12-0 Need I say more?

Do you bleed red or blue? What a game! What a Season!

At every touch-down Remy has to give five's to everyone around us.

Cassandra and Rems

Jana is the so SAD cougar fan - We only let her sit by us because we love her.Truth be told Brian and I both graduated from WSU which means we actually bleed purple. However after holding season tickets for six years now we are die hard UTES!!!

#6 in the NATION

BCS Bowl Here We Come!!!

Thankful for a Great Job!

I am spending the week in Wisconsin for level III career development training. I have a love-hate relationship with these weeks. I get back here and I miss my hubby and kids like crazy! I get the mommy guilties about working, but then I am reminded of the wonderful company I work for, and the company culture that has supported me and my family through some very rough times. This company invests in the education of their people, and it's not training to better understand my career, but to better understand the careers and business of my dentists. The company is run by phenomenal people from the CEO, President, Managers, Trainers, Service Technicians, you name it they are GOOD PEOPLE that I am Grateful For! Tim Sullivan, President (? not sure) Stan Bergman, CEO

I have better photos at home

It was the best google could come up with!

Grateful for Sweet Dreams

I know you're thinking; what does this picture have to do with 'sweet dreams' ??? Last night about 1am Brian went to check on the kids. Cam sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes, and said, "All right lets beat up the next one." and promptly fell back over on his pillow. I have no idea who or what he was beating up, but he was winning the fight!

Calling Christmas Wise Men (or women)

This is the 'kids' table at my mom's Christmas Party. Yes, she is amazing. I was raised by the Perfectionist/Idealist that married the Grinch. This made Christmas interesting and stressful. I have many good childhood Christmas memories but I also have some stressful ones. A few years ago I admitted to myself I was running around pretending to like this holiday when in reality I'm not sure I do. In order to fix this I've tried: starting new traditions, doing more Christmas 'things' more sub for Santa, more focus on giving, going to the cabin for a 'quiet' Christmas, listening to more Christmas music. Some of these things were good but many of them felt like more 'work'. I do love Christmas music but the minute it comes on the radio I feel instant stress. I don't want to feel this way, I want to feel the magic and the love and NOT the STRESS. This is where you wise men/ women come in to play...What do you do to feel the magic?

Be grateful for the hard things....

During one of Remington's many stays Primary Childrens Hospital there were paper leaves posted in the stairwell. People passing by could write on a leaf and the volunteers would tape them to the wall. One leaf said, "I am grateful God has given me a life far richer than I would have chosen for myself."...... I don't think this means material riches AND if we did have a choice... Would we choose the hard things? Call me wimpy but I doubt I stood in Heaven and said Give me ALL of the really tough stuff. I think this leaf author was grateful for the hard things, the hard things that make us grow and develop character, the things that maybe we wouldn't choose on our own.
I think there are hard things that in this life we will never be grateful for, but I know there are some that increase our depth and make us better, more Christ like people.
I could write a VERY long post about Remy and Down Syndrome. During his 5 Surgeries 13 Hospital Stays and ?? ER visits I don't think I was feeling very grateful for my 'hard things'.
If Remy's "deal" was to come to this earth life with an extra 21st chromosome, I am eternally grateful he chose us. There are hard moments. Moments when I loose patience and I feel like I can't do this. Times when my heart breaks because we haven't found a cure for his chronic pain. So why am I grateful for this? Because the 'hard things' also bring great JOY. Remy is the expert on cuddling. He loves the NFL and NBA like no other 5yr old I've ever seen. He has the BEST laugh. He has the greatest sense of humor and he has these really cool eyes that tell you he knows and understands more than you realize. Hopefully through this process I am learning the things I NEED to be worthy of 'Together Forever'

Thankful #6 and #7

I am grateful for my mom and for her help. I wanted to throw a simple baby shower for my Nanny Jessica and her friends and I knew simple doesn't really exist for my mother and presentation is EVERYTHING! I should have run to SLC to get the stuff but she trekked out to my house after she got off work just to help me.

The main table


Here comes the creativity...These tv trays or lap-trays are actually the flats that bedding plants come in. They are spray painted white and doubled up for stability...then draped with matching napkins and ribbons. She actually made them years ago, they've come in handy a few times.These are my disasters! They are supposed to be cute LITTLE heart cookies. Thinking I could cut corners and save time I bought the Pillsbury ready made doe to roll out into cute little hearts frosted with pale blue icing..Thanks for nothing 'doe-boy'
I'll make new ones in the morning they will 'hopefully' be perfect.

Thankful for.....

I am bugged FM100 is already playing continuous Christmas music. I am bugged for a few reasons, one of which is that I LOVE Thanksgiving. Other than cooking (which I enjoy) Thanksgiving doesn't come with a lot of pressure there is no worry about what presents to buy or what decorations to put up etc. etc. you get to eat yummy food and enjoy family and friends.

I picked up this tag from my cousins. This is a tag specifically for November. Daily or weekly post something you are thankful for. My friend Kath has a head start she's been doing it weekly all year. I'm a little behind:

Nov 1. My Husband

Nov 2. My Kids

Nov 3. The gospel

Nov 4. My home

Nov 5. My health

Out of the Mouths of Babes

I wasn't going to post this, but it was one of those things that completely floored me.
Cambridge had a picture in his back-pack that said I voted for McCain. On the way to Karate I asked him why and completely unsolicited this is what he said:
McCain will keep his promises
Obama looks good but he tells lies and I know he is lying about hospitals and if people are sick.
McCain wants to finish the war and get the bad guys.
Obama wants the soldiers to just come home and hang out; which means that we won't get the bad guys and that means Obama is a bad guy.

We don't watch the news or listen to talk radio when the kids are around. Little did I realize how political my 8yr old is.

I asked him today how he felt about Obama winning and he said, 'Its ok".

I can not think of a time when I have fervently prayed for the leaders of our country. At the Bingham house we've prayed for them a lot lately and will continue to do so.

Baptism

This was a big day for Cambridge. We talk about families being together forever; in order for that to happen everyone has to do their part. I am so grateful Cambridge made his first step in our family being together forever. I am also grateful Brian holds the priesthood to perform this ordinance. The side note would be; all morning long as we ran around getting ready Cambridge was singing, "I like big butts I can not lie..hmm hmm hmm hmm " I think he was a bit keyed up about the day. I kept asking him to sing I am a child of God, or any primary song he could think of, but Big Buts won out. Thanks Shrek (Donkey sings it in Shrek 2)

We a had a special suprise visitor. My dad drove all the way from Portland to be here just for Cambridge's baptism.

Special thanks also to Uncle Owen who flew in from SanFrancisco.

We are grateful to all of our friends and family for coming out and supporting us this day.

We love you!

Trick or Treat

Pumpkin Carving 101

Step 1: Have Dad get the power tools

Step 2: Invite Uncle Owen and Grandma over to help

Step 3: Have the Mom keep her camera in hand so she doesn't have to get dirty = smart mommy!

Nana's Party

My mom has a long running tradition of a Halloween Party at her house. She goes 'all out' as with everything she does 'it is all about presentation'. Thanks Nana we love you!

The Adult Table

The kids party favors

Left to Right: Jayden, Jayla Jonah, Zoe, Adam, Cam, Rem, Ashley, Becca, JP, Julia Rachel

Lauti, Bingham and Roylance cousins

Hallowen Trial Run

Sandi and Jayson Haskell hold a Halloween party every year. Saturday before Halloween was the trial run for all of this year's costumes. Haskell parties are not complete without some fun and games. Go Brian!

Harvey Two-face

I didn't quite have the jacket done; Cambridge cut me some slack and wore his sunday suit coat

Troy Polamalau minus the long hair.

Go Steelers!

Princess Sleeping Beauty