A Little Bit of Culture

A couple of weeks ago the girls and I went to a Pow Wow at BYU. We met up with my sister and her family and Nicole and Bryn. I haven't been to one of these in years. Josh was out of town and missed out. The girls peppered me with questions about what everything was. Elizabeth asked me if you had to be an Indian to be able to go. It was a lot of fun. We watched the dancers and walked around the booths looking at all the stuff for sell. The girls were excited they got to pick out little Indian hair clips. The kids at one point went down on the main floor and danced with all the dancers. Let's just say I don't see a career for any of them in dancing... well maybe Deacon he was getting the beat pretty good. While we were there we saw my Auntie and Cousin and talked with them. It was nice to see them. We didn't stay long but the girls said that next time we need to take dad.This is a video out sweet Deacon feeling the music in him.

Yes We Are A Bit Crazy!

Saturday night was girls night out. My sisters and I put on a New Moon Party. It was a lot of fun. We played games and ate and ate some more...we ate a LOT, then watched the movie. Here are some pictures of the night:

An Indication That I Have Too Much Time On My Hands

So today my friend Amy asked if I could babysit her two girls for a few hours. Her youngest is about 2 years old and is the spitting image of a hobbit. Now that might not sound like a good thing but it is. Just think about the cute little hobbit children in The Lord of the Ring. They are so dang cute and this kid looks so much like them that I have wanted to curl her hair like one from the moment I met her. Today was perfect. Cory was over and so I recruited her to help curl Sammy's hair. Sammy did wonderful! We gave her a sucker and sat her on the counter and stared curling. After a LONG time we dressed her up in the closest thing to a hobbit outfit that we could come up with and proceeded to take her picture. What we do to small children that have no say in the process!! So here are some of those pictures...

Last Game Of The Season!

Well it's over! Elizabeth has played her last soccor game. They lost, but I do have to say that she did actually play pretty good, for her. She may not of been the star of the team but she loved it. We have enjoyed going to each game and watching our little girl run around in circles! I think that her favorite part was after the game was over and getting the snacks that the parents would bring! After her last game her coach gave all the players a metal. It was just so dang cute!! Well until next year unless she finds a new sport that she just HAS to try! We'll see...

Happy Birthday Elizabeth

My Angel is 6 years old today. Yesterday we went to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate her birthday. After the chaos of Chuck E. Cheese, and I mean chaos the place was stuffed with kids, we came back to our house for cake and ice cream and presents! Elizabeth loved the day and loved everything she got from everyone. She especially loves the gift card she got from her Auntie Celeste. She was so excited that she got (in her own words) "my first credit card!" She also received a small mp3 player, she loves music and while we are in the car listening to the radio she is always asking us to rewind that song, so Josh and I thought that she would enjoy one. She has been wearing it around the house and dancing and singing to all the songs that I have downloaded onto it. It is one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed!

Here is her yearly video I make for her every year:

7 Years...

Seven years ago today I married my best friend in the Los Angeles temple. I had never met anyone before that I felt so at home and comfortable with. Even though no one else may think that we are funny we make each other laugh. We have learned to take care of each other...Now I know Josh will say that he has had to do more of the "taking care of" in these past seven years, but believe me if anyone has ever seen him make a PB&J you know I have had to do my share of caring!! I love you Josh you are and always will be my best friend!

Christmas 2009

We started our Christmas season with the decorating of the tree. Usually Elizabeth, Abby, and Josh have their own tree and I have the main tree. (What can I say I am my mother's daughter!) As the girls were decorating their small tree we discovered that they have collected alot of ornaments. Thanks to both sets of grandparents, and the small tree was no longer big enough to hold all of their ornaments. So with a sigh I gave up my tree and let them put their ornaments on it. And so I didn't decorate a tree this year, oh well maybe next year!

The Wednesday before Christmas we went over to my parents house to have Christmas with everyone there. Cory and Adam's family were leaving to spend Christmas with Adam's family up at Bear Lake. We had a wonderful ham dinner and got ready to open up presents. The kids were so excited to open presents. Before the excess of presents started we went around the room and bore our testimonies to each other. This is a tradition in my family to do this every Christmas. My dad says that it is the best present that he receives all year. Of course he still wants the Home Depot gifts cards also. We started with each of the kids and they, with help, bore their testimonies of the Church and then moved onto the adults. It was a wonderful time to share with everyone.

Conrad got a full football outfit padding and all from my dad. And of course it was true blue BYU! Abby got her baby in a stroller that she has been saying she was going to get for months. She later told Josh that she was a nice mother. He asked her "Well isn't mommy a nicer mother?" With a pause and a look only Abby can give she said, "She makes me clean the toy room!" So here is to all you not nice mothers who make your kids clean up the messes that they make! Cory got a cricut expression machine that she really really wanted but didn't know she was going to get. I just love those kind of gifts that they aren't expecting and are so surprised. All and all it was a wonderful night spent with family. The kids were so cute and just a bit spoiled...well a lot spoiled!

On Christmas eve we left chocolates and carrots out for Santa and his reindeer's, and read the book The Night Before Christmas. We all opened our Christmas pj's to sleep in. The girls went to bed and Elizabeth asked us to hurry and go to bed too so that Santa could come. The next morning and I mean MORNING, the kids got up about 530 or 6 AM that morning and got us up to go down stairs! Christmas was over in a matter of minutes and the girls were busy playing with all the new toys from grandma and grandpa and Santa! They loved everything and were already thinking of next year. That evening we went to my parents house and my mom and I made a full turkey dinner for us. It has been a wonderful Christmas.

About 5 days later we got around to making the gingerbread houses that I got for us to make with Jake and Lisa but Abby was sick on the day we were going to go so we never made them. But the girls had fun making their own houses.