Two cute damsels in distress...

I love a girl

with a big heart,

a good eye,

and a great camera!

thanks Toni

we love ya!

11-3 to 12-24

I just wanted to share something pretty cool....

if you start reading the Book of Mormon today,

and read 10 pages a day,

underlining each time there is a reference to the Savior,

(ex: Messiah, the One, Jesus, etc.)

you will finish on Christmas Eve,

and literally it will be one of your best Christmas' ever!

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One year my mom called me and said

"do you want to have the best Christmas ever"?

"like ya,"

I said,

I remember, I had little kids and money was tight and I wanted nothing more than to wake up on Christmas morning after Santa had come and have tonz of presents under the tree...

that's when she explained the

November 3rd-10 page a day-best Christmas ever thing-

okay, it sounded fun, so I took the challenge and did it!

and,

it really was the best Christmas,

I don't remember what Santa brought for us under the tree that year

but, I do remember the beautiful, calm, peaceful feeling I had that year and the love I felt for Our Savior and how grateful I was for Him, and what an honor it was to celebrate Him that Christmas season...

.

Now, some of my brothers and sister still do it,

it's a fun thing we look forward to...

I've skipped the last few years,

but

today we, (my little family) started the Best Ever Christmas Challenge,

we read our 10 pages tonight, and it felt good.

.

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Hey, do you want to have the best Christmas EVER???

This is how I felt today...

Kurt's company merged and his job was dissolved,

and

I ate too much Halloween candy!

I finally did it....I hired a housekeeper!

Meet Maria Consuelos,

our new housekeeper...

you might be thinking to yourself....

she looks alot like my daughter Caitlyn,

why yes, yes she does,

BUT between the hours of 9 to 12 on Saturday mornings,

she will only answer to Maria,

or Maria Consuelos!

(I think one day in passing, she mentioned something about being married to Mark Consuelos, you know,

Kelly Ripa's husband!)

We love when Maria comes and look forward to it every Saturday...

this is her second week on the job,

and she is an excellent very clean conscious cleaner

and

she is worth every penny!

We love our Maria!!!

a patch of pumpkins...

Spencer informed us in the car on the way over to the pumpkin patch that he was alot stronger this year and has been lifting weights, (really? i must of missed that) so therefore, he was going to be able to pick up a heavier pumpkin this year.....and he did!

(good thing he did all that weight lifting!)

Our family tradition is to go to the pumpkin patch every year on Lynzie's birthday,

if weather permits, with all the rain this year, we only missed it by 10 days!