Christmas Lights and Snow!

K, So I had Reggie convinced that Christmas Lights must go up on our house! Yeah! We have never had them, and living in Utah you need to get them up early or else you are putting them up in this! Reggie started at noon that day. It was nice out side, but in a matter of minutes it got way ugly! Blizzard! It was too funny cuz i couldnt get him to stop, he said he already had them out, so he was going to do it!(I really wish I had a picture of that!) He is soo stubborn. Well he got 1 strand up and quit. To Freakin cold. Our neighbor was supposed to be helping earlier, but he was too busy watching the BYU football game. But later that night Reg decided to tackle the job and finish it, with the help of our neighbor! Thanks! The kids had a blast playing in our first snow of the year!




Reggie up there, Cant see him that well





Maggs loved the snow!




Maggs and Ty






Our Neighbors Sweet girl, who is Mileys
age, Brianna. She is sooo adorable! Just love
that little girl!



All 4 Kids!

Haircuts!

So last week I decided to take the girls to get their haircuts with Aunt Katie! They loved every minute of it! They were actually really good, Maggie just sat still and let Katie to the work! Miley was a little tough to work with, but we battled it out! When we left Maggie said "I wanna do dat again!"





Well, you cant tell but Miley has this horrible
swirly cow lick right in the middle of her for head!
She is not gonna like that when she is older!

Halloween

This Month has seriously flown by! I have been so busy with coaching, that I have been neglecting my blog! Earlier this month we had an Adult costume party, and unfortunately i have no pictures. My friends do, so hopefully i can get some from them! Here are the girls on Halloween! They were such good trick or treaters and thought that they had to eat every piece of candy, but they listened and had to wait till they got home to eat some! Maggie was none other than the famous "Hannah Montana" and Miley was an adorable witch, who refused to wear the hat that grandma so urgently rushed in the mail!! Little stinker!




I WANT MY BLANKET!




OK, Much better!





Maggie and Cowboy Cole

Lake Powell

Dallas Sky Skiing like 100 feet behind the boat. The guys thought
That it was hilarious. Maybe dangerous?!!?
(You can barely see the rope in the water, They tied like 5 ropes
Together to make it that long)

Dallas i think! He is still alive

Reggie and Chad... Not sure how high the cliff was.
Reggie cliff jumping again.

They like to push people off the boat, I guess its funny?!?

THe whole week this is what they did to make us laugh!








I jumped off this one! Thats as high as I would go!


No Kids. Lots of Fun. Thats all there is to say :)

Reason #2 For Why I Need a CAMERA!

So I was getting ready this morning to go out with my friend Amy and her adorable boys to go to Jumpin' Jacks,  and my house is VERY quiet.  Which is completely not normal for 2 girls that are 2 and 1.   I walk through the hallway shouting "Maggie, what are you doing?"  I hear a pound on the floor (which was her jumping off the counter,  I know she is crazy.)  I asked her what she was doing, and she told me she was getting a cup and a straw because she was thirsty. 

 (this is why she was thirsty) 

I then look at her face to see that she is covered in chocolate.  HMMM I think to myself.  Then I look at the counter and there lies a plate full of Hershey's Chocolate syrup and the syrup bottle itself.  The little stinker had opened the fridge all by herself which I had no clue she could do and climbed in and got the bottle out herself.  This is why I need a CAMERA!!!  I am always catching my kids hiding in corners with things they shouldn't have, such as gum.  (Later that day I found the 2 of them in the corner squirting hand sanitizer all over themselves.)  They are soo very sneaky!  I just need to capture these moments on camera!

So I told Maggie that she needs to ask for things, she said "but mommy I 'wike' chocolate."  - I know Maggie, I do to. 

I NEED A CAMERA!!!

So this summer has flown by and I realized I have been neglecting my blog only because I don't have a decent camera! Many of you have been able to see some pictures thanks to my sisters camera, but all of the blurry ones are from a camera/video camera combo. So here is a little history on the cameras in our family:

-Reggie bought me my first digital pocket camera when we were dating in December of '04. Since Maggie has been born.. the camera has gone to crap because Reggie used it for work. We were able to replace it but it takes like 5 years to take a picture, so by the time the picture is actually taken its blurry cuz the kids have moved, and it just doesnt work any more.
-Camera 2 was purchased by Reggie again (another point and shoot.) A red one to be exact. That camera has also been used for work. And that camera still is a piece of crap.
-For my birthday on '08 Reggie purchased a video camera. It works GREAT for video taping, but the pictures are crap. Its not even worth posting a picture cuz you cant even tell who is in it.
-I for sure though Christmas of '08 was my year to get an awesome camera.. dont care what brand, just as long as it was a big and nice one and when you clicked to take the picture it would immediately take it. When Christmas morning came I watched Reggie open presents and I didnt open a single present (don't worry, reggie has gotten enough crap for that Christmas, valentines, and Mothers day. Lets hope he has learned his lesson.) So later Christmas morning Reggie proceeds to tell me that store did not have to camera and it is being shipped so it should be here in the next week. Well I hate to tell you Reggie, but you either lied or the post office lost it! Still aint here!!!!!!!!

Well of course when I bug Reggie about getting a camera, he blames ME for all the camera problems.

Will you PLEASE tell him that a video camera is not a camera? And the RED camera was purchased for work??? I think I will have a much cuter blog and everyone will be able to see my 2 beautiful girls!!! Maybe ill even digi scrap!

I have no title

This week I will be going to California for a funeral of a family friend.  Debbie Austin passed away on July 30.  She was only 21.   This tragic loss has come as a shock to all and is extremely upsetting for me because it is my best friends (Leslie's) little sister. 

Here are some fond memories from our childhood of the 3 of us girls:

-Playing Box car "girls" in your front yard.

-Debbie always got first pick of "poobies" aka little people (poobies is an Austin nickname.)

-Playing mermaids in the pool and soo many other fun games. 

-How debbie always managed to get out of the hardest saturday chores, and Leslie having to do her own chores on top of Debbie's.

-Me and Debbie locking Leslie in her room using a Nintendo remote control cord.  And then later got a lecture from her Dad on "what is means to be a friend/sister."

-Leslie, Debbie, and Me singing in the ward talent show all wearing the same outfit. (cant remember the song.. what was it leslie?) I have a picture to prove it!  

-How you always made us watch a home video of you when you were like 3 at Big meadow being soo cute.

-All the memories of girls camp and family camp at Big Meadow.

-Trick or Treating with you every year in the Austins neighborhood.

-All those saturday BYU games we spent at our house. Everytime we would hear the adults scream really loud , we all would do the same even though we had no clue what was going on in the game :)

-Making the FUNNIEST movies with Adam, Leslie, Debbie, and Me.

-You never getting into trouble, it was always Leslie's fault.

-Spending the night at your house on the Eve of Christmas Eve.

-The thousands of night you spent at my house.

-The thousands of nights I spent at your house.

-Late night runs to Taco Bell in high school.

-Going to Rite Aid to buy stuff to decorate Leslie and Keiths car for their wedding, and returning to the church to find out that some one else was already doing it LOL.

-Being the best wedding book/gift taker at my wedding.

-The last phone call I got from you was when  I was in bakersfield (in May) and you were giving me a hard time for not coming to visit you... oh how I wish I did. 

Debbie I loved ya girl!  You would do anything for anyone.  You had a heart of Gold.  I am going to miss you so very much, You were the little sister I never had.  I know that I will one day be able to see you again.  Until we meet again.