It's a PHILPOT Halloween!

We don't have a Philpot holiday the right way unless Kelton gets sick. I swear that boy hits it everytime. Last Christmas Eve we were in the clinic with him by 7 am and this Halloween I was rushing out antibiotics to him at 1pm on Halloween day so hopefully they would kick in before it was time. Yeah so we didn't make it in time. Poor little man didn't end up coming out here to trick or treat and just stayed home with him mom sick instead. We missed him so much! We did have fun with Gracie though and we got Kelton in the morning and of course he was back to 100% himself. GO FIGURE!

I hope everyone had a great HALLOWEEN!

The Fam minus Kelt. I am holding Gracie's doll dressed up in a elmo costume!

The Philpot clan minus quite a few. We consist of 24 people so this is a small section of us! My nieces and nephews are so cute and adorable though.

And then there was her Granna the troll!

Daddy's Girl

Mom gets stuck with holding all the stuff as usual!

My cutest friend and neighbor, Lauren, and her dog PUPCAKE aka Toto. I dont know how to spell that but you know what I mean. Dorothy and her dog :)

My sister in law JILL...she is so cute to dress up. This is her dream job to be a coffee girl, LOL>

Finally at the end of the night Gracie got to get some pictures with her cousin Kaitlyn but Gracie just calls her Boo. They are the best of friends and obviously were to worried about playing to look at the camera. We took a picture of the suckers they had opened at the end of the night and there were like 10 opened suckers with one or two licks off of them. Those stinkers.

Daddy giving Gracie a RIDE!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL AND FUN SAFE NIGHT TONIGHT!

Tooele Mommies Halloween Party

Ok so I guess we can't expect much out of Tooele...LOL. This was a fun little gathering for free and they had some fun stuff for the kids to do but only about 5 tables worth. It was pretty small and for Gracie there wasn't much for her to do at all. We still had fun though! Gracie wouldn't put on her costume so she is just in her sweats. She got a frosted cookie, her picture on a haystack, and her face painted with a little flower. Mom got one too! LOL From the pictures it doesn't look like Gracie had much fun and I guess maybe she didn't but she sure had fun at Carl's Jr. afterwards!

She wouldn't smile for the picture on teh haystack...yikes.

Getting ready to get her flower on her cheek. She didn't know what to think about this lady doing it!

Mommy and Gracie's flowers on our cheeks.

Sis loving on her BUBU!

Ok so once again I will say this is my favorite time of the day...when we are all home as a family getting ready for bed. This is what Kelton gets when he is home...his sister following him all over the place, or sword fighting with him. Then when it is time to sit down and watch a family movie we look over and she has picked her comfy spot right on top of bubu. Kelton loves it though. If she moves or gets off he will go get her and put her back on his lap. The movie we watched last night was pretty good so he was pretty serious while I was taking pictures but they are so cute!

Here they are in Kelt's favorite Star War's pj's that he insists on wearing every night even though he has 10 other jammies and Gracie in her Minnie Mouse pj's that she wears every night even though she has 20 other jammies. They are so much alike.

She fell asleep on Brother's lap.

HALLELUJAH 49,600 files transfered!

I know I have alot to say these past few days. I usually post every week but I guess I just have alot on my mind right now:)

So I have been dealing with a computer that just up and shuts off on me about every 10 minutes...I sometimes get away with 30 minutes and I am seriously jumping for joy. Then Max said "Linds, I dont know much about computers but dont we need a hard drive to back everything up?" So I was like yes you are compltetely right and with all my pictures on my computer I dont know what I was thinking not having one in the first place. I am just lucky that my computer didn't just seize up and I could've lost everything. Sooooo I got the hard drive and did all the backups and it feels so good. It wasn't an easy process for me considering it was a lot for my lovely computer to handle so it would shut off every 10 minutes so I would have to come in restart and get everything going again...errrrggghhh! So it seriously took me 2 whole days.

Conclusion: my computer was shutting down because it had too much on there for the memory it could hold, which I knew from the very beginning but for some reason just dealt with it by restarting it instead of fixing the problem. So I did this not only to save my precious items but so I could delete them off my computer so it will feel better! I seriously feel like my computer is sick...hahaha.

So to put a picture to this story of why it was shutting down....um I only had to transfer 49,600 files and pictures onto my external hard drive! So when I tell you I am a picture freak I mean it, and the worst part is I could have 10 of the same picture and cant bring myself to let it go! YIKES

Painful Periods...MAKE SURE TO READ THIS POST!

Ok so I decided to just copy and paste this post from my friend's blog because she said it much better than I could and I thought it was so interesting. So I hope this is legal in the blogging world and I hope it is ok with you T!

So I dont think I have shared about my painful ovarian cyst disease that I have PCOD that causes me not to get pregnant (Max and I haven't had one ounce of protection since Gracie was born, yeah no baby) and also causes me to have to get 4-9 shots in my stomach every single month! Not fun at all. Seriously the pain of the shots are much better than the pain I get with my cysts. The whole thing is just a dead end and I have tried everything and nothing is fixing it except for these shots.

Then I read this post below and thought hmmmm maybe I will give this a try and maybe I will go without the shots after a month of just doing organic. So this will be a big experiment for me so we will see how it goes. I have already done organic milk because I really would rather Gracie not get her period in 3rd grade so I will start with the other basic's and see where it gets me. I will give an update next month.

POST BY MY FRIEND T' ANN:

My Organic Life:Ok.....I admit that I am a freak when it comes to food! And yes, mostly all of my groceries I purchase are organic, right down to my toothpaste! (except tortillas, I swear those go bad in two days.) So lets set the record straight! At home I eat organic ~ but I still go out to restaurants and sneak some Cheetos every once and while.......and NO I don't snub food at peoples houses or BBQ's even though I know I just ate a mouth full of pesticides and human growth hormone. Mmmmmm....
Getting to my point:When I met with the Invitro doctor he was amazed that I have such severe endometriosis but showed no symptoms. No painful periods. (That's right I am going to talk about the "P" word. For all you men reading this blog here is your escape route: Click Here

I would like to try an experiment:Ever since that bitch Aunt Flow came into my life I had always had horrible, knife stabbing, want to jump off a cliff, stay home from school bed ridden, cramps and painful periods. It was like that for 8 years. Then I made the organic switch. I started eating organic taking baby steps and the first thing I switched was to organic milk, cheese, & eggs. Within maybe 3 months the pain was gone! No cramps & my period lasts 3 days instead of 7! Hallelujah! I have shared this with a couple of my friends and they have also seen the results. Obviously this is just from my own personal experience, I am not a doctor so don't get all up in my grill if this little experiment doesn't work. But you can shower me with presents if it DOES work for you and cures your every month woes!

How to: Avoid food (especially milk, cheese, eggs, etc.) with antibiotics, synthetic hormones or pesticides. Then make sure that the animal has been raised humanely, is able to graze, and given certified organic feed— never any animal by-products — and make sure it is certified organic.I would give you a list of brands to buy, but what's the fun of that?! Go, discover, search, & make the decision yourself! Mostly every grocery store will carry at least those few organic items. However if you don't live close to Wild Oats, Good Earth, or Whole Foods good to your local Harmon's. Especially the new one off of I-15 and Bangerter, I am in love with it!Message me if you are going to try this! Even if only one person does this, it will be exciting!