Notice the new look.......

Thanks to A very Talented  SIL....  I've got a beautiful new Header on the Blog!!!  Thanks again Noelle!! 

The Rink is Back!!!

  Brad's be waiting all year well since we moved into this house to build the rink.  He had great visions on how it was going to work.  It didn't work out quite like he wanted.  He started on the cement pad and took it onto the grass.  But i don't think the lawn was frozen enough,  so he had to shorten it up.  But so far the kid's have had such a great time on it.

The little Boy's have really taken to it.  Blaze is already skating with out a chair.  Knox can't hardly wait till Brad gets home from work to go!  So tonight they went out for FHE.

Brody's Big Birthday

I feel like this is a overwhelming task to keep up with the Blog.  Not sure why writing it use to come so easy to me.  Not sure if I'm just running low on time, energy or have totally lost my sense of humor,  It's sometimes hard to laugh at the boy's destructive way.  Like the other day,  It was a busy day and Blaze found a bottle of white glue and a paint brush and painted a wall downstairs.....  Back in my good humor day's i would have taken a picture and laughed and put it on the blog,   But in stead all i could say is  "are you kidding me" and cleaned it up.  I think maybe it's coming with age,  I'm old and set in my way's.  Anyway long story short New Years is coming and this is a perfect Goal to set for myself.

Anyway onto the meat and potato's of the month.  November, December is always busy.  I had 3 craft shows to get ready for and do.  I was scheduled for a surgery in April but The begging of Nov.  I got a phone call saying it had been bumped up to Dec. 7th.  Yikes.  So i got my butt in gear and got all the pictures edited and Back, All of Christmas Purchased and arranged, and all my craft stuff put away.  It was kinda a blessing in disguise.  It's made December so much nicer cause i really have to take it easy and so it's been way easier to say no to things i don't have to do. 

So it's been a really fun December (minus the whole cutting into me and not being able to sleep on my tummy).  Before i went in, On the 6th it was B's Big 10th Birthday.  So we asked him awhile ago if he wanted a party or just wanted to go out to dinner with Brad and I.  He really wanted to go out to the water tower.  Our Brody is really into good food,  He wanted to go there and eat a good Piece of Salmon.  Yep that's right he'll do anything for a piece of fish.  Blahhh.  Anyway   It was fun to take Brody out.  He got money from everyone this year so we took him shopping after to buy his Birthday presents.  he was so excited he had enough for Hex bugs with the track (something he's asked for but I'm the Mom who thinks if it looks dumb I'm not buying it)  Well i was wrong it is really fun.   Anyway  He had a great time!

Our Brody had Grown up so much.  Just in the past month or so he's started looking so old.  he's  lost all his Baby Fat (OK he never had Baby fat).  But he's just grown up.  He loves hockey  I'm pretty sure that's his number one love of course during the winter.  He also loves loves Sledding.  He is good in school and loves his teacher.  His favorite subjects are Math and Gym.  He likes to play with his friends and he's so good at Babysitting.  We are so glad he's part of our family!

What was the point???

So it's coming up on a year that we have sold our house and moved!  I can't believe how fast it's flown by.  The little house is still sucking us dry!  Before we realized how much money we lost on that house we put in the agreement that we would change the 70 amp electrical to 100amp.  Big mistake,  next time we move I'm washing my hands of the whole thing.  This has turned out to be a huge huge project!  $800 or more later,  we are getting it done finally.

Grrrr.   The reason we sold that house is because it was to small for our family!  nobody could sleep together.... everyone had to have there own room.... ect ect.  So when i walk in on this scene i have to question why??

notice even Foxx sleeps with all the boys!

We know how 4 empty Beds, and everyone of the boy's sleep together.  Brody and Blaze have a few fear issues and Knox just wants to be part of the crowed.  And Meanwhile Paris is downstairs with all the lights off door shut and as happy as she can be sleeping in her own, dark room.  She does not scare easy and complains when Brody wanders into her room at night cause he's scared in his own room.  Hmmm We certainly know how to raise Brave Boys.

Last night was the last craft night until next year.  We were doing temple canvas'  it ended up blowing up into a huge project!  107 Kit's were signed up for.  Yikes.  It was a easy one to get together  well kind of.  I had done the temple pictures and had to add the words on them" if this isn't your castle then you're not my prince".  And any of you know me very well you know i can't spell and my grammar is horrible.  So i checked double checked and triple checked and had Brad check then Finally I went to order them (It was like 80 8x10 = $140)  i made one quick change and Emailed the pictures in.  I got them back Tuesday night and put them in kits, and while i was doing that Brad looked and one and said "hey Kade,  You know this is spelled wrong"!!!!!  I cannot tell you the sinking feeling!!!  Grrrrrr.  So i had to reorder $140 worth of pictures last minute.  Did that and forgot to push off the color auto correct off!  So they came back a wonky color that i was not super happy with but it was impossible to redo  so...... We went with it!  That had to be the most aggravating  time ever!!  We had about 17 people here,  it really was fun .

Anyway it's over and done and i can start fresh next year!

So I'm off this afternoon to Black Friday!!  Eek!  It's been quite a few years since I've been able to go....  So I'm pretty excited!  I guess I'll update when i get Back!!!

Good Goals.....

So my goal is to Blog every Monday with the past week events................ that was 2 weeks ago and look at me sheepishly coming back to the land of Blog.  I'm having a hard time getting to the blog because i fell like I've been so busy,  and i feel guilty if I'm no the computer and doing anything but editing Pictures since I'm so behind.  And since I've been doing other peoples pictures so much I've not been taking enough pictures of my own family! Gasp!!  The kids really don't know what happened.  I did not take one Halloween picture!!!  I'm feeling very sad about it know so maybe I'll dress at least knox and Brody up again,  Since Paris was a witch again (i think every year but one, she's been a witch), and Blaze had a awesome dinosaur costume but opted last minute for his Puppy house coat???  Embarrassing much!  Oh well. 

It was quite a eventful day.  Blaze has had Paris explaining the important parts of life to him at night with out us knowing until now.  She's been explaining about vampires and how they suck your blood and Werewolves and plenty of other knowledgeable things that we wanted our Paranoid 4 year old to know.  So long story short Halloween did not go over super well with Blazer.  He refused to go to preschool cause everyone was dressed up,  so after fighting for 15 min with him i took him home and made him nap!


Trick or treating went well,  It was a wee bit Chilly but the big kids lasted a couple hours.  Blazer Really got into it this year.  I took them around a block then Brad took them out for a hour or so to all the regular places.  Blaze made quite a haul but when he came home he took over door duty and he kept giving away all his candy instead of the stuff we bought.  He gave one little girl 4 bags of his chips...... Hmmmmm.  Anyway it was a good Halloween.

So November is a really busy month,  I guess so was Oct. And Sept.  But November's my crunch Month.  I've got 3 set's of family picture to edit (More to shoot) 2 craft night 2 craft shows and all my Christmas shopping has to be done by Dec. 7th!!!  Yikes I've never had a strict deadline till this year,  But I'm going in for a minor operation that will put me out of commission for a few weeks.  I know good timing right!  Anyway so that's why I've been absent from the blog for so long.  Not a good excuse I know but it does make for a busy busy time! 

So as soon as Halloween is over (I'm talking Nov. 1st) our Christmas music comes out.  Brad Amway's rolls his eye's but i know I'm totally wearing him down..  We've been married almost 11 year our first Christmas we put up the tree early December and the date has slowly crept up.  So by the 6th of November I was ready to put up the tree!  And Brad agreed without to big of a discussion.  I love putting the tree up early but then it has to be down boxing day or a few day's after.    So our tree got up!  It look wonderful from the outside in but from the inside it's not very pretty yet!  I forgot last year i was changing decorations and forgot i had not bought hardly any!  oops!  so our half dressed tree stands proudly in the window but little do people know from the outside.... It's half naked!  Yikkes!  One more thing on my to do list!













We've been having  a hard time with the Blazer lately.  He's gotten to the point of almost not wanting to leave the house.  He won't go to Church (without a huge fight) he won't go to class. In fact one Sunday sister Noad came and got me out of Sunday school and said she had lost Blaze.  We both split up and went looking.  I happened to peek outside and sure enough he was walking home.  What the heck!  He's taken to not liking preschool either.  He try's to run away and go home.  He yells, crys.  We are pretty sure this is a genetic thing Passed down to him by his FATHER.  It really is a Brad related thing.  he use to be the same way, I'm told.  We are slowly trying to figure him out and get him balanced a bit!  Holy Crap,  if i knew mothering a child would be so much work, i still would have done it but maybe thought twice about it.

Brody is in the full swing of Hockey.  We are in a much better League this year.  Last year we were all over the place but this year our furthest is Crownest and the it's raymond Coaldale, Pincher ect.  He's loving it still .  I'm still on the fence and trying not to give him a guilt trip every time we have to drive take all the kids spend an entire Saturday all on him.  But it's hard  when he's being a little snot pants not to bring up all the time and money we spend on him!  I'm the worst at guilt trips! 

Paris is..... Well she's Paris.  She's got a problem at school.  This Fall we really got into Canning.  Brad decided on afternoon to pickle Carrots.  (We had them all the time growing up)  Anyway the kid's adore them!  Paris got  in the practice of taking some to school for lunch.  She started sharing the with friends.  Then it became a thing.  Every day she took like half a bottle of pickled carrots.  The one afternoon she took the last half of the last bottle. She shared with her friends except one was not there.  So she came home from school so upset cause her friend was mad because she didn't have any pickled carrots left to give her..  This is Paris!  Love her to death! 

Knox is getting well into his 2's.  he is very determined to do everything on his own.  For example if you peel his Banana....  look out!  He freak's out and wont eat it.  Speaking of Banana's if we have them in the house  they are gone in a day!  Knox will Pound back, No Jokes, 5 Banana's in a day easy.  He's realized now that if he does not get out of bed, then we leave his door open,  which he loves,  So he's a dream to put to bed now.  HE's totally potty trained minus a accident here and there.  he's the most loving cuddly little guy ever.

Wow so that's the update on the Wolseys!!  I have not been taking any pictures of our family cause I've been taking so many of other peoples family.  I'm a bit overwhelmed in the picture taking department.  but now that I'm done with that for a while (maybe)  I'll do more of our family.   

So that was a super huge update but know I'm up with Blogging and i promised myself i won't get that behind again!!!  Next Monday I'll be blogging again rain or shine.... or snow i guess....

What's going on here.....

Nothing...  Just kidding so much is going on in our lives it's hard to find time to blog about it.  We had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend which followed a week with Ali and the kid's (including a tag along friend Aston).  The kid's were so excited to see the Dickson kids.  The weekend started off with the hurricanes season opener on Friday.  The boy's loved it!

Saturday was craft Day.  Only a few could make it,  Which kinda makes it fun cause there's way less craziness and more visiting.  We put together the budget binders.  They are super fun and easy and well worth the budgeting work!!

Sunday was spent watching Conference......  It was great,  Between sessions we made it out to get our much updated family pictures!!  They turned out great!!  I've been so busy editing other peoples picture's i have not got to all of ours but we got some goodies!!  Here are some of them











That's as far as i've got with the family ones!

Monday Mom , Ali and the kiddies went to Reddeer/Edmonton for a couple day's and Dad came over and stayed with us.    We made Mexican Monday and invited Angie and Nate over.  Or We finally took the hint and made Mexican for Angie and Nate.  It was really good.

Thursday was Brad's Birthday!!!  The big #32!!  We got to go out since Chandler was there to Babysit.  We were going to go to the keg, and a movie but ended up forgetting to send craft stuff into work with Brad and we had to go over to the West side to drop it off..... Which means....We opped for Taco Bell instead of the Keg.  I know you all think it's a major Down grade from The Keg..... oh not for my Brad!  I think that made his night that we got to go to the Bell!  We went and saw "the debt"  it was a great Movie.  We came home to a full house.  The boy's all slept over and Missy and Ryan and the kids made it down.  They stayed with us all weekend.  (well except missy)  We had a great time.  I took the girls out Sunday afternoon and did some quick photo's Mostly for Scoutties sake (she was abut 8 months when I did her pictures last, and i was the last to do them)  She is so sweet and growing so big. 

The kid's get along so well,  It was fun to have them here!  Sunday we all got up and made it to mom's church then had leftovers and visited till Missy and Ryan left.











Then today we worked and worked and worked (doing crafts) till lunch,  Then we went over and ate Turkey again at Scott and Falene's house.  Mmmm I'm officially turkeyied out! 

And finally My Thanksgiving Thankful List
I'm thankful mostly for my little family,  Brad Mostly and the kid's come next.  We are so lucky to have them and I'm so lucky to remember how lucky i am!!

I'm also so thankful for My Mom and Dad,  They are awesome with the kid's.  I can always count of them to take the kiddies for a sleepover or a morning over at Grandma's.  It's pretty much a miracle if at least one of the kid's don't end up there every day.

I'm Grateful for Brad's parents.  I'm grateful that Falene takes the time to teach Paris Piano,  Cause heaven knows it take a special someone to teach her!!  (she's very Chatty )

Mostly I'm thankful for Brad,  He is amazing.  He has no idea how much we need him and we could not survive without him!!  He's amazing!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

My Poor Blog

My poor blog is suffering from my business.  We've been busy at this house with Canning, Photo shoots,  School, Craft nights,  Craft sales,  R.S. The list goes on and on.  Anyway  it's been busy but I'm determined to keep up the blog a bit better. 

So like i said we've been canning like crazy,  We did peaches this year all by ourselves,  Every Jar sealed and it was awesome working with Brad,  We got 41 quarts done.  We (Brad) also did Pickles which he did out of cucumbers he grew in the garden.  He also went over to his mom's and Bottled 42 quarts of Salsa.  Yummmy!

I've been crazy busy doing pictures for people,  I really do love doing it but I've been really busy doing it along with a craft sale i did a week ago and craft day coming up,  along with my R.S. calling I've been crammed.

But in the midst of all our business, I made time for a trip.  I've been so excited to go and Brad's such a good sport about letting me go and taking care of the kiddies.

So my big trip was all the way to Kallispell with our quilt group.  I feel pretty special to be let into this elite group of quilters.  A few of us including Mom decided to head down late afternoon Thursday and catch the train in east glacier.  I was telling Alisynn that we were catching the train,  She asked why..... I said Because we can.

Anyway we did that And Karen Picked us up in Whitefish. So when Karen invited us to go she said we were going to a cabin,  we figured we would be roughing it a bit,  not so much.  We arrived at beautiful House.  The only think wrong with it......................It was full of dead Heads!  I would hate to arrive there with all the lights off.  This house was  a home of a hunter that had been Lot's of places and killed Lot's of animals and stuffed Lot's of there heads.  It was interesting but made me even less sold on the whole hunting thing.  Not my thing,  Also glass eye's and hairy faces staring at me..... not my idea of decor but to each there own eh!  We met the owners and they were wonderful people,  They were so kind to let us stay.

This is some of the house............................

Don't Touch!!

Karen Was warned by her husband........"don't let the ladies touch any Animals" Karen told him " we don't touch that stuff just fabric" but you can't imagine how hard it was to not touch them.

So the whole joke was........DON'T TOUCH.

Anyway this is us not touching anything

This was the little guest house that some of the ladies stayed at.

So the whole reason we came to kallispel is for the quilt show.  We got up Friday morning and waited for the rest of the group to come and then we took off to the show,  All 10 of us.  We found Lot's of inspiration.  These were my favorites..................

We had so much fun,  It was kinda crazy at a fabric store with 10 other quilting ladies and then to make it extra crazy we were followed everywhere by a huge bus full of quilters.  Wow!

Here we are discussing what we purchased

And finally. Our haul... We stuffed everything in, This years consensus was that next year we take a extra vehicle.

Long story short we had so much fun. 

Wowza what a week.

We had quite the week last week!  And not in a good way.  Blaze started Preschool!!!  That was a good thing,  he loves it and loves being able to walk with the big kids home from school.

On our way home from Preschool on Monday (it was orientation)  I forgot to do a full stop at the stop sign.  Ooop who knew the police were in town.  Not  me.  Anyway long story short i got pulled over and got a ticket for a traffic violation (it was a $100 less then the ticket for stop sign)  I was happy with my $170 ticket considering i was driving without my licence,  I could only find the expired registration and Blaze was sitting on the floor in the very back of thee van,  well he was till i very calmly told him to hop on the seat and buckle up as fast as he could.  But he still was not in a car seat.  Anyway.

Knox got potty trained!  I'm happy about!  And he's also off his bottle,  We are no longer consider ourselves lazy parents (ok we still do but not as much).

Brad's car broke down.  We know it's kinda on it's last pistons but we are hoping it would last a bit long.... maybe it will. 

Long story short,  what was a expensive month already,  turned out to be doubly expensive.  But what do ya do right!

 

In the mean time we are working double hard to pay everything off.  I've had so many people ask me to do pictures,  i've got a craft show coming up that i'm hoping to make a bit at,  and i'm making 80 cupcakes for a wards new beginnings so,  we are slowly making up the money that we are spending on tickets and car stuff.  Blahhh!