I have SO much to catch up on! Blogging has most definitely been the very last thing on my list of things to do in the day. I must say though that I have missed blogging and am afraid that I could have missed some things that should have been written down. Oh well...I'm recommitting. So to update in point for here it goes:

1. I have spend the last 2 weeks completely giving my kitchen a make over. I have hated the dark brown cupboards since we bought the house 7 years ago. So I decided to paint them, and what a JOB it was! I will never, ever do it again and I would never recommend doing it to another person. But the end result is great and I love it!
2. We had new laminate flooring put in the kitchen and in the dining room. For those people back in the 70's who thought it was cool to have carpet in the dining room...what were you thinking! We got rid of it and the place looks great. Now I have to decorate the bare wall where I used to have a bunch of junk!
3. I have started to sell Salt City candles, and they are being received VERY well. I must say they are the BEST candles on the market. So if you are looking for a great, fairly inexpensive Christmas present this would make a great one.
4. Tyler and I spend the last few day in Kalispell doing some major Christmas shopping. It was "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. and it is the #1 shopping day of the year. We had to take part in the great sales. We rented a mini van before going down and man are we sure glad we did. The van was loaded to the roof with all the stuff we bought. Some of the best purchases we got were the new Canon digital camera, a 10 inch DVD player for the car, and of course lots of clothes for both the kids and myself. This will become and annual tradition!
5. I HAVE to get our pictures taken for our Christmas cards. It has been so hard to get the kids to co-operate and look at the camera at the same time. And not to mention Tyler, that guy won't smile for the life of himself! So it might not be the best picture for this year.
6. I have been asked by a magazine to contribute to a special issue they have coming up. So I need to get scrapbooking again. I haven't done it in awhile and the pictures are starting to pile up. AGHHH!

So much has happened around here, and it looks like I am going to be having a few busy weeks ahead of me. Tyson has his pre-school Christmas program coming up, so that should be fun.k I love the holiday season. I hope this year we can have the true meaning of Christmas in our home. That we won't focus on the materialism of it all as much, and focus of the birth of our Savior. I am looking forward to putting up the Christmas decorations and playing Christmas music (although i played some today.)