Runs in the Blood

Yesterday after church I had one of the primary teachers come up to me and ask if I knew William was suppose to give a talk that day. I was shocked. I never saw anything that said he was suppose to give a talk. She told me not to worry. Apparently he got up and pulled out his scriptures. He read the first Article of Faith then proceeded to give a talk on it. She said it was a great talk and was amazed the he did it. Well I was amazed too. But then I was reminded who is father and his grandfather are. I have been greatly blessed to be married into a family of great scriptural scholars. And a apparently it runs in the blood and my kids are being blessed by it too.

Top Secret

This might look like some regular paper and a picture of some alien to you.

But it is actually a secret message.

Isabelle wanted to send a secret message to some cousins of hers.

We used lemon juice to write it with.

We better not tell you how to discover what is says or you might ruin our secret mission.

Got to Love the Girl who Loves her Daddy

Isabelle adores her daddy. She has from day one. I came out of my room yesterday to find the two of them like this. I can never get her to take a nap, but snuggling up to Daddy is always appealing.

Good luck to the guy who tries to marry this girl. Her Daddy is already planning on buy a shot gun when she turns 16

Fun in the Mud

Today as I was rocking Rose to sleep for a nap, Michael came home from the park covered in mud and with no boots on.

“Michael” I asked “what happened and where are your boots?”

“Well mommy Joseph had a very bad idea. He took us to a mud pile and we got muddy and my boots are stuck.”

I chose right then not to yell, though I was very tempted. I remember going out to the fields one day when I was about their age. My sister, a friend and I found a muddy pond. Well of course we jumped in and played in it for about an hour. We came home with mud covering our bodies.

So I told Michael to take everything off and get some new clothes and take a shower. Soon Joseph came home. Of course he was even muddier. First thing out of his mouth “Mommy I got muddy”

“Well I can see that Joseph take off your stuff and get into the tub”

From the bathroom came “Don’t worry Joseph Mom is not mad”
Hmmm interesting. “Joseph where are Michaels boots? And where is William?”

“Michaels boot are stuck and we can’t get them out and William is still playing”

I got the boys started in the shower, though they wanted a bath. After a couple minutes I got worried that William was still not back so I got on my coat and boots to go find him.

I made it all the way to the park before I saw him. He had even more mud then Michael and Joseph combined.

“Oh mommy (with tears in his eyes) I got stuck and I couldn’t get out and Michaels boots are stuck.”

By now I was laughing
“Ok show me where his boots are.”
He led me to a huge, and I mean HUGE mud pile. Bigger then the lot our house sits on. At first we couldn’t find the boot. I made William got out to get them since he was covered with mud and I was not. Poor William tried to pull them out but couldn’t and he started slipping and got a bit stuck again. So I had to go out and get my boots muddy and tried to pull out of the boots. Needless to say I am covered with mud and the boots are still in the mud pile.
William started crying “We need to call Daddy and he will get them out.” Because of course Daddy is all powerful. I love that my kids think so.
“Ok William lets get home and when Daddy get home we will send him down to get the boots”

All the way home William was crying “oh my stupid boots” He was having a hard time walking with his boots and snow pants caked with mud.

When we got home of course I had to get a picture. Then I sent William to the bathroom to take a shower. I heard him crying about wanting a bath and not a shower. I had to explain to him he had so much mud on him he would be taking a mud bath so he needed to take a shower.

So today the boys will be cleaning my bathroom which is now covered in mud (good thing I was going to clean it today) and my front door. What a great day to have off of school.

My New Club

So my friend, Jenn and I started a diet club. But it really isn't a diet it is more like a Life Style Change. It has 16 members (so far) I am so excited. If any one wants to check it out there is a link on my side bar under 'my other blogs'. If you want to join just let me know.

Our New Year not off to a good start

So far this year (yes it is only the 5th day of the year) we are not doing to well. New years day Michael got a huge cut on his head by a shovel William was wielding around. We almost took him to the emergency room but Jeremiah was able to clean it up and seal it up with butterfly band aids. Here is Michael with his partly shaven head awaiting his band aids. He really didn't want to go to the hospital. He had total faith in his Daddy, that he could make it all better. He kept saying, "I know dad can fix it. I really don't need stitches."
Our brave solider all bandaged up.

Then today our sweet angel, Isabelle decided to try to open a pistachio nut with a paring knife. Needless to say we did make a trip to the emergency room.

I was upstairs nursing Rose when Joseph ran upstairs yelling that Isabelle was bleeding. When I got a look at her finger she just started bawling, "I don't want stitches, I don't want stitches".

Unlucky for me Jeremiah was at work with our car. Lucky for me my Mom is a phone call away and we have amazing neighbors.

Isabelle's brave face

My Mom drove Isabelle and I to the hospital.
While the Sorensens hung out with the rest of the kids. Isabelle was pretty brave about it all until they gave her the shot. She actually was smiling at me like this is no big deal then suddenly her face turn to horror and she started screaming. Poor thing. Then when they put the stitches in (either the shot never kicked or they took so long to get back to us it wore off, I am guessing the 2nd. We were there for 3 hours) Isabelle could feel the doctor stitching her up. She just screamed and cried. The Doc had to put two stitches in so he decided just to do the second instead of another shot because it would hurt just as bad.

Isabelle said her cut looked like a squished tomato.

Well here's to hoping that is the end of Emergency trips to the hospital and no more cuts.

The Death of some special socks

These socks my not look like anything special

but let me tell you ..... They are.

Jeremiah wore these socks

9 1/2 years ago for our wedding.

When were were dating my friends and I

would always sing ' Jeremiah was a bullfrog'

very original I know. Well I found these sock of frog princes and had to get them for Jeremiah. Jeremiah has always worn then on special occasions ever since.

So I was sad to see that they were done for. I knew they must have a hole or two but not this. NoT THiS. Jeremiah finally threw away these beloved socks. I am now on the search for a new pair. I know I can never really replace these ones but it would be nice to have something like them. If anyone sees any please let me know.

November

November at the Muldowney household was a fun, spiritual and thankful month.

I'll start with the one thing of November that I still think about almost daily.

November 1st we were blessed with the birth of our niece Lillian Kathleen Muldowney. Lillian was born with some birth defects and started a battle for her life right away. She lived 1 month and 1 week and then returned to our Heavenly Father. Jeremiah and I fasted almost weekly for this little one and her dear parents. We prayed for their family in everyone of our prayers. It brought spiritual growth to our family. I could often feel the strength of her spirit as I prayed for her. I had the blessing of growing closer to my own sister, Carrie, as I spoke to her often of the loss of her little boy almost 5 years ago. We often had talks with our children of the blessing of eternal families. We are so very thankful that Erin and Micah were sealed in the temple and have the sweet blessing of Lillian sealed to them for eternity. I am thankful that through the sealing power that some day I will get to meet my sweet little niece, Lillian and my nephew Ryan. Thank you Lillian, who has brought so much strength to the whole Muldowney family.

November was also the first month that Jeremiah was done with Clinicals. So how did he celebrate? He went and got a second job. Ha, poor guy. I will repeat the words of my sister, Carrie.. What a good man Jeremiah is. He will do anything it takes to take care of his family....

I love Jeremiah so much!

So here is some of the fun we had this month

We had the blessing of having Lizzie come up for Thanksgiving this year. She is always a joy to have around.

Rose got attacked by a bear.

Isabelle gave us some distressing news.

We had some fun in the snow. Not us much as we would have liked. But there it is.

Lizzie reading and warming herself by the fire place.

What better place.

And then came Thanksgiving

We held our very first Thanksgiving in our very first home.

Ann made a turkey out of rolls.
How fun and tasty!
Always fun with the cousins
I made my first Turkey
Here it is going into the oven

Here it is coming out of the oven.

Just Joking this is after the feast.

The turkey was a hit.

The Feasters.

We are so grateful to have Ryan and his family so close by.

They live 2 hours away and we feel blessed every time we get to see them.

Emmanuel checking out Rose

Jeremiah burned a hole into our hard wood floor.

It's a long story but lets just say we are thankful we still have a house.

Last but not least
Do you see this OLD Man

He is now 32 years old

Enjoying Eggs Benedict for breakfast Jeremiah enjoyed a Banana walnut cake for his birthday.
I am so thankful I married this amazing man.
He bring me and our children such joy and lots of laughter

October

October we started off with Rose being blessed.

Here is our growing family.

People keep asking me if I am done...
Well here is my official answer. I Don't Know.
There are days where I want to pull my hair out. But then there are days I am so grateful for what I have and the knowledge that my family is eternal.

My life is in my Heavenly Fathers hands. I will do His will.

Rose got a new crib and started sleeping better because of it.

Me and My Beautiful girls

Some Baseball time

Michael got a cavity filled and chewed a huge hole in his lip. His lip swelled up and I had to keep him home from school and a cotton roll in him mouth to keep him from making it worse.
It was pretty gross.

We grew a nice little garden this year.

The kids were big helpers especially when it came to pulling it all up.

Rose chilling out.

This year I did more canning. I am trying out different thing to see how my family does with it through out the winter.

Peaches

Peach Pie filling

This was super yummy.

Cherry pie filling

Jeremiah made homemade salsa

I made some peach, peach raspberry and pear butter.

Then comes Halloween

Carving of the pumpkins

Jeremiah, of course, made the coolest.

If you look close you can see the flames.

All our pumpkins.

We didn't have to buy any pumpkins this year we grew them all in our garden.

For some reason I forgot to take pictures of the costumes this year.

William, Joseph, and Michael were Red Ninjas

Jeremiah was the evil Black Ninja

Isabelle was a pretty flower

Rose was a pink leopard

and I was a fairy.

September

September was a fun and busy month. First and mostly, we had part of the Muldowney clan staying with us.

Mom decided she was coming for almost a month to help out with the new baby. And believe me she was a huge help. Between Jeremiah at the hospital 80 hours a week, me having a c-section and 3 boys to get off to school every day and do homework every night we kept mom very busy. Mom was a blessing to us at our time of need. Lucky for us too she brought the three youngest of the Muldowneys. They were big helps with the kids.

Climbing Independence RockAbby is very scared of heights but braved the climb. We were very proud of her.

This is just a cool picture of Michael.

We all spent a lot of time reading. Especially the girls. I am not even sure how many books they read while staying with us.
We were lucky to have the Ryan Muldowney clan to come visit us for a day.
We had an awesome game of capture the flag. Which I wish we would have got some pictures of. And we had a fun time at the park.

Grandma and Mommy pushing Isaac and Isabelle.
They could have stayed on all day.

These two are two peas in a pod......
or a swing

Ryan and Ann are always fun.
They also told us their exciting news of a baby on the way.

We played lots of games Inside

and Out

The kids loved having Uncle John read them comics

Abby was always willing to hold Rose.
Actually both girls were always asking to hold her. They were such good Aunts.
I am excited that I get Isabelle home one more year before she goes off the kindergarten. It is nice to have my two little girls home with me.