After Thanksgiving

On Saturday we made little stuffed angels with Grammie.  It was so fun and they turned out really cute!  Even Carter and Ben made them.  Balian was too busy playing Super Smash Brothers to care.  We got to eat some of the turkey cupcakes mom made too.  They were darling AND yummy!  Then we went with Ben's fam to cut down our tree.  It is now decorated and has little angels hanging on it.  I am ready for Christmas!...or at least my house is. lol

Jackman Thanksgiving

I made the most delicious reeses' pieces pie!  It was so yummy!  Our thanksgiving was okay.  Ben had to work all day, but we got to see a lot of his extended family members.  I want to make flags for flag football so we can all play at the next one.  All the cousin's kids are finally old enough to want to play sports.  They play 500 with a football, which they now call 5000...I guess it's inflation. The littler kids played catch with a baseball or kicked the soccer ball around.  It was so fun to see them want to get out and play!  The played a little basketball after we had cleared the gym of all the tables and food.  We had some yummy things, but of course my favorite is the mashed potatoes with gravy all over it...and a recent favorite is cranberries all over my turkey.  The kids loved the 40 pies they got to choose from.  I had the best pumpkin roll I'd had in forever and a super yummy coconut cream pie.  Since it's all about the food, I thought I would share! :)  I am thankful for my wonderful family and friends.  It seems that my prayers are getting repetitive because I just am so thankful.  Sometimes I just kneel there without knowing what to say, just so overwhelmed with how blessed I am!  I just feel so thankful for everyone in my life!  What better time than this to recognize what we have?  Anyway, Ben is crazy busy and we cherish our weekends even more than before.  I am rushing my school work and trying to stay motivated to clean my house.  I love you all and miss you!

Who's a TURKEY?

All my sisters are REAL Turkeys!

Thanks for being in my special "Flock".      

T  true to herself
U  understanding of others
R   respects herself
K  keeps covenants made
E  eager to serve the Lord
Y  young at heart
S  Stronger than you know

 (This is my favorite, for each of you , in each different circumstance you really are stronger than you think you are!!)  Know that I want to be with you and share in your life everyday!
Love, Mom

I'll learn from you.....

So, I am having a super hard time trying to stay positive about everything. I am super ungrateful and onry. I don't feel good and I am stressed out. So many people have things worse then me for sure but I am having a pity party for myself.

Katie is enjoying her new school as much as possible. She is doing good and making great progress. She has been taking an art class and loving it. She wants to learn to ice skate this winter so we will see about that.

Tyson is looking forward to kindergarten next year but doesn't realize how far away it still is. He is excited to be able to ride the bus with Katie. He loves gymnastics and hockey. He also wants to ice skate.

Jake is in the middle of his teaching week so life is good this week. He leaves for field on Saturday but will be back on Thanksgiving day. We are sad we won't have any family for Thanksgiving but we will be having a few of the single airmen for dinner and a couple families. Hopefully we will be able to go to field with Jake on Wednesday for a special dinner.

I don't do a whole lot of anything these days. I am lazy and fat and super unmotivated to do anything. I am pretty lonely and feel isolated a lot of the times. I try to keep myself busy by doing unimportant stuff so I don't have to think about what is really important.

Well, I'm sure this has been a great uplifting post for you to read. I love reading Ty's posts. Your such an amazing women and mother. I wish I could be there to go to your kids games and matches and listen to you sign. I miss you!

I am still waiting for auction stuff. I don't care what it is or if you think it is of value. Also, I really liked the email mom sent about having an American anti stuff Christmas. We are going to try and focus on meaningful gifts and not stuff.

I love you all and hope your happy and well. Can't wait to hear from everyone else. Loves, Lacie

Jackman Update 11-14-11

My husband starts his new shift today.  He will work up at Diamond Ranch Academy from 2/3pm-10/11pm M-F.  He will be home every night and every Saturday and Sunday.  As of now, he will not miss Christmas!  Morgan tied her last soccer game on Saturday.  We started getting one egg a day from our chickens...but now we aren't getting any.  One of our chickens might be missing.  We will have to count tonight when we put them away.  That could be why we stopped getting them a few days ago.  Plus my neighbor told me that some dogs ate all the chicken up the street last week. We should have bunnies for Christmas!  I love bunnies.  Anyway, enough about our farm.  I am writing a song.  All our orchestra, band, choir, and singing group concerts are coming up.  Logan wants to sign up for basketball...:(  Not my favorite sport, but if she wants to spend her money and see how she likes it then so be it.  She has enough to pay for her dance already and it doesn't start until January.  Little Ben's only wrestling tournament is this Weds. @5pm in Hurricane.  I am excited.  He will be a great wrestler, but he will definitely need help. Right now he's more interested in showing how tough and wiggly he is.  I hope it's an age thing.  Carter is working on his Emergency Preparedness merit badge this month and doing pretty good at everything.   We get to see if the cast comes off tomorrow.  Balian is 5...he made an outline poster today at school...and they talked about 'enormous'.  He measured 10 1/2 of his hands tall. lol  Anyway, we are doing pretty good.  Busy as always, but good.  Miss you all!  I would love to read some posts from everyone else. We have been so extremely blessed by our friends and family already this season!  I wish I could share all my blessing with everyone! 

November

Hi Kids,
 Well I started taking pictures today for the beginning of the auction, and all of a sudden, I feel like  there is nothing of value that anyone would even want..... Any suggestions?
Dad and  I worked a lot this week. Dad is finishing up the furniture he is building to the Jubilee of Trees. I will post the pictures of the DR. Suess furniture he is building when he has them finished. This is his busy time getting ready for the Home Show homes.  One of the things I enjoy the most at work is the people I meet from all over the world, at least once a week I meet people from areas close to Spokane, Williston, Hurricane and LaVerkin, and Idaho Falls Area, It is comforting to me to know there are good people where ever you are!
 We  had a great time at Special Needs Mutual. We had a Potato Derby. Set up Pinewood Derby tracks and all the "Friends" decorated their own potato. We had these cool little blocks of wood with wheels on them and little nails sticking out of the top so they would stick a potato on to them and they would race down the track. It was a fun activity for them. Sometimes I still feel like I don't have a place there because I do not have an assignment each week. But just being there, I am starting to have the girls in my class  trust me a little.

We got the Primary Program over with last week. Dad did a great job leading the primary children in the singing. It was a wonderful program. All those who came to visit really felt the spirit and the love of our Heavenly Father as these children testified of the Scriptures.
My cousin Paige Stevens' granddaughter, Jessica Segeberg, has moved in for a few weeks til she finishes up this semester at Dixie State College.
It has turned cold here, and I am grateful that I am HERE where it is cold and not SOMEWHERE ELSE where it is colder. Love you all so much!!!! Mom

Halloween 2011

Okay, so my creative kiddos had some funny costumes. I took a lot of Halloween pictures, but all of the ones when they were holding still turned out bright yellow. I did my best to adjust it so you could stand to look at them. So you don't have to guess, Morgan is Justin Beiber, Carter is a chicken, Logan is Rapunzel, Ben was the grim reaper/skeleton, and Balian was a barbarian.

We got to go up to Diamond Ranch Academy for a staff family party. They had bounce houses, a rock wall, and a gladiator course set up. It was a lot of fun. Then of course we took off into the night to fill our bags with candy. Morgan, 12yrs old, didn't get to go this year, so she had a party on Saturday with about 18 screechy girls. I was exhausted. lol She also got to go to a friend's party on Halloween. Carter is 11 so he went out with his cousins Kellie & Ashlee this year. They went fast and filled right up. I'm sure they had fun. Little Ben started wrestling, but it's almost over, so he will go to the next 3 practices and the last 2 tournaments. He loves it! Balian turned 5 yesterday!!! My baby is bossy...and spoiled. It's fun though. I don't want him to grow up, so I am going to have to deal with that quick, otherwise his teachers an not going to be able to stand him. lol Ben hopefully got the Saturday shifts at Diamond Ranch now. Most of our sports are done now until about Feb, so that should work out okay. I made poodle skirts for the elementary dance festival. It was stressful, but the dances were darling! Logan will be quite the dancer. Ben...oh Ben. lol He was hilarious! He had so much fun and "owned" the music! I didn't even know he liked dancing! I was laughing so hard I had tears. It was fun. I wish I was less stressed, then i could have remembered to invite people. Logan and Ben also earned the "Cubs of Learning" awards at school on Friday for the month of October. Anyway, we are just plugging along. Today is the 1st of Morgan's 2 playoff games in soccer, so next weekend it will be done until Feb. Looking forward to my first partial Saturday home in the last 3 months!