Snow........well a little bit

My sis. in-law took pics of the kiddos while we were there and I'm hoping hers turned out better than any of mine. I have a feeling with her Talent and a little help from her camera the pics will be great and I am anxious to see them.....but take your time Cin. We had such a fun vacation with all of the Liljenquist's. I am so lucky I married into such a fun family that I will go on vacation with them without my husband. It was fun hanging out with all the kids and even getting in a little bit of snowboarding. I forgot how much I liked going and remember why D. and I spent all of our time and money when we were dating going snowboarding. I think we knew we would go 8 years without going so we had to get in all in within a couple years. I loved seeing Park City covered in snow and loved the novelty of having to stay inside because of the bad snowstorm, we just don't get to experience any exciting weather here in AZ. It was a great trip(long funny drive) but I was glad to be back home with my husband and in my own bed. Thanks Keri and Justin for inviting us up for such a fun time!

Photos from Park City

See ya 26

I decided I better blog tonight since I will probably be too busy tomorrow doing fun birthday things such as.....working out........possibly a little bit of grocery shopping, maybe even a load of laundry or two. probably just one. I do have tomorrow night to look forward to going out on a birthday date, not sure where or what we are doing yet but we will have no kids for a couple hours while they play with grandma and grandpa. I think this year i really have officially gotten over birthdays being anything great, a fun date doing whatever I want is all I need anymore. We will not see a movie although the last and only movie that I've seen in a long time I loved. We were both laughing really hard throughout this movie. If you have a chance to see Juno it is worth it. Great music and very witty.
So this was one of Ben's fav. Christmas presents. Spin Art. Next time we will put an old shirt on because it is too tempting to take off the plastic shield while it is still spinning.

I didn't know that Emma could unscrew things before this little episode, and unfortunately this was not the last time she did this.

Here she is admiring what a great job she did getting it so close to her eyelashes. The worst part is trying to get this stuff off without using any soap near the eye. In the end the face lotion did the trick.

Here she is without any makeup on.

First Blog of 2008

This blog has been a long time coming! It's been hard to find the time to blog when we have been getting up at 10 or 11 and staying up late playing with cousins and friends. It will be nice to get back on a early schedule again when school starts. Unfortunately that will be a little delayed for us since we are leaving for Park City early early tomorrow morn. We will be playing with cousins up there since Dustin's oldest sis. was able to get a pent house at the canyons resort for a week so we will be enjoying the freezing weather up there until Tues or wed.
We had the best New Years Eve! My Mom decided to have a kid new years eve party and had my kids and some cousins over to spend the night and the best part was that Emma was invited also which meant that from 5:00 on we were free to do whatever we wanted with no time limit. Shopping at Last Chance, dinner, movie, playing games, reading and of course sleeping in and not having to get up and make breakfast for anyone. It was the greatest day to just be alone and know we had all night to do whatever we wanted. Emma did great and I think they would now consider doing it again. (my birthday is coming up soon).......

Ben has been home all week because his preschool teacher is out of town and although he has been a little bored at times its been nice having him home all day. It's funny how he and Emma have started to play together so much more even though she bosses him around like crazy. She went over to him this morning and just smacked him in the head for no reason at all and I was telling her how she needs to be nice to Ben and not hit and he just kept saying"oh its okay Mom , Emmy can hit me it's okay i don't mind, it's fine Mom". Unfortunately I feel like she is going to turn into this little girl that can do no wrong because her brothers let her do whatever she wants and usually just laugh when she comes up and whacks them with something. I really hope she doesn't but if I have a terror running around in a couple of years at least I hope I'm aware of it. For now though I am just glad that they play so well together and that she has older brothers who will look out for her and hopefully just teach her through example how to be nice. I'm crossing my fingers.

A couple weeks ago after being sick for a week and a half Emma was looking pretty skinny and little. That next week after feeling better she was eating everything and snacking all day long and now her cheeks have returned and she is looking nice and chubby with some cheeks to spare.

She turned around and hit him in the head after they were looking so sweet for a second.

CHRISTMAS DINNER

Growing up my two cousins Amber and Megan didn't have any sisters (megan finally got one when she was 16 ) so we all grew up close like sisters. We have always exchanged gifts for christmas until a few years ago we decided that we would start a new tradition and have a girls dinner in december so we can catch up and that would be our gift to eachother. This is now one of my fav. christmas traditions! I love looking forward to seeing them and just having girl talk that we can't have when our moms or aunts are around. Nobody is the center of converstaion and we all talk about our lives good and bad and just talk about girl stuff and our crazy families. We all go different directions for christmas now, so it was a nice way to get together and see eachother during the holidays. This is a tradition that I hope we can continue but i think we should do it more than once a year. Love you girls!

I have been really bad at updating my blog lately so this week I will be posting more often, well at least thats my plan.

MR. Sand Man.........

The boys were so excited the other night when their Dad came home and told them he had brought them more sand. Our sand box had slowly lost all it's sand and I wasn't minding that it had lost it's appeal. Well today Ben and Emma helped to fill it back up and they were both so excited! It had been rained on so it was sticking to them more than normal but Ben loved shoveling the sand in and I was glad he was getting the workout.

They both were disgusting by the time they were done and i made them undress outside before they could come in to a hot bath. It's amazing how entertaining some dirt can be.