About Our Family

Lance and I have been married for 10 years!!! We have 3 children, Kenton Doyle, McKelle Alyse, and our new arrival Avilynn Belle. Things are always crazy at our house between juggling work and home life. Even though life is hectic I love living it. It is so wonderful and such a blessing to have a family like ours!

~ The Love Of A Family Is Life's Greatest Blessing ~

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

I Don't Even Know The Title of the Tag!

So thanks Windy, I was tagged to the list of I's, so here is more info about me, than you probably want to know ;)

I am: a mom, wife, singer, stress case, and CLEANER!(not by choice)
I want: So many things, but don't really NEED most of them!
I have: 2 Beautiful Children, that make me laugh smile, and feel love everyday!
I dislike: Messy house, (so why does mine somehow always seem to get messy) Bad Music, winy children, when my shows get cut off by the DVR right at the very end
When a project I work on doesn't go they way I want...
I miss: Europe, and want to go back!
I fear: Loosing the ones I love, having my children hurt, or in trouble!
I feel: Grateful for my health, temple blessings, and children that ground me everyday!
I hear: Music in my head, all day, every day. When I watch shows, I always pay attention to the music in the background...
I smell: Fall in the air, and hope to smell a clean house scent!
I crave: Dr. Pepper, though I am trying to kick it, and FOOD!
I cry: I'm a weeper, I get emotional over commercials!
I usually: Make lists and To DO's all the time, and love to check them off
I search: Google for everything!!
I wonder: What the future brings, and how to do the right things at the right times..
I regret: Well, there is some major things in my life that I regret, but then I also learned from them, so it is a catch 22
I love: My family, feeling beautiful for my hubby, June 1st, gardening, singing, taking bubble baths, getting massages, oh I could go on and on.....
I care: About too much, I think I need to let things go sometimes...
I always: Hard, I am not an always type of person, I don't do things in Absolutes
I worry: About my weight - Ok it is out there, but I can't help it, it bothers me
I am not: Perfect, a bed time scheduler, a dieter, or a half a** doer, I like things done right
I remember: How silly High School was and all the things I look back and roll my eyes at in a can't beleive it kind of way..
I believe: That Prayer is powerful, and is the best way to draw close to our Heavenly Father
I dance: In the mornings, while I wait for calls to come in... it is how I work out ;)
I sing: ALL THE TIME, but after 2 throat surgeries, I have lost some of my talent, and it is very hard and furstrating...
I don't always: Take my nail polish off when it looks atroshious
I argue: Probably too much, need to take a chill pill sometimes
I write: Used to in a Journal faithfully
I win: I never win! I am not lucky
I lose: Money to Brand Name Items
I wish: Money didn't exsist, and we lived in Harmony
I listen: To all kinds of music, almost every genre, except heavy metal, but I do like, Pour Some Sugar on Me, and hard core Rap UGH
I don't understand: So many things
I need: Affection to make my happy
I forget: Every one's name, I have the hardest time lately with names
I am happy:When things are in order and my family is happy!

So there you have it! Me In A Nut Shell ;)

And I tag Heather, Marci, and Liesl- Have fun!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Kenton's Kampout!!


Well so this happened in AUGUST!! But when your own pics are on film, you can't post anything...

But then Heather sent me these pictures and Kenton got a kick out of them. So I decided to put them on....

We were watching the Disney Channel and Mickey Mouse had a campout. I said to Kenton, you should have a campout with your friends....., oops! Because then I was stuck....
It turned out really cute, except for my own children's behavior. Kenton cut his foot on a stake, running around the tentand it was a tragedy! And McKelle kept fighting to sleep in another little girl's Disney Princess Bag, and lay on her pillow. ( Can we say Christmas anyone;) )
So I was a nursing referree all night. I hope the other mom's had fun in spite of the hecktiness.







I made a peach cobbler for the mom's and the kids roasted marshmallows. They all loved the fire pit, and Kenton still talks about it.... Though we didn't actually "camp out" we went into our beds around 10:30, and I wasn't really sad about it ;)

Oh well maybe next year... if I am motivated!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Bedder Things Happen

Well as some of you know, I was planning on taking Lance to LAS VEGAS for the weekend for his birthday.... Well after looking at the weather ( it rained all weekend there too) and after discussing other options.... We decided to stay home, but still let Grandma take the kids for the night.

Lance got what he really wanted, time with me to go look at fixtures, faucets, ect... all the goods for the basement, and my loving hubby told me I could take the money I had for the trip and buy me a bedspread! ( For his birthday ;)



So I was very excited, dinner, movie, and shopping without my kids .... and after 2 years of queen size blankets on a king mattress, FINALLY, an actual bed setting!

We gave up our Ethan Allen queen size poster bed, for a king size mattress on frames.... ;( But with kids in your bed that queen was TOO Scrunchy! and a good night sleep was worth the wait.

It was very hard to pick something out because I have a husband who really cares about the decorating too, it is even harder to find something we both agree on. And I had painted my wall to match the old comforter set. So I wanted something simple that I could still feel like my kids could get on ( not like my old), and we ended up putting it together alacarte, because we couldn't find anything that we both liked that was pre assembled and coordinated...

Now I just need a King Size Bed to put it on... hmmm maybe Lance's next birthday! ;)