Christmas Tree Cutting Fun - Super Sized

It's hard to tell in this picture due to all the other trees around, but here's a picture of our Gigantor Christmas tree. I think it might be on the upwards of 20 feet!!!!
Mike and Jenny's tree seemed really big until Dave brought "The Grizwald Family Tree" down off the mountain. Dave is a freak of nature, that tree weighed a ton and he just heaved it over his shoulder like it was nothing. This picture busts me up.

It was lots of fun having Jenny and Mike with us this year. Sad we didn't hook up with our friends the Fischers, we've gone with them for years, but this year we got our locations mixed up. Can't wait to see what "Fish" drug off the mountain.

Did a little bit of sledding before we went and cut trees. Not very much snow, just enough to make a few runs down the hill. Hope we get some more snow soon!!

Jessy and Kassy both have head colds, but that didn't stop them from getting a run or to in.

All in all it was a super fun adventure, one we have been doing for 19 years now. I think we have only missed once, maybe twice. It's a fun family tradition, one I hope we can carry on for years to come. Now the real fun begins, Dave brought the tree in tonight. It touched the ceiling, so he cut 2 or so feet off. Can't wait to put the lights on - NOT! Feel free to come over and help!

Happy Last Day of November!

Do Over

This is my second post for the day, but the first one that showed up. I blogged earlier, but my computer kicked me off and I lost everything. I'm blogging from the lap top now, so I don't have access to my pictures, dang it. I wanted to show you the "Fagg Family" Christmas tree! It really is HUGE!!! Maybe tomorow my desktop will play nicely so I can post some pictures and you can see that I am not kidding. Can't wait to put the lights on it - not!

It was a great weekend. Yummy food, hanging with family, successful shopping, exciting tree adventures, sad football games, and dinner with the Missionaries - Whew I got tired just writing it all done.

Happy Sunday to you all!

PS. Good news, Dave fininshed his session of classes today, finals are done and turned in.
Bad news, next set of classes starts tomorow, the fun begins again!
Super proud of him for going back to school! Keep up the Good Work!

Go UTES

Really quick like and then tomorow I'll give a full run down. 2 minutes left of the BYU - U Game. Can the UTES pull it off? I sure hope so! Go UTES!! Gotta go watch the last few minutes!

Happy Saturday

PS. Got our tree today. If you've ever watched Christmas Vacation, you've seen our tree! It's HUGE!!!!

Super Quick!

This is gonna be super quick, but at least I'm gettin it in. I had a ball shopping with my sister today (gotta love Black Friday)! We passed my brothers path a couple of times and talked to my dad on the phone. Got some great deals and put a huge dent in my Christmas Shopping. I think I'm done with Kassy - Yea!

Gotta run, I've gotta get to work! Happy Friday!

PS. Tomorow is Tree cutting day, so exciting.

Gobble Gobble - Happy Turkey Day

The Macey's parade is on, the pies are made, Dave's playing football in a "turkey bowl", and the newspaper is her. Turkey dinner at 2:00 followed by Planet 51 at 4:40. Sounds like a perfect Thanksgiving Day!

The things that I am grateful for are endless, I couldn't possibly write them all down. So, here's 10 things that I am thankful for today:

1. My husband
2. My kids
3. My family
4. The Savior
5. The gospel
6. Great friends
7. Food to eat
8. Books to read
9. Changing seasons
10. Modern Technology

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and remember, sometimes when life gets crazy it's hard to see the big things to be thankful for, look for the little things. Little things are all around and they are the things that keep me going! I hope this Thanksgiving their are big things in your life to be grateful for as well as lots and lots of little things!

It's time to go scope the adds to plan my attack for Black Friday! I love shopping on Black Friday. It is one of my favorite family traditions, and I great way to burn off the Thanksgiving calories. The morning begins at Smith's Marketplace - I'm not sure why, but it just does! Maybe it's the free donuts and juice. What ever the case, it's lots of fun and I love being with my dad, my older brother and sister. Unfortunatley my little brother never got the "Black Friday bug". I don't understand that, but I won't hold it against him. Maybe one day we will get him hooked, but I'm not counting on it. It will be weird this year with dad not being with us. He is in Arizona spending some time with Pat's kids. I'm sure will have to call him just because that's what we do when we are waiting in lines.

May your turkey be tender, may your stuffing stuff you, may your mashed potatos not be lumpy and enjoy your PIE - lots and lots of PIE! YUM!

2 Weeks and Still going strong

It's been almost 2 weeks since I began the "Chelsea Challenge" and though some days it's been difficult, I am rather enjoying putting some of my thoughts out their for you all to read. Hope it's been somewhat interesting and hasn't bored you to tears.

Jessy is home sick, AGAIN! She has a head cold. I feel so bad for her, she has had a rough time these past few months and winter isn't even official here. Hope she can get over this quickly and that no one else gets it! It's not fun being sick!

Dave is smack dab in the middle of finals week. Oh boy, he is so happy - not! We will all be glad when this week is over. The only bad news is when he is finished, he immediatley starts his next set of classes, one of them being math! That'll be fun - haha. Just wanted to let you all know that I am really proud of him for going back to school. Not so easy when you are our age. Wish we would have figured that out sooner, like 20 years ago.

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

Baby News - I'm going to be an Aunt!

Are there things in the world that you don't ever think are going to happen and then when you least expect it, the news is dropped in your lap?! That's exactly what is going on in my world. Last night my little brother and his wife announced that they are having a baby in June!!!!! I can't believe it, my little brother is going to be a dad. CRAZY!!!! I am so excited for them, they will be such cute parents and I am sure they will have the cutest baby! I can't wait to find out what they are having - can't wait to shop! Congratulations Jared and Shanon.

Happy Birthday wishes to my dad, hope you have a great time in Arizona. My good buddy Denza, thanks for being such a great friend, and Sami Hooper who we miss tons.

Happy Tuesday to you all!

Short Week

Hurray it's Monday and it's a short week - so to speak!

I love Thanksgiving and the opportunity it gives us to reflect on the things we are grateful for. A couple of weeks ago we had a family home evening lesson where we made a list of things that we were grateful for . We couldn't put "big" things on the list, it had to be "small" things. I thought it would be fun to share some of the things that we came up with you.

Dave: Hagan Daz Chocolate, Chololate Chip Ice Cream, heat vents, movies.
Karey: Heated seats in the Tahoe, green gum, clocks.
Kassy: Flowers, stuffed animals, furnishings.
Jessy: Ponytail holders, sweats, hand sanatizer.
Cody: Flushy toilets, blue blankie, months of the year.
Aunt Jenny: Harmons ice, pink water bottle, fluffy pillow.


Sometimes in this crazy world it is hard to find "big" things to be grateful. Those are the days that I am grateful for the little things that keep me going.

Hope you can all find something to be grateful for this holiday season.

Happy Monday to you all!

Wrapping Things Up for the Week

I know that on the Calendar Sunday is the first day of the week, but I often feel as if it is the end of the week. It is the day I get to ponder over what has taken place during the week and contemplate what to do in the upcoming week. This past week has been very eventful, and the upcoming week is going to be even more so.

I figured today being Sunday (wrap it up day), it would be a perfect day to finish my thoughts about the fireside with Sister Dalton. One thing that really impressed me about the fireside is when Sister Dalton had all the priest that had come to the fireside stand up. A few whistles came from the balcony of the auditorium. Everyone giggled, even Sister Dalton, she made a comment that she felt like whistling as well. She then asked the girls to look around, "what do you feel?" The first thing that popped into my head was POWER. When she spoke again that is exactly what she said. Not just power but the priesthood power. I am so grateful for the priesthood power in my life. It has helped me on more than one occasion and I have truely seen its power in action. It really was an amazing Fireside. Sister Dalton's love for the Savior, the prophet, the gospel, and the youth was unquestionable as she spoke and shared her testimony. I am so glad that I had the opportunity to feel of the spirit so stongly. Her remarks made me question things in my own life and made me want to do better. Thanks to our great young womens lesson today - thanks Jamie - I am going to set some new goals for my future. I'll keep you posted as to how things pan out.

Last thing before I end, Happy Birthday to some of my favorite people: My best friend since birth, Kirsten - I miss you and wish you all the happiness in the world. My father-in-law, even though he is one of the grumpiest people I know (wonder where Dave get's it from - lol), I am so grateful for his presence in my families lives.

Happy Sunday to you all!

Saturday's Accomplishments

Another Saturday has come and is quickly on it's way out! Where do the weekends go? I think the weekends should be Monday - Thursday, Friday and Saturday week days and Sunday, well just be Sunday. Let's take a vote, all in favor say "I".

I got tons accomplished, if you don't believe me come by my house. The leafs are all raked up and I even mowed after I was done raking to make the grass look extra beautiful. I think I might be a bit OCD about a few things. When the wind blow and dropped a couple of leaves on my grass, I had to go pick them up. Whew, I'm sure glad it's not windy tonight! After the lawns were done I moved to Chrismtas Lights. Can you believe we are a month away from Christmas? I sure can't!! Anyway, got the Christmas lights all hung! Yea, one thing to mark off the Christmas preparation list.

This evening I took the girls to Target - gosh I love that store! They wanted to do some Christmas shopping. Jessy decided she liked looking for things she wanted rather, than for things to buy others. Her list is about a mile long. It was fun to hang, just me and my girls.

Ended the night with Pizza and now everyone is watching Star Trek. Better run so I don't miss anymore of the movie. Yes I am a "Trekey" Fan.

Happy Saturday!

The Reviews Are In - New Moon was a HUGE Success

After a lot of stress and anticipation, our sneek peak of New Moon was a huge success. It was kinda fun walking into the theatre and taking charge of how things ran for the night. There was a bit of a glich when the theatre people said we had to start seating immediatley because we told people they couldn't line up until 5 and then seating wouldn't begin until 5:30. Thanks to modern technology - texting - we were able to get the word out to most everyone and instantly the fans started pouring into the theatre. Again, I was a bit stressed, but everyone played nicely and seating went fairly well. We only had 1 group, that I know of, that didn't get to sit all together. Not to bad when you factor in 243 Twilight fans.

Thanks to all of you who joined me on the front row, you are awesome and saved me having to deal with alot of grief! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Not my seat of choice, but it worked, plus no one could growl at me because I was 1 of the people who put this thing together. I could have had any seat I wanted to, but instead I hung on the front row!

As for the movie itself; no movie is as good as the book, how can it be? In a book the author is able to give as much detail as they want, and Stephanie Meyer gives lots of details. In a movie the director doesn't have that ability, they have minutes to portray something that might have taken pages to describle in the book. I read a review this morning that was harsh on the scene where the months pass in New Moon, describing it as boring and long. To me, I thought the scene was perfect. It's exactly how I pictured it in the book, Bella sitting, wasting time, and feeling miserable. The review also said something about Bella and Edward and their lack of words and the annoying long gazes between the 2 of them. Again that didn't bother me, most of the book is what is going on inside Bella's head, not what she is saying to Edward.

The Wolf Pack - oh my gosh! I loved them, they brought humor and energy to the movie, as well as some serious six packs to gape at (come on, I know you all drooled a bit when you saw them). Taylor was amazing as Jacob! I am really glad that he was able to keep the role of Jacob, this movie wouldn't have been the same had they replaced him. (Still bugged that they replaced Victoria for the next one!)

The Cullens - loved them! They looked so much better this time around, the eyes, the hair - definatley better. Alice is one of my favorites, she had some great lines. One of my favorite lines of the movie was when she said, "I'll be back as soon as you put the dog out." There was a lot of great one liners not only by the vampires, but the werewolfs and humans to.

My shirt that I wore, thanks to Connie Meyers, had a picture of Edward and Jacob with the saying, "I can't decide". I think a better saying for my shirt would be, "I can't get enough! " Maybe that's what I'll do for my next shirt when Eclipse comes out in 221 days. I really love this series. I'll admit it I have read all the books multiple times, but I'm not saying how many times, that could be embarassing. They are just to fun!

Thanks to Stephanie Meyer for reminding me how much I love to read. I had put that passion a side until reading the Twilight Saga. I am glad to be back in reading mode, it's a great outlet. Dave might not agree, but he tolerates my closet reading - THANKS!

Again thanks to all of you who came and spent your evening with me. I hope you had as much fun as I did! Oh yes, I will be seeing this movie again in the NEAR future. Feel free to join me! Don't get your hopes up yet, but as of now, our name is on the list to do this again on June 29th when Eclipse comes out. We will see what happens - no guarantees, but it is definetley a possibilty. We learned alot this time around, so next time might be easier.

Happy Friday to you all - Yea we made it to the weekend! ENJOY

New Moon Day is HERE!

I didn't think this day would ever come, but it's here! You can feel the excitement in the air! Everywhere I go I run into one of my friends who is coming with me tonight. The most exciting part is I am going to a priemere. It starts at 6:00 pm. So when all of you midnight movie goers are getting ready to leave (or in your case much later - Michele - you crazy girl), I will be all done with my New Moon Experience. Not to done because you all know I will have to see it multiple times!!!! Can't wait for tomorows posting so I can give you all the glorious details about New Moon. Oh ya, did I mention that I'm a bit obsessed about the whole Twilight Saga. Did any of you get that? Hmm.

Werewolf or Vampire. Which team are you? I just can't decide!

Happy Thursday to you all.

Only 10 Minutes

I have 10 minutes before I have to be at Cody's class to help out, so this is going to be quick!

Last night was the fireside with Sister Dalton. She is amazing. I felt truly blessed by being in attendance. She filled the auditorium with the spirit, something I'm sure that a junior high auditorium is not use to. I am getting a bit ahead of myself. Before Sister Dalton spoke a yw choir performed. 2 girls from our ward, Jessica and Kassy (yes, my Kassy), sang in the choir. It was so beautiful and set the perfect tone for the meeting. A group of girls were in the auditorium while the rest of them waited in the hallways. The first group began singing and then the girls from the halls filled in and added their voices to the group. It gives me goose bumps even now thinking about it. It was very powerful to hear these girls singing. The yw who sang truely are choice spirits who have been saved for these latter days to be Keepers of His Light!

Oh my gosh, my 10 minutes is already up. I'll have to come back and finish this post later.

HAPPY WEDNESDAY - HUMP DAY!

Today is Tuesday

Just fyi, I like Tuesdays, they aren't the 1st day of the week, I don't have anything specific that I have to do (like help in someones class, yw, gymnastics, or climbing), and the weekend is 1 day closer! Hurray for Tuesdays!!

My plans were to get up early and go to the gym. Ha - so didn't happen. I did however make it to the gym after I dropped the kids off at school. I have to be honest, I hate going to the gym, but once I am there, I love it! Maybe one of these days I wll be a body builder - lol!!! Wouldn't that be funny?! YES!!!!

So much for nothing to do on Tuesday's. Tonight is a youth fireside. Sherri Dew is speaking. I am so excited, even if it does cut into my nothing to do on Tuesday happiness.

Last night I took Jessy to gymnastics. She is getting so good. I'm thinking about putting her in another day a week so she can excel even faster. I think it would be great for her, not so much for me because it would be another place to drive to and from, but oh well. I would have to make sure it doesn't fall on Tueday though!

Happy Tuesday!

Day 4 - Earlier rather than Later

Hello all, it's me again. 4 Days in a row with 361 to go!

Dawn, thanks for following, but what in the world were you doing up at such a gosh awful early time of day?

Michele, Hope I can keep you entertained and not bore you to death. If nothing else you can correct my spelling and grammer errors. I'm sure there are PLENTY!

This morning Kassy had a doctors appointment so after dropping Jessy and Cody off at school she and I headed towards the doctors office. We made it to the doctors office with loads of time to spare so we made a quick stop at McDonalds for breakfast. Hot chocolate and a Sausage Egg McMuffin - nutritious and delicious! It was fun hanging out with Kassy, we don't get to hang together just the 2 of us very often. She is growing up so fast and sometimes I feel as if I missing out on her life. What happened to my sweet baby girl? Kass, I know you are reading this as well as many of your friends, so I won't embarass you to much. I just wanted everyone to know that I am glad that Kassy is part of our family. She is so loving and generous. Her willingness to give is endless. I love her and appreciate all she does for me and for our family. Thanks Kassy Bug - Love you!

It's now 1:00 pm and the time to pick kids up from school will be here before I know it. Better go change the laundry and then run over to my friend Kristen's house. Can't wait to get my hands on her new little baby girl (Kate).

The best part about Monday is, you know that even though the weekend is over, you are on your way to the next weekend! Only 4 more days left. Happy Monday!

Day 3 - Just Barely

I just got home from work and remembered I hadn't blogged for the day. (Just in case you didn't know, I work at the Children's Place doing stock. I don't work very often or make "beans" for money, but the discount is fabulous! I totally love it! The people I work with are great and have always made me feel so welcome! Thanks ladies!) There's some super cute new things out, especially for girls, and all their holiday stuff is on sale. Just a little plug.

Taught my lesson in YW on Nutrition and the Word of Wisdom. I think it went okay. Any feed back from those of you that were there would be greatly appreciated. I still laugh thinking about me teaching about nutrition because I am not the best at it. Coke and Hot Tamales, don't they cover the basic food groups? Hmmmm.

Going to call it a wrap! Happy Sunday, what's left of it. Until tomorow!

Day 2 - The Chelsea Challenge

Thanks so much to all of you who commented yesterday. It made me feel so loved. I just need to figure out how to get all of your Blogs on to mine so that I can check up on your craziness, oops I meant lives. Michele, I think you might have to come for another visit because I am a total computer tard and pretty much forgot how to do most of the things you showed me how to do when I set my blog up. Andrea, I can't wait to check out your blog and see what is new in your life - your little girl is sooooo dang cute!

We made it to the temple last night - Yea! I'll tell you what, I am pretty sure that "someone" didn't want us to go. What an ordeal! Ordeal # 1, I couldn't find my temple recomend. Found my old one in my temple bag, but no sign of my new one. I knew I had one because I used it when we did baptisms for the dead not that long ago. I searched, but had no luck in finding it. I ran next door to the bishops house, he wasn't home but his wife had him call me. He said he could call over to the temple. I told him I'd look for awihle longer. Kassy came upstairs and asked what I was doing, told her I couldn't find my recommend, she said "this is the purse you took, did you look in it?" "Of course" I said. "How about this pocket? It feels like thers is something in it." She opened up the pocket and low and behold there was my recommend. Yea Kassy, you saved the day. Ordeal #2. The time was now 5:30 and no sign of Dave. I called and text him, but no response. He had had a really bad day and when I had talked to him earrlier he said he wasn't in the mood to go to the temple. I told him, "All the more reason to go." At 5:55pm he came through th door. So much for making the 6:00 session with the ward. Dave still wasn't sure he wanted to go, to bad for him our temple stuff was by the front door, I was all dressed and ready to go, and his clothes were laid out on the bed. Finally we made it out the door which lead us to ordeal #3 - TRAFFIC! The traffic was terrible. It took us almost 40 minutes to get to the temple. Now I am sure there are people in the world that would say, "It took you ONLY 40 minutes", but for us that was a long time. (I know, we are super lucky to have so many temples near by. Sometimes I take that for granted, ok let's be honest, I always take that for granted!) Horray we made it to the 7:00 session. We really need to be better about going. We don't have any excuse. I am reminded of the talks given in general conference, " if the bretheren can find it in their busy schedules to go to the temple, we should be able to find time as well." I am goint to try to be better in the future about "finding time". It was a perfect date night and I am glad that we went!

Now it is Saturday, Dave and I got up and went to the gym this morning - another perfect date! I didn't really want to go, but glad I did. Now it's time to finish cleaning the house and putting together a lesson. Dave thinks we should go on a ride this afternoon. I am pretty sure that will involve some kind of mud. Oh boy.

Happy Saturday to you all!

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH

Oh my gosh, I totally forgot to wish you all a happy and safe Friday the 13th!

The Chelsea Challenge - Day 1

As many of you may know, I have the word "SUCKER" printed across my forhead and I say yes to most everyone and everything. I am trying to be better at that, but I just feel guilty when I say no. Especially because there is so much in this world that needs to get done. Anyway, because of that I have a tendency to get myself involved in way to much and often stuggle to get everything done. To make things worse, I am dragging physically these days and can barley stand the idea of staying up past 9:00 (crazy because I am a night owl and 1:00 am seems early to me). I really need to go get my B12 shot, but like I said I don't usually make alot of time for myslef! I think that might be the norm for alot of us. Anyway, I didn't mean for this to be a winey post, so on to my real reason for this post. Last Sunday in YW's our YW class president challenged all of us to make a blog and update it on a daily basis. Making the blog sounded okay to me, but posting to it everyday seemed a little overwelming. Oh, who am I kidding, ALOT overwelming. We were told we could start whenever we wanted, but once we started, we had to post everyday! Chelsea, I accept your challenge! Here it goes!

The Chelsea Challenge - Day 1
Today I started my day dropping Jessy and Cody at school, stayed at the school for a PTA meeting (see paragraph above - can't say no). After the meeting it was time to take Kassy to school, I hate the late friday schedule, it is the pits. Came home and puttered around for awihle. Thought about going to the gym, but just couldn't bring myself to go. Maybe later. Came downstairs to work on my YW lesson for Sunday and decided I would start the "Chelsea Challenge. I have 1 short hour left before it is time to start picking kids up - AGAIN. I am hoping that Dave and I will be able to go to the temple tonight. We haven't been in awihle and I think it would be a great thing for both of us to go! I'll let you know in tomorows post if it worked out!

So there you go, there's my day. Honestly, don't feel obligated to read my daily posts, but know I am going to do my darndest to post. Hopefully it will get easier with time!

Happy wishes to you all.