Conversation of the day

Remember she's only 20 months old.

Me sitting at my computer on the couch.
Berkely sneaks around in front of me and says.

Berkely: "Mommy FUNNND it (found it)"

Me: Oh, really what did you find?

Berkely: "GRUU" (glue, holding up the glue stick that I moved away from her yesterday. With dignity and poise...like she found a million dollars)

Me: Oh, where did you find that?

Berkely: "CHIxChin" (kitchen)

Me: Let me see it.

Berkely: "No, MIIIIIIIINE, PWEASE MOMMY" (with the puppy dog eyes and sad face.)

Me: LOL.


I can't believe Berkely is getting to where she is able to converse with me so well. I guess she isn't my baby girl anymore.

Side Note: She has already forgotten about the glue stick, she is sitting on my lap trying to count the buttons on the key pad. One, Two, Free, Five, Six, Seben, Eight, Nine, Ten, Five.
Love her....

HUGE SAVINGS.....

As you all know, I love to digi scrap. See these January Pages Below:

It has saved oodles of time and oodles of scrapbooking messes. I used to print my pages from Costco. @ $2.99 a page. That was still pretty good savings compared to paper scraping (75cents/paper, plus ribbon, brads, matting, stamps, ink, etc, etc). Well. Rachelle printed a book from VIOVIO.com last year, and I thought I would try it. I uploaded my 133 pages from 2009 and put them in a 12 by 12 book. I had to purchase 25.00 worth of more space to store my pages in, because I had a ton, and my total order for my book (with shipping) was $151.00. I know, that is a lot of money, but do the math. What if I would have just printed them from Costco at 2.99/page??? That would have been 398.00 (+tax) probably like $420.00. Then I still would have had to buy the plastic sheet covers (25.00) and the binder to put them all in (25.00). So the total would have been more like 470.00. HOLY COW! So, I just saved like 470-151= $319.00.

Totally using hard bound books from here on out! My book gets here in a couple of weeks. And, my files are now backed up online. So, if my computer crashed, I would still have all of those pages. (just another perk.)

Loving and Hating

Right now I am….

Loving:

My neck Shiatsu Massager…seriously has worked wonders for my neck and shoulder pain.

Berkely's obsession with Barney, she is finally watching a show for 10-15 minutes. It makes those long car rides to St. G. and back so much better.

Life cereal…a little too much.

The Biggest Loser TV show. It is always so motivating.

That all my 75 report cards are done…phew.

That Sam cooks meals at Heritage and we go there for lunch and dinner, and I usually never have to cook.

Berkely's attempts at potty training.

Church basketball, I love team sports, and have missed them sincerely.

Right now I am Hating….

That my laptop crashed and I am stuck in on this desktop for hours.....

Berk's red cold face rash

That my bike has a flat tire, and we don't have the attachment to fix it.

That Berkely just took off all of her clothes. Daily thing now.

ILPs, DIBELS, and demanding parents

15 pounds

Cold, dreary weather

a little sentimental

You may have to let me get a little sentimental as I write this post. It is nearly midnight on the first day of 2010. I have been extremelly overwhelmed trying to finish this past year's scrapbook for Berkely. It will be a late Christmas present and one she won't fully love till she is older, but I have felt the urge to get it done now. I truly can't think of too many things I did right in 2009, it was kind of a rough year emotionally, and difficult as life threw different challenges at me. But, one thing I can say, and that I need to hear myself say, is that I am proud of the mom I am turning into. It has taken awhile for me to really think that. I am far from perfect, far from most mothers I look at and think "how do they do it," but Berkely is truly a special daughter of Heavenly Father, and the most precious thing to me.I have spent long HOURS looking back at these pictures through the year. I am proud of her. I am proud that I am her mother. I know I don't say it or show it enough. This blog has mostly been about Berkely's out of control behavior and her ability to NOT SLEEP, but I will try to post more about the reasons she shines. That is what mothers are suppossed to do, right? I am only making a few resolutions this year, but the number 1 resolution is to show my love and verbally express my love daily to those with whom I LIVE for. Happy New Year Everyone. I have needed your comments this past year and will gladly accept many many more to come. 3 more Off my list: Berk's scrapbook of 2009 (DONE!), Car Vaccumed, and New Year's Resolutions Made. Enjoy the rest of our lives scrapbooked of 2009. (PS, I have been saving all of these throughout the year, and I am going to send it to a company to make a hard bound book. I will definitely post when the book comes, I am so excited!)

2 down

To do:

Christmas Break Projects

Move Table to Storage Unit or Parowan From Garage

Organize and Clean Becky's Closet

Berkely's Toys Organize: Done

Finish Berkely's Scrapbook of 2009

Make Berkely's Bows: 2 done

Primary Manuals: Done

Plan all of shore up Reading Lessons for jan

Make Allie's Whiteboard

Plan new year's resolutions

Fix bikes

Help w/ Katies car

Vacuum car

6 years...Happy Anniversary Sam....1st year memories below

I love you Sam! Thanks for being my One and Only!!
First year memories for fun