Wordless Wednesday

If You Give A Mom An Hour...

If you give a mom an hour, she will probably want to sit down and relax.

But, before she does that, she will probably want a cup of tea.

As she goes for her tea, she sees the half put together pot of chili and remembers she needs to finish it.

As she finishes the chili, she sees the giant pile of dishes in the sink and decides to wash the dishes while the water warms for her tea.

As she is doing the dishes, she sees there are no towels hanging on the stove and this reminds her that the towels need to be put in the drier.

As she goes to put the towels in the drier she trips over the box she bought to organize all her instruction booklets that have piled up over the years.

She goes to organize her booklets as she hears the tea kettle whistling.

She runs upstairs to pour her cup of tea so she can sit and relax.

While the tea seeps, she decides to finish the dishes that are soaking in the water.

As she is doing the dishes, she sees the mail man drive by and wants to go check the mail.

But, before she goes to check the mail, she decides to pay a couple of bills to take them to the mailbox.

When she goes for the checkbook, she sees that she needs to reorder her checks.

When she goes online to order her checks, she gets distracted by e-mail, facebook, blogging, and thinks, "oh a cup of tea would be nice while I am sitting here at the computer."

When she goes to get her tea, she realizes, the water is cold, the dishes are still in the sink, the bills are half payed, the instruction books are all over the floor with good intention to be organized, the towels still need to go in the drier, so she turns on the tea kettle and waits for the whistle..........

"Mommy, I have to go to the bathroom."  And nap time is over.

I sit here laughing at myself. Maybe one day I will quit getting so distracted and finish something before I move onto something else.  Maybe that is why peope have lists.  Check one thing off before moving to the next.  Welp, off to play with my kids, the dishes, laundry, organizing, bills, and tea will have to wait til the kids go to bed.

Merry Christmas!

Well, as usual I forgot to take pictures of our family Christmas, but we did have a wonderful time with the WHOLE Cable family all together!!  We watched football, opened presents, played cards, played trains, did crafts, cried and laughed, and had great times together.  The unfortunate part of Christmas this year was that it was my turn to take call and my first time working on Christmas.  Jackson woke up at 4:30 Christmas morning and wanted so badly to go downstairs and see his train table cause he was so curious to see what this "Santa" thing was all about. So, I told him we had to wait until Cody woke up and we could go see. Cody promptly woke up at 6:00 and then of course my pager went off at 6:05 and I had to go to work.  So I grabbed the boys, grabbed my camera and we ran downstairs to see what Santa brought.  New train tracks for Jackson and a basketball hoop for Cody, and oranges at the bottom of their stockings.  They were so happy and it was so cute to watch the magic light up their faces.  I snapped a bunch of pictures then ran out the door, and I cried the whole way to work because I wanted to stay and watch them soak up all the fun.  It was a busy day at work, but I was glad to help save lives.  It was a constant reminder of the reason we are celebrating Christmas, and our Savior that was born on Christmas day had to make the sacrifice to save us!  

5K's and Ice Skates

This weekend was filled with fun out in the cold.  It started out early Saturday morning with the Mustache Dache in the 22 degree freezing cold.  But Karly, Lacy and I  rocked it and improved our time from our last run by alomost 10 minutes and finished in 32 minutes, Hooray.  

 Then, after meeting all my college girlfriends for lunch I came home to more playing in the snow with these two cuties. We finished the night with The Hunger Games movie, stayed up way to late, then crashed as soon as our heads hit the pillow.

The next morning we figured we needed more time in the freezing cold and thought we would take Jackson ice skating for the first time.  He wasn't quite sure at first but once we got the hang of it a little we had a lot of fun!  And, no one fell down!!!

Cody had fun watching with Daddy and Nana and clapped everytime we skated by.  Overall, a fun-filled, freezing cold, fantastic weekend! So thankful for our wonderful family!

Wordless Wednesday

Boo! Its Halloween!

Jackson and Cody before they went trick-or-treating.  When we told Jackson to say trick-or-treat, he kept saying "Boo! Its halloween"  Come to find out a week later-its part of a song he learned at Nana's.  He was super cute at all the houses, he couldn't quite reach the doorbells, so Daddy helped him.  Then he said his cute little "trick-or-treat" and "thank you"  then get s excited and show Daddy what he got.  He loved it!

Candy sorting-Cody went to 2 houses then came home and helped hand out candy. Jackson and Dad went around the neighborhood and look at all that candy!

Carving pumpkins-Sydney, Cody and Chris.  The best part of course is the pumpkin seeds! YUM!!!

Jackson teaching Cody how to carve pumpkins

These are Chris's, Jackson's and Cody's masterpieces

Kati did the dinosaur, Sydney did the star and drilled holes around it.

"Hey, Dude! What are ou looking at??"

Costumes for my friends Halloween party!

Photo Fun