I have been tagged by Tiffany Dansie

6 things about me. Hopefully I can think of 6 things, lol. I am pretty boring.

Let's see...

1. At first meeting (or second or even third) I may seem shy, but once I get to know someone that goes out the window.

2. I always bite off more than I can chew. I get big plans with projects and in my true nature, I procrastinate with a lot of them and then STRESS OUT! It drives Mike crazy.

3. I wore braces for 5 years (from 11-16). In my first highschool dance picture my date and I both flash some nice metal mouths.

4. I LOVE things clean and tidy but I am unfortunately an easily side-tracked, not organized minded person so it is an everyday battle to keep things neat and tidy and I don't always win.

5. Oh I am so excited to say that I lost 8 lbs last week!

6. I started college at 17. I got a nice head start but with changing majors a few times I still at 29 have not graduated. I have a TON of credits, but no degree yet. I took the last 3 semesters off because of being preggo and plan on taking at least one class again soon. I have a good 5-8 years before I could even use a degree anyways so I have time.

That was hard but those are 6 boring things about me, lol.

I tag Tiffany Larsen, Tiffany Hunt, Nicole Lopeman, Melanie Steyskal, Amy Holly and Amanda Segaburg.

Halloween Pictures!!!

OKay sorry there are so many but deal with it, lol.

Here are pics of me and the kids. I decided at the last minute (like that morning) to make a fairy godmother tunic, to go w/ Emm's costume. Peyton was Charlie Brown and Dawson was obviously Superman.





Here is Dawson with two of his best friends Dylan and Bo and Dawson and Ian in the second:





Here are my MOnkeys together!







Emmalee with some of her friends! Aren's all of their costumes so cute!!??







Here are pumkin Carving Pics:














































Here are pics right after I finished Emmalee's Cinderella dress:





























































Her dress was a big project. I was almost finished saturday night. I just ahd to put the puffs on and the skirt. Well I got stitches on the bodice and ruined it. So monday I had to start all over. I was in tears. I was sick so maybe I shouldn't have done anything. So tuesday night I somehow finished!!

We had a blast on halloween and can't wait till next year!

I know what I have to do...

Okay so doing the weight loss on my own is not working. I had cut weight watcher's out of the budget months ago because things were tight. Well I made some adjustments in the budget and I am rejoining tomorrow. Not sure why but weight watchers meetings just kick my brain and motivation into gear. It sucks to ahve to pay $50/month but if it makes me lose my weight I have to do it. I hate feeling like this.

Sick, Sick, sickety sick!!

I am so sick of someone in my house being sick. I know we are more succeptible to germs because Dawson is in school but come on. In the last 2 weeks I have had 2 colds,Mike, Emmalee, Dawson and Peyton have had the stomach flu, Peyton has had a cold (nothing serious, just lots of boogers) and last night the stomach flu hit me. I couldn't sleep last night and so I stayed home from church. My stomach doesn't hurt anymore but I still have the cold, not much appettite and I am achey, headachey amd light headed. We are supposed to have the missionaries over for dinner tonight. I feel so bad calling and cancelling, but Mike is going to bring them dinner. Then my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are coming for a few days. My house is trashed. Mike said when he gets back from his meetings he will clean the house. I love my husband.

Last night I wanted to finish Emmalee's dress. I was putting one of the puffs on the bodice and I messed up. My stitching was way too tight so now I have to go to Joann's tomorrow and get material to remake the bodice. I hope I can get it done by halloween.

Sorry such a negative post, just a bummer day.

One more

Okay I know that losing weight is something I ahve to do all on my own, but someone please help me. I know what to do and I have been succesful before but I am having the hardest time sticking to weight watcher's w/out going to the meetings. I just cannot fit it into our budget at the moment. Anyways I need help with motivation. You would think that how I feel physically and mentally about it would be enough but it almost paralyzes me from doing anything. Does that even make sense?

I just know that I have about 6 mos to lose atleast 50 lbs before we TTC. I wanted to get preggo by the beginning of the year (am I crazy?? lol) but since I can't get my keester into gear I am not gonna be ready by then and I KNOW in my heart it is something that we cannot stall. It feels like it is almost time.

Anyways someone help me. I love eating healthy and I do eat a lot of healthy food. It is just I get up and get so busy that I grab whatever whenever I can and don't keep track, If I could get some motivation I know I could do well. I want to feel energetic again and feel like putting make up on and have fun wearing cute clothes and enjoy getting ready to go somewhere and most of all I want to feel like Patti again. Sorry to whine. I just feel trapped.

Sorry about the multiple pics. I am too lazy to fix it!

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Mike's Bday!

We had a lot of fun!! Last night I wrote this message in soap on his window!! I figured that I know he will give me a hard time on my bday so I might as well give him one too, lol.





Here are some pictures of the kids giving him his present from them. Shawn Marion is his favorite player so we had to give him this plus the hat for tonight's game. I took him to a Sun's game for his present and I also bought him a Peyton Manning jersey that I gave him the day I bought it...2 mos ago, lol. I am so bad at keeping suprises for him.






















Then we went to the Sun's game!! It was so awesome and it went down to the last minute but the Sun's won!! I LOVE basketball so much and watching a basketball game with Mike is one of my favorite things to do with with him(or football and baseball..but especially basketball). Yes Mike has started to get me interested in football..it only took 8 years, lol.

We were way up there, but it was still awesome!!



































While we were there we signed up to do a timeshare presentation. There is no way we could afford to do a time share. But for going we will get entered into a drawing for courtside seats, we will get sun's suite tickets for a game next month and $50 for dinner. So I will sit thru a time share presentation for that.

MIke and I had a blast! I love him so much!

Here are some random pics of the kids I took last night.