Arizona So Far...A kinda long borning post, Sorry

Well we made it safe and sound to Arizona. I drove from our house to Memphis then Sol took over from there and got us to Oklahoma City for the night. The big girls did just fine in the car. We left at 4:30 so they slept for a couple hours but once they woke up Sol wanted to drive because Emma was throwing up and having major runny poop blow outs and that aint exactly his cup of tea. Once we got to Oklahoma City I had Sol go find a walmart or something similar so that we could get Emma some kids pepto or something to help her poor tummy. He came back with Immodium and gave it to her well at least her poop stopped but still throwing up anytime she ate or drank anything!

We pulled into Sols moms house in Snowflake, AZ on Sunday evening and it was just soooo wonderful to finally get out of the car, relax all that. Sol heads out to Pinetop with his dad on Monday for the day for some much needed Father Son Time while I relax with the kids and help Tana and Lacy with whatever needed to be done at the house. That night I decided I wanted to do some permanet makeup on my eyes for some good eyeliner. So we did that and my gosh it hurt soooo bad but now I have the start to some great eyeliner that I dont have to do everyday! I woke up Tuesday morning with my eyes swollen shut. So as soon as I get my eyes down enough to open them I look outside and it had snowed! Not a whole lot just a light dusting. That is where it gets fun.

We all were going to go down to the Valley for Christmas Eve but we quickly realized that if we were going to do it we had to leave within the next 2 hours or the roads were soon to be impossible to get thru. So we hurried and rushed thru a fake Christmas Morning (including singing Happy Birthday to Jesus-very wierd, I know, it was Sols dads doing) and throw everything in suitcases and get back in the car for a 3 hour drive to the Valley. I was still trying to get everything washed from all the puking and pooping that happened on the way out here. There were cars pulling over and getting chains on (the snow was up to the bottom of the road signs)but nope not us, we have AWD on my car so we were just fine. Made it to the valley in about 2 hours thanks to my amazing fast driving from Payson to Mesa! :)

Christmas was good although I am glad to just have it overwith already. We had Christmas Eve dinner with my mom and family. Then Christmas Morning with Sols family then Christmas Dinner with my family. Now all we have to do is get my sister married off on New Years Eve and we are done for the year! HOORAY! I am ready for a recoup day today and am soo ready to bring in 2009! 2008 was such a hard year in so many ways I really dont think I am going to miss it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Arizona Or Bust ( I guess you could also call it Arizona AND Bust-ed as in broke busted)

Well I did it, I finally got everything ready for our cross country treck to AZ. I called my mom tonight and told her how much more sympathy and admiration I have for her all those years ago when she was planning all the trips from Utah to visit her mother and sisters in Washington and down to California and Arizona. There are 8 kids in all but the older couple siblings werent on most of the trips that I remember because they are older and I am the second to youngest. I feel like a chicken with no head and I only have 3 kids, I cant even imagine what my mom felt like having do this times 6! Multiple hotel rooms, gas calculations, food planning or prep, entertainment prep, PACKING, and if we were lucky enough to fly all the airplane prep work! Makes me tired just thinking about it. Anyways Good Job Mom (even though you dont read my blog)you are amazing for doing that more than once! This picture is all of us girls (mom and my sisters that were on the trip) at Disneyland about 15 years ago. Hands down my familys all time favorite Disneyland trip ever! I was probably 10-ish I think in the picture. It rained so hard and we were SOAKING wet and I had to wear my moms sweatshirt on the plane home then my dad when to get the van and it had a flat so we sat in the airport with our luggage FOREVER but it was still fun!

Anyways, we are off as of 4 AM so I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I will try to take as many pictures as I can but since my *lovely* puppy Rosie who found a new home as of today chewed up my charger for my camera and they are +30.00 so I dont guarentee anything!
Abby-you tell lil buddy hes not allowed to come out until January 5! :0) Love and Miss you already and thanks for coming over today, it was nice to sit and chat with ya face to face!

Our Early Christmas

We did Christmas early this year since we are leaving for Arizona this week. The girls had such a good time it was awesome! Chels almost went into a coma when she opened her Dora Pegasus and even snuck into the kitchen when Sol opened it for her and played with it until it was time to go to church. Kylee fell in love with her Tinkerbell head that you can do her hair up and earings and all that fun stuff, she even got a code with it for pixiehollow.com so she thinks shes so totally awesome because she got a code. Emma started screaming and started to frantically rip the paper off her Rocket. She had to take the kids that came with it to church with us even. As for the Jammie Pants, ya cute tradition. I think I like the idea of it but making them was retarded. I didnt have enough fabric to do some for Sol and I so that was kinda a bummer. But I think most of it was the pattern I had for it SUCKED! So next year I am going to buy a different pattern and see if it helps at all. I asked all the girls what thier favorite presents were and was kinda suprised at thier answers!

Mad Props to Adam!

Ok so everyone has pretty much heard of Hannah Montana aka Miley Cyrus. So our brother-in-law, (Sols sister Rachel married Adam) Adam Tefteller has been working so hard out here in Nashville writing songs and singing and all that good stuff. Well it finally paid off! He helped write this song and Hannah Montana is using it for Season 3 of her show in Disney Channel! Good Job and Congrats Adam we love you and are so proud of you and all the hard you have been doing! Keep up the good, hard work!

Awww

So I every morning and night Emma needs a breathing treatment of Respricort. I got her set up in my bed and turned it on and put it on her face and this is what I walked back into.

How heartbreaking is that?

Scentsy

For those who dont know I am a consultant for an AWESOME candle company called Scentsy. They are better than Yankee or Salt City because they are WICKLESS so no soot on your walls or dangerous flame for our kids to burn themselves on! Just a 25 WATT lightbulb in the warmer! And the wax gets just above body temp so you can literally put your finger in the wax at full melted point and you wont get burned-or your kids. NOT TO MENTION A TON CHEAPER TOO! I just made Lead consultant and soo excited for that! The newest product to come out is the plug in. THEY ARE AWESOME! I have 2-one in each bathroom!
For more info or for a free catalog, just let me know or go to my website:
www.scentsy.com/cwilliams

I also have the Montly Specials on there too for those interested at saving 10%

New Tradition

So Just to let everyone know first off that Emma is doing SOO much better, thanks to everyone for thier kind words, well wishing and prayers-they really worked. Last night she slept thru the night for the first time in a week and did not wake up coughing or weezing so thank good-ness for that!

Anyways, I was soaking in the bath the other night thinking about how I wanted to start a cute fun family tradition. I always buy my girls some cute new matching-ish jammies so it will be cute for pictures. But I always try to get into the spirit and find something that is like thiers for pictures (in the off chance that I am not the one taking the pics)

So I thought why not make everyone matching Christmas Jammie Pants? So I found a pattern online that had sizes for the whole family for a couple bucks and then found this fabric on ebay for crazy cheap!


Sol requested to do something "not lame like Frosty the Snowman" so this is what I found that wasnt too expensive but a guy could still wear and the girls and I could still wear too. Plus put a red or white top on and it will be totally cute for pictures! :)

So we will see how it goes, could be a tradition or a what was I thinking that one year type of thing, Who knows but I will keep yall posted!