I figure now is a good time to blog since Brett is at school and both boys hit the sack by 7:45. The boys going to bed early when Brett is gone is amazing!!!
I'm so excited for Halloween! I think I love it more now then I did when I was a child because I get to enjoy it through my own kids! I get to make their costumes, take them trick or treating amongst friends and I get to steal some of their candy...muwahahaha! Brett and I get to dress up too, but I haven't figured out what we're going to be yet. Alex is going to be Robin and we're planning on dressing up Kirk as Wolverine from the live action movies. He'll look a lot like a biker too since Hugh Jackman's outfits looked like that and we've grown out his hair to style just like wolverine's. Oh yeah! I've already got the jacket coming in the mail and I'm going to put the details on it with fabric paint and a little improv sewing. Hopefully I won't destroy it lol. If I do, we're getting him a batman costume since Alex is Robin.
So I know I'm totally being a copycat by doing this but I don't care! I watched the movie Julie and Julia and was totally inspired to buy Julia Child's first cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". The food in the movie looked absolutely amazing and I just couldn't resist. The de-boned and stuffed duck looked absolutely amazing! Our family will probably do thanksgiving here this year so that's what I want to cook. Perhaps I will share with some friends... maybe... :)
So I actually did Visiting Teaching last month. YAY! Well, maybe I didn't actually go and visit all the sisters, but I did at least send a card and the message for the month, although I did attempt to visit them. I felt very accomplished in that department last month. I don't know why, but I've had MAJOR issues with doing it since I've been married and living in South Carolina. I'm not really sure why. I don't have any difficulties with any other callings in the church, except that one, which is really sad because it's one of the most important ones you could do. I felt totally inspired by our ward V.T. meeting and the Relief Society broadcast. Those meetings were amazing!
Did I also mention how amazing General Conference was? I felt that the speakers truly took us back to the basic principles of the gospel. Not that they don't always do that, but I felt that they especially did that this past conference. I heard topics like be a good example, the gift of the holy ghost, showing Christ love by obedience, having good self-esteem, serve one-another, and so on. We truly need to solidify the basic truths of the gospel in our lives, for digging deeper can be fruitless if we don't have a deep understanding of basic doctrine.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Life is good.
The past couple of months have been so busy, but very fulfilling. In early August I took a trip to Colorado Springs to visit a close friend and attend her wedding. It was such a fun experience to see her and get to know her family. I had such a wonderful time with the family and I hope I get the pleasure of seeing them again in the future. The wedding was beautiful and it was such a privilege to take part in so many of the wedding preparations. I'm so glad to have a friend like Emily. She's like a sister to me. Usually your lucky to keep just 2 close friends like that throughout your life. She is one of them. It was suspected that Alex came down with Meningitis while I was gone but he came though just fine and is thriving these days.
We are REALLY looking forward to the holidays already! They can't get here fast enough! We've been working so hard! Brett is teaching two sections now instead of one and still has night classes twice a week (on top of his church calling and night duties for the military). He's been thinking about the holidays since late August lol. Right now Kirk goes to pre-school that is sponsored by a friend who lives in the neighborhood. She does an amazing job and Kirk is really warming up to it. We're hoping it helps him interact with kids more and appreciate learning about new things. New things scare him sometimes.
I'm still serving in the primary presidency and I'm loving every minute of it (well, almost every minute lol). We just had our sacrament presentation today and the children did such a wonderful job!!! They were well behaved and sang so beautifully! I'm so proud to be serving with them. They teach me how to be a more patient and better person every week. I've also greatly immersed myself into card-making recently. I make many of the invitations for primary events and recently I just made birthday cards for my siblings (which will be sent soon). I think this is something I'm going to continue doing. I never realized that doing a craft could make such a great outlet in my life! I've also started running again, just a couple miles every morning. It feels good to get out and watch the sun rise.
Our family has been greatly blessed to be able to visit Grandma and Grandpa Mattison for Christmas this year (Brett's grandparents). In my recent trip to Colorado the flight attendants really messed up my flight itinerary and re-booked me on a flight that was already full, so not only did they re-book me immediately, they re-imbursed my ticket for much more then it was worth in a flight voucher. My trip didn't cost me a thing and we got a lot of additional money in our voucher. We are using that voucher to pay for our trip this Christmas. What a blessing that was! We're so excited to see them, especially since we couldn't go see them in October.
Alex turned one in August and is on the verge of walking very soon! It is quite the task keeping up with two little boys!! I'm finding I have to baby-proof the house in ways I didn't before when I only had one! They are so wonderful, but they sure do keep me on my toes, especially when grocery shopping!
Best wishes to you all!
We are REALLY looking forward to the holidays already! They can't get here fast enough! We've been working so hard! Brett is teaching two sections now instead of one and still has night classes twice a week (on top of his church calling and night duties for the military). He's been thinking about the holidays since late August lol. Right now Kirk goes to pre-school that is sponsored by a friend who lives in the neighborhood. She does an amazing job and Kirk is really warming up to it. We're hoping it helps him interact with kids more and appreciate learning about new things. New things scare him sometimes.
I'm still serving in the primary presidency and I'm loving every minute of it (well, almost every minute lol). We just had our sacrament presentation today and the children did such a wonderful job!!! They were well behaved and sang so beautifully! I'm so proud to be serving with them. They teach me how to be a more patient and better person every week. I've also greatly immersed myself into card-making recently. I make many of the invitations for primary events and recently I just made birthday cards for my siblings (which will be sent soon). I think this is something I'm going to continue doing. I never realized that doing a craft could make such a great outlet in my life! I've also started running again, just a couple miles every morning. It feels good to get out and watch the sun rise.
Our family has been greatly blessed to be able to visit Grandma and Grandpa Mattison for Christmas this year (Brett's grandparents). In my recent trip to Colorado the flight attendants really messed up my flight itinerary and re-booked me on a flight that was already full, so not only did they re-book me immediately, they re-imbursed my ticket for much more then it was worth in a flight voucher. My trip didn't cost me a thing and we got a lot of additional money in our voucher. We are using that voucher to pay for our trip this Christmas. What a blessing that was! We're so excited to see them, especially since we couldn't go see them in October.
Alex turned one in August and is on the verge of walking very soon! It is quite the task keeping up with two little boys!! I'm finding I have to baby-proof the house in ways I didn't before when I only had one! They are so wonderful, but they sure do keep me on my toes, especially when grocery shopping!
Best wishes to you all!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
family update
I'll try to make an effort to post more often. Someday I'll spruce up my blog page too.
For starters we moved out of our house on Navy base housing, but we're still in the same area. We're pretty much settled and we're loving our new house. We've planted two raised beds, two blueberry bushes and several rose bushes (we weren't allowed to do that on base). We're so excited and Brett is taking pictures every day of our first roses that have bloomed. They're so beautiful. The kids adjusted much faster than I thought they would. It only took about a week to adjust.
Brett is busy, but doing well. He's teaching two classes now so he works a lot but still manages to come home by 4 or 5. At home we're working on small projects like fixing Kirk's train set, preparing a garage sale, and upkeep our garden. Brett even built a dresser for Alex a while back and we painted it with green frogs.
This may sound funny, but I have difficulty filling up free time. Not that I get a ton of it, but maybe that's part of the reason. I've been like this ever since Kirk was born. A lot of the things I used to do don't transition very well into married life with children. So what have I done, I've turned to crafts....... For those of you who know me, I'm not a crafty person. I love to sing, dance, read, play sports, just about anything else but crafts!!! However they are growing on me. I've taken on crocheting. It takes a LOT of patience to get good at, but I'm taking baby steps lol. I'm hoping to get a piano later this year, but we have a lot of money to save in order to get a decent one. I suppose that I'm an impatient person because crafts take a LOT of patience haha. Brett tells me to keep going at it because I could use a little more patience lol! (what an understatement).
Kirk is almost 2 now and is getting so smart every day. Out of nowhere he did a summersault about a week ago. He loves doing anything active in lots of open space. He's such a joy in our home, although he can be pretty stubborn. He refuses to eat most foods unless we buckle him in a booster seat at meal time until he eats. That is definitely his mommy manifested in him for sure!
Alex is almost 8 monts old and is such a sweet spirit and very relaxed. So relaxed that he didn't roll over till 6 months and hasn't done it since. That's ok, he loves his Johnny Jump Up. I was so excited! Kirk couldn't stand the silly thing. Every kid is so different. Alex already says Mama and Dada and Baba for ball and balloon. He's definitely going to be a talker.
For starters we moved out of our house on Navy base housing, but we're still in the same area. We're pretty much settled and we're loving our new house. We've planted two raised beds, two blueberry bushes and several rose bushes (we weren't allowed to do that on base). We're so excited and Brett is taking pictures every day of our first roses that have bloomed. They're so beautiful. The kids adjusted much faster than I thought they would. It only took about a week to adjust.
Brett is busy, but doing well. He's teaching two classes now so he works a lot but still manages to come home by 4 or 5. At home we're working on small projects like fixing Kirk's train set, preparing a garage sale, and upkeep our garden. Brett even built a dresser for Alex a while back and we painted it with green frogs.
This may sound funny, but I have difficulty filling up free time. Not that I get a ton of it, but maybe that's part of the reason. I've been like this ever since Kirk was born. A lot of the things I used to do don't transition very well into married life with children. So what have I done, I've turned to crafts....... For those of you who know me, I'm not a crafty person. I love to sing, dance, read, play sports, just about anything else but crafts!!! However they are growing on me. I've taken on crocheting. It takes a LOT of patience to get good at, but I'm taking baby steps lol. I'm hoping to get a piano later this year, but we have a lot of money to save in order to get a decent one. I suppose that I'm an impatient person because crafts take a LOT of patience haha. Brett tells me to keep going at it because I could use a little more patience lol! (what an understatement).
Kirk is almost 2 now and is getting so smart every day. Out of nowhere he did a summersault about a week ago. He loves doing anything active in lots of open space. He's such a joy in our home, although he can be pretty stubborn. He refuses to eat most foods unless we buckle him in a booster seat at meal time until he eats. That is definitely his mommy manifested in him for sure!
Alex is almost 8 monts old and is such a sweet spirit and very relaxed. So relaxed that he didn't roll over till 6 months and hasn't done it since. That's ok, he loves his Johnny Jump Up. I was so excited! Kirk couldn't stand the silly thing. Every kid is so different. Alex already says Mama and Dada and Baba for ball and balloon. He's definitely going to be a talker.
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