Camping...

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Tom and I both have the camping bug..we are getting stir crazy I guess. We would love for anyone and everyone to come with us to Logan Canyon for memorial day weekend. Hopefully it will be good weather...like today. It is beautiful....

Hmmmm....

I debated whether or not to do a a post. We really have had an uneventful weekend and Monday. I guess that is good considering how busy we have been lately. Elle is sick, or maybe she is cutting teeth. I'm not quite sure but she is ornery and has a runny nose so even though I am a mother of 3 it is any ones guess as too what is going on. Sad...I know. I did mop my kitchen today which was in dire need of it. You know your house keeping skills need some assistance when your son comes home from school, sees the clean floor and asks,"Momma, who's coming over? Why did you clean today?" So sad, but as they say out of the mouths of babes. Amazingly no one was coming over I was just sick of dirty, crumby feet. I guess that is the perk of hardwood floors. Tom is in finals and I can not wait to be done. I don't know what we are going to do with out school constantly hanging over our heads. I'm sure we will find something else to occupy ourselves with...I will post again tomorrow hopefully with something a little more exciting than mopped kitchen floors....

Random thoughts...

Well we have had a lot happen in the past week. We sold the house and it seems as though it is good to go, and we have a solid buyer. It's always scary though because you never really know if it is going to go thru until the closing. Luckily our realator wrote in the contract that is she walks aways after the 31st of May she forfeits (to us) $2000. At least that would buy us some time. I feel good about it though so hopefully it will all work out..at least it has to this point. Tom and I went on our Anniversary date Sat. Emma was nice enough to watch our kids while we road trax down to the gateway and window shopped and ate dinner. It was nice to have some time to ourselves even though we hardly knew what to do with ourselves. I have been fighting a cold all week and was probably not the most fun to be around but we had fun no less. Tom is in finals week and it has been stressful but I just have to remind myself this is it...no more finals...ever....or at least for a while. On our anniversary we had dentist appointments...so romantic...and of course I had 3 cavities. I have to say I was actually excited about this because we haven't been to the dentist in 3 1/2 years...horrible I know. I was reminded of how much I hate the dentist...I mean honestly do you have to rip my gums apart. It's like they are applying as much pressure as humanly possible and then are amazed when the tiny pick slips on my wet teeth. OUCH!! Anyways enough of that, since anniversaries are a big thing for me I stayed up late and cooked him his favorite brownies, cleaned the house, and made him a card. I just like the sappy stuff. It was good and I can't hardly believe it has been 8 years, but 3 kids and 40 lbs later I shouldn't seem so surprised right? Last night I had the purse party and it was so fun. She has such cute stuff. I got a darling new black bag and some travel bags for the kids (Denver). It was so nice to have Jen G. come to it. I haven't seen her since we moved and it was so nice to catch up and envy her post baby body. So that's our week in a nut shell, busy buy happy. Tom is finishing finals this week and then we should really be able to focus on packing and such. I really need to get motivated but I'm just planning on making my family come pack us the night before........(hehehe). Oh yeah the video is of Elle, and yes....I sound like a psycho mom, but I always do. Elle has learned how to baby sign, NONI, which means nursing or drink. It is so cute and now she does it all the time whether she wants to nurse or not. What a goof ball...

Purse Party

I have been meaning to post pictures of all the cute bags/purses that I got from the purse party at Suzannes house. Anyways just thought I would so you can see all the cute stuff she has. She says her inventory changes often so she may or may not have the exact bags you see. They were all reasonably priced ranging from $10-$35 with a few of the nicer bags around $45. Anyways hope to see you all there (open house from 6:30pm-8:00pm). It should be fun.

P.S. Emma will also have a Lia Sophia display here too...(love it).

Happy Anniversary Honey...

8 years ago today I married my sweetheart in the Bountiful Temple. He is my better half and my best friend. We have had probably the most rewarding and difficult year of our marriage the past year and are still kicking, .....and kissing. I can't believe how fast time goes but I guess thats ok since we have eternity.
So here are the top 8 things I love about being married to you....
1. Someone to always laugh with and at me...
2. You gave me 3 amazingly beautiful kids....I couldn't have done it without you.... :)
3. You always hold my hand...and put up with my bare feet
4. You're crazy cute...and have the cutest butt...there I said it....
5. You sacrifice Mind (School), Body(no sleep), and Soul (Golf?) for me and the babies...
6. You are a great provider, I never have to worry about "making" it...
7. You never complain about me taking time for myself...in fact you encourage it...
8. You are always striving for our eternal family, and for that, I love you more than anything...

I love you Tom...heres to 80 more years....at the very least...

SOLD

Yea!!!!, we have sold our house....well it will officially be "Sold" when we close on June 16th. We feel so blessed and grateful that is has sold as fast as it has. Anyways just thought I would post that tonight, we had a good weekend and will blog about it later...thanks again to all of you who haved helped us, it has obviously paid off....

Bed time stories...Lillywhite style...

Bedtime in our house is always interesting. With Tom's schedule at least 5 nights out of the week I go it alone. I have to say we have worked out a pretty good schedule and most of the time the kids are in bed and asleep by 9pm. We usually sing a song, read a book, and say prayers. Last night the kids decided they wanted to tell stories and this is what transpired. I especailly like how in Brookies version of Goldilocks and the 3 bears Goldilocks gets ran over. I realize how embarrased Riley gets when he is in front of the camera. I guess he is like his Daddy. Riley has been growing up so fast. I try and remember to slow down and enjoy these minutes because all too often I am just rushing to the next thing. What cute kids I have, I hope they know how glad I am that they are mine.

Extreme Makeover Lillywhite Edition...

Here are some pictures from this weekend. Thanks again to everyone who came and helped. The house looks great! As you can see the kids had a blast. No, Beck didn't go savage on anyone he was just loving the RedVines. We spent all day outside, Tom tilled the back yard to get it ready to seed, Asia planted flowers and painted, and Eli was a rockstar with the caulk and paint. We also had Krystal and Chris help us paint and watch the babies, and Emma and Brad help us paint. I believe Tom would have likely plunged to his death many times if Brad hadn't been holding the ladder. It was great, and we wouldn't have been able to do it without everyones help. Sadly in spite of sunblock, a hoodie and me keeping her in the shade, I managed to get Elle sunburned. So we will know in 25 years when she has skin cancer where she got it from!(Yes I'm a horrible mom!!!) Poor Girl! We have an offer on the house and are in the process of counter offering so we should know by tomorrow evening if anything is going to happen. Anyways thanks again to all who have helped with the house over the past 6 months. We love you!

Happy Birthday Emma!

Happy Birthday Emma! We love you so much! Hope your day is filled with fun!

Now back to our regularly scheduled program....

Well yesterday I had a doctors appointment for my ears. As many of you know I have quite the long history of hearing loss and if you spend enough time with me have heard me say more than a couple of times.."what?" I went to the ENT clinic at Mckay. It was good, the audiologist informed me that I have moderate hearing loss and should look into hearing aids...are you kidding me? What could be worse for my poor husband than having his 26 year old wife show up at his work with double hearing aids. I was literally laughing my head off when she told me. That is sooooo much worse than even having braces as an adult. Now don't get me wrong I am not anti-hearing aids, just anti-myself in hearing aids...especially right now. Well the Doctor talked to me and said that he first looked at my hearing test and was like, ok moderate hearing loss we can deal with this, but then looked at my chart and was like whoa! she's really young to have this much hearing loss. He informed me that it is likely genetic and something that hasn't probably changed much since I was little. He said he would hold off on hearing aids at least for a while since I am "catching" at least 92%-96% of all the conversations. Awesome!!! I just laughed, I always thought I was an old soul... I have to go back in a year and have it rechecked so we will see if it gets any worse. So don't be offended when I say "What?" all the time, now you know why...

Haircuts....finally

Well I haven't had a cut or color since the beginning of December and was looking rather haggard. Tom was so sweet and sent me today to get it cut. It was so nice to have a break from the kids and just have some girl time. Tom decided to come and meet me since he was already near the salon. Tom and Brooke have been talking for sometime about her cutting her hair. We have never really done a real haircut on Brookie so I was hesitant to try and do it myself. I decided to have Tom bring her there and let her get her hair cut. She was so excited and nervous. It turned out so cute and I feel like a new woman too. What a good hubby I have...We had the second walk thru today on our house. It sounds like we should be getting an offer tomorrow so that should be...interesting.
Also here's a shout out to Jed on his new job...way to go...and hurray for weekends and nights off....


















What a cutie...she loves it...

As I noted in a previous post Elle was crawling...what I may have failed to note was that she was only fast on carpeted areas. Well since the main level of our house is all hardwood and tile floors we were able to keep her quarantined in bedrooms. As soon as she hit the threshold to the hardwood floors she was stuck, not unlike a baby whale, flailing all arms and legs but going no where. Well as you can see she has mastered the art of crawling on the hardwoods. No area is off limits and of course she flocks to the dirtiest places first, bathroom floors. As a matter of fact I found Riley yesterday laying on the bathroom floor trying to coax Elle to come to him. Yeah, I taught him well... Its funny how things change, with the 1st child you are so anxious for them to crawl and walk, with the 2nd the novelty hasn't quite worn off and while you may not be encouraging them to crawl you aren’t discouraging them to, well I am on the 3rd child. While I am excited for her to grow and develop I am actually dreading her being mobile...like I said...horrible mom...It just was so nice to be able to plop her on the floor with toys and her to stay there. Oh well, I guess the all have to grow up sometime, and she is soooo cute with those chubby thighs...it's quite the miracle she can move as fast as she does...

P.S. We had someone walk thru the house today, and they want to do a second walk thru...of course they called Tom's phone and by the time we got the message it was after 9:00pm. We are keeping our fingers crossed...

Help...yet again....

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We really do appreciate all the help everyone has given us...just think that is the benefit of us living in Denver, we can't just call you up to help..... ;)

We thank Thee, O God, for a Prohpet...

What a beautiful meeting yesterday. I was so touched by the Solemn Assembly in which our new Prophet, President Monson, was sustained. I was 14 when President Hinckley was sustained and I remember very little of the actual meeting. I was so overcome with the power of our new prophet and was moved when just the 1st Presidency sustained him. It was so neat to see them go thru the each auxiliary of the church and have him sustained. I could feel the spirit testify that he is a true prophet called of God. It was interesting because as I talked with Candi and Asia we all said how we noticed that he looked different. It is the mantel that is on him now and it is amazing how it can cause such a physical change in appearance. You can literally see the weight that is now on his shoulders. I feel so blessed to have the gospel in my life and so glad that I am able to teach my own children about our Savior and the amazing gift he has given us. We are all so blessed, I know that the church is true, I can feel it in the core of my being and feel so grateful to have this weekend to have my spirtiual cup refilled.

Happy Birthday Mom...

We love you so much, and I am so glad that I get to call you mom.