Disneyland

We wore the kids out every day. I have a picture of Brigham at the end of each day. He would just plop himself somewhere and lay down. Do you miss the days when you could pull that off? I felt like doing that several times throughout each day The girls will say their favorite ride was Splash Mountain. Brigham would tell you Space Blasters because it involved Buzz Lightyear and a gun. I couldn't get him to look at me, he was too busy shooting the targets. Lets just say when the ride was over he was not a happy camper. We also went to a dinner show called Mideaval Times. It was a lot of fun and very entertaining. The kids really enjoyed it too. They feed you while you are sitting around an arena (no utensils are used to eat) and you watch Knights joust and do tricks on their horses. I would love to go back and do it again. We also tried a Pirate dinner show. This one was not as good, but the kids got to participate in the show as Soldiers. They thought this was awesome and think they are stars now. We couldn't be in California and not hit Seaworld! Here is Shamu showin' his stuff. That was a lot of fun. The kids liked the Sea Lion and Otter shows the best. They were very funny. Nothing is better that to listen to your kids sit there and giggle. That made the trip for me.

Packing for Disneyland

I was packing for our Disneyland trip and walked away from the suitcase for literally two seconds. When I came back I found that Brigham was being a helper and had packed ALL of his clothes for me. He is not about packing lightly.... Here he is so proud of helping out. I hope he is a big helper in Disneyland too. I do not want a big hinderer. Good luck to us! We will be back March 21st and I will post all of our fun pictures.

What a Winter!

Now here is an Idaho Winter. It has been a long time since we have had one of these. This is a Winter the kids are going to look back on and say "remember when..." The first picture is of Scott's pickup after sitting outside all night. I took the shot after I had swept the snow off of it but I had to shovel a little path to get there. This is one of the days I wish I had four wheel drive. I opened the garage door and didn't think the Van would get me out of the drive way so since Scott had the day off I ended up taking his pickup whic his lame because I had to dig it out of the snow first. If I still had my Durango, I could have left right away and made it out of my drive way. This is a picture of our swing set. Notice the slide..The snow is right up to the top of it. There are no swings to be seen which makes me realize I probably should have taken them off and put them in the shed. The canopy is missing from one of them...bummer. Can you find our mailbox? We can hardly either thus the hate mail the mailman leaves. From the front it looks a lot better. I do believe ours is the best paved path now that we fear the mailman. This is the veiw from our sliding doors to go out on the patio...we won't be going out on the patio any time soon. This mound has made a nice spot for veggi trays and pop that I couldn't fit in the fridge for the super bowl party. I may miss it come summer. This shot is from my front door. Scott is standing in front of our stairs. It took us awhile to dig out of this one but I am proud to say you can now come and visit us. This particular pile of snow was donated from the roof. I am glad it isn't all still up there. There are a few roof collapses occuring here. Mostly in sheds, spud cellars etc. but knowing my luck it would be my house. Spring will be welcomed here any time. Scott did borrow Dad's four wheeler with the plow in front as of yesterday so I guess it can keep on snowing. At least I won't have to listen to Scott complain about shoveling anymore.

The new Van

I never thought I would ever get to that point...the day I would drive a mini van. I guess I have finally grown up because I am actually quite thrilled with my new ride. The convenience factor way outways the "cool" factor. This van has all the bells and whistles. Want the door open, sure I will press a button for you. Going to put the groceries in the trunk...that button again. I am becoming way too lazy. I feel picked on when I actually have to open a door. I shut the trunk physically the other day and Scott was all mad. . . I took the fun out of the whole experience I guess. I was just annoyed because he was being slow and it was cold outside. Normally I may have washed it before taking pictures, but who washed their vehicle when the weather sucks? Here is an inside view. Scott and I installed the center console ourselves...I hunted down a bargain deal online and so now I have somewhere to stash all my junk. It has the stown and go seating so we have one of the seats that we aren't using put away neatly in the floor. The only thing I do miss is the four wheel drive. Maybe I am not giving it enough credit but I am afraid to pull into driveways with snow. Kliss you will have to give me more confidence and tell me some of your off road experiences. Next time you need a carpool, just give me a call! This van can handle it!

Tonsils

Haylee got her tonsil out on the 10th. Eighty percent of her airway was being blocked by her tonsils and adnoids. No matter what time of day, she would breath like she was asleep and then had a hard time sleeping through the night. This is her just before surgery. She had no idea what was going to hit her. She was happy to have a new teddy bear and a lot of attention... She managed to pull out a smile for this photo a few hours after surgery. She woke up from the surgery kicking and screamin that she didn't want to wake up. I can't say that I blame her. She was pretty miserable. They had to double dose her with morphine to get her to calm down. Thank heavens for drugs! We were given the option to stay overnight with her but decided to take her home per her request. . . that night I wish we had stayed in the hospital. She didn't want to swallow her medicine and woke up every three hours crying. I felt very helpless. Here she is recovering at home and she managed another smile. She will barely drink and hasn't had one popsicle despite being so excited to be able to have as many as she wanted. Fresh from the shower and ready to eat her first thing since Wednesday (it is Saturday)...good ol' Chicken Noodle Soup finally tempted her enough to want to choke it down. She did good and hopefully recovery only gets better from here. She is a little trooper and a tough kid. This is not fun but will be worth it.

Future Brides

Scott offered my wedding dress to someone at work so we drug it out. The girls really wanted to try it on. Maybe someday they will get to wear it and actually fit into it.

Ashtyn, a beautiful bride someday... Haylee, a beautiful bride someday... Brigham, hopefully never a beautiful bride but he sure does look cute. We had to do this while Dad had his back turned. Brigham just didn't understand why we weren't giving him a turn so I gave in. How do you teach them to take turns if you don't give turns?

New Years

We finally broke lose this year and decided to celebrate. New Years has always been a sad time of year for us since we associate it with Scott's Mom passing away but Scott called me New Years Eve from work to notify me that he invited all the guys from work over...I was somewhat stressed about putting on a party at such short notice, but excited that we were actually going to do something. We had a lot more fun than this picture gives credit for. There were 9 of us so we had several things going at once...Guitar Hero of course, some DSing, a puzzle and several games. Happy New Year to all! Scott, Rob, Ariann, Haylee, Brigham, Enoch, Amanda and Michelle hanging out eating food, food and more food. Ashtyn and Whitney are the only ones who opted for the table. The hot wings were too hot so they thought rubbing them would ice cubes would cool them off. Somehow they were still too spicy...how odd. The girls dressed in outfit after outfit. Michelle who is turning 1 this month finally got dressed up too. She was so thrilled I loved the smile it put on her face.