Wooo Hooo 1 More day and it's back to Utah!!!! I cant wait to go home and see all our family and friends... It's been a crazy long day for us.. We have spent the day trying to pack everything and we still cant make everything fit.. And trying to get the house cleaned up and still havn't got it all done yet.. It's a good thing we have 1 more day.. Although tomorrow is a pretty booked day for us as well. I am going a lunch linger longer as they call it tomorrow after church for the choir members and then we have been invited to a family's house for dinner and hopefully get home early enough to get everyone in bed so we can all be up by 3:30 AM to leave.. It will be great not to half to worry about cooking anything.. I am pretty sad though because we have to leave our little Lucky dog behind in a kennel while we are gone and I just know he is going to think we abandoned him and feel sad and depressed himself.. We have never had to leave him before so its going to be tough.. It's like leaving one of your kids behind.. I just pray they take good care of him.. He will be so scared...

Well gotta go do some more packing... Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

Where has the time gone?

Oh my goodness I have been such a slacker lately with blogging.. Tis the season.. We have been so busy with all our school concerts and activitys and trying to get ready for christmas that the time has just flown by.. I swear it was just thanksgiving like the other day and now here we are 6 days away from Christmas.. Where has december gone??? It's like blink and you will miss it!!

We are so excited only 2 more days and we head to utah hopefully!! It has been snowing today and alot of flights have been cancelled and the airports here are a huge mess.. There is supposed to be another storm sunday and i am just praying that it doesnt mess up our flight out early Monday morning... The snow hasnt really accumalated here. It snows then it rains and alot of the time its a sleety mix so it just makes the roads a slick mess.. It will be nice to come to utah and really get to see what real snow looks like.. The kids are so excited that can hardly stand it.. We are all packing our snow outfits so we can play in the snow while we are there... From what I hear it supposed to snow most of the time that we are there.. I sure do miss the beautifulness of it. I am not to excited to be driving in it since we will be doing alot of that while we are there but its sure a nice change to what we have out here at least so far.....

We have Austins belt ceremony tonight for his rank advancement in karate.. He has worked so hard. We are very proud of him. And then we will be spending most of the weekend cleaning and packing and getting ready to leave so I may not find the time to get back on here so I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year..

Just a poem I wanted to share..

Heavens Gift

Heaven's gift has come to man. Mortal fate rests within tiny hallowed hands.

Shepherds singing, a shining star, Angels proclaiming, Kings bearing gifts from afar.

A scene of serene glory, The weight of a holy hush,The meaning of heaven's story,
'Twas God's first CHRISTmas gift to us.

Who would recall the power of that day, At the time when He was led away,

Bearing a crown, a robe, and fateful wounds? Was He not the gift from heaven's womb?

Shall we turn from that holy day and walk away unchanged?

Will we allow it to envelope our souls only to let it slowly slip away?

Through plastic, tinsel, parties and gifts, Shopping, planning, and Christmas lights lit,

Can the simple gift be heard or seen, Or does it quietly fade behind holiday sheen?

Let us not forget that He loves us so. He loves us too much to let us go.

He sent a plan with his sacrifice to forgive and cleanse and give us life.

Embrace the greatest gift of all, don't let your sense of the manger wane.

The gift of heaven is yours to receive. It was the true reason He came.

Help Needed.. Prayer Poem

Ok I need help.. I need a poem about remembering to pray to go on a little tag to be tied onto a prayer doll we are making in Activity Days tonight.. I know short notice.. I have been searching the internet and cant seem to find anything that would really work.. Do any of you have a poem that might work. just something short and sweet that will only take up to maybe 6 lines at the most.

Sorry had way to much fun with these below!! They are better if you pause my music player below!!

The Hoyt Family

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The Hoyt Family

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14 Days and Counting

Wow I'm finally back on.. It took me a while to catch up after my parents left.. I kinda put everything on hold when my parents came out and I have been trying to get back into the swing of things..

It was so great having my parents out for the Thanksgiving holiday and my birthday. It was the best birthday surprise ever. One I will never forget. This was the shot my mom took of me when it finally clicked that I was actually looking at my parents here on my door step.

Another one of us she took. I can definently see where all the turkey and pies went over the week.. I think I put on 5 pounds while they were here.. LOL

This was our wonderful turkey taken fresh right of the farm we live near. And this was us and our dinner.. I dont go all out crazy with the linens and decorations and stuff like that for thanksgiving. Its hard enough to just get all the food cooked... Maybe as I get older and our children marry and come back then we will get fancy...

Lucky our dog and Papa cuddeling in the chair.. My dog almost forgets who his owners are when Grandma and Grandpa come.. They spoil him rotten. He's like another one of the kids.. He gets so depressed when they leave.. My parents keep trying to talk me in to giving them our dog..They really miss him too!! LOL

Papa and Logan snoozing in the chair.

And this was me opening my presents for my birthday.. A few days after turkey day I got another surprise.. My bosch mixer came.. It wasn't supposed to come until after christmas but it showed up early.. Of course I wasn't allowed to open it and use it because it is supposed to be my b-day/christmas gift so I have to wait until we get back from utah. I really tried to negotiate but it didnt work...

Speaking of which.... ONLY 14 DAYS LEFT until we get to head back to Utah!!!! Yeah!!! We are all so excited...The kids are so excited they can hardly stand it.. They each have a calendar and they have been crossing off the days as they count down.... They already miss grandma and grandpa horribly not to mention the Grandmas and Grandpas and cousins and friends they havn't seen for a year now.. We are having a hard time trying to figure out how to squeeze in seeing everybody there in the 11 days we have. It is going to be a crazy week!! We will need a vacation from our vacation..

The Best Surprise Ever!

Oh my gosh I recieved the best surprise ever.......... So let me start out with this.. I have been feeling a little bummed because turkey day was fast approaching and this was going to be our first year without celebrating it with our family's and we didnt have anywhere to go or everyone that we invited to come to our house already had plans so I was kinda bummed that is was going to be just us.. Plus it's also my birthday on thanksgiving day..I have been trying for months now to get my parents to come out but they kept telling me they couldnt and because we were coming out for christmas it just wouldnt make sense to come here for thanksgiving given it was so close or that they just didnt have the money.

So anyways my husband had to fly out of town last sunday on a buisness trip and return on Friday.. He called me from the airport on sundy saying that if I was a good girl he would give me a surprise when he got home.. So I had to go all week wondering what my surprise was.. I just love surprises and hate not knowing or having to wait for them it drives me crazy.. And my husband is not one for doing surprises very often. In the 13 years we have been married he has only surprised me twice.

So I kinda thought that maybe my surprise was that he was going to come home early.. So thursday came and I had lots of things going on that day. I had a parent teacher confrence that night so I got home late around 6:45 and I didnt see his cr in the driveway so I assumed that him coming home a day early was not my surprise so I got dinner going and sure enough in he walked and we were so happy and said yeah this was my surprise, I'm so glad your home.. So I started to finish preparing dinner and it was getting late and we were running around trying to get everything done and then my doorbell rang. I went and awnsered it and I had to open up the storm door and look around the side to see who it was. And standing there were MY PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

At first I just kinda stood there looking at them like hu? It wasn't quite clicking yet that they were here.. My mind was like it cant be them they are 2500 miles away.. And then all of a sudden the realization hit and my mouth hit the floor. I couldnt believe they were here... I was so excited. And to find out that they and my husbad had been planning this for the last 3 months!! I cant believe they kept this secret from me the whole time.. They all admitted it was really difficult exspecially for steve but they managed it.. This was like the best birthday and thanksgiving surprise ever!! My mom snapped a shot of my face when the realization finally hit when I awnsered the door but I will have to wait to post it after she gets home and send it to me since I cant download it onto my computer but it is pretty funny.... Ok some of my sneaky blogger friends you know who you are...... I found out you knew too and didnt tell... mmmmhmmmm......

This will be a great thanksgiving to remember.. So if I dont get back on here for a while its only because I am loving my time with my family.. So to all my bloggy friends out there....

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

I am so grateful for all of you and your friendships and your loyalness to reading my crazy blog.. Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving this year..

Tag Im it!!!!!

I have been tagged by Shauna!! I think we are soul sisters.. Most of her awnsers fit me to the T.

A-Attached or Single: Attached

B-Best Friend: My Husband, & many more!(I don't want to leave out anyone!)

C-Cake or Pie: Cheese cake

D-Day of Choice: Saturday

E-Essential Item: cell phone or my computer

F-Favorite Color: burgandy

G-Greatest Accomplishment: My Children

H-Hometown: Northern Utah

I-Indulgences: Blogging & chocolate!

J-January or July: July

K-Kids: 3 girls and 1 boy

L-Life is incomplete without: Family, Friends, The Gospel & L♥ve

M-Marriage: For all eternity to my sweet Honey :)

N-Number of Siblings: One

O-Oranges or Apples: both I couldnt decide

P-Phobias or fears:my kids getting sick

Q-Quotes: "Always think of things on an Eternal perspective!"

R-Reason to Smile:My family

S-Season:Spring

T-Tag Friends: anyone that wants to be tagged

U-Unknown facts about me: Im a pretty open book!

V-Very favorite store(s): Walmart

W-Worst habit: Stressing

X-X-ray or Ultra Sound: X-ray (no more babies for me:)

Y-Your favorite food: Chinese and Mexican

Z-Zodiac: Sagitarius

Happy Birthday to us!!

November seems to be quite a busy month for us...

Catching up on my week.. Well we had Steve's birthday on friday. I cooked a nice steak dinner and made him a banana cream pie. It turned out so yummy!! Me the kids and my mom all went in and got him a really nice leather book set of the History of the Church. 8 books total. He has been wanting them for a while but figured they were to expensive to get so it was a nice surprise for him.

Then on Saturday we had Austins birthday party for his friends. I was really panicking when we woke up and it was still raining. I had no idea what I was going to do with so many boys running through my house... We had a pinata so we started cleaning out the garage so we could hang it up in there for the boys. But no kidding like an hour before the party it stopped raining and about 15 mins before the sun came out. Plus it was 71 degrees out side so it was really nice... It was still a bit windy and it was still pretty wet but the boys dont care about that so they spent the majority of the time out side playing various football games. My husband played the whole time with them.. And I cant believe I didnt get any pictures of this or the pinata breaking. Steve later said he knew he was getting way to old because he was having a hard time keeping up with the boys.. I think he's a little depressed because he keeps saying he is now closer to 40 then 30.. Gosh I remember when my parents were this age and I thought they were so old and now here we are....

I was quite surprised when his guests started showing up and 1 ended up being a girl.. I didnt know he had invited a girl.. She was really cute. She is from his karate class and I said she was brave for coming and putting up with all these boys and she said she is used to it and that she usually plays with the boys at school. She could probably kick any one of these boys butts. She is a tough little girl at karate.. Really good!!

As soon as the party was over within 15 mins it started clouding up and really blowing and started to rain again so we were so lucky to have had the nice weather just at the right time for the party. All in all I think it went really well.

Sunday steve flew out again for the week so it has been a crazy week here for us. I was bombarded with appnt for all the kids on tuesday that me and logan were literally gone from 10:00 in the morning and didnt get home until 6:00 in the evening. It was a very long stressful day and logan did so well bless her heart. We have been doing more testing with Jessie and her learning disabilitys. Yesterday she had some vision evaluations done.. I dont get to speak to the dr. until next tuesday but I already know the results will not be good. I got to sit in with her during the tests and I got to see a whole diffrent side to her brain and her thinking and what she really sees that I have never seen before.. Things that I just assumed she knew or saw that she really didnt. In a way it was kinda heart breaking to see her struggle and not know the right awnsers. Or see things the way a person without the disabilitys would see them. Man it is hard. You never want to see your kids struggle or have problems and know it will be something we will struggel with all her life, but I guess it is good we are catching things early so we can do something about it. And things could always be alot worse.. So I consider us a very blessed family.

Today me and Logan got to go help out with a project they were doing in Austin's class for history on the 13 colonies

Thanksgiving will be hard this year not being around family. As of right now we dont have anyone coming for dinner nor have we any plans to go anywhere.. I was hoping to cook a big dinner and have at least someone over but everyone seems to have plans already.. This sucks!!

Owell I am gratefull we have each other and we are here as a family. I will have to come up with some fun things to do...My birthday also happens to fall on thanksgiving this year... I was actually born on thanksgiving day. My mom always said I was the turkey of the family for not letting her get to eat her turkey dinner.. So yeah I get to pig out for my birthday. Plus I am getting a bosch mixer for my birthday... I am so excited I cant wait to use it.. Well it isnt really coming until the end of december so its kinda a birthday/christmas gift. But I cant wait to make some bread with it.

So Its been crazy birthday month at our house.. We woke up yesterday and saw these guys out in our back yard. It was fun to watch them. They seem to come out alot more during this time of year..

And last but not least just a picture of my cutie patootie before school today.

Catching Up

We have had so much going on the past week that I have wanted to blog about but no time to do it so this will be a catch up and a summary of all the crazy things going on in the past 2 weeks..
Well I am feeling like such a looser.. I didnt get any pictures of my kids on halloween night in their costumes. I never have forgotten to take picts on halloween night. I cant believe I did... I must have had so many things going on that I just blew it.. I had appts earlier in the day and I was in a hurry to try and get my halloween dinner done so the kids could hurry and get out for trick or treating and nothing was seeming to go right.. My brain jello didnt set up all the way. I forgot the dry Ice for the cauldron of blood. The kids were not so hip on my meatloaf body with a knife through his heart with blood oozing out all over.

Owell there's always next year....

We have had to go through several appnts lately with Jessie to see some specialist. We have found out she has CAPD Central Audio Processing Disorder. And She has some problems with her vision and tracking so she needs some vision therapy. We knew she was struggeling and having a hard time with learning and reading and remembering things but just didnt know it had a name.. She hears things but her brain has a hard time processing the information and holding onto the info. So we will be doing some therapy for that as well.

On a brighter note she has finally lost her 2nd front tooth so now she will be singing All I want for christmas is my two front teeth. And hey the tooth fairy even remembered her this time around.. Of course Allie lost another one of her teeth 2 days ago and yes the tooth fairy had another althiemers attack again!!!!! Dang that tooth fairy better pull it together..

Austin had a birthday on sunday he is now 10 years old. My heavens where has the time gone.. It seems like yesterday I just had him. We are having a party for him this sat. with his friends.. Oh yipee he invited 14 boys. I have no idea what I am going to do with 14 boys running around my house. I am praying for decent weather so they can play outside. We bought a pinata, and he wants to play some football but it is supposed to rain and I have no idea what to do if we end up getting stuck in the house.. any ideas??? PLEASE

Logan started preschool finally on Monday. She has been waiting so patiently.. It's been hard being the only one home while everyone else is at school. She kept saying when do I get to go to school. Yeah now I have 2hrs to myself in the mornings... Yeah now I can finally get back to a running schedule... Since school had started I pretty much stopped running or only getting in 1 run a week or every other so it has been killing me mentally and physically. I have never ran through a winter before so it will be interesting and hopefully I can stick with it..

So thats our crazy story for the past 2 weeks in a nut shell. Busy busy as always. I am still waiting for life to slow down!!!