~Fresh ~ Air ~ Forcast~

Look Close...yup - that is Tika & Carsun with weather forcaster, Debbie Worthen.

Last Friday the girls did not have school. We took Uncle Kenneth to the airport and my Dad had a couple meetings. The girls & I decided to hang around Salt Lake for a few hours.

We rode Trax and went to the Gateway. The girls got to stuff build-a-bears for Toys for Tots. We went back to the Gallivan Ctr. to meet up with my dad and saw Debbie Worthen getting ready to do a live shot for the noon news.

We waved at her and she motioned the girls over. She asked if they wanted to be on the news. Carsy said, "sure" and tika acted a bit embarrased, but let Carsun pull her over.

She talked to them for a minute and all of the sudden...they were on the screen. Debbie said, "Well the weather is beautiful and I've got Tika & Carsun here with me. They're from Heber. And I can't remember - what was next girls?" and they said, "The Fresh Air Forcast!"

Before I could dial anyone's #, it was over! Thank heaven for picture phones!!

One Word Tag

One Word Tag
1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket
2. Where is your significant other? Gone
3. Your hair color? Brown
4. Your mother? Festive
5. Your father? Amazing
6. Your favorite thing? Kids
7. Your dream last night? True
8. Your dream/goal? Happiness
9. The room you're in? Office
10. Your hobby? Quilting
11. Your fear? Loss
12. Where do you want to be in six years? Peaceful
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. What you're not? Perfect
15. One of your wish list items? Debtless
16. Where you grew up? Mountains
17. The last thing you did? Cried
18. What are you wearing? Jeans
19. Your TV? Off
20. Your pet? Genevieve
21. Your computer? Desktop
22. Your mood? Unstable
23. Missing someone? Lots
24. Your car? Dying
25. Something you're not wearing? Watch
26. Favorite Store? Costco
27. Your summer? Emotional
28. Love someone? Incredibly
29. Your favorite color? Yellow
30. When is the last time you laughed? Yesterday
31. Last time you cried? S’morning

People I TAG:
Cluelessllama
Hugawerewolf
Sarah E.
JibeHo
Jen R.
Rachel C.
Heather E.

8th of the 8th...

Okay , since my 4th of the 4th was so ridiculously BORING...I decided I'd add 4 and do the 8th of the 8th.

Let's hope it is a better picture experience for me!

So---for those of you that did the 4th of the 4th - let's do the 8th of the 8th!

C'mon Rach, Texas neice, endohamsail and whoever else wants to join in on the FUN!!!

Here's MY 8th of the 8th...


Okay - I feel like this is a Much better photo than my 4th! But come to think of it, my 4th & 8th are pictures of houses! oh well...at least this one has a bit more of a story behind it!!!

This picture was taken on February 9, 2008 at my parents house.

There was so much snow! Notice the living room window on the right! The girls and I went to help dad shovel so that the basement would not flood. Thankfully it did'nt, we had an afternoon of playing in the snow! Even Genevieve played in it!

Okay to do the 8th of the 8th...

• go to your pictures
• from the 8th file, select the 8th photo
• upload it to your blog
• write a post about it

It's their party

Over the summer, Tika, Carsun and our neighbors; who are the same age, decided that they would get into the "planning business".
Now when I say "planning business", I mean they think of ANYTHING and plan it. A babysitting business, lemonade stands, yard sales, trips to family dollar, you name it...they probably have it on their list!
We pretty much just let them think of anything and when they bring it up we say, "we'll have to see" (you know, the normal "mom" answer!)
About a month ago, they sat down and spent a good bit of time planning a halloween party. Well, halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so I actually listened to all of their ideas. Jamie and I decided that it might be fun to do since the kids had spent so much time on it and since there was no school on Friday this week.
The moms changed the time, and decided that no costumes would be worn, we planned the food and let the kids figure out the rest.
We invited the neighborhood carpool group and let each of our kids invite 3 of their school friends to attend a night of goul-ish fun!
The girls planned fun games! They played ghost in the graveyard, mummy wrap, the broom game, BOO-ngo and the candy bar game.
They decorated cupcakes ate food & candy like crazy and we sent them home to their parents. (who were probably quite upset their kids were wired for all hours of the night!!)
We ended up having 22 girls and one boy. (he actually didn't mind - I don't even think it phased him...he was 3!)
The girls all had a BLAST -- Jamie & I even got in on the fun, and enjoyed ourselves too!

4th of the 4th

Okay, a couple of my friends have done this on their blogs, so I decided to try it. I'm also trying to convince my neice to do it on her blog. :)

The way I understand the rules is:

• go to your pictures
• select the 4th file
• from that 4th file, select the 4th picture
• upload it to your blog
• write a post about it

So, I think I have done it right. In my pictures on the computer, they are alphabetized...so #'s are first. This file was titled with our address. What a BORING picture! I might have to re-do this in a couple days and re-title it 'the 16th of the 16th' or something!

This picture was taken on 07/04/07. We had just moved in to our house and I was taking pictures in & around the house to email them to my sister. See, I told you - boring huh? There's really nothing else to say about it either!

B~ O~ R~ I~ N~ G~

an apple afternoon

My Uncle Kenneth, dad's brother is in town this week. Yesterday he wanted to hang out with the girls.


We went up to Midway to a historical place called the John Huber Home. It is a beautiful old home with apple trees galore. It is actually one of the places that the girls & I got some of our pictures done 2 weeks ago. There is a stream that runs through the property and gives the whole place an awesome fall feel. The weather was beautiful, and that made the afternoon even better. The girls climbed up into the trees and shook the branches. We filled up a duffle bag full of apples.


Genevieve even got in in the fun. We thought it would be fun to see if she'd chase a small apple like she would normally chase a wugga....guess what? She did! It was actually pretty funny to watch. Uncle Kenneth would throw an apple through the orchard and she would dart after it. She'd catch it, bring it back, and lick her lips! yummy fetch!

2nd graders + school bus = FIELD TRIP !!

What do you get when you have about 100 2nd graders & their teachers, a school bus, and 25 parents? That's right...a field trip! The second grade @ HVE had their field trip on Wednesday. Since I don't work on Wednesdays I figured it was a perfect opportunity for me to chapperone an event-filled day with Bugga.

We loaded the busses @ 9:00 sharp and headed down Provo Canyon. Might I add that the girls RAN to the back of the bus! YAY!! We had the 2 back seats!! I know it's fun for them, but I was about done by the time we got to Sundance. (on the way DOWN!)

First stop was the Kennecott Copper Mine. WOW! That place was amazing! I have always wanted to go there...and now I just want to go back and spend more time. It was pretty cool. The hole is so big that the Empire State Building wouldn't even come 1/2 way up it! The tires that are on the haulers are GIGANTOR! Each one costs $25, 000 and each hauler has 6 tires! (And we complain about the tires we put on our cars!!) I gave them each a quarter so they could look into the thingy to see way down into the hole. That was lovely fun!

Then we re-loaded the busses and went to Thanksgiving Point to the Dinosaur Museum. I had never been there either. It was also cool, but I couldn't tell you what I learned. My group pretty much ran through the whole thing to get to the 2 sand parts! Then we ate our lunches and got attacked by bees the whole time and then had 20 minutes left.

One of the teachers suggested that we go look in the GIFT SHOP! Hello you dip-wad....7 & 8 year olds in a GIFT SHOP??? Obviously she does not have children of her own! None of the kids had money - but a couple parents said that each child in their group could get ONE thing. WHAT?? I have NEVER bought stuff @ gift shops on a field trip! So of course, my group came up with puppy dog eyes and pouty lips begging for something to be purchased on their behalf. There was me & two other mom that were the "mean ones". and then I saw these cute little bottles full of mini gems. It's something that Carsy has collected in the past, so I turned into a "cool mom" and let them each get one. They were less than $1! So now I'm cool! (I would like to mention that one mom was WAY too nice & bought each kid in her group a stuffed animal! either way nice or just has a lot of money to blow! I think she probably won the 'cool mom award' for the day!)

Then back onto the bus we went, and of course..."same seats". ugh! By the time we got back to the school I had run completely out of fun tickets, had a massive headache and felt as if I needed to puke for the remainder of the night!

Carsy was happy that I got to go though, so that made it all worth while!

What~A~Weekend

This past weekend the girls went to Justin's house. (even the girl dog, genevieve!!)

Friday night Reid got to come up and hang out so his mom could get some much needed studying done!

Justin & the girls stayed over for a while and all of the sudden there was a knock~knock~knock at the door. I went and answered it, and on the doormat there was a note... it said, "Dance Party - 8:00 pm - next door - get FUNKY & BE THERE!"

Justin was trying to finish up some work in the garage and told the girls to have fun! They put on a halloween costume from last year and ran next door. Reid wanted to hang out with Uncle Justin, so he went out to the shop to play in the wood!

(don't worry merkley's, it was unplugged!)Then he thought it would be fun to go check out the dance party! He was not too sure about the Hannah Montana music, but still tried to enjoy himself!


All that rockin & rollin wore him out!
The girls had a super fun time with Justin. They hung out in loungy clothes and watched movies all weekend! They both liked how relaxing it was! (I'm sure Justin did too - first weekend not working in a while!) That's the kind of "daddy time" I think they'll remember and maybe even enjoy the most!

Chop-Chop

As I stood in front of the bathroom mirror yesterday, I wondered why I got my hair cut 3 times in the past 4 weeks. No more pony tails for me! Well, at least for a while! I found a picture that was taken of me 4 weeks ago, and the I had Tika snap one of me yesterday morning. I'm missing a ton of hair!

4 weeks ago...

2 weeks ago...

This week...I never thought it would be so hard to get used to a hew hair cut! (any suggestions?)

~~eeek!!!!~~"scary soup"

If you are just joining us, scroll down to the post I did earlier today about "my favorite things about fall". As the girls & I sat down to eat dinner tonight I was saying how much I love to make soup in the fall.

Earlier today I got out a few of our halloween decorations. The girls have been waiting 6 whole days to use our new (well, I bought them last year on clearance after halloween) skeleton hand glasses.

They thought it would be fun to use them for dinner tonight and make red kool-aid so it looked like we were drinking blood. As we slurped our soup, Carsun pulled a noodle out of her bowl and said"Hey, I have an idea, we could make - up a witches brew to have with our blood."

I got a notepad and wrote down their recipe for "Scary Soup"...

SCARY SOUP

Recipe from Tika (11) & Carsy (8)

Chicken --plucked and torn up

Snake's Pee (Chicken Broth)

Ogre Boogers (fresh parsley)

Skin peeled from a human (minced celery & onion)

Fish tongues (carrots)

rat teeth (corn)

Frog eyes (peas)

Black cat intestines (noodles)

wash down your soup with a nice glass of warm bat blood!

So if that doesn't sound appetizing to you, you must not enjoy halloween as much as we do!!!

heh ~ heh ~ heh ~ heh ~ heh

one of my favorite things about fall

Okay, besides the crisp cool air, snow - capped timpanogos, and the beautifully colored leaves, one of my favorite things about fall is homemade soup! mmmmm....

While I was chopping veggies for our soup tonight, I realized how fast time flies! I cannot believe that we're already in October!

So, what are your favorite things about the fall?

Fall Pictures

Okay...I am so stinkin' excited about ALL of our photos, I just HAD to make a slideshow. It took all that I had in me to wait until today to post them!

So...If you have not voted on our Family Christmas card picture, scroll down~check them out and then vote for your favorite! Leave a comment too, I love getting people's feedback!

Above is a lot more of our pictures. She took 114 in all-WOW! And the girls didn't even complain! She kept saying, "You girls are good at this!" Anyway, enjoy!

***TIME to VOTE***

Okay everyone...here they are!! (drum roll please)

Over on the right side-bar I have set up a poll to see what you all think about our new family pictures. I thought it would be fun to see what other people (besides me...) would pick for a Christmas card photo. So take a good look at our top 5 choices and CAST YOUR VOTE!

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be watching...

Hello everyone.
On Thursday the girls and I headed up into the beautiful mountains and got family pictures in the fall leaves! (Well what's left of the fall leaves) The photographer is a local gal who does an AMAZING job. She was fun with the girls...she let them pick out a lot of the poses and if we saw a spot we liked, we'd stop there. She really made us a part of the whole process besides just saying, "Okay-smile!" On Friday she even called me and invited me to her house to see all 114 pictures she took on a slideshow. I thought that was pretty cool.
Within the next 48 hours I should have the pictures and I will have some sort of a poll to have you all help pick out our Christmas card picture! I will also have the photographer's contact info if it's "that time of year" for your family as well! She is reasonably priced and was very informative and was flexible with our busy schedule!
So, be watching our blog for all of our 2008 family pictures! I am so excited to share them!