I'm just a little OCD

Ok for those of you who don't know me very well I'm obsesive compulsive. I like things in order, and if they're not in order it drives me nuts. I don't know when this started for sure, but I think it goes back to when me and my sister shared a room. We shared a room for a long long time. I remember in high school her side of the room was a total disaster, it looked as if a tornado had hit it. My side of the room was always clean and organized. I used to hate cleaning when I was younger, it was such a drag. Now I totally love it! I turn the music up loud and sing my heart out as I clean, it is so cleansing to have a clean home. When we moved back to utah into my mom's house along with my sister and her family. My Brother in law Justin thought it was awesome that I knew where everything was. He even asked me if I would come and organize his stuff for him, so that when he needed it he could call me. I thought it was pretty funny. Matt likes to drive me crazy and leave the cubard doors open. he thinks it's funny, but he likes to try to scare me. When I see the cubard doors open it makes me think of the sixth sense and it scares me. I hate the toilet seat left up, and thankfully he is really good about putting it down. He needs to work on the toilet paper though. He just leaves it on top of the toilet paper holder. I like it to be on their facing a certain way. I guess you have to choose your battles. Sometimes I have a hard time stopping what I'm doing, which can be bad for my family. I'm really working on that one. Another one of my OCD quirks is that I check on my kids a little while after we put them down for bed, make sure they're covered and not falling off the bed. I'll check on them after matt and I have our prayers. I'll check on them before I go to bed. I just get paranoid that something is wrong with them. I also love to see the positions they end up in. Kids are so sweet, but so mischeivious! I love to watch my children sleep, they always look so peaceful. It melts my heart =)

So my question to you is are you OCD???

Friends

I absolutely love this picture of Christ. It is entitled Friends and it was painted by Liz Lemon Swindle. I first saw this painting in a Seagull book store in Oakland California. Matt and I had done a Temple session and decided to go to the book store afterwards. When I saw it I just fell in love with it. I've never seen Christ in a blue robe before, it's always red, and I just love how cute the little girl is. I love how Christ is just totally chillin with this little child, like a friend would. We should have bought it right then and there, but I'm a tightwad with money, so we didn't. I could have kicked myself, because I've been looking for it ever since and couldn't find it. I told Matt that is what I wanted for Christmas, well that and a digital camera. We were planning on getting the painting, but my Mom asked me what I wanted. She said that she wanted to get it for us. Well I found it at a Deseret book store this past week. Merry Christmas to us, my Mom got it for us a couple of days ago!!! We hung it up last night because my Mom said she wasn't going to wrap it, totally OK with me. It looks so beautiful on the wall, and it just adds more spirit to our home. I love my savior, he is our friend and I'm so grateful for all he has done for our little family.

ER what a NIGHTMARE

Matt hurt his back again. We have no idea how it happened. He just said that his back really hurt when he got up to go to the bathroom when we were watching pirates 3(good movie by the way). He didn't tell me this until the next day when he said his back was hurting him even more. He layed on the couch for a few hrs using the tenz unit on his back. Tenz unit is like electroshock therapy. It feels really good. Anyways he felt better later to go Christmas shopping with me. We were gone for about 4 hrs. I could tell he was hurting, but he said he was OK. We got home and relaxed and he did the tenz unit some more. He said he felt better when he went to bed. I was relieved to hear that. So morning comes, and he goes to get up, and he just groans and lays back down. He slowly gets up and he can barely stand. I had flashbacks to the first time this happened back in 2005. It was exactly like what happened back then. Matt stayed home from church layed down all day. I got somebody to come give him a blessing it's really hard when you don't have home teachers, and when you don't know anybody. The people that came are our new home teachers, which is great to know. Anyways they gave Matt a blessing and I cried like a blubbering idiot. Matt layed down for pretty much the rest of the day. Next morning came and the same thing he could barely stand up. Matt said he needed to call the VA office to see what he needed to be enrolled so he could be seen. Lesson to be learned enroll before something tragic happens. So we get ready we go to the VA Clinic up by the U in Salt lake. We get there at 10:30 or 11:00 get enrolled and then we had to go to the ER to be seen. OK I honestly didn't think that we would be there that long. Boy was I wrong. It was a nightmare. We were in the ER from 11:30 to 7:30 8 hrs. I was so flipping mad. We had the girls with us, who honestly did great for little kids. They could have made it even worse for us. I swear you have to be bleeding or not breathing to be seen immediately. It's awful. It ticked me off even more when someone would come in that was there for antibiotics and they would be seen before us. The guy didn't look miserable like Matt did. They had 2 ambulances brought in, someone had a heart attack, so yes they are priority. The thing that makes me mad is that this VA clinic is the only clinic in this region. They should have more than one clinic in the region. There are so many veterans you think the military would take care of them better. No everything in the military is hurry up and wait and it really ticks me off. I'm grateful for the military, I'm not against it at all, I just wish they would hurry up. Another thing that gets me is why are they bringing someone with a heart attack, and a bad car crash accident to the VA Emergency room when the University hospital is down the street from the VA. The University hospital is way bigger. Yes the VA you get free health care, but I'm sure they would cover you at another hospital if it was that serious. Maybe not, I don't know how health care works. So yes we were there for 8 hrs. and when he was finally seen he was seen for 2 min. All they could do for him was give him muscle relaxers. We were bound and determined to be seen yesterday, because we knew that it would be the same way the next day if we had left. We couldn't call and make an appointment because Matt hadn't enrolled himself yet. Always be prepared!!! We couldn't wait for an appointment either, they were booked. He really needed to be seen immediately, Matt has a job and he can't afford to not go. Matt took a muscle relaxer on the way home last night, and it about knocked him out. He felt no pain, and he was actually able to help me get the girls ready for bed last night. He slept great, and got up to go to work. It's a real blessing!!! Matt really needs back surgery so hopefully they will let him know at his appointment which I hope he has scheduled. He needs to get it taken care of ASAP. I feel bad for anybody who has to go to the ER period. It's a sucky experience that you don't ever want to go through, especially multiple times. Pray to stay healthy, be cautious, be careful wherever you are. I was an emotional wreck all day yesterday, and I'm so glad it's over and done with. I need to get a more recent pic of Matt and I on here. I'll work on that!

Workout that kicks my butt!

Ok so last year all I wanted for Christmas was this workout collection called Turbo Jam. Matt gave this to me for Christmas last year. I love workout video's, I used to have quite the collection of them. I got tired of a lot of them and got rid of them. My favorites are Taebo, Winsor Pilates, and now this Turbo Jam. I haven't really exercised a lot in the last year, life has been too stressful. I was feeling pretty crappy about myself, none of my clothes fit me. I hate to admit this, but I had to wear some of my younger brothers pants that didn't fit him anymore, because he lost weight. It made me feel even worse to be wearing a pair of huge guy pants. They didn't fit me right. So one day my Mom asked me how I was doing, and I just burst into tears about it. My Mom was staying the weekend at my sisters house that weekend, and I got a call from my sister and she asked me how I was doing and I instantly burst into tears. My Mom called me later and she said that I needed to come out the next day, because they had a surprise for me. So Matt and I and the girls went the next day. They sat me down on a couch told me to shut my eyes and brought out the surprise. When I opened them there was a pile of clothes next to me. I started to cry. I Love my Mom and my sister so much!!! They just got a bunch of clothes on clearance at Walmart, and they all fit, so it was meant to be I think. I hope that I'll be able to do that for somebody else one day. So you're all probably thinking why didn't I just go out and buy clothes for myself. Well I have a hard time spending money on myself, and I just didn't have the self confidence to go out and do it. Since they bought these clothes for me, I have gotten some motivation back and started working out again. I really love working out to Turbo Jam! It really kicks my butt!!! I feel like jello all over when I'm done working out. I sweat really sweat, and I usually don't sweat a lot when I work out. I highly recommend it, I have a blast every time I do it!

Funny saying from McKenzie

McKenzie is such a silly girl! She just makes my heart melt so much! I love her to pieces!!! Anyways I came across a paper that I written down something really funny that McKenzie said. This was while we were living in my Mom's house back in September or October. This is what is said...

McKenzie: Mommy where is the barbies' shoe?

Mom: I don't know, is it downstairs with all the other toys?

McKenzie: Gets off of her chair in the kitchen walks over to the heat vent in the kitchen looks down it and says yep it's down there!

I thought that was pretty darn hilarious! I know there is more to come, and I can't wait for them to come. They always make my days so much better!

Fred the Snowman!!!

Today it snowed again! yea!!! I love the snow, i've missed it so much. I know it will probably get old, and I'll probably start complaining about it. For the mean time I'm going to enjoy it, especially with my kids. Well since I haven't really played in the snow with them, I decided since it snowed again I would fineally go out there and play with them. We built a snowman. I haven't built a snowman in years, and I mean years! It was really fun, I did most of the work of course, the girls had fun helping me pack snow around him, and make his face. I asked McKenzie what his name should be, and she thought about it for a second and then said hat. I said Hat??? Then she said nose. She didn't quite understand the question. So I asked again what is his name? She stared at me blankely and said snowman. Silly girl. I said well it could be Fred, Harry... And then she shouted FRED!!! So that's how Fred the Snowman came to be. We had so much fun!

Paint can craft

In october my ward in South jordan had their Super Saturday. Well My Mom decided to sign up for this Paint can craft. I signed up to do something else. It turns out on that day We started moving, so we were only able to show up and get our stuff that we paid for. The lady in charge of doing the paint can craft said that she would be happy to let us come over and she would help us do them. My Mom signed up to do 10 one for each grandkid. She asked my sister and I to come help her make them. This last saturday, December 1st, we went with my mom to help her. I got to decorate McKenzie and Madisynn's cans. They turned out so cute, It was so much fun, but oh boy did it take forever!!! The paint can craft's purpose is to be like a christmas stocking, but just a cute can instead, and since we don't have stockings for the kids because they are in storage in colorado right now, these cans will come in handy. I'm definately going to have to do some more.