Thankful...

Just need to say that I am thankful for my beautiful kids... They are my joy... they are the pain in my side...they are my lights of hope, they are my smiles and laughs, I love them through and through... My heart is full with the Love I am blessed to have. I am grateful for their health and happy little lives. I hope they will always know how Very much I love them, and how much I feel blessed to be their momma.

Thankful Monday

OK Well here it my big update, and I am thankful for all of these things, and after watching last nights Extreme Makeover Home edition Buffalo last night I am also adding that I am so thankful for running water that is Hot or Cold, and for living in a nice home, in a safe area, for my car and food, and for a husband who works hard for us. And for my shoes, I have a lot of pairs and that is a blessing I have taken for granted! I am thankful for happy healthy kids and for family that loves us and we love!
Well on to the pictures... My Momma has a talented friend who made us girls all these cute matching hats... I had found this Cute pattern that is based on the hat Hermione wore in the new Harry Potter movie....

Saturday it was SUNNY, and almost 50 degrees outside so we soaked it all up, riding bikes and cleaned out and vacumed the van. Today it is foggy and rainy, 0% chance of sun... So I am sad but Thankful for the 2 lovely sunny days we had!

Made me some stinkin' cute heart garland...I think it came out totally cute, I made the lines wigglie when I sewed it instead of just straight across which I think gives it some serious personallity!

Just had to she is a ham!

Sweet Sisters they matched on Sunday! So cute!

Dad and son in their Matching hats! Luke was NOT thrilled but whatever!
And... It was Beyond time for a new purse...Thank you Target for filling that need...I really wanted this one
And PS, today is Match day! Don't remeber what that is well last year it went a little like this for us...Can't believe it has been a year! So glad it doesn't matter this year!

Thankful Monday...shoulda been Sunday

Well Time to get back to being Thankful!

I have no idea if anyone noticed that my Thankful Sunday posts dissipated last one was in July...Seriously I have been thankful since July, just haven't always been here at the right time to write about it...And I admit some days I have been an unthankful selfish rotten person...Probably more than I should have been...
So Off with that coat, back to being Grateful and humble... (I hope!)
So lets see, I am thankful really for mostly the same things as always, but in light of some events that I have been aware of in the last little while...I am even more grateful for my Children being Happy, Healthy, and Alive, Active, Functioning children. Seriously, there are people out there suffering and I am taking for granted the fact I am Completely Blessed...Well I am expressing my gratitude now. We have been sick on and off since September, as I am sure most of you have been too... it gets wearing but I am not visiting the hospital to take care of my children...So I am ok with that.
I am thankful for a Dr Husband...When I panic about fever/vomit/illness, he is always there to tell me that really it is ok and this is what we need to do. Ahh, thanks honey! So nice to have someone level headed at those moments.
I am thankful for my extended family. I have a great friendship with my momma who I love, that is a great blessing...I am also blessed to be friend with my Sisters in law, who are actually really just my sisters... I realize that most people don't have that... But I do and I know I am blessed. Thanks ladies for loving me even though I am crazy...
I have great in-laws who gave me the best husband, and love me like a daughter too.

Adam...This guy deals with my in all my craziness, weaknesses, failings...and he has to eat my food experiments on top of all that...This guy is amazing! I am thankful for time now to be able to get back to laughing with him, instead of worrying about school and match... thankfully we made it through most of that hard stuff, and now can just worry about easier things...

I am thankful for Facebook... No not for sucking my time away which it does too... but for reconnecting old friends so easy... ie. We went to a marriage class at church... low and behold found out that 2 couples at the table happened to know each other from college... and then they mention the name of a 3 friend they both knew who happened to be one of my old best friends Amy...who I sadly had lost track of...Well turns out one of them is facebook friends with her... OK so now I am she sends me her phone number and I call... instantly I am transported back 8 years and I have my best friend back just like that! Seriously... THANK YOU FACEBOOK!
Don't you love talking to a long lost friend and it is like Nothing has happened since you last spoke? It is the best, I look forward to keeping up with Amy and Aaron from now on!

Last and certainly not least... I am thankful for the Lord and the Spirit of God. I have been comforted, and encouraged, and loved, and pushed along. I have melted down and felt like "All is lost, we are all steak" (Madagascar) And been prompted to kneel down and pray, and then giving so much love and encouragement that I can actually make it through the day that there is no doubt that the Lord Knows and Love me Chantel... It is amazing and I am immeasurably thankful for that love.

Thankful Sunday/Update

This week was long, and kinda hard, but we made it! Wednesday Adam had Softball for work, which is kinda a waste but whatever, the kids enjoy going out to the parks except some of them are at really creepy downtown locales Yuck! But we got to eat at our fave. Mexican place that night, and the kids were Really good, so I am not complaining! Thursday Adam ran a 5K, and I got to see a chick runner Pee her pants right in front of me... that was thrilling. But we met some people that Adam knows from dental school and they have a cute family, and I am excited to hopefully get to be friends with them. We did a tour around the carnival and decided it was Way too crazy for us and went home. Then Adam was on call Friday and of course had the 1:30am deal, then we helped friends get a dishwasher Saturday, then packed up some of out house stuff. Today I taught a lesson in Relief Society at church, and Adam got called into the hospital, thank Heaven Rachel watched Phoebe for me and thank you Phoebe for being a good girl for her even though you where super hungry! Thanks Rachel!
So that is why I have been so sketchy lately, hopefully things will pull back together soon! Oh wait we are going to be moving, forget it...see me stable in September OK?
This week I am planning to go visiting teaching, to the Library for kiddie time, feed our friends hubby, go to Yoga (fingers crossed), visit friends, go to a dehydrating class, go to the Art museum on Friday when it is free, pack up some more stuff, well that is enough right?
No pictures it isn't working but I have very cute ones of the Baby Bee... So Tomorrow...Stay tuned

Thankful Sunday...

I have lots of thoughts and Zero Time...I can't even touch it...

So instead I will share just pictures... Just know that I am thankful... More on that later when I have time... which sometimes feels like never...

Me and Allie before taking off for Adams work party....Below the babe, she is adorable 110%

PS did I tell you she moves now?

Thankful Sunday

"My beloved brothers and sisters, fear not. Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith." -President Thomas S. Monson

Today I have realized that I want my future to be bright...I want my faith to be strong. They played this talk at church today from President Monson. Be of Good Cheer, I want to be of good cheer. I want to be happy, I want to recognize my blessings and take action to cause good. I don't want to be part of spreading evil and ill...
I feel like I have been under a thumb and only allowed to move so far this way or that for the last 4 years, Adam's schooling has dictated what we can and can't do. Finally we are free to choose what we want to do where we want to go, how we want to be. I want to be as self-reliant as I can. I want to learn and grow. I am excited for having the chance to do these things...I am going to make a few goals. I am going to achieve them.
I have realized that my life is good, even under the thumb of Dental School it was good, and I don't think I recognized that enough. My Children are happy, and healthy. My husband loves me, I have a great family, I have a few great friends. I am blessed. I have a desire to continue to learn and grow, and to be the best Chantel I can be.

So today I am thankful for a Heavenly Father who knows me and my strengths and sees me for what I can be and knows the desires of my heart and helps me to feel his love.

Thankful Sunday...

I am thankful we will now have a fabulous place to live for a darn good price... Even though it was a bit more than I had really wanted to pay, ( but still in our budget, and really not much more than we pay now) When I started adding up all the things... Garage, pantry with big kitchen all the appliances, 3 roomy bedrooms, finished basement, hardwood floors on the main floor but carpeting upstairs, laundry room, 2 full bathrooms, a nice landscaped yard, Lots of lilac bushes that all smell so good! The window coverings come with it, a nice couch in the basement will probably be staying. Good location near a park, and our gym, I realized that we are totally blessed. And I will admit I am still not 100% invested and feel like I can't be till I am walking through the door with a box...(just in case, I can't handle the disappointment) But I think all the other places are inferior to this one, the one house I loved was Wonderful, but we would have had to buy appliances and a few other things...So I can't hardly believe how we have been blessed.
I am thankful of getting to Utah in 4hrs and 40 minutes instead of 3 days and a million of miles.
I am thankful that the kids did so well and enjoyed themselves on the flights.
It is rainy in Utah, I am not happy about that but it is refreshing the way rain smells here, instead of how it smells in NY. Rain in the dessert just smells better, and seems more lovely than in NY.
I am thankful for Memorial day, and for all the people who have and who are defending our country so we all can sleep safely at night without fear. I always want to go tell soldiers I see thank you but always feel like it would sound stupid, but I hope they know that as for me I am Grateful that they are willing to give to keep our country free, and our children safe.

Thankful Sunday

On Sunday for once...
Well life has been full of it lately Allie has been sick and just keeps coming back for more! Now Adam has it as of Yesterday and I am either getting it or paranoid... don't know which yet but I am nervous! Out a Daddy and a Mommy doesn't work well for the kiddies...
We spent yesterday at the UB north campus at the first LDSSA Spring Social, it was very fun with tons of people there and Yummy pizza. Lucas had a blast running free, it was in a big field and no big close dangers for him so we just let him run free and he was the Happiest boy in the world... Tired and dirty he fell asleep after about 1.5 minutes in the car. Allie also had a very good time till all her friends left at which point she became very sad that all her "best friends" had gone. The sun was shining and it was about 80 degrees, the wind was blowing like mad but that is OK I will take it. Of course I put sunscreen on Lucas my white boy but totally forgot myself except my face and so I am sunburned! At least I got Adams head covered so we were good there!

I am So thankful for the change of weather and the sunshine...The thaw has finally come!

I am hoping that we all get well this week, I am so tired from taking care of everyone in the middle of the night. Cross your fingers for us... I am SO SO SO thankful that Phoebe isn't sick and hoping she doesn't get sick! That would just be Very Bad!

I just went looking for Luke who was being way too quite which only means 2 things Trouble or Sleep.... Sleep was the verdict this time around, where you ask? Under the table bum in the air feet crossed.... LOVE IT! He is the cutest ever.

I am thankful for my friend Sarah giving us a swing that works since Phoebe's kicked the bucket. Which I am very upset about but what are you going to do right? So phoebe can still have a good nap, since she is anti-sleeping very long anywhere else during the day.

I am amused by the fact that my Daughter loves LOVES the Lawrence Welk Show...Every Sunday she goes crazy over this show, today she is changing her outfit every song trying to match the ladies on the show...Oh is she silly!

I am thankful that Adam encourages me to go to the gym I have been doing very well, and half the time I wouldn't have dragged myself out there if Adam had not said Just go!

Here is too getting better.... and updated to add pictures from the LDSSA Party thingy...

Thankful Sunday

I am thankful for reading books with the kids and that they all love that time as a family as much as I do!
I am thankful for a great spiritual and uplifting day, for our Prophet and for the General Conference of our church.
I am thankful for the days with sunshine, they make me happy and lighten my burdens...
I am thankful for when the kids are sick because they love to be held and I love to hold them, I am not so thankful for throw up, and snot noses.
I am thankful for the chance to re-evaluate the things that are working and not working for me and the family, and for the chance to improve and become better!
And I am thankful for my new haircut, I really love it and it came out almost as nice as yesterday, so that is a Fabulous thing! YEAH!!!

Thankful Monday...Again...

Totally loving this picture of my baby girl!

It was a beautiful day the other day so we spent it outside!
We won't talk about the fact that it is currently 30 and spitting snow on and off...

"YES!", the bubble was big!

What a crew!

My handsome devil....

I love these pictures of Allison, they are SO her!

Love that face!
Lucas has been loving Phoebe lately... he kisses her and loves her, here he is letting her take a call on his cell, what a great brother!
Kisses!

Thankful Monday

I know I have missed two Sundays in a row, it is Spring Breaks fault....
I am thankful for Spring Break! It was so fun to have Adam home and have not much to do and to not go anywhere! We did a lot of work in out basement and got it all cleaned up and painted. We got lots of appointments out of the way, and we went on a fun drive up to Lockport, over to Medina, and then Down to Batavia and home, it was a fun trip till right at the end when Phoebe had had enough of the kids yelling and screaming in fun, she is sensitive right now to loud noises. And at that point we all realized a Van would be Awesome! Put the 2 crazies in the back and Phoebe in the middle so she can have peace... Hopefully someday!
I am thankful for all the beautiful Sunshine we have been getting there is nothing better than SUN! I feel 100% better with Sunshine on my face!
Downer news is I bought a dress off line and that thing is Nothing like what I had expected, and it is awful...Adam says I would fit in with the Colorado City people in it! So that stinks! My dress Quest Continues!
We also found another house we loved, and we are pretty sure isn't going to work out... this one is owned by crazy people, (or they seem that way to us) They are supposed to get back with us hopefully soon, but they seem to be not the kind of people to pick up the phone and call...So we will see!
And Congratulations to the Marchents who had their baby, and to the Cleggs who are expecting a baby!
Well here is to a great week!

Thankful Sunday & a week in review

Can you believe all this week I haven't blogged! I can't, Geez, I think this was one of the hardest weeks ever! Luke has been overtired which means Over Drive!~ Which is no good..So Monday we went to Chuck E Cheeses and that was wonderful, they don't care what your kids do there! I love it! Cheap fun. Luke hasnt' been sleeping well since we took off his crib and made it a toddler bed so I put him in his room to take a nap and well he practiced his skills of Trashin the place for when he is a famous rock star or something like that! He is good huh?

Then he finally passed out so I went in to check on him and make sure he was Ok, and I couldn't find him....but I could hear him snoring... I checked all around then turned around to walk out and saw the laundry basket..... Yup Sleeping in the laundry basket... Then I honestly don't remember all the rest of the week but come Thursday night we had a Relief Society party and I was so mad when I walked in there was no place to sit and I asked if I could sit somewhere and they said no room at first so Mommy threw a tantrum and said FINE I'm going home then! Everyone jumped up and made room... I felt so stupid but boy had I lost it! So thanks ladies for still liking me after I throw public tantrums and then cry about it! "He is lucky he is cute or we would have to sell him on Ebay" -Adam

Saturday we went to look at some places and the place we were supposed to look at was PACKED with people and I was ticked off and said forget it! So we went on our way, and checked out a few other places around the area... then we went to go home. On the way home Adam says Hey that place is for rent....(it is on Sheridan Dr) So I said Flip around! So we did and well though it isn't much to look at on the outside we stoped and Adam said go snoop around the back... I jumped out and checked out the back of the house and saw it has a nice yard and then checked out in the windows and it looked pretty nice and big so we took the number and gave them a call...We came back a few hours later to check out the place, well it is Beautiful! It is HUGE and redone and lovely! There is a huge room in the basement that is finished and amazing! There is an awesome mud room, a fireplace 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, a work room 2 car garage, hardwood floors everywhere, the only "downside" is that it doesn't have the stove or fridge....But the price is the same as the tiny dump we looked at a week ago! So we are going to hear back on mon. or tue... so keep your fingers crossed for us!
Tonight it was funny the kids got out the Yoga mats and started doing Yoga, it was so cute, Pictures will come tomorrow... I am to lazy to upload them now.So mostly this week I am thankful I made it! I am thankful that they had this silly thing at the Relief Society party were they had us all write something nice about each person and when I got mine and read it, I was surprised at some of the things that they wrote, They were totally sweet and made me feel like I am not totally failing at everything. So thanks ladies, you know who you are...You made my night and I am so reading that paper again when I feel lousy! So on to our next adventure... Adam has the NERB exam on Thrusday, and after that he is DONE tests FOREVER! And it is Spring break! YEAH! I am so excited to have fun family time! (packing and organizing the basement and painting, fun huh?) Good night!

Thankful Sunday

I am mostly Thankful that it is Now MARCH,
One step closer to nice weather!
Thank Heaven!

The Shep Family!

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it.
You either have to laugh or cry.
I prefer to laugh.
Crying gives me a headache."
Marjorie Pay Hinckley

This is so how I have felt lately! I love Sister Hinckley! She was a Wise woman!

Me and all my kids! Yikes!

My girls!

Everyone has a baby!

What a doll!

I have noticed with Lucas lately that he is having some issues... I think he is not a fan of not being the baby anymore... he needs More Momma, any ideas how to solve this issue? I try to love him more and spend more time with him but sometimes he just gets really mad... Poor boy! I love him so much! If I could only understand what he was saying!

Thankful Sunday

I am thankful that Phoebe is a good sleeper, she went to bed at like 8:30 and she slept through the kids running around our room screaming, me vacuuming, Luke trying to climb in her bassinett, and then crying when he didn't get his way.... Still sleeping... Good girl!

I am thankful that Allie loves me so much that she cries when Adam told her I was going to be a grandma someday....

I am thankful that although a beast at church, Lucas is a love at home, (sometimes) He has started hugging tight and it is so sweet!

DON'T Forget to check out the post below this one.... I really don't care if you make stuff for other people, if you want to GREAT! If not GREAT! It is just for fun... though I am stressing out trying to think of the perfect thing for everyone! haha!

I love this picture how she looks like she is giving me a "here's looking at you kid" punch...

Nose hair trimmer, goes up the nose right?