my heart is aching....

at church there is a couple of us ladies that all have kids around the same age.  in RS we all sit on the same row together week after week .  i love it! it is rather comforting to me, to know that there is a group of us that are going throught the same things.  we may not get together throughout the week and "hang-out" but i feel like we are still there for each other as a little mommy support system.  we have been gone the last couple weeks from our ward due to illness and vaca's.  this past sunday N asked T how things were going, and T started to get tearing eyed and said not good.  i was a little confused! obviously there was something wrong but i wasn't sure what.  last night greg got an email from the elders quarum regarding T and her family.  T's hubby had melanoma 7 1/2 yrs ago.  they did surgery and believed that they got all the cancer out.  recently (like the last month or so) it was confirmed that the cancer has returned and is spreading very quickly!  they treatment he is on gives him a 10% chance and that is the BEST case scenario! he is trying to get into a study treatment that is only offered in tx and md.  this treatment would give him a 25% chance BEST case scenario!

T and J have 2 kids. 4 and 1 yrs old.  J can't work and with all the medical bills things are adding up very quickly!!!  they are asking for prayers and any financial help everyone and anyone can give.  please visit their blog to learn more about this special family and how you can help! helpjonandtiffany.blogspot.com  you can also click on the button on my page to get a direct link.

as mentioned before i am hosting a holiday boutique on DEC. 5TH!!!!  delila mae will have special accessories that all the proceeds will go to help jon and tiffany, as well as an AWSOME gift basket that we will raffle off at the boutique. as well as other things.  PLEASE tell everyone you know about jon and tiffany! and the BOUTIQUE, it will be a great way to get some cute christmas gifts for family and friends as well as helping my friends!

DELILA MAE GIVEAWAY!

delila mae is doing a giveaway.  so go check it out and enter to win! i'm are getting a bunch of new product this month as well!!!!  enjoy!

MAMA'S HOLIDAY WISH LIST MEME

TodaysMama Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme


TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.



1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?
*christmas day/dinner with the whole family at my house -does that count as an "item"
*jeans (2 babies sure does a # on your body and i have only 1//2 pairs that really fit!)
*black and brown boots (i want this every year and can never seem to find the right pair under $100!! so here it is again on my wish list!)
*the original scrapbox!!!
*gym membership

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?
*i can't even think if i have received one? i am sure if i have the person will remind me!

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?
*well for 2 years i have tried to put together ....well i can't say it might happen this year!!!  i have also wanted, since i was married, to finish gregs mission scrapbook!!!!

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?
*one that stands out is a porcelin doll face that my grandma had made from my baby picture, it matches a doll that i have made from the same baby picture, it truely is a one of a kind!
 5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?
* thank goodness they are young enough to not really have one, but I HAVE ONE for them!!!  jax: chuck the talking truck, golf clubs, and educational toys and books.   grace: toys, glow worm, clothes.  she is growing to fast!

6. What is your favorite holiday food?
*orange sticks, ham, spinich artichoke dip.. mmmmmmmmm.........

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
*i can't tell too much...but some scrapbook type thing, home decor

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
*ELF! hands down!

9. Favorite holiday song?
*it's begining to look alot like christmas! i can't help but get giddy and excited about christmas when i hear this song !!!

10. Favorite holiday pastime?
*spending time with family and friends.  my favorite part of the holidays is getting friends and family together!

TRICK - OR -TREAT!!

while looking for costumes online for the kiddies i came across this lady bug costume that i thought would be SOO CUTE for grace! then i looked at the price... $65! and all it was was a red tulle dress with black dots!  i decided that i could totally make that!  so my search began for red tulle (ya you would thinki it was easy to find, not so much!) i finally found some and off to work i went creating grace's lady bug costume. the closer and closer it came to being complete the more excited i became knowing how darn stinking cute she would be! 

jax decided that he wanted to be a "rorer".  what the heck is a "rorer"???  it took me a while to figure out what he was talking about! he wanted to be a monster! a ROAR - er! silly boy! i then later figured out that anything that ROARED would be fine with him! so again my mind started racing on what he could be.....

my sis-in-law provided a great idea,  i could be snow white with my new hair color! i thought PERFECT! we are set for halloween! i had been asking greg for a MONTH what he wanted to be and he jsut blew it off.... every year it is the day of halloween and we are scrambling to throw together a costume and with 2 kids now, i did not want to do that!

so LONG story short.....thurs NIGHT! greg changed ALL that!!! he decided that jax and him should be elmer fudd and yo semmity sam  and i should be bugs bunny, and grace a carrott!  and we would NOT deviate from his "great" idea! so at the LAST minute this is what we came up with.......

      Yo Semmity Sam

Elmer Fudd, Yo Semmity Sam, Bugs Bunny and his Carrott

We met up at M&T's house to go trick-or-treating with some old and new firends.  this year so so much fun with jax, he was starting to get the concept of tick-or-treating.  he usually said trick-or-treat! and thank you! very polite!  grace's little hands were getting cold so i put her in my costume and fell right asleep! for being so fast and running everywhere normally, jaxon was SO SLOW when it came to getting candy!we didn't hit as many house as i would have liked but it was taking FOREVER so we gave up and went back to M&T's for fun and socializing with everyone!