I'm a Believer...

Wow... Ok, I've been reading this book (no, not Twilight AGAIN...) called Master Your Metabolism. and I'm loving it. The whole book is about getting back to the basics with food. Balanced diet, Whole fruits, whole veges, whole grains, exct. and also reasons to "go organic"



I never though I would spend the extra money to get organic foods, but Julian backed it up with all the scientific and medical reasons why it's a good Idea... and this isn't even the reason I'm making this post....



She also talks about how bad pesticides, and house hold cleaners are for you. and about certain plastics that leak toxins. So today I wanted to I wanted to do a really thorough cleaning of my tub and shower and tile and the spots that are appearing on the ceiling above the shower. So I decided to try so suggestions given in this book (Master Your Metabolism) using natural cleaners.



So I started with the ceiling with vinegar and water. About a minute into my overhead scrubbing I got a drop of vinegar water in my eye! OUCH that burns!! But I quickly flushed out my eye under the running sink water then flushed it out with some natural tear eye drops that I had left over from the last eye injury (scratching my eye ball on the Christmas Tree.) I'm grateful it was vinegar and not Clorox soft scrub.

So I stopped with the ceiling and decided to get some protective goggles before I continued overhead. I scrubbed the tile with it also, then decided I would try lemon juice on my grout. The book says it has natural bleaching effects... I was shocked how clean it got!!! usually I have to scrub with a lot of effort to get it to look half clean... lemon did twice the job with half the work. AMAZING!!

So I'm a believer. Natural cleaners; they're cheep and they work!

Family Pictures...

We finally had our pictures updated!

I love them...

I wish we got a few more smiles out of Tyler.

These are a few of our favorites...

I'll get a slide show on here with the rest of them on my next post, but for now here is what I have time to put up.

Last weekend Tory and I were organizing all our Tax information papers which left us with a stack for shredding...

Camrey loves paper, and found the stack! Not a big deal, but She is so cute we had to take pictures.

I love this little girl; She is a pure joy! Seriously, the only time she cries is to let you know that she is tired and ready for her nap, which is usually after she has been awake for about 2 and a half hours.


She goes to bed around 8:30 and sleeps 10-11 hours at night. She has been sleeping through the night since she was 3 weeks old. She's not crawling yet but that doesn't stop her from getting where she wants to go. Rolling is highly effective. I am so blessed to have such an easy baby!

New Year's Sled!

One of the things Grandma and Grandpa Hebdon got for the boys was a sled! Chase couldn't wait to get it outside and try it out!

After watching him try so hard to pull his brother around I decided to put Camrey down for a nap ,and go out there and play with them for a while. I have to admit, it was fun to play in the snow. I haven't done that in a long time.

Christmas 2009

The day before Christmas Eve my family and cousins always get together at my grandparents house for an informal potluck dinner, the telling and acting out Jesus's birth, and Santa comes! As we were headed out the door Tyler threw up. So Tory stayed home with Ty and I took Chase and Camrey with me. (That was the begining of a 3 week spell of being sick in our home. Luckley We were all fine for Christmas, and for our trip to Elko the day after Christmas!)

This was the first year my dad got to play Santa

As with all boys toys, there were a lot of construction projects to keep us busy Christmas morning.



The boys got a marble maze... I love it.

Chase and Tyler got some Karate P.J.'s from my mom (Home made of course) and every time someone sees my boys wearing them they ask us if we "have them is lessons?" They are so nice they look like real uniforms!

Christmas was fun and being sick after wasn't. Tory and the boys went through a flu spell, but greatfully Camrey and I stayed healthy and didn't get sick!

I'm thankful we have been so blessed in so many ways, and greatful that we are all well again!

Time to Surface...

Where have I been the last month?.... Reading!

Sometimes I wonder if I am a bit obsessive/compulsive. When I decide to do something it consumes me. So on November 20th, a group of 10 of us (including family and friends) went to see "New Moon."

I loved it!!!

It was much better than "Twilight". It was a fresh reminder of how much I enjoyed reading those books, so naturally the next day I started reading them again. I told myself I wasn't going to read them again for a year because I liked them so much, and that's about how long it has been.

I started with the first book and just finished the third last night, but decided I should update my blog before I spent the next week and a half reading again!

I have done other things with my time this last month besides reading...

Christmas Preparations...

The week before Thanksgiving I put my Christmas village up! Not a small task! I have 25 buildings to take out of individual boxes, protected in their own costume fit Styrofoam, each with their own power cord and accessories. This doesn't include trees and Elves. I gave up on taking the little Elves out of their boxes because my plant shelves are so high you can't see the little guys any way!

Usually my plant shelves have birdhouses, baskets, and silk plants, and some of Tory's mission things he got while he was serving in the Philippines. So I have to take everything down, clean off a year's worth of dust, and store them all, and dust off the shelf before I can run extension cords and lights up there! At least you can't see the mess behind the houses! Another good thing is they are all hooked together to one outlet that is controlled by a light switch! It's a lot of work but I love having them up, and the kids do too. May be when they are older I can put the lower so I can actually enjoy them more. The have so much detail it's amazing! It is the Department 56 North Pole Collection. My former boss Dr. Kelson gave them to us each year for Christmas. I'm so grateful for him and all he did for me those year I worked for him. He is truly one of the most generous men I have ever met!

The Monday after Thanksgiving we put up our Christmas tree for Family Home Evening.

Me, being the perfectionist that I am when it comes to decorating, refused my husband's offer to help with the lights. He said, "Do you want me to do that, or will you just re-do it tomorrow while I'm at work?" (He knows me too well, I even rearrange the dishes in the dishwasher when he loads it... I'm weird) So while I was concentrating so hard on getting the lights perfectly on each tree branch I some how scratched my eyeball on the tree! (Who does that?) It hurt. Not so bad the next day... it was irritated and kind of a dull ache. But by Wednesday morning it was bad!

Eye Appointments

I wish I had thought to take a picture of it, but it turned out to be quite the ordeal. Wednesday morning I couldn't stand light! It was a searing pain! I had to call Tory and have him come home from work 15 min after he got there so he could take Chase to school and Tyler to speech therapy. I could not drive!! Any light was so painful especially sunlight. Then after Chase got out of school, He dropped me off at an eye Dr. while he took Tyler to his feet appointment!

To make a long story short; I went in Wednesday, Thurs., Fri., and the following Tuesday to check on my eye. It was such a bad scratch that it left a scar. Thankfully it wasn't on my iris so it doesn't have any affect on my vision.

I have 2 prescription eye drops (which I was taking every 2 hours). I have been taking those for 2 weeks. It also bruised my eye which was why light hurt because it affected the ability to shutter out light. They also dilated my eye on the third apt. to see if there was any damage on the back of my eye. And I couldn't drive without my hand covering my left eye for 4 days! They also put a contact on my eye the first apt. to act as a band aid and protect it against my eye lid.

I'm glad today is the last day for drops and greatfull my vision is fine, and thankful to be done with this 2 hour post!