PaTTeRsOn CReW

Get a Melissa & Doug 25% off when you take the North "Pole"

2011-11-16T18:46:00.000-08:00

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Tenley got this cupcake decorating set for her birthday last year and has had so much fun with it-it is totally adorable!

Amazing Race

2011-11-13T09:18:00.000-08:00

My friend Jillisa has pretty much the coolest family that I have ever seen, and they put together a little Layton amazing race for us to go on. We got clues and had to drive around the city to find them it was so so fun and a perfect date night. We came in 3rd but I am ok with that because I didn't have to eat crickets:)
This is me having to make a pyramid with 5 random people in Wal-Mart.

Dog Whisperer

2011-11-12T13:55:00.000-08:00

Move over Cesar, Pacey is hot on your tail! Dogs love him, when he is gone his little Max sulks around the house and is depressed, and both his doggies sleep in his bed with him.

Pumpkin Patch

2011-11-11T07:40:00.000-08:00

Pumpkin Patch - Online Slideshow Maker

We were lucky this year to be able to do the good old hayride to the pumpkin patch with Davis Hospital, the kids had fun and the dirt was nice and muddy so my boots looked awesome after. We got to go into the patch and pick our pumpkins and all the little kids decided to pick one as big as they were so me and JBJ got to carry to huge pumpkins each-they made awesome jack-o-lanterns though.

Birthday Birthday

2011-11-09T09:58:00.000-08:00

My cute friends threw me a little suprise party for my birthday-they are so cute and I am so happy that they let this granny hang out with them.

I love me some JBJ!

2011-11-09T09:43:00.000-08:00

I love my husband just in case anyone was wondering and I love that he takes me on dates-it is so nice to have our alone time together I cherish it, and JBJ if you are reading this I LOVE YOU!
A couple dates to the car races and hitting golf balls at Swan Lakes.

Tenley

2011-11-09T09:13:00.000-08:00

My baby girl is so big I can't believe how fast she has grown it makes me sad when I see a picture like this. She is my big big girl.

Dressing up in our house is not just for girls!

2011-11-09T09:04:00.000-08:00

Turns out in our house Tenley is not the only one in our house that likes to dress up!

Tens 1st day of Preschool

2011-11-02T09:57:00.000-07:00

I put Tenley in preschool this year because as it turns out I am not a kid person and the joy school was a flaming nightmare from hell for me, so we are both a lot happier with her going away to school.

Holy 10 years Batman.

2011-11-02T09:37:00.000-07:00

Yes I have a ten year old and yes it freaks me out, but I would not change it for the world he is the most awesome kid that I know! We did the good old family birthday party and this year Pacey asked if we could have a big bbq so that is what we did. We love to get together with the family especially to celebrate an awesome kid like Pacey.

pacey bday - slideshow maker with music

First day 4th grade

2011-11-01T12:13:00.001-07:00

Pacey's first day of 4th grade I can't even believe it-I am so proud of him everyday he is so smart and works his hardest at school, we love him so much!

Davis County Fair

2011-11-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

We love to go to the Davis County fair we do it every year and the kids always have a great time. This year JBJ won tickets to the rodeo-it had been a while since I had been to the rodeo I love the rodeo besides all the animal catching but all the timed events and the kids racing it was fun. I think that the kids had the best time in the petting zoo-Tenley is an animal freak!

Snowbird

2011-10-30T11:39:00.000-07:00

I skipped Snowbird-I don't know how that happened but I will share now. My mom and dad decided that they were going to get a time share again at Snowbird, I spent my whole childhood going to Snowbird every summer and it is some of my fondest memories and I am so happy that my kids are going to be able to make memories up there also. We spent the week doing crafts, swimming, eating good food, and having a ton of fun! I love love love it there if you have not been up there you must go it is the most relaxing place on earth!

A Bear Lake post again.

2011-10-30T11:05:00.000-07:00

Bear Lake 2011 - slideshow maker with music

Our big Bear Lake summer trip this year was a little different there was NO beach it was so crazy the kids didn't get to play in the sand as much as they normally do, but on the other hand the marina was full so we didn't have to truck it out to the boat in the freezing water so that was nice. Everything was way fun my mom and dad got these little skis for kids that blow up and I didn't get a picture of Tenley on them and I am so sad about it(think those videos of squirrels skiing). It is so funny to see a kid as little as her on skiis so people on the beach were cheering for her and she took the time to wave at them-you always gotta acknowledge your fans! Pacey is the crazy one he is getting so daring that he goes on the tube with the big boys when they drive all crazy and it beats him around like a little rag doll.

Tenleys dance recital

2011-10-30T10:51:00.000-07:00

Tenleys little dance class had their recital and the Rasmussens and nanny and papa were able to come and see it. Tenleys idea of the dance was to make sure everyone was watching her and smiling but she did awesome and she is so cute!

Dancing princess

2011-06-29T10:20:00.000-07:00

Tenley has been wanting to take a ballet class for a while now and I finally put her in a class, she loves it and I love it because I get to dress her up like my little ballet doll.

Lagoon

2011-06-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

Our once yearly trip to Lagoon is always a big party the whole family goes and we make a big day of it. I didn't really get any pictures of Pacey because he was laying down the whole time we found out a couple of days later that he had pnemonia-I know we are awesome parents dragging our child around at Lagoon with pnemonia I am hoping that someone puts my name in for some kind of parenting award.

Paceys last day of school

2011-06-29T10:09:00.001-07:00

Preschool Graduation

2011-06-29T10:05:00.001-07:00

If only beating children was legal.

2011-06-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

My daughter is going to be the death of me! Whoever said that girls were easier than boys has obviously not had a girl-at the moment Tenley is currently banned from lip gloss, markers, crayons, pens, and pretty much and form of writing untensil. This is the gem I came down stairs to find one day.

It is a really good thing that I can play dress up with her or I might lose my mind.

Petting Zoo in Scipio?

2011-06-24T11:43:00.000-07:00

My friends that came down to St. George told us that we had to stop at the petting zoo in Scipio I was pretty sure that they were smoking crack until they showed me the pictures and yes there is an actual petting zoo at a gas station in Scipio-if you get a chance stop by. Tenley was a little gun shy about the goats because my friends had told her that the goats liked to nibble you, one climbed a rock by her and she let out a blood curdling scream (note these are tiny baby goats)it was beyond hilarious. There is a couple of handicapped animals and a mini zebra it is a must see!

St. Jeezey

2011-06-23T11:06:00.000-07:00

My friend from beauty school got married down in St. George and asked me and my other friends if we could come and do the wedding parties hair, so we packed up and headed down to St. George for the weekend. My kids week consisted of swimming, swimming, and more swimming.We yanked them out of the pool and forced them to go to the wedding but they ended up having a good time because she had a photo booth and I am pretty sure Pacey took about a hundred pictures but it was way fun.

Looooong Post with lots of pics!

2011-03-17T10:36:00.000-07:00

JBJ had to go up to Oregon to train some of his employees up there so I tagged along and played with my sister for a week-it was rough:). On ou way up there we ran in to two accidents that closed the road for 4 hours!! So we turned around and took the other way which is a mountain pass-after being told by the locals that it was a bad idea but we thought we were Utahns and we know snow-Oregonians don't know snow! Well we should have listened multiple times I was white knuckling it and almost had a panic attack then as when head up into a canyon the road was closed again and we couldn't turn around so we sat in the car for 2 hours and 15 minutes it was a total cluster />I took pictures to ease my anxiety a little bit and these kids were troopers I was so proud of them. We finally made it to Sherwood after me nearly offing myself in the car. We had never been to Canon beach so we decided that on Sunday we would head up there and go to the Tillimook factory on the way-because I love me some pricey cheese. We took the tour and taste tested a bunch of cheese then had some of there lovely ice cream(even though no one is as good as Farr's I am just gonna put that out there).

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After we left the factory we headed over the hill to Canon beach it is the beach that they filmed Goonies at and the rocks in the water are amazingly beautiful-but it was FREEZING cold the kids flew kites and looked in the tide pools and JBJ,Pacey, and McKay found a couple of hermit crabs that I actually held and it was disgusting. Kaden and his friend decided to hop in the water and die of hypothermia and I took pictures of their stupidity! Tenley I think had the best time though she sat wrapped in two blankets on my lap the whole time it was a party.

We found out that their mall had a Lego store and an H&M so we made a trip to the mall so Pacey could pray to his Lego God-he had a great time.

The day before we left we had to go into crazy Portland we had grand plans but once again it was freezing so we cut the party a little bit and just went to VooDoo doughnuts and try a couple of their infamous doughnuts, Pacey got the VooDoo which was a robot with a pretzel in the heart and raspberry filling in the center we also had to get the maple with the bacon on top-I thought it was disgusting but everyone else seemed to enjoy it. After we got our doughnuts we headed to a place that was on Diners Drive Ins and Dives and had the best sliders I have ever eaten.

We were all a little sad to go I miss my sister so much all the time but it is fun to be able to go up to Oregon and take in all of its amazing beauty!

Home Depot

2010-12-17T07:46:00.000-08:00

Pacey makes sure that every month we head over to Home Depot and make the free thing that you build-which means for me random crap that has no where to go-but it is so fun for them, I just chuck them when the kids are gone. In October we happened to have miss Harper staying at our house so she got to make a random thing for Megan, her and Tenley were so funny and very serious about there job.

Preschool Halloween

2010-12-17T07:38:00.000-08:00

I was in charge of the Halloween party at preschool, and the kids were hilarious. We played games, decorated cookies, painted pumpkins, bobbed for apples, and went on a costume walk around the neighborhood.

Halloween-yep Halloween

2010-12-17T07:11:00.000-08:00

Halloween is fun. We did the usually ate chili, snake sandwich, bread sticks, and my mom made the good old doughnuts. The kids went trick or treating and froze so they ended up doing it from Brady and Emily's van from house to house. Me and JBJ thought it would be fun to dress up so he was Frankenstein and I was the bride of Frankenstein (yes that is all my hair).

Get in shape girl

2010-11-01T10:16:00.000-07:00

For Tenley's preschool this month she got to go to a gymnastics gym and she loved it so much. They got to play with the ribbons(reminded me of me and Megan and our awesome get in shape girl tapes), do an obstacle course, and play in a foam pit, it was super cute.

Time for the dentures.

2010-11-01T10:00:00.000-07:00

So I turned the big 3-0 on the 11th and had an amazing day!! JBJ had me convinced that we were going to a murder mystery-which are not really my thing but I was going to play it cool because I thought it was so sweet that he had planned me a whole birthday date. As we were driving to the place he passed it and I was so worried about it and looked over to see him laughing and heading in the direction of Tepanyaki-my favortie sushi restaurant. When we got to the restaurant we pulled in and I saw a couple of my friends cars and told JBJ that my friends were there and idiot me, instead of thinking it was a surprise party I thought that my friends had gone to my favorite restaurant without me. As we pull around the corner and see another friends car I tell JBJ how rude it is that my friends went without me to that he says, "you are such a ditz". I then realized that the party was for me and laughed for probably the next 2 hours. I just have to say that my husband is the sweetest he got a hold of all of my friends and set this all up and I love him so much. Thank you to all my friends who made it special and thanks to JBJ I love you so much!

First field trip-Eva!

2010-10-31T14:26:00.000-07:00

I do a little neighborhood joy school for Tenley's preschool and I was in charge of the first field trip so we went to the fire department. The kids were so excited and the firefighters were so sweet to them and let them climb in and out of all of their vehicles. I brought them all a fire hat then I made them some popcorn fire balls it was really fun.

Bachelorette Party

2010-10-31T13:48:00.000-07:00

My friend/instructor from school Crystal got married so we threw her a good old bachelorette party(didn't think I would be going to these anymore).Our friend from school Ashley's mom has a condo in downtown Salt Lake so we stayed there and ate, played games, and hot tubbed. I have to say that I love all of these girls so much, even if they are way younger than me they all make me feel pretty and special everyday and I am happy that they are all part of my life. Here are some fun pics we took up on the roof. It's Vicoria's Secret!

First Day of Preschool

2010-10-31T09:41:00.000-07:00

Tenley's first day of preschool-I didn't cry-I lie I cried but only a little, kids grow up way too fast.

Red Butte Gardens

2010-10-31T09:23:00.000-07:00

On Memorial day me and the kids decided to venture out to Salt Lake, and go to the free day at Red Butte Gardens, it was pretty but kind of boring and like always I wore shoes that were impractical but cute. My favorite part was that Pacey is ranger Bob(he takes after my dad in that way) he carried a map the whole time and read every plant plaque to Tenley-they make me smile.

Say my name Bastian

2010-10-30T10:35:00.000-07:00

My mom may or may not have a jewelry addiction and every couple of months she has to dump a whole crap load of said jewelry off on her children, needless to say it is Tenley's favorite time of the month and her and JBJ had a little dress up time together. The best part of this is that after watching Never Ending Story as a kid I put every single thing I could find on my forehead to look like the child like empress, so I got a good laugh out of them doing this.

HOw my daughter looks at me everyday.

2010-10-30T10:27:00.000-07:00

I think she loves me.

4 7 niner-did I catch a niner in there.

2010-10-30T10:09:00.000-07:00

Yep Pacey turned nine in September and yes I am just barely posting this I suck at life. This year we had a good old army theme and all the kids had to do a little basic training with Captain JBJ, it was really cute and they had a bunch of fun. I am still so amazed that I have a 9 year old besides the back talking and smart mouth sometimes-I am so proud of him he is so sweet to his sister he would give her the shirt off his back if she asked for it. He is also so incredibly smart he is the highest in his class in math and he is at a sixth grade reading level and I sure do love him a lot.

3RD GRADE

2010-08-22T16:45:00.000-07:00

Pacey and his first day of third grade he had to get a great picture of his awesome backpack.

Summer summary

2010-08-22T16:19:00.000-07:00

Our summer was slightly boring so I don't have a whole bunch to share, so I thought I would do a summary of my summer. We always have the grand Bear Lake trip and my sister Brittany was able to come down for it-which was so great because I haven't seen her in a year. We had a great time up there boating, wave running, swimming, and seeing people dig there boats out of the lake-good times. Brittany stayed the next week and we decided to make crafts, because Brittany loves them so much and got a bunch of cute stuff made. We also took a family trip

to Boondocks and had a great time there also. These are the big things of this summer-what a party huh?

Good Choices.

2010-07-09T09:32:00.000-07:00

I turned my back for 2 minutes and Pacey picked these babies up for $6-a piece, I think it was a solid allowance choice. I actually think that Masons stopped lighting up while we were at the fireworks.

Festivities!!

2010-07-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

Yep we hit multiple 4th of July festivites it is JBJ's favorite holiday and it could not be missed! We started our day off heading to the Kaysville party we caught the end of the parade-which we are going to make a point to make it there next year-that parade is crazy kids had bags of candy and toys by the end of the parade-although the rest of the festivites-not so amazing. The kids had fun on the bouncing things and I spent $7 on a flavorless navajo taco.After they played for a bit we headed home but JBJ was angry that he did not get the "fair" food that he was looking for so we went over to Clearfield days. When we got there what we found was a fair food smorgasborg-we got some of these babies:

Yes the top picture is what is called ribbon fries-and yes they were A-Mazing-JBJ got what he wanted and his 4th of July was not ruined. We stayed there for the fireworks and the kids made fireworks caves with blankets and had a great time.

Don't judge me.

2010-06-28T09:26:00.000-07:00

Sorry to the 3 of you that are readers of the blog but I just am not feeling the whole blogging thing as of lately. This summer is a little crazy I am able to take the final class that I need at school so I am doing a whole lot of this:

I have to go to school everyday now so my summer is not as exciting as my kids would like it to be. I am also trying to plan a girls camp and all the fun things that come with that, I am my wards camp director. It makes me a little sad that we have to practically beg these girls to come-when I was their age you just went there was no question about-crazy. So I am sorry if any of you are missing my random stories, they may come a little more frequently after this crazy summer.

Kids Fair

2010-06-09T08:50:00.000-07:00

I kept seeing the commercials for a kids fair that they were having at Cherry Hill, and I am a sucker for these money sucking pits. The kids had fun thought so that is what matters-the problem was as we were walking in reptile man was the first thing that we saw I almost turned around and left but of course my kids were all about it and Tenley was about riding the boa constrictor.
My favorite part of the day was when Tenley saw Snow White and ran as fast as she could to go and hug her(we need a Disneyland trip asap)I also enjoy watching Pacey rock climb he is a natural at and it is fun to watch him

Work PARTAY!

2010-05-25T08:34:00.000-07:00

Well I wouldn't really say partay-because it was raining and freezing cold, but my kids enjoy any place where they get garbage toys from oriental trading that they can cherish for a week then my OCD kicks in and they get trashed.

Shaniqua hair

2010-05-25T08:27:00.000-07:00

I decided it would be fun to give long hair a try because my hair does not grow to a long length without becoming stringy and nasty-so I thought I would give extensions a try for the heck of it. It was quite fun for a minute until about a week in and my husband said "you should take out that Shaniqua hair and give me my Marlee back" I decided at that point to take them out(and to be honest they were driving me crazy).

Followers? Stalkers? Maybe..

2010-04-13T09:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry if you were a follower I know there was a HUGE group of you but I dropped that because I had some creepers that I could not remove from followers so I removed that gadget-sorry for any inconvience all 4/5 of you.

Bob the builder can we fix it?

2010-04-12T08:16:00.000-07:00

I have wanted to do the Home Depot kids craft thing for a year now and finally decided this month that we would go and build the craft. We got to Home Depot and they had a whole little set up for the kids-a place for pictures, there own apron, and the kit to make their own butterfly house-FOR FREE!!! It was so fun and super cute Pacey did so good he built it all himself I just had to hold the nails for him when he got them started-Tenley on the other hand was hit and miss she spent some of the time covering her ears but of course being my kids they had to paint them and they are super cute. You will now see me at Home Depot the first saturday of each month!

My kids love hockey?

2010-03-29T08:40:00.000-07:00

Jade called me last week and asked if we would want to go to a Grizzly game with them, of course we said sure we are always up for some fun. I let my kids know the day of otherwise they ask me about 483 times when and what time we are going. After I told Pacey he was dead set that we had to go to the dollar store so he could get a poster board to make a sign to hold at the game. We got to the game and were suprised at how much crap they gave out-of course my little junk mongers were excited to have some more crap to hold on to before I throw it away in a week. I don't think that they watched any of the game but they had fun cheering and watching other people, they were most excited when Grizzby came over and help up there signs for all the crowd to see. We had a ton of fun thanks to the Hosleys for inviting us.

EAr PiercInG

2010-03-17T09:59:00.000-07:00

Tenley came to us the other day and let us know that she was ready to get her ears pierced so we headed down to the mall for some fun! I decided to make things a little better I would go to the candy store and buy her one of those huge flower suckers. I was way excited to find out that they now do the piercing at the same time not like when I was little and the shot the one ear and then walked around to the other side and do the other one. Tenley was fine sitting down and excited to pick her flower earrings and once they shot her she did the scream and started crying, I told her to eat her sucker and she just kept crying until the lady brings out the ghetto suckers and all is fine. She thinks that she is a big girl with them and is always willing to let me clean and twist them and she looks freaking adorable.

Post Edit

2010-03-12T09:03:00.001-08:00

Apparently JBJ was joking about the plates Tenley's is the abstract and Pacey's is the volcano-either way I love my artsy-fartsy kids!

The Painted Plate Home Edition

2010-03-11T10:58:00.000-08:00

While I was at school last night JBJ and the kids painted some plates-I have to let you know in advance that Pacey is obsessed with any of the paint your own pottery places. While in Oregon like 5 years ago we went to the Painted Plate with my sister Brittany and he has been obsessed ever since, so while I was at the dollar store the other day I bought some plain white plates for them to paint on-thanks for being such a good daddy JBJ.

As you can see Pacey is artsy-fartsy his is more of the abstract art, while Tenley and JBJ's is more of an action scene I believe the guy that is jumping off the exploding volcano is saying see yah suckas.

Broken Blog?

2010-03-10T09:08:00.000-08:00

My sister brought to my attention that my blog may be broken because there had not been anything on there since February, I think I am going to contact someone about this. I have not had much to blog about we have been couped up in our house while I changed it all. I have a little problem that I get sick of decorations and need to change them pretty often-this time I attacked my whole first level. My red wall went to green and the rest of the walls in my house went to a brown color, then on saturday while I was finishing up a couple of balls that I was making Tenley decided to drop her full red powerade on the carpet in the dining room(which I despised anyway) so we pulled up the carpet and sanded the wood. JBJ thought it would be ok to pull up the wood that was damaged-come to find out they don't sell 2 inch planks at the local Home Depot so we are going to have to do some searching-meanwhile I have a awesome floor. I have had fun with all the decorations and Iam so happy that JBJ made me an awesome entry table-thanks lover!

Elementary Valentines Day=AWESOME!

2010-02-13T09:47:00.000-08:00

Does anyone remember how awesome valentines day was in elementary? I do, and I bet everyone can guess what my favorite part was-if you guessed the boxes that everyone put your valentines in-then you win a gold star. To my dismay the first 2 years of Pacey's elementary life they did not do these boxes-which makes no sense because he attends an art school-but whatever. Well this year to my delight he came home with a paper saying that they were to bring a decorated boxes and to make it even better there was going to be a competetion with prizes involved(we are not competitive at all). I decided that-oh I mean we-me and Pacey decided to make a robot, he glued a couple of things on so we can count that as helping.

She's FREE

2010-02-11T12:17:00.000-08:00

She is 3 and I kind of love her A LOT!!

ReaSoN 23009 tO hAvE a GirL

2010-02-10T08:58:00.000-08:00

Last week JBJ and Pacey came to school to get their haircut and while they were doing that my instructor Crystal came and got Tenley to paint her nails-I have painted Tenleys nails at school before and she takes the process very seriously it is hilarious. The best part was that my lovely school friends taught her to call me a milf-luckily it did not catch on.

VEGAS and Hairshow

2010-02-02T09:45:00.000-08:00

This last weekend I went down to a hairshow in Mesquite, we stayed out one of the girls moms house down in Hurricane-did I mention that this house was on MTV teen cribs all 18,000 square feet of it-it was so awesome. We did a bunch of shopping on saturday and tried to get pictures of the lovely polygamists ladies at Walmart but they are an angry bunch and I was pretty sure they were going to shank us-but they were in walmart with us for a good hour and a half at like 1 in the morning-I am guessing hiding out from their husbands.On Sunday we had the hairshow down in Mesquite learned a little then got to listen to this douche bag so we left and headed down to Vegas to have some fun. Me and a bunch of crazy young-uns (I was older than all of them by a bit) we went up and down the strip, got talked to by many crazy men, saw some awesome pictures, took about 850,000 pictures, and almost had a heart attack on the stratusphere! We finally left Vegas about 4 in the morning and got to drive back to St. George-we got in bed at about 5 in the morning, I have decided I have passed the point in my life that I can do this-I am in some serious pain-but I had a great time and I have an awesome husband who lets me do something like this-I LOVE YOU JBJ!!!

Christmas-yep I am on the ball.

2010-01-15T11:02:00.000-08:00

Well I said that this christmas I was going to do an all homemade christmas, I made itr about 90% of the way then me and my sewing machine had a messy break-up and it almost got thrown into oncoming traffic. The kids were excited though and loved their sock monkeys as did my niece Harper that I made one for. We also ended up making a kitchen out of an entertainment center for Tenley and I love how it turned out, the felt food that I made her is a different story cute but not holding up the best. I also have to show a christmas carnage picture because they are my favorite.

The hay ride from hell!

2009-12-23T07:44:00.000-08:00

If your parents ever call you and ask you to go on a hay ride in December to see the lights-just say no! I am still nursing windburn from 2 weeks ago-Merry Christmas.

What my kids do for fun Vol. 2

2009-12-23T07:39:00.000-08:00

Everytime JBJ goes out to clean the driveway when it snows my kids are tearing the contents of my closet out to go and play. Last week JBJ helped them to make an adorable snow man they were sad the next day when they woke up to a decapitated snow man but I like to call those "life experiences".

What my kids do for fun.

2009-12-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

I have been busy the last two weeks making stuff for a boutique (don't ask me why I am doing this because it is making me crazy-but whatever). Tenley and Pacey have been way more than helpful in all of my efforts, Tenley was being an awesome daughter and was babysitting all of the dolls that I had made, and this is what I saw when I walked into my front room.

Ignore the mess in the back that is my crafting area-it may look like a dining room but it is not.

Sushi Sushi Sushi

2009-11-13T09:44:00.000-08:00

A new fish market opened in Layton that is awesome, on Saturday me and JBJ dcecided that we were in the mood for sushi but not in the mood to spend $70 so we were gonna make it ourselves. When we got to the fish market the guy sold us sushi grade tuna for $10 a pound-a freaking steal-so we got that and some shrimp and headed home to give it a go. I made spicy tuna and we did some tempura batter for the shrimp-Umm yah it was amazing I ate so much that I got sick and we only spent like 25 dollars. We may now have to designate saturday as sushi days! Anyone want to come?

First real haircut.

2009-11-01T17:17:00.000-08:00

Tenleys hair has been a hot mess since birth from baldness, to mullet-esque, and to as my brother called it "The Crypt Keeper" hair. I have trimmed it a couple of times but this was the first real haircut, hopefully the front will grow I pray.

Happy Halloween

2009-11-01T16:57:00.000-08:00

Time for the obligatory halloween post. I am too cheap to buy a $40 costume from the costume store so I decided to torture myself and sew them there costumes-a couple pull apart times later-we ended up with a Tinkerbell and Toad from Mario Bros. We had an awesome and cold Utah Halloween like always.(Awesome pics courtesy of JBJ)

I am in love.

2009-10-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

This is 16 gigs of pure happiness-I think this is the best birthday present since the glow worm of '84. Love you honey.

Birt-day Party

2009-10-08T08:23:00.000-07:00

Tenley got invited to her first actually birthday party and she was pretty excited. The party was at 2, so I got to hear from about 7:30 to 2 that she was ready to go to the party. She loved every minute of it and I am still hearing about it today.

Conference Crafts

2009-10-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

Me and my sister Megan decided that this conference we were going to do crafts while the husbands went to the Priesthood session-and they turned out awesome. We made a bunch of hair things, dishtowel dresses, a bunch of leggins, and I made a bow holder-I think that we are going to make this a tradition every year! My camera is broken so this is the best I can do.

Glass Tea Sets-Really?

2009-09-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

So on Saturday I hung out with some of my high school friends and we took a little trip to IKEA to do some shopping. Well it turns out that I am a huge sucker for tea sets-even if they are glass I feel the need to buy them. I debated the whole glass sets through the entire store then in the scratch and dent area they had one for $2.99 and I was sold. Well it lasted 3 days-I think that is pretty good-no?

My Fav

2009-09-10T10:04:00.000-07:00

Quite possibly one of my favorite pictures of Tenley ever.

LaBoR DaY

2009-09-08T08:02:00.000-07:00

Anyone else with me and adore a three day weekend-anyone *crickets*. Well we had an awesome weekend with Paceys birthday saturday a lazy sunday and a fun monday. We decided monday morning that we were going to have a BBQ, so I made some potato salad, BBQ chicken, and some delicious cucumbers from the garden. JBJ finally fixed Pacey's bike so he got to do some bike riding along with Tenley-only a few crashes happened and one crying incident but Pacey did great.

Summer work party

2009-08-26T07:49:00.000-07:00

Pacey's 40th time catching ducks
My little butterfly

Saturday was JBJ's summer work party i.e. Pacey's favorite day. There is food and for Pacey unlimited games to win a bunch of useless crap that he loves and I love to throw away. This year they had a bunch of competitions for all the different offices like baloon toss, tug of war, and the very disgusting pie eating contest-JBJ's office won almost everything I ended up carrying out a 9 pound crunch bar. It ended up being fun but I ended up with strep throat and I am going to blame it on the party.

The classic first day pic.

2009-08-24T16:59:00.001-07:00

I love a first day of school picture and I love school uniforms!

DiNoSauRs

2009-08-18T12:44:00.000-07:00

I took the kids yesterday and met Jade at the Dinosaur Park, we decided to have a picnic and let the kids play. Everyone should be advised that there is a terrifyingly huge fish in the pond that I am pretty sure has a full mouth of teeth and it is disgusting! Tenley was hilarious at the park she loved all the dinosaurs and when we went in side to the robotic ones she was not even scared she walked right up to the fence-she is a tough little chick.
(As always I forgot my camera and so these pics are from my camera-sorry)

Angry Sister

2009-08-06T10:04:00.000-07:00

Today for the first of I am sure many times Tenley screamed "Get out of my room" and slammed her door on her brother-she's 2.*shudder in fear*

9 Years and counting

2009-08-05T10:19:00.000-07:00

Today me and JBJ have been married for 9 years-I love you more everyday.

Bear Lizzle

2009-08-05T09:22:00.000-07:00

We did our big family vaca. to Bear Lake a couple of weeks ago(I know I am totally on the ball). We had an awesome time I was able to have some of my friends from school even come up and spend a couple of days up there-and school them in a little game called pounce. It is always fun to have a break and head up to bear lake-it so nice up there so thanks mom and dad for having an awesome beach house.

Drive-In

2009-07-14T08:28:00.000-07:00

This weekend we made our summer trip to the drive-in, don't get me wrong I love the drive-in but here are a few things that make me a little crazy-

Watching cars park in places that they are not even close to fitting in.

Sand and gravel that kids can not help but throw.

Cars that come through the parking lot at like 90 fully knowing there are kids everywhere.

A two year old who is not really interested in watching movies so instead just climbs everywhere.

But other than that we had a bunch of fun with the Tripletts thanks for coming with us.

Lagoon-it's what hypothermia is!

2009-06-12T08:32:00.000-07:00

Tenley on her favorite ride the Merry-go-round.

We went to Lagoon on Wednesday-yes it was wet and freezing-but we had a bunch of fun. My dad gets free passes every year for being on the city council so me and my sisters and their families decided to go on wed. together. I laugh everytime that I take my kids too places like this they are both little dare devils-they will go on anything. Pacey decided that he wanted to try out wicked (it was my first time also so I didn't exactly know what we were in for)needless to say I have found a ride that Pacey does not like-I thought it was way fun I was laughing so hard my throat started to hurt. We got caught in only two downpours but by the time it hit 7:30 it was COLD!! We left early but the Tripletts toughed it out and closed down the park-they are troopers, I was pretty sure that I had lost my pinkie toe and needed to get it checked out(I never have proper Lagoon shoes).
Harper and Tenley jumping up and down-excited for the pink boat.

Tenley and Harper on the boats
*Disclaimer*
These are phone pics and Pacey is not in any of them because I did not see him for most of the day.

Treehouse

2009-06-12T08:16:00.000-07:00

My brother Brady came in town for an interview and we were excited that he brought Jaylee along with him, we decided that we would go to the treehouse on monday so that they would have something to do. Pacey, Laney, and McKay just went from activity to activity, but Jaylee wanted to play on the stairs and the bridge, Tenley on the other hand wanted to play with the kitchen stuff-I really need to find a cute kitchen set for her(any ideas?). We played for a couple of hours then went over to the Pizza Factory and had some lunch where my kids ate their breadsticks like corn on the cob-awesome. We were so happy to be able to spend some time with our Jaylee friend-hopefully we willl get to do it more often*wink wink*.

Reason #432,890,000

2009-06-03T09:18:00.000-07:00

WHY I LOVE THIS BOY!!!!

Zoo

2009-05-30T21:20:00.000-07:00

JBJ took work off on Friday so that we could go to the zoo and also have a chance to see our husband/dad. We were pretty excited to take Tenley because she is obsessed with animals of all kinds, it was funny to take kids of those different ages. Pacey would look at whatever we were at for 2 seconds and say lets move on, Tenley on the other hand wanted to stay at every animal and would get mad when we said we were leaving to go to something else. The best part of the zoo hands down were these little marmoset monkeys and the mom had twins and they were just hangin out on her back I had to be pulled away from that-they were just too cute.

What we did this weekend.

2009-05-26T12:18:00.000-07:00

Played games, swam, hung out with the family, but mostly just

RELAXED!!

I am not quirky am I?

2009-04-23T09:23:00.000-07:00

It's a 10 random things/quirks tag.
Here are the rules:

1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. List 10 random things about yourself.
3. Tag 10 people at the end of your post.
4. Let each person know they've been tagged and post a comment on their blog.

I got tagged by a couple of people so I will give it a whirl-I liked the way that Dana did it so I am going to copy her.

1. I can not flush the toliet while I am sitting on it.

2. I am obsessed with ear wax it is like winning the lottery when I find stuff in my kids ears.

3. I am a total voyer-I love to spy on other peoples lives-hence my obsession with all things reality T.V.

4. I hate open cabinet doors-I don't understand how people can have those see through cabinet I just cringed a little even typing that.

5. I am deathly afraid of moths moth+ear=fear (I didn't mean for that to rhyme I swear)

6. I love doing laundry especially socks it helps me get zen.

7. I feel like I am 19, all the girls that I hang out with around that old-I just don't feel like I am 10 years older than them-I may be a little delusional I know.

8. I love to feed people, nothing makes me happier than feeding someone something that they love-it makes me so happy.

9. I get nervous every week before I teach my young womens lesson-and the sad thing is I usually teach 2 girls.

10.I just about have a full blown anxiety attack every time I go to North Ogden, the thought of running into someone from high school about sends me into the institution.

I am tagging Sara, Megan, Lisa, Trisha, Emily, Shannon, Lindsey, Kristen, Jenn,and Tasha.

I love me a contest.

2009-04-22T08:19:00.001-07:00

http://www.wezardyflatirons.blogspot.com/

The latest contest that I am going to win-I boy that I went to school with is now selling these and they look awesome.

Fashionista or fashion disaster?

2009-04-20T12:58:00.000-07:00

Oufits like these that Tenley frequently puts together, have me wondering if she will grow up and be a fashionista or a fashion disaster.

Obligitory Easter Post

2009-04-13T09:33:00.000-07:00

We had a really fun Easter, on Saturday we woke up and went to an easter egg hunt in Clearfield some of the eggs had a ticket in them for a prize and of course Pacey-being the lucky little sucker that he is found 3 of them. Tenley was over in the parent pick up area-I mean the 0-2 year old group(parents are raging psychos over there, you really need 15 eggs for your 2 year old?). After that we took them down to Brittanys were they got to decorate eggs and cookies and Brittany watched them while me and JBJ got to go and see Phantom-thanks Brittany! Sunday we got up and went to church and when we came home I did a little easter egg hunt in the back yard, after that we went up to my parents and my mom had made them these adorable little nests made out of rice crispies with eggs in them and peeps on top-they were so cute. We ended with a yummy dinner and a fun game with fam(we missed you Tripletts, thanks for dogging).

Parkity Park

2009-04-13T09:27:00.000-07:00

We went to the park a couple of weeks ago and I found this picture and had to put it on-we brought Tenleys little bike and her and Harper went for a cruise on it.

Meanest mom

2009-03-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

The Meanest mom is having a modbe swimsuit giveaway-I am going to win so you probably shouldn't even try.

http://themeanestmom.blogspot.com

4x4 Truck show

2009-03-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

We decided to brave the mullets, second hand smoke, and cutoff shirts(luckily it was chilly) to go to the 4x4 truck show at my dads school. We all had a great time looking at all of the jacked up trucks and watching the trucks try and ballance on a teeter totter type thing. It is always fun to go to these free things a good actvity for the kids.

Aren't my kids so photogenic?

Amber Alert!

2009-03-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

So Pacey has a radio that he listens to at night when he goes to bed and keeps it on all night while he sleeps. The other night he came up to our room to tell us that he had a bad dream, so he laid down on our couch and fell back asleep. I am always interested to see what his nightmares are about because they are a little on the hilarious side, so that morning I asked him what his nightmare had been about. He told me that as he was laying there one of those stolen kid things(amber alert) had come on the radio and said there was a blonde haired boy with blue eyes, wearing pajamas missing. He told me it made him wake up because he thought that it was him, when I asked why it was still scary when he woke up and was in his bed-all he said was I thought it was me. I laughed for a good five minutes and then laughed again when I called JBJ and told him the story.

It was his 60TH BIRTHDAY!!

2009-03-13T08:08:00.000-07:00

I am a little slow in blogging this but I will do it anyway. Last thursday was my dads 60th birthday and we thought it would be fun to throw him a suprise birthday party like 5 days before(I know we are procrastinators), we got it all set up anyway and then hoped for the best-my mom is a horrible liar and she just kept telling him more and more random things to cover it up-we were a little worried. It ended up working really good and it was a surprise to him. We all love him some much and are so proud of what a great example of hard work he is to all of us. It is always so fun to have these kind of situations with him because it is all about him and we get to see all the people that love and respect him and it makes all our pride swell.Love you dad!

Pay it Forward

2009-03-11T09:46:00.000-07:00

I have seen this on a couple of blogs and I think that it is so fun so I am going to do it also.
Here's how it works:
The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the next couple of months, a handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well. Before you leave your comment, paste the pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play (comment) and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift!(You can even enter the contest if you are just a blog spy-I wont judge).

Free Whore.

2009-03-10T08:58:00.000-07:00

I started school about 3 months ago, and I am having a great time. A couple weeks after I started they closed down the salon portion so that they could remodel it, well while they have been doing this we have had classes on all different things. This has been a gold mine for me-no one is ever willing to volunteer so I always do. Here is the list of every thing that I have had done:
Eyelashes Permed
Eyelashes Tintes
Eyebrows Tinted
Back Facial
Hot stone back massage(so fun being naked in front of everyone)
Acrylic Nails
and finally a facial peel
The salon opens back up on wednesday and though I am happy to be doing hair again I am sure going to miss all the free pampering.

Conversations with Tenley part deux

2009-03-05T08:12:00.000-08:00

Amazingly enough Tenley was down in the toy room playing quietly with her dolls while I was upstairs sewing yesterday. She came upstairs with a doll fork and said
"Baby needs a nack"
I said alright and got her a bowl of snacks(which she didn't even pretend to feed her baby-she just ate it all). When she had finished she came and asked for more and I told her,
"No more snacks we are going to eat lunch in a little while"
Tenley-"Ok Mama"
Two minutes later she comes in holding her baby and says
"Mom, what babies name"
Me-"I don't know what do you want her name to be?"
Tenley-"Name"
Me-"Um how about Abby?"
Tenley-"yah Abby".

Conversations with Tenley

2009-03-04T11:19:00.000-08:00

Tenley: "Hey mom guess what?"
Me: "What Tenley"
Tenley: "beba jeebs ajig gabba-ha ha ha"
Me: "cool"

Urealistic Expectations-Valentines Edition

2009-02-15T15:37:00.000-08:00

I figure that since my mom always managed to make a big deal about every holiday and give us all a bunch of unrealistic expectations I will do it to my kids. On friday night I decorated the table all valentiney once the kids were in bed and planned to make stawberry crepes in the morning for breakfast-because when you make a big deal out of everything it doesn't ruin them for their future spouses at all. So when they woke up we all all had crepes and the kids got their little valentines prizes, and since it was a blizzard outside we thought it would be fun to go swimming. We went over to Clearfield pool where they have a whole little indoor splash area and a slide, which Pacey was so proud that he was finally tall enough that he could go on it by himself and proceeded to go about 10 times. Tenley just shivered the whole time and was not interested in all of the splashing that was going on-but she loved the slide and the little lazy pool. Later we went to dinner and the comedy club with Jade and Nick and laughed until we were sick-so thanks Jade and Nick (I know that you are gonna read this Jade you blog spy) so for being a stupid holiday we had a great time.

Tens is TWO!!

2009-02-10T08:01:00.001-08:00

My baby girl is two and I can not believe it! It is so fun to have a girl to shop for, the problem is I went to the store not really having a birthday theme and came out with everything girl that I could find-so the theme of Tenleys birthday was girl. We invited all the family over for dinner and cupcakes, and had a great time. Tenley has the present opening thing down-the only problem was my sister Brittany got her a Brobee doll (yo gabba gabba) she opened that like third and didn't care to open anything else, we got her to open more but she held him the whole time. I am so happy that I have my little girl, she has more attitude than I thought was even possible but when she looks at me and says lub you mama I forget about that

Pancakes, PJ's, and Pillows

2009-02-07T06:59:00.000-08:00

Pacey Reading

They are having a big reading contest at Paceys school, so they decided to have a pancake night and let the kids read and eat pancakes. I had to cook the pancakes so I sent Pacey and Tenley to go and join the reading groups while I did some cooking. Pacey was diligently reading the whole time while Tenley tormented him. He was really happy though because he got in a 180 minutes of reading, he was really excited to be able to mark off all those minutes. Tenley on the other hand just walked around the gym stealing kids books and pillows until JBJ got there-she is a joy!
Tenley dragging around Paceys backpack

Outift Man

2009-02-07T06:48:00.000-08:00

No Brenn is not living at my house circa 1992. This is what I came down to find last week, Pacey decided that he did not like the outfits that I pick out for him(which is funny because he wears uniforms so there is not that big of a selection) anyway I came down to tuck him in bed and found this little outfit man. The hilarious thing for those of you who don't know my brother Brenn, is that he made this little guy like every night of his life-in fact I think I might call Kim and see if he still does it.

Dress Up

2009-01-27T10:49:00.000-08:00

This is what dress up at our house looks like(sorry phone pic)
Saggy diaper-check
boots-check
naked-check
shirt on wrong-check
something resembling jewelry-check

Gratuitous Bath Tub Pics

2009-01-23T08:54:00.000-08:00

Some times you gotta have a good 'ol bath tub post. There is nothing cuter than a wet baby-when their little eye lashes separate, and it is the only time that they are actually clean. Love it.

High School Tag--------REALLY?

2009-01-23T08:32:00.000-08:00

Dana tagged me with a high school tag which is really funny because I barely graduated from high school-I sluffed a little to much but we will give it a go I don;t want to be a tag party pooper.

1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? Yah right I avoided them like the plauge

2.WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE?
Sophmore-Toyota Tercel
Junior-Honda Prelude
Senior-Nissan Pathfinder-I went through the cars.

3. DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? Yah barely I had to do it with a cop (wow that sounds wrong I meant a cop was in the car with me)

4. WERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? Oh yah we played quarters with shasta all the time-we got wasted!

5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? Um yah

6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR?Negative

7. WERE YOU A NERD? No I was indifferent

8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? Yah right

9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? Not that I remember

10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? Unfortunately

11. WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? Mr. Bates-photography was awesome

12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? Whatever restaurant me and Jade went to that day.

13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? Weber High School

14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLORS? Warriors: red & black

15. DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHOM? Didn't really attend dances

16. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? H-NOOOOOOOOOOO

17. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? After the parties me, Jade, and Melissa fell asleep in my car at the Ogden Parkway and woke to a bunch of old guys staring at us.

18. WHERE DID YOU GO SENIOR SKIP DAY? I am sure me and Jade were somewhere trying to find guys

19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? The I hate high school club-oh there wasn't one of those-then no

20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SINCE THEN? Survey says YES

21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? Tyson Spencer and I think that he had been out of high school for two years.

22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? You couldn't pay me enough money to go

23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? Yes I worked at Castlebrook reception center and got hit on by the brides drunk dads, it was hilarious.

Wow that was a little negative-but I can't say that high school was my cup of tea, but I do have some great memories even if it doesn't sound like it! I tag Jenn, Lindsay, and Shannon.

The big movie premiere.

2009-01-20T09:42:00.000-08:00

JBJ's work redid the velveteen rabbit and we got to go to a special viewing of it on saturday. Well we are watching and we all know how the velveteen rabbit goes and it is getting to the sad part and Pacey leans over to me at that point and says "Mom I think that I am going to cry" I could not stop laughing it was so cute. I lean to the other side to tell JBJ what he said and we look over and he is wiping his eyes, luckily the movie doesn't end the way that you think it does I didn't want his little heart to break(like mine did when I was little-SCARING