HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSIE

Today is Jo's 2nd birthday. Some of you are familiar with her many nicknames. My favorite is Jiggity Jo. It evolved from the Mickey Mouse Club song, "Hotdog hotdog hot diggity dog" Jo's version became "Fat Jo fat Jo fat Jiggity Jo" She was A CHUNK BABY (all my babies have been) She has since dropped the "fat jo" name but the Jiggity part remains strong (with a Jiggy here and there) She has had a busy year....learning to talk, becoming a big sister, throwing away her pacifiers, losing her "saddlebags" (well, some)....its a lot for a little girl to handle, but she has taken it all in stride. Here are some favorite pictures of her....ENJOY! We sure have!

Our little litter of critters!

Our french bulldog, Chanel, had puppies about 4 weeks ago. They are getting so big and beginning to growl and bark and play around. She had five, 4 boys and 1 girl. We will have them for four more weeks until they can go home with their new families. So if any of you know of someone who would like an adorable frenchie....let me know. They are kinda spendy, but if you're getting a frenchie, you are prepared to spend $!

Austin and Josie are holding two of the boys and Avery has the little girl.
Avery got this toy and they all started barking at her. She got such a kick out of it and kept saying, "Mom, they are barking. They are barking!"

Our saturday!

Josie, Avery, and Austin had so much fun running around the splash pad at grandma's house! (check out austin's speedo!)

After the splash pad, I went out front to see what the boys were up to. They started off fishing, but decided "dock jumping" would be more fun!

Duce has excellent pencil dive form.

Jett was the first to jump of the railing. It took Duce a while to build up the courage to jump that high.

I'll finish or die trying!

So we have been talking abou doing this for months now. My sisters have been seriously getting ready for it. I didn't really think I would do it...after all, I still have a brand new baby, right?! Well a week ago, I decided I would and I signed up. So for the last week I've been running (i say running lightly....some people could probably speed walk the pace I run). Lets rememebr, I'm NOT a runner! I never have been a runner! So I have one more week to get ready! I may not run it all, and I may get beat by the geriatric walkers, but I will cross that finish line.

blog headache!

So I was trying to update my blog and make it "pretty" and somehow managed to erase ALL my blog links. I was able to put some back on, but there are a few I don't have...if you notice your name is missing, please let me know so I can add you back on.

178th General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

So for only the 15th time in the history of our church, we will have the chance to sustain a new "prophet, seer, and revelator" at General Conference this weekend! There isn't an official picture of the new presidency, but this was a snapshot taken at a press conference. I love this because it is a candid shot and I feel like you can really see them at ease instead of the posed pictures. Anyway, hope everyone is planning on watching, listening, or attending. It's hard to pay attention with little kids, but we will do our best!

My Ironman!

So Tyler has gotten into doing triathalons...duathalons...etc. This was a race he entered with three of his friends. He got third in his age division. Yeah, babe!

Me and the kids came to cheer him on. The kids had fun watching all the people pass by.....me too. I do love to people watch!

Multiply and Replenish the Earth

So I think I'm the last of my sisters to post the baby cousin photo session. Please forgive my tardiness and redundancy! I marvel at how each one of these kids fits right into the mold of their respective families!

Lily (Ryan and Heather's 5th) Goldie (John and Shelly's 1st) Kate (Sam and Kara's 2nd) Lucy (Jacob and Tiffany's 4th) Declan (Nate and Vanessa's 7th) and Tee (me and Tyler's 5th)

In 18 years, these two boys will be the lady killers at BYU--and will have their hands full protecting all those girl cousins!

Yeah, Tee was NOT happy!

Tee's blesing day

So I'm finally posting our family picture from Tee's blessing day. It gets tricky trying to take a picture with everyone looking. But looking isn't always enough...then their is dealing with the arms upo, the eyes closed and the ever popular fake/weird smiles!!! ( I'm still looking a little like a linebacker!)

MARCH 25, 2008 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETT AND AVERY

Yesterday we celebrated Jett's 5th and Avery's 4th birthday. For those of you who don't know, they have the SAME birthday. Jett was born in 2003 and Avery was born in 2004. We counted our trip to Disney a few weeks ago as their "party" so we just had family over for some cake and ice cream last night. I found a baby picture of Avery, but Jett's baby pic's were before we went digital, so they are all on negatives. This is the best I could do!

Jett when he was about 1 year old and Jett opening his presents last night on his 5th birthday!

This is a picture of Avery on her blessing day and then picture of her last night opening her presents on her 4th birthday!

Each year, they both sit on a chair next to one another and open their gifts. Here, they are opening kites given to them by Aunt Kara, Uncle Sam, and Rusty.

So here is my attempt at fancy cakes. Jett's pirate hat looks a little rough...especially the skull. But Ave's butterfly turned out pretty good...and super easy!

We love Uncle Dan

So this is a little shout out to my older brother, Daniel! Jett's birthday is in a week so I asked him what he wanted. He started to list off a number of things such as a shotgun, a knife, a tree stand, a truck, a motorcycle...the list continued like that. Finally he said, "Just ask Uncle Dan. I want stuff like him!" So here is to my brother, who when the time comes, will be the world's greatest dad, because he has had so much practice being the world's greatest uncle!

This was taken just before Daniel took Duce and Jett to go sit in the tree stand, a total thrill for them!

Amanda "Badger"myer

Everytime this girl gets on stage, all I can think of is of the grumpy badger on Fox and the Hound. That hair--what---why---oh the humanity! WHY IS SHE STILL ON THE SHOW! Her voice bugs me....she can't sing anything without sounding like a stoned out 70's janis joplin-esque singer! UGH!

my heros!

so why is this my favorite show EVER?! watch this...then watch it again, this time watch Big....Tyler and I just DIE laughing at this! I love these two!

DISNEY!

My brother, Jacob and his cute family are in town. I let Duce skip school and we went to Disney with them. Wonderful grandma Munns offered to watch Josie and baby Tee (I pumped a few bottles for him and he did GREAT) We had a wonderful time...the weather was perfect..high was 72, I think. And because all got in free (THANK YOU to our disney hook-up) we didn't feel bad when we decided to head home shortly before 4 PM. The kids all hit their walls, so why force it.


Growing up, I LOVED the haunted mansion, so we thought it would be fun to take the kids on it. I remember it being more funny than scary...well, before the ride even started we had three in tears. Avery rode the whole time with her face buried in my neck. Duce had his shirt up around his face. But my brave Jett was perched up nice and high so he wouldn't miss a thing!

Tiffany took all the kdis on the Alice and Wonderland tea cup ride. Just looking at it made me want to throw up...I am not into the spinning rides. That was one ride Avery loved.

This was the highlight for Avery. We went to listen to storytime with Belle while the other kids did the race cars and SHE WAS CALLED UP TO ACT IN HER PLAY! She was chip in the story...the thrill of her little life was being on stage with belle!

This was another hit with all the kids. And other than the tea pots, the only other ride Avery enjoyed. She is more into the shows and parades and meeting the characters. The boys would move into splash mountain, if allowed. That was their favorite.