making jam...

Yesterday I really wanted some homemade strawberry jam. It is so sweet and delicious and I love it. So I made some! It took me like 6 hours working in between the jam and cleaning house. When I was all done I wanted to eat it, but you have to wait 24 hours to let it set. So I will really enjoy my yummy jam with some whole made bread tomorrow. YUM YUM!

netflix...

So our family as many of you know have a Library of DVDs. and it is well worth over $10,000. Every tuesday we are at target buying the new releases. Well with much talk and the economy we have decided to join netflix. it is $9 a month apposed to the $300 we spend. I can watch as many movies as I want and I dont even have to go to the store to buy them. Its pretty cool and I have a little extra in the bank to spend on toys for Rocky...LOL! One obstacle at a time.

TAKING TALKING TALKING!!!

I have this little motor mouth constintly giving me info about fireman, cars, and telling me to say things. asking me how things work, the word "Mommy" has really been over used. His name is Ricardo Nathaniel Yuly (Rocky) and while I love him to pieces..OMG GIVE ME 5 MINUTES OF QUIET! LOL I tried teaching him the quiet game and it was so funny. I told him Rocky the first person who talks looses. he closed his mouth for about 20 seconds and said "Did I win?"

The other night I was making dinner, Ricardo and him were playing fireman(big surprise) and he came over to me and said mommy can you put my jacket on? HE WAS WITH HIS DAD!!!!???? Then another time he was upstairs and wanted a movie on, walked right past Ricardo and right to me to get up off the bed and go and put on the movie. I think I would like to be the Daddy! LOL Kids got to love em!

Loosing his baby face :(

For along time now I have looked at Roc and thought, I don't have a baby anymore. He is all grown up and is this little dirty, action figure playing, car driving, not ever wanting to cuddle with me BOY! Who would rather want to play with his friends then watch a movie with me or help me make brownies. I know it happens to all boys, and I have to cut the chord, I just expected it to be in like 20 years or so...Rocky had other plans I guess. He is still the sweet little precious thing he has always been just not the same. Even his face and teeth are getting bigger. He has gone thru a little growth spurt and is wearing boy clothes not baby toddler stuff. He even knows the difference between the "MJ's and the shoes at target I used to get him. I love the way he is, and the independence that I have had but I do miss my little baby I used to have to hold and change and totally fully depended on me...

I guess in ten years or so when he is a teen about ready to get his license, I'll have other problems to face, but for now it is missing my baby.

Rocky the builder!

A couple of weeks ago Rocky and his Ricardo decided that they need to build a shed for Rockys tonka trucks, it took them all day and they were on a budget so it is kinda breaking already but it was so fun to see them work together and use the saws and hammers. They even painted it red and put rocky's name on it. After all was done the boys had had a lot of fun together and we filthy dirty!

Here is the outcome of the building prodject...

Rocky's new ride

For Easter Rocky must have been extra special because he got such an exciting present, it was a power wheels ford f-150 two seater truck. He rides around the neighborhood picking up the local kids and taking them for rides. It has a real working Radio and a little bed in the back(truck bed that is.)

It was really funny the first night he had it, we didn't really have a space prepared for it and so it was kinda just chillin in the kitchen. I had given Rocky his bath, gave him his glass of milk and was just finishing reading a book to him and announced "Ok, little man it is time to go to sleep!" He looked up at me with his little eyes and pointy lips and said " mommy I really just want to go sit in my truck for a second and say good night"

PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU CAN POSSIBLY SAY NO TO THAT???!!!!???

So we went down stairs I let him have the few minutes he needed to tuck his truck in for the night, it was pretty cute.

Food cravings!

Last night at about 1 in the morning I woke up wanting sour cream lays potato chips. this moring before work I woke up early just so I could stop at 7/11 to get some before I stopped into work. WORTH THE WAIT AND SO DELICIOUS!!!

Winter and the snow with my little Rocasaurus!

It has snowed here a couple of times this season and Roc is really loving it. One day when we had more then usual, I called my sister-in-law Andrea and asked if she could take Rocky out and play (I was at work) from the looks of the pictures he had a lot of fun. I wish I had been there to join him. "But I had to work for money to bring him toys" thats what he always tells me.

Thanks Dre, your the BEST!

PRAYER, SCRIPTURE...FORGIVENESS

A couple of months ago my family made an effort to read the Bof M in 40 days. we kept up emails about it and everyone did such a great job...but me. I really tried hard at first. I have never even begun to read the Bof M but was always told that it would straighten my Testimony of Christ and his church. Well anyway I basically gave up after about 12 days or so. Lately I have been going thru some emotional Vices and after a conversation with my Bishop, I have turn to the scriptures.

Before when reading them I found myself bored and uninterested. Now however not that i am reading with real intent and I say a personal Prayer asking to help and guide me to understand, it is to stop reading. But i have a 4 year old who need a bit attention and a dirty house that needs cleaned.

I have had to deal with so much over the past couple of years and have wondered were do I even begin to ask for forgiveness and the scriptures have answered that question.

I NEVER do this but...

I do have a testimony of the gospel of Christ, I want to return to him and be with my Family. A forever Family that I will be with for eternity. I believe in our prophets that they have received revelation and that they are the leaders of our church. it is so hard to get to church, to see so many people with their family and feel alone, but once i am there i know that i am not only not alone but that Rocky and I are so welcomed there. It makes me so grateful to be part of such a wonderful and loving organization. I know that healing and repentance is a very hard and emotion process but my heavenly farther is by my side and loving me all the way.....

New Years Losers

ROC AND I ARE HUGE LOSERS! ON NEW YEARS EVE WE WERE ASLEEP BY 10:30, WE MISSED EVERYTHING!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!