Our Christmas Tree Is Up!

On Monday for Family Home Evening we got out our fake Christmas tree and all of our Christmas decorations and started to decorate. This Christmas tree was a hand me down given to us many years ago from Keffords parents. We love it! It looks like a real tree and thanks to my pine scented candle it even smells like the real thing. Everybody who sees it comments on how beautiful our "real" tree is. In fact Bob (Keffords Dad) stopped by yesterday and said to me "nice tree, you know it is going to dry out right?" To which I replied "that's the fake tree you gave us!" Yup this baby fools them all! Here is Avynlea putting up one of her ornaments. Both Kefford and I received a new ornament every year since birth and we have started that same tradition with our kids. So we already have a plethora of ornaments to decorate with!
Rylee found Kenedys "first Christmas" ornament which is a baby and once she got ahold of that, it was very hard to get her to let go. She was carrying it around cuddling it like it was a real baby!

Here is Ryker with his cast on and his crutches. If you look closely you can see that he was crying and that is because he wanted to put the star on the top but Kefford said he couldn't because of his broken leg. But most definitely next year he can, if he is injury free! :)

This one is a little posed, I missed them putting the star on and so I made them do it again so I could get a picture!

At some point I will get a picture of our decorated Christmas tree because you know since we had our four little helpers it is a beautifully decorated tree!

our thanksgiving

My little sister Ashleigh and little brothers Joshua and Andrew drove down from BYU to have thanksgiving with us this year! (as soon as Josh emails me the pictures I can post pictures we took together up here) (get on it Josh!) We went to Keffords parents house and while we were there Keffords Dad introduced them to everyone else like so..
"So that's Darrell, and that's his brother Darrell, and that's their wife!"

Clearly he was joking and we all got a little chuckle over it. Well we were sitting at the table eating dinner when Grandma Marge turns to Ashleigh and asks her how long they have been married. I started laughing and told her that Bob was just kidding and that they were all my siblings. She is too funny!

So I did not get any pictures of us eating but I did get a couple of us shooting skeet later that day.

Joshua watching Andrew and Kefford take a shot!

Here I am taking a shot and guess what...I hit the very first one I aimed at! Yeah that's right my first time hitting the little clay pigeon! I was actually disappointed when I saw it explode because I thought someone else shot it. I turned to everyone else who was holding a gun to question who it was and they all told me the same thing..it was me!! Well of course I had to do my victory cheer which Alison caught on camera so maybe someday I can post that in here too. Happy days for me. (by the way that was my one and only hit. I should have quit with that one then I could have had 100%! Ha ha ha!

Rylee was not at all happy about being left inside. So nice Grandma Alison wrapped her in a jacket and brought her outside with her. After a couple minutes Rylee took the jacket off and left her bare toes exposed. When we tried to put it back on her she had a fit. Crazy kid was not cold! (Amberly, maybe she is one of your hot and sweatys!)

We had a great thanksgiving and were happy we could be with family. I love Keffords family and am grateful for all they do for me and my little family. I could not have asked for better in-laws!

(By the way..Karli, I hate that you guys were at your house all alone for thanksgiving. I know you had a good day anyway but sheesh girl you live a mile down the road and we are family I would have loved to have had you there to visit with! Don't let that happen again)

child welfare is going to knock on my door any minute!

I already told you all about Avynlea's accident that happened last Saturday, let me fill you in on what happened a week later! This past Saturday I had to take Rylee into see her Dr. She has been dealing with a rash on her legs for a couple months now. I have taken her in twice before to get it looked at, the first time I was told it was just an irritation from her diaper and to saturate it with Aquafor. I did and it did not get better, the rash started to grow. So I took her in a second time and he said that it could be a fungus and he prescribed me some medication. I was also told that it could take 4 weeks for this stuff to work and that I needed to be patient. So I started her on the cream. After a little over a week her rash continued to grow and get worse until it started to look like this...

I took her into the Dr again and finally she said that it was a bacteria infection and gave me a prescription for some anti-bacterial medications. After two days of being on that stuff I am already seeing it look a little bit better and am cautiously confident that it will be OK.

Last night I was on the couch reading, Kefford was doing something with the TV and Kenedy and Ryker were rolling around wrestling on the floor. All of a sudden I heard a loud scream and I looked up to see Kenedy holding her head and Ryker crying in agony on the floor holding his leg. Kenedy seemed to be OK so we focused on Ryker. This kid was in some serious pain and could not get up to walk. Kenedy said that she was turning a flip and he jumped on her and landed on her head. We looked at his leg and did not see any signs of bruising, swelling or broken bones, so we gave him an ice pack and made him rest on the couch. For the rest of the evening Ryker could not walk, when he tried he cried out in pain. Kefford and I thought to give him a night to rest it hoping that in the morning he would be fine. Well much to my dismay when we woke up this morning there was no change. He was still in a lot of pain and walking was out of the question. So Kefford took him to the Dr and he returned looking like this...

yup the kid went and broke his leg on Kenedy's head. The bone was not broken in half just the back part of it was broken. So right now we are waiting for a call from the orthopedic surgeon to tell us a time to come in so he can look at it and most likely cast it.
So you can see that with three pretty badly hurt kids in one week, why I am waiting for child welfare services to come knocking on my door!

singing blues

This is my good friend Elaine Josi. She is our neighbor and my kids and I adore her as she does us. She recently took me out to lunch for my birthday. We went to Red Robin a place I love and a place she has never visited. After her telling the waitress that we were there for my birthday I then gave the waitress the "please no singing" plea. Well Elaine then took it upon herself to tell the waitress "oh yes you have to come and sing to her" Great Elaine, you just unknowingly opened up a big can of worms. After the waitress left I told Elaine exactly what goes on when the staff of Red Robin come chanting through the restaurant to sing to a person. It is obnoxious and rather embarrassing. But good for me I got through it and payback will come quick for little miss Elaine!

We did have alot of fun and I do really love this lady!!

best cookies ever!

My friend Brooke makes the best sugar cookies ever. She is also my visiting teacher and I always look forward to February because she brings me heart shaped sugar cookies. You know those sugar cookies that the bakery sells? The ones that are really soft and yummy? These are even better! I finally got around to asking her for her recipe and Avynlea and I made them the other day. I was so excited, the recipe was so easy and they turned out GREAT! So good that I had a major selfish moment. I was babysitting Beau and Bailey yesterday and Beau came in and asked if they could take some cookies home. In my greed I told him no because I had to save them for something. Yeah that something was me ! I just did not want to share my precious cookies. I felt bad later and am making some more today so that I can give him a bunch to take home. (I am babysitting them again). So I am going to include the delicious recipe so that you all can make them and then invite me over for some! But I will give you fair warning...these cookies could cause you too to have feelings of greed and selfishness come over you, but don't worry it will pass and you will be back to your normal Molly Mormon persona before too long...just like me :)!!!

Sugar Cookies 375 degrees for 10 minutes

1 pkg cream cheese (softened)

1 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 sticks butter (softened)

1/2 t vanilla

2 cups flour

1/2 t baking soda

**Beat first four ingredients until creamy. Add flour and baking soda. Chill 1 hour.

Avynlea posing with her cookie. She was in charge of the sprinkles until I saw how sprinkle crazy she got! (Notice her lovely outfit of the day? She was quite proud of it!) Today's lovely outfit! I swear I could dedicate every day to Avynlea and her crazy outfits!

Christmas wish list!

This is a fuzzy picture taken of the kids last year on Christmas morning. THey are looking at the tree for the first time. I do apologizr for the fuzzy quality, I wanted to delete it and go with something different but I don't know how to delete it without deleting everyhting I wrote!

Erin said that by putting up this list we were going to look greedy! Well maybe we are! :) But this is the only way I can think of to let my family know what we are wanting for Christmas. So just for you Mom, and everybody else who has been asking, this is what we are into!

Kenedy is wanting books, Polly pockets, Cd's, she is into Hannah Montana, Jonas brothers and High School Musical. She recently saw an easy-bake-oven and expressed an intense desire for one of those.

Ryker is still into mostly Batman but also superman and speed racer. He really likes the little Lego kits and a little bit with puzzles too. He is very active and likes playing baseball and football with his dad.

Avynlea has suddenly discovered Barbies and Polly Pockets and plays with them all of the time. Her favorite princess is Giselle but Snow White comes in second. She loves to dress up and dances and sings around the house.

Rylee has turned into a little Mommy and wants to play with baby dolls. She loves to push strollers around and anything to do with babies is good for her. She has also turned into an Elmo freak and likes him alot.

Elizabeth, of course, loves clothes and shoes and jewelry.

Kefford could use some new shirts but he likes most anything, if in doubt give me a call! :)

OK so there you have it. Sorry if we sounded greedy I was not trying to be, I am just giving you all what you asked for!

It feels like I just wrote a letter so I am going to tell you Mom (both of you :)) that I love you and will talk to you soon!!

Avynlea had some excitement today

Warning:This post has some pretty graphic pictures which are not for the faint of heart. If you cannot handle it then don't look!

So Kefford and I were inside the house watching the BSU game when Avynlea came inside crying and holding herself. I told her to calm down and quickly run to the bathroom because it seemed obvious to me that she had to go. As she was walking away I noticed two little spots on the back part of her thigh. "Hmm, weird" I thought. She came out a couple seconds later and said she did not have to go to the bathroom. As she turned around I noticed more spots on the back of her jeans. I pointed them out to Kefford and after checking the back of her leg we saw this...

Turns out she was outside playing on her Daddy's motorcycle. She knows she is not supposed to but she was doing it anyway. So I think that as she was jumping down her leg caught on the foot peg and cut open. The weird thing was her jeans did not tear at all! So I took her to the emergency room where she got these...
Six big stitches! Poor baby, but she was very brave and the Dr was very impressed. I could hear her telling other Dr's how brave my little girl was. Avynlea just layed there and watched spongebob while the Dr did her thing. She did tell me it hurt a couple times but I was good at keeping her distracted. The Dr. said that Avynlea must have felt the last stitch because she jerked and said it hurt. After we got home Avynlea had this happen for her...
Ryker tucking her in and taking care of her. In fact he is out right now with Kefford buying her a treat with his own money. He is such a good big brother!