Christmas programs

Lane recently had his Christmas program at his preschool. We also saw santa and got some pictures of Raegan to keep her from screaming Lanes name while he was singing. although my pictures are no where near as funny as Erika's I hope you will enjoy.

sticking it to the man.

Every year Rich and I send out Christmas cards. And every year I hate it. I feel like its not christmas if I dont do it. You know like how you have to buy santa claus paper to wrap the things santa brought. Or how you have to put oranges in the bottom of the stocking to make up for the extra space. Or how you have to make christmas casserole the night before so its perfect the morning of. All the little things you do, that you hate doing every year but you feel like if you dont youre not being a good "santa-mom" Well this year I took alittle victory of my own.

Instead of the usual fretting over getting the picture JUST RIGHT, (aka everyone looking, smiling, being "hands quiet" as rich calls it, making sure rich's double chin doesn't show, making sure my love handles are tucked in (kidding, i don't have thoes!) and no one is picking their nose. I decided to chose this grainy, frankly terrible picture (Rich's eyes aren't even open) to send out to all of our family and friends. It is my way of sticking it to the man. I think I am on a roll. I might not even use Santa paper this year. take that MAN.

Old Sun....get it?

OH! all you haters are going to hate this post. But you know what? I dont really care. I am here to say that I loved New Moon. although I have to say I feel slightly pedephile-ish lusting after Taylor Lautner with his shirt off. I am like ten years older than him. He was born in the NINETIES people, think about that. You feel sick too dont you? its ok. You can see the truth, just like I did. And admire him for his talent. No matter how little.

It was a super fun night! thanks girls! and thank you Cari for posting this pic so i could steal it from you. out.

Huge super-long post

LONG TIME no post!! Rich and I are the proud owners of a new computer. and I am so excited to start blogging again. Because we all know that it is really my first priority. Dinner? no Laundary? no change diapers? no but blogging? now thats important. so now that i have my sense of purpose back, I hope you enjoy my boring family pictures.

Happy 6th Birthday Clay! Clay had his first friend birthday the first week in October and I have to say that was tough. Clay and four of his friends went to Leo's place for Pizza and games and I am so glad that Birthdays are once a year otherwise, I would be dead. He LOVED it and still talks about it two months later.

We took alittle family trip to Utah to visit Scott and Kristen and for Rich to go to the priesthood session of conference. It was so cool. I like going to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point. It is seriously one of my kids favorite places to go. Notice this random kid running through our picture. He looks vaguely familiar whoever his mom his she needs to teach him some manners.

Isnt she getting sooo big! Me and my girl have so much fun together.

My baby turned two!! so bittersweet! we were lucky to be in Boise for my brother Nicks wedding. It was so fun to get to celebrate with Nannie and Poppa. Raegan got a doll house and some dress up clothes. i have to say I think its much more fun to shop for girls.

OHH! The first day of school. It was sooo hard for me! I never would have thought that this day would be so hard. I cried all day! You hate to think of your sweet baby leaving you all day like that. I was so afraid that someone was going to be mean to him! He had a fun day though. Up until the school had a mix up and told him to walk home. He was so upset when he came home. He kept telling me that no one would listen to him when he told them that he rode a bus. it was a stressful day. good thing he looked so cute.

Huge blog coming soon.

Just thought I would share the funniest SNL video I have seen in a while.

http://starcasm.net/archives/23088

more soon cause i know you're dying to see it.

San Fransisco

Rich and I had a recent visit to San Fransisco. As you can see Rich decided to join in with the gender crisis that often acompanies the locals. It was so much fun. Tons of shopping and nice resturants. We actually ate dinner one table away from James Hedfield (metallica) and I ran on the hotel treadmill next to Rumer Willis (as in Bruce and Demi.) We also saw loads of homeless people getting arrested and I was solicited by a prostitute. I almost felt complimented (hey i will take what i can get) and then i realized how sick that was.

We took a ferry around Alcatraz Island and spent some time on Pier 29 it was so fun.

Couldnt resist a shot of the golden gate bridge. It was an awesome trip and we can't wait to go back next year.

T-ball birthdays and floods.

I am sure all of you have been crying desperately, daily for my blog. So just to tide you over here is a quick upate on what we have been doing this summer.



4!!!! I can't believe my sweet Lane is four! it seems like only yesterday he was a little colicky bundle of crying, oh to have thoes days back....wait, um, well yeah so its good hes four. He got a speed racer birthday cake and a scooter and some transformers with violent sounding names that i can never keep track of. Which genious here forgot to take pictures of.

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Oh sweet summer! watching Clay pick dandy lions while the rest of the team plays T-ball! You never forget these memories.

Then on to some bad news shall we?

Pump truck? 95$

Surround sound? 90$

carpet padding? probably hundreds right now we live on concrete.

Sheet rock and insulation? might as well be millions

cleaning crew? 649.32$

insurance coverage? 0$

children still having all protruding limbs after leaving the hose on for 4 hours? Priceless.