Pay It Forward Exchange!!!

Pay it Forward Exchange. I got this from my friend Jaclyn's blog. If you'd like to join me follow the instructions below. This is how it works:Pay It Forward Exchange is based on the concept of the movie "Pay it forward". I will send a hand made gift to the first three people who leave a comment to this post on my blog requesting to join the PIF exchange. All the gifts will be made and posted out 'sometime within the next year'. How exciting to not know when your surprise package will arrive!What you need to do in return, is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog. This Exchange is only open to those with active websites or blogs. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PROMISE TO POST THIS SAME 'PAY IT FORWARD' MESSAGE ONTO YOUR BLOG, WHICH MUST BE ACTIVE IN ORDER TO PLAY. YOU WILL PAY IT FORWARD TO THREE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG. I'd love for you to join me! Will you? Other comments are welcome, but only the first three will be my Pay It Forward recipients. Come and join me!

Fun and Games

We are playing a really fun game and would like everyone to join us in playing. Go to the website below and enter your guess. Then we will let you know the results after the baby is born. And we can see who the winner is.....

http://www.expectnet.com/games/babysnell

Tis the Season to have..........

......a "BUN" in the Oven!!!

Bake with care for 9 long months and take out at approximately September 24, 2009!!!

"Briggs the Builder"

It was the funniest thing...Briggs has been walking around all day playing with his tools and saying I am Bob the builder...Then about 15 minutes ago he walked up to me dressed like this and said, "Okay mom I am ready to go"...Where I asked...He answered " to work"!!

I told him to smile and this was the result, what a cheese ball!!

Christmas Reflection

Well we had a wonderful Christmas spending time together...I love to have a really great excuse to spend time with my family. I decided to post a few pictures of the fun the children had and how excited Ben really gets!!!

Here is Allysen looking very beautiful with her new make up and jewelry on.

Briggs was thoroughly convinced that his chainsaw would really cut, so he kept trying and trying and trying...

Our beautiful babes in front of the Christmas tree and presents.

This is Ben really excited...I am not exaggerating at all either.

Shaping our lives....

Well recently we have decided to make some BIG changes. First we decided to get a YMCA membership so that we could get back in shape(after how many years). Well I am tired all the time and things just seemed kinda crappy so we decided to make changes. Second I am dejunking my house!!! I love a clean home and let me tell you most of the time it is pretty clean, but for some reason clutter still seems to creep up on me. I have made a vow to my self to get rid of lots of junk.... I have decided that every week I want to accomplish at least 2 big projects. This week I am already to start number 3. Waaahooooo!!! We also are putting the kids in some sports to so they can have some fun and hopefully they will learn to love sports like we do. Briggs just started wrestling last night and I will post pics as soon as I take some. Allysen will start Gymnastics in January cause that is when the next class will open up. I am so happy that they will be able to get active and enjoy some things that we enjoy and that we can watch the do. So that is the update on us lately and I will try to do better about posting.

What a wonderful World.

On Saturday Ben and the kids and I all went up to the top of Munson Creek. It was a fascinating drive with Phenomenal views. We love to use our wood heat, so then we aren't paying a fortune to heat our home and I just love the feel of the wood heat. It gets kind of expensive though if you can't chop your own wood. ( like last year when we had to buy all of our wood) so either way it costs a lot of money. So this year we wanted to be a little more cost efficient when it came to heating our house for the winter, we got some nice friends that have access to the forest, and a chainsaw, and borrowed a truck(so we could each drive one) and head to chop wood ourselves. Okay so it was a lot more work, but totally worth it. I took tons of great pictures cause I just couldn't resist. Ben thought I was a little bit nuts, but who knows if I would ever make it up there again.

Here are the Briggs and Allysen wondering through the woods.

Briggs is watching Daddy get the chainsaw ready(he was so mad that he couldn't have one too).

The view from where we were.

Ben hard at work logging the forest...just kidding!!

The view from the road. You can see the Air Museum. It is a little to the right in the middle of the photo. It is really rusty.

Satan???

Well it has been a little bit funny lately listening to my 3 year old talk. He loves to talk to himself and if you interrupt, he will say "Hey I am just talking at my self." We just laugh....well anyway I decided that I wanted to make sure that my children knew who they were and where they came from. So one night I laid down with the New Testament scripture reader and started to explain the plan of salvation to my children. It was great they asked questions and I explained everything that I could think of. So when we got to the part about Satan, I explained that he was a very bad guy and that he wants us to be mean and do naughty things. Briggs was totally enthralled. So now he walks round the house telling everyone that is doing something wrong that they are following Satan and that they are going to live in a bad place if they don't be good. Oh geez.....maybe I blew it. I love the fact that he has some reason to be good and he tells me every time I asked him why he did what he did and he says, I was following Satan I don't want to follow him so I will follow Jesus next mom. How cute!!!

Little Clippers here I come!!!

Allysen's first day of Preschool at Little Clippers!!
At first Allysen was really excited to go to school until she found out that we weren't going to stay. The tears started rolling and soon she was having a melt down. After going now for 2 weeks she is excited again with out the tears. She knows that we will come back for her and she has found out how exciting school really is.

After just these first 2 weeks Allysen came home from school on Wednesday and showed me how she could write a "B". I was so impressed that I continued to ask her what other letters she could write. She proceeded to write all of our names and more. I was so proud and completely shocked what a little Superstar!!!

Here is her masterpiece she made for her Papa's birthday that same day.

This one says...Happy Birthday Papa.
And this one says....Love Allysen!

County Fair....

And as you can see....they no one but the best teaching them. I love this Man!! I am so proud of what he has instilled in his children and how hard he works to achieve his goals. This year we took it all home, from Junior Champion clear up to Supreme Champion!! I was so impressed at the job our fitter Chris did and how hard Ben worked to get the cows look their BEST too. What an accomplishment this year!!

Allysen went from loving her baby "Elsie" to being scared to death and by the time she was ready to show, she was so brave that she showed her! We were so proud of her.

What a Proud Mommy moment this was. My little baby all grown up and off to conquer the world of showing cows. Just like his daddy!