Is it????

Can you be to nice? Or is it wrong to say thank you and please? Well today at work was like any other day at the office. Except I was talking to my coworker the yesterday about a seminar I had went to where the lady said in the work place we need to applaud the things or coworkers do and always remember to say please and thank you. Well, I just laughed because I never ask for something with out saying please and never do I not say thank you. We talked about this and other things. And then today I didn't have time to clean a room:) we became very busy and I typed out to the front and asked if someone would come back and clean my room and do the dishes please and thank you. To which I received a reply of you make me sick lol you are to nice. So the question I ask is can you be to nice. (BTW they were kidding they said it was cute:) imagine that I am cute hahahaha) Anyway, this is my question can you be to nice or polite? Let me know what you think.
My thought on it is if you treat people how you want to be treated then they just might learn a little about you. And also isn't it nice to hear thank you once in awhile or you are appreciated by someone:) TTYAL. Darcie

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This year there is a lot to be thankful for. Our health, family, friends, and being happy:) It has been a wonderful year. Our family has had many new experiences one of which was when Dave took a job out of town. He was gone for a week and a day. However, I am so thankful that he now has a job at home (he is home every night). I love having the family together for dinner every night. I am thankful for my children they are the best kids in the whole world:) OK I know every mother says that. But really my children are trying very hard to help me out more. They are learning how to clean up after themselves:) What a great accomplishment. I am thankful that we live close to my family:) However, I really wish that we could live closer to Dave's family. I would love to get to know them a lot better. Maybe someday. Anyways, life here has been very busy we are trying to get ready for Christmas and making room for a tree in our living room (what a mess):0. Alright well it is really late so I must go for now. I will write more tomorrow. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

going crazy!!!!!

Alright, between trying to get the house cleaned up (which isn't going so smoothly) and my kids wanting everything from the kitchen sink to all the toys in the world. I am going a little crazy. So tonight I wanted to clean the house so that I could have it done before I had to go back to work tomorrow. Which let me tell you didn't get done. And I have no idea when it might get done seeings as how everytime I seem to get one room cleaned up. Katie my little mess maker seems to go behind me like a hurricane and distroy the room. I am tired of cleaning. Really I am. I believe my husband doesn't think I ever clean. Which I probably don't clean as much as I should but when it always gets messed up before I or anyone else can enjoy it, it is a little hard to convince myself that I am doing a good job. So I find myself these days just looking the other way at the mess. Ok enough of the complaining. My kids are off to bed and fighting as usual. DOES IT EVER STOP???????????? I guess with being sick this week I have lost all my cool with fighting and mess making. Maybe tomorrow might be a better day. I sure do hope so. since my house is really looking like a junk yard:) Anyway will try and post more tomorrow as far as tonight goes I need to go to bed before I loose all my marbles that I have left. :) Nite all

sorry it has been over a week since last post!

Well this last week was kinda crazy. On Saturday I went out hunting with my brother, while Dave stayed home with the children. I love that about him he is willing to take one day from his schedule and watch the children while I go out and do something. Anyway, when I got home I felt sick like I had a head ache. Well, the next day Sunday I was SO sick that yet another day Dave had to watch the children while I slept and tried to feel better. OK so on Monday I went to the doctor and found out I had strep throat again. So they are going to take my tonsils out. Yeah for me not really. But anyway this week has been crazy I feel like all my children want to do is fight and want money money money. Which is not cool in my book. I wish that they would just relax a little. Anyway will post a little more in a while here is a picture of Brady Dave's oldest son. ok well I guess it wont let me post picture right now so I will get it on here in awhile need to go finish dinner.

Ricky's big hunt:)

Ok so I know I am behind on my blog but let me tell you alittle of what has been going on. WORK:) Alright, so this afternoon Dave decided to go out hiking with Ricky to teach him how to be quite in the woods while you are hunting. So they went out and said for me to pick them up on the highway @5:30 pm. So Bailey, Katie, and I go to where we are suppose to pick them up at about 5:15 pm I wasn't exactly sure where we were suppose to be so I was driving up and down the highway looking for them and didn't see them. When we came back to where we were suppose to be so I thought we had just pulled in the turn out when Katie starts talking about this car that something is wrong with them and I should go check to see if they are ok. Well, this car that was right behind me before I pulled into the turn out pulled off the side of the road. We sat there for about I don't know 10-15 minutes before it started to get dark when I decided that maybe I was in the wrong place to pick Dave and Ricky up. It is now about 5:45 so I figures I will drive by the car that is parked along the road and now there is a police officer there (John). Ok, so we go to drive by and go to the other place they might have come out at when I look over to see....... Dave and Ricky walk along the road (no guns just looking for something it appears) Well to make a long story short Ricky had shot a buck up at the top of the mountain. The deer didn't want to make it easy on him or did he???? The deer ran down the hill to the highway where he decided that since he was going to die one way or another he will just jump out infront of a moving Ford explorer. So Ricky my mighty hunter shot his first buck and made a great story for me to tell to you all. His buck he gets to keep and the people that hit the deer aren't very happy (they think we should pay for thier car)(I don't think so). I am sorry that the deer hit thier car but you know what at least we didn't have to pack it out. LOL. Anyways here is the picture of Ricky's first deer 5x6 whitetail buck 11-07-08

Lazy day's of Fall:)

Today was kind of a lazy day for me I didn't do much around the house. However, I was talking with Dave the other day and I had mentioned that the wood was getting low outside. He told me that I could use his chain saw and saw some up if I felt like it as long as I checked the gas and oil in it so today with my laziness I decided I better cut some up before going to work tomorrow. I ran a chain saw for the first time in my life today YAHOOOOOOOO. Being so excited to tell Dave when he came home I was jumping up and down. When Ricky got to it before I did:( But he was excited for me. However, I ask myself should I have told him? Know I can't say we need wood I don't know how to run the saw LOL. Anyway, for more news Ricky had a friend over today, they watched MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL yeah :) I am beginning to think that our oldest son is growing up:( Katie went to girl scouts and had a lot of fun when I went to pick her up she was eating a brownie and drinking cool aid. She says "mom can I go to the after school program?" I ask "why? you said you didn't want to go to it anymore!" She replies "Well you see mom! They have good snakes there and I would like to eat some more" Lol. What a girl she think that I don't have good snakes at home. Well of course they aren't new choices. Bailey came home today all proud of himself. First you have to understand we have been struggling with him in school work. So he comes home and throws his papers at me yelling I have a C+ I have a C+. OK so I look at the first paper he gives me and it is his spelling test 101% I tell him Bay this is an A+ which he says I know I know I have a C+ though lol. OK so I look through the papers and he gets frustrated and shows me his math test which he is right a C+ 79%. I am so proud of that kid he is really trying. At the begging of school all the papers he was bringing home were F's which was hard to take because we knew he could do better but didn't want to punish him because he isn't the type of kids that when you punish him he does better. No he just gives up because he doesn't think he can do it. So incentive incentive, incentive is our mod ow. At the end of the year if he can get straight A's he will get his dad's monster truck it is nitro powered. Or he can have the littler monster truck if he gets good grades with nothing below a C. Anyways that was my day today. Type to you all tomorrow. Sorry I will pick up my camera tomorrow after work and post pictures then I promise

Had a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!

Halloween was fun. We went out with a friend of mine and her children. It was a lot of fun. However my feet are still sore we walked the whole town. And received lots of candy oh my gosh the kids have been on a sugar high for the last two days. I can not wait till school tomorrow. Anyways I forgot my camera at my parents house so I will get it and post pictures tomorrow. Anyway, what else?? I am still on my mission to be a better parent, wife and person. I did finally get most of my house kind of clean. We has a friend over today which was fun. It was the same friend we went trick or treating with she has three kids 2 girls and a boy well the boy is her nephew but she always has him. The kids are all very close so it is fun when we are all together. Dave is doing good he is on his week on. Well, I am still in the proses of making my list of things to do but it is going good I think.

On a different note have you ever found a person that you do not particularly like but kind of have to because of some reason or another. Well for those of you who know me know I am an easy going person who is easy to get along with but I have found this person that it is so hard to get along with. The person has a personality of a flat board. I am not joking they don't know how to have a conversation with out it being turned around to be about them. Or by down grading my children and you know what makes me the most mad. This person should be a friend of mine or at least I wish we could be friends given the circumstances. I however feel like I have give them plenty of chances to be my friend and have stuck up for them more then once and for what for them to give me crap in front of a whole bunch of my friends about my children. What ever. Anyways, I wish I could help them be a little better at their social engagements. But you know what it is like talking to a brick wall. Oh well maybe someday they will not try so hard to be better then everyone else. For now I will just deal with it. That is my thoughts and for today I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a great week to come.

OK well.....

Today has been a day pretty much the norm. Although for Halloween I have convinced Katie to be a girl from the 1950's era. She will be wearing a poodle skirt (which my mom and I made). The skirt is really cute we just finished it tonight. will post pictures tomorrow night sometime. Anyway, Bailey is going to be a vampire, Ricky will be a clone war person off star wars. I am not exactly sure if Bailey will end up being a vampire because he has changed his mind like one thousand time in the past week. Anyways, I finally got a raise today at work which is awesome. I think I deserve it since I have been there for over a year and never received one. OK, so today on my journey of becoming someone better. I took the children to Libby to get the rest of their outfits but let me tell you it was quite a challenge since Bailey has changed his mind so much. Anyways, in Libby we had a good time other than at the store where my children believe that their dad and I are millionaires and can afford anything their hearts desire. But they received what they needed for their costumes. Tomorrow will be an adventure that I am looking forward to. I love Halloween it is so much fun to pretend for one day that you are someone or something you aren't. Anyway this is my post for the day talk to you all tomorrow.

Ok here's a thought (just me rambling)

I have been think a lot these past few months. My life just seems kinda blah. Anyways I feel like it is passing by and there's no catching up to it. I want to make changes. There is so much that I want to do and I feel the longer I wait the faster life just passes bye. I don't want to be a person that sits around letting there life pass by and do nothing with it. OK here is my thoughts.
I am going to try and blog everyday even if there is nothing going on. I also want to make more memorable moments with my family. I would love to change things for the better. I know I am not going to do this over night but I have been think about this for about 3 months on how I would do things different if I had a do-over in life. So here is my thoughts, I want to make the time to read and do fun activities with my children, have a nice quite talk or even a romantic dinner with my husband, I want to be more involved with things as a whole. I guess what I want most at this moment is to feel like I am making a difference. I just think that ever moment that goes by it is a moment lost. So anyways from this moment on I am going to try and do my very best at making memorable moments for me and my family. So to start this off I am going to make a list of things that either my children or family as a whole would like to do or see be done.

life in the clawson house:)

Well a lot has been going on lately. We received a call from Dave's son Brady and he wants to get to know us again. Which is great I am so excited to get to see him after 2 1/2 years. Also Ricky has his last football game on Monday. He is doing really well. Dave has been helping him learn to play the game. Katie joined girl scouts she will be a Daisy this year she is very excited. Also Troy has a new learning center which will hold activities for the kids after school one of the activities is tumbling. I am so excited for Katie she has wanted to do gymnastics for a year or so now and she finally gets to all for free can't beat that. There really is nothing for Bailey to do right now but when the learning center opens they will have computer CD making and such which that is what Bailey wants to do. He is doing good in school this year, he is really enjoying his time there. However, we just wish that there was something he could do since the other two are doing stuff. However, he gets to go hunting and four wheeling with his dad:) Dave has been busy at work and at home trying to get the house ready for the winter. Anyway there is an update. here are some picture of the past couple months.

snow in july Thanks Denton Family:)

Ricky go #88:)

Long day

Ok I know it has been forever since I posted

Well, life has been crazy around here. The kids all started school 3 weeks ago. Ricky is in 6Th grade. He is playing football this year and taking hunter safety. Needless to say he is a busy kid. Bailey is in 3rd grade but his class is the 3rd/4Th grade class. He is liking school and his new teacher. This is her first year of teaching so she is fun and energetic. Anyways Bailey is doing great. Katie is in 1st grade and has the same teacher Bailey had in 1st grade which is a great think. Katie is wanting to be a cheerleader still however my friend is the coach of the high school cheerleaders and is talking about having the older girls teach the younger ones. Which I think will be very nice for Katie. Dave has now moved back home and has a new job with a contract mining company. He is enjoying being home every night. The pay is not that bad either. We love that he is home every night and he takes the kids to school on his days off. Anyway, the new job he has can take us anywhere. It just depends on were he is needed. We may be moving to Butte Montana in a year or so. But we will not know until the summer of 09. I am still working at the dentist office and loving it. I have now been there for a year which is exciting. I have had lots of thing done to my mouth right now I am waiting for an appliance to straighten my teeth:D Anyways we purchased a new car at the end of March this year. It is a 08 Chevy cobalt. I love my new car. Now that Dave is home I actually get to drive it lol. I have pictures I will post on here later. I don't have time right now to do it. I am in the middle of cooking dinner. Anyway, I hope this is enough update for all of you:) talk to you later. Darci

OK OK I Know Long time no post

Well life has been really crazy around here. Dave left this week to start his new job in Washington. He left Monday morning:( We talk everynight which is great. I really miss him though:( I can not wait till Friday night when he gets home. He likes his job even though he is still in training and hundreds of miles away. The kids are doing better then I expected them to do. They do cry sometime at night because they want their daddy but for the most part they are doing great with it. Maybe that is because he talkes to them every night too. Anyways, I guess I am just missing Dave:(

Ok enough or I will start to cry. For easter we went to the park and the kids each one some prizes. Katie won 2 stuffed easter bunnies, and a basket w/ lost of stuff in it also something else and I can not remember what it was. Bailey won a pensil box and some candy. Ricky won a badmitten racet with the birdies. We had alot of fun on easter spending it together.

I have been working alot lately it seems like. I still really like working at the dentist office. My parents have been watching the kids since Dave is out of town. Thank goodness that they are here or I wouldn't beable to work. This week is spring break so I guess it makes it alittle harder for the kids since I have to work and their dad isn't here. So they are haveing to spend all day at grandparents house. I will post some pics of sunday. Anyway there is your update Kari and Julie. Talk to you guys later.

Alittle bit of good w/ a little bad!

Dave took a new job. He still has to go and have his physical but that will be this week sometime. The good news is that he will be makeing more money and the company is a good one from what we hear. The bad news is he has to be away for 7 days. He will be working 7 on 7 off. Which is cool he will be home for 7 days but then it isn't cool because he will also be out of town for 7 days. I think he may like the job better though. There is so much more benifites to this job then the one he has now. And the company he is going to go to work for is a really big one so that is a plus too. You may ask why he is going to start a new job well because the mine here decided that even though Dave has put in his time he shouldn't get a raise which is a crock. But the worst part of that is they told him he would get a raise and then 2 months later when it wasn't here yet he went and ask and they said no you didn't get it. No reasons no answers so needless to say it made Dave mad so he started looking for another job. One that the people will respect what he does and appreciat him for his job. Anyway that is some of our news.

Oh yah, Katie made it in to the talent show for the kids here. She is a finalist for singing w/ one of her friends. Not all the kids will make the show I guess but she did. I am very proud of her. It is really neat that she will be in the show singing. But it does not suprize us. She runs around the house all day singing and dancing.

Bailey recieved and A++++ on his spelling test on friday. Which is really awsome beings as we have been having a little trouble w/ that all year long. He also is going to try out for the talent show. His class hasn't audioned yet though.

Ricky is doing great he brought all his grade up. Oh and he has a new girl friend named Cassi. For Valentines day he bought her a stuffed puppie and a rose. (with his own money) I think it is cute they are so funny. The other night Ricky and Bailey figured out how to use the messanger and they talked to Chris, Corey and Aunt Julie online. (they loved typing to all of you.) Anyway that is pretty much it here.

Katie's Birthday Party Today!!!

The Puppies Bow (Yellow) Luke (Black) @ 1 month old
Luke @ 8 weeks 4 days 2-17-2008
Bow @ 8 weeks 4days. 2-17-2008

The cake my sister made for Katie. She wanted a wedding cake:) This is what she got:)

Katie and her best Friend Laura.
Katie and all of her presents
what a fun filled day. Katie had a wonderful day. She had a birthday part today because daddy had to work yesterday on her birthday. Then we as a family went out to dinner.

Long time no blog

Well life has been very busy around here. Dave and I have been working and taking care of sick kids. Ya, you have to love the flu season. We have been plowing our driveway about ever other day. It has snowed here about 2 more feet in the last week. Anyway, the kids are doing good they have been sick but I am hopefull that it is almost done. The kid's report cards came this week and I am proud to report that Ricky and Bailey's grades came up now they have C's and B's. Katie has all A's which is a nice change:) Oh, and we now offically have a zoo at our house. Our friends lab had puppies which are full breed labs. So we took 2 of them home with us leaving us w/ 4 dogs, 2 cats, 2 cockatiles, Bailey's ant farm, a goat, and my brother's dog. Wow, what a house full:) I will post some pictures of the puppies soon. Well I should get off here but I hope everyone is doing good:) Talk to you all soon.

Christmas is over and the new year is upon us:)

Ok so I know I haven't updated my blog in awhile sorry for those of you who care:) It has been very hecktic around here:) Over the kids break and mine we did all of the Christmas stuff. Then after Christmas Linda came and stayed for a couple of days. Which was alot of fun for the kids and us:) Just last night we had alot of rain on top of the tons of snow we have and Dave's shop thing feel down. That really sucks but like I told him he can fix it easy and at least nothing was hurt too bad in the collaps. here are a few pictures over the break enjoy. The kids Christmas Eve^^^^ All of the Kids on my side of the family!!!

(Ashley, Katie, Bailey, eremy, Hannah, Kiara, & Ricky

Bailey, Katie, & Ricky Christmas Day at the Care Center

Dave be carefull with that thing you could shoot your eye out:)

Katie Christmas morning look at that hair do:)

Katie and I at the care center visiting my grandma for Christmas!

Linda at our house after Christmas:)

I had my hair cut on friday. It has been 7 years since I have had it this short wow what a change.