Thank You Thank You

I live for the holidays. so It is only normal that thanksgiving is right up there for me as one of my fav's! I have reflected on Thanksgivings past and one Tully reminds me what I have to be thankful for. It was a one day before thanksgiving 2003 and I decide to go and get some Christmas shopping out of the way, my dear friend Sara went with me. Dave took Isaac to his parents to make donuts and we decided to meet up after I hit Wal mart. It was about noon when Sara and I had finished so we went to my in laws house to see how the donuts were going. Isaac was wearing one of my favorite outfits he was so stinking cute for a 1 year old! I saw him playing around with some things and then I saw a flash of red falling from the top of the stairwell (it was the open end with an 8 foot drop) which led to a concrete floor and un-carpeted stairs . My heart stopped and I saw him laying there everyone ran in front of me and I stood there unable to move. finally I hear him cry at the point I was able to get down the stairs David brought him upstairs and we went to to ER. I have never cried so much in my whole life. after 6 hours in the ER he had a cat scan and every thing looked good so we were sent home. that Thanksgiving I knew that I was truly blessed and I was so grateful for the safety that was provided for my sweet child. I am so grateful. I have been blessed with three wonderful (high energy children) and a great husband who loves me.

levi

I was telling some of my best Levi tales and some one told me that I should write a book. well I don't have time to write a book so for now I am going to blog! Levi is always a super hero! he ties pillow cases around his neck and instantly becomes batman superman and recently he morphed into ...

underwear Boy. I hope that my child is not the only one to play with his underwear but it was funny. Well we had a ward spaghetti dinner and Levi brought a bag with him, I was talking to someone that I have not seen in a while and I see out of my eye Levi pulling a pair of underwear over his head. Acting quickly I pulled them off of his head and threw them in my pocket. knowing that I was not the only one to see this act of LEVI, I bust up laughing as I looked around ans saw the faces staring at us!

Happy birthday Dave!

Today is Dave's birthday we had a fun little thing when he got home complete with sponge bob hats and blowers! bart joined in the fun!

8 and counting

On this coming Monday Dave and I will be celebrating our 8th anniversary! it is crazy that it has been eight years but here are a list of eight things that we have learned or done these past eight years

1. life is usually good and when it isn't just laugh about it, I am sure all who know us know that we think that we are the funniest people we know weather or not we make our self laugh. when we were first married I started this stupid joke and I thought that it died, but It found it's way back into our lives...What did the wife volcano say to the husband volcano...I LAVA you! really not that funny but when you are in a serious moment (few and far between in this house) it is fun to break the mood with that stupid joke

2. Dave will always leave his socks on the floor in the living room, no matter how many times I tell him not to he does.

3. I will eat the last chocolate in the house! same as the sock thing it is just how it is

4. when raising kids...find a happy medium between strict and too relaxed...we are still trying to find it but at least we are trying!

5. don't bring home a cat. Dave is not a cat person and well I thought that I was one... come to find out I really hated the cat I brought home he was mean to my dog! so since Paige is kind of our child we got rid of the cat...it worked out in the long run too because Isaac is allergic to cats. don't worry about the cat he found a great home, at my mom's house. like my dog he is treated as a child and well loved!

6. I am a Girl, no matter how much I deny it! this means on valentines you better not get me something along the lines of Ewoks battle of Endor. or on my birthday I expect to get a nice gift not a poster of Michael Jackson! or at Christmas time please don't wrap up things you find in our shed that are dirty and gross.

7. I am a spoiled person. really I think that I am spoiled, not just my parents but my husband also spoils me. he may think that he isn't bu he dose. he has only told me no once because I asked for a 1400 dollar purse! he buys me jewelry just because he want to (he would buy himself jewelry if is was OK) and he gets my taste in music and movies and is totally OK with me buying the Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra and all the Audrey Hepburn Movies!

8. We strive to have a Christ based home and we continue to grow together both spiritually and emotionally and for that we are gratefully blessed!

Flordia Trip/ home and grouchy kids!

We have been home for a week now, you would think that things would be back in to order, but they are not ! I am not sure what my kids did while we were gone but someone replaced our children with little monsters! it really is not all that bad, but Ashton is screaming all the time, I am not over exaggerating by any means if someone/thing looks at him wrong or will not cave to his will he screams, this behavior is normal for Levi but not Ash. it is days like today I wish that we were still in Florida. (this has been his face almost every time I look at him)
the sad news about Florida is I was trying to do some thing with my camera and whoops I erased 4 days of fun pictures so I have only a few, and our friends who went with us donated some too! (thank you Michelle and Jon!)

We had so much fun, after a bit of bad judgment which also turned out to be the coolest rental car ever! we got in to the hotel at 12:00 am Friday morning, then we went to Magic Kingdom we left out hotel to see the most awesome skywriting ever

Michelle and Brandon came Friday eve and we stayed up way late talking. On Saturday Dave and Brandon took our rental car to the Cowboys game with Jon... go POKES! And Michelle and I took the kids (not mine) to Sea world. lots of fun. on Sunday Dave and I decided to use the tickets and we went back to sea world (shhhh. I know the sabbath) and later that night we went to the Toy Story Movies at Downtown Disney. We really had a lot of fun! on Monday we went to check out of the hotel and since we were using our friends condo (thank you deb) we found out we had it for another 3 days...as tempting as it seemed we decided that we needed to get back to our kiddos we packed up the awesome blue mustang and headed for Orlando, we had 3 hours to waste so we drove and

we found the reason why we went to Fl! it was Jesus land! okay they called it holy land but the advertisement was a Jesus land one! so of course we jumped out of our car and got a pic in front of the gate ! fun fun! (Dave and I really are irreverent ) we went to the air port and started our journey home! it was a fun time and I am glad that we were lucky enough to experience it!

finally you might ask your self why is dave looking like that

this is Why!!!

I am not sure what is worse, that the guys are looking at this or that she is unable to get her cigarette in to her mouth!

skateboard and santa

Today was a eventful day, three children stayed home from chruch due to runny noses and they drove us crazy! but we made it through the day. Ashton found a skateboard and decided that he needs to start riding it! so I told him that he had to put on a long sleeved shirt, a helmet and knee pads, he did then he began to wow us with his ability to stand on a skateboard, when i say wow I mean WOW he actually was able to stand on it and ride it he even started to do some 3 year old tricks with out falling which is impressive because he fall down when he is just standing still ( a trait he inherited from his mother)

Levi had a really wild day so by the end we were ready for him to wind down, (right now his is in the bathtub, I am pleased to say he is behaving for the moment) I have learned over the 4 years with him bath time is the first step in calming him down...so I thought, he got to have a bubble bath and he like all children I am sure covered his face with bubbles and started saying HOHOHO I am Santa. stinking cute!

ash sleeps

I have been finding Ashton asleep in the weirdest places. this a a small list of some of the places we have found him
the bathroom in front of the toilette
in the bathroom in the hamper
in the closet on top of the winter clothing
on one kitchen chair
on two kitchen chairs
under my computer chair while I was on the computer
and today he was on the end table, that is next to out heater
I get the feeling that he is not loving his bed anymore. or maybe he is exhibiting signs of narcolepsy like his father at the age of 3

(today he fell asleep at my weight watchers meeting in front of everyone)