This post is going to be a little bit of catching up a little bit of complaining and a lot of stuff that i don't want to forget.  Ryan and I have always joked about our terrible luck I have always had really bad luck and Ryan has terrible luck so pretty much since we've been married it is just one thing after another and 90% of the time we can just laugh about it, I have learned that several phrases apply to our lives...take things one day at a time, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, you have to experience the bad to appreciate the good, location location location, and that in every situation you can choose to either laugh or cry and very most important thing i've learned is that nothing matters like family.
 

•   The bad in the past 6 weeks.....
• broken the back window of Ryan's truck
• 2 flat tires
• ruptured  1 eardrum
• had 2 root canals
• had 1 child throw up all over me at the gas station that is 2 miles away that we had walked to
• accumulated $6,000.00 in medical debt with no end in sight but another doctors appointment this week
• switched jobs (good or bad is yet to be determained but right now definately on my bad list)  

and worse of all is that because of our terrible bad luck the addoption application we had filled out and ready to turn in is going to have to wait.

 There have definately been some tears and some heartache however in some ways the past 6 weeks have been amazing one of my very favorite things about Ryan is the way he makes the best of every situation and that he can always make me laugh so tonight as we were driving and our tire popped Ryan just started laughing hysterically I LOVE YOU RYAN!!!!

  So like I said there is always good to help you survive the bad some of the most memorable things about the past 6 weeks are....

Preschool graduation, I survived my first year teaching preschool and it was amazing I got to have both my kids in my preschool and it was a year I will treasure for the rest of my life

 Gracie turned 5!!! Ryan made her a really cool barbie house that she loves and she got to have 8 of her friends over for her party and her cousin sleepover she loved every minute of it all she wanted to do for her party is play dress ups and watch a barbie movie

We went on our annual summer kick off family bike ride to get ice cream this is our 2nd year going and I am amazed at how good my kids do it is roughly 3 miles and this year we added going to lunch at a local Mexican restaurant 

The kids have a new favorite park I have lost track of how many times we have been in the last few weeks but a ton!! If it were up to the kids we would go everyday!

We have had so many beautiful days that we've been able to have the kids pool up and going I love that my kids are such swimmers it's one of our favorite things about summer and it never gets old plus this year they have added a pool at the country club so grandma has been able to take us to the big pool and they love it but I don't have pictures I will do better this week

then we had Eagle mountain days which is like 10 days we didn't get to do as much this year as we would have liked but we did do the carnival, and then we sat outside and listened to the concert then sat on the roof to watch the fireworks I love living here I love our neighbors and our ward and just the whole area it's a really fun place to be!

We decided to help kick off the summer we would do a campout in the backyard

I underestumated how much my kids would love this we will definately need to do this again soon

some other highlights would be Fin driving his jeep into a sherriff's SUV and the kids begging everyday to run through the sprinklers and washing the car going to the splash pad and inviting all the neighbors over for a movie in the backyard it's no wonder that Fin has started falling asleep in the strangest places, so far this has been both the worst and the greatest sunner ever how is that possible?

I need to download the rest of our photos to really do how busy we have been justice but in the meantime let me just say that we are exhausted!

I haven't updated in so long it would be impossible to try and catch up but I really just wanted to say that I LOVE BEING A MOM!!!  By far the best thing that I have or ever will do is to be a wife and mother!  my one goal in life is that my husband and my kids always know that I love them, and that whenever I hear the question what do I like about myself it's my family! They are the best thing about me!  HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

                                                              HUSTON COUSIN PICTURES

  Every December we do pictures with all the Huston kids and every year gets easier and easier this year was really funny and wow first Gracie is a total ham and next I think we are in serious trouble in a few years with her she is such a flirt! I wish that I had gotten better picture of Finley but the ones we bought of him are priceless he is awesome!!

nutcracker

 While I am updating I might as well get us current so here I go again.....

                 November = NUTCRACKER
So we decided to let Gracie try out for the Nutcracker with all of her girl cousins that were old enough to try out and never having danced myself I way underestimated the work that goes into this big of a production but wow I know now weekend practices (no absences allowed or you are pulled from the production) costume fittings, and pictures ( twice once in costumes once not).
  Finally the week of we started Friday with an extra practice (also extra long) and a practice on Saturday (once again extra long) then Monday night dress rehersal....from 5-10:45PM in Provo!!
 Finally though it was all worth it watching her first preformance we LOVED IT!! the whole thing she had a preforamce from 4:30 -6:00 and then another from 7:30-9:00 then Wednesday the same thing! the earliest we were home this week was 11:00PM!!
  I cannot believe what a trooper she is and how much she loves it I am amazed by my little star!

This is a long one....

Okay so starting back in September Ryan and I took the kids up butterfield canyon for some pictures in the leaves it was so pretty, the kds had a blast Gracie loves to pose and Fin loves to explore it's a win win!

 Then we had my first preschool party/program for halloween, I love teaching I think the are the best kids in the whole world this has been so much fun!

Finley wanted to be Bob the Builder, and Gracie's "kitty grandma" made her a "Tangled" costume they looked so cute and both loved their costumes it was great!

The program was great they sang a few songs and then we had some yummy treats. I'm excited for our Thanksgiving feast next.

The kids loved carving pumpkins and when we were done we had to carve one more because we didn't make a sad pumpkin so Finley made us do another one, and Gracie loves to cook the seeds and eat them she explained to Ryan several times that he should eat them they taste like pomporn (popcorn)

I'm kind of a lame mom and don't have any pictures of Halloween but here is the aftermath!