2008
10.08

I know what you’re thinking… “who can think about Christmas when Halloween isn’t even here yet?”

I CAN!!!

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Allow me to tell you just how much I love and look forward to Christmas each year.

Clonazepam Purchase Online It’s right around June or July that I break out the Christmas music. I don’t listen to it all the time during those months, but with each passing month I listen to it more and more. I usually make myself stop listening to it around February (I’ll admit that by then I start to get sick of it).

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https://twofunnelsaway.com/inventory-source/ As for decorating, that starts before Thanksgiving! I get the bulk of it done within the first 2 weeks and the rest I finish up over the course of the following 2 weeks. It’s like a totally different house around the Holidays. This past Christmas we had about 14 trees of varying sizes out and decorated. Three of them were really big trees. I love that stores put the Christmas decor out so early!

This year I started my Christmas present shopping in February. I’m usually all done with my shopping about a week before Thanksgiving. I have it all planned out again this year to have most it done by Halloween and the rest finished up before November ends.

Now, there are several reasons as to why I start my shopping so early.

1- I love to shop! It’s a good excuse/reason to go!

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Order Clonazepam Online 3-LESS STRESS! Who doesn’t want less stress, especially around the holidays!?! I’m not running around in the crowded stores spending an hour picking out gifts and then another hour in the checkout lines. I’ve also discovered that on weekday mornings around 9:00, the stores aren’t very busy, most people are at work, even in December. If I need to run out for a last minute something, I go when it’s nice and slow.

4- More free time! More time to play, relax, enjoy! It’s nice to be able to get it all out of the way and be able to focus on the reason for the season. It’s so nice to be able to sit on the couch with my sweetheart, after the kids are in bed, with a hot cup of coco, a nice fire going and the only lights on are Christmas light from various decorations and the trees… all guilt free!

5- I absolutely LOVE teaching my kids about the Savior and being able to focus so much of the holiday on His birth! My girls love reading books about Christ’s birth more than they like books about Santa! And I have to throw in the Primary Christmas songs too!

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I know some people might enjoy the hustle and bustle of the holiday crowds and ornery shoppers and I know some people feel like they shop better or faster under stress. I say “Good for you, more power to ya!” I can’t do it that way without loosing my mind.

So, call me smart, call me crazy, call me totally weird. I don’t care. This system works for me.

Buy Lyrica Without Prescription Mostly I just wanted to do this post to warn all of you to get moving! The Holidays are coming faster than you think!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
in October!

2008
10.06

What a beautiful weekend! General Conference was inspiring, the weather was gorgeous (to me anyway) and we had some fun!

Saturday’s weather was totally cloudy and rainy, I loved it! It’s probably a good thing I love rain since we’ll be moving to Washington state when the house sells.

Sunday’s weather started of a little rainy but cleared for awhile to beautiful blue skies. My original plan was to go up the canyon on Saturday but because of the awesome rainy weather we postponed it to Sunday.

We’re about a 7 minute drive to the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon and this spot is about 5 minutes up the canyon. So it wasn’t a long drive at all.

I wanted to take my really nice camera, but I knew I’d be helping the girls over rocks and other bumpy terrain which means they would’ve gotten clocked in the head several times, so I just took our dinky little point-and-shoot camera. Which I’ve discovered from this trip has a permanent blurred spot. I guess we’ll need a new one.

So here are some of the pictures I took. The girls absolutely loved it once they got use to the bumpy ground. We got out of the car and Eden was terrified of walking. She was so worried she was going to trip. But by the end of our little hike the girls were running around.



Amanda: Mom, do I need to worry about this thing in front of me?





Amanda: Come on Mom, quit taking so many pictures and just walk.





Ashley: See my pretty leaf!
Eden: I have one too.
Amanda: I want one!

Ashley: YAY!
Eden: Too much effort, I’ll just drop one leaf.
Amanda: What am I looking for?


If you look closely you can see snow on that mountain top!

Ashley: Come on, let’s just go, Mom’s taking too long with the pictures.
Eden: I got her keys out of her pocket during the last picture so let’s go to the car.
Amanda: Can I drive?

2008
10.05

Hair Hair, Beautiful Hair

I seem to be on a hair blogging kick these days. My last 2 posts were about hair, so a third one will round it out nicely and then hopefully I’ll be done blogging about hair for awhile.

While we watched and listened to the first session of general conference this morning we had some fun with our hair, although all truth be told my hair still isn’t done.

Eden is sporting a lovely twist crossover style! I was going to do messy buns with the ends of her 2 pigtails, but they covered the “x” too much so I left them loose and curled the ends of her hair.



Ashley has a very simple yet sporty look. It’s basically a ponytail that’s been flipped using a “Topsy Tail”. It’s a lot easier to do if you use a topsy tail. But instead of having the hair tuck into the top and hang down I tucked it going up under the elastic so the hair has a “poofed” look about it. There are instructions that come with the topsy tail that show you how to do several different styles.



As for Amanda, since her hair isn’t all one length yet and she still doesn’t have very much of it, she’s wearing a simplified version of Eden’s hair, only without the twists.



And here are just a couple of other styles I’ve done on Ashley’s hair. The style with the ribbon laced through it I got off of http://girlydos.blogspot.com/.




Hopefully for now it’s adiue to hairdos on my blog for awhile. But then again, I know I’ll keep trying things so I’ll mostly likely keep blogging them. Sorry.