Yesterday I went to church by myself. Jason has been sick and both kids were a bit booger faced. It was so nice to be able to sit and listen to the speakers.
One of the talks got me thinking.........He was telling about how the temple is the best place to feel the Holy Ghost. He told about the first time he went through the temple. He said he was so nervous and anxious. He wondered how people could say the first time was so spiritual, when you have to worry about doing everything right and so on.
Then he told about the going into the celestial room and the feeling he felt in there, how strong the Spirit was in there. He talked about his beautiful wife in white and how happy and young she looked, it was so sweet.
What does this have to do with me? I started thinking of my first time through, lots of things come to mind, but the thing that got me while listening to Bro. Clayburn was how Happy I was to see My family (parents, and grandparents) All dressed in white, smiling at me, the one person who stands out the most Is my Grandpa Huddleston. He looked so clean, and ..............happy and good! I am glad I was able to have that experience and have that memory of him.
There is nothing like being in such a holy place with your family!

Fafard 5k

I copied and pasted this from my cousin Erica's blog, please copy and paste to yours as well, lets spread the word! I plan on running, but I need some friends or sisters to do it with me!

My cousin has a friend Carrie butler who has done our family photos and her brother is Brett Fafard. Brett was diagnosed with STAGE 3 testicular cancer in June of last year. He has since undergone surgery and six rounds of chemotherapy. Unfortunately this fall, his doctor found residual cancer and has decided that the next step is salvage chemotherapy, which will come in the form of back to back bone marrow transplants. His doctor has said that while he has a negligible chance of beating the cancer without these transplants, his chances increase to 70% if he has the transplants.

While Brett was very blessed to learn that he was approved for a primary insurance with medicaid as a backup, his primary insurance company has denied the first request for the procedure. Medicaid has agreed to move forward with the first transplant but is declining to provide the second. While one transplant is better then none, the Doctor feels that in order for Brett to be cancer free and return to leading a healthy life that he must have both transplants.
Carrie and her husband, Mike have been doing everything they can to help Brett with all of his medical expenses. But the fact of the matter is, they have a family of their own to take care of and they simply cannot come up with this money all by themselves and in the short amount of time they have left until Brett needs his second transplant.

If they could get 120,000 people to donate a dollar, then they will have made their goal!!

Carrie is organizing a "Fafard 5k" to help raise money for Brett. It will take place on February 27th at the Riverwoods in Provo. It is $20.00 a person.

I know a lot of you out there are runners or else know of people who are so please join us in this race! It is for such a good cause.
Brett will begin his first transplant at the beginning of February, and with your help, he will be finishing his last treatment at the end of March. If you have any questions about the race or how you can donate please visit (I don't know how to add a link...):

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Brett/258561409913?ref=search&sid=607896555.2896082454..1#/event.php?eid=278286439438

more pics of Christmas!

Dahlia playing with Amy's dog Mac. Dally is so brave, Mac does like kids! he is getting better though, now that Amy has moved back home with my parents he gets to be around the kids more! yeah for us not so yeah for Mac. the kids love him though especially Dahlia despite his impatience for them.
Grandma Julee doing the Jumbo Dinosaur puzzle Mickey got from Grandma and Grandpa, oh and that is his new soccer ball Grandpa gave him, not that he was playing with it, I think he was a bit pissed that he got it.
Grandpa and Dally playing barbies and doll house, Grandpa loves to play with Dally!
opening gifts, notice our laundry hamper with the garbage bag in it to collect all the wrapping paper! funny.

Mickey opening his soccer ball, cones and shin guards that he LOVED, he just pulled them out one by one and through them behind him. what a brat! I felt bad, I bet my dad was really excited about giving him those, but mickey just isn't really into sports at all! he like gets mad when anyone talks to him about playing sports. oh brother!

a few Christmas pictures

Mickey and Dahlia in their new P.J's from Grandma Torg, I forgot how to upload the pics, so they are in the opposite order that i meant them to be. I wanted them in order of how they happened, but thye are opposite, the next pics are just a few things we were busy doing in the month of December.
The Christmas sugar cookies of course,(bells, trees, stockings and gingerbread people) but this time I did them by myself, so I could do whatever I wanted and I really enjoyed it even if it did take all day!

Took the kids to the south town mall to see Santa, because he looks the most real, but he was kind of ornery and not very fun..........boo to you Santa. right after this someone told me the best way for your kids to get the swine flu or any other illness, is to take them and sit them on Santa's lap! would have been nice to know before hand, although I am pretty sure we would still have taken them, just would have been more germ cautious. but they didn't get sick thank goodness!
decorating the children's room for the holidays

sorry

I know I haven't updated in forever! I got a new camera and have yet to figure out how to get my pics off of it and onto my computer. I am kind of scared to try things because I don't want to ruin anything.
We are pretty much all ready for Christmas at our house, just need to get the grandpas gifts, but that SHOULD be easy. Mickey and Dahlia LOVE Christmas time and everything that goes along with it: lights, presents, Santa, parties, decorations, candy and treats, and Baby Jesus. I ask Mickey at least once a day why we celebrate Christmas and he thinks for a minute then says, "Jesus" and I say,"what about Jesus?" and he says, "he was born." thats good for now right?
Jason and I are enjoying the Santa threat, but we double up and also use the Grinch threat, that if Mickey is naughty the Grinch will come steal Christmas, that one seems to work better for him!
We got a bunkbed for the kids. they climb ALL OVER it. Dally has only slept in the bed once before and I put her in it tonight because she was soo tired i figured she wouldnt goof around and get out and she is now fast asleep.
I will work on getting my pics on the computer so I can post more!

our first family vacation

It was a blast! the kids were so fun! They loved it and had so much fun. everything about the vacation was new and exciting for them, even the hotel room and badContinental breakfast in St. George. Mickey is usually such a good sleeper in the car that we didn't worry about him being a problem at all, but he was on a high and hardly slept at all, but was still a good boy considering.
My sister Amy works for the Red Lion in Idaho and she got us a great deal at the one in Anaheim that was only like a block and a half away from Disneyland, we were sad to leave the comfy beds and the maids cleaning up after us. We popped popcorn and watched aChristmas movie every night we stayed there.
Mickey loved the rides at Disneyland! especially the Matterhorn, thunder and space mountain. Dahlia on the other hand was "scawed" (scared) the whole time, mostly because the rides are dark and all have a scary element. (small world was closed). I think Dahlias favorite ride was the Pooh Bear ride, because it was the only one that wasn't dark or scary, plus we got to see Pooh,Tigger and Eeyore after the ride, she LOVED that.
Dahlia wasn't tall enough to go on space, thunder and splash mountain. they had the nicest thing where one of us could take mickey then afterward the other could take mickey, go through the exit and get right back on the ride. Wedidn't really need it on splash and thunder mountain though we hit those first thing Wednesday morning and there was no line!
We did Disney on Monday then Seaworld Tuesday and Disney again Wednesday. we probably should have done Seaworld first. I think if we would have the kids would have appreciated it more, well mickey anyway. Dahlia loved the watching the walrus, sadly Jason was with Mickey on the simulator ride so we didn't have the camera for the walrus. they had a few sesame street rides that i thought were pretty lame, but it was probably Mickeys favorite part aboutSeaworld . they also had a big jungle gym/play area that was fun to do in between shows. my favorite show was the Pets Rule show, I think the kids really liked that one too.
We never made it to the beach, but we were fine with it, I really didn't want to deal with the sand and convincing Mickey it was safe on the day we started our long drive home.

Seaworld


This was Dahlias favorite part of Seaworld. She did summersaults and jumped and stacked blocks.




Disneyland!
Tea cups was our first ride, we walked right on no line, and Dahlia liked it because it wasn't scary
Waiting to see the Honey I Shrunk the audience show, Mickey was so scared to get shrunk that we HAD to tell him was just pretend. like how we cut Dahlia out of this pic, every time we tried taking one like this of all of us we cut one of the kids out.
when we cam out from the show Minnie was waiting for us, she was the first character we saw there, look at Dahlia touching her cheek, so cute
sitting on Mickey mouses couch with my Mickey
MIckey mouse house
He never did get these off the ground, Jay and I both tried as well, they were a lot heavier then they look



Tigger was a little to hyper for Mom and Dad so we didn't get in the picture.
Waiting for the song and dance parade that was so fun, and gave us the energy we needed to walk back to the hotel and get some dinner.

this is one of Tinks friends but I didn't catch her name, hope i dont ever run into her that would be embarrasing.



Dahlia loves Tinkerbell now and I love to hear her say "in er bew"





On Monday all the Halloween decorations were still up, then Wednesday they had the start of the Christmas decorations up! we were so excited!

halloween

Mickey and Dahlia Dahlia had a cute pirate hat that went with her costume, but she wouldn't wear it so I put her hair in Braids and she pulled them out!


Bobi taking pictures of herself while the rest of us work hard to make the cookies

family of pirates
hulk hogan
police officer and a disco girl?
Jjason stirring the witches brew
Tyson had to be in the picture because Olivia would cry if he wasn't holding her!