Christmas Party and Forgotten Carols

Ok time is short today but I wanted to do a quick post before I get too far behind in the blogging world.
first on the agenda... Forgotten Carols. Thursday night the Sweet pace family invited us to go to the forgotten carols with them at Cottonwood Highschool all expenses paid :) Sadly McKay had a project presentation that night so only I was able to go. It was really fun, but I sure missed McKay. Here are a few pictures from the clan at dinner


The forgotten Carols was so beautiful and I loved the christmas spirit there. Hopefully McKay will be able to go another year.

The second Item on the agenda is the annual Fry Family Christmas party, but this year was EVEN better. Why? Because it was a surprise Party for my Grandma. All of my aunts and uncles went in and surprised my grandma with a new piano. The piano is beautiful and it is exciting to now have one that plays (no offense to the old one) So ofcourse we sang Christmas carols and hymns all night long and there were tears from my grandma (happy tears, we made sure we checked) so it must of been a good gift. Way to go Fry family on such a amazing gift!
Other events of the night included some basketball in this crazy warm winter weather, white elephant gifts, Nativity skit by the kiddos and lots of soup and rolls. (oh and don't forget the peppermint icecream delicious!)
Showing off the new Piano
Some Brotherly love before battle (aka: White Elephant Exchange)The nativity participants (very cute, but so glad I get to just watch now instead of being in it)

Thanks wonderful families! We are loving spending time with you this holiday season! Have a happy week and good luck to everyone who has finals!

Quotes

I love Quotes, especially ones from the prophets. When I was in high school I found about ten to twenty quotes that I just LOVED and really wanted to live by. So I stuck them on my door and looked at them everytime that I walked into my room. When I went away to college and I would start to struggle with somthing I would always go back to my quotes. I even hung them on my dorm room wall and door thanks to my kind roomates. So I thought that I should share a few here too. They are just short and sweet but very powerful. Enjoy :)

"It doesn't matter if you see the savior in this life; what matters is if others see the savior in your life."

"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in him, if we will pray to him, if we will live worthy of his blessings, he will hear our prayer." -President Hinkley

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be; for I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our disposition and not upon our circumstances." -Martha Washington

"Everything will be ok in the end. If it is not ok now, then it's not the end."

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results." -Anonymous

Ok only TWO more, you can do it!

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intent of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, WOW! What a ride!" -Gordon B. Hinckley

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)

So I hoped these quotes gave you a pick me up like they have given me. I really needed it tonight. We are SO blessed. We have every hope and desire that we could ever want out of life right now, but yet I am definitely not being as sincere and as grateful as I could be. But I AM grateful for this season and chapter in our lives and I hope I can always remember the savior and the special gift he has given to us, because without him this life would be impossible.
Well that is all, have a great night!

P.S. One week till our first anniversary!!! So excited to go to Vegas on a much needed get away!

Real Meaning of Christmas

This is the CUTEST video ever. Seriously almost cried. It is such a great reminder of what this season is really about. You will LOVE it!

Festival of Trees

Yesterrday we headed to Sandy to visit the Festival of Trees. This has been pretty much a tradition in my family for a long time give or take a few years, but it was McKay's first time going. (and he loved it!) If any of you don't know what the Festival of Trees is it is a charity event for primary childrens hospital where people decorate trees and donate them. After they are all decorated then other people can come and buy them. All the money goes to help with medical care of all the children. When I was in high school I was able to decorate two trees two different years here is a picture of the second one that we did...

Along with a lot of trees they have gingerbread houses, wreaths, play houses, and centerpieces. Our favorites are the trees and gingerbread houses. Here are pictures of a few of our favorite trees...
Rilvary anyone?
Dancing Santa?
Very Pretty!



We also LOVED the gingerbread houses, can't believe these creations are edible!


After Festival of Trees we hung out with my family at a basketball game and their ward Christmas party. Also a small surprise was Corinne got asked to the Winter Dance at school with a very cute Rice Krispy Treat Snowman. Here she is opening it to find the guy's name...


Thanks Family for the fun weekend, and I hope all of you had a great weekend too!

Gratitude

So sorry this Thanksgiving post is VERY late, but that does not mean that we loved it any less. :) So this year for thanksgiving we went to Evanston to visit McKay's family. We had a wonderful dinner, it truely tasted amazing! They were also so sweet and gave up their beds for us. (for 3 nights! Very nice) While we were there McKay mostly did this (homework)...

And helped with some floods (sound like not very much fun? Secretly he loves working with his dad and brothers so it is hardly work to him)

So while he did all of his things, the girls spent the days watching movies, making crafts, shopping on black friday (my first time EVER going), and visiting. It was very relaxing and slightly a strange feeling because I am so used to having a million things to do. Here are some of the crafts that we completed. Thanks Mama and Natalie for supplying all of the materials!



Well that is it for tonight, I am so grateful for everything that I have been blessed with and I love this time of year that we get to celebrate life and the good things in it. Have a great night!

Thanksgiving Prep

Well with Thanksgiving being tomorrow I am just finishing up the last final prep work tonight.
No I am not cooking the entire thanksgiving dinner (thanks to my wonderful mother in law).
Just the rolls. (all 150 of them)
But since this is my first time EVER having to actually help make the Thanksgiving dinner I thought that I had better document it. :) Pathetic, I know, but when you have a wonderful mother like me everything just gets taken care of,
And Thanksgiving CAN actually be a relaxing holiday if you don't have to cook.
I mean GET to cook.
I hope this doesn't sound like I am complaining! Because I truely am not.
It is cool being able to help out with the food. It is kind of like I have now joined a club of sorts. I don't know exactly what you would call it... but it is definitely cool ;) Now everyone else has to deal with my cooking and I get to choose to make whatever my heart desires (as long as it is a Thanksgiving food so that definitely narrows things down a bit)
Pretty cool huh? I know all of you men are getting pretty jealous now, maybe you are even thinking that you WANT to cook the food from now on...ok maybe not, I think we had better stick with the women if we want to have anything that looks like a turkey. :)
Well that is all for tonight, here are some pictures from my baking extravaganza, and I just have one question left... does this mean I get to graduate from the kiddy table yet?

Funny, no wait... Darling story :)

So I don't really share a lot of funny stories from work on here, mostly because I have usually forgotten them by the time night comes around. But here is one that I can't help but share with everyone because it was one of those moments that you go "Oh yeah, THIS is why I love my job" It was a needed moment and I am very thankful for it. So here it goes...

A couple of days ago when I walked into my classroom in the morning a little 5 year old boy comes running over to me and starts yelling
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE (at this point I was wondering what in the world he wanted) PLEASE, PLEASE PPPLLLEEEAAASSSSEEE!!!! Can I marry you when I get older?!
(HAHA! this is where I stopped myself from laughing because he was dead serious, I couldn't even use the excuse that he was too young because he DID clarify that he would wait till he got older...)
But I figured I had really better straighten him out because I don't think McKay would be very happy if I had said yes ;)
So I kindly held out my left hand for a visual and sweetly told him that I was actually already married.
He looked at my ring for a second and then said "Darn it!" Then he proceeds to gives me a big hug and says "But I STILL Love you!"
Melt my heart! Needless to say he was one of my favorites for the day :) (but pretend I didn't say that because as a teacher I do not get to have favorites...oh well we are all human)

Is it too early to decorate for Christmas?

...Because we did, two days ago actually and I love it! Yes yes I know, Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet and I am usually the last one that would ever DARE listen to Christmas music before December. But, I was just WAY too excited to to set up our brand new tree and decorate it. And it is BEAUTIFUL, and it sparkles :)

It is crazy how excited for Christmas I am this year, I just love everything about it! Last year we were SO busy planning the wedding that Christmas was one of the last things on my mind. McKay and I didn't really exchange gifts and I really didn't help with even one Christmas decoration. So this year I am making up for lost time and who knows, I might even turn on the music a few days BEFORE Thanksgiving (gasp!) So here are a few pictures of our darling (actually it is quite huge) Christmas Tree.

The before photos


Onto the "fluffing"

And here is the final product, oh I am so proud! lol Thanks for Reading!

My Secret Obsession

Ok people I am going to share with you one of my secret obsessions, but I guess after you all read this post it won't be so secret anymore...

Why am I sharing this obsession you may ask?
Well I am completly out of blog ideas, but yet I don't want to just NOT post because I am lacking creativity. So here goes my attempt at coming up with something to blog about...

I blog stalk. There I said it. Haha yep that is it, and I assume that if you are reading this right now, you do too. And we all have our favorites that we love to read and usually we read about things we are interested in (I mean you can find someone out there blogging about almost EVERY subject imaginable) so tonight I am going to share a few of my favorites. They are all under the same category, all three of my favorite blogs is written by moms of multiples.

#1- The Wilkinson quints They are a LDS family and their story is incredible.

#2- The Cox Quads They have beat some amazing odds and their babies are darling!

#3- The Steece Quads This one is definitely VERY entertaining and I love how you can tell how strong the parents relationship is even while they are dealing with the stresses of raising quadruplets. This mom is SO good with words, and making even the hardest of times hilarious.

So there you have it, and yes I am telling you should go check them out and get a few good laughs. My favorite thing to do is start at the beginning of their blogs and read through because I love seeing each of their different reactions of when they first found out they were having multiples. Also I love seeing the pictures of when the babies were little. It will definitely melt your heart!

Ok last question many of you are probably wondering at this point, why do I love THESE blogs (I mean I don't even have ONE child to relate to their experiences) But yet their lives are the closest thing that I have to relating to what I do every day for 8+ hours. I also am around LOTS of children who are all about the same age. It is crazy, fun, scary, and insane all at the same time. So yes it is entertainment to hear about other peoples crazy experiences with kids and how they get through. It feels good to realize that you are not alone. (but thank heavens that I get a break each night, so I have no place to complain)
Why are they more fasinating when there is more than one?

Well that is all for today, have a great night!

Drum roll Please....

Ok I won't keep you ALL waiting any longer...Our exciting news of the year is that McKay just recieved a job offer at a nuclear facility in Idaho! YAYYYYY!!!!! WAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
If you can't tell we are VERY excited and this is a HUGE opportunity for us. It isn't completely offical (because we haven't sent the acceptance letter back yet), but if all continues to go well then we will be moving to Idaho Falls right after graduation. This is a perfect job for McKay and he is very excited to work with this company. As for me, I am also very excited, this is what we have been hoping would happen all along and I am just so very grateful that things are working out job wise so far. (oh and I wont lie I am SO thrilled that we will only be living a couple of hours away from family) Soon we will be living near this beauty :)
So that is about it, thanks for all of your support and now we just need to find a apartment/condo/house or whatever we decide to live in when we move up there, oh and make sure no classes are failed in the process. :) Have a good night!

Oh and P.S. Sorry Toni that we weren't pregnant, maybe next time jk Love ya! Thanks for commenting, I love them!

Halloween 2010

So just like EVERYONE else (and if you didn't then you really should) I am now going to give our version of what we did for the Halloween weekend. We decided to spend Halloween with my family at my parents house. Luckily all of the festivities were at their house so we didn't have to go far once we got there. We left friday and stayed till Sunday night (Loved it!) We haven't been in well over a month so it was SO wonderful to have a relaxing weekend. Saturday we had a small party with my cousins and aunt and uncle. We did the traditional soup and bread bowls that we have been doing for practically forever. So all day on Saturday I got to hang out with my mom, chat, and make soup and rolls. Needless to say we got in some good girl chats. And ofcourse we loved seeing the cute and some not so cute (really some parents need to set a limit for their kids on when they have to stop trick or treating) trick or treaters.




Also earlier in the week I had a Halloween carnival with work and I had dressed up as a rockstar. I wanted to show my family the costume but I didn't feel like actually putting the costume on, but Corinne did so here she is in MY halloween costume...
Then on Sunday we went to church with my family and Corinne sang in sacrement meeting with some friends, they did great! then that night we had a birthday party for my grandma Fry. We had dinner, opened presents, and ...jumped off the deck?? (crazy things McKay comes up with) Happy Birthday Grandma!





Oh and to make this weekend even more fun we were having car problems and our car was in the shop so we had to get a rental car. not fun, but So worth it! (oh and I think that he is going to be a model don't you? haha) here is our darling rental car slug bug!


Well that is the long version of our weekend, thanks for reading! come back soon to hear about our exciting news! good night!