1 YEARS OLD!!!

Yesterday was my sweet baby girls birthday! I can't believe that a year has already gone by... she is growing up way to fast, but I am loving every minute of it! She is now officially a walker (she has been walking for about a month now, but I have just been slow to blog about it) She has quit the little personality coming out in her as well! All day long she runs around talking about who knows what. Her favorite thing to do these days is to go up the stairs and visit grandpa. Every time she disappears, I know where to find her- upstairs on grandpa's lap jabbering away. She is also saying a few words now- Dad, Mom, All done, hat, grandpa, hot, shoe, sock..... I am sure Larry and I are the only ones that know what she is saying....
It is so fun to watch her learn and grow everyday, I can't imagine life without her!
Happy Birthday Brenley! We Love you!!!!
(Stay tuned for part 2 of Brenleys Birthday-The Wild Birthday Party)

Easter Shmeaster

To start our Easter Celebrations off the one and only EASTER BUNNY showed up at our doorstep! He knocked while we were sitting down for dinner with my Grandpa. Larry went to the door to see who it was and low and behold it was the Easter Bunny! That darn bunny handed Larry and Easter egg and pushed his was past him without saying a word! It was so funny because we really had no clue who it was at first! (well besides the Easter bunny;) And as you can tell from the look on Brenley's face she was terrified!( I was too.. that is a freaky looking bunny.. looks more like a rat to me, but, whatever) If you enlarge the picture you can see how big her eyes are... and that easter egg in her hand.. well it ended up being thrown across the kitchen with a frantic scream! ( We never really found out who exactly was helping the E. bunny that day, except that it was someone in our ward??)

Our next Easter adventure brought us to Legacy retirement center! Brenley's Great Grandma Ann (Larry's moms mom) lives there and they throw a big easter egg hunt every year! Here is a picture of a few of the kiddo's after the big hunt up at Grandma's. Jaxon, Bailey, Brenley and Teegan. Poor Bailey had Brenleys sweet hand reaching in her bucket ever second she wasn't looking. She kept looking at Brenley like- excuse me, this is mine!!

Brenley was content with just one easter egg. She went and got it and sat down on the ground and started chewing on it. Not too exciting for mom who is trying to take pictures but she was happy so I let her be.

G-ma Miki, G-ma Ann and Aunt Bonnie watching the fun!

Sweet little Teegan just did not want to wait until they said go! He kept sneeking away before it was time. (you can see Crystal's hand holding onto the hood of his coat:)

Round two with the Easter bunny- not as bad as the first- but she still wanted nothing to do with him!

Last but not least our third Easter thrill was at my parents. We had a fun "Easter Brunch" and then another easter egg hunt!
All she needed was a basket and she was happy! She just stood there while all the kids ran around getting eggs... once in a while she would reach in and grab an egg and chew on it but she was just content standing by her basket!

Us adults got to join in on the fun too!! Can you just see the excitement in his face!?

Here are all the Kiddos ready for the countdown till they can skower the yard! They are a mixture of my cousins and neice and nefew.
What an exciting bunch! (you can totally tell Cortney's mother is a photographer- she knows how to pose! (hey her mom does too.. sorry sarah;) Everyone else could care less!)

Larry Brenley and my Dad... I love this Picture, Brenley just cuddled right down next to them!

Easter Dress! She was such a doll... It was so fun getting her all dressed up for Easter! She is so Beautiful,I love her more and more each day! I can't believe my baby is almost one! She is growing up way to fast!

And that was all about our eventful Holiday Season- Until next Holiday,stay tuned I possibly might have something exciting to post about.. maybe... probably not though...I will see what I can do... if nothing comes to mind... go ahead and find another blog to look at... I don't care.. whatever, I am tired and want to go to bed!

My cousin just sent me this e-mail- and I felt that it was definitely blog worthy! Larry informed me I need to post it somewhere in the house so he can refer to it often:)

WORDS WOMEN USE

(1) FINE: this is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) FIVE MINUTES: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five Minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3) NOTHING: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4) GO AHEAD: This is a dare, not permission. DON'T DO IT!

(5) LOUD SIGH: This is actually not a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

(6) THAT'S OKAY: This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistakes.

(7) THANKS: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says "THANKS A LOT" - that is pure sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say "You're welcome" ... that will bring on a "whatever")

(8) WHATEVER: Is a woman's way of saying Screw You!

(9) DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, I GOT IT: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking "What's Wrong?"

Jeans too long?

Your Jeans too long?Need to do some hemming? Check this website out- dacia ray- I was able to shorten a pair of my Jeans and still keep the original hem so it doesn't even look like altered them at all! I was totally nervous to do it, and pretty sure I would end up messing up somewhere- But it worked and I no longer have to drag behind me an extra yard of jeans....-Try it out!!

Goodbyes

Last night I said goodbye to an old friend. Someone who has been there for me through thick and thin the past five years. Sometimes the only friend I felt like I had sometimes- she was always there for me through those long drives to nowhere.... she has caught many of my tears and laughed along with my stupid jokes. She has put up with my wild crazy music- and at times when she shouldn't have pulled through for me- she always did, even when I had her in circumstances that were less than comfortable. I knew this moment was coming, she was too sick for me to take care of anymore and I had to pass her on. This friend I am talking about... well, is my little black Volkswagon Jetta!!
OHHH the memories!! This was the car I bought after I graduated High School my first "big" purchase! That car rocked (ok so maybe in its early days..) This baby could go anywhere... It was a trooper! But I guess you have to say goodbye sometime- and we figured that since the A/C broke last summer, there was no way we could go another summer with the windows down and sweat rings in our armpits! (eww) ! So last November we got another car and the little Jetta sat all winter long:( and finally after weeks of people calling and saying that they were coming to look at it then would never show up (whats up with that anyways- why can't they make a simple call and say they are not interested anymore?? is it that hard??) anyways after a long wait we finally got a buyer! WAHOO! What a relief it was to see that thing drive away... off of my hands, out of my driveway! See ya old pal!! I just hope that if anything goes wrong the people who bought it wont come hunt us down (literally). They were a bit scary and came from gangstaville Ogden!! Yikes!!!

Confessions of a grocery store shopper!

I am just confessing right now before anyone notices it on my thighs and butt later on today. I did it... I caved in and bought the Cadbury milk choclate candy bar! I just went to the store to buy stuff to make a salad and milk- thats all... and then while waiting, so patiently in line.. it caught my eye.. the beautiful choclate wrapped so nicely in the shiny purple wrapper. I couldn't resist, after taking a few glimpses I reached out and grabbed it- trying to be secret about it so none of the ladies behind me would notice my caving in..... and just like that it was in my cart ready to be bought.Now- 2 hours later- I sit here at the computer with two squares left to be gobbled down. I ate the whole thing!
Im confessing because I dont normally do that sort of thing because I know they put the crap up at the front to temp us, well, I am here to admit in front of all of my blogging friends- that I fell into temptation! It was really good too.... maybe just what I needed to make my day alittle better:)

Will they ever leave us alone?

So you think if we drink this stuff it will get rid of all the germs inside??
I just might consider making each one of us take a bath in sanitizer then have us all drink a cup! I am so sick of being sick at our house... I swear once one sickness is gone, another one is right there to take its place! Oh and sorry for all of you who we have passed our germs onto.. (you know who you are:) Anyone else dealing with this issue? I am soo ready for summer to be here just to get rid of all this Gunk! BLAH!
Please GERMS GO AWAY!!