living life

   ok so that did not go as planned... I really do wanna blog more..

Are we so busy living life we dont take time to do the small things?? the fun things..

For my husband, he goes to work day after day.. providing for his family..

For me, at home with the little ones, I make breakfast lunch and dinner. laundry.clean up and clean up again. those are only a few things that we do as we live life.. my question here is am I taking time for the small things?? there are days I get weary and fustrated.. when I turn around and see yet another mess..then I am reminded once again this life here on earth is so short TAKE TIME!! My mom is saying alot lately if only I would have spent more time with my children, if only I could redo the younger years of my children.. I think as parents there will always be regrets but I think taking time should be one of the easier ones..

So in this everyday of just living life I wanna hold tight to the memories of my little ones.. even if that means stepping over toys to get from one room to the next..

My husband is very good for me in this area..He's good at taking time..



Recently my husband and I went on a much needed date!! went to park city and got myself a pair of new glasses(which I hate and still am not wearing ) and then went to panera bread and spent the evening writing out our goals in life...
Here are a few of mine..
1. To be supportive and encouraging to my husband and children..
2.To live a joyful stressfree life
3.eat healthy excercise
4.read more inspiring books
5.drink more water
6.listen more, talk less

7.read to my childern

this is only a few of them.. when my husband came up with this challenge..I could only name a few but the more I pondered on it and prayed about it my list got really long...

My firstborn turns 5.... happy birthday Tyler!!!
five years ago holding my precious son..never will I forget the feeling of holding my firstborn.. we were really stepping into parenthood thinking we got this..when really we did not have a clue...

still remember being somewhere and seeing someones child act up and we would look at each other and say our kids would never do that..:) well lets just say... or not... please dont tell me i am the only one that ever did that;) anyway some days I still don't have a clue and so thankful I can cry out to my heavenly Father for help..Tyler is fascinated with outer space, satellites and stars so we could not help but make this cake it was actually really easy..thanks to betty crocker cakes on youtube..

Tylers rocket cake

Thanks to my sis.for helping me out!!



love his proud look

my girls playing in a teepee that Tyler made



one of his best friends uncle allen..


Hubby's away all weekend doing prison ministry or else I would be sleeping:) but I really do need to get to bed...
still trying to figure this whole blog thing out.. not good with computers.. my hubby said patience would help:):)
not sure why my picture in the beginning is so big???????
blessings--mary ann



Wow can't believe I am actually stepping out of my box and starting a blog...
The question is why am I starting a blog?? Well I love to journal and write diaries so when I started to read blogs I got inspired!!
also the fact that you can journal and have pictures to go with it AND that my children can go back and read it someday...

Why did I choose FUNMOM??

Well I want my Children to remember me as a funmom.. Not a stressed out busy mom...
But it does not come naturally for me..I like to work.. I can block out the world if I stay busy...makes me feel good about myself if I stay busy..
(although I know it's a strive to performance) and along with Gods help I am changing.. I like to be organized and on time.. I am a scheduled person so don't change my schedule...
when we go on vacation I can be so busy keeping things in order and cleaning up I forget to have fun...

I remember as a child when we would go on vacation and my dad would be so stressed out trying to keep everything in order and on time ect.ect. that i thought NEVER am I going be like that.. we had many good memories with my dad and we sit around a laugh about it now..we still like to have fun it's just.. well don't change our schedule.. be on time.. have a plan...

When I was sharing this with my husband about my desires to be a funmom..
his challenge to me... what are the three steps you are going to take to change it?

not the answer I expected but got me thinking..

so after a week of pondering about it I decided to try..
1.prayer
2.take time (the dishes can wait)
3.lay down self desires

So thankful for Gods grace time and time again..
and when we mess up we get to try again..

so with that a little about life... we are a busy family of 5... sometimes to busy.. Sam has had a winter like never before.. due to the nice weather they have not shut down once.. we are very thankful for that although with me busy baking in the summer,and helping out at market, winter is our time to hang out as a family... But we are making plans for summer and my hubby says we are TAKING the time.. so I am excited for the camping trips that are coming up..

keeping Tyler busy in this little house can be a problem... so having this warm winter has been a huge help.. his daddy fixed up his fishing line and bought him a fishing video, so at 7 this morning he was outside fishing.. he is the last one to bed and the first out of bed..

Brianna is a girly girl.. (so not like her mom) she likes to be indoors.. princesses and playing school.. has a big heart and loves everyone..

Olivia is going to be an outdoors girl.. loves going with her daddy outside and follows Tyler everywhere....

Don't know how much I will blog but I am going to give it a try....

The father loves me the way I am.. Not the way I should be.....