How Sweet It Is . . .

Sometimes my Jenni can just be the sweetest ever!! We told Jenni and Joe-Joe about recycling, and how if you collect cans you can get some money for them. Jenni decided she wanted to do it, so we started collecting cans. Joe-Joe helped some, but didn't really get why we were keeping garbage! We finally collected a few garbage bags worth, and Steve took it to the recycling center and got $3.19 (woo hoo!!) In the car later that night, I told Jenni we got the money for the cans, and said that she could have $2 and Joe-Joe $1 because she did more work. Jenni thought about it for a minute and said "You know, I have another dollar at home that I got from the tooth fairy, so I should give Joe-Joe one of these dollars, so then we both can have $2." I couldn't believe it! It was SO sweet!

And then just today Jenni brought home a 'stocking' her teacher gave to her filled with a few pieces of candy. She took them out and had them in front of her. Joe Joe saw them and asked where she got it. She told him from school and he asked if he could have one. Without hesitation Jenni reached down and grabbed the candy cane (not one of the little dinky ones- a normal big one) and gave it to Joe- without complaining or anything! She is so sweet! She really shows us the true meaning of Christmas!!

Where would I be without my cute family??? I don't even want to know!! :)

~chelle

"The Best Dinner Ever!"

Joe-joe is so funny! Last night we went up to The Hale in SLC to see A Christmas Carol, and we were running late, so we got a $3 pizza from 5buck pizza. (It's sweet, a medium pizza for 2.99 on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 4 and 8 pm) we ate the pizza in the car on the way up, and about halfway to Steve's sisters house (Joe-joe is too young to go to the play, so he was having a pajama party with Whitney) Joe-joe was eating his pizza and he said "Momma, this is the BEST dinner EVER!" I thought to myself, it's kinda sad that my son thinks a cheap pizza (that made all of us sick btw) is the best dinner ever. hmmm. What does that say about my mothering???

I still haven't seen New Moon. Still. Being poor isn't super fun sometimes. I got a blessing a little while ago that said our financial troubles would come to an end soon, but to be very weary of overspending. Steve and I have been SO careful not to spend where it's not necessary (for example, going to 5buck {or as I like to call it 5yuck} for pizza instead of little caesars, saving $2). (And I know what you're thinking - "why not forget the pizza and eat something at home" but we just simply ran out of time, and that was the cheapest alternative) We weren't way overspending before, but still, we've found that we can cut back. I'm surprised how hard it can be though. Like I said- being poor isn't super fun sometimes.

We're getting ready to move our stuff out so Adam and Stace can move in. We hope to be out in our own place in a couple of months at the most. I am so grateful to my parents though for being so generous with their home. What a blessing it is to have parents like mine!

ALAS! I've got to go be a mom now. Have a wonderful day all! :)

ok, thats all.

chelle

Christmas!!

Oh how I love this time of year! It truly is my favorite time of year. I love the music, and the family time, and the tree and the lights . . . I could go on and on, but I won't.

Things here are still pretty much the same. Jenni is still LOVING school. She is doing so well! We got her first report card and she had almost all 4's! (For some reason, they don't do the A B C D grading scale because they didn't like telling kids that they failed. So now they do 4 3 2 1. I'm not sure it's really any different, but oh well!) There were like 31 categories, and she got 27 4's and the rest were 3's. I thought that was pretty cool! She is reading SO WELL! She had to give a talk in primary last week, and I had forgotten about it until Sacrament meeting just before, so I quickly wrote one, and she kinda read through it a little, but didn't have a chance to practice it. Then She told me she didn't want any help. I was little nervous, but I didn't need to be. She did SO well! She only needed a little help with 'Mosiah'. (Although, her talk was about Service, and every time she was supposed to say service, she ended up saying servants. Oh well! They got the idea!)

Joe-joe is getting more and more excited for Christmas. The first time it snowed he ran around the house saying "It's Christmas Holiday! It's Christmas Holiday! It's Christmas Holiday!!" (It was on a Sunday morning, and I hadn't slept much the night before, so I was trying to sleep a little more, and it didn't really help.) He has also started singing Christmas songs. My favorite one he sings is "We wish you were Merry Christmas, we wish you were Merry Christmas . . ." He's so cute!

Steve and I are doing good. Things are still pretty much the same. Nothing really to report about us!

Anyway, I've got to get going, but I figured since I made a new background I should probably do a new post to go along with it! Hope everything is going well out there!

Later Cyber-Sisters! Have a wonderful day!! :)

ok, thats all!!

Chelle