SNOW SNOW

PIcutred below Brinlee and Kelyee day 1 of the storm at grandmas house in Pinetop

Picture below day 3 storm brothers car under there!

so last week we had the snow storm of all storm, in the last 15 years! mom ended up with 5 feet and we had about a foot. sunrise ski area is still closed as they are reporting 9 feet on the roads up there.

Its hard to believe until you see it!

So Brinlee and Keylee got snowed in here with us, which is fine! to bad it can be permanent and blake and amilee got stuck down in the valley. But out of all school weeks amilee could miss this would be it! They had no school Monday full day Tuesday 2 hours late wed. and Thur. and no school Friday!

So it worked out really good i guess. I am now seeing the girls change and improve alot. This time we only had one small incidence on lying and not listening. But other then that it was please and thank yous, sharing, helping me and each other, reading books and playing games, playing in the snow and best of all going to church. the are soft spoken in our house, maybe because that's how we all are to each other, They brush their teeth morning and night, we do fun hair and they love getting dressed for some reason in there own separate places in there closet.

They love to watch the church videos we got, the book of Mormon and bible ones. and we love them repeating the story line to us. it tell us its sticking!

We actually had to leave church early to take them back and Brinlee asked if they could stay and go to primary instead! What! yes!

WE sincerely pray for each and every one of our kids when they are away from us. Kids grow up repeating what they see, so all our kids are going to be faced with challenges and choice in there life. Tj and i have talked so many time about it and have come to the conclusion all we can to is our best and that's living the standards of the church (not that there is a perfect person) But we read scripture and take them to church and pray together and talk about things like the word of wisdom and dress modestly and that way at least we can say we tried everything we possibly could!

Just read the PROCLAMATION to the family, we will be held accountable for how we raise our kids, ouch that might hurt, hopefully not!

Amilee and Blake day 4 at moms house, below walking out my moms front door looking eye level with the snow!

WELCOME 2010!!!!!!!!!!

So this is going to be the best year yet. TJ is back out working at the power plant full time, money is good, you know to at least pay bills!

The baby is growing fast and our kids are all meshing well now. They are actually looking forward to seeing each other again.instead of scared of each or mean to each other.The girls adapt so well now when they come. they look forward to Sundays and going to church. there favorite thing to say to each other is "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit." and for the most part they don't throw fits any more. maybe once every few months. there are some nights our kids will sit at the dinner table for 2 hours after everyone is done until there food is all gone. but it doesn't take long for kids to figure out if they want to play they need to eat at the allotted time.

we are working hard on being very consistent in everything from schedules to eating times to night times and discipline. I think that's whats helping everything run so smooth here.

kids adapt well to consistency and they are more calm and loving to each other and us.

so we are looking forward to the 2010 year.

We are just waiting for the few final step and we are headed to the temple to get sealed! we got to bypass some stuff since things got over complicated, the stake president said press forward thing got out of hand. so he wrote his statement and we moved on, some things i am not meant to understand in this life. But the bishop assured me its OK. we are not supposed and everything happens in it own due time.

we have set some pretty efficient goals for the 2010 years. we are wanting to finish our food storage for our family we are about half way there which is alot considering there are 7 of us to cover.

We are obviously going to get sealed and we are working on other things more personal and private. all i can say is the more we got to the temple together the better our relationship keeps getting and the more we take time to do family home evening the more our kids are learning about the gospel. and according the the family: a proclamation to the world that is our obligation. husbands and wives had a responsibility to raise our kids in righteousness and the scary part. is we will be held accountable for not doing it. so we are taking that more serious then ever.

So that's our 2010 start.

we where talking on the way home from a long drive and my husband said "this is the best he has ever had it" translate that however but it was a touching moment. I agree this is one of the best times in my life also. being a mom is all i wanted and Tj is a great dad. He really does love his kids so much. I know because every prayer includes them each and every one.

its been a while

So i have not been on here for ever. For 2 reasons first i don't really have the time anymore and i am not sure anyone i really want to know about our lives i don't already have contact with some way or another. and second if i cant keep a journal on my own, then its probably not fair i am constantly on this either, right?

And journals are so hard to keep up with. But lets see whats new, we moved, not because we wanted to but we had to. Its nice because its new, its not nice because its smaller. but we are adjusting and maybe its a great way for a new start to a new marriage. we are looking forward to my sisters (finally) wedding in June some time. The beach in Cali. here we come, we are trying to go to Disney land then also but not sure we want to take the kids because none of them are even the minimum height requirement to ride the really fun rides. so? not sure what we are going to do.

I have been in a cast or crutches since may of the last school year, my foot looks like a war zone with the six new scars on it. and its so sore and by the end of the day its so swollen i can barely walk on it so not so much fun.

Studio is going great, Tj started out at TEP and that's great being out of work for 6 months really hurts!

other then that kind of the same old same old.

Oh ya and HADLEE TY SCARBROUGH turned 1. yea we love her so much tj is the best dad to her, he loves her and cuddles with her like crazy, she is definitely daddy little girl!

summer fun

So lets see we dont get on this very often at all. But i feel like if i cant keep a journal in real life then i probably should not be waisting so much time on this. But summer is almost over NO!!!!!!!! I had surgery on my foot almost seven weeks ago i had a new pin put in, my achilies tendon lenghtened and all my medial tendons shortened. I have spent the entire summer on crutches and it has sucked. Once again a experience that makes me thank god that i have had a rather healthy body in this life time.

Amilee starts school in just a few weeks and amazingly she will be in 1st grade.

Brinlee started Kindergarden yesterday because down in florence they go to school year round, although we a fairly confident she wont even be staying in that school the entire year since moving around every six months is the thing they do. Which is so sad because the one thing kids have to have in life is stability. They say within the first five years there entire personality and what they are around becomes there permanent traits. She is now five and unfortunantaly she has been exposed to some very bad traits and we already see the effects of them when they come to stay. Which they do alot, We got to have the Girls the entire month of June well From june 2nd- June 31st and then again July 9th-17th and then she started school on the 20th so we had both the girls almost the whole summer. And we like it because we know what they are saying, watching, reading, and we know that we are saying prayers at every mill and we read a book before bed and say family prayers every night along with going to church every sunday. All we can do is continue to pray for all our kids that when they are not in our home they remember to CTR ha ha. since sll our kids go with there other parents to enviorments that are not CTR- ha ha we like to say that because thats what the kids refer to it as.

Ty is growing so fast! she is almost 8 months old now but still only fits in 3 month clothing. so cute and she is a angel baby. they happiest baby i have ever had!

Tj is still out of a job! uh its so frustrating in this economy and my studio has been closed for the summer and with my foot work has not been a option. To bad you dont get paid to be a mom, well not in this life. I guess we do get paid heavly in the next life IF we do a good job.

well nothing to exciting right now. I am trying to leave the intermidiate sperts of drama out of it :)

Oh and as you can see above i got a new hair cut and color!

enjoy the rest of summer!

getting so big

so tiny Ty is finally getting big she is 6 months old and still wears 3-6 mnth clothes but is pushing the line to 6 month clothes almost. she got her first hair cut since it can go into 2 full ponytails. she is making noises like dada and she has her blanket the she has to have to rub against her face anytime she sleeps. she is the happiest most laid back calm baby either of has ever had. its wonderful!

getting ready for church

well i dont know if this is good or bad but i know have this getting ready for church thing down. It taks three hours on for my self the other two to wake up the kids feed all of them and then do four girls hair and get them all dressed and out the door, and thats only if we take baths the night before oh i cant wait until they can do there own hair etc. or maybe i can because right now they still let us do what we want and not just what they want. and it has been so nice having all five kids with us we have seen such a positive change in there attitudes and disapline after about the first week, it take a bit to get back into the swing of things like rules and no fits and saying our pleases and thank yous and saying our prayers and reading our scriptures. And its nice to know when they are with us we are all going to church as a family. and they love primary.

crazy few weeks

Well its been a while we have been crazy busy, TJ worked his last little bit of the outage now he is looking for more work. uh. went back to court again! i know huh. drama drama i hate it but others seem to love it. And all over the fact that she wants more and more and more money. You know its crazy that randy has never paid me child support yet through the clearing house and i was more than happy to sign a affidavit of payment for him because as much as i might be mad at him and could screw him over for thousands i couldn't live with the fact that that's not honest he gave me the money in one way or another and yet the flip side even with the receipts there she wont be honest and say your right you did give me all this i will be a grown up big person and give you credit for it instead its "you screwed me over" she thinks she deserves more. But i guess that's the difference with selfish people who think the world revolves around them. oh well enough about court and ex's all that's there is negative junk anyways, but sometimes we just have to vent! oh i am sure we will hear about it to since people are nosy. oh well

Then we finally had the recital! it went well we only had about 600 people come this year but hey for our small town and having had it on memorial day weekend and with the two weddings and the rodeo dinner that night i guess that was a pretty good turn out! Friday night was the only one taped and Saturday seemed to be a much better show all the way around. but things still went really well.

Then we left to go to Idaho for a week to see family grandma is 87 and not doing to well right now. so we had to get up there she has never seen Blake let alone Hadlee or even Tj. so it was nice Tj went fishing alot and we spent the last few days with my best friend from school Brooke miller and her husband and kids, it was good fun she is expecting number three also and we have so much in common its crazy we can not see each other for years and the pick it up like we never missed a beat! good times. so other then that not much.

I am getting ready for surgery next week i have to get another pin put in my ankle and shortening my Achilles tendon, ouch! so i am trying to figure out how i will take care of everyone on crutches! fun fun fun

well we will keep you all posted!