Thankful

Happy New Year!
I Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and life is calming down after the rush of the holiday season. We went to Arizona for Christmas to spend time with my family which was fun and stressful going to see family always is. My tire poped on the way down and we will need to have some work done but I'm very thankful to my parents for all their help in dealing with our car issues.
Every New Years you see everyone talking about their resolutions and then a month or two later breaking those resolutions. I'm guilty. I have all these plans every year about what I want to accomplish but never follow through. This year I decided to focus on one thing. I chose a word. One thing I could focus on all year. My word of the year is Thankful.
Its so easy to be negative. Its easy to forget to count your blessings, Its easy to get caught up in what you don't have, whats gone wrong or whose wronged you. But If you can remember to count your blessings, even in hard times, you will be better for it. So that is my one goal for this year. to be Thankful. To count my blessings when things are going wrong. To remember all I have and be grateful for what God has blessed me with.
I have an amazing husband who loves me and who I love more than anything. He is funny and smart and sweet. He loves me despite my major flaws and works hard to take care of me and the girls. I am so very thankful for him.
I have a crazy, sweet, funny, outgoing three and a half year old who drives me crazy and makes me laugh more than anyone ever. We waited almost 5 years for her and she was worth the wait. We went through testing, rude drs, fertility treatments, a phone nurse who told me I had miscarried when I hadn't and all of it was worth it. I couldn't imagine my life without that crazy girl. She is my Sunshine, she lights up our home with her infectious laughter. She is incredibly smart, she is inquisitive, brave, loyal, funny, beautiful, and loving. I Love Tabitha and I am so grateful that I get to be her mom.
I have a sweet, inquisitive, happy baby girl who loves to cuddle. She is smart, and inquisitive. She Likes to wait till Tabitha makes noise to distract us and and she will quietly move like the wind and get what she wants. Shes our little stealth baby. She brings us so much joy and her laughter is beautiful. We had to use fertility treatments for Eva just like Tabitha. We were told we were losing Eva at 7 weeks because they thought she should be bigger. Yet again the dr's were wrong and we have the opportunity to be her parents.
I am thankful for the knowledge that we will be a family forever. That because Morgen and I got married in the Temple we are sealed for time and all eternity. I am thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. That he sacrificed for us and we have all that we do because of heavenly Father's love for us.
I'm Thankful for the fact that we have 9 am church this year. I know its early, but it will make it so Eva can still take her naps and that is great.
I am Thankful for my family.
I am Thankful for my friends.
I am Thankful for all of you who read my blog. You all are the reason I am here.
This year I am going to try to write a post every Thursday about what I'm Thankful for that week. Some weeks it may just be I'm thankful for a full nights sleep. But its important to remember the little things too.
If you want to join me each week I would love to know what you are thankful for too.

What I'm most Thankful for is my Forever Family. 

Lucky 13 Giveaway hop

Welcome to the LUCKY ’13 New Years Giveaway Hop hosted by BloggerPR! In order to kickoff 2013 with a BANG, BloggerPR has organized an event to celebrate the new year with some amazing prizes! Each of our amazing  bloggers are giving away a prize valued at $20 or more.  This event will run from December 29th until January 12th, which gives you plenty of time to hop down the linky list below. Good Luck & Happy New Year!

I am excited to be providing the winner of the Lucky 13 giveaway on Crafting in My Closet a pair of Sarah boots from BearPaw!! i love these AWESOME boots! Oh my gosh so freaking warm! These boots will be staying on my feet all winter here in Idaho! These boots are so soft, so warm and so comfortable. I love these boots. I have snow boots, but thse are so amazingly warm and I never want to take them off. 
The Sarah boot retails for $84.99. 

I got these boots in charcoal grey and seriously I don't want to take them off! These boots are 10" tall, made from cow suede upper and have 3 toggle buttons on the ankle. The lining is made of sheepskin and wool blend, and they have a classic low profile rubber wedge outsole. 

Make sure you like bearpaw on facebook for all the information about their awesome shoes.

Disclosure: I received a pair of Bear Paw Sarah boots in order to facilitate this review. All views are my own. I was not compensated in any other way for this review. All views are my own. 

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Resolutions or some such nonsence

So I never make resolutions, why? because I can never keep them. This year, I decided, well just one resolution, i can do that. umm yeah. My resolution was to do project 365, I take a picture everyday and i have to write about it on my blog. As you can see its January 7th and this is the first time i've posted this year. So as you can see I suck at keeping resolutions. I have however taken pictures every day. so I guess I'll post my first 6 day's worth of pictures and then try to do the 1 a day thing.