Saturday is a special day

That wonderful primary song never meant as much to me as it does now. I am not quite sure why it is a primary song when it should be the Relief Society theme song. Anyways part of my personality is to set out what I am going to wear the night before I go to bed. When I worked I would set out my outfit, now I just have my gym clothes all ready to go. I even have Nathan trained that he sets his clothes out the night before. It just makes the morning routine go so much smoother. With 9 am church and 3 kids to get ready for church by myself Saturday preparation for Sunday is a necessity. I took a picture of my kids last Sunday before church. Taylor is definitely not in the mood for a picture, but overall they all look nice in their Christmas church outfits. In the span of 6 days the following items were lost and required tweaking of their outfits, thankfully I had time Saturday night to do this instead of scrambling Sunday morning.
1. Natalie red bloomers that went with this dress completely disappeared. So she is just wearing a white onesie underneath to hide her diaper.
2. Taylor's white tights now gone. So we substituted with cream and black shoes as opposed to white.
3. Nathan's black church socks gone. He is wearing navy blue, close enough right;-)
ANyways this is a random post but just something I have been thinking about. On a sidenote I loooove hand me downs. Nathan's sweater and Taylor's dress are both handme downs. Thank you to my gracious family and friends that help clothe my children.

Counting our blessings

This is my wonderful mom and Natalie when she came home from the hospital. We are counting our blessings right now because of both of these girls. In case you didn't know my Mom was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer in early November. She had a full hysterectomy done this past monday. During the surgery the pathologist didn't believe the cancer had spread by the look of things. We got her biopsy results yesterday and discovered that the cancer was contained in one polyp inside her uterus. She does not have to have any radiation or chemo. We are so happy and consider it a miracle that it was caught in the very early stages and taken care of quickly.
Now onto Natalie. She has had a cough for a couple days. I prayed that I would know when it got serious enough to take her to the doctor. Well she was coughing quite a bit yesterday morning so I made an appointment with the pediatrician. Of course she coughed maybe once after I made the appointment until we got there. Her lungs checked out clear. Oxygen level in her blood 97% and tested negative for RSV. YEAH!!! The ironic part is when the doctor checked her ears she has an ear infection in both ears. We were both shocked. The doctor stated "I did not see that coming." Natalie has never had a fever and doesn't act like she is in pain or bothered at all. But she is now taking amoxicillin (which makes her mad when I give it to her). I am grateful that I took her in to discover the ear infections before it caused any more damage. I am couting my blessing of prayer and the medical knowledge that is available.

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

Okay I am finally posting officially about our weekend in Eagar. This is the kids on Thanksgiving day. I got the girls matching outfits at Costco. I never thought I would be a mom that dressed my girls alike. Of course I never had 2 little girls to dress up and didn't know how fun it could be.

This is Natalie with her Nana Great from Preston's side she is almost 93 and was able to come from Mesa to spend Thanksgiving with all of us in Eagar.

Natalie with her Grandpa (Prestons Dad) We got some cute video of the 2 of them talking.

Taylor all ready to ride her Grandpa's 4 Wheeler with her Dad. It was really cold so Preston didn't take them on many rides.

Nathan playing with his cousin Daniel. They were playing a game that is a mix between raquet ball and tether ball. Nathan is 8 months older then Daniel and they are pretty inseperable. (don't know if spelled correctly)

Taylor with her 8 yr old cousin Janelle. They were playing all kinds of songs on the piano. Taylor loves playing girly things with her girl cousins.

We had a great and relaxing weekend spending time with family.

We have another one

Thumb sucker that is. Our little Natalie has found her thumb. She is still getting the hang of it but is taking quite a liking to it. I must admit I am glad. Once they get the hang of it then I don't have to search for the pacifier while driving or when she is in her bed if she starts crying because she needs some soothing. It was pretty much inevitable that she would suck her thumb because when she was younger Taylor would try to help Natalie put her thumb in her mouth. Taylor is a thumb sucker too. Maybe it is a girl thing. Nathan never sucked his thumb.