Happy Halloween

Today is the real deal but I' kind of halloweened out. We had our party for church Friday night complete with dinner, carnival and trunk or treat. Let me tell you Daisy scored. She went around 3 times. Her bucket was overflowing. Then Saturday night we went to mom's trunk or treat. I had my halloween party yesterday for preschool. Lindsay has her party today for grandma's preschool and I am going to Daisy's class this afternoon for her party. The thought of having to dress my kids up again tonight just doesn't excite me too much. We have enough candy to last us through the millenium!

that feeling

You know that uneasy, queesy(sp?) feeling? I only get it a couple of times. Like when I am pregnant and have to get my blood drawn, or at the hospital when I am going to have my baby and they have to give me an IV. Then of course I want an epideral so it's the same feeling. If I ever think about having to give birth, I seriously feel so sick to my stomach and I get weak. I also can't watch show where they are doing any kind of surgery. Jeff loves those but if I'm watching he can't turn to those. And although I've had 3 kids I can't watch Baby Story or anything like that. That feeling comes back and I am once again queesy. Well I have ofund another thing that I can add to my list. Pulling out my child's tooth. Daisy just lost her 9th tooth last night, thanks to me. Her own dad was too queesy to do it so I had to step up. It was hanging by a thread and I kept saying let me just pull it. I've said this with all the other teeth too. She always said no because she was too scared and she eventually got it out. So last night she says to pull it so I get the kleenex and I pulled a little bit and I could hear it coming out. Gross! But I did it! Now I have to quit talking about it because I'm feeling a little weak. Gotta go lie down.

I could write a book

I've taught preschool with my mil for the last 7 years. This year I started my own. Let me tell you, with that many 3-5 yr olds you can imagine some of the things I hear. I have this cute spider that you put candy in. It has a button and when you push it the lid opens and shuts and the mouth moves and it sings "I want candy". Well they love it and have to push it while we are having snacks. So we're sitting there Thursday and this girl starts belting out at the chorus "I want panties!" I looked at my friend and we lost it. I want panties too, cause I about peed mine. She was so serious!

Showlow

I took the kids and went to Showlow over our October break. My mom, Jamee & Toree drove up with us too. Devin & Kristin just moved their from Payson. They had a cabin for us to stay in. It was just down the road from their house. We had a ton of fun! Thanks so much to D & K for letting us come up and crash your joint and wild up your dogs! Here are some highlights from our trip...
1. Wii Bowling! We all thought we were so good we decided to do the real thing. That leads us to #2.
2. Real bowling. We knew we were in trouble when Devin & Kristin pulled out their own balls and shoes. Yes they are good.
3. For me, putting the kids to bed at 8 pm every night and then playing cards until midnight every night. It was a blast. And I even didn't mind when everyone laughed at me when I shuffled. I guess I don't do it right. You think someone would have told me sometime in my 30 years.
4. Devin took the girls on the golf course. (they live on one) He would hit the ball then they would run and try and find it. Then he took them to the lake to fish for golf balls. They came home with a good collection.
5. For Cooper, it was watching the dogs eat, poke the dogs, and play in the rocks in Devin's front yard, backyard, the cabin yard, anywhere there were rocks, Cooper was there.
6. Riding the golf carts at "The Ranch" and trying to break in to the air hockey machine. Oh and feeding the fish with dog food.
7. We just had so much fun being up in the mountains and enjoying the company. I don't think I've laughed so much for so long. We would be playing cards and we would be laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. So thanks to everyone who made this trip fun and memorable! Can't wait to do it again soon!
8. I forgot to mention it was Kristin's birthday! We decorated her porch with balloons and had dinner. Jamee made her famous cookies and let me tell you, I think they were the best we've ever had!

general conference

Don't you just love g.c.? You can lounge in your pj's all day and it's a good excuse to not to have to go anywhere. And best of all(I know this sounds bad) you don't have to go to church. No meetings, no waking kids up to go, no walking the hall for 3 hours. I was so excited for this weekend. We went up to watch conference in the mountains at the cabin. Just the 5 of us. I was reaady for a weekend of R&R. Well we had a weekend of that, however, we didn't get to watch conference. Total let down. We didn't have the remote for the satellite to set it up. Jeff went to the dollar store in town and found a universal remote. It almost worked. So here it was 10am on Saturday and wondering if we should go home. But we decided to stay and relax. Good thing there's Tivo, right? So after feeling guilty, we decided to make the most of it and we had a great time, and yes I stayed in my pj's the whole time. I did take a showers though. And Jeff even went to the preisthood session all by himself. What a guy!

Updates

our computer is officially broken so I haven't been blogging for awhile. I need to give an update on the kids.
Daisy is enjoying 2nd grade. She is quite the fashion queen. She lays out her clothes the night before. This takes lots of time, making sure it is just right. She just finished a 6 week choir class. They did their performance 2 times for the school and 1 at night for the parents. She was so fun to watch. She used to be so shy to get up in front of people, but she was up there dancing and singing. She has really come out of her shell this year. We just started reading the BofM with her. She actually reads it herself. We are proud of her.
Lindsay is such a goof ball. Daisy is silly too, but she knows the appropriate times to not be that way.(church & school) Lindsay doesn;t get it. At church she came home and said our teacher said 3 strikes and you go to your dad. Lindsay says, very proud of herself, I got 2! She makes all the other kids laugh at preschool. She is very funny I must say but she is also very sensitive. If you raise your voice just a little, she takes it personal and cries. Hopefully by kindergarten she will figure out there is a time to be silly and a time to listen,(yeah right)
Cooper has a battle wound on his nose. He runs full speed and laughs. That means he wants to someone to chase him. Well he ran and fell right on the sliding glass door track and has a huge mark down his nose. The kind of funny thing is nobody was even chasing him. He also thinks it is so funny to turn the TV off and run away. He seriously did this for 1 hour the other day until I just told Lindsay to go watch her movie in my room. He can say bath, ball, bus,(they all sound the same ba, but he uses them at the right times), spongebob, (thanks to his sisters), car, shoes, hello, bye, daisy, lindsay, mom, dad,bottle(even though we don't use them anymore, he says it for cup). He is a riot!

FHE fun with the hall's

It's starting to feel like fall. Ok not really, but for AZ, last night the weather was so nice. We ventured out to the backyard to enjoy our new grass, trees, and patio, and swingset. We got a playhouse from my mom's neighbor. We put it together and the kids loved it. Daisy & Lindsay put their little folding lawnchairs in it and were just chillin. Cooper was loving the sand and water table and was so muddy, but we just let him dig in. We haven't been outside for so long to just sit and enjoy. I absolutely love these next few months. It reminds me why I do love it here.

Ok my computer is being stupid so I can't post my pics. I'll have to do it later.

Beware...

when you take a bath with Cooper! He has discovered that it is so cool to stand up while the bath is filling up and pee. Of course, it doesn't help when there are three girls watching laughing their heads off. So now it's funny to him. As he is doing it he's looking at us smiling like "look at me, I am so cool." Sorry, no pictures for this post. That is "not appropriate" as Daisy would say.

Happy Birthday Devin! Happy Birthday Corri!

Today is Devin's 27th birthday! My girls are absolutely in love with Devin. He has that effect on little girls. They all love Devin. Little boys on the other hand are terrified of him:) (Cooper cries when he walks in the room) Devin is up in Payson. So close, yet so far away. We don't get to see them alot. They are busy working up there. Happy Birthday Devin! Have a great day!


Today is Corri's birthday. I actually don't even know how old she is. A young 20 something. We love Corri. She is so fun to be around. I am glad Chad found a girl that is crazy as him. I can't wait for Avery to make his way into this world so I can see Corri in action. She will be a fabulous mom! We love you Corri!

Happy Birthday Toree!

ok we are so late on this! Toree turned officially teenager on August 29th. That's right the big 13! so in honor of Toree, 13 things we love about Toree.
1. She loves dogs
2. She is a good babysitter
3. She is a good dog babysitter
4. She changes Cooper's poopers
5. She is quite the scrapbooker
6. She makes killer movies (which we haven't seen lately)
7. She would love her own horse
8. She likes Zac Efron
9. She can dance like the cast of HSM
10. She likes HSM & HSM2
11. She taught my girls the word PRECIOUS (from lord of the rings)
12. She let my little girls watch Lord of the Rings
13. She is a nice, good, sweet girl.
We love you Toree!

Bridgies & Silkies

ok, so you know how much my girls love their bridgies? Well Cooper loves his blue bridgie. Jeff calls it his "sissy bridgie" because it's chenille on one side and silk on the other. Anyways, I found these cutest silkies today at Walmart! They are so stinkin cute I had to buy them. And the best part is they were only 6.88 each. I don't think you could make them for that much. Cooper carried his around all day. Jeff says we need to take it away right now cause boys get beat up in kindergaten if they take their bridgies to school. The girls took theirs to bed tonight and I can gaurantee when I go check on them they will have them across their faces. Who wouldn't want silk on their face while they sleep?

What time is it?

It's time for High School Musical 2!

Daisy and Lindsay had a blast on Friday night. We had Lily, Kassidy, Kinley, and Brinn over for pizza, pedicures, and of course the premiere of HSM2! They all wore their HSM pj's and us moms enjoyed the movie just as much. It was a great girls night!

And there was lots of screaming for Tino. (although we don't even know who he is, but Jamee does. She met him at EFY and he was an extra in HSM2. We saw him a few times in the movie so I would point him out and all the girls would scream. Funny. Anyways, that's our claim to fame!)

Parties

I never got pics up of jeff and cooper's birthdays. We had family over for cooper and we had to go to Pancho's for jeff's b-day. We usually only go to Pancho's twice a year. jeff's b-day and daisy's b-day. that place only sounds good when i am pregnant. So i can totally say that i was not looking forward to eating there.

My girls would never...

Throw mommy's flip flops in the toilet.
Throw matchbox cars in the toilet.
Put their hands in the toilet and splash and laugh as mommy came in and saw.
Laugh at a toy that when you push its arm down it "arm farts"(thank you mcdonalds)
Find the remote and chuck it on the floor so the batteries will fall out. Then lose them so everytime anyone wants to watch TV they have to put new batteries in the remote. (Yes we're lazy)
See how many matchbox cars they can throw down the stairs before mom comes around the corner and says no no.
Climb to the top of the slide and stand up.
Climb on their bike and stand up on the seat with no hands.
Go straight for the dirt or rocks when we go outside.
Push the doll stroller over just so they can "spin the wheels"
Push a car or anything with wheels around the floor for hours, all the while making the "vroom vroom" sound that cars make.
Sit, or stand on the dishwasher door when it is down and then attempt to pull out the top rack, or just pull out the bottom rack all the way out and off the track so it ends up on the floor.
But guess what- COOPER WOULD! And he would accomplish all of this in an hour flat!

Daisy girl

I like to take pics of all the kids on the first and last day of school to see how they have grown throughout the year.

Daisy started 2nd grade this year! Oh how the time flies. Sometimes I wish she was still my little baby girl. It was just me and her for 3 years until Lulu came along. We did everything together. She was my little sidekick. I know I can't keep her little or by my side all the time, but oh how I miss her when she's gone. She started a new school today too so she was a little nervous, but she'll do great! She is a happy girl and a contagious smile and I know she will make lots of new friends. Love you Daisy!
And I did good too. I didn't cry until I was in the car so she couldn't see. Lindsay knew it was coming because she remembers years past. As I was putting her and Coop in the car she said mom are you going to cry now?

It's Official!

Cooper is walking, really walking. He started a couple of weeks ago, but now he can keep his balance and walk acroos the room, lean over and pick up a toy and then stand up without falling and keep going. If he falls, he stands right back up and keeps going. He's hardly crawled the past couple of days. He reminds me of a little monkey. It is so cute. He is a mad man. I've taken videos but my computer is down and I tried to download a video from my mom's camera and it wouldn't work. Sorry Jillyn and Katie. I'll keep trying.

bugs

This happened a few weeks ago but Lindsay said it agian last night when we were brushing her teeth. She came home from church and we always ask her what her lesson was about. I am always so amazed that a little sunbeam actually not only remembers the lesson but she can tell me a story the teacher gave. Anyways, she said "mom, did you know we have bugs in our mouth?" I thought what did they talk about today? I said " We do?" She said "yes, that is how we taste." (Taste Buds) I was dying with laughter on the inside. I can just imagine my 4 year old leaving church thinking she has actual bugs in her mouth.

Happy Birthday Jeff!

( Sorry these aren't the best pictures)

So July is turning out to be a busy month with birthdays and stuff. I can't forget to say Happy Birthday to my hubby! He told me not to write anything about him so I won't make a list. He is the big 3-6 today! I can't believe it's been 11 years since we met. It's been quite a journey and can't believe it's been that long. I can't wait for many many more birthdays to come! I love you! Thanks for being a great dad and husband!

Shout outs

Okay so I totally missed Devin and Kristin's anniversary. I knew it was July 19th, but that day came and went. So Happy Anniversary! The big #4! They live in Payson now and have lived in Arkansas and Devin played baseball in Cali so we haven't got to see them alot. We love you guys and miss you!(and the dogs too) Aren't they so cute? I can't wait to see what their kids will look like. They are going to have the hottest kids in town. No pressure though!

Also- I don't have a picture yet, but Cooper gets to share his birthday with his new cousin Avery. She was born on Saturday afternoon. Congrats Matt & Mindi! We cannot wait to meet the new addition! (the baby not the Honda) Ha Ha

Happy Birthday Jamee!

My little sister Jamee is the big sweet sixteen today.

Here are 16 facts about Mimi.

1. She loves anything volcom

2. She is a huge fan of pirates

3. She is a PICKY shopper

4. She loves Daisy

5. She loves Lulu

6. She loves the Coopster

7. She always says yes to babysitting

8. She makes the best cookies

9. She can make bread

10. She makes killer movies

11. She is a hottie

12. She is skinny minny

13. She is easy going

14. She owns a skateboard

15. She can beat anyone at video games

16. She has a gorgeous smile:)

We hope you have a fabulous time at EFY and be prepared for the boys to be knocking down the door when you get home. Maybe even you know who :)

We love you MIMI!

Happy Birthday Cooper!

I can't believe it has been a year since this cute little guy made his entrance into this world. I was sceduled to be induced that morning but I ended up in labor at 5 in the morning so I didn't have to be induced after all which was nice. He came fast and easy and he has been that way ever since. He keeps busy playing. He is non stop, but he also has the sweetest, most easy going personality. He has made our life happy! Keep up the good work Cooper!

I'm Addicted

Okay so I am addicted as you can see by the times I post. It is after midnight. I saw the cute pics of Libby on Emily's page so I have to post one too from their visit. It was so fun to watch her and Cooper play together. She kept up with him and they had agreat time with each other. Next time Liberty and Tooper get together they will be running all over the place.

Cooper's Favorites

This shirt says it all

He is like the Energizer bunny. He keeps going and going and going.

milk in bottles
playing with cars, trucks, anything with wheels
milk in bottles
playing with my sisters toys
climbing the stairs
milk in bottles
making big messes
making everybody laugh
did I mention he loves milk?

Lindsay's Favorites

Don't you love her outfit choices?

This is capris with a skirt over and a shirt. Oh and you can't forget the leash. Yes, that is attatched to her belt loop. This is a LuLu Hall original.

pretty much everything Daisy just said so I will add some of my own too

peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
dressing herself (10 times a day)
swimming
watching TV
someone to read her a story
playing with her sister and brother

Daisy's favorites

Daisy is happy even though her face looks grouchy. We love the beach!

High School Musical (can't wait for HSM2)

Hannah Montana CD

swimming

ride her bike/scooter

Disney Channel

family scooter rides

her crazy uncles (you know who you are)

cousins and friends

candy and chocolate

Polly Pockets and Little Pet Shop

okay the list could go on and on but you get the point