Frosty the snowman

the kids went outside this morning to build a snowman and here is what they got. It got so big and heavy I went out to help them, but Bryan had to help me lift the middle. They named the snowman Frosty.

Santa Pictures

Kids with Santa and Mrs Clause

Brianna with santa and Mrs Clause

Ben with santa and Mrs Clause

Taylor with santa and Mrs Clause.

Christmas pictures

Ben in his Sunday suit

Brianna in her new Sunday dress

Taylor in her new dress.

Merry Christmas

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. I know I did. We stayed home for Christmas so Christmas Eve Bryan made prime Rib and I made twice baked potoes, green bean casserol and a cake. Then santa and Mrs Clause stopped by for a visit. Brianna was pretty scared of him but I was able to get her on his lap. Christmas morning a interesting. We had 2 of our 3 kids sick.. Brianna puked in bed so before we could go down and see what santa brought i had to give her a bath. While the kids were walking downstairs Taylor started puking. We got through the morning with only 1 more puking episode which to me was pretty good. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas

Thanksgiving weekend

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend. I know I sure did. On Wed we headed over to UT and we spent Thanksgiving at Bryans brothers house in Logan, it was really fun. Then I spent the night at my parents house and me and my sister did black friday. I love it. You always get some great deals. We had Brianna with us so instead of doing our usual Shopko, Target, Toys R Us. We went to walmart cause they said they would price match all black friday ads. So we went to walmart the night before found what we were looking for and got most of it there. Then we headed over to Toys R Us, Beth jumped in the line with Brianna while I went walking around the store trying to figure out what else to get the kids. So I am pretty much done with thier presents. Then Friday night we went to build a bear where the kids got gift certificates. Ben got another dinosauer, Brianna got a bunny and Taylor picked some princess dresses for her bears. Then we headed over to Claires and we got Taylors ears pierced. She didnt even budge, she has been begging for awhile to get them done so we decided that we would. Then on Sat we went to go and see Bolt, it was a really cute movie. Then Sun we headed home.

random pictures

Here are some random pictures of the kids

The kids striking a pose. Taylor and Brianna were playing dress up and Ben was getting ready for bed.

Taylor was having a hard day this day. She kept getting into everything. She was in the bathroom trying to get eyeliner off her face. She was in big trouble that day. I just ouldnt resist taking a picture of her. Bryan says she looks like a zombie from the song Thriller.

Brianna, Ben, and taylor in thier halloween costums. This is the 3rd yr in a row that taylor was a princess. Maybe next yr she will be something else. Ben was Darth Vador and Brianna was a pirate. She took her hat off right before this picture was taken.

Thos is sometimes how we find Brianna. She has taken naps out of her shedule but sometimes at dinner she just gets to tired.

Snowman Cake

So I got this awsome holiday cookbook and it has some really good and fun recipes in it. The other day we had a ward dinner for the holidays and I signed up to bring a dessert. Here is what I brought.

It was so cute nobody wanted to cut into it. I had to do the 1st cut so that I didnt have to take it home.

My recent project

So I just recently started a new project. I found some wonderful hairblogs that have given me tons of new hair styles for Taylor and Brianna so when I got done with thier hair i decided that it was missing something. Bows. So I decided to make a bunch of flower bows. I have been working tons to make them and today I also made Korker hair bows, really easy. You place ribbon on a wooden dowl and then bake at 200 for 1 hr. I also found instructions where you can bake them at 275 for about 25 mins. Brianna is a little unsure about the bows but taylor loves them. She seems to keep picking out the biggest bows possible for her to wear, and some turned out huge. But all in all I had a lot of fun making them.

Ben is sick

Ben is sick today and that would normally be no big deal. But many of you know I do direct selling and I go out and do shows. Well I have a fundraiser for the dance studio Taylor goes to at 1:00. SO here I have Ben not feeling well and this fundraiser to do with no family here that can watch him for me. I am so trying to decide what to do. If he doesnt throw up I will probably take him and let him sleep in the corner. But still undecided.

Taylor

So I just wanted to tell this story about Taylor. While we were in Disneyland she had to go potty, so of course I took her and while she was in the stall she was singing I Am a Child of God at the top of her lungs. It was really funny. I did get some smile out of people who were walking in. What reminded me of this story is cause all day she has been singing primary songs, the did the program yesterday and she did such an awsome job. I look forward to the primary program every yr. You can always feel such a great spirit from these kids as they tell us what they have learned that yr.

More Disneyland Pictures.

Brianna and Beth waiting for us to get off the bumper cars.
Mr Incredible at Disney California

Bryan and taylor on the bumper cars
My family with Ariel. We went to a princess lunch at Ariels Grotto in Disney California. It was well worth it, we saw 4 princesses

Me, Mom, Beth(in back) and Kids with Minnie Mouse.

Me Beth and the kids with Chip and Dale. Brianna was very unsure of the characters.

A cool looking walkway in Disney California. The Queen of Hearts. Since it was halloween time all the villians came out. My mom even got the hag's signiture from Snow White.

More Sea World pictures

Here is a picture at the sea lion show he was dancing with the trainers.
One of the trainers in the water with one of the killer whales.

The penguins. Taylor loved them.

Sea World

Brianna crashed after a long morning. I wished did did this on the bus but o well.
A tree I saw that i thought was really neat. The branches grew towards the ground.
A cute picture of the kids in front of a pic of a polar bear.

So on Tues we took a bus to sea world. It was a lot of fun there. I knew Ben would be looking forward to seeing the sharks and he loved looking at them. Taylor wanted to see the polar bears and she loved the penguins. We went back twice to see them. Brianna also loved the sharks. We saw the Shamu show wich was really awsome Bryan took pics with his camera so one day I will get thosse down loaded so everyone can see them. We also saw a dolphin show and a sea lion show. The shows were a lot of fun. Sea world does have rides there but we didnt get to ride any of them.





Ben, Taylor and Brianna at the shark tanks.
The family before we left the park. My dad didnt wait for a good picture.

DisneyLand Day 1

We left for Disneyland 1 week ago Sunday at 3:00 in the morning I was surprised that we actually got off at the time we were talking about and we arrived in California at about 3:00 in the afternoon and that was with our TomTom taking us on the opposite side of the city were disneyland is. So we got to our hotel and checked in. It was a nice hotel we stayed at the Tropicana the nicest thing about it was it pretty much right across the street from the entrance. My mom and dad were there but hadnt checked in yet so we waited for them to check in and when everyone got checked into the hotel my mom wanted to go to Knottsberry farm to check out the shops. So we went there and walked around. The next morning we woke up bright and early and went over to the park I will have to post our pics of the family later because we ended up getting that on day 3 with my dad's and I believe Amy took a pic also cuase I l eft my batteries at the hotel. We made a deal with Ben that he had to ride every ride that he could go on once and if he didnt want to do it again then he didnt have to. The very first ride was Indiana Jones, Bryan went on it with Ben and me and Beth took Brianna and Taylor to walk up Tarzans tree house. Ben wanted to go on that ride so bad and when he got off it he would not go again so off we went to another ride. Eliza wasnt feeling well that day and she puked during lunchtime it was kind of gross luckily we were all pretty much done with our lunch when she lost her cookies. We also went on the pirates ride that day. Ben and Taylor begged to go on that ride again. One nice thing was since my mom couldnt really walk around the park all day she got a wheel chair adn so we were able to get in the front of the line on some rides so we didnt have to wait at all. We also saw Jasmine and Aladdin and had them sign the books for the kids. Ben said Jasmine was his favorite character. We also took Ben and Taylor on splash mountain and at 1st Ben said he liked it but after a day of thinking about it he totally refused to get back on the ride. So here are some pictures from our 1st day.





Taylor waiting to get into the park.
Ben waiting anxiously to get into the park.

Ben, Taylor, and Brianna with Jasmine and Aladdin.

Lesson Learned

You would think I would have learned my lesson this morning. Yeah right. Ok here is the background Bryans car died on Sat so I told him to go ahead and take the car to work this morning. So Me and the kids get ready to walk to school and I realize that we forgot Bens backpack with his lunch and I go to go inside and I can not open the garage door with our code. So this afternoon I go to get Ben and dont take my keys again (cause the code worked when I got home) and I cant get the garage open again. So I sat outside till about 4:00 then went over to my neighbors house. I visited for about 15 mins then go back home hoping I could get back in. Nope. My neighbor drives by on her way to dinner with her husband and I told her to go ahead and eat dinner and if I was still outside we would go to Bryans work to get the keys. Well in the mean time my my other neighbor went and got the keys from Bryan so I was locked out of my house for over an hour. Ben Taylor and I played i spy with my little eye till I ran out of thinhgs to spy. So I have learned my lesson to always have my keys with me no matter where I go. And that I will not trust my stupid garage door code.

DisneyLand

I had to post the pic below cause Taylor was doing her Robot eyes it was just hilarious.

So we decided as an extended family to take a family vacation minus my sister and Brother in law and younger brother (they will be sorely missed) and we are going to be going to DisneyLand. We leaving on Oct 5 and we will be gone until the 11th so we are so excited 14 days and counting. We will be doing disneyland for 4 days and then we will be doing seaworld 1 day also. We are staying in the Tropican which is right across the street from the park so all we need to do is get up and go. I am so excited. Here are some pics of us when we got our package. I was in my Pj.s (sort of) when we finally opened it so dont mind my miss matched outfit. I do not walk around town that way.

I also have to add we didnt take pics of the inside of the box cause there was nothing really to fun for pics. Look for updates from disneyland.

Taste of Home Coooking Show

Every year for my home business I do taste of home cooking show. Last night I was getting my stuff ready for the goody bags. Well this yr instead of doign a business card I decided to do a recipe card with candy on stapled on the card. I was stapling the candy last night and my kids kept getting into the candy so of course I was getting very frusterated. I stopped working for a bit and told Ben and Taylor not to touch anything. Well Ben started stapling the candy on the cards and he was doing such a good job I decided to let them all help me. Brianna would hand me the candy and I would put the candy on the card and Ben would staple the candy on then I would give the card to Bug to put in the box. They helped me get through with the ones I had my info on so fast. Now I only need to do 300 more then I will be done for good. This morning when the kids woke up I gave them 1 dollar for helping they were so excited.

Brianna

I know I have had a few posts about Brianna but I took some pretty dang cute pics of her. It also shows what we have been doing with her. Brianna turned 2 on July 23rd and when ever i changed her diaper she would throw a fit cause I didnt let her sit on the potty. So we came home from UT and in underwear she went. She has been doing ok but she still struggles. She will not for the life of me poop in the potty though. Hopefully that will come really soon. She seems to tell us she needs to go potty while we are traveling so maybe when we are in Disneyland she will figure out everything without driving us all nuts.

Pictures of Ben

So as I promised I here are some pics of Ben on his 1st day of school. The one in front of the sign was really taken on a different day. I pick Ben up on the side of the school so I havent been to the front for a very long time.

Taylor

I figured today I will talk about Taylor.

Taylor was born on Jan 24 2004 and she is my little bug. She is now 4 yrs old and she says she cant wait to go to school like Ben. I have been working on letters and sounds while Ben is away at school. Taylor loves to do dance and wants to try gymnastics (after watching the olympics). She also loves to have her hair done. One night after her bath she actually asked if I would put curlers in her hair. She loves her hair curley. In the spring time I plan on putting Taylor in Tee-ball I think she will really enjoy that. Taylor loves to bug her little sister Brianna, she always tries to be her mommy.

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