Happy Valentines Day, Ken!

Originally this post started as a Christmas present. I was trying to come up with 32 reasons I love my husband. Well, we were in Tahoe and I came up with 26. So, I wasn't quite there. Why 32? Because Ken and I are both 32. One for each year that he has lived!

So here goes, THE LIST:

1. You love to serve.
2. You love children.
3. You accept me as I am.
4. You love unconditionally.
5. You do dishes and whatever else I ask of you.
6. You're the "deep" cleaner.
7. You're the muscles in the family.
8. You're also the better cook.
9. Your movie star looks, you're my tall, dark and handsome!
10. The kids love to play with you.
11. You always see the positive side.
12. You keep us on the straight and narrow.
13. You're always trying to do what's right.
14. You're NEVER mean.
15. We are best friends.
16. We've shared half a lifetime together.
17. Your warm body.
18. Our family feels safe with you around
19. Your confident, but not arrogant.
20. Your down to earth approach to life.
21. Your willingness to give.
22. You make me want to spend the rest of my life with you.
23. You chose ME.
24. We are soulmates.
25. Having kids only enriched our lives together and tightened our bond together as a family.
26. The kids are lucky to have you as their father.
27. I am lucky to have you as my husband.
28. Your sense of humor.
29. You are a hard worker.
30. Everything you do is for our family.
31. I couldn't imagine a better partner for me!
32. I look forward to what the future has in store for us!

100th Post Giveaway!

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!! The winner was Kim from LM! Congrats! Thanks everyone for the book suggestions!

It's taken me awhile to get to this post, see it's special, my 100th post!

And it's my turn to do a giveaway, because guess what? I won that photo contest! Thanks everyone, it's all because of you!

So, knowing me and my Polynesian style I can't win something without giving something away.

I've been a little lost in blog land this last month when there was this big huge bloggy carnival giveaway. Hundreds of blogs participated and I spent more hours than I care to admit entering blog giveaways. I DON'T suggest you do the same if you value your time, but if you have some spare time, here's a few of the websites I saved in my favorites to go back to later. Remember, I WARNED you!

Mom Giveaways
One Sweet Deal
The Funky Monkey
Feisty Frugal and Fabulous
Etsy Giveaways

So, was it worth it? Well, I DID win a $25 GC to TJ Maxx. I just went yesterday and picked up myself a new shirt and a new bra. WOOHOO! I threw that old nursing bra in the trash. Come on, really? I've been done nursing for over a year and I have't had time or $$ to go bra shopping, PLEASE! Well, I had no excuse yesterday, because the $$ was FREE!

Onto the giveaways! First I have to mention this fun giveaway that is still going on? Don't you just LOVE this wreath?

CLICK HERE TO SEE

Well, I DO! So, I say go enter, and if you win, you'll have the perfect gift to give me! LOL!

Enough about me, what am I giving away to YOU today?

Ready, here it is:



Oh wait, what? Did I just try to giveaway my last born? That would require that I have another, so let's not to do that!

So, here's the REAL DEAL:

I'm giving away this little 5x7 board book which I've already painted and added the papers to. You'll get the embellishments to help you decorate it after you've added in your own photos. Pretty sweet gift from an islandgirl, right?

The papers are some of my favorites from a company called The Little Yellow Bicycle. Perfect for beach pictures, or your favorite boy pictures. If you're one of my Archivers buddies you'll recognize this from the last time we cropped I was putting this together. Thanks Diana for helping me put the rings back on it, LOL!












So, what do you have to do to enter win this COOL book?

You know, one of my favorite things to do in the world is to READ. So share with me your top 5 favorite books EVER! That's all you have to do! If you have a hard time limiting it to 5, then feel free to share more! But you have to at least mention 5, HA HA HA! That's another favorite of mine, the number 5! And why I'm so happy to have 5 children and be done, :)

You have until Sunday, Feb. 15th to post a response. I'll draw a winner randomly on Monday. Remember, you can always post as anonymous (you don't have to have a blog to post), just make sure you give me your name and/or email in the comments or I won't have a way of reaching you to let you know you WON!!!! Unless you're my mother, then I know how to get a hold of you! Mom... hint,hint... I want to hear your answers!

Okay, your turn to vote!

Remember my friends blog I just talked about? I entered her photography contest!

Here's her blog:

ENTER HERE

We're #2!

Get to voting!.........Pretty PLEASE! LOL!

Thanks everyone!

P.S. My next post is going to be my 100th post! Watch our for a giveaway! YEAH!!!!

Need a new family photo?

I have a friend who has a photography blog and she is doing a giveaway here:

Anita Skinner's blog

What you do, is email her "your bad/worst/ugly/funny/need a new family photo, picture, and story of why you need a new family picture."

She'll be posting the top 10 stories and photos on her blog and then "the people" get to vote on who deserves the photo shoot!

Sound fun to you? I know many of you are pretty good storytellers...you just might have a shot!

Just took the Christmas tree down today!

We usually have it down around the 1st. Don't ask me why we didn't take it down earlier. Probably the same reason I am just getting around to sharing our Christmas pictures now.

First off, here's pictures from our house 17 days before Christmas....





Yep, those are the stockings on Kalel's feet.



Then, where'd Mary go from the Nativity set?



Ah, here she is! Minus a hand! Don't even get me started on how the shepherd lost his head! I tried to glue it back together, but it just came off a few days later.



The kids saw Santa at Grandma and Grandpa's Ward Party we showed up to help out at!



Then Tasha had a Utah birthday:



And a Tahoe birthday, she's 10 now!



Speaking of Tahoe, this is the house we got to stay in, lucky us! It's all about who you know ;)



And you could see the lake from the kitchen window, see that peeking behind the trees!



Then they got a California Christmas and they recieved their dream gift of a Nintendo Wii after many blessings came our way:



Then SURPRISE! Santa visited them in Utah too! Again, after many blessings came our way!



So, you can see how it's been a busy month, and I'm still feeling like I'm getting caught up on everything, all the back to school stuff, my new work schedule, and Ken balancing 3 jobs. Lots of New Beginnings for us this year!

Hope your New Year is just as blessed! Thank you to everyone who became a part of our lives last year, may we continue to have many more memories together!