Just Rambling....

Here's pictures of caroline before school one day when tyson's cousin took her to school.

Ok so it's been a few weeks since I've updated~so much for doing better huh? we've started back to school and tried to get in the swing of things but i had to take off a day last week b/c Jed was sick & then i'm off today b/c Heather is sick. She's had perfect attendance all year but she didn't care about missing today so she must have felt really bad.

The kids went to spend the weekend with their cousins in Austin. They all had a great time, of course now my deprived children want a XBox 360 (THANKS DEV!!!!) Hopefully LaNan will post pictures on her blog if she took some. www.bedwells.net then click on devin & laNan's page.

The weather here is cold and rainy. We had school as usual yesterday, but today we got to start an hour later. There's no telling what tomorrow will bring~NO SCHOOL if we are lucky.

Our family is preparing to go to the LDS Houston Temple next month to be sealed together forever. We are excited!

Tyson has been applying for a new job, but we haven't heard from them yet & we aren't sure he will take it if they offer.

How long will it take you?

How long will it take you to change from writing 2006 to writing 2007? it will take me awhile i'm sure b/c i'm so absent minded sometimes.

Goals for 2007~

*I want to scrapbook more. Like I want to try to do something everyday, although I know that will be impossible I am going to try.

* also would like to lose about 40 pounds but I think i said the same thing last year and i am still carrying around the same amount of weight. haha i can't say no to good food.

Happy New Year!

A Girl Loves PINK

I really think PINK is my favorite color these days & I have no clue why so in honor of my fav color I changed my blog up a little. hehe

Another year 2006

ok well another christmas has gone by and the kids are enjoying all of their goodies they got. I have been taking Christmas break easy and i mean that in every sense of the word. haha i've been playing around on my laptop that my mom got me for Christmas (thanks mom!). the 2 weeks has gone by way too fast and we'll be back at school before you know it. I am hoping though that the next few months will go by fast and it will be summer quickly. I love summer!!!!

The kids have played together the entire two weeks so good. I think we were all tired and needed some down time without rushing from here to there.

Heather will be performing in her schools musical The Jungle Book at the first of March. I'm sure I'll have pictures to post in her costume.

that's about all for now.

love,
autumn

here's another one....

one day we were at the donut shop & Jed was finished eating his donut so he picked up my keys and he pushed the alarm button so the horn would go off. so i get all panicked b/c i didn't realize he had pushed it then he makes it stop. then he does it again & says in his country voice real slow:

"I crack myself up"

what do you do to a comment like that? i just laughed.

From the Mouth of Babes~

I never have anything fiunny to write, but I do today. We went to lunch at the new Taco Bueno in town. Jed was eating his kid's meal burrito and kind of picking at it & I told him to eat it & here's the conversation:

Me: Eat your burrito & quit playing

Jed: Man, I have rabies

Me: what did you say?

Jed: I have rabies.

Me: rabies? what do you mean?

Jed: My belly is hurting.

I started cracking up.

so then a few minutes later, tyson is picking at his ear & here's that conversation

Me: tyson, we are eating at a restaurant.

Tyson: well, he had something in his ear.

Jed: I know, I have a ringworm.

I finally had to ask~

Jed where have you been hearing this stuff at?

school, this boy at my school had a ringworm.

Where did you hear about rabies?

Scooby-Doo.

so there's our dinner conversation.

Autumn

Do You SEE the VISION?

Tyson & I have decided to try to buy a house after the first of the year! We've been looking around this wonderful town & let me tell you~people are proud of their junk! You know the town~the one when you go to a garage sale and you don't buy anything b/c you can go to walmart and buy it new for less? yep, that's where we live. So we've looked at 3 houses so far & they all need work and they aren't less than $100,000. the first one we looked at was the best of all & i thought it was bad! it's amazing what those pictures on the internet can do for a house. haha

the 2nd one was bigger than the first, but a little out of our price range but i really liked the front so we went to look~it needed just as much work if not more than the first~for $207,000

so we go on to the third house~we were excited b/c outside it looked good~so we go to look inside the next day, they wanted $20,000 more than the first (remember the one i thought was bad?) and this one was in much worse shape! Matter of fact after looking at the last 2 the first one looked great.

Tyson swears he sees the vision for the first house. And I suppose I am starting to see it too. Any house we buy has to have at least an acre so Tyson can shoot his bow. We have priorities huh? I can't really complain though b/c I did get him to move to the city. I would like to have at least 4 bedrooms so each kid can have their own room.

House #1 does need a lot of updating, but Tyson could do the work & we could recruit some friends from church to help us. The current owners are offering $2,000 flooring allowance & $4,000 allowance for a new septic system.

So really we would just need paint and new bathtubs out of our pocket. So i'm sharing with you the pictures from the realtor's website & you tell me if you see the vision.

*MY* plan would be to paint the front door a brick red color, leave the area around it white then paint the shutters black. We would eventually replace the panelling with sheetrock, but probably at first we would have to paint over it. The floors would be wooden floating floors that they sell at Sam's~we would pull up the carpet everywhere (& linoeum). The bathrooms would all need replacing~bathtubs, sinks, etc but since there is 3 bathrooms we would be able to do one at a time. The living room color would be a brick red & the rest of the house probably a khaki color. There is another bedroom and bath that isn't shown here that would be the girls room.

Anyways, email me & let me know if you SEE the VISION?

Autumn

Halloween Party

We are going to our church's Halloween party tonight~This year i have a witch, Strawberry Shortcake & a pirate. I'll post pictures later tonight.

go to this link:

http://studio220photo.blogspot.com/

Scroll down a little ways & you'll see a family portrait special coming in November w/ a red couch. we are going to have our pictures taken on this couch~i think it will match my house perfect. Hopefully the kids will cooperate.
This girl does an awesome job~i've been impressed so far with what she's posted!

We'll call HIM stitch~

the other night tyson and i were sitting down to enjoy Grey's Anatomy, jed was in the bathtub and we told him to get out. suddenly we heard a LOUD scream and we run in there and there's blood everywhere~he gashed his arm on the tracks to the shower door~we took him to the dr's office and he had to have 3 stitches. so now he's STITCH! haha

Craft Central~What I've Been Doing

Here's what I have been busy doing the last few days

This still needs a fancy bow at the bottom and it didn't turn out near as cute as i wanted it too but i'm too cheap to buy anymore stuff for it. this will go on the front porch

Here's what we made at enrichment the other night i am very proud of it.

and finally here's heather's boat "SHE" made for school. Isn't she talented? haha

This weekend tyson is planning on hunting and i'm going to start on a quilt i've been wanting to make. not much else going on around here other than it has turned cold~i wonder how long it will last?

In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue

So much for having a day off~I had to go to work today. It wasn't too bad though we got to work in our room most of the morning and had a short meeting in the afternoon. I had a ton of errands to run this afternoon~i think we got them all done. We tried out the new Cheddars in town for FHE. It was yummy. Instead of FHE, we called it Family Gone Evening~but we were all still together.

Today at school we played a fun game called Catch Phrase. I thought about buying for the kids but it was $25 so i think i'll wait until christmas.

I'm going to enrichment night tomorrow & just wait until you see what I am making you are all going to want one. I'll try to post tomorrow when i get home.

later gators!

Clothes

Topic:

your favorite outfit. What is it, and why is it your fave? the style? the color? the comfort?

hum, my favorite is probably my black track pants and a t-shirt or my NIKE sweatshirt. it's so comfy. Of course I can't wear it to work b/c it's not professional looking haha

Jewerly

Bling. Jewelery.
What kind of jewelery do you wear?
like to wear?
or do you wear any?
Blog about your jewelery likes/dislikes.

I very rarely wear jewerly. I quit wearing my wedding ring 3 years ago after the last baby b/c my fingers got too fat! every once in awhile i'll wear a bracelet or a ring but not often. There is this ring though that I want for my birthday~

http://secure.jamesavery.com/view_jewelry/search/viewProduct.jsp?itemCode=R-1305

I would also like something from Tiffany's just so I could say I have something from Tiffany's.

HAHA

Letter F for FUN!!!!

Here's an update~let's see if this works. We had a good time in Utah. The kids played in the snow & had a great time. Heather hurt her knee on one of the last runs of the day so we ended up not going the second day. We are planning on going next Spring Break for anyone who wants to come on!

This is a place called Thanksgiving Point. It was a big dinosaur museum & had lots of things for the kids to do. We spent a whole afternoon there. There's a picture of the snow covered mountains, us skiing & Caroline the Snow Princess.

Other than that, we have been super busy with school & extra activities. Heather has 2 competitions this month. Caroline has a birthday coming up. It's hard to believe that she'll be 3 this year. Jed has been tested for the dual language program & the gifted program for next year. We really want him to be able to do the dual language program. I think it will be more beneficial for him in the future.

Heather is doing better in Spelling & she's starting to learn cursive handwriting & multiplication. ACK!

Tyson has been back to work on his Mustang. He is making progress even though I like to give him a hard time about it. I'll have to post a picture of his work next time. I think that's all for now.

Letter E~Exciting

Some exciting things for us

Friday we are expecting our tax refund~WHOMP!!!!

The other day Tyson comes home and hands me a wad of papers. I ask what they are for and he says he WON 2 tickets to the Houston Rodeo and we get to pick any concert~so we picked Toby Keith. WHOMP!!!

In about a month, we are going snow-skiing again! I think Tyson is the most excited of us all. WHOMP!!!

I have lost almost 7 lbs in 2 weeks on WW! WHOMP!!!

Letter D

2 weeks ago we got to listen to this man at our Church Conference~Dallin H. Oaks

http://http://www.lds.org/newsroom/biography/0,15609,3959-1----44,00.html

He was so nice and friendly. It was a once in a lifetime chance and I'm grateful for the opportunity we were given.

another D is Diva Spirit

Heather had another Cheer Competition. Her team did a great job even though they dropped the last stunt. They have had a hard time getting things together this year. They came home with a first place. YAY!!! DIVAS!!!!

That's all for now~Later Gators.

Letter C

Of course you should know who this post is going to be about. You guessed it Caroline~she's a little mess that keeps us on our toes! She is always up to something (usually not what she is supposed to be doing.) Here is a picture of the little stink playing in the leaves one day.

Seriously?

So my mom tells me she mailed a package the other day and they said that it would probably get here Saturday but not be delivered until today b/c of the holiday. So I wait all day for the mail to come. Mom emails me to see if I got it. Nope, I'm waiting on the mail. SO i email her several time through the day and then i tell her this

"I called the PO and the lady said it was in probably in the back but told me to wait until tomorrow to see if it gets delivered."

she emails me back after about 2 or 3 emails and tells me that the stupid package is coming by UPS.

it might be midnight before i get the thing. They delivered something for Tyson Friday night at 9:00pm.

I emailed her back SERIOUSLY?

Letter B

Ok so it's taken me awhile to get to letter B~I was going to post a picture of my Boys~Jed & Tyson, but I have yet to get a picture of them. I have another something for the letter B but it will have to wait until next week!

Have a great day!

All I want for Christmas is...

Two front teeth, oh my two front teeth. This is what Heather can sing now that she lost her 2nd tooth.