Oh Happy Day!

So today is the big day. The day I have been waiting for for months now. My glorious fall TV starts. I know a few good show (heroes and house) have already started but tonight is the big night. Jim and Pam, Mcdreamy and Meredith, Izzy and George. My kids are going to bed early, mostly because they are tired and dad is out of town and I am going to pull my hair out, but also so I can watch my Tivo'd shows in peace. I know I am pretty pathetic that I anticipate this night so much but I know most of you love these shows too ( maybe you secretly love them). I was completely disappointed in my summer show Big Brother- honestly could two less deserving people who almost made me vomit have won! Although I was impressed by The Closer on TNT. I started watching this summer and loved it. Anyway I just had to share my excitement since it is going to bubble over. Any theories on new seasons? I don't think Izzy and George should be together although I want them to be. What they did was wrong and it can't be rewarded! Jim and Pam are made for each other. I always wanted Shepherd and Grey to be together but it does make for good TV to see how they figure it out. Besides The Office and Grey's Anatomy we also watch Survivor, My Name is Earl, CSI, and ER. Don't judge, I know I am a TV junkie but no one gets ignored or harmed in all my TV watching.

P.S. I missed the Bachelor on Mon. night. Anything good happen?

William Tell Overture for Moms

I know most of you might have already seen this, but for those of you that haven't get ready to hear you life or childhood described in a few short minutes. Don't forget to stop the music on the side before you start the video!

Tanner's Birthday!

So at the end of august it was my nephew tanner's birthday. I know I am only a month late. His birthday was at a place here called pump it up. A bunch of inflatable jumping things and then a party room. Great place to have a party. They do everything from setting up the party room to cutting the cake and dishing up the ice cream. Also what could be better than letting your kids run around like crazy for an hour then taking them home to bed. I think I will let the boys have their birthday's there in Nov. The adults had a pretty good time too. All of us including my parents took a turn racing on the obstacle course they have there. There was some cheating going on mostly by the men, but all in all it was a good time. Here are a few pictures. some didn't turn out as well as I would have liked but what do ya do. I also have to give myself a pat on the back for tanners cake. Although we just got a frosted white cake from Costco ( that week was crazy busy and I didn't have time to make the cake too) I did do the decorating on it. It could have looked a little better. There is so much detail on spider man it was hard to do on a small scale. Oh well practice makes perfect right?

Each of the boys took a turn on the throne. They all had everyone bowing to them. It was pretty entertaining to watch.

My niece Chloe

This was before they let the kid go back into the room with all the inflatables. They had to tell the kids the rules. How many of you think the kids really listened to any part of this. My vote is for none.

Frustrating

So if you haven't noticed I have once again changed our blog layout. The one I was using before had serious probs. So for those of you interested in changing yours (lisa I would change yours since I don't this shabby tulips will be fixing the problem anytime soon) I did find a new site. It is matiekay.blogspot.com. She has some really cute templates especially for the holidays. Also it didn't erase all of my family and friends links. The only thing it deleated was my music player and my family picture and story. Those were easily fixed since I copied my family story into a word document and it was easy to repost the other sidebar items. So good luck to all and Melissa I can do yours for you if you still want or I can talk you through it. Emily, I know you should be able to do it since your husband is a computer savy guy. Here are the sites I have used for my blog.
Music: projectplaylist.com----just create a free account, pick your songs, get your code and add it to your sidebar

Blog Layout--- matiekay.blogspot.com-- really cute templates, and very easy to use.

Good Luck

My Helper!

One of Landon's favorite things to do is to empty the

dishwasher. I think it is because we lived at my mom's house too long while waiting for our house to be done. My mom is a clean freak for those of you that don't know her. Landon would throw a complete fit if he found out she emptied the dishwasher without him. He still loves to do it so I usually give him the silverware holder full of the kids sippy cup lids and all the kids forks and spoons and away he goes.

He is pretty anal about it to. No one can help

him and if he thinks that the container with the silverware in it is looking too full on one side he will even it out. I know and am fully aware he does exhibit some OCD qualities, but if used in the right way, for example helping me out we won't worry about it too much.

Kids Photo Shoot

So awhile ago I decided to take some much need pictures of my children. Time to update the great-grandma photo wall. I refuse to take my kids to have their pictures done. They are horrible for me so I dare not embarrass my self by taking them somewhere. One of Jared's old college roommates Rob, his wife Brooke takes some amazing pictures of her kids. I just love them. I secretly stalk her blog so I can look at the adorable pictures. Anyway, these are a few of my faves. I love photography but do not claim to even begin to know what I am doing. I think if I take 50 or so pictures at least a few of them should turn out right?
























The boys were telling each other knock knock jokes to get each other to laugh. What I got from it was a picture of them smiling.

























So I think my photo shoot turned out pretty well. This picture of the kids together really didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, but it does capture the moment. Landon giving his usual "i really don't want to do this scowl", Ethan looking at me and through his teeth saying "are we done yet?", and Mackenzie smiling really well for the treats grandma was holding for her behind me. FYI: the picture of the kids walking together at the top is actually one of them arguing about who would lead the way. The beauty of photos is that they don't have sound!

In 8 short years.......

Well yesterday Sept. 4 was our 8 year anniversary. We lived the high life by teaching piano lessons, working on our entertainment center we are building in our media niche, and going to mutual. Exciting stuff. What do ya do when your anniversary is in the middle of the week on mutual night where your young women's pres. has just had a baby. I think baby trumps anniversary. Anyway, I thought since I love to look at other peoples wedding pictures I thought I would post a few. Warning: Jared does have hair in our wedding pictures so I promise it really is him. Our kids always ask who it is in the pictures since they have only known Jared with a shaved head.

Jared and I met in Utah. We were in the same singles ward. He invited himself and all his roommates over for dinner. Not too long after that he saw he at one of the hypnotist shows in Provo. I was the one being hypnotized. I am pretty sure after that is when he just totally fell in love with me. We never really "dated" in fact we told everyone we were just friends up until we got engaged. Then we had to change it to "friends with a few benefits". Jared proposed on the temple grounds of Mt. Timponogos with a song he wrote and sang to me. Cheesy but sweet. We got engaged in July and got married in Sept. I loved this engagement picture of us. I wanted to use it but my mom said that we needed to use one where you could see my face. I happen to like "in the moment pictures" I think they are more telling than the regular old posed pictures.

We got married Sept. 4 1999 in the Mt. Timpanogos temple. It was labor day week-end so there were not many people there getting married which made the whole thing really nice since no one was in any real hurry to get us married and out of there. We got married early in the morning and we had an afternoon reception at the Alpine Art Center. That was the best decision I made. The center was so nice, already decorated with tons of art and sculptures, the food was really good, and they cleaned up and set up. We just showed up and then we just left. We were all done by 3 in the afternoon.

There aren't too many things I would change about the wedding. If I had to do over again, I wouldn't have really had a wedding/reception. I would have just gotten married had a really nice lunch with all our close friends and family and taken the money we didn't use and run. Instead we had 1 reception in Utah, 1 open house in Texas, and 1 open house in Bakersfield. All fun at the time but hindsight is always 20/20. The money would have been a lot more fun. The other thing I would change is my bouquet. I hated it. I wanted just the flowers I am not sure what the florist was thinking when she added the tulle into the bouquet. Oh well it was only in a few pictures anyway.

I loved my dress. I bought one dress with the skirt I liked, took the the top of that dress off, bought some really nice lace and had someone make the top. Although I would have liked to keep the dress thinking someone somewhere might be able to use it since a lot of people we knew who got married after I did were looking for dresses to borrow, my mom decided to give my sister's dress and my dress away to goodwill. I am sure someone had a very lucky day one day at the Bakersfield goodwill.

So in 8 years we have been through 7 moves, 3 years of undergrad, 4 years of dental school, had 3 children, and finally bought a home of our own. Here is to many more wonderful years to come with my amazing husband and beautiful children.