My life is sooooo exciting!!!

Well I know I haven't blogged in a while but it's because my life is so exciting I have no time to write it all down. You know with dr. apts and driving kids to school and dance class and well..... I think that's about it. See so exciting that I have absolutely nothing to say.

As for moving the kids around. It has been so much nicer. Kylie and Cara Mia go to sleep almost instantly and Elijah wears himself out so much during the day that the one night Porter cried, Elijah slept right through it. Most nights though Porter goes to sleep before the rest of them do so Elijah just goes and climbs in bed and goes to sleep.
As for decorating.....well we are kinda tight around here......well tight is a nice word for it. We are actually trying to sell our furniture right now to pay off our credit cards. I think Santa was a bit too nice this year and some months we have to put groceries and gas on them too, but we always pay our mortgage so we have a place to live, right? And Intel just came out saying that there will be no raises or promotions this year. And it's kinda a bummer because when Robbie went to his new position his old manager wouldn't sign the paper for him to get a raise and a promotion , even though it was coming out of the new managers budget. He just did this to be annoying and rude to Robbie, because he didn't want Robbie to leave to a new position. So his new manager said don't worry when reviews come around we'll get you, your promotion and raise and now that won't be happening. BUT!!!! at least he has a job!!! And I would rather him have a job with no raise than no job right!!!!! So I'm still so grateful that he has a job!!! Yeah!!!! Anyway, so no plans for that right now.

Today we did go to our ward primary activity which was about families....well we were late but that is what we got out of it. It was fun they talked a little about families and then we had a picnic lunch in the gym then they had the kids do a craft (and you know how I love to craft) where they had a pic of the temple on vellum and you put a pic of your family behind it. Well I brought the wrong size of pic (of course) and so the primary pres (who happens to be my friend and know how much I love this kind of stuff) well she said I could take one home for each of the kids.

So this is what I ended up doing with them. We had these IKEA frames sitting around her and I thought I would frame them and they could put them in their rooms. So they all picked out a family pic and I painted the frames and decorated them and now they all have a pic of the family and the temple in their rooms. The pics I took here did not turn out so well but I'll show you anyway.

This one is mine because I love black

This one is Kylie's because her room is white and pink.

This one is Cara Mia's because I want her room to be brown and pink.

And this one is Elijah's because we don't have his room decorated at all and he loves red.

Oh and for our Chit Chat finish that group that met two Saturdays ago we did the family proclamation with pics of the family around it and here is how mine turned out.

I think it looks pretty nice. I have wanted to do one for years and now I have finally done it. Yeah!!!

Another reason I haven't posted is because I have kinda well....... with everything going on, money, Cara Mia's surgery, getting the kids to school and everywhere else well.... sometimes it just gets to be a bit much and so I have been having a hard time breathing and having chest pains and it has been going on for like a week. Ever since Cara Mia's dr apt and so I called a friend of ours who is a dr. and told him and he said I should go and get it checked out. So I did and everything looks fine for my heart and stuff but they said I have anxiety and that's why when I get stressed out and frustrated I can't breathe. So they gave me Xanex, which I am kinda against taking medicine, I think there are better more natural ways to fix things. Not that you shouldn't take medicine ever, I used to just suffer when I had a headache and say I'll be fine and never take a Tylnol or anything then finally one day I did and I was like wow, that is amazing how it helps. Anyway, so now I do take medicine for some things. But my mom was like a pill popper, if something was wrong just take a pill (hello she did not abuse drugs or anything but she was always taking advil or tylnol or something) and I just didn't want to be like that too, so I kinda went the opposite way. Anyway, back to my point. My mom had anxiety and depression and all that and I just don't want to get messed up in that. And most people know that I'm a happy go lucky person who is happy most of the time, uptight?? Yes, controlling???Yes, but overall a happy fun person. So this really bothers me and I don't know what to do, but I'm less patient with my kids and I get upset easier and that's not good either, so I finally took one today and I was actually calm. I didn't yell at my kids once today. but I don't really want to take them so I'm very confused about what to do. I'm trying to find something homeopathic to do instead. Like meditate or something.

Anyway, now that I have depressed everyone, you know why I haven't posted because I'm sure everyone wants to know how Tiffany is losing her mind and going crazy. Very exciting....