Twilight Again!!!!

So after seeing the midnight showing of Twilight I got like 4 hours of sleep & then went to work like I do on Friday's. I was doing good, what with my pepsi & donut pick me up and all. Made it through the day & then later we went to the Spaghetti Factory for some more birthday celebrating. We celebrated my bday, Grandad's bday & cousin Amy's bday. It was fun & the kids actually did really well. No major tantrums. It's always good when there are no tantrums. Then we went home to veg out. That was nice. Then on Saturday me & the boys went to Target to get some stuff & then a few of my friends came over & we were off to see Twilight. Yes!!! I went & saw it again & I'm sooooo GLAD I did. It was so much better the 2nd time because I wasn't expecting so much. When you read a book & then go see the movie & they change things, it can be frustrating & a wee bit disappointing. It was a little cheesy but now I feel like I am equally obsessed with the movie as with the book. I just still think there was soooo much left out of the movie. If you haven't read the book it's ok, but read it!!!! It'll entertain you & you'll feel like you're a teenager again. So now I'm going to read it again, I finally go my own copy. Hurray!! Anyway there you go. If you see it once, see it again & it will be sooo much better. Ok gotta go!!

Twilight the Movie

So, I went to the midnight showing of "TWILIGHT" with my good friend Karen & had such a good time!! Didn't get home & to bed until well after 3am!!! Crazy!!! Every once in a while it's really fun to pretend like I don't need sleep to function. Anyway I don't really want to say much about the movie yet because I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. This much I will say, the movie does NOT do the book justice!!!! There's so much more that they could've put in. I will say that it was OK!! I am going to see it again with a different bunch of friends on Saturday & I'm sure I will buy the movie at some point because I am a HUGE fan & watch it some more. I am so glad that I read the books because while watching the movie I could fill in the blanks. Maybe on Monday I'll post what I REALLY think. It was still FUN!!!!

I also haven't posted what I'm thankful for in a couple days. Life can be extremely challenging sometimes & I wonder when the challenge will shift to something else. I'm thankful for my challenges & trials. As I sit here close to tears I can only hope & pray that Heavenly Father will guide me & my family through each day & that I will be able to listen & learn to what He is teaching me. Trials are tough but they make me stronger & know that I can handle what comes my way. I know that my Heavenyly Father loves me & shows me every day, so I know that my challenges will only be for a season.♥♥♥

Temples

Today I'm grateful for our Sacramento Temple. I'm grateful that it's so close. The temple is a wonderful place to be. I'm so glad to be a member of the church & to have temples to go to often. We are so lucky to have a Temple so close. I hope that we can all take some time to go to the Temple a little more often & continue to do the Lord's work.

On a side note, I'm also grateful for blogs & that I'm allowed to peek into other people's lives & enjoy life with them. Thankyou all for sharing your lives with me.

Thankful x2

So I'm back. Twice in one day. CRAZY!!!! Anyway, I've been thinking long and hard about what I'm grateful for today. Many, many things have come to mind,

BUT I must say that today I'm thankful for FRIENDS. I'm thankful to know that there are people out there who love me & care about me & I don't even really know it.

THANK YOU to all of my FRIENDS. I only hope I can be a good friend back to all of you ♥ ♥ ♥

(look what I learned how to do today)

I'm also really grateful for people who leave me comments!!!(hinthinthint)♥♥♥

Thankful

Ok, so I missed posting what I'm thankful for yesterday. So, I'll do 2 today. One now & one later. After a long day for both Brad & me, we went out to the mall just to walk around. When we were about to leave Brad asked if I wanted ice cream & I said sure, thinking that we would go to Baskin Robbins or something. We went back inside & got Cold Stone Ice Cream. We each got something different & we all loved what we got. It's so fun to watch Blake & Sonny eat ice cream. So for yesterday, I'm grateful & thankful that we are all different and we like different things. It makes the world such a unique place to live in. Wouldn't it be soooo boring if we all liked the same exact things?! I think so. I'm grateful that Brad & I are different because I think we balance eachother out. So here's to being different!!!!

It's MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

So, today is my BIRTHDAY!!!! Hurray!!! 31 years & still going strong!!!I want to say that today I'm grateful for my FAMILY, because they remembered my birthday!!! You might say, well of course they would remember,but there have been years that my own family has forgotten my birthday. I've been a bit hormonal for the past few days which has made things tough around my house, but we were still able to have a nice day all in all. Thanks to my dear sweet Brad for getting me my new Sarah Mac cd & a Twilight shirt to wear this coming up weekend& the 2 books to keep me occupied when I am bored. Right now I am baking birthday cake with my dear, sweet, & energetic children!!hahaha. Thanks to those that remembered, it really means a lot!!!

Today I'm Grateful

Today I'm grateful for local parks. It's so nice to have places to take the children to play for free!! We have a giant backyard for the kids to play in but it can get boring, so I'm grateful to take them someplace else to play for just a little while. I tried to take pictures at the park today but my batteries died. Maybe next time. It was fun today. Me & my boys & uncle Bryan, Aunt Kimi & Libby went to play. And it was HOT!!! Crazy November weather.

Being Grateful/Thankful

So, I think I'm going to jump on the bandwagon of being Thankful. Yes, it is the month of Thanksgiving & we start to reflect upon the many wonderful things we have in our life. What a wonderful time of year. I hope that I can carry this over into day to day living. My lists will be short & sweet but I want to try to list at least one thing every day. So here goes.................
I am Thankful for my little family & all of the crazy days that we have together!!!
I am Grateful for the power of prayer & how it keeps me going when I think that things are going to fall apart!!!

Taco Soup

I would like to give a shout out to my good friend "S". Thanks to her recipe for "taco soup" I am able to make a meal for my lovely family that they actually "love"!!! I am not the best cook but I do follow directions extremely well. Thanks "S", I am truly grateful. Blake even wanted it for lunch today!!!

I've Been Tagged****8 things

So, I've been tagged & this time I will follow through cuz it's much easier than the last time I got tagged. I need easy stuff. So here goes...........

Rules:
1) Post rules on your blog
2)Answer the six "8" items
3)Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving them a comment

8 Favorite TV shows
1-BH 90210(the original series) reruns of course cuz that's all that's on now
2- Charmed (once again reruns)
3-Full House (reruns)
4-Criminal Minds
6-Survivor
7-CSI Las Vegas
8-30 Rock

8 Things I did yesterday
1-went to work
2-had lunch with my friend Jaime
3-did the dishes
4-cleaned out Blake's toys (hurray!!!)
5-read to Blake & Sonny
6-visited with my friend Karen
7-finished reading "The Host"
8-watched TV with Brad

8 THings I look forward to
1-Tanning
2-Twilight the movie
3-bed time
4-Sonny saying funny things
5-Blake going to school ( not in a mean way, it's good for him he likes school)
6-going to the Temple
7-My birthday 11/16
8-Christmas

8 Favorite Restaurants
1-Chipotle
2-Baja Fresh
3-Claim Jumper
4-Strings Italian Restaurant
5-Red Robin
6-Friday's
7-In -N-Out
8-Casa Ramos

8 Things on my wishlist
1-I wish my house could be spotless
2-I wish I could be a better organizer
3-I wish I could be in NYC on the 4th of July to watch Fireworks near the Statue of Liberty
4-I wish I could travel in Europe
5-I wish I could get all of my scrapbooking done or at least caught up
6-I wish that my kids wouldn't grow up so FAST
7-I wish I could be more patient
8-I wish I will learn how not to be a clutter bug

8 people to tag
1-Stephanie L.
2- Olivia
3-Natasha
4-Amber
5-Aubry
6-Lisa B.
7-Tiffany
8-Staci

A Tender Moment

These pics were taken by Debby Rackham at the golf tournament in Tahoe. I just love how peaceful my energetic boys look with their gramma Sisa!!!

Halloween Slideshow

Halloween Adventures

So I have quickly come to the conclusion that I have to do a slide show for this post. We went to 2 Harvest Festivals, the Nut Tree, Bishop's Pumpkin Patch & of course Trick or Treating for all of our adventures. We had tons of fun. I even lost Sonny at the 1st harvest festival which was not fun but Brad found him & all was ok. We got to see some old friends at the Rusch Park Ward Harvest Festival. It's always so much fun to go back to where you grew up. Lots of friendly faces & even faces that I thought moved away & are back. We went to the Nut Tree to check it out & it ended up not being totally great but they do have a little amusement park for the kids & the train is always the best part. Sonny was such a crab that day (maybe that's what we get for going on a Sunday....hahaha...). We also had a Harvest Festival @ Blake's school where he wore his soccer uniform because he had his last game right before. That was fun. Then we had our own North Highlands 1st ward Harvest Festival. I was late cuz my little sister had her baby shower the same day. The kids had fun & the best part was a corn maze that they did on the stage. It was actually pretty cool if I do say so myself. Then of course, Halloween. We went to Lisa's house where Brad made chili & I made corn muffins for dinner. We were joined by Lisa, my dad, & Bryan & Kimi. It's always fun to have family around for the festivities. We took Batman (Blake) & our monster (Sonny) out in the neighborhood for some Trick or Treating. This was Blake's 5th time & Sonny's 2nd time. Sonny kept taking the candy right out of their hands & when they would try to put it in his bucket he thought they were trying to take his candy. It was funny. He got it by the end of the night. Unfortunately Sonny was eating candy throughout the night & got an extremely bad tummy ache. Oh yes, it was bad. He threw up about 3 different times that night. Thank goodness for Brad. I take care of the sick kid & he takes care of the puke. I HATE puke. Probably more that poopy diapers, etc. So I'm sure glad that Brad is able to handle it better than me!! All in all, we had a great Halloween adventure. Hope everyone else had as much fun as we did......................Oh, I almost forgot the cutest part.........when Sonny would be walking up to the door & he would see that I or my dad wasn't going he would say," om on mom, om on papa (come on mom, come on papa). It's so cute to hear him putting words together!!!

Rain is Falling!!

Rain is falling all around, on the housetops on the ground.

Rain is falling on my nose, On my head and hands and toes.

(Children's Songbook.......The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

I love this song. Very cute & simple & very appropriate for the day today. I will be posting all of our Halloween activities very shortly. I was just waiting so I could do them all at once. I finally loaded all the pics so they will be coming very soon.