Sunday, January 11, 2009

Mischief

What do Vaseline, Vicks rub, and my expensive hair gel all have in common? 

They are all items Logan decided to put in his hair - one a day - for three days in a row.
Here is one of his masterpieces, beautiful!  Paul washed his hair three times to get all the stuff out before putting him to bed that night.  Then the next morning as I was getting ready, Logan found the Vicks and went to work.  He works quietly, I should have known that he was up to something.  I was already running late and was on my way to Costco.  So, I just left the Vicks in and combed it into place.  I spiked his hair in front and it stayed in place all day!  I even had a lady comment on how cute his hair was.  Guess I should try it more often!  

I have lots to post on Christmas, and hopefully will get to it in the next couple of days.  Ryan's wedding is coming up and we have been a little busy.

Monday, December 08, 2008

Our "Most AWESOMEST" Christmas Sweater

Paul and I went to a party at our friends the Websters, Saturday night.  We were all suppose to wear our "most awesomest" Christmas sweaters.  This is how Paul and went.  Paul's blazer was striking and my sweater was actually pretty cute with Santa on the back and Santa button's on the front.  We did a lot of searching to find just the right outfit - from DI to Savers to TJ Maxx, and in the end, we just borrowed stuff to put together our attire.
Paul and Paul's brother, Ryan were the hit of the party.  We had to get a picture because we will never see either of them in red again.  Their blood runs blue.  If you look close, Ryan even has a red dicky turtleneck (remember the movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?).

Here are some of the guys at the party. 

Here are the girls.  What a fun party!  Of course we had a white elephant exchange too which was hilarious!  Our white elephant had been regifted a couple of times, but it was pretty funny.  It was a Santa that passes gas when you pull his finger.  The boys were pretty sad to part from this one.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

I'm Thankful For...

What a fun Thanksgiving!  I started a new little tradition this year and put five popcorn kernels on everyone's plate.   We then went around the table before we ate and everyone had to say five things they were grateful for.  Of course, all by boys were a little silly about the whole thing.   But I enjoyed doing it and hope and this tradition sticks.  Here are five things I am thankful for:

1)  For my sweet little Logan, and how he simply adores me.  Sometimes he can adore me more than I like, but I know that soon he will not want to cuddle with me all the time and I will miss that. 
2)  For my wonderful husband who was such a help to me getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner.  
3)  For good friends who are always there for us and make yummy pies.
4)  I am thankful for all my boys that can't think of anything else to be thankful for besides BYU (even after the horrible BYU/Utah game).

5)  For my wonderful parents - it as been so fun to have them around again and I loved not being totally in charge of dinner this year.  Mom cooked an amazing turkey, stuffing, and rolls.  

Now on to Christmas, I am ready...(not really) but, bring it on!

Turkey Time

Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa, we had a really fun FHE this week.  They brought all the supplies to make pinecone turkeys.  The boys had a great time making their turkeys...



Gobble, gobble!  Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Mommy's little helper...


In the mist of science projects for two boys and trying to clean up dinner, this is where I found my little helper.  It turned out to be a great place to keep him for awhile, he was totally entertained.  Its amazing what I let my kids get away with sometimes for a few minutes of sanity. 
Talking about sanity time, I had a fun girls night out this weekend and went to see TWILIGHT. It was great!  I was surprisingly pleased with the movie and can't wait to get back to reading the series.  You've got to see it!

I looked out the window at what did I see...

We have had a little friendly dispute this football season with our neighbors who are huge Ute fans.  They have had a Ute flag hanging up every game day off their back porch so it is framed perfectly in our family room window.  Needless to say, this does not settle well with our boys.   Garrett has left numerous letters for our friends at their door and Bryson has thrown water balloons at their flag.
So, on the biggest duel of the season, we both went all out.  Paul and I stayed up until 1:oo a.m. decorating our neighbor's home.  It was awesome!  My favorite was the poster I made for the front door that had a big "Y" and said "Y fans live here".  There was blue everywhere - spray painted grass, duct tape Y's on everything, sidewalk chalk, Y stakes all in their yard, and a big sign on their garage door.  I made Paul go take the camera out early Saturday morning, but they had already taken everything down, and this is what we found at our house.
I told Paul I woke up with butterflies in my stomach for the game.  We were asked to host a Elder's Quorom party at our house to watch the game.  So while all the Elder's watched the game downstairs, my parents, Ryan and Karen, and the boys and I watched it upstairs.  We had a really fun party, but were all greatly disappointed.  My boys were very upset.  Bryson doesn't want to go to school on Monday and face all of his peers.  Garrett wanted to rip all of his BYU t-shirts and told me he doesn't want to go to BYU anymore.  The saying, "Its just a game"  doesn't work at our house.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Colorado Springs trip


As most of you know, BYU played Air Force this weekend.  Being the devoted fans we are, we decided to go and support the team in person.  Actually, Paul tries to take the boys to at least one away game each year.  This year I was lucky enough to be invited to come along.  Grandma and Grandpa watched Mckay and Logan for a couple of night for us while we played with the older boys.   
This picture with Garrett is at the Garden of the Gods by the balancing rock.   It looks like that rock is going to tumble down any second!  This whole area was really fun to look at, it reminded me a lot of our red rock in Southern Utah.  We spent some time checking the place out Saturday morning before going to the game.


Here we are on the way to the football game by the Academy.  Can you believe we are standing in snow?  I told Paul next year choose somewhere warm to go watch the game!  It actually wasn't that bad as long as you stood in the sun, not the shade.
Before the game, the boys did this trampoline/ bungee jump thing in the parking lot.  They kept saying how easy it looked to do backflips until they were up there and tried it and decided it was harder then it looked.
Go mighty Cougars!  We had so much fun at the game.  Yes, it was long, but my yummy warm kettle corn kept me happy along with the sun shining on my face.  Thanks to Garrett for telling me when to cheer and not to cheer.  Thanks to Tanner for laughing lots during the game.  And thanks to Bryson for telling me after the game how fun it was to have his Mom there.  Oh, and a special thanks to Paul for letting us sit in the sun, even if the seats weren't very good, they were very warm.
After the game, we went to dinner and then saw a special screening of the new movie BOLT that is 3 -D.  It was a really fun show to watch, especially when you have a 7 year old who is laughing like crazy sitting next to you.   After the show we went and got a Cold Stone ice cream, yum!  Of course I got my favorite...sweet cream and brownie.

We flew back first thing this morning.  With all of us dressed up for church, it made us really stand out.  People kept asking where we were going all dress up like that.  It seemed so weird to me that we stood out so much on a Sunday all dressed up.  Its was like nobody goes to church dressed up anymore (or they don't go to church at all).  

We rushed to our car and then went to my sister-in-law's brother's "farewell".  Her brother, Ryan, did a great job and I was happy my boys were able to go and look at good examples like him.   Natalie's mom ended up making lunches for all of us to eat on the way home.  That was seriously so nice of her!  We were all starving and it hit the spot.  I was so happy to have the chance to hang out with the big boys this weekend, I think we really wore them out this weekend, try to squeeze in as much as we could without the younger boys.   They all were excited to go to bed tonight and get some sleep.