8 Is Enough

"8" is my favorite number so I could not pass up this tag...

8 Favorite TV shows...(this is a little tricky because we don't watch TV much but when I do this is what I like

1. ABC Nightly news with Charlie Gibson - even though I am still mad at him for being mean to Palin.
2. Arrested Development
3. Flight of the Concords - OMGosh this is so funny!
4. Oprah - Even though I am still mad at her too
5. Lost
6. The Office
7. 20/20 & Primetime
8. American Idol

8 Favorite Restaurants...
1. Benihana
2. Hard 8 BBQ
3. Costa Vida
4. Chuys
5. Rumbi Grill
6. Cactus Grill
7. Baci or Macaroni Grill
8. Olive Garden

8 things that happened yesterday...
1. Enjoyed some quality time with my hubby who had been gone since Friday
2. Made mock Cafe Rio salad - yummers
3. Painted Doubas finger nails and toes
4. Folded lots of clothes
5. Changed my sheets
6. Colored and trimmed my hair
7. Went to the gym and ...burned baby burned!
8. Had a great family night about prophets and the upcoming general conference

8 things to look forward to...
1. Buying (or building) our home
2. Having another baby and nursing another baby (I hope)
3. Being with my angle face husband FFOORREEVVEERR
4. Watching my kids gain their testimonies, nothing is more exciting to me
5. Going to Disneyland and the beach to bury my kids
6. See Ben make his first feature film
7. Corrective lens surgery i.e. lasik
8. Going to Deer Hollow Ranch for New Years to be with all my family.
and a BONUS.....
9. General Conference this weekend

8 things I love about Fall...
1. The smells
2. The colors (I am missing those badly right now)
3. Baking & homemade soup with bread sticks
4. Decorations
5. Sweaters, tall boots and scarves
6. The twins birthday
7. Pumpkin patches and festivals
8. Getting ready for the holidays

8 things on my wishlist...
1. A house we could live in the rest of our life. The house my kiddos will bring their wives and my grandbabies to.
2. A firmer more tone butt
3. Cuter hair
4. A double oven
5. Unlimited back rubs, tickles and foot rubs
6. To play the guitar
7. To take a road trip exploring broken down abandoned buildings and real ghost towns.
8. To have 8 more wishes

8 people I tag*...
1. Tessa
2. Shanna
3. Jessy H.
4. Liz
5. Morgan
6. Kellie
7. Britni
8. Kristi W.
* only if you want to, of course. I won't be hurt. :)

And anyone else who wants to play...have at it!

Mystery Solved - BYT Going Private!

Phwwww! What a relief... my debacle of staying open but still private has been solved. I realized after having a short conversation with my oh so insightful and in tune husband that I needed to go private on my BUILDING a Testimony segment. So I have started a new blog dedicated more to things of a spiritual nature and I am able to keep this as our family blog dedicated to thing that are fun and happy in our life. I still feel that the other is so important but I do not want it out there for the entire world to read so PRIVATE IT GOES! effective immediately! I will still post a brief... I mean VERY brief summary (like a single quote of something) of my testimony every week but the rest will be on my other blog. All other testimony posts will be edited and moved to the other sight asap.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED in being invited please reply otherwise there will be no access to my heart and soul :)

New Blog name BUILD YOUR TESTIMONY

BUILDING a Testimony - My Divine Nature

It confirmed to me today that even if I am not important to anyone else, I am (not matter what) still very important to my Heaven Father. During church today I was beginning to feel it. It was as though I had been given a tangible gift from my Heavenly Father, all day I felt His tender mercies dusting down upon me like sugar being sprinkled from a sieve, confirming my divine nature.

READ MORE at my BUILD YOUR TESTIMONY BLOG

This is MY testimony in the name of Jesus Christ
Amen

James Barrie "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

THANKFUL Thursday

FYI... when I started this tradition I tagged all people I know everywhere to be more thankful and share the things you are thankful for. COME'on it shouldn't be that hard to think of 5 things, once a week you are thankful for... ever heard of Karma?


Things I am thankful for today

1) My Toothbrush... and all toiletries for that matter like toilet paper, deodorant, shampoo.
2) Photographs that bring you back to that very moment in time.
3) Early morning family scripture study and prayer.... what a difference that makes!
4) When you realize that your efforts in "good parenting" are paying off when you see your child reprimand his sibling for being out of line. It is so fun to see the boys say to each other "you don't talk that way to mom!..." or "WHAT! did you just say to her (mom)?" it is hard to keep a straight face but worth every minute of it.
4) That I am a spiritual being.
5) That Eddie #1 made the Clayton Cardnails school choir.

BUILD Your Testimony - What Do You Think About?

What do you think about?

Elder Spencer W. Kimball said "When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be 'remember.' Because all of [us] have made covenants … our greatest need is to remember. That is why everyone goes to sacrament meeting every Sabbath day—to take the sacrament and listen to the priests pray that [we] '… may always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given [us].' … 'Remember' is the word".

Simply said, if you are thinking about what is important, you will REMEMBER what is important. This is very much my testimony!

In the name of Jesus Christ
Amen

READ MORE AT BUILD YOUR TESTIMONY

"..Thinking is an inner dialog, a silent self-conversation .."
Christina Thürmer Rohr

#5's Birthday Weekend

We had some (a lot) of visitors this weekend all coming in Hamburgers favor to celebrate his 2nd birthday. B's parents, sister Haley and her 3 kids and his little brother Clay with his wife and daughter came this weekend all from the Dallas area. We had a great time here are some photos of our weekend.

Hamburgers "birthday breakfast" celebration. We have this tradition on celebrating in the morning , it just makes the day funner when you start it our with a bang!


Hamburger Cake for Hamburger- Only if you call your kid "hamburger" can you get a hamburger cake :)





YO GABBA GABBA!

Exploring Congress Ave... Hey Cupcake, Big Top Candy Store,, Hills Cafe and so on.


Now those are some juicy lips!


We had to take everyone to see the bats.



Bens little sister Haley, isn't she pretty?

B showing off some of his recent work.

Swimming at our pool

Checking out some crazy spider

A Joy Beyond Measure - Happy Birthday #5

A few things we will not want to forget about Hamburger right now....
That he sucks his tongue when he gets near his blanket, like a kitten that was weaned from it's mama too soon. It is absolutely, excruciatingly yummy for me to watch.
He loves his Gaa Gass = Sun glasses and Boo Boo = Blanket. He loves his Moke =Milk at night and Mana Man= Spiderman is his favorite superhero. One of his favorite things to do to ride his gatebood = skateboard down the drive way. He love his window down in the car so he can feel the wind in his hair. He LOVES his dad very much and gets so excited when he comes home. He is very attached to Daidy, when she goes to preschool he asks "Daidy?? where Daidy go?" and he seems almost out of sorts with out her. Yo Gabba Gabba is his favorite show. He LOVES dips or any sorts, if we give him chicken nuggets he will sit and suck the dip dry. Sam is a gentle, sweet, angelic little boy. He is compliant, obedient, happy and quite perfectly perfect. He is beautiful to look at and smells yummy. I could go on and on like any parent would, he is SO special to us and we love him deeply, simply said he brings us JOY BEYOND MEASURE!

Here is a look back to the last 2 years with our wonderful #5 aka Burger, Hamburger, Hamburgler(lerlerlerlerler), Hamster, Hambone, Hammy, BurgerFry

Jen Prego with #5

Day #1 for #5




1st few days


Hamburger and his twin brother Abe, the "miracle baby". Our dear friends (and partners) baby born 2 hours before Sam (no it was not planned that way). This was their 1st introduction to each other the night we moved to Denver, 5 weeks old.

Disney Cruise February 2007 - 4 months old

Denver Zoo April 2007 - 6 months old

6 Months old




8 months old

10 Months old



#5 1st Birthday



Novemeber 2007 at twins baptism - 14 months old

Branding at Deer Hollow Ranch April 2008 - 17 months

18 months


20 months

Summer 2008 - 22months

2 Years old to the day!