Priceless Happenings

Hi Everyone,  I decided to take a few minutes of my recoup time to sign up for this awesome contest.  The questions also seemed pretty fun to answer too :)  Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist ) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10 ) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you. 1. What is your holiday wish for your family? Have a happy and healthy holiday!  Enjoy the time with each other. 2. What is your Christmas morning tradition? We just started it two years ago, fresh monkey bread baking while we are opening presents.  We get it ready Christmas Eve before bed.  Just one more thing for the kiddos to be excited about.  3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? Mytilene Greece :)  I have always dreamed of going to Greece to find out more of my great-great grandmother who I a...

I just have to say, I thank Thee O God for a Prophet!!! For years I have sat back in silent admiration for our dear, loving prophet. I have been inspired and humbled by many of his wonderful teachings. I know that I'm not really supposed to share many of my work experiences but I couldn't help share a wonderful, humorous side of our prophet. Monday night I took a call from Pres Monson, he was looking for one of his secretaries who happened to not be available. He said that he would try again later and that maybe he would take a drive. He joked and even mentioned taking a walk on the boardwalk. I don't know how it happened but all of a sudden he and I were talking about Monopoly and he was quizzing me on the different names on the Monopoly board. I have to admit I must be a lousy Monopoly player, I could only remember a few of the properties. I even cheated a little and tried to google the Monopoly board for help. Pres Monson just laughed and said he's played longer th...

This is Seth's favorite lullaby :) He loves to sing this before bed. We go down to the computer, find it on youtube and then we sing it together. He is very picky about the parts too. Mommy sings all of the parts except for the duck. He loves singing the ducks part. I melt whenever I hear him trying to sing it by himself. Now if I can just find the CD somewhere :) Love you Seth.

I found this clip about Stephanie Nielson by accident. For the past year I have been reading her story as she deals with the struggles and challenges of starting her life over. I started reading just a few days before she was to come out of her coma. I was so inspired by this woman that I have never met. I am still inspired by her. There are some days that I think "why me". Why do I have to go through this? It is normally something small, something that seems big at the time but is really not. I read her words and it makes me stop and think, that "why me" moment is actually a blessing in disguise. It is a learning moment given to me by our Heavenly Father. It is up to me to decide, am I going to lay back down and curl up in a ball or am I going to stand up and face the situation head on. I also find myself looking at my family differently. I have always tried to make sure that I tell my children that I love them. I tell them that they are beautiful or...

About two weeks ago, I went to pick up my vacuum and move it away from our stairs so noone would get hurt. Unfortunately, I forgot to tell myself that. As I picked it up and turned I felt a sharp pain go thru the upper shoulder area of my back. Great! I pulled something. That's ok I thought, it'll be ok tomorrow. Well, seems like tomorrow kept going and going and here we are two weeks worth of "tomorrows". I started going to the chiropractor last Thurs. I did not like him for probably the next 4 days. Yesterday I finally started to like him. The pain is going away :) No more feeling like my breaths been taken away. Woohoo!! I can also pick up Caleb out of his crib and not feel like I'm going to cry. Woohoo, even better. Who can resist picking up such a cute little dude! Anyway, my kiddos yesterday did some little but huge things for me. I don't think they really realize how much I appreciate it so I am making sure that all of you know how much...

This is info I received from Bree Strong. Her mom visited our troop and discussed what her organization, Healing Hands for Haiti, does for the people of Haiti. She talked to the girls about the recent earthquake and what the people must be going through. Our troop collected items to make hygiene kits for her to take to Haiti last week. Here is update regarding the trip. Dear Friends- First of all I want to say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all the donations for Haiti we received!!! We received enough donations to make 140 hygiene kits (put together with love by Birkley & Peyton's girl scout troup & our neighborhood boy scouts) and a TON of clothing & blankets. We packed up all the hygiene kits and as much of the clothes as we thought they would take and delivered them to the pick up location Tuesday night. There was a TON of stuff. I am amazed at the humble & giving people I am friends with and I am grateful for all of your willingness to jump at th...

Hi Everyone, As I'm sure all of you are aware, there has been a great deal of loss in the country of Haiti. When I met with my Girl Scouts on Tuesday night, I asked them if they were aware of the earthquake that had occured and if they would like to do something to help. Immediately, every hand went up. Before I had a chance to offer the suggestions to the girls that I had, they started pouring out ideas of different ways we could help. It ranged from making blankets, donating all of our cookie money they are currently trying to earn, sending clothing and so forth. We have decided upon two organizations that we would like to help. The first is Healing Hands for Haiti and the other is Soles 4 Souls. Healing Hands main focus in the past has been to help those who have disabilities obtain prosthetics and the rehabilitation they need. Soles 4 Souls collects new or gently used shoes to send to those in need. I know that most of you have recently assisted my son Adam with hi...

Again, hard to believe little Caleb is now 2 1/2 months old. I'm officially off maternity leave and trying to readjust. Caleb is starting to develop his little personality, during the week of Christmas he started laughing and smiling. Mommy also found out that he is ticklish under his arms. He's now sleeping about 4-5 hrs during the night which is soooooo nice. Dr Bean ok'd us to go ahead and give him cereal before bed so that it would help him sleep. I've never loved baby rice so much before. At first I joked that he was like a little clock. He was awake every 3 hrs on the button. Caleb also weighed in at 13 lbs 2 oz during his 2 month check-up. A whopping 5 lb gain. He seems like such a happy little guy. During his 2 month check-up we were told that we should go see a specialist. We (the dr and us) had noticed during his 2 week checkup that he had a small ridge in the middle of his forehead. We had hoped that over a course of time it would start to expand...

I can't believe it is already 2010!!! I also can't believe it's been 2 months since I last added anything to my poor little blog. For Christmas, we get together with as many from our 3 families as possible. We have Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Rich's, Christmas Day with Grandma and Grandpa Price and then we squeeze in my two sisters either Christmas night or the next day. I am so grateful that they are pretty flexible :) Anyway, one of our traditions is to exchange Christmas treats among families each year. One of the treats we received this year was a snowman kit. It was so awesome!! The kids loved it. It snowed a few days ago so on New Years Day, Zoe Emma and Seth decided that they would build a snowman. While they were doing it, you could occasionally hear one of the girls singing the song. Seth also had his little tongue out trying to catch snowflakes and mommy was peeking out the front window to see how cute they all were. I couldn't resist g...

I can't believe October is here!! It feels like an eternity has passed. Most if not all of our family and friends are aware that I lost my step-dad, Papa Chuck, on Sept 12th. He fought a very hard fight but due to the complications that arose caused by his injuries, his body grew very weary and he would not survive without life-support. We as a family agreed to remove the life-support and let him return to our Heavenly Father. My family here in Utah was able to travel back to Ohio to attend the funeral. 2 days before I left, my Grandma Arnett and step-mom Margaret were going into their home and fell on the steps leading up onto the porch. Grandma sustained 4 fractured vertebrae and Mom sustained a fractured wrist. When the hospital did the MRI to see the condition of the fractures on Grandma they found that she had cancer in the spine and it was developing rapidly. Chemo would not be beneficial for her so everyone involved agreed to just make her as comfortable as possible...

I found this today while looking at Deseret Books webpage. If you haven't seen the Reflections of Christ book or DVD yet, you really should. This slideshow is by the same photographer. http://www.anothertestamentofchrist.com/ Emma and I were watching this morning and I loved the questions and comments that she made.....1)This makes me think of Grandpa Chuck, 2)I wonder what Jesus's voice sounds like, 3)He really died for all the bad things that we do or will do? It was a great opportunity to share just a few simple feelings with her and let her see how happy those before us were when he came to the America's after he was crucified. She really liked when he was with the children and giving them hugs and kisses. She mentioned at that point that she was happy to be his little sister. Priceless :)

(I couldn't resist this picture, he was modeling the santa hat for the my girlies) Well, I haven't posted on here for a few weeks. So much has happened in that time. I really don't know where to start. On Aug 24th my stepdad, Papa Chuck, was in a car accident involving him on his scooter and a pick-up truck. He was on his way home from work at about dusk and the truck pulled out in front of him, claiming not to see him, and hit him. The jerk was scared so left the scene and didn't bother to even call 911. He did later return but not til after Papa had been taken to the hospital via careflight. I won't get into details about him because one, he isnt worth wasting my energy on at the moment, and two....well I really don't want to get going on such a horrible person that would just leave another human being lying in the middle of the road. The last two and half weeks have been a huge roller coaster for my family, especially my mother. We were called on Mond...

So I'm entering a contest for a $500 GC to Walmart to update Josh and Adam's to the new "Your Zone" collection. Their poor room has bunk beds that I think used to be in the MTC eons ago. They don't complain though. Hopefully if I win they will be able to get a much needed update :) We'll see. Here's a picture of what I think would be a fun addition for them and the link to where you can enter the contest too if you want. They also have some way cute "girlie" items. http://www.ahappyhippymom.com/2009/08/walmart-your-zone-bedroom-makeover-and-500-gc-giveaway.html/comment-page-23#comment-10285

So today's blog is all about my daddy. It's hard to believe that it has now been two years since he left us. It still feels like yesterday I was packing to make the long trip home to say my good-byes. I think the best part of my remember "what was I doing at this time two years ago" was talking to him on the phone the day before his heart attack. My little sis had just flown in from Ohio and we were checking in with him to let him know that she had arrived. The last thing we said on the phone was "I love you Papa" and "I love you too kiddo". I miss those phone calls a ton but thinking of them make me smile whenever I start to miss him. He always had a way of making me smile or think of the up side even when I knew he might be having a bad day. Some of the things that helped me get through his funeral and the weeks that slowly passed was thinking of some of the funny things we did growing up. Dad nicknaming me "skunk", buying me a...

While browsing on facebook, I came across this great quote by Pres. Packer. Not sure the talk or where it came from but I still really liked it. Happy Friday :) "Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed there is no room for it." -Elder Boyd K. Packer

"Hot" pizza delivery boy "Hot" delivery boys even "hotter" daddy. Wow that's a lot of pizza!!! Take the picture already, we are starving..... This pizza is out of this world!!! About a month or two ago, I heard on KSL or Ch 4 about these things called "house party's". Someone had been chosen to host a group of friends and family for Domino's Pizza to try some of their new stuff. I thought, Hey, why not see what this is all about. Needless to say, I went on houseparty.com and entered. There are literally thousands of people who submit to get to host these parties, in Utah I happened to be one of the 20 chosen for the new American Legends Pizza Party. The party was to be scheduled for June 20th. With Father's Day the next day I decided what better way to honor our American Legend Dads then by giving them American Legend Pizza??? We invited all of the Prices and Schows over and were able to to try 5 of the 6 new pizza's. ...

Getting tattooed at the Girl Scout Booth when we entered the zoo a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3KRWDnAbfOuW2dHFysOPdVUqUiSpF1Ioqs82AaKXkc7bQtD7BLzbI0rw89ZA8BzOM5hX-JYdymN0AP_HdtULnSBXBrOwkGjeqocGp1WPCV3uwNP26ptQaoZq0_1UdtxSz2n9kkmgbbQ/s1600-h/282.JPG"> Look out world, here we come! My favorite group of monkey's getting ready to visit the Gorilla's Del & Josh helping out with breakfast, mmmmm, bacon! We had our Brownie sleepover on Friday night. I had all of these great plans for a fun and event filled evening. There was going to be smores, a campfire, charades and then of course girls giggling in the tent next to mine. Well, due to the weather, none of that happened. It's amazing what mother nature will throw at you to make you just put your arms in the air and say I give up. The girls kept good spirits and even though the tent got wet an...

I was hoping to be able to post a cute little picture of our ultrasound but alas, my home computer doesn't like me right now and won't let me scan pictures. For those that we haven't told yet, our darling little Halloween baby is going to be a BOY :) :)

Only 2 more hours til Ultrasound......any last minute guess's on what baby will be?

This is one of my favorite places back home. Charleston Falls near Huber Hts, Ohio. I used to take walks there with my friends during the fall and summer. Whoever took this picture did a great job, I can almost hear the sound of the water :) There are times I just miss Ohio......