NEW MOON TONIGHT!!!

I am going to the midnight show tonight and I can't be more excited! Eeek! GO EDWARD!!!!!!

Last Name Game Tag!

I haven't done one of these in a long time!

LAST NAME GAME....PLEASE don't spoil it for others!

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy & Paste, erase my answers, enter yours and POST. Comment on my post to let me know you posted on your blog. Tag 10 other people.

Use the 1st letter OF YOUR LAST NAME to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names, things,Nothing made up. Use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You can't use your name for the boy/girl question. Have Fun!!

1. What is your last name? Ratliff
2. Name an animal....Racoon
3. A Boys name...Randy
4. A Girls name…… Rebecca
5. An occupation.... Runway Model
6. A COLOR... Red
7. Something you wear...Rain Coat
8. A beverage ... Root Beer
9. A food... Radish
10. Something found in the bathroom...Running Water
11. A place: Rhode Island
12. A Reason for being late....Ran out of gas
13. Something you shout... Rebecca Ann!

Tag 10 friends: Lindsey R, Sara, Jena, Lindsey B, Torri, Aimee, Sabrina, Nicole, Erin S., Chelsea, Mom R, oops that's 11...um...anyone who wants to do this! I really like reading tags!

Clean - Without Spot

Today I had one of those crazy moods where I was fed up with my house and wanted to clean it. Actually wanted to.

The desire began with a want to vacuum up bread crumbs that my daughter so kindly left on my couch. But it quickly turned its attention to the kitchen floor, which desperately looked dingy and dirty. Surely I would have energy to sweep do a quick swiffer mop and then move on to cleaning up the "crummy" spots in my family room.

The kitchen floor was cleaned as usual, a good sweep a good clean with the swiffer. But this time it was just not enough. I kept swiffering over the same scuff mark that has been on my floor since the dawn of time. The food spots that were so caked on the swiffer was not strong enough to take away, the corners under the cabinets and dishwasher that I just couldn't reach very well.

Silly me, I got the idea in my head that I could get down and spot clean these few spots, scrubbing with a sponge scrubber side and wiping clean with a rag.

When I got down, I realized I had never done this before. Not once. Not in our old places, not here. I had never given my kitchen floor a good hand scrub. I had energy, my knees felt okay, so I got started.

About 3/4 of the way through I was in pain. Serious pain. My hands were shaky, my wrists ached, my knees stung. I had removed the dirt under the cabinets and the notorious scuff mark. Wasn't that enough?

For some reason, I then thought of the Savior. I thought of his healing power and the power of repentance and forgiveness. Moroni 10:33 says, "And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot."

The Lord does not just clean our surface and move on. He cleanses us completely, leaving us without blemish, without spot.

I decided to keep scrubbing. I may not have the strength to vacuum now, but it certainly taught me a lesson.

I have no idea if scrubbing the floor is going to benefit my life, or my family. But it certainly was a benefit this day to my spirituality.

I doubt Tyson will notice the places that I picked off crusts of old paint and food with my fingernails. He may not even notice a difference at all. But I know that it's clean.

It is much like the world. They will fight us and ridicule us. They will not notice our clean spirits and pass us by as unimportant. But the Lord has fought hard for us. When his physical body wanted to give up, he persevered. We were worth it. We ARE worth it.

Now...

Anyone wanna come eat lunch off my clean floor? I promise it's clean! ;)

Have a great day everyone!

Mary Kay Fall Sale!!!

It's that time of year!

Time for my annual Mary Kay Fall sale! 30-40% off everything I have in stock, and 15% off everything I need to order for you!

Long distance? Just pay 5 dollars for shipping (varies for big orders)! Book a facial with me and get a free lipgloss or lipstick, no purchase required! It's that simple!

Send me a an e-mail! Tell your friends!

Phew!

So I organized my blog rolls some...if any of you notice your blog is missing from my list please let me know! While I was organizing some of the windows crashed and I lost stuff. I THINK I got it all back again, but who knows...I have sick brain so it's not working very well right now...well I guess not working even less than normal! Which can be scary!

New Background!

Happy November and Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Halloween!

Friday, October 30th!
So on Friday we were having our annual pumpkin carving party. This year it was at Lindsey's. It was so nice not to have to do any of the stressing or cleaning up! ;) Thanks linds! Oh, and one disclaimer...Tyson was there! We just didn't get any pics of him that night!

So we dressed Becca up in her orange and black for the party.

Becca and I had to try out the pumpkin bread before we took it for everyone else to eat. You know...just in case. Becca LOVED it!


The spread of goodies and we had pizza too! It was a great party!

Becca and Uncle Andrew. Ha ha. This was the best shot of them!

Lizzie sure liked her pizza...ore at least liked making a mess with it. ;)

Becca and Lizzie always play so well!

The three kids. So cute!

Getting started!


Scraping out guts!
Jake got kindof fed up with his pumpkin. He wanted to just put it over his head and call it a day.

Lindsey with the power tool carver....um yeah...beware!

All of our pumpkins...I think they turned out really well this year! Lindsey's , Jake's, Mine, Tyson's and Andrews...see Tyson was there!


Close up of mine.

Close up of Tyson's.

It was an awesome night!

Halloween Day!
On Halloween day we had a great time. We slept in late, took turns taking naps, and went out to lunch. We went to MacCool's it was a good meat and potatoes kind of place. We both liked our food quite a bit.

Then we came home and carved Becca's pumpkin because we didn't do it the night before.

Becca was very reluctant about toucing the guts.

We practically had to force her to do this!

But she had no issues putting the raw pumpkin seed in her mouth!

She helped dad poke the pattern on the pumpkin.

And then helped cut out the bat! And then we forgot to get pictures of the finished product until later...so you'll have to scroll down for that.

Then it was time to get all dressed up as a ballerina!

The legwarmers we borrowed were the perfect addition! Thanks Emily! The skirt was adorable! I made it at Super Saturday, so I can't take all the credit for it.

The whole outfit! So cute!

Ready to go get candy!

Out and about with daddy!

We saw our friend Moab dressed as Peter Pan!

And Nahvi dressed as the Pink Panther!

Then it got cold, so I had to put my coat on.

We saw our friends Ellie, Madeline and Ainsley. They were so cute and I was so excited to see them!

I got the hang of this knocking on the door thing! But was always too scared to say "treat" or "boo" like mom and dad were practicing with me.

All the decorations were so fun!

Then we saw Celes dressed as Sailor Moon! Mommy had to get a picture, cause she loved sailor moon when she was in middle school.


A few more houses!
Big blow up pumpkins that I thought were pretty cool.

I couldn't even wait for the wrapper to be taken off!

I'm trying! Just look at my stash!

It may look like I'm sharing, but really I just want mom to pull the wrapper off so I can eat it!

Me and mom! It was a good Halloween!

Dad tried to get pictures of me afterwards but I was too hyped up! This is me doing a pliay (I have no clue how to spell that!)

Me and my pumpkin!

A better shot of me, but not as good of the pumpkin.

I FINALLY am saying "cheese" to take pictures. Me with all of our pumpkins on our spooky porch.

The pumpkins all lit up!

It was a great Halloween! We had a blast!