She's in LOVE...

with CHOCOLATE!!

Madie takes after her Mommy in the loving chocolate area. She's our pickiest eater right now but when it comes to chocolate, there is no saying "no".

Will you be...

MY VALENTINE?? Last year Abby and Brandon got to go to a fun sugar cookie decorating party. They had so much fun and I decided to do it this year. I think all the kids had fun! Mindy and Michelle brought their kiddos over and had a great time.

This was Cailee's valentine's hair. They had their class parties the Friday before, so we did fun heart hair for the day!

New pictures!

So we have this awesome photographer Darcy Case who took these amazing pictures of our kids and I just have to share some of them! They new header picture and the pictures down the side are some of the many pictures.

Why this girl doesn't wrestle

I recently went to wrestling matches at Mesa State when my sister Darcee was in town. She has a friend from high school that wrestles on the team. While there, I came up with a million and one reasons why girls, especially this girl shouldn't and won't ever wrestle.

MY TOP TEN REASONS WHY THIS GIRL DOES NOT WRESTLE:

Reason: #1-OBVIOUS reasons of body anatomy...need I say more
Reason: #2-I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP MY HAIR FOR AS LONG AS I CAN. I do not need help losing it, thank you. Have you seen how they rub each others heads on the mat?!? and I'm not talking where the head gear thing is. I wonder if that's why Rulan Gardner is bald?
Reason: #3-ankles should NOT bend that way...seriously come on. How in the world do they walk after that.
Reason: #4-knees should NOT bend that way...refer to #3
Reason: #5-shoulders, even shoulders with muscle (which mine do not have) should NOT bend completely out of socket to "pin" someone.
Reason: #6-the first time someone tried to grab my leg, I'd be half tempted to kick them (just a natural instinct I guess)
Reason: #7-I would not look so good in the uniform...I will not elaborate.
Reason: #8-The first time I got "taken down" I would not be "gettin' back up"
Reason: #9-I would cry and that would just be embarrassing
Reason: #10-repeat reason's 1-9 a million times and add on "Cauliflower Ear" and you get a million AND one

From the mouths of the babes

Brandon was sitting by me at church on Sunday and after one of the speakers was done said to me, "Mom, it's your turn to go speak, but don't cry."

Cailee for some reason has been what I think is obsessed with "death" and one day she had talked about it A LOT and I said, "Cailee, you are way to obsessed with death."
To which she replied, "That's just how I am Mom."

In further conversations about "death" she said, "...and they passed away. See Mom, I didn't say death."


We like to sing the Taylor Swift song that goes:
She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts,
She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers.

Brandon's Version:
She wears short skirts, I wear bleachers...
To which a YO-MAMA joke came about...yo-mama so big she wears the bleachers to the game.

My sister was visiting over the weekend and slept in on Sunday. We were talking about it at the table and Darcee jokingly said, "Seriously who sleeps in until 11:00?!?"
Abby said, "You do." (such a smart little whip)