shampooed the Family Room carpet! It looked awesome, until yesterday and the girls and the mud. . . But this post is about successes so. . . :)
2. I got more than 50% of the laundry washed, dried, AND put away. First time in a long time. Laundry is my own personal dragon to fight. :S
3. I cleaned out the coat closet. After all of the games, old mail, papers, random junk fell on my head. I'm talking like on a corny TV show where the deluge of crap just keeps falling out of the closet around the character's ankles, except in real life! LOL After I quit laughing I got cleaning and got it done! :)
4. Beat Michelle and Tom at Rook 1000 to -15. Yep that says NEGATIVE 15, not a typo. :D
5. Made it out on another walk/ run. Wish I had a treadmill or that it would quit raining/ snowing/ freezing so I could go again!

So there it is, what do you have to brag about? :D

5 Successes!

Alright round two, hopefully it is easier to find 5 successes as this progresses. :)

1. Took the twins to go visit my mom. She has been sick for a couple weeks and really missing her grandkids. I think it made her feel a lot better to see them.
2. Got excited about running again! Michelle told me that she wants to run the Disneyland Half Marathon this September and I agreed to run it with her. I am really looking forward to this and can't think of anyone I would rather run it with! That means we have 235 days until race day so I realized I had better get started!
3. Made 4 different dinners last night. No every kid didn't get their own special meal, THEY EACH ATE FOUR DINNERS!!! I am afraid we are smack in the middle of a big ol growth spurt again.
4. Had a really fun Photo Shoot with Kim and her ADORABLE kiddos! Have I mentioned I love this job?
5. SCRUBBED my bathroom. I mean yeah we do the pick ups and wipe downs but I haven't SCRUBBED it in a while.

So how about you? Any successes you want to brag about?

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” - Sven Goran Eriksson

5 Successes!

So my amazing friend Lynsie has inspired me to be better since the day I met her. She is one of those people who always seems to have the right attitude even though she has gone through things that are harder than I can really imagine. She was the one person who could ALWAYS settle down my son Ethan when he was fussy as a baby. She is always giving service, smiling loving, teaching, inspiring, beautiful, etc. etc. you know, one of those women you want to hate but just can't :). Well she has inspired me again. On her blog she did a post about her 5 successes for the day and I thought that was a great way to help me be more positive. I am not sure that I am quite successful enough to post 5 everyday so I have decided that on Tuesdays I will post my 5 successes for the last week. Here goes:

1. Had all of the kids' rooms clean at the same time, for like 5 minutes but hey, we are looking at the positives here. :)
2. Put away the clean laundry. All 52,478 loads of it!
3. Had fun playing Hungry Hungry Hippos with the twinners! And didn't even get upset when they kept knocking the marbles all over the floor.
4. Got both kids dressed, fed, medicated, and on the bus on time WITHOUT yelling at them!
5. I found time for a shower everyday for the last 5 days!

So there you go. I love looking at the little successes, it helps me feel like I'm doing pretty well at this whole life thing. :)

Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith. - President Thomas S. Monson

UGH! [or maybe not SO ugh :D]

So this is my blog and it is where I write down what things are happening in my life. I love how when you read blogs it sounds like everyone has perfect lives with perfect homes and perfect kids and time to decorate and craft and bake and cook and learn new skills and have super duper wonderful friends who they always think are great etc. etc. etc. Now don't get me wrong, I love my life and my family and my home and my friends but, it is soo far from perfect.

• Right now my kids' rooms are trashed, I'm talking can't close the playroom door because of the dirty clothes and trash (eww I know) all over the floor.
• My carpet in my family room has spots all over it that need to be cleaned and I have a carpet shampooer but I also have 4 kids that I have to have out of the way for the SEVERAL hours it takes to dry afterwards so I keep waiting for a good time to do that.
• I haven't done my hair in 3 days.
• Or worn makeup.
• Hey I'm just happy to have showered! LOL
• Dishes need done.
• The Christmas decorations I have out have been completely rearranged and/or broken by my kiddos.
• Oh and I haven't even put the tree up yet.
• Not done Christmas shopping.
• Don't have the stuff to wrap the presents I HAVE gotten.
• My bedroom has about 52,000 loads of clean laundry on the floor next to the bed that need put away.
• I have no idea what to make for dinner.
• My car looks (and smells) like homeless people have been living in it.
• I get grumpy with my kids even when I know I shouldn't.
• I yell at my husband.
• I let stress get me angry.
• Sometimes my friends hurt my feelings and I don't know how to tell them.
• So I just pretend they didn't.
• I let Ethan's Asperger's make me cry, alot.
• My twins hardly ever wear shoes. They hate them and I don't make them.

So there it is, my life isn't perfect it is worse than some people's and a lot better than a lot of people's and I am so grateful for it and for the "problems" I get to deal with. Because I have a house to be messy, kids (who ALWAYS love me even when I am grumpy) to make those messes, a husband to yell at (and who still loves me even though I do), a car to let homeless people (or maybe just me and my kids LOL ) "live" in (I swear we are in that car more than my house!), friends that love me even though I hurt their feelings sometimes too. I have a Savior whose birth is the reason I have all of those misplaced/ broken Christmas decorations. I have a Savior who understands all of my problems and not only loves me anyway, but is the help I need to make it through them so that I can so thoroughly enjoy and love my "not perfect" life. So never mind the "UGH", I think I've changed my mind about that. :D