Christmas eve...

As a child the best part of Christmas eve was getting to open one present before we had to go to bed.
This is one tradition that I have passed down to my kids, and because they spend everyother Christmas eve with their dad this is all I get sometimes like this year until Sunday.







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Winter

It is crazy cold 8* I am told and yet after school today I bundled the kids up and we went outside to play in the snow! Sleding, snow angels, snow fights! Fun!!!




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Santa 09'

My Little Buddy!

My Littlest Butterfly!!

Wow it has been a While...

It really has been a while since I have written, at least on my blog. I am constantly writing in one place or another, tweeting this or that, often tweeting in my head something that I want to get out in 140 characters or less that needs to be said but that I really don't want anyone to read.

I recently had the dreaded Flu and then pneumonia so all my writing was from my phone to Twitter, Facebook or texting to a friend just to make sure I had some kind of contact. So I have been limiting my contact to about 140 characters and in doing so I have felt disconnected.

I just realized this last night as I talked with a group of friends again in person for the first time in weeks, it took a while for me to open up as I unusually did, not that I wasn't sharing in the conversation but I was not fully sharing, I would stop mid-thought. Even now as I sit here typing I find myself editing what I say even more than usual.

Do not get me wrong I love tweeting and 140 characters is ofter more than I need but I need to keep my personal conversations to more than after all that's what it is really all about any way is it the personal relationships.

Update For the Summer...

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Well... Things have not gone as planned this summer. But the best of plans often don't always go as planned, well unless you have a really good committee and a lot of money and a contingency plan and well there just is not one for life, so things have been thrown off a little.

Our first service project got a slow start, but went over pretty well and I want to thank everyone that helped. The kids really loved decorating the bags.
The 2nd project was to be a the month of July "Kids helping Pets" we were/are going to collect gently used towels and old newspapers and pet food donation to take to the Humane Society of Utah. We still want to do this however we are running behind , because I was ill and still am.

Next month we will be doing are final summer service project "Kids helping Schools" we are starting now to take donations for school supplies, box tops or soup labels, the best part is you can tell us were you want your donations to go, (local Utah Schools) also if you are a Target stores customer/card holder and not registered online (I don't need to know this) you can sign up so when you shop the money you spend earns your kids school or a school that you feel deserves money.
So if you can't help one way you can help another.
Thanks again for all your help and support.