$200 FOR FREE!!

I have to tell you about the craziest thing that happened to Heather and I on Saturday night. Heather invited me to fill in for her friend at a bunco tournament in Mesquite (girls night out heck yea). So we went down and had dinner and did some gambling before. Heather and I love to gamble at the penny slots and the dollar tables we are way to cheap to go higher. We decided to try the 21 table and when we sat down 2 guys were putting down all these $100 bills and getting$100 chips I about died. I told Heather "do you know how many 5 year old I have to teach and how many hours it takes me to earn that much money and they are gambling it away" CRAZY! Anyways we played $2 at a time they played $400 and I guess some how we were helping them win. I don't understand it but the guy said "Are you guys from St. George" I guess we looked a little out of place. We said yes and kept playing. A few rounds later he threw down 2 $100 dollar chips and said "go have fun with your friends" and walked off. I was dying over it. Seriously who does that!! So I took a picture of them because I know I will never hold one of those again and sent it to Wayne on my phone. Of course he wanted to know what we had to do for the $200 (Nice husband). So we cashed it out and gave the other girls all $20 and spent $10 at the roulette table (Our favorite). It was so much fun. Thanks Heather for the great trip!

He's a New Man!!

Wayne has lost 45 pounds!! I am so proud of him. He had some shirts that have been in our closet that he called his "goal" shirts. He said he would know he had met his goal when they fit. He also came out the other night modeling his baseball uniform from high school. I mentioned once that I liked his butt in them. They fit but the farmers tan was making me laugh so hard. As soon as I can get him to pose for a picture I will do a before and after shot.

Malies Hair Donation

Malie has been growing her hair out for a few years so that she could donate it to be made into a wig for cancer patients. We finally got it long enough that it could be donated. We were going to use Locks of Love but they charge a fee for their wigs. I did some research and found that Pantene also does it but they give them away for free. Malie was so excited to finally cut it.

Aunt Alisha came over to do it. Pantene only wanted 8 inches so we were able to leave it longer than we thought.

After it was cut we mailed it off. They said it takes 6 hair donations to make 1 wig. If you know of anyone who is cutting their hair you might want to let them know about this.

Alisha styled it after and she looked so much older with it short. Thanks Alisha for the help and the cute hair!!

Family Christmas

I have decided to do a slide show about our Christmas and the things we have been doing on our days off. I have really enjoyed being home with the kids but I am afraid that it is going to be really hard on all of us when we have to go back to our crazy life in a few days. We just got back from visiting our parents and the kids had a blast in the snow. I hope everyone had a great Christmas!!

Santa and Gingerbread houses

Maddux on Santa's lap. He just wanted the orange and then he was done. By the time I got home he had eaten the rind off. I'm sure that tasted good.

Averie asked Santa for "High School Musical stuff" he said "Well okay. You are a little young for that but alright".

Malie wanted an American Girl doll named Mia. She looks like Malie with her red hair and freckles.

For family night last week we made gingerbread houses. Maddux and Wayne made their own gingerbread house or square I should say.

Malie and Averie did such a good job. They kept collapsing but finally we were able to keep them up.
I can't wait for Christmas!!!

Winter Fun

Yes this is the reason they cancelled school on Thursday. I know its not much but we don't have a snow plow and people here don't know how to drive in it so it really is scary.

When we came home from school on Wednesday this is how much we had. The kids were so excited to play in it. We don't own snow clothes so I felt bad with their mittens and tennis shoes on but what do you do. I made them hot chocolate when they came in to warm up.

Thursday afternoon I took this picture of the front of our house. We don't own a snow shovel so I had to clear the walks with Waynes square nose shovel. I was so afraid that my palm trees were going to be ruined but I think they will be alright.

We went to Parowan Friday night for the Stubbs Christmas party. Papa took the kids sledding on Saturday. When Malie came in she was frozen I introduced her to snow pants and snow boots and told her not to go out again unless she had them on. Wayne also showed them icicles on the house they were so amazed!! I was talking to my kids at school about them and they had no clue what I was even talking about. 1 kid out of 38 knew what they were because she moved down from Salt Lake.