Happy Thanksgiving!

I just want to tell everyone I hope they have a great Thanksgiving with lots of good food and great friends. I am thankful to my Heavenly Father for each of you and the blessing you are to me. I am forever grateful that I am not one of those people who hates it when their in-laws are around. I wouldn't have been able to make it this far in my life without Vicki and Torri. I love you both so much! I am grateful for all my sister-in-laws and their friendship. I am glad we can be friends. For all my friends who read this I love you and am so glad I know you. I know my kids won't read this but I want them to know they are the greatest blessing I could ever have been giving. Each one of you are a light in my world. Trent you are my reason. Thank you for being you and loving me.

*hugs* to all! Have a beautiful day!!

My Conclusion

So I am on a medicine that is really helping. I am feeling so much better then I have felt in quite some time. And yet I can't make myself do somethings. Most importantly go to church. I have been really upset with myself about this and pondering and praying about it for sometime. Well here is my conclusion. I am scared. I am scared of doing to much and back sliding. I don't think most of you know how bad I was at the being of the year. April was a REALLY bad month. Mostly due to a medication I was tryin that I reacted badly to. But just think about the worst thing you can about mental illness and that is where I was. So I think I have been hiding some to keep from over doing it and back sliding anywhere near there again. I am SO happy that I finally feel able to do so many things that I haven't been able to do in years. I am not 100%. I guess I will never be without my anxeity and I can deal with that. Heavenly Father has given us all trails and this is one of mine. I just don't want to be unable to do anything like before. Church is hard for me for many reasons. I have a hard time with a crowd of people. I worry alot about what people think of me. This may be silly but I can't help it. I let all of it get to me. Getting the kids ready, keeping them calm durning Sacrament meeting, getting them to class. I know I need to get to church not only for me but for my kids. I want to get to church. So here is the reason I am putting this here. I think saying this outloud (so to speak) will help me start to deal with it. Also it will be nice for some encouragement (if anyone feels so inclined). I am going to try my hardest to work past this fear of backsliding. I want to get to church. I will make it. Thank you for listening. :)

Moments!

So my cousin sent this one to me and I thought about it for awhile before I put it here. But I do like the tags and I am always interested in learning more about all the ladies in my life. So I guess that means I need to start this one. So here goes.

What was the happiest moment of your life?

I don't think I can narrow this down to one moment. The best I can do it five.

Kneeling across the altar from Trent.
Hearing each one of my babies cry for the first time.

What was the saddiest moment of your life?

Letting go of Trent and closing the door, knowing I wasn't going to see him again for two years.

What was the scariest moment of your life?

I think that would have to have been when they gave me a medicine to help with the nausions feeling I had after having Paige. I hate throwing up so I took the medicine. But it did something bad to my anxeity. I have never felt more gross in my whole life. It was a really scary thing to know my anxeity was so bad but not be able to explain why.

What was the most embrassing moment in you life?

NO WAY am I sharing this. lol I am fairly cetain that the only person who is aware of this moment has forgotten all about it. And I am not sure if I ever told Trent. Yes it was that bad. And the worst part is it wasn't my fault. This goes with me to my grave.

What was the most exciting moment of your life?

Not sure what the most exciting moment was. I think it was waiting for Trent to get off the plane after his mission. But I was VERY excited about spending two months in Hawaii with my aunt.

I tag Vicki, Torri, Aimee, Stacey, Verity and my mom. :)

Crazy Eights!

8 Things I am passionate about:
1. Trent
2. My kids
3. Family
4. Church
5. Love conquering all stories
6. Being nice to others
7. Helping others
8. Being a good friend

8 words or phrases I use often:
1. I love you!
2. Baby
3. Calm down!
4. Kiss me.
5. Rees Albritton
6. Caden David
7. Victoria Paige
8. Tricia Diane

8 things I want to do before I die/on my wish list:
1. See my mom baptized. (Yes I think this is a real possiblity)
2. Understand my sister better
3. See my children baptized and married in the temple
4. Spend more time with my husband
5. Keep my anxeity under control
6. Own a home!
7. Know that I have made some kind of diffrence in my kids lives.
8. Feel better about myself

8 things I've learned in the past:
1. We never know as much as we think we do about a situation
2. Forgiveness is possible
3. Having children is the greatest blessing one can have. (I kept this one from my friend's she put it so well!)
4. Don't assume things. The old saying it true.
5. No one else really cares if your house is spotless
6. Trent really does love me. I may never know why, but it is true
7. Just because you forgive someone doesn't mean you have to put yourself back in a bad place.
8. The past is the past. Move on!

8 things I currently want or need:
1. A HOUSE!
2. A HOUSE!
3. A HOUSE!
4. A HOUSE!
5. A HOUSE!
6. A HOUSE!
7. A HOUSE!
8. A HOUSE!

8 Places I want to see/visit
1. Hawaii with Trent
2. Carlsbad Caverns
3. Yellowstone
4. Hawaii Temple with Trent
5. Alaska
6. Disney World with my kids
7. More temples
8. My aunt more often

8 favorite restaurants:
We don't eat out very much. So this is a very short list.
1. La Fiesta
2. China Gardens
3. Texas Cattle Company
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8 TV shows I can't live without:
We don't have cable so again a short list
1. FRIENDS
2. Firefly
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8 things that happened yesterday:
1. Took mom to two doctors appts in Lancaster.
2. Drove to Lancaster
3. Went to Toys-R-Us
4. Picked mom up from one place and took her to the other dr.
5. Went to Target.
6. Drove home
7. Stopped in Red Rock Caynon so the kids could get some energy out
8. Took to many of my anxeity pills(this was an accident) and went to sleep

8 things I look forward to:
1. Twilight!
2. Christmas!!!
3. Thanksgiving
4. Tax return
5. Visiting with my aunt again
6. Advent Calendar (Neopets thing)
7. Torri and Scott getting there house. (I have many reasons for this one)
8. Finding a new book I love.

8 things I love about the fall:
1. Cooler temps
2. Halloween
3. Paige's birthday
4. The colors
5. Warm clothes
6. Comfy socks
7. blankets
8. Pumpkin Bread

8 things I need to work on!
1. Saving money
2. Cleaning house
3. Making it to church
4. What I think about myself
5. My weight
6. Doing more fun things with the kids
7. Being a better friend
8. Eating habits

*Update*

So the man was driving under the influence. We had to make an offical report with the police today. The little girl he put in the car wasn't in a carseat and she was about 3. The police officer told us thank you for calling and taking him off the streets. So the bad sitution turned into something better. And we are happy for that. :)

Some days are better then others

After a very annoying appt across town, my mom, the kids and I were driving down China Lake toward Ward. Some guy pulled into the idiot lane behind me. So I said something about this guy is an idiot or something. I slowed down so he could go around me cause I wanted to get over to turn. He gets right beside me and starts flipping me off and pointing to the back of my car. Well we have a yes on 8 sticker still on our car. So I was like whatever. I mean it was a bit upsetting but people are stupid so whatever, right? So he turns onto Ward and I wait my turn and turn onto Ward. He is barely crawling in the right lane. So I get in the left lane and start to speed up cause I was afraid he was going to get in front of us or something
Well he is flipping us off the whole time and as I get close to him he swerves over in my lane and then turns in to a driveway right there. So mom tells me to turn around. So I go back and it is a parking lot for a day care. Mom calls the cops and tells them what just happened. Mom said she thought he was drunk. So they tell us to wait there and a cop is on the way and if the guy should leave watch which direction he goes. So we wait. The guy comes out with a little girl and goes and we wait Finally mom calls the police dept. again to see what it up and they tell her that the cops are with him right now. and he is drunk! They said they were sorry we sat there for so long but that was why a cop hasn't come yet. So we leave and a bit up the road we see flashing lights. So we drive up there and sure enough 3 cop cars and a women there to get the little girl. The dispatcher told mom thank you for getting a drunk driver off the road and he will be charged DUI, child endangerment, and attempting to hit us.

Hope everyone else had a better day!

Something to think about

Go have a look at my mom's blog All 8 of Us

I am very proud of the effort, thought and caring that she put into this. I happen to agree with her as well. :) Thanks Mom. I love you!

Mommy's babies

Ok so they aren't really babies anymore but every mom will agree that our kids will always be our babies right? Took these pictures at Paige's party. I am feeling very sad tonight at how big they are getting. I needed to do something to make myself feel better and these came out so cute. :) The one of Rees makes me really happy because I ask if he would take a picture with me and he reached up and kissed me while Trent took the picture.

What twilight character are you?

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7 Facts Tag!

Ok Stacey tagged me with this and I forgot about it until now. So here goes.

Here we go 7 random/weird things about me.

1. I am deathly afraid of cockraoches. Like sit on the ground and cry and scream afraid. No idea why but I can't seem to get over it.

2. When I was in high school, I dreamed of being on a Pro womens soccer team.

3. My dream job would be to be a stunt driver. Driving really pretty cars, really fast. Oh yeah!!

4. I get on one food and it is all I want to eat, all the time. For awhile we ate ALOT of chicken and rice. Now it is cheesey garlic bread.

5.I HATE to bother people. I would rather sit all by myself then be where I might be in the way or not wanted. And I can imagine I am a bother without anyone telling me I am. So alot of people think I am standoffish

6. Trent and I payed a total of $50 for all three of our wedding rings

7. I have sprained my left ankle a total of 20 times with lots of twisting it in between.

Not sure if those are interesting or not but that was all I could think of. lol

Paige's 3rd birthday!!

We had Paige's birthday party on Satruday but due to rain we had to move it from the park to Grandma's house. We didn't have any activities plan because we thought they could play at the park. But they had fun running around the house chasing each other.

Her cake

Opening her presents

Happy Birthday to Paige

I can't believe she is 3!

Halloween Fun!

We had a good time. We went to the church for the trunk or treat. After that Vicki, Us and our 4 kids, Torri and her 3 and Thane and Cori and their 2 all went trick-or-treating over by Vicki's house. It was alot of fun with all those kids. They had a great time being together and so did we. :)

Here are pictures of my little characters. ;)

Here is Optimus Rees. :D

Creepy, crawly, Caden

The birthday girl as Snow White

Our little Trici Mouse

Hope everyone had a great a safe Halloween!