WHY GOD MADE MOMS

I found this on my friend's blog and it was just too cute! I could not pass it up.
(Thanks Lee!)

WHY GOD MADE MOMS
Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:
Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts

What ingredients are mothers made of ?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair andeverything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men 's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other Mom?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people'smoms like me.

What kind of little girl was your Mom?
1. My Mom has always been my Mom and none of that otherstuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guesswould be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did Mom need to know about Dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your Mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And myMom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because Dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees thestuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between Moms & Dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Moms have magic; they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your Mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your Mom perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Dye it. You know her hair. I'd dye it, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my Mom smarter. Then she would know it was mysister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

Klaira's Room

Klaira has been living in a green room for the past year. She does not like DARK green for a room color. It made her room really dark.

Well, we took the big leap and painted her room. It took 3 coats of primer. Yes, it was that dark.




Now, WOW, what a difference. We need to put pictures up and personalize it but, Wow. Now if only we can get her to keep it clean!

Serving My Sisters

This July we will have been in Fresno (for the second time) for 3 years. When we had been here about 6 months, I had really prayed to my Heavenly Father to help me to be able to remember my sisters names at church. I have a REALLY hard time remembering names and I wanted to get to know the sisters. Well, about 2 weeks later, I was called to be the Relief Society Secretary. Chris was the president, with Kim and Laurie as her counselors. It was an incredible year before Chris and Kim and Laurie were released. I was kept in to serve with Susie and Jackie and Charisse. Wow, I did not know why I was kept in, but was happy to be there. I HAD learned all of my sisters names, and all about them. One more year with Susie and girls, and this last weekend, I was released and called into the Nursery. I am finding that when I ask Heavenly Father for something that to me would seem so easy of a thing, he gives me a 2 year mission and stretches me and makes me grow beyond the simple request. I wanted to know names, I came to know hearts! What a wonderful blessing my Heavenly Father gave me. I have been able to serve my sisters one way and now have the great blessing to serve them another. I am Thankful for the friendships that I now have from serving with these amazing ladies; Chris, Laurie, Kim, Susie, Charisse, Jackie. I have learned how to be a cheerleader, how to sometimes speak soft, how to look at things from a different angle, how to be positive, (Come what may and LOVE it).

25 Things About ME!

So on facebook several friends of mine have been "Tagged" and asked to tell 25 things about them. It has been really fun to read about them. And then I was "Tagged". This is the list that my husband and son help to create. It really is not as easy as it looks. (And yes, Aaron,number 25 is true!)
1. My shop is better than Jeff's
2. I dye my eyebrows
3. I can play the violin
4. I can't play the accordian
5. I don't make New Year resolutions, I find themes for the year. This year is from President Monson's October Conference "Find Joy In The Journey"
6. i don't have a favorite color, but I love Camo
7. I can have a converstaion with a 3 year old deaf child. That is about it for my sign language
8. I have been a worker at girls camp for over 8 years and LOVE IT!
9. I have night terrors and scare my kids!
10. I can shoot a gun and I have a compound bow. (And I do not hunt!)
11. In the case of a water landing, I can be used as a floatation device
12. My kids love my cooking
13. I am a beauty school drop out. (There is a song about that!)
14. I have been married longer than I have not! (And Loving IT!)
15. I asked my husband to marry me! (And he said YES! Silly Man!)
16. I have been the only one to give my husband hair cuts in the last 22+ years
17. I was in a beauty contest (Ms. Alpine) and got Ms. Photogenic
18. I have lived on the East Coast and the West Coast
19. I am a statistic (In many ways)
20. I am ambidextrous but I had to look up how to spell it!
21. I can't spell
22. I love to eat! But, not vegetables. That is what food eats!
23. I collect things
24. I am a night owl
25. I used to be really shy. Jeff cured me of that.

Gingerbread Houses

Just before Christmas we had some families over to make Gingerbread/Graham Cracker houses. This was so fun. I am bummed that not all the pictures I took turned out. What a great way to have a instant village!

What do ya mean we are out of candy?!

5 Things

I have looked at so many other blogs and Janelle's is probably my favorite place to land. She has one entry that I love and it is about things about her. I sat down and tried answering some of the questions that she asked. It is harder than it looks. I really had to sit and think on some of these questions. Some of them (the negative stuff) almost was too easy where the positive stuff was harder. I think it should be the other way around. I will have to work on that. So here is my first attempt on 5 Things about me...

5 Things I am good at:
1. I am good at cooking. I even can say that I am great at crockpot cooking.
2. Organizing. I love to organize. I love when I have the time to organize.
3. Coping crafts. I love to look at other people's projects and see if I can copy them. Most of the time I like to think I do a pretty good job.
4. Crewl Work. I have not done this in years, but some of my stuff was nice.
5. I can sing like a rock star when I am driving in my truck and no one can hear me!

5 Things not so good at:
1. My handwritting is not very good. I wish this was better.
2. I can not sew.
3. I can not memorize scriptures like I should. I have a hard time reading them.
4. I can not play the piano.
5. I can not loose weight. It keeps finding me.

5 Things I Want To Learn:
1. How to make really good jewelry.
2. MORE sign language.
3. Shoot an arrow straight and not hurt my arm.
4. More computer skills
5. Photography

5 Things I Want To Do:
1. Take line dancing/Swing with my sweetheart. (He hates to dance so I don't see this one happening..)
2. Have a home of my own that I can paint any color I want.
3. Go on a mission with my sweetheart.
4. Explore the world.
5. See all my kids marry in the temple.

5 Places I Want To Go:
1. Go on a cruise anywhere with my sweetheart.
2. Go to Disney World
3. Hike on warm beach coast with DaNae
4. All over the U.S.
5. This one I need to think about some more...

Our Tree

No, your eyes are not seeing thing wrong. The tree is hung from the ceiling and it is upside down. What seems like a life time ago...the harp music takes us back...We were living in Eagle Point, Oregon and we were beyond poor. On Christmas Eve, Jeff had been at Home Depot and found this tree with all the lights and decorations, marked down, marked down to $3.00 What a deal. I was doing day care and I was worried about my little ones taking it apart. So I had Jeff hang it from a opening to the kitchen. We ran lights from the tree all the way around the room. It was perfect. The next year we came up with the crazy idea to hang it upside down....from then on we trade off each year if it is upside down or right side up. One year Jeff even rigged it to a ceiling fan and it lit up and spun. Sad to say, our poor little tree is really falling apart. I am not sure it will last another year. This little tree reminds us of the love we received from strangers, or rather, special angels that took care of our family the year we got this tree.