12-12-12

We hope everyone had a fabulouso, magniterrific 12-12-12. Personally it seemed like a regular day, but my kids were sure excited about it. How often does 12-12-12 come around?!? Since I'm terribly lazy, instead of making a cake or doing something fun, I made my kids write lists. I wanted to share them. I asked them to list:

12 Things You are Thankful For

12 Things You Want to Do by Next Christmas

12 Dreams (Big, Small, Outrageous, or Doable)

I will write their lists in the 12-12-12 order I listed and I will spell it how they did, because it is so cute. The bolded parts are my addtions.

First off, Lanny:

my Family

my gun

my fly rode

my tackle box

(yeah, we can see a theme, but wait, it gets better!)
my life

everything you chatch with a fishing pole (not people)

everything you shoot with guns (not people)

my knifes

Heveanly Father

Jesus Christ

Atonment

Santa

get my hunters saftey

earn over 100$

gain over 30 pounds of mucles everywear (I tried to tell him that this was a bit extreme, but he is determined)

catch a frog

kill a racoon
kill a coyote

catch a ten pound fish

catch a bull head

open bait shop (he's already made the sign, and it's pretty cool)

go on a diet

learn to do a flip

buy a trip to my grandmas (this is my Mom's in Maryland)

Have my dreams (I was a bit confused by this statement as well)

catch a big fish

win 1 million pounds of gold

win a car

get a paint horse

get a michine gun

live to 10,000

be an angle (angel....being so sarcastic, I asked him if he wanted to be a 30 or 90 degree angle)

be a electrician

never get in truble

never get arrested (I can't help but wondering if with these last two he's planning on robbing a bank?)

go to china

Here's Louie's:

my family

food

shelter

the church

the atonement

Jesus

snow

hevenly father

earth

love

school

the outdors

have fun

go to the park

watch tv 

play with Kel

go traveiling

go sleding

go keriling

go trik-or-treeting

go to school

go to church

go to grandmas

go to citer city (this is where my sister lives)

go to merilind (Maryland, where my parents live)

move to a grate home

see Santa

live to be 10,0004 (I think she stole this from Lanny and had to beat him on the age...but only by a little)

see Jesus

be a rodeo queen

have a grat family win I grow up

to to texis

go to new youk

go to florida

go to frans

go to indea

Kessie:

Before I list Kessie's let me explain that I wrote hers, so they are all spelled correctly, and she can't focus. It was all I could do to get this partial list. If she comes up with more I'll update, but when I asked her what her dreams were she'd say stuff like "I want a Christmas tree, and I want a lamp" Can you tell she was looking at the Christmas tree and lamp at the time. Yeah, I told her to think about it. She did come up with a few things though. 

Jesus

Family

Grandmas and Grandpas

Heavenly Father

The World

Food

Santa 

Birthday

Easter

Sunday

Outdoors

Kel-Kel

Have fun with family

Ride horses

Spend time with Grandma Marian

Go sledding

Take Pictures (Kessie got a camera for her birthday)

Go traveling

Go see baby Jace

See Uncle Dale's grave (this is Aaron's uncle who died in Vietnam)

Have a great birthday party

Go on a Mommy/Daddy daughter date

Play with Keladry

Sing Christmas songs

Kel's:

Here's Kel's list. I have no doubt that this little one is going places. I know that she can make all her dreams into reality!

Before I write Aaron and my own lists I have to tell you that Aaron looked at me and said, "Do you have any dreams?" I answered, "I thought the same thing, no, I don'.t." He replied, "Me neither." We still made a list, mine are a bit crazy since I said they could be outrageous, and I didn't get 12, oh well.

Aaron:

a beautiful and supportive wife (the liar, about the beautiful and supportive part. I'm sure he's glad he has a wife, at least I hope so.)

an incredibly creative son

an extremely bright daughter

a very lively and kind daughter

the cutest and best kissing and cuddling baby ever

the great job I held in Colorado for 10 years
the greater job I got here in Star Valley

our family's good health

the prosperity we have been blessed with

family and friends

the beautiful outdoors

that our family can be a forever family

sell our home in Cheyenne

hunt a mountain lion

sell our home in Cheyenne (yeah, he knows he repeated himself, he was actually going to list that all twelve times, but figured two would get the point across)

take Bri to the temple

take an affordable family vacation

get feeling better

magnify my church callings and prieshood

buy or begin building our family a home

take the family to Granite Hot Springs

take the family camping and fishing a lot!

get Lanny his hunters safety

take Bri and the girls horseback riding

Here he wrote over with an arrow on the paper, in case I didn't think to turn the paper over to find the rest of his list. Thanks, Honey!

own a small farm (well on his way!)

help other people (serve a couple mission)

hunt moose, dahl sheep and caribou in Alaska

build a shop/barn

build a meat processing room and a separate fur dressing room

get out of debt

become more self sufficient

see my children get married in the temple and raise families of their own

teach my grandchildren to hunt and fish
hunt a grizzly bear, mountain goat and bison
spend quality time with family and friends
go to conference at the conference center

Mine:
My children
My husband
Aaron's job
The Gospel
Butter
Hugs and Kisses
Modern Conveniences (i.e. telephones, the computer, cars, Walmart, online shopping...I really miss some modern conveniences, yeah, it's Walmart)
My camera
Books
Laughter
My family's health
Far away friends and family

Run (please note, I said run, not walk) in a race. (This race could be just to the mailbox and back, but I actually want to get my butt moving.)
Take a cake decorating class
Improve my photography
Listen to the Book of Mormon cover to cover (This is huge for me, I never seem to be able to get through it in a year.)
Sell our house in Cheyenne (see, sometimes Aaron and I are on the same wave length)
Be in our own home
Learn to ride a horse (not professionally, but I would like to not be afraid)
Make friends
Start the kids in piano lessons
Wean Kel
Be Nicer
Play (play with my kids, play with the dogs, play the piano...you get the idea)

Travel the world
Be in charge of storytime at the library
Go on a mission with Aaron
Hold babies all day long in a third world country orphanage (obviously, this is after my babies are grown and I miss having little ones around)
Eat dessert for every meal and never gain a pound, or get sick
Have a long lost relative give me 392 million dollars
Get published ( I don't even write, but wouldn't it be cool to publish a book!)
Stay out of jail (I stole this directly from Lanny, I figured it was a great goal. I want to pass GO, I want to collect two hundred dollars!)

We hope all of your dreams come true, and just know that you are all on our thankful llists! Happy 12-12-12!

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