even if my kids are crazy and out of control.

Eyes open 👀, eyes closed 😑, and chase ray in rare form in every single shot 😂😭🎄🎅🏻. I like the pictures where things are out of place. They make me feel like we look more normal😜. I feel like I've reached a point in the#slowcooker phase of #motherhoodwhere I have no clue what I'm doing.#Babies 👶🏻, I get them 🙌🏻. #Toddlers, yes please! And #Preschool makes my heart ❤️ skip a beat! But this big kid stuff, welp, sometimes I just feel like I'm one of those people on #americaninjawarrior 🇺🇸🙅🏼 trying to cross an ocean 🌊 while walking on a spinning log 🙈. Did you get the visual on that one 😂😭⁉️ Me too 😂💁🏼. I#believe ✨ that the adversary 👹wants us to think that we aren't capable. I believe that he wants us to buy into the FALSE idea that the challenges in our lives are beyond our reach, and that we cannot do this...but I know that he is the master of pessimism, and the creator of all lies. I know that i have light ✨💡 at my fingertips to help me achieve all things. I know that I have everything I need to master these challenges 🙌🏻💕. I know that the greatest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between my knees and the floor. I'm#grateful to have this knowledge, and I'm#thankful the lord has always and will always bless me through the power of#prayer 🙏🏻. Amen #throughHIM#allthingsarepossible 💕 

even if my kids are crazy and out of control.

tooooooooooe piiiiiiiiiick!

Tooooooeeeeeeee Piiiiiiiiiiick!!!

Tonight was magical ✨🎄⛸❄️‼️ My mister and I twirled ⛸ around this rink with the #Christmas 🎄🎅🏻 lights all aglow. One song after another, we belted our hearts out 🎤 with a hundred other skaters ⛸ like Christmas Cheer you've never seen before. 

Also we ran into our cute neighbor Sage.❤️❄️ it's a small world after all 😂‼️

All iwant for christmas and White Christmas ❄️🎄 were my personal favorites 💁🏼🎤, and I still can't wipe the smile off of my face. Sean warmed up my fingers holding hands round and round, and we didn't even fall 😂👏🏻😜. Then we met up with friends for sushi 🍣🍥 and laughed our faces off all night long 😂😭. I love this life, and the this December 🎄🎅🏻 birthday 🎁🎉 of mine #34 .

 {the end.}

Good Morning America!

If you're tuning in from 

Good Morning America, 

WELCOME! 

So glad you are here, 

and thanks for stopping by!

...

Grandma Max’s 

Gingerbread Men

1 egg

2 1/2 cups flour

1/2 c butter, melted

1/2 c molasses

1/2 c sugar

1/2 c milk

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/8tps ginger

Preheat oven to 400*. 

Mix egg, sugar, molasses, butter, and milk. 

Sift together dry ingredients and add to sugar mixture while mixing. 

Sometimes I have to add more or less flour, depending on the weather.

You want it to be like Play-doh.

Roll out dough and cut into desired shapes. 

Put cut out Gingerbread Men into your FREEZER for 5 min

{so they hold their cute little shape when they cook},

and then...

Bake for 8 min., cool, and decorate!

I like to buy the tubes of frosting

from the grocery store to make things simple,

and I LOOOOVE to just let my kids at it 

all by themselves.

These little cutie pies were the perfect afternoon snack,

and my Gibbies gobbled them up the minute they walked through the door.

Got milk?

NOTE: 

There is an adorable 

children's book called 

"The Gingerbread Pirates" 

by Kristin Kladstrup that we read all Christmas season long. It's especially fun to whip out the night we've made 

Grandma Max's Gingerbread Men. 

Cheers!

how it took 5 hours to make a 26 second clip.

That one time when I called Bree 

and yelled 

"THE PRODUCERS at 

GOOD MORNING AMERICA just called me,

 and said I'm going to be ON THE SHOW tomorrow!!!!! 

Can you come over right now and help me make gingerbread cookies?!"

true story.

i

kid

you

not.

 So she dropped EVERYTHING to pick up tube icing and Christmas sprinkles 

(thank you Teresa for your 1 cup of Molasses!!! and Julie for your rolling pin bc mine is still at Good Things Utah AND your gingerbread man cookie cutter. 

{Was that a runon sentence? I'm not sure if my brain is still here right now???} 

Then we masterminded a 2 min recorded clip that ended up being a miscommunication of time length, which we didn't know until after I had left for carpool and let chase eat😛 TTWO of the cookies 

AT WHICH POINT 

the ever great Millie {my 15 yr old babysitter} enters the story, 

who sat on my counter and told me what to do with my hands🤗 and eyes, 

while we bribed Max and Teagan with more cookies😂

 to keep Dean downstairs with them 

so we could do 16 more takes to get the clip down to the 26 allotted seconds. 

HOLY COW

it might have been one of my most fun days of my entire liiiiiiiiife, 

and I can't wait to see my BLINK of a 26 second clip on the real

LIVE

GOOD MORNING AMERICA

☕️IN in the 

BIG APPLE 

of NYC 

bright and early 

TOMORROW MORNING!!! 

So set your DVR folks, and don't blink or you might miss it.

I'll be on there with my signature "E" apron, 

and now you know the story of how it took 5 hours to film a 26 second clip💁🏼. 

You can find my recipe on the GMA website. How BOUT THEM apples?!🍎

love notes

Love finding Max's little #love 💌📬 notes around the house 🏡 for us all day 😍💕. 

Just wait until you see the one chase had me write her back #siblings👫💕 #SOMETIMEStheygetalong 🙊😜.

baby it's cold outside

I mean reeeeeealy 😂😭🌨☃️❄️, who on earth is their mother??? 😳🙊😜🙋🏼#raisingsnowloversonesnowstormatatime

15 cat week {black plague}

Still to this day my ALL TIME FAVORITE #comedy act on this planet is Jim Breuer's "why mother's need their rest"!!! GOOGLE IT, and laugh until you pee your pants 😂😭🙊💦‼️My #kids still wake us up all night long most nights {revolving door--can i get an amen from the mamas and the papas who can relate!?}, most days i wonder if they'll ever all #sleep 😴💤 {everyone tells me eventually they do}, and i dream about this fantasy of everyone going to bed and staying asleep bahaha. I remember before Plexus feeling like i would never feel rested again. like i was#tired inside of my bones. my covers weighed a THOUSAND pounds every morning, and i would only get out of bed because i promised myself i would take a nap 😴💤 #naptime #longlivethenap at 11am, which never happened. by the time 1pm rolled around, i would crawl myself to the couch after everyone was napping or watching a show, and try to sleep until i picked up carpool at 3pm, which never made me feel anymore rested {go figure}, and then by 9pm the processes began again. i was SO happy in doing this, and despite feeling like i was a 95 year old grandma 😆👵🏻and wanting to "kill some cats" 🐱😹most mornings {watch the video and you'll understand}, i had accepted that this was just part of the job. i'm so glad that i don't feel like that anymore, and guess what? there are no bonus points for being a tired mom. who knew!? do the kids sleep perfectly? nope! do i wake up feeling rested and have energy almost every single day? YES I DO 🙋🏼. is plexus for more than just tired mom? YEP ;), but today, i'm just giving a shout out to the mamas and the papas who are feeling like grandmas 👵🏻and grandpas 👴🏻because last night was a 3 CAT NIGHT😹😹😹 in our house {and last week was a 15 CAT WEEK 😷🤒🤕🙈bahaha}, but i didn't have to kill any cats 🚫🐱💕#PETAyourewelcome because PLEXUS pulled me through. BOOYA ;)

click here for the full video if you want to die laughing.

warning: you might pee your pants.

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i joined as an ambassador ONLY to get the least expensive price.

then it worked me like GANGBUSTERS, and i couldn't shut up about it,

and now here we are. just call me your crazy plexus lady ;).

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because a lot of the time they're just screaming and fighting.

Maxine was pouting in the corner because we don't know why, but the rest of the #gibsonhouseofchaoseventually sucked her into our #toystoryDREAMLAND 🏀⛵️🚂🚁😍. Chase Ray's face though 😂😭👏🏻 #thebabyman . Soaking in this little slice of #heaven tonight because a lot of the time they're just screaming and fighting, and I wonder if I'm doing this#motherhood thing right. 

This is pure #JOY🙌🏻👏🏻💙right now, and I'm in #LOVE 💕🙏🏻!

LIT.

When the prelit #Christmas🎄 tree has half its lights out 😂😭, we improvise 🙌🏻✨😜 #iwannabedean 👶🏻💙