Do you know him?

Ok so I stole this picture off a blog. But I have a connection so it's ok. My 2 sisters, (Jamee and Toree) YW's had a car wash for a fundraiser for camp. Well this guy, who I'm sure we all know, pulled into the parking lot and motioned for them to come over. Anyways, one of the girls went over and he handed over $200!!!!!!! He turned around in the parking lot and was going to leave when the girls realized it was Shaq so they chased him down and asked for a picture! Jamee is in the back to the left of him. Anyways he was out doing whatever it is he does for the police and saw the signs and decided to stop by. How cool is that?

****I'm taking a blogging vaca for a couple of weeks. We're off to Utah. But don't worry, Jeff is going to hold the fort down and work hard so I can have gas money to make it up and back!:)

The Best Day Ever!

If you are frequent Spongebob watchers you are singing that song in your head. (The best day ever!) That song kind of sums up our thoughts on this glorious day!
Oh yeah! They're back. The Hall fam is very excited!

While the sisters are away.....

the brother will play! This is just a preview of what next school year will be like. Just me and Coop. Ok not really. And he really didn't drink that pop. I just gave him a drink and took a picture. Daisy was at school and Lindsay went to a friends house. I had to run a couple of quick errands and we were in the car and Cooper kept saying , "I,I."(french fries) So I actually got him a kids meal. His very own. And the sisters never have to know. It will be our little secret! :)

My crazy kiddos

Wouldn't you know it? I finally get a cute picture of Cooper and the girls look like this. I don't think I will ever have a perfect picture, but this totally fits their personalities so I guess that makes it perfect.

Cinco de Mayo

We had a fabulous Cinco de Mayo. Anything excuse to eat mexican food. And of course. We had to have a pinata. This thing was so strong! We were using a plastic bat and we all took swings at it. But nothing. So we got out the metal bat and gave it to Daisy and stood back. Then I took a few hits. I'm telling you, this is a good way to relieve any stress. I was hitting it as hard as I could and I opened it a little bit. Jeff wanted to finish it off so he took the metal bat and hit it as hard as he could and the plastic attatched to the pinata broke through and Spongebob went flying across the backyard! The kids thought it was great!
Nice form!
Poor Spongebob had no clue what was going on!

Just us

Ok so this is the only picture I got this weekend. Jeff and I went to the cabin this weekend. Just us, no kids! It was great. We stopped in Payson Friday night and ate at Chilis since we had no kids to fight with. Then we decided to go to a movie. We saw 21. So we made it to the cabin at like 11pm. We slept in on Saturday and then just chilled. We went on a long motorcycle ride. I seriously don't remember the last time I got to go on a motorcycle ride all alone! We had alot of fun! I came back refreshed and ready to be a mom again. The best part is that the kids had a ton of fun too. they thought it was kind of like a trip for them too because they got to pack their suitcases and go to grandma's. Thank you so much Day's. I know we can always leave them with you and they will have fun and be loved! We appreciate it so much! And thanks Jeff. I'm glad I got to hang out with you!

Ladies Man

This is what happens when you have 2 older sisters! I came upstairs to see Daisy putting all the babies around Cooper. She was having a little photo shoot. She was telling him to show his teeth in this one. He's going in for a kiss!
Then he decided he needed to go get milk at the store.
Just to prove that he's not a sissy! He put the babies down to play cars. He definitely is all boy. He just likes to show his sensitive side sometimes.

Tagged

We got tagged by the Lara's. I have to write 5 things that each of my kids like/love. So here you go........
Daisy
1. She loves to be outside riding bikes, scooter, heely's, playing at the park.
2. She is quite the perfectionist. Almost OCD if you ask me.
3. Daisy loves to draw and water color.
4. She loves all the teeny bopper shows on Disney Channel.
5. She likes to sleep in. (and she loves her bridgie)
Lindsay
1. Lindsay loves mom. (I asked her what she loves and I kid you not, this was her first answer.)
2. She loves to draw. She is very articulate and so creative.
3. She loves anything miniature. She always wants the littlest toys. I find pieces all over the house. (or the vacuum does.)
4. She is a very goofy girl. Makes us laugh.
5. She loves her bridgie. (As you can see, it has had better days.)

Cooper

1. I'm sure you already know, but this kid loves, loves motorcycles or anything with wheels. Everytime we pull in the garage he points to the motorcycles and yells 'go go'!

2. He loves his bridgie too. His baby blue chenille bridgie. Jeff loves it too:)

3. He loves babies. Real of fake, he is so nice to them. He loves to hold them.

4. He loves to be in the dirt. If he is in the grass, he will find the one little spot with dirt and sit in it and play in it.

5. He loves Little Einsteins. He's a little obsessed actually. He can be a little couch potato.

So there you have it. Random, useless facts about the Hall kids.

Daisy has 3 great grandpas and 2 of them were able to attend her baptism. I think that is great! We get to see Grandpa Ben (right) when he comes to Sunday dinner at the Hall's and at family parties. Grandpa Day (left) lives in Idaho but has come down during the winter for the past 6 winters. He lives with my parents. We look forward to it every year. He is 96 and he is just the coolest guy. He is so spiritual and I am glad that I was able to get my patriarchal blessing from him when I was a teenager. He just left to go back home last week so I wanted to post this about him. We are always sad when he leaves. He always jokes and says well I might see you next year or I might not. My Grandma Day died in January of '02 and Grandma Hall died in May of '06. It is hard to not see them with their other halves but both are always happy and excited to see their kids, grand kids, and great grand kids. I think it is so neat to be able to have so many generations together at the same time! We sure love our grandpas! I think it's neat that I have this picture because not everyone can say that they had 2 great grandpas at their baptism.We'll see you next year grandpa!

FINALLY!!!

P.S. Jillyn- this is for you:)

Just because

Oh how I love when my girls have freshly cut hair! It looks so nice and clean. Plus they're just too cute to not post!
Daisy's hair is getting so long! We cut about an inch off.

And I even got the Coopster to smile:)! Today is a good day!

America got it wrong!

Ok I didn't really want to post this because I'm not obsessed, but this really annoyed me. I think Michael Johns is good and he did a heck of a better job than Kristy Lee Cook. I mean come on. she should have been LONG GONE! Do we agree? Anyways my girls and I were really sad he got voted off last Thursday. Daisy was yelling at the TV. We're just passionate at our house. I'm telling you if Kristy stays on another week I'm gonna scream!

David Archuleta

Isn't he just the cutest thing ever? We are BIG fans of his at our house. He is our #1 choice. How could he not be? Last night he sang Angels and it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO DAVID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't you love him too?

Cabin

We love the cabin. It's fun to get away for a couple of days and do absolutely nothing. We took our friends, The Beals family with us and the girls had fun playing with all the boys. We had 2 eight year olds, 2 five year olds, a 3 yr old, a 1 1/2 yr old and a 6 month. Are we crazy? My two girls were the only girls so let me tell you, it was a loud cabin. But it was alot of fun and we can't wait to go again! Cooper loves the quad and motorcycle. He would let Jeff ride him around all day. Which as you know, Jeff doesn't mind. He finally has someone to go with.
All our crazy kids, minus the baby. Lindsay has stickers on her face. Not chicken pox.
Lindsay and Brendan decided to hand cuff themselves together while they ate popcorn and watched a movie.
Cooper is hammin it up for the camera!

They're funny!

Sunday night the girls were outside swinging and being so loud and laughing. They came running in and told me I had to come see what they were doing.
They had these blow up sports people and had them tucked into their clothes and said they were growing out of them. Daisy was also jump roping with them. I was laughing so hard. I love when they come up with stuff on their own. They are so proud and think they are so funny! Ok- This girl loves to draw on herself, or anything. She took a Sharpie to her blanket and wrote her name on it and drew a picture on it. I always see pen on her legs, arms, feet, etc. So we are always having talks how we don't write on ourselves. So I'm helping her brush her teeth one night and I was cleaning her earrings and I see this. Blue marker all up the back of her ear. What!? So I check the other ear and sure enough it's there too. I showed Jeff and he had to leave the room because he was laughing. He couldn't believe that a child would think to take a marker to the back of the ear. She's pretty entertaining.

JabbaWockeeZ!!!!!!!

I have an obsession! I watch America's Best Dance Crew every Thursday night at 10pm. All the kids are in bed and Jeff's asleep and I turn on MTV and am amazed at this talent. I have wanted these guys (JabbaWockeeZ) to win from the get go and last night they won $100,000 and named as America's Best Dance Crew. And they said that season 2 is coming this summer! Oh I can't wait. And I got my mom hooked on this show too. She loves it! Anyways- did any of you watch it? If not- go to MTV or You Tube. Am I the only one obsessed?

A Pee Boo (peek a boo)

This is Cooper's latest. He went to bed with one of the girls dolls last night and this morning I could hear him talking so I peeked in and he had his blanket over the baby's head. Then he would pull the blanket off and say "A Pee Boo!" He was in the best mood this morning. Then it hit right after dinner. Yep- he's got 'em! (chicken pox) I just have to make it to this weekend and we'll be good and I'll never have to worry about this again! Yeah!

The Superstitions

This is the #1 reason why I love where my house is. I get to look out my window everyday and see this. Growing up here, I never appreciated the desert look, but it sure is growing on me. For Faith in God Days (Activity Days) we hiked up the backside of Silly Mountain and this was our view up top. (almost the top, we had a time limit.) Our purpose of the activity was to enjoy Heavenly Father's creations. I think it's pretty beautiful. My camera really doesn't do justice. It was so much prettier. All the wildflowers were in bloom and so green.
All our girls- we got lots! They loved it. That is Gold Canyon behind them. Our bishop lives at the base of Silly Mountain. His wife is one of the leaders so we met at her house and literally walked out of her backyard to the trail. I love this calling! It seriously is the best!

2 down- 1 to go

Yep- just like they said. If a sibling has the chicken pox it takes about 2 weeks for the other siblings to get it. It was exactly 2 weeks to the day. On Saturday morning Daisy came running out of her room yelling "Lindsay has the chicken pox!" Lindsay was right behind her with a huge smile on her face. It was kind of funny. Except today she has been very itchy and the calamine lotion isn't working. And I don't think she looks this bad. I hate my camera.
I'm ready to ring this kids neck! He is totally living up to the whole 'annoying little brother' thing. He goes up to Lindsay and smacks her back and makes her cry cause then she itches again! He just laughs. This sounds mean but I kind of hope he gets them too so he'll be down for a couple of days:) I'm such a mean mom but he has been running all over the house today just tearing thing up. I'm going crazy. Happy Easter to me!

Spring Break '08

We had a great Spring Break. The best part was that we had no schedule to follow! We stayed up late and slept in everyday. It was great. We actually started it off with a BBQ last Saturday. We had my family over for an Easter egg hunt too because they went to Showlow this weekend. The girls wanted to buy Enchanted on Tuesday so I told them we had to clean the house first. I love bribes. Really this is the only way to get things done around this house. Daisy swept and vacuumed the living room.

Lindsay vacuumed the stairs by herself. She was very proud of herself.
We actually went to different parks almost everyday. This is at Skyline park with the Wheeler's. It's the only time I had my camera.
We bought this blow up pool. Cooper wasn't too sure about it. The water was actually freezing so I don't blame him for not wanting to get in.

We also saw Horton Hears a Who on Monday at the San Tan shops. The kids enjoyed it. I told them if i could go into a couple of stores we'd get lunch and go to the playground. The weather was perfect that day to be outside. We also went to Tumbleweed Park in Chandler on Thursday with our cousins. The girls had a great time. Cooper stayed home with grandma. Good thing, that park is to big. He would have been all over the place. I love Spring! Except that the hot weather is coming. Today is the first day I turned on the air. It hit 79 degrees in the house at like 2:00. But I'm glad we got to enjoy the week of nice weather!

Daisy and I went to the Easter Pageant last night. It was wonderful! We went and got dinner first then went to Old Navy. When we got our blanket out, we went to the Visitor's Center to see the Reflections of Christ exhibit. It was absolutely amazing. I totally got teary eyed at the first picture I saw. Daisy was rubbing her eyes and she saw me looking at her and said "My eyes always water when we go in a room that's kind of dark." I said "Or do you just feel the Spirit?" It's amazing that my daughter is getting older and emotional. She enjoyed the pageant and sat and listened to the whole thing and would tell me about parts that she already knew. It was so nice to just sit and not chase little kids or have to tell them to be quiet so you could hear. Thanks to Jeff who stayed home with the other crazies!

We like this guy!

I realize I never blog about this guy. I'm sure he's not complaining. In fact, I'm sure he won't even see this unless we show him. I don't think he gets the recognition that he deserves so just a little something to show we love him and support him in all that he does.

He kills spiders, mows the lawn, washes, vacuums and repairs the cars, puts up the Christmas lights on our 2 story even though he's afraid of heights,takes out the trash, make sure the sprinklers come on, and occasionally unloads the dishwasher. Without being asked. Hey I'll take what I can get. Those that know him know he is quite the goof. He can always make us laugh even when we pretend we're not amused. It really is hard to live with 3 girls, I'll be the first to admit that so i do appreciate his sense of humor when us girls get a little moody.

We love him. I think we'll keep him around:)

{Happy Saturday}

So I was going to say Saturday is a special day- it's the day we get ready for Sunday. But I was looking at these pics and I think I'll just say:
Happy Saturday from the white trash family. It's like 10 am and we are still in our pj's outside while dad mows the lawn.
This girl is just plain nuts! In my t shirt.
This poor kid hasn't even had his diaper changed this morning. It's sagging so low I can see some of his cute crack.
Showing off their master pieces. Yes we are drawing with chalk on our back patio. Jeff doesn't like this at all. Where else are they supposed to do it at? Daisy and Lindsay sleep in my t shirts. They have like 3 each in their drawer. I guess there comfy.
My nerdy boy is about the only one doing something to get ready for Sunday. He's actually just mowing the lawn cause we're having a BBQ tonight. The grass around the trees were like 2 feet!So have a happy Saturday!