A Day for Mothers

Today was such and amazing day, Jeremy and I went to the Arizona American Mothers (they are an interfaith, non-profit, non-political organization working as a dedicated force to strengthen the moral and spiritual foundations of the family and the home.) Honors Gala in honor of his Great-Grandmother Louise Larson she won the 2008 Mother of the Year award. She is such an amazing woman; she has done so many great and small acts of service and love through-out her life!! Jett is her only Great-Great Grandson! I look up to her so much and think she is the perfect person for the award! It is such a good program recognizing the accomplishments of Mothers and Motherhood, it was a good reminder to me of how important the work I am doing is!! I just want to give a shout out to all the MOTHERS I know!! You are creatures of divinity; you are daughters of the Almighty. Limitless is your potential!! I know sometimes things get hard and crazy. Keep your heads up!! You will be blessed for the great work you do!! It made me think how much I love my Mom and Julie! They mean the world to me!

Play Play Play

I just wanted to post some cute pictures of Jett at the park, it is right by our house and he LOVES IT!! He is getting to be so much fun and with the nice weather we spend most of the day out side!

Jeremy got some new rims for the truck so......

Jett was helping clean up the old ones!

Anyone want to buy some RIMS?

OLD LOOK

NEW LOOK! I like them much better!

Out for a Month!

If you all haven’t noticed it has been almost a month since I have posted anything on my blog. I can’t seem to get it together these days! I will try to do better just to keep you all updated on what we are doing. We had an amazing Christmas and New Years! We spent most of it with family and friends eating food and just relaxing!! I hope you had as much fun as we did!! I took about 300 pictures!! I got a new camera for Christmas and it has been put to work! I am going to share a few pictures to show you what we have been up too!

Jeremy & Jett

The girls ( I think we took like 20 pictures of ourselves!! But we had fun!!)

Me & Jeremy

Jett got this little car from G-pa & G-ma Smith HE LOVES IT!! I think I push him around aleast 10 times a day in it!

Holly! If you want to hear Jett you have to pause my music I hope you love it as much as I do!!

DECEMBER 12th

Happy Birthday Holly!

I just wanted to post a few things that I love about you!

You are an amazing friend and sister

You are a great Aunt, Jett loves you

Funny and always Happy

Very thoughtful of others

You never talk bad about other people

Very Artistic

Beautiful Inside and Out

Eye's to die for

Super Smart

Strong and Independent

Someone that I look up too

Baby of the Family and we all worry about you!

Holly I just want you to know how much I love you! We have had lots of great times together I don't know what my life would be like with out you in it!! At the end of the day Jett and I can't wait for you to come home so we can see you and chat!! I just want you to know how much you mean to us and tell you that I love an appreciate all that you do for our family!!

I LOVE YOU HOLLY!

I WAS TAGGED!

OKAY SO I was Tagged by Rayna and then by Suzanne, I have to admit I feel like I never have time to post on my blog so here goes I am not going to post the six fact about me I am going to do the Christmas one! But one fact is that I LOVE this time of year, I love to decorate my house and I love all the smells I have 5 trees up this year, one big one and four little ones I love it!!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? For sure wrapping paper much more fun to open!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial I must admit I am a clean freek one year I did a real one and it made the biggest mess in my house so for sure fake!

3. When do you put up the tree? I try to put it up right after Thanks giving but sometimes it take me a few days to get it all down!

4. When do you take the tree down? A few days after Christmas I like to get it down so I can get ready for the New Year!

5. Do you like eggnog? Not really

6. Favorite gift received as a child? I don’t really have one that is sticking out I loved everything my parents got me!

7. Do you have a nativity scene? One small one (given as a gift)

8. Hardest person to buy for? My Dad he has everything!

9. Easiest person to buy for? Jett of course he would love any toy in the world!!

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail I hope everyone has gotten them!

11. Worst Christmas gift you've received? I don’t know of one…I liked them all

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The Grench Stole Christmas and A Christmas Story “You will shoot your eye out kid!”

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? November but I always have my eye out all year long!

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I don’t think so?

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? FOOD! And lots of it any thing and everything!

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear for sure!

17. Favorite Christmas song? Christmas Waltz

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel every year so far

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? I could once

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star I like both!

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? Christmas Morning

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? The lines at the stores

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I have all my tree and decorations in Maroon and Gold but I have been thinking about changing it all back to Red, Green and Gold?

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? To be with my family!

THIS IS OUR TREE!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This past week has been one of the hardest weeks of my life!! I don’t think I have ever been so busy! My sister-in-law got married and my mother-in-law put me in charge of decorating the reception! It was so much fun and it came together nice!! I have to say that it was the nicest reception that I have ever been too!! It was out side and it was gorgeous! I have some pictures that I will try to post!! So that was Saturday night and the next morning at 8:00a.m. we had church! I had to teach. My lesson was on Gratitude and Appreciation, so fitting for this week!! So I thought that I would list the top 10 things that I am most thankful for!

1. My Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ for his distention in coming to this earth and suffering for my sins, and making it possible for me to return to his presence.

2. My life, my body and the chance to come to this earth at this time.

3. My eternal companion the love of my life Jeremy for his support, love and encouragement.

4. My son Jett the joy that he brings into my life, and the chance to be a Mom.

5. My parents and In-laws, for there on going support and love.

6. My friend and family for all the good times we have shared.

7. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the knowledge I have gained thought studying the scriptures and a Prophet to lead and guide me.

8. This country the freedoms I enjoy.

9. My beautiful home, a roof over my head to protect my family.

10. My sisters! I feel so blessed and lucky to have two beautiful sisters!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all! I hope I am never found ungrateful for all these amazing blessings! We are Suns fans! Thus the new blog page, I love it!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETT!!!

11-06-06

11-6-07

ONE YEAR OLD!!

We are so happy he is part of our family!!

Happy Halloween!!

This week has been pretty crazy for us!! Our home is all under construction, for the last week all the new crown molding and baseboard have been installed it looks so nice!! I have some before pictures so I will post some before and after pictures!! Depsite all the mess we dressed Jett up as a Lion and he looked so dang cute!! We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Smith's house and he got his first ring pop!!

School Picture

While we were in Snowflake my sister Michelle had me go to the school with her and get Jetts pictures taken! I am so glad I did they turned out cute he looks so big!

Back to Life and Busy!

Finally after a week of being home I am organized enough to put some pictures of Jeremy’s Elk on my blog! We have been very busy getting life back to normal! This week Jace had two football games, JV and Varsity! We went to both of them Jett loves the games! Jace did very well, we are so proud of him. After Jace’s game on Friday night we went with Josh and Cassi McRae out for ice cream at Nelsons Frozen Custard! We had so much fun with them! You better believe that we saw like 5 other friends while we were there! Joseph and Heather Ballard were one of them! I am so excited for them, I have been there Realtor on there new house and it closes this week!! Yeah BALLARD!! Busy times Jett also turned 11 months on the 6th I can’t believe that he will be ONE year old next month! TIME is going by so fast!!

HUNTING!

WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!!

Today Jeremy got his Bull Elk! He is a good looking Bull and we are Happy to be heading home!! I will post more pictures when I have a better chance to work on the computer.

Missing HOME!

I feel like I have fallen off the planet! We haven’t been home for 13 days! And I still have 10 to go! I miss you GILBERT!! We went camping for 5 of those days with the Mills family! We had a lot of fun, after the camping we went to my Moms house and have been here since! Jeremy got drawn for a archery Bull Elk tag, so he is off hunting and we are just hanging with my Mom and my Sister Michelle! It has been fun, but I sure miss my BED and HOME!! When I get back into town I will post all my pictures of our adventures! Hope ALL is well with everyone!!

Jett's New Ride!

I am not very good at updating my blog as much as I should. I feel like I need to do better and make it more like my journal. On Sunday Uncle Scott was playing with Jett and made a fun little toy car with my laundry basket!!

He loves Scott and had so much fun being pushed around!

NEW BOOKS

Last Night Grandma and Grandpa Smith came over and gave Jett a whole bunch of fun books!! Thanks to Dani, Mindi, Jace, Kerby and Justin for sharing JETT LOVES THEM!

OUR NEW CAMP TRAILER!

I am getting so excited to go camping!! I just had to post a picture of our new camp trailer! It is just a pop-tent trailer but it is way better than a tent!! I have it all ready! Stocked with everything we need to camp, I figured out that we will be camping all but seven days in September!

FIRST TOOTH

Jett got his first two teeth and he got his first shiner on the couch!

He is so dang cute!

MY CURTAINS

THEY ARE FINISHED!! YES THEY ARE BLUE!!! I have been getting a mixed feelings on then but I love them!! Now onto the pillows, white blinds, crown molding, art work and plants and the room will looking much better!!

Do you ever feel like you have your hand in to many things??

Sometimes I feel like I have way too many things going on so I started to make a list of what I do or should be doing all day.

First and most importantly being a wife to the love of my life Jeremy and a Mom to Jett which includes, feedings, changing dirty diapers, baths, keeping my eyes on him at all times, entertaining, singing, reading stories, going on walks, and constantly trying to figure out what he wants. Not to mention the fact that is he always on my mind, (even when I am sleeping I am listening for him).
Then there is the house, cleaning, bathrooms, vacuuming, sweeping, the dishwasher that is loaded at least once or twice a day, picking up toys and books, dusting, and the deep cleaning is at least three paragraphs of its own. Then the laundry is a 24-7 job, load after load, and then the ironing and folding takes all day. On to the grocery shopping, it is like an all day event planning the meals and coming up with a list of the things we have and don’t have. Then getting my self ready and Jett with enough toys to last us is a chore. Dinner planning and cooking takes at least one hour plus clean up. On to the bills and making sure things are taken care of financially. Which brings me to my part time job at KS Appraisal, which has been so awesome to pick and choose hours but the point is I need hours so I spend most of my spare time working for them. I also have a vinyl letter cutting machine (I used to do it as a business) so I have several people who still use me for things. I love cutting vinyl for people, the designing is my favorite part, but it all takes time! I am also the Mia Maid advisor in our ward, so I teach every Sunday, so all week I work on my lesson and try to get my thoughts together! Every Tuesday night I have mutual so I am down at the church for at least two hours! I can’t forget that I am also a visiting teacher and do that once a month!
For the last few months I have been working every spare second on my formal living room drapes!! I am proud to say that after 4 trips to Scottsdale, 3 trips to Joann’s 10 trips to Wal-Mart and 1 trip to Home Depot, I HAVE FINISHED THEM!! I still have the pillows to make and to find some art and that room will be completely done. On to my real estate mess!! I have been taking my renewal hours I have to have 24 credit hours before September 30th so I have been taking classes like crazy to finish them, while trying to manage a few real estate deals. Oh I can’t forget to add to this list that I love my Blog and try to keep it updated!
I feel like my life is so crazy sometimes, but the crazier is gets the more blessed I feel. I can’t even begin to tell someone how I feel about life! How wonderful it is!! How blessed I feel to live in a free country and do all of these things!