Jessie's Cornbelly Birthday

We went to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point for Jessie's birthday this year.

It was fun.. and really cold..

The things we do for her!

Happy Birthday sis!

A little too much fun with the whip cream.

Picking Pumpkins

Birthday Dinner

Chef John threw a birthday dinner for Jeremy. He made us organic/vegetarian taco's. I'm not sure what was in the garnish, but it was AMAZING! The meal was delicious. like really really good.

Happy Birthday Jeremy!!

I love these boys and their life long friendships. They make me happy! ;)

Park City Pink 1/2 Marathon

I woke up at 5:30 AM for this race thinking I was crazy and then I looked outside.. it was raining. I knew, for sure, I was crazy and was secretly wishing that I had "accidently" slept in. Buuttt, I couldn't let my partner down.

AND..

It turned out to be a beautiful experience.

The scenery was amazing. really. Breathtaking.

I couldn't have picked a better partner. We really had a great time!!

And, I think that we may make this a yearly tradition, right Jamie?? :)

Go us!

I love Fridays. They are so "sopping" cool.

"Sopping" like in "sopping wet." It's the newest adjective in our house. Created, of course, by the 3 year old.

It's great in emphasizing a point.

Example in a sentence:

Whitney: "Mom, I was so sopping nice to Hank." or "Mom, I love dance so sopping much."

Try it out, it's kinda catchy and, in fact, I have started saying it myself. "I am so sopping mad it's so sopping cold!"

Uuuggghhhh. This weather makes me grumpy! Poor Hank just wants to be outside every second of every day. And I don't blame him. He is use to spending at least half the day outside, exploring, playing in dirt, driving his mini coop. Every time we get out of the car he instantly withers and whines to get out of my arms and onto the ground.Yesterday, he didn't care that it was FREEZING and SNOWING... ggrrr... he still wanted to play outside. So I bundled him up and let him. And I watched him from the window, inside.

This week we started a new regime. The mom regime. I was finally able to change my work schedule and instead of working 30 hours a week I work 15 hours just 2 nights per week. Super fabulous, right!!!?? I think so! Instead of waking up at 6 AM every day, I get to sleep in and let me tell ya... I am loving it! It is amazing what you can get done in the morning when you are not working.

Earlier this week Whitney came up to me and said that I had a rainbow on my forehead because of the lines... wrinkles. Lovely, I'm getting older!

Tonight, despite the cold weather, we are doing our very favorite thing: watching uncle Parker play football. We love OUR Friday Night Lights!

Parker's biggest fan!

Go Huskies! We hope you do sopping amazing!!

Lake Powell 2011

Another great year:

Playtime on the house boat. The boys loved playing poker.. like all day long.

The boating activities.

Danny clearing the wake.

Dave on the air chair

Us, ladies, tubing.

I love tubing.

We laugh so hard everytime.

Night time on the house boat.

My cute kiddos.

I love them!

The many different sleeping positions of my little man.

The house boat.

The sand hill.

Man challenges.

*The funniest man challenge was Wayne and Scott vs Danny and Rob. They took turns going on tube rides being pulled by the jet ski and had golf balls hit at them and tried to catch them. Don't ask me how that would be fun, but they thought it was hilarious. Honestly, they couldn't stop laughing.

Beach play.

Grandma Donna and 3 of her boys:

Wayne, Bill, and Scott.

My cousin Jenny took this awesome picture and I stole it from her blog.

Till next year.. we will miss you Lake Powell!

Danny's new love

Danny has been on the hunt. The car hunt. Saturday morning he said “Lets go on a drive up to Morgan, Utah (over an hour from us). There is a car there that I want to look at. I probably won’t buy it, but it will be a fun drive.” I declined. He was pretty persistent. But I was not interested in going on a “scenic” drive for over an hour with 2 kids. He finally won me over and reluctantly went. (I should have known right then and there that there was a hidden agenda.. I didn’t even realize it until we were at the car dealership and he actually decided to PURCHASE the car… that duh, he couldn’t get the car home if I hadn’t come.)

Danny’s dream car, an old school Cadillac. Ya, the grandpa cars. He loves them. He bought himself “the most beautiful car”.. in his eye’s for less than $5000. At least he is not hard to please, right?

We took the “scenic” ride home through East Canyon and he let me drive his new beauty by myself.. meaning no kids and it was very peaceful and beautiful. The leaves are just changing colors and it looks pretty amazing.

Danny said that since I was a good girl (meaning: I didn't complain, much) I could do a teensy little bit of shopping at my favorite spot in Park City. I got a couple of super ooper cute shirts on clearance, of course. The only type of shopping I do.

And in return, I got a sitter for the evening, and Danny finally got to see his Transformers at the dollar theater. Gotta love cheap dates.

Love this family picture too. Out of all the pictures I took.. this was the best one. Pretty awesome! :)