Busy Saturday~

This is just proof that Annie's hair does get done, once in a blue moon! I can barely brush her hair let alone get her to let me do something with it! This was a rare treat!

This past Saturday it seemed like we were running from one fun thing to the next! We started off at the Festival of Trees. Audrey's friend Erin had a birthday party there and I offered my help so me and Annie got to go, too. The kids went straight to the Kid's Korner (I've never understood why they speel things wrong when it's kids stuff! Aren't trying to teach them how to spell!?!?!) where they had crafts and little fun things to do. That is where we stayed! They kids were having a blast and I don't think we saw any Christmas trees except the ones we passed but the kids couldn't have been happier. We ended it with cake and presents. I'm telling you, to be a kid now, oh, to dream! They have the coolest stuff! Some of it was from my day reincarnated but Hannah Montana, and High School Musical-I would have been in heaven with that kind of stuff!!

The Giant Bubble Machine

Annie is talking to an elf

Spencer wanted to see what was going on:)

Manicure, of course!!

Gone Fishin'!

We then went to Audrey's first basketball game of the season. I love going to that stuff! She seems to have athletic talent and I am more than willing to encourage that! Her and Erin (I promise they don't live together...yet!!) are the only girls on their team this year, but my little princess isn't at all bothered by that! She loves the boys!

I think Erin was the tallest player on the whole court! Audrey is in the red pants.

After that, the girls with with ElRey to by our Christmas ornament for this year and then ElRey and I went on a much needed date! We went to his company dinner and then saw "Bond, James Bond". I know I'm a girl and all but holy good crap, I love that stuff! Bond, certainly doesn't hurt the eyes and I love a man that takes charge-even with a gun or a good fist fight! Totally reminds me of ElRey;)! So, yeah, I thought it was good stuff! I must be getting old though because I can hardly watch a movie without subtitles any more! You have jam packed action, fast talking AND you throw in ACCENTS!?!? I need a little help!! Needless to say, it was a busy but great day!

Oh, the Logic of Magic!

Just some funny magical moments with my kids.

~Audrey put this on her blog I copied straight over:
Crismas is fun to me cus we get presns frum sante nick he has majic if you don't hav a chimnee.

~ElRey was at the store with the girls and they walked by some Bratz stuff. I am not a fan and have a rule that they are not allowed in our home. For some reason this really bothers Annie and whenever she sees them she says something like "mom, why can't I have Bratz, you make me want them". Anyway, she's kinda obsessed. So, they are at the store, sees the Bratz, and Annie says, "We can't have Bratz, huh. Mommy doesn't like them, huh." Then she said to Audrey, "Hey, Audrey, maybe Santa doesn't know Mommy doesn't like Bratz and he will bring us one!" Daddy said, "Santa doesn't like Bratz either." Annie-"Oh, man!"

~Audrey lost another tooth this week just before bedtime one night. We put them to bed, Audrey made sure her tooth was under her pillow, the Tooth Fairy went and got cash to take care of the tooth and completely forgot to make the exchange!! The next morning we realized what had happened just as she was waking up so we were trying to get a hold of the Tooth Fairy to get her neglectful winged butt over here and Audrey was telling me she hadn't come. I was saying things like, "Maybe your name didn't get on the list since you lost it so late." Her reply, "No, your name goes on the list magically!" *crap* "Well, maybe you woke up before she could get here!" Audrey, "No, it's already morning!" As I was trying to come up with another excuse for the Tooth Fairy Audrey says, "Maybe she's just really old!" As though that explains everything! Considering my kids think I'm really old I found that rather rude! I was trying so hard not to laugh and wet my pants I think I pulled something! Needless to say, the crazy Fairy realized her mistake, she apparently had the 'sniffles' and gave Audrey an extra dollar for the mistake.

I love their explanations of how things happen and I love that magic is apart of it! It's hard to break through such logic!!

'Tis the Season~

It's time for the best time of year! I love Christmas time! It's the only time of year I listen to Johnny Mathis, Alabama, and Vince Gill, oh yeah, and the Osmond's OF COURSE!! It's the only time I want snow and the only time I spend GADS of money just because! I love it! Growing up we had great Christmas'! My parents always did so good! So good, in fact, we are still wondering why they aren't giving us gifts for 12 days of Christmas, boxes of cold cereal as presents and we are still all looking for our Easter baskets...but that's another story! I want my kids to look back on their Christmas' with that same joy! I have been trying out different traditions each year to try to get going. So far, we have putting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving and gingerbread houses sometime during the month. Audrey had a little helper

I love this picture even though me and Lily are cut off. My girls are so cute!!Lily knew just what to do!

I don't want it to just be about getting presents, I want it more about family time and love. So this year I am more on top of it (a little) and I found a wooden Advent calendar and I put an activity in each day with a small ornament to hang on it (it's a Christmas tree). That is pretty ambitious of me and I hope we can keep it going. So far, the girls have been pretty excited to see what we are doing that day. They aren't all big things, there is reading Christmas stories and watching Christmas movies but there is also going to Temple Square, shopping for each other, seeing Santa etc. Today's activity was making reindeer cookies. They weren't as big of a hit as I thought they might be but they are cute! Aren't they sooo cute?!? The reindeer, too!!:)Audrey need nourishment after all that hard work!

Yesterday we read a Christmas story

This is what happened....

ElRey found us all dead to the world when he came home! On the 1st we talked about doing this. I used the scripture in Helaman where Samuel the Lamanite is telling the Nephites what signs to look for that will tell them that Christ is born and then said that these activities are 'signs' of His coming birthday that we celebrate. I thought that was a pretty good idea, I'm pretty proud of that one! So, if any of you have cool tradition ideas you want to share feel free! I am always looking! It's amazing to think how hard our parents worked to make it special when we just expected it. Now its our turn and its harder than it looked!! So thanks, parents, for making awesome memories for us that we all hope we can continue with our kids!!

Thanksgiving Rocks!!

Thanksgiving, the precursor to the one of the best times of the year! What I great day we had! I started off with the Human Race 5k in Draper. It was wet but fantastic! Last year it was 21 degrees so I will take the rain and 40 degrees! I took a van full of buddies and we rocked that race!! I was shooting for a personal best. That fastest I've gone on a 5k is about 30 mins. This time I did it in 28 mins and 15 secs.!!! I was so excited to know I did that!! It made me giddy!! I saw some friends there, too! Richel was there with her sister and brother and I saw a friend from the Logan days- brad and his wife Liz and a friend from my childhood, Erika! It's so great to see old friends! Some of my Running Peeps- Erin, Amy, me, and Alison! This was Erin's first 5k and she did awesome! Alison kicked all our trash with 26 mins.! Go Alison!!We had to get a pic with the big turkey-do you think he knows we are going to eat his cousins later?? MAHAHAHA

Later, that day we went to my parents for some good eats! All my brother's were there, that live here so it was a lot of fun! I love hanging with my family! They are some of the funniest and greatest people I know!!

Lily wasn't feeling so hot so she just laid in my lap. She had a fever from an ear infection, I think. Poor baby!!

Audrey with her cousin buddies! They just love each other!!

Ben, Jacob and Audrey.

One have my handsome and talented brothers, Mike and his daughter Allison. He is much happier than he looks!:) Cute, little baldy!!
This is Lily AFTER we found some Tylenol for her! She was much happier!

It was a great day! The food was AWESOME and the company even awesomer! There is nothing like starting off the day with great friends doing something you love and finishing the day with family and food! I hope your Thanksgiving was just as great! If you feel like it, share what you did!!

BEWARE of too much turkey and pie- this could happen to you!!!!

No, it's all about ME ME ME!!!!

I was tagged by the lovely Rachel so the deal is I have to share 8 things about me for your reading pleasure (or boredom, or sleeping aid, whatever you use my blog for). So, let it begin....

1-I love non-sugary cereals like Grape-nuts and Puffed Rice! I know, it's like eating Styrofoam but I love it! When we were growing up we never had cold cereal except for the one box we get the night before Christmas-we each got WHATEVER kind we wanted! My bro.s were getting Cookie Crisp or Sugar Bombs or some other disgusting sugary muck and I picked Puffed Rice! Also, the first 'solid' thing I ate after having my wisdom teeth out was a bowl of Grape-nuts...dumb idea! I hurt my mouth so bad since I hadn't been chewing ANYTHING for 3 days! If you have never had Grape-nuts, they are probably they hardest cereal out there! It's like chewing gravel! Oh, how I love it! I thought I was going to die!!!

2- When I was a kid, my older male cousin thought it would be wicked-cool to get a perm. We were at some family thing, a baptism maybe, and he walked in with this silly perm and just as I pointed at him and said, "who let that girl in!?!", a lady I didn't know walked in right in front of him and looked at me like I was talking to her! That is still one of my more humiliating and stupid moments of my life!

3- I think Xanadu is one of the greatest movies EVER!! Michael Beck in short short skating with only one button fastened on that awesome Hawaiian shirt is HOT!!! I really do think it's one of the greatest!

4-I am a treasure chest of useless information! I have a photographic memory for all things unimportant and stupid! Try to get me to memorize a scripture or important facts and you've lost me but I can play "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with the best of them! Or give you a description of Michael Beck's (who knew that guys name but the one and only Mindi!!) awesome outfit in Xanadu in the "I Take The Fall" skating scene!

5- I love exercise! Yes, there are days when I have to talk myself into it but I love it! I would exercise vigorously for 2 hours a day if I could! I don't do so well on the eating part all the time but I do love to move it!

6- I love novels! I am a novel junkie! I'll read most anything but novels are my fave! I don't know what I would do without a novel around-in fact I am in that position now and I feel very naked and afraid without something to read!!!

7- I have always been active in the church, some times not so into it and I have made some really dumb choices but I have never really faltered on what I know to be true and I plan on keeping that way-even if taking 3 kids under 7 sucks right now! If I can make it through this I can probably make it through any faith shattering event...maybe I shouldn't say that out loud...

8- My mom was a health nut when we were growing up before it was 'cool' to be one. I mean that woman was up at the crack of dawn till she went to bed cooking and preparing food, grinding wheat, making bread, pasta, we never ate real candy or soda and we never had a frozen dinner or cold cereal as already mentioned. My aunt and uncle thought that was bad parenting and took it upon themselves to show me and my 3 older brothers what we were missing. While my parents were on a CES Jerusalem tour, Aunt Connie and Uncle Karl took us to Yellowstone and let us eat anything our little hearts desired! Each and every one of us ended up "marking our territory" with vomit throughout Yellowstone! I am pretty sure that when my parents found out about that, they had a nice chuckle over it!

The 8 people I tag are: Ruth, Jana, Heather, Carlee, Tristan, Stephanie, Tamara, and Brooke! If you've already done this or you just don't wanna, no worries but I had to come up with 8 or the Blogging Gods would make my water taste like chlorine and set a mouse loose in my house....oh, wait that's already happened..well whatever! Enjoy!!

"Climb Every Mountain!"

EEK!! We have offcially entered the climbing stage!!! Woe is me!! It was nice knowing you all, I am now too busy pulling Lily off of chairs, tables, the computer, the toilet, the end table, and soon I am sure it will be the ceiling fans!! Remember me, talk of me, send me chocolate and Diet Coke at the Funny Farm. I will either be going there or I will need to ductape Lily to the wall just to keep my sanity!!! Heaven, save us all!!!

"I knew I could fit here!!"

"HELP! I am so stuck!!"

I wonder who is in charge at this house?!?!

"Do you mind, I'm working here!!"

This is me at the end of the day. Don't ask me about the hand...I don't have an answer except maybe it's comfy!? Will you buy that?!?