gratitude day 25

Today I am so thankful for my cousins! We all went shopping today, it was so much fun. Leah Derek's girlfriend came too, I just love her, she is the sweetest girl. It was fun to all be together, (along with about 5000 of our closest friends) everywhere was crazy busy and so crowded. We shopped and went to lunch, then shopped some more! I just love those girls, I don't have a sister but I have them, which is the closest thing to having one, and I am so grateful for that. All 3 of them in their own way are such an example to me, and they help me to be a better person. I love them all, and I don't know what I would do with out them!

gratitude day 24

It's finally here! Thanksgiving! Today I am so thankful for family time, and to have the weekend to just hang out. We took the kids to see The Muppets, they were so excited to go to a movie as a family. They had been looking forward to this for over a week. We always go to a movie on Thanksgiving morning. Usually we would go with Rob and Jennies family, but since they moved we obviously didn't go with them and my kids were sad about that. After the movie we went to the Ogdens to eat and then to my parents house for dessert. After all that all of us girls went shopping. I love my cousins! It was a great day, it was so fun to get to see our families and laugh and hang out.

gratitude day 23

I am so thankful to have the time to be able to help out in my kids' classes. Every Monday I go and help for an hour in the morning in Ryders class. I just love seeing his cute face grin when I walk in the classroom. It's fun to get to see how he is at school, he is actually calm and obedient. On Fridays I help sell snocones for Krews' fundraiser for Sea Camp, he loves having me there to help. I love that he loves me being there. Today I went on a field trip with Jades class, she was so excited I was able to come. She wanted to sit right by me on the bus and didn't care if she was with her friends or not.

I have realized at their school I have 3 names, Krews' mom, Jades' mom, or Ryders mom. It all depends on whose friend or class mate it is, I love it. I am so thankful that my kids love me to be around.

gratitude day 22

Today I am thankful for my mom and Cafe Rio! I worked from 9am -8pm today, I was crazy busy because of Thanksgiving and working a short week. I was booked solid but then ended up getting a break at 1:00 while my client processed. My sweet mom and Violet ran me over a Cafe Rio salad, I scarfed it down. Man that was just what I needed. Thanks Mom!

gratitude day 20

I love this weather! I just love these over cast skies. I am so thankful for fall. It is so fun to see all the leaves change colors. There aren't very many trees that do this in Vegas, but when you do see them they stand out. I drove by some trees with red, yellow, and orange leaves, they were so pretty. Even my kids got excited to see the cool leaves.

gratitude day 21

Today I am thankful for Violets dance class, she just loves to go and thinks she is so big. She loves all the little girls in their. Her first day she was nervous and said "mom I don't know how to dance so I don't know if I should be going here!" Then she said "will my teacher hold me if I'm sad?" Of course she loved it. She will come home and show us all her moves. The older kids just adore her so they are so in to watching her. When she put her feet in a pose and said" this is 1st position" I just about died. How cute is she?! She will also do this funny dance and move her whole body and say "that is my famous dance" while grinning ear to ear.

gratitude day 19

Today I am so thankful for soccer. As annoying as it is to have our Saturdays all tied up with games, my kids just love it! Jade is so stinkin' cute to watch out there, she is the best little forward and has been doing really good at it. She seriously lives for game day and counts down the days. Ryder is just so cute out there with his white hair, and he is a really good mid fielder, that the position he loves to play. He is in his uniform ready to go by 7 am , and he is ticked if his game is last. Krew this year has gotten sooo much better this season. We have never made him play, he always wants to but once he is out there he just could care less and isn't competitive. This year he is into it and is actually playing hard, he has even headed it a couple of times and Jared said"who's kid is that?" Violet is said she doesn't play yet, at the beginning of the season she said "Where is my unicorn at?!" she meant uniform but we loved it so we didn't correct her. Anyways it's just so fun to see my kids enjoying themselves and being in to something good for them.