Desperate Housewife

So I was surfing around on friends blogs and I saw this fun widget on my friend Elizabeth's blog, which desperate housewife are you? I thought I would take the quiz and see who I was. It turns out that I am most like Gabrielle, you know the supermodel, obviously who I would have picked. Take the quiz and let me know who you are, the widget is on my sidebar.

Please Forgive Me!!!

Hello to all my faithful blog followers. I apologize for my lack of blogging, I have a list of excuses so please allow me to ramble them off:
1. My children have become more demanding
2. I got a new camera and can not figure out how to upload pictures
3. I am now the Primary President of my ward and planning the program, Christmas stuff for the kids and the new year has really taken a lot of my time
4. I have had so many things go on in the last few months and got overwhelmed so everytime I sat down to blog I said "Forget it!"

Enough with the excuses, I hope at least one of those suffices you guys. So since my last post my kids have started school, we had Everett's first Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Joe and I went back to Reno for Thanksgiving, total blast. We went to Oklahoma City with some friends and were able to see the monument, we got a cat, had our first Texas Christmas, and took out a tree from our front yard. I know the last event seems pretty small compared to the rest, but try telling that to Joe who took the tree out with help from only two other people. Besides I like the way it makes my yard look more open without it. So as you can see there is a lot for me to blog about and of course I do have pictures to go with each event but I really cannot figure out how to get them loaded on my computer, as soon as I figure it out I will get them on here.
I am going to try a new thing and not look so much in the past but live in the present and prepare for the future, so I will not give each event their own posting like I would have if I was up to date, but I will comment on some that affected me the most. First is the most recent, the trip to Oklahoma City. We were able to hang out with some good friends that we knew from GA, the Tongis. We had just been able to see Elizabeth, Io and the boys in Nov on our way home from Reno, but this time we were able to see Margie, Elizabeth's mom, who we love very much and have missed seeing. We enjoyed spending time with them and wished that it could have been longer. Like I mentioned when we were there we went to see the monument from the bombing in 95. I cannot begin to express the feelings that overcome as you walk through what they call the gates of time and see the empty chairs. This is something that I have wanted to see for sometime now, the event happend on my 14th birthday and I will never forget waking up to those pictures. I was hundreds of miles away, but it affected me very much. Macayla was very interested in everything about the museum and monument. She was trying to take in as much as her little mind would. Who knows, maybe she saw and felt more than I did, it is an experience that I am grateful to have had. It is breathtaking and you leave there wanting to be a better person, to not waste the life you have. Also, like I mentioned, we were able to go to Reno for Thanksgiving. It was exactly what the Dr had ordered for me. When I left for TX in March of 08, things were to say the least strained, but space and time healed the wounds and we were able to be a big (huge) happy family. I love you all very much and can't wait until our next little family reunion, hopefully this next summer sometime. I am grateful for family and friends and the strength that you each give me in my life. Thank you for your examples and for your love and support.