Where has all the time gone?

I can't believe it has been so long since my last post! I really had intentions of staying on top of things on this blog, boy has the time just gotten away from me. Lyle has even commented on me and my needing to add to the blog. Yes, Lyle is a closet blog reader! It is so FUNNY!!!! -He won't admit to it;)!

November was a good month for all of us. Lyle and I still had hunting tags to fill and I was able to make it out a few times but Lyle on the other hand was gone almost every chance he had. Thanksgiving was fun for all of the family. We spent part of the day at Elizabeth and Mike's house out in Archer. I didn't get any pictures because my camera has been broken. Black Friday was fast and furious this year but it was nice to plan my lists and get all the items I needed and to be done Christmas shopping in one day.

The first part of December came and went very fast. Colton turned six months old and at his check up he weighed in at 15lbs. 11 ozs. So, he is growing so fast. I still can't believe he six months. He looks more and more like his Big Sister Kaylie every day. It has to be his BIG BROWN EYES!!!! They are so pretty. Kaylie is so happy to help with him. She is such a good little mom and has started babysitting for others and earning a little extra spending money of her own. She really loves little kids!
Braxton finished up fall wrestling and can't wait till the end of February when it starts up again. Cassie is still adjusting to school and is starting to like it more and more. We can only hope she will enjoy it as much as her brother and sister have. It was so funny, one day Cassie was working on her math homework and fell asleep at the table. The Picture says it all...


Who would have thought kindergarten math could be so exhausting? It was so CUTE!:0)

I am so proud of my wonderful husband, he works so hard at his job putting in long hours and making sure everything is taken care of for the kids. He was promoted to Lieutenant over the patrol division at work! Kudos to Him!!!!

The kids were so excited for the Christmas school break and all the snow!!! They were making big plans for all of the time they would spend playing in the snow and spending time with friends. It was going to be so much fun.

I was so excited for Christmas this year too! It was the first Christmas that I was not sick from pregnancy in three years and had all the decorations out and up, all the things I needed for gifts and my Christmas cards made, I was ready except for the finishing touches. It was going to come together great!!

The kids got out of school on the 19th of Dec. and my brother had called to see if I could help him out on a job site of his because he had just had surgery on his ankle and needed some help. Lyle wasn't working and said he could help out too. So, I made plans for my mom to watch the kids and they could spend some time with their cousins while we got some paint work done. It was a working out to be a great plan. That Friday night Lyle had said something to the fact that maybe we shouldn't go and I said "no, We have to! The kids will have fun and my brother needs our help." So we put our plan to work into action. Saturday morning we ended up sleeping thru the alarm. The plan was to be at the job site at 8:30 in the morning, we didn't get out of the house till after 8:00. The roads were not to bad we just had to drive carefully because we had just received all of that new snow. We made it to Idaho Falls and I had Lyle stop at a convenient store to fill my addiction for DR. PEPPER (oh, how I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the sweet taste of ice cold Dr. Pepper) anyway I just bought a 44oz. for the long day. Yes, I know, I said I have an ADDICTION!! I am not in denial. It's my shot of happiness as Lyle would say. We were at the intersection of Hitt and 17th. We were turning east onto 17th to head up to the light by Sonic, just after we made our turn and were int he inside lane approaching the Albertson's/Hollywood Video parking lot we noticed a lady in her Honda Pilot flying out of the parking lot and was not even looking at traffic that was headed east, she was looking east at what was headed west and turning to cross three lanes of traffic to head west on 17th. We knew what was going to happen... Lyle was honking his horn and trying to stop the car before we hit. Yes, we hit her, I still don't think she looked our way until the impact. It happened so fast, and boy did it hurt and still does. I had turned for my babies and braced myself on the dash for impact. We are SO LUCKY our air bags didn't go off. I truly believe I would have broken my arm! So, to make a long story shorter.... No one was transported to the hospital. Thank goodness! But later that day Lyle and I were in some real pain and ended up going to the Dr. office. He said we would be sore for a few days. By Monday afternoon the pain was just awful. We made appts. for the Chiropractor we have been having to go in every other day to work thru the pains. The kids have been having to go in too.

With the accident I didn't get everything done for Christmas that I wanted to and had planned. I have to thank my mom who took a day off work to come up and drive me around to do all my last minute things on that Tuesday before Christmas or I would never of had a way to get around or the time to do everything, because we couldn't get a rental car until Christmas eve morning.

Christmas turned out to be a nice quiet day at home taking it easy and just enjoying the time together. The kids were excited to see that Santa found our house and that they were not on the naughty list.

New Years was alot of FUN!!!! We ended up going over to one of Lyle's friends house and had a GREAT TIME! I can't remember a new years where I laughed and had so much fun.

All in all, Our Christmas vacation was one for the books. I really would have liked to have enjoyed it more then we did!

I am counting my blessings because everything could have been much worse.








I hope everyone had a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!