Jameys blog

Ok so I know that it has been 6 months since I posted and I am still hoping that someday soon I will catch up, but Today I am posting about Jamey. If you didn't know he has been deployed for about 2 months. He is at Al Asad air base in Iraq. He is doing pretty good. We get to talk to him almost every day and we skype with him about once a week so the kids can see him and he can see them. He is in a pretty safe area so that makes me super happy. Anyhow he has started a blog and has a posted a few times. If you are interested in reading it I have a link to it on my side bar and it is http://jameywest.blogspot.com/ So I know that I love comments so I am assuming that he would too. He would probably love to hear from people other than me.

Well thats that and I really do plan to catch up at some point but not today.

Thanks

I have not been thankful enough this year and I completely lost the thank fullness that should have came with THANKSgiving. Hence the word Thanks in Thanksgiving. So here goes... I am thankful that we had a small quiet thanksgiving dinner. I am thankful for pumpkin pie. I am thankful that I got to make all of the dinner with the help of my mom. (thanks mom!) I am even thankful that I had to figure out how to make gravy. I am thankful for the chance to be the mom even though some times I yell that "I don't want to be the mom any more". I am thankful to be a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. I am thankful for Morgan and Colby. I am thankful that I got to be a mom to an angel even if it was for just a few months. I am thankful for a hot husband that is pretty awesome at everything. I am thankful for the job that Jamey has. I am thankful that Jamey is only going to Afghanistan for 8 months and not 18 months like alot of other father,mothers, husbands,wives, friends, sons, brothers ect. are. I am thankful for vampires and hot werewolves. I am thankful for brothers and sisters. I am thankful for nieces and nephews. I am thankful for a nice place to live. I am thankful that I have so much stuff that I feel squished because there are alot of people that don't have anything. I am thankful for the right to choose. I am thankful for my glee sound track it makes me happy. I am thankful for the chance to talk to my heavenly father. I am thankful for my calling because I learn so much. I am thankful that I am being released from my calling in a few weeks. I am thankful for my arms and legs. What would I ever do without them. I am thankful for autumn leaves. I am thankful for two loving parents that would do anything for any of there children. I am thankful for amazing friends. I am thankful for Love. I am thankful for all of the differences in people. I am thankful for blogs, I love to read how everyone Is doing, and I love that they are such a great place to express feelings. Now I feel so much better about not being thankful on Thanksgiving. I hope Everyone had a great Thanksgiving and will follow that with a magical Christmas.

Halloween

Here are some fun pictures from Halloween!

Happy Halloween

Thanks Emily for sharing your family doing the mash, I thought it was so funny I had to copy. If you didn't know the werwolf is big Neil. We needed 1 more person and the kids thought this would be best, they also think the funniest thing is when Neil the werewolf does the butt smacking dance and when Mo the mad Scientist shakes her butt. What is the deal with BUTTS. I guess they are pretty funny. And dosn't Colby make the cutest vampire. Happy Halloween everyone! ENJOY!

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Discussion about Morgan and ADHD.

I am the mother of the most beautiful 4 1/2 year old girl. She can be amazing in so many ways. Right this moment she climbed on my lap and said "kisses mommy kisses" and then she said "I love you." and gave me a big sloppy kiss on my cheek. Which is so great, but then she proceeded to wiggle and try to push as many buttons on the keyboard as possible and then jump down and run away. Anyhow I am writing this because just yesterday Jamey and I took her to her yearly well child checkup and the doctor asked if she knew her alphabet? I said no. Then she asked about colors, shapes, her name, and all the things that a soon to be five year old should know to start kindergarten. My thoughts went to embarrassment because I know she should know all this stuff and as her mother I am in charge of her learning these things. Colby knew all this and more by this age and I just can't get her to settle down long enough to learn anything. Today we tried to play candy land and after about the tenth time of telling her the color yellow I was frustrated and I could see that she was mad at herself for not remembering. Her Doctor brought up A.D.H.D. or attention deficit hyper activity disorder. We had joked about her having this before because she is always on the go like the energizer bunny, but I was not real worried until now. The doctor gave me a packet that was all about ADHD and showed me the questions that they ask to diagnose it. She also said that unless I think she won't be ready for school, we should just watch it until she starts kindergarten. Well we took the packet and went on our marry way and when we looked at the questions they were rated 0 being no problem and 4 being very often, well the first 30 questions or so the answers were all 3's and 4's. This got me supper worried. Do I need to do something about this now or do I wait until she starts kindergarten and hope she is not to far behind? I looked up a few things on the Internet trying to see if I could make some dietary changes that would help and alot of newer studies have shown that it only helps in 5% of kids. There were a few studies showing that psychiatric help may be beneficial, so we may try these things. What I really need is any experience or help that any of you (my friends and family) might have. Leave me comments or call me.

Im Back!!

I know I have been the worst blogger ever. I think I win the award for going the longest without posting.

I love the fall colors and I always try to get some pictures of my kids in the mountains. This year Jamey and I took them up to provo canyon, The leaves have turned wierd this year, you have trees that have turned and are already dried up and then you have the rest that are still green. Not to many inbetween, but I think my kids are so beautiful that they made up for it. My kids were such good sports they both think they are on americas next top model.

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Grandpa Neil dancin with the rabbids

Ok so I know I haven't posted in a really long time and I still have hope that some day soon I will post my Easter pictures but for now this will have to do. This is a video of Grandpa Neil playing the Wii. Jamey and I got this super funny game called Rayman and the Rabbids (rabbits). Colby has gotten amazingly good at the dancing rabbids part and it ticks big Neil off that he can't beat his score so he tried and tried and finally he had to get up out of his chair and try his hardest. He lost at the very last second. Then he cussed because we all were laughing so hard. Can you hear the wild fits of laughter coming from grandma and I? I know that I look like beauty queen in this video but that's just what I really look like all the time. Don't hate. Not everyone can be that beautiful.

TWILIGHT AT MIDNIGHT PARTY!!!

Destiney, Shay and Me paitiantly waiting in line to pay for our copy of TWILIGHT!

Laura



Alvina, Destiny and Shay See the side view of the red head sitting down. That is the girl that plays Victoria in the Movie. The line and crowd was so big to see her that this is the closest that we got. Ohhhhhh Well.
This is Millette. She twisted her ankel a few days before this and is sporting a beautiful brace over a purple and blue ankle. She is a trooper, we walked and stood around alot that night.

The crowds were endless and it was about 5000 degrees in walmart.

This is a cake that they were serving. We didn't have any due to the amount of people and germs from all the people around it..... It looked yummy but not yummy enough.

These girls were super cute. They were dressed up as Alice, when she was playing baseball. 2 of the girls really looked like her. The other one not so much.

It was a fun night. We went to Chili's around 9 pm and I eat my favorite Southwestern egg rolls. Yummm. While we were at dinner a friend called and told us that Smiths had started selling there copies at 10 pm. We debated but smiths was selling theres for $5 more than walmart. In the end we decided to take our chances with walmart. When we got there someone told us that Victoria and James were there so were started to make our way through the crowds. It was like highschool halls flashbacks all over again. We didn't make it very close because a few of us were starting to hyperventalate. I know we are getting old and boring. Around 11:30 the walmart employees started walking around with shopping carts full of DVDs so we all got one, and got in a check out line and waited until midnight when they started checking people out. Jen, Julene, Alvina, Laura, Destiny, Millett, Shay and I all came back to my house to watch the movie. It was alot of fun making fun of the diffrences and the cheesy parts together. We finished it around 3 in the morning. We had so much fun and I think I laughed so hard that my abbs hurt. I need to have more girls night outs.