We have a climber

With the pictures I have taken I want to tell you this story. 

 I am spending to much time in washing kids and clothes, so I have decided to combined them I am not sure way other mom have not thought of it this saves me lots of time.  O wait now I have a problem of drying them.  I will just dry them in the dryer what a great ideal.    

He frist climed in the dryer

Then in to the bathtub of water

Ok maybe you did not like my store.  Michael climes over under throw and onto everything, ever time I do laundry he climes in the dryer and when I do dishes in climes in the dishwasher. Last night I as Michael do run the bath water for Kaylene, just as I go in the bathroom in goes little Michael  close and all.

November

I am not sure what happened to November. I am grateful for many things I no that I could not list them all.  For the short of it I am thankful for my husband and children, both here on earth and yet to come. I am grateful for my family and friends that have helped me out when it is needed sometimes they know and sometime they did not know how helpful they where.  I am thankful for my freedom, and all the men and woman especially my brother-in-law who serves for that freedom, and most of all I am thankful for My Savoir who blesses me even when I am not deserving of the blessings. 

November 08, 2011

            I wanted to take the time to thank you for being a valued customer. I have had an amazing year with CUTCO!!! I have enjoyed several promotions this year, along with the promotion to Assistant Manager here in the Spokane office. This fall I continue to work towards my All American Scholarship provided by CUTCO to its top reps, and with the help of great customers like you I will reach this goal as well. I have worked very hard to gain loyal customers such as you, and I pride myself in being an honest salesman, always offering the best deals for my customers.

            It is the end of the year and instead of having to deal with finding parking and extreme holiday shopping crowds, I am offering some fantastic deals exclusively for my customers; so that you may accomplish all your holiday shopping from the convenience of your own home. These deals will be valid through December 31^st!!!  All of our sets are on crazy special through me only and as always I offer buy 4 get 1 free for my customers! If there is something in particular you are looking at adding or giving as a gift, give me a call and I will customize your special just for you!!   

            A couple of last notes that I am really excited about! The purchase of our Complete Set comes with your choice of one of the new cookware items. Also we engrave all blades for $5, for that added special touch.

            I am updating all my records as well to make sure I have the accurate information; so if you could drop me a quick email with your name, current mailing address, best phone number, your birthday and anniversary as well as your spouses name. I would really appreciate this!!!

            If you would like to get your knives sharpened just give me a call to schedule that as well.

            I appreciate your business and look forward to providing you the best possible service now and for years to come.

Have a great end of the year. We will talk soon…

Your CUTCO Rep,

Michael Whiting

Assistant Manager

Field Sales Leader

253-394-4698

mikesfirst@live.com

Michael

I have been really bad at posting things Michael earned this a few months ago. 

 I am so proud of him. 

He earned this for having great sells.

I will try to do better at posting things

Fall

We finally had some leaves fall around our place so we played in them before it snowed

 My new favorete pic of Michael

 She was not sure if she wanted to be covered up in leaves

 Kaylene and some friends had fun covering me up with leaves



Halloween

It seemed like we celebrated Halloween all week but we had fun.  It is more enjoyable as the kids get older Kaylene has loved all the decoration especial the pumpkins and spiders. Now she sees a spider and acts all scared.

What is different this time?

Michael has been going to school since we have been married, so school is nothing new. He graduated last December from SFCC with his AA. With the possibility at that time to move and having a baby in February and it being winter we decided not to transfer in the spring he would wait until the next fall almost a year later. In that time he wanted to find an internship or a job. He found a job at Cutco witch he loves.  Now he is doing it all Job, School, Home work from school and church calling, and having two kids and a wife who wants to see him. So what is different this time other then the two kids and job is the hours with both work and school he could live early in the morning come home for a short time and then live again witch is hard on the kids, his study time, and me getting anything done.  

TO YOUNG

Kaylene has been telling us what she likes the list can get long. Her favorite line is I like cake, she has said things such as I like church, I like grapes, I like TV, well last night she said I like boys.  I think we might be in trouble.

Boy was I confused

 I put the kids to bed as I all ways do.  I thought they where asleep until I heard them talking to each other an hour later. This is where I found Kaylene



Reading Scriptures

As a family we read scriptures every night and I try to have Kaylene read some part of the scriptures. We where reading about King Benjamin. I was having Kaylene say what I was saying I side King she said king I said Benjamin she said Cody.  Cody is one of her favorite cousins and Benjamin is his brother and she asks about Cody often.  

Decorations

I found some great ways to dress up our home

This is in our living room

 

Kaylene part of the room

Michael part of the room



The Alligator game

Kaylene is starting to be at a fun age. Some of the kids that she plays with play a game where one kid is the alligator and has the kids take so many steps after the kids ask what time it is, then when they get right in front of the child (alligator) the children ask one more time and the alligator said eat time they all go running and screaming and then it is a game of chase and tag.  Kaylene one morning was playing outside by herself she would be the alligator and the kids that would take the steps as she would come close to me she would then turn and run away screaming like the older kids would. She did this many time.

Kaylene

Yesterday morning Michael was sitting down at breakfast with Kaylene she was having a hard time keeping on task of eating breakfast before church, so Michael was helping her by feeding her every now and then she said this

Kaylene: mine, mine, mine, mine

Michael: ok

Michael: take one more bit then
Kaylene: Ok daddy it’s you’re all done

Michael came into the kids room told me about it and I could not stop laughing

Camping at Lake Roosevelt

The Tracy Family Reunion this year was camping for a week, we went to Camp Evens outside of Kettle Falls.  I have not been camping in 12 years the last time I went camping was at girls camp but camping with kids is different we had dirt everywhere all day long.  Some of the things we did are

 Play in Power Wheels

 Go Hiking

 The View of our Hike

 We hike up to a Mine this is Michael re-opeaning the Mine

they did see a bat in there

                                                   The pite in the mine it was a big drop off

                                                                         Snack time

                         

                                          My attemped at make a duch-oven birthday cake for Kaylene

                                                                Hiking we will go

                                                             skipping rock with Dad

                                                                         at  list trying too

                                                                              I love

                                                                                 you

                                                                              this much

So Dirty but having a fun time

We had so much fun

Thank you all for making a grand week for me and my family

If heaven wasn't so farway

In 2008 all in about 8 months my Great Grandma Long, Aunt Karen, and Aunt Ana all past away, the one that was the hardest for me and most of my family was Aunt Karen.  Great Grandma Long was born in 1920 and was 88 when she died. She lived a great life doing all kind of things and living life to its fullest we have great stories about her some you would not even believe was about a proper lady.  My Aunt Ana was a little younger and had lots of health problems she still lived a great life.  The one that I have been thinking a lot about lately is Aunt Karen she died in a car accident, Karen was a character, sometime good and sometimes bad everyone in the family has this kind of stories about her, most of the stories I think now would make us laugh.  I am not sure why I started thinking about her as I drove one Saturday but I was and as I was thinking about here the song by Justin Moore If Heaven wasn’t so for away came on the radio. I then started thinking of the song it helped me close that thought process what a great song.  I still will think of her often my new calling in Bear Den Leader she loved Scouting

The Joys of Growing

This last week Michael THE II has been eating baby food this is his first reaction to everything he eats

 MORE FOOD PLEASE

 NEVER MIND!!!

 KAYLENE HELPING FEED MICHAEL

Also this week Kaylene climbed on the changing table with a diaper with out me in the room I am not sure if she was going to change herself or, call me when she was up there and lying down.  I think it might be time to start potty training

He has decided food is very good and could eat the whole jar; he is now eating baby food 3 times a day.

4th of July

Celebrate freedom. I am so proud to be an American and to have the freedoms and rights that we have.  I am also very proud of the men and woman who serve our country.

So to celebrate the 4^th of July we had a breakfast with our ward came home and took naps so we could watch the fireworks downtown it was a great day.

 Family picture

 Dad playing with the kids

 Kaylene wanted to hold Michael so bad this is how the ended up

 Kaylene and the glow stick and flag

Kaylene stayed awake for all the fireworks and liked them after the first two

Michael stayed awake also and did not cry once

My Sister-in-Law asked if we had any great memories of Disney world this is one of mine

Friendship Basket

In Relief Society we do a friendship basket the point of it is so we can get to know the sister in the ward, our ward is made up of mostly students and there families.  On Father’s Day I was given the basket.  I know I am interesting I know I have talents and hobbies what where they and what could I find that was cheap and cut that I could put together? It took me two weeks but this is what I find.

          
Pop corn bucket-I love movie

          Blind fold- Meet Michael on a blind setup

          2 Baby Ruth- I have two babies

         Bath Salt- I love baths

         Car cloth-I have worked on cars

2 Cars-I love to travel my favorite way to travel is road trips

Scrapbook exploding box-I like crafts and sawing

Cutco peeler-I like to cook and my favorite peeler is cutco

Candy-I love junk food any kind

I am sure I can come up with more but this is my list



What we did this week

Monday- we cleaned my Mom and Dad house, shopped for grocers and bike things

Michael worked from (8am-5ish pm)

Tuesday-went Visiting Teaching, swam in the pool, walked up to sports night, and went swimming for a little bit in evening. Picked up Bike (Very nice weather)

Wednesday- took both kids swimming and cleaned our house

Michael worked from (6:30am-9pm) (the warmest weather this year)

Thursday- worked for 6 hours with Precious Cargo and Michael took bikes to friends so he could fix them for us.

Friday- went for a 4 mile walk with family had lunch at park, made Michael a nice dinner for date night with no kids

Michael work from (7-9am) and from (5-7:30pm)

Saturday-worked for 10 hours and made dinner and watched a movie as we ate

Sunday-Church and rest

  

My goal is to post something every week, the last two weeks I have had a hard time thinking of something to post about.   

Our Walk

The sun was shinning when I got out of bed on Tuesday so we went walking  We decided we were walking to the Church recreation property where we would play ball for a little while before coming home for lunch.  As we were walking I saw a small Ferris wheel in a backyard I pointed it out to Michael and the gentleman that lives there asked us if we want to see it run we said yes. The ferries wheel had Mickey Mouse painted on it, we found out that his wife hand painted each of them we were impressed with this then he told us if we were impressed with this come inside, so we did and we learned that this couple where very talented and that they loved Mickey Mouse it was everywhere it was wonderful to be able to see this couples talents and for them to share there talents with us what a great blessing.

Taking my place in society

In my patriarchal blessing it said something about taking my place in society, I have often wondered what that meant, in time this phrase might become clear to me, but for now this is a sliver of how I see this phrase.  This months Visiting Teaching message Strengthening Families through Temporal Self-Reliance, talks about what we can do to help prepare are family and ourselves in today world. I felt that as I work on being self-reliant I will have courage and strength and something to be proud of that will give me confidence to face society



Oh How I love Vacation

We had a wonderful vacation last week we went to Disney World with my husbands family we had a great time and I can't wait to be able to see them all again soon, but here is what I am having a hard time with Kaylene wants nothing but snacks, that is what she wanted on vacation and now that is still the only thing she will eat.  I am having a hard time with doing my house work and knowing what I want to make for dinner we had good food on our trip and I did not have to cook. Now it is time to come off Vacation and back to real life.