wacky Wednesday

Today is wacky Wednesday at school, and some one is feeling a little bit wacky!!

melt downs make me a great mother.

MELT DOWNS MAKE ME A GREAT MOTHER!! Yep its true, thats what I decided after having a minor melt down today. you see, I woke up to a house full of things like these:








now maybe you think this is horrific or maybe you think these are no big deal, let me be totally honest with you, this only a taste of what the rest looks like....these shots were crafted to only give you a TASTE. lol. you must understand that I have been up with a sick baby to many night now to...

so after what has been a very long week, month, few months, I finally hit a breaking point and had a melt down. I am thankful for Sister Love who reminded me where to turn to get extra help and reassured me she would " pray for me"- if that tells you anything about how I was doing. BUT after it was all said and done I realized that this melt down actually said something good about me! ( always looking for the silver lining!)
I am busy, so busy because I love my children, my husband, my heavenly Father and my friends, and when you love all those people so much it means you want to do things FOR them and WITH them, which makes you BUSY! At some point you might even get overwhelmed and even- just maybe- have a melt down. But as long as all those people understand that everything I do is for them, then its o.k.
I cried, I am exhausted and now I am ready to have a good nights sleep and get up tomorrow and fight the good fight. I know I am not alone in having these moments, so just remember...an occasional Meltdown probably means a you are a pretty decent person working your best each day to do a little more then you are capable of, all for the people you love. so MELT DOWN ladies and then smile, pray and move on. tomorrow is a new day to learn how to "say no, and manage your time," but if not, oh well. love you!

The Ghetto board

Just over a week ago, we had a rather large gathering of friends over. there was a hot sauce eating contest, music, lots of rockband, and the rumor of swimming. Just for fun Mike thought we should add a diving board, now due to lack of time, mike had to improvise, this is what he came up with:










I call it The Ghetto board,the word "the" should always be used when referring to this piece of magic in the hellers back yard.....we have been laughing about it all week!

Can I tell you a secret?

I have been doing a lot of thinking about this the last few days. I have been running around for several months now doing these HUGE projects and praying along the way they would somehow turn out o.k. Well here I am at the end of this current wave of crazy and everything worked out! It even more then worked out, its gone amazingly well.
So with all these amazing feats unfolding I have had many compliments as to the jobs preformed, but heres the thing..it wasn't me.
For every job I have completed there have been amazing individuals along the way who have been there helping and for every idea that comes from me, a prayer was uttered asking for help. I just really believe, wait I KNOW that while I am blessed to be able to do so many cool things, in the end, its not me- never has been. I can't paint worth anything, My cooking skills have always been lacking in the past, while I love to decorate, Things always had some random weird ness to them in the end, but these last few years all the sudden most of that has gone away. I guess what I am getting at is this:
I will share with you the way to do anything you want....
Be fearless, because you can't do anything of value be being scared all the time and worrying about the turn out, but most importantly, turn it over the the Man in charge Tell him your weaknesses, ask for the strength to do what you can not normally do, trust that while you are engaged in a good cause he will be there to help. I know that this is why these amazing things have come about, its not anything I have actually done differently, its all a manifestation of The Lord working in my life, so that others can benefit, because for each thing I have done well, it was for other people around me.
So thats it, its the secret, you want to do anything? go For it! make sure all your doings are for others and not for the benefit of yourself, and pray like crazy. Its been pretty amazing to feel the Lord working in my life in such a huge way, things I never thought I could do I am doing. pretty amazing!

you know your a mom whenh

You know your a mom when.....

you are so tired from running, I mean RUNNING every where all day....that you feel like crying. yet, you know the next day will be the same and you wouldn't change it because you love them...

you know your a mom when.....

all you smell is poop no matter how hard you clean your house, because you have changed SO many gross diapers in one day, and cleaned up other stinky messes of the same nature from your older child.

and most importantly you know your a mom when......

that darn gross smell STILL wont go away and you realize at the end of the night its because some how it got from your hands ( which you don't know how that possible with all the washing of hands going on!!!) to your face, yes it just happened. Isn't being a mom just as peachy as roses?!?

I still love being a mom, just really ready for bed time! =)

trouble a-brewin'

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We have this child in our house, he is sweet and livley and funny. we laugh at him more then I have ever laughed at any child, but he likes to stir up trouble. You might not guess by looking at his sweet face that he screamed until every one around him retreated during the wedding cake ordeal, or that yesterday while I cooked 30 LBS of chicken for R.S he TRASHED me house with the dog in tow. Most days while I unload the dishwasher, he unloads to cupboards faster then I have time to keep up with. He steals cookies any chance he gets and digs in the garbage. I am always pulling him off the table and counters.
He is trouble in a word, and we adore him! He is my first child that is fearless and crazy, He will probably break a few bones and end up with stitches...but none of my other kids have been adventurous enough to even go there. He bites, hits and pushes, yet I feel a sense of pride that he sticks up for himself, my other two can be bullies by the kids in nursery......seriously I have witnessed it. So here are a few cute pictures of this little one, that I have no doubt will bring me many adventures to come. That's him stuffing cotton candy in his mouth as fast as he can at spring training. I cant help but smile every time he looks at me!

b-day

all he wanted was a DS.....

t-ball

Jack sarted T-ball, Last week was his first game. he Loves to be the star. he gives the CUTEST smiles right before he hits the ball as hard as he can! Yesterday he hit a pretty big hit to! most of the time he stands out there in left feild with his glove on the wrong hand trying to " wake up" like his coach is always yelling at them...after his first game he asked on the way home " mom why is that guys always yelling "wake up River dogs!" at us?? WE ARE AWAKE! " It was too cute. anyway here are a few pictures of the big boy. As you can see, Joey can't wait to bee big enough to join the fun.

So much going on..

With every thing going on , my blogs have been sporadic at best. I will attempt to catch ya'll up this last week actually on March 8th olivia lost her very first tooth! she is on of the only people she know who had not yet lost her tooth, so the excitement level was pretty high, here are some pictures of her getting ready for bed!

Cakes, cakes, cakes

WELL....I have always wanted to posses the talent of making beautiful cakes...this week I got to try it out! between the last two weeks I have used over 24 cakes mixes, 80 eggs, 13 bags of powdered sugar and around 7 boxes of fondant..and lots and lot and lots of time and money! But I think my first official cakes went pretty well.... with a lot of prayers and help from both people I love and divine help!