Exactly what I needed...

I was crafting in my closet a little bit ago and Bryan comes walking in and here's how our conversation went:

Bryan:  "Katy, I love you."

Me:  "Ok, what's wrong"

B: "Nothing, I just wanted to say I love you."

K:  "Ok, why."

B: "No reason, I just love you"

K:  "Ok, what do you need."

B: "Nothing! I just love you!  Can I have a hug?"

K:  "Well I love you too Bryan."

We hugged and he left the closet and went back to his homework.

He's sort of a great kid to have around!  Now if he will just stay this cute through the real teenage years!

For your consideration...

*Why is it that when I have plenty of time in the morning and end up leaving my house EARLY to get to work I am almost always late.  But if I barely have time to brush my hair and grab my purse I can get there on time if not early. 

*Why does it seem that you only get a good deal with a company or product if you are a 'new' customer.  Like cell phones...super great deals and promotions if you sign a new contract or are a new customer...but you get squat for being a loyal long time customer.  Why not say "hey...you've been with us for 10+ years...here's a free smart phone or here's 6 months of your bill at 25% off" or something.  That would be nice. 

*Why is it that when I have a day off and I am home and do all the dishes and laundry and vacuuming and sweeping and moping and dusting and organizing no one cares in the slightest.  But if one of the kids happens to do more than 2 chores in a day it requires having my undivided attention while they point out every little detail of what they did.

*Sometimes it really irritates me that the yummiest things in life are the worst for you.  Why is it that way?  I healthy things can taste good...but something worse for you ALWAYS tastes yummier!  A steak cooked in butter always tastes better than when it's not cooked in butter.  Regular dressing is so much better than fat free.  Cookies are yummier than carrots.  Chips taste better than rice cakes.
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These are...

...SO DANG YUMMY!

Happy Holidays...

Well...the Holidays are just about over and I have failed to report anything we've done...

(I apologize for the lack of pictures in this blog.  I have been using Bryans camera and it uses a card that has to have a special adapter to put into a computer...and no one can find that adapter.  So I have no way of accessing them right now.)

Our Christmas actually started on December 17th.  We had Daron's family Christmas early cause Melissa and her family were going out of town for actual Christmas.  It was our family, Brittany and Ryan, Melissa's family, Judy and Dwight.  It was nice!  We had a prime rib dinner and then opened presents.  

The next weekend was actual Christmas!  We had Grandma Judy over on Saturday for dinner, as well as the missionaries. The Christmas Eve Elf visited our house on Saturday night and brought new pillows, pajama pants and treats to eat while we watched It's a Wonderful Life. I had never seen it before, and neither had the kids.   We had a good time!

Then of course was Christmas Day!  It was a good day for everyone!  Bryan got a popcorn maker, a gun, a bunch of shirts, a new video game, a couple books and quite a bit more.  Hannah got a zebra print set of drawers, a zebra decal for her wall, a bunch of clothes and lots of other stuff.  I got a SEWING MACHINE!! A nice camera (which I used to take the pictures that I did put up on this post) some really nice perfume, some cook books, gift cards and lots more. Daron got a telescope, quite a few tools, some cologne, a gift card to Massage Envy and a nice Cardinals grilling set!  No one was left wanting that morning!  We had a yummy breakfast, went to church and just relaxed and hung out for the next 3 days!  

I went back to work on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but then it was New Years Eve so now I have Monday and Tuesday off again!  I don't know how I'm supposed to go back to working 4 - 10 hour days again!  

We've had so much fun this past week...we've played a lot of Wii Jeopardy that Grandma Judy got us for Christmas.  We've watched movies and just relaxed.  So nice!

Here is just a little photographic sampling from our Holiday...

Go Cards...

This weekend Daron and I had the opportunity to go to a Cardinals football game!  A guy that Daron works for has season tickets and was going to be out of town, so he gave them to Daron!  It was a good time!  And a super good game to go to.  If you follow Cardinals football at all, you know they pretty much suck this year.  We ended up winning this game in overtime!  Yeah!

Even though we we actually at a game, Daron still had to check scores for other games on his phone.  Give me a break...

We won!!!

 I switched my schedule at work, so from now on I work four 10 hour days and I have Monday off.  I had lofty goals of this things I was gong to get done yesterday, but I didn't get to most of them.  Here are pictures of some of them:

I took the leftover bulbs I had from my wreath and I hung them from twine in front of my window.  A neat idea..but I didn't execute it as well as I could have it if wasn't 10:00 at night and I had to get up early the next day.



 I made this wreath...super cheap and super easy!



I got all of the gifts wrapped for anyone that doesn't live in my house!  I love wrapping gifts!  Now I just have to get them in the mail!



Yeah for fun weekends and now having Mondays off!!