Hello!

I am going to do a quick update. We have been in the middle of a move and without a computer for awhile so I have not been able to post. I have been busy with birthdays, halloween and christmas and wanted to update all on those holidays.

First was Jacobs 1st birthday. We had a blast. We had it at my moms house and set up a pool in the back yard for the kids and the insdie was full of food for the adults.

Second was halloween which was a blast. We did not celebrate halloween a lot as kids because we were usually at Disneyland (way more fun), so this was my first halloween in a long time. Benjamin was Fred Flintstone(my sister "Pea" made the costume) and Jacob was a dinosuar. We taught Ben to sat yabba-dabba do and he did once the whole night. We put Jacob in his costume and without any instruction he started to growl. It was so cute that we put him in his costume for entertainment over the next week.

About a week before Halloween we had our annual pumpkin carving party at my Brother-in-laws house. Benjamin was not intersested in carving but loved pulling out the gooey insided of the pumpkin. Him and his uncle cleaned out almost all of them and Benjamin would say EWWWW! with every handful that he pulled out. I also made my first cupcake cake that was a pumpkin and was very proud of it.

In attendance was a friend of the families who was pregnant and due on the first of november. We painted her belly and made it a pumpkin. Funny thing was that I think we willed her baby to come on Halloween she was born in the morning of halloween a week before she was due.

I will have to update you ob Bens birthday and Christmas a little later. Duty calls

Facts/Habits

I got his meme from Pea. And have no one to pass it onto. I am new to the blogger world so I do not know what to do, other than to post it. So here it is.

6 facts/habits about myself:

1.(fact) I love to learn. If I was rich and had loads of free time I would be a full time student. I would love to major in; ultra sound technology, meteorology, education specifically history, message therapy, culinary arts, physical fitness, just to name a few.

2.(habit) I have a shower and morning routine, that I stick to religiously. If I do not do everything in my "order" I always, yes always forget a step. It is nothing out of the ordinary I just wash my hair, shave, clean my face, clean my feet, in the same order every time i shower. I put my makeup, lotion, and do my hair the exact same way every morning. I can choose to skip a step without any consequences for the sake of time, I do have two kids here but I have to do it consciously and take note of it.

3.(fact) I was pecked by a rooster. I know many people can say the same due to having to feed or catch them but my story is entirely different. I was 4 years old playing on my grandparents farm. A huge rooster snuck up behind me with no warning what so ever and clobbered me. I was pushed down onto the ground while the rooster preceded to peck me on my head and back over and over and over. I was apparently screaming because anyone within ear shot came running and rushed me inside. I was ok just minor injuries no hospital visit needed but afraid of roosters ever since. The best part of the story, my Grandfather came home that evening and heard what had happened. Without saying a word walked out the front door and rung that roosters neck. I found out years later that the rooster was worth 500 dollars. Now that is true love.

4.(habit) I pluck my eyebrows three or four times a day. I do this not out of vanity but because I love plucking hair. If I could I would pluck all of the hairs off my husbands face, legs, arms, etc.

5.(fact) I am older than my husband, Yes it is true i rock the cradle. No not really. I am exactly 31 days older. WOW huh. We have know each other for 10 years and he has never let me forget that he is the youngest. He loves pointing it out when we play games and take turns based on age. Everyone assumes he is older and you can almost always she him smirk when it is either assumed to be my turn or his.

6.(habit) I can only eat snack foods two at a time. If left with an extra in a bag I throw it away. It started innocently enough with M&M's. My favorite snack in High School. It has just stuck with me I guess. I eat chips and crackers and cookies this way. All candy's that are sold in multiples. Odd thing about this is that my favorite number is 3.

Crazy Pictures

I saw these pictures and thought I would share them. The turtle was bought by a pet store here in the states to put on display. It is so small it fits on a silver dollar, The frog is transparent and researchers develped them to help see how diseases and sickness spred without having to dissect them. Pretty Cool. Enjoy

"I Love You"

Three simple yet so powerful words. They change any mood to happiness. they make a smile appear through tears. They make someone feel wanted and needed. And yet even with this knowledge they are so often not said. We walk through our lives with the assumption that because we say it every so often those that we love know that we love them and it does not need to be said. Maybe some believe that the phrase "I Love You", has been taken for granted for years and said when it was not truely meant and so it has lost some of its value. Or maybe it is just that people feel if said to much the recipient may start to get accustomed to it and it will start to loose its full potential. Those outside of relationships where it has been said may be sacred and feel that it will not be said in return. In any case I urge everyone who feels it to say it as often as they feel necessary. It is a phrase that if said is never regretted. But if left unsaid is almost always regretted.

It's not even Haloween yet

It is not even halloween yet and I am ready for Christmas. I want to start decorating today, shopping today, and cooking and baking cookies. I love Christmas and I married a Christmas Boy as well. My Hubby is in love with everything Christmas and we go all out. We decorate not only with Christmas things but our home is centered around Christ. I think that is why we both love it so much. Everyone seems to be in such a good mood and so incredibly nice and that does not come often where we live. We both love to go shopping for things the day after Thanksgiving, we love buying little inexpensive things for everyone we know. I love to make cookies and give them to neighbors and friends. I love getting cookies and breads. I love our Ward party and our Wards Secret Santas. I just love Everything Christmas and cannot wait for it to come.

Why Patience???

I named my Blog the Patience pursiut for two reasons. First one named, BEN, second, JACOB.

My boys are ten months apart, Irish Twins. They are currently both 1 and both try my patience everyday. I love them to death and they are what gets me up everyday, literally and ???. I love every aspect of being a mom. Yes sis, you know who you are, every aspect. I have learned more in the last almost two years than I have ever before. I love watching them learn and teaching them new things. I am challenged everyday to help them accomplish the things that they have been working at. And all of this requires an incredible amount of patience. I do not even come close to having it all right now but hope that with there help it will come slowly and surely. I will work at it everday and try to always enjoy it.

Jealousy

I use to pride myslef on not being a jealous person. I grew up being la dee da about everything and not taking anything to seriously or letting things get to me. I have been married for three years and I find that it gets harder and harder to not get jealous around my in-law family.

Now do not get me wrong, because as far as in-laws go I got the best. I have always gotten along with them, well most of the time, and there has never been any huge fights or disagreements. Now that the disclossure has been discuss I have juat recently began to have feeling of jealously when it comes to the other girls in the family.

My husband comes from a famliy of four boys so the girls in our family are married into it. This year we have added two. I have been very lucky and have and I believe will always get along with them both. I have known one for three years and have grown to adore her and we have become good friends. The other one we just met this year and she is also amazing and I love her. But I have had a hard time sharing my family. it is so ridiculous that I am having this issue and I am not quite sure what to do with it but I am pretty sure it needs to go away.

I have just recently found out that my mother-in-law goes to movies and dinner with just the girls on an individual basis and I have never done that with her. I have also in the last couple of months seen how well she gets along with the other two and I feel like me relationship is not as good with her. Know on my mother-in-laws defense becasue this is not at all about her, it is all about me, I have know her for 10 years. She was my Young Women leader in church I have served under her in church in my callings and have gone to girls camp with her for years so maybe she justs feels like we know everything about each other all ready. She does so much for me and so do my sister-in-laws it crazy that I am having these feelings. Every time we are all together I find myself constantly watching for signs that They really do not like me and that becasue they now have two more girls they can just toss me aside. I get really self conscience and constantly doubt my self and how great I am. I know that this comes from a crazy place and that I need to stop this feelings but it feels like everytime I think about it, it gets worse and worse. I pray everyday that it will go away and hope that it does soon.

Virtue

I am not by any means a fantastic writer but would like to try to be better. This is going to be the way I do that. Whenever I feel a burst of inspiration of the need to vent I am going to do it here. I also find that I gain patience by understanding and feel that the more I try to understand things the more I become aware of different aspects and views of certain situations. This is my way of also gaing patience.