Our Cheap Flat

Todd Changing The Tire

The Culprit

We were on our way home from my parents home after Missy's birthday dinner and all of the sudden I heard this really weird noise.  I looked at Todd and said Oh great, our car is falling apart.  Why do we always have to buy pieces of crap?  It got louder so I opened the door as we were driving down State Street and watched our tire get flatter by the second.  We pulled off and when we saw it we thought that we had run over glass.  Todd said that we needed to get all new tires anyway.  When they pulled out the culprit it was a volcom key that was bent in half...stupid skateboarders!!

Breaking In

One day we had all these projects to do at my house and when we got there is when I remembered that the house was all locked up...even my garage door. We found an open window and since Missy is half my size she got to go in. Funny thing was though, was that we didn't have a ladder so she had to stand on Brie's car and ended up ruining the roof of her car! Poor little bweeskies!

My Golden Ticket

'Private sale' New in box 2008 model #1 rated

Bug GPS is a powerful vehicle tracking device that uses the GPS technology developed by the Department of Defense. With amazing accuracy, it gathers miles driven on a daily basis, maintains time for billing records and produces detailed reports on all vehicle travel activities. Bug GPS also provides your PC, smart-phone, or PC phone mapping programs with GPS navigation via Bluetooth. (Bluetooth feature has nothing to do with tracking or data transfer)

My "sweet" Raimee bought this on ebay the other night! I don't know how, I was in the room with her. I thought that she was playing on Nickjr. Goes to show how much I know. Anyway, I had no idea until I got an e-mail saying congratulations you have bought this item. So I clicked on it and she bought it for the cheap price of $159.00. I have been wanting a spy device for quite a while so it will come in really handy!!! AUGH! As my good friend Alisha says...
She's my golden ticket to heaven.
Also, when I got home from the temple last night feeling on a high, as I was unlocking the door I could hear screaming inside the house. My first thought was "Oh, poor Brie, having to put up with my screaming children". Then I got inside and was met at the door by Kelbee letting me know what was going on. Raimee wanted to put her jammies on but didn't want to go get them so she sat on the couch and peeed. Sounds logical right? So my next thought was "Oh poor Brie, having to clean up pee and being stressed about getting the house clean by the time I got home." I felt so bad. And so ticked at the same time. What the heck?! Who does that? Then to top it off she made sure that she got gum on the cushions. All I have to say is that I am so lucky to have a sister like Brie. No one else would have been able to deal with it with such love!

Our Latest Family Pics

These were taken by my visiting teacher whom I absolutly adored! We took these a couple of weeks before she moved. The girls are wearing their Easter dresses. I love the ones of the girls! The ones with me in them-I can't figure out how many camera's were actually on me! (get it)

8 Years!!

The best anniversary present ever!!! HE PASSED THE NCLEX!!

Todd and Josh laying in bed together. Neither of them were very happy when I snapped this shot. It was priceless though!!

Me rockin' it. It felt so good!

Todd rockin' it!!

What a ride we have been on. But I couldn't think of anyone I would rather be on it with. I love my sisters and my friends but no one in this world compares to my Sweet Bug. He has taught me so many things...a lot of which is to let go of things because they don't really matter. We have so much fun together and it's interesting to see how when I think I finally have him figured out he goes and switches things up on me. I love so many little things about him...like his great love for ice cream and his never ending patience and yes some things still get on my nerves like when he brings chips to bed and licks them. But I must say that I have the way better end of the deal...He has to put up with me!:) We went to St. George for our anniversary and left the girls at home with Todd's mom and dad. It was the first time that I have ever left them like that but boy was it worth it!! It was so fun to talk and not be interuppted, to spoon at night and not have anyone try to climb in between us and when we were out to eat not having to get up in the middle of our meal to take someone potty. I was so excited to sleep in but when 7:00 rolled around and I had fallen asleep at midnight I was good to go. I can't remember when the last time was that I got seven hours of sleep let alone uninterrupted sleep! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful man to enjoy this journey with.

What The ....?!!!

How does this even happen? I know that everyone around me is so grateful for the snow because of the moisture but I don't know if there is anyone else on earth that loves the SUN more than I do. I cannot even begin to describe how sad I get when I look outside and see snow. I'll be the first to admit that I am the worst winter mom in the world. I would way rather stay inside and play than go outside and pretend like I'm having a good time freezing my...well...everything! I know that this spring is no different than any other in Utah, but I am about to pack up everything and move somewhere warm...seriously!!

NARF!!

While Linny (Todd's little sister) and her girls were in Utah visiting we went up to Clare and Cindy's as much as we could. One night after I had bathed the girls I was standing @ the bar talking to everyone. Brylee had been playing with all the tupperware in the lazy susan when all of the sudden I heard her crying. I look over and this is what I found. She had gone for a ride and didn't like it very much. Cindy went to grab her and I made her wait so I could get this priceless picture.

My Sweet Baby Girl

I couldn't resist taking a picture of this!

The Draper Temple Open House

The Draper Temple

Our Krew-notice we didn't want to move to far away from the cookie table:)

Most of Clare and Cindy's Family...All we were missing was Brad, Rudy and Chris

Cindy with all her grandkids. I love what is going on between Kelbee and Raimee. It's so typical!

What a fabulous day this was to be able to go the the Temple with my little family. As we were walking through, the girls kept going really fast and I had to slow them down a lot because I wanted to be able to explain things to them. But when we got to the Celestial Room they stopped at the door and their mouths dropped open. As we all went in together, what an overwhelming feeling it was to know that this is how it will be when we live with Heavenly Father and Jesus again. I am truly grateful for the knowledge that I have been given and that I can go to such a sacred place and help others have the same opportunity to be with their loved ones for Eternity!

AUGH!!!

I wanted to see if my new camera was working...unfortunately, it was!!

AN UPDATE...

My camera is broke so the only pictures that I'm able to get are from my phone. But we were able to get some taken while Tonya was here. We had to do it last minute because her kids were so sick. Poor little Abigail had pneumonia and a double ear infection and the other two had the flu and ear infections. My friend is just starting out doing photography and she spent an hour with us taking these cute pics... (which I could only get to work in a different post)

Santa and Sis Pics

The Sistas

I love this one of my niece Lizzy

This one is priceless

Her hair dyed bright red the night before we took these. It was supposed to be this beautiful medium brown. I so know better than to use a box dye. Oh well, I wish I could say lesson learned but lets be honest...I'm sure it will happen again!

Papi with all his grandkids

CURIOUS RAIMEE

Yesterday I had Aimee Carter's boys for a couple hours while she went to a funeral.  Ok I have to preface the story with....I have two nieces that have very big outy belly buttons.   My girls are always fascinated by little boys "parts" since they rarely see them.  I was changing Carston's diaper and Raimee came up to me and asked "mom, why does he have a belly button on his cwotch?"  I started to giggle and she instantly went into her little Raimee rage and did her little uugghh.  So I got to explain what "it" was!!  I love little curious minds!!!

Our 911 Call

No, my girls didn't call. It was me. The girls and I were in the kitchen eating and dancing when the CO2 monitor went off. I didn't even know that we had one. I called the fire department and they said that I needed to get my girls bundled up and go outside until they were able to see what was the problem. We had a police car, ambulance and firetruck here. The girls thought that it was pretty fun. They got to take a tour of the firetruck. They did end up finding some CO2, so I didn't feel like such an idiot.

The Gateway

About a month ago, Todd had a day off, so we went to the Gateway. He got shoes for his birthday and shocking enough he wanted to change them!! (Anyone that knows Todd knows that he has to change everything) We shopped at Dick's for what seemed like an eternity. I even lost Brylee. I turned away from her for 10 seconds to tell Todd he needed to hurry and I turned back around and she was gone. They did a code Adam, I started balling and then Todd found her in their warehouse climbing the fun yellow ladder. We went in played in the water afterward. Kelbee got soaked. She thought it was so funny until was started walking back to the car and she was freezing. She ended up riding home in just her underwear with mine and Todd's coats around her.

The 10 Virgins

Katie and Me

Me and my lamp

The 10 virgins + the narrator. What a wonderful experience this was for me. I feel very blessed to have been apart of it. I know that Heavenly Father had to have had a hand in it for them to ask me to dance!! The ward that we live in is amazing. These women all glow with the spirit. When I first got the script I didn't read all the way through it before practice. I just assumed that I was a wise one. I mean, people always play opposite of themselves. When I got to practice and we were going through it and I saw that I was a foolish one I was sad. I really don't think that I could have asked for anything better for my life though. I feel like I try hard to do what is right and blah, blah, blah. But doing this helped me realize how important all the everyday little things are. I realized that I need to put my scripture reading and temple attendance ahead of doing other things. I have started to actually search the scriptures and ponder them instead of just getting through the next chapter. Not having a lot in monetary things is sometimes really hard for me. But through this, and the past few months I have tried to find joy in the things that I have instead of always wanting more.

Random Things

I have never done a tag-but for Katie I would do anything!!
1- I love to have my feet sticking out of my blanket with the rest of my body nice and warm when I'm going to sleep.
2- I can't stand the sound of people chewing
3- The older I get the more ticklish I get
4- I would rather step over toys/messes than pick them up
5- I wear flip flops year round
6- I love to get dressed up and go out on a romantic date with my cute hubby!!

I tag my sista's: Tonya, Missy, and Bweeskies

Sisters Night

Brylee after swimming

All we are missing are Tonya and her kids

Me and my munchkins

She is so freakin cute

So here is the story behind this picture-Missy had made No-No bars while I was packing up the stuff to go to the hotel, so I was upstairs and didn't hear any of this. Kelbee took a bite of one and said "Holy S H I T" yes she spellled it out. Well, since I'm a mom I know everything. We started to talk about it at the hotel and I said did you really say that and she answered yes. I said do you know what that means? To which she replied no. I said sound it out for me...this is the picture that Missy took right as she figured out what word it was. We were all lauging so hard. Raimee freaks out if anyone laughs at someone so it captured her in all her glory too!! After we went swimming we headed back to the room and got the girls all bathed. The night ended with Raimee throwing up everywhere so Raimee, Brylee and I all went home and slept-it was only 5 minutes away. Kelbee got to stay and enjoy the rest of the night out!!

My Dare Devil

Brylee is fearless. We decorated above my moms cabinets as an early Christmas present and as I was turned around she thought she would just take a trip up the ladder. She just giggled when I said "what do you think you are doing?" She climbed to the very top and did her little hula dance that she always does.

Halloween 2008

Our Modge Podge of Costumes

I can't do themes anymore...they have minds of their own!!

She didn't want to take pictures at school cause she would be
embarrassed, so this was in the car on the way to school...
I thought it was so dang cute

The new Hannah Montana
She wanted nothing to do with the wig!!

I got this thinking that it was going to be a cold
Halloween-but she looked so cute and cuddly

We went to our ward Trunk or Treat and then to both Nana and Grampys
and Nammi and Poppis. We ended up with way to much candy and now I have
flabby arms, a bouncing butt and a couple extra chins!

Our Cute Witch

The finished product

This has to be the best invention for "carving" pumpkins. I just had to poke a few holes and my girls did all the rest and loved it cause they didn't get all the goo all over their hands...plus I had no mess to clean up!!

Scarecrow Festival

After the train ride

They waited so patiently to ride this train. We were able to pick where we wanted to sit and that was at the back!! The girls had so much fun.

Going down the blow-up slide

Getting a Butterfly painted on

She had a bumble bee painted on with a trail of where it flew all over her face