The Butlers Room

Aunt Macy!

2011-11-16T08:37:00.000-08:00

On Monday Nana and Aunt Macy came over to help make applesauce!! Yay! Mitzi has the best applesauce EVER! We were all excited that they were coming! Especially Mason! He was afraid Nana had forgotten who he was, (but she didn't)! She even brought the kiddos some candy! We had so much fun making applesauce and the kids had a blast destroying the house and making Aunt Macy play with them!! After they had left I got these pictures sent to me on my phone, with a little note...

"Some peoples kids!"

Yup, I will claim those crazy kids!

(even Aunt Macy!)

Dorothy and Alice

2011-11-15T10:06:00.000-08:00

Brigette as Alice in Wonderland and Tera as Dorothy from Wizard of Oz! Brigette is going through this stage where she "smiles" kind of funny! Hopefully by next Halloween she will have grown out of it!! The girls had so much fun and they were so polite and kind to everyone!! I love trick-or-treating in this little town!!

Happy Halloween!!
Love,
Alice and Dorothy!!

Carving Pumpkins

2011-11-14T10:06:00.001-08:00

After our trip to the pumpkin patch, we couldn't forget to carve our pumpkins! Well, Brigette wouldn't let us forget! Zach is awesome at pumpkin carving. I wish I had pictures of some of the pumpkins he has carved! He even carved me an "Aerosmith" pumpkin one year! It is my favorite so far. Although the one Brigette drew and Zach helped her carve was pretty awesome!!

Brigette is so cute!! She LOVES to carve pumpkins and help me with whatever "craft" I am working on! She got everything ready and gathered us all together to help her carve!! I pretty much watched and took pictures of Zach and Brigette doing all the work!

Tera had lots of fun "helping"! She is such a nut!

Zach told Brigette to pretend to eat the insides of the pumpkin!

I think Tera got tired of standing there watching and spent alomst the rest of the time on the floor like this...

She was crying but I eventually got a smile out of her!

This is the face Brigette drew on her pumpkin for Zach to carve, I though it was pretty dang cute!!

Brigette even cleaned out the inside of her pumpkin! I will have to remember that, because it is my least favorite part!

Notice the wardrobe change? We went and watched some more football then carved one more pumpkin!

Tera and her pumpkin, see how cute she is when she is happy!!

Finally finished!! They turned out super cute!

I'm glad Brigette drags us away from football every now and then to spend family time together!!

Happy Fall Ya'll

2011-11-03T10:53:00.000-07:00

I absolutely LOVE fall ! It it my favorite season! Right before Halloween Jessica and I took the kids to our local Pumpkin Patch and let them get some Pumpkins! They had so much fun picking out which pumpkins they wanted to take home!

Emmaree and Tera picking out which pumpkin they wanted!

Brigette had a tough time deciding which pumpkin was best for her! She wanted a tiny pumpkin like Hayden got!

Doesn't Emmaree look so cute in her skirt and boots?! I love it!

After everyone got their pumpkins, we decided to get all the kids together to get a picture...

Getting six kids to all look at the camera with a cute smile wasn't easy...

Pretty much impossible...

That's OK though, they all are pretty dang cute, and you can tell they had fun!

(notice Hayden's teeny, tiny, pumpkin?!)

Happy Fall from the Butler and Tubbs kids!!

Austin Bradley

2011-10-23T19:12:00.001-07:00

So, there is this nephew of mine, that if his dad and mom would give him up, I would take him! He is probably the best kid I know! Well, Last Saturday, he had a very severe asthma attack. And ended up in the ICU in critical condition. I should post the whole story, but I am pretty darn sure that there is no way I can type it out without drowning my keyboard in tears and ruining my water damaged computer even further. Since I am not an awesome Blogger like my sisters (and all the rest of you out there) check out my big sister, Jessica's blog, and for a little more info, check out my little sister, Ashley's blog. If you want a real tear jerker, head on over to my side bar and click on the link that says Danny and Alicia. Read her blog entitled "Benefit".

It has been probably the longest week of my life! Austin is a fighter. Tiffany (his Stepmom) said the dr said it was the worst case of asthma he had ever seen. I have held his hand, watched him try to tell my mom he loved her.

I also watched my two little girls go into a scary hospital room, give handmade, all by themselves cards to Jennifer, hold Austin's hand and tell him that they "love him more than he love's basketball!" I also saw the tears come out of his eye's when they told him that.

I have to say out of all that has happened, my testimony has grown. I would've never thought that one awesome boy, would bring a whole town to their knees. Austin did. Austin has helped everyone's testimony and faith grow. This town has sported gray shirts for Austin for Asthma Awareness. Kids have missed sports luncheons because they were fasting for Austin. Facebook pages have been made to pray for Austin, tons of posts have been posted on Facebook for people praying for Austin and supporting him. Texts messages have been sent, phone calls have been made. Conversations have been overheard at High School Volleyball games in the town of our "Rivals" saying they were praying for that Bushman boy!

I am proud to be that Bushman boys Aunt. I love him like he was my own little boy. I guess he isn't very little anymore (15 years old,6 foot 1). I am greatful that I get to be a part of his life. Because by me knowing him, it makes me want to be a better person!

So, if I need to drive to Flagstaff 3 plus times a week to stand in a little hospital room and rub his big feet, hold his big hands, and tell him how much I love him, I'm going to do it. And I will keep on doing it until he can come home to all the people that love him! Including me, because, like I said, I would take that boy as my own anyday!

I love you Austin Bradley! Keep on Fighting!!

Bad Luck

2011-09-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

The other day I decided that I was going to post some more pictures of the demolition going on in my house!! But guess what?! My camera has decided that it no longer wants to work!! I took it camping with us last weekend and that's when it decided to give up the ghost:( I didn't even get any good camping pictures! Maybe one of these days I can get something to work out right!! I guess it didn't like sitting in a puddle of water along with all the other appliances in my house, go figure. At least we got the pictures that were on it sent to the Insurance Company!!

First Day

2011-08-23T09:37:00.000-07:00

On August 3rd, Brigette started preschool in Holbrook! She is in Mrs. Ceccarelli's class, and she absolutely LOVES it!!! Tera and I took her for her first day and Tera bawled because she wanted to stay and play with Briggie!!! Tera has gotten over it, but still follows me around during the day asking for Briggie or for me to play with her!! I'm pretty sure she needs a friend to keep her entertained!!! As for Brigette, she comes home and tells me what she learned and who she played with, usually her playmates are just described to me because she can't remember their names! She is so cute!

P.S. Mrs. Ceccarelli is pronounceed "Chick-a-rell-ey" Just in case you were wondering!

When it rains...

2011-08-22T09:26:00.000-07:00

it floods... OK, actually, when you go on vacation for a week and the line to your dishwasher breaks it floods your whole teeny tiny house. Then you get to come home on Friday to a swimming pool :/

Happy Birthday Brigette!!

2011-08-18T07:53:00.001-07:00

I can't believe that my little girl is 5 already!!! I can't believe how fast time goes by and how big she is getting!! She is so smart and beautiful!!! I love this little girl so much and I am so very thankful that Heavenly Father sent her to me! Happy 5th Birthday, Brigette!!! I love you!!!

T-Ball

2011-06-17T11:12:00.001-07:00

Yup, another post about Brigette. She is so busy this summer!!! T-ball, swim lessons, ballet, tumbling, library... am I forgetting anything? I took some pictures of her at her first game! She did so good. Although, we might need to work on her throwing!

She is #8 for the Sliders! Mason and Laci are also on her team. I told her if she did good I would take her for a treat afterwards! After her fist batting turn, and running around the bases, she came up to me in the stands and asked me "Mommy, did I do a good hit?" It was so cute!! And she did "do a good hit," she hit it all the way to the outfield!

In two games she has only gotten out once (I think?). She even "slid" into shortstop and skinned her knee. It is so funny and cute to watch. Mason took his turn "coaching" the other team from third base. After one at bat, Brigette ran all the way to third base, then must have decided it was enough and headed to the dugout!

Warming up!

Brigette and Laci

Brigette, Laci and Mason

When I was taking the pictures of Mason, Brigette and Laci the other kids came over. So I let them join in!!

Tera and Emmaree even have fun at the games, playing in the dirt and running around the bleachers!

Mason's turn to bat!

Mason on First.

Brigette on Second or Third??

They only have 2 more games. But it has been fun watching them. Hopefully with all these crazy activities she will decide what she likes best and stick to it!!

Go Sliders!!!

Dance, Dance!

2011-06-15T13:19:00.000-07:00

Brigette has been taking a little dance class here in town. She LOVES it! Her first performance, we recorded and she didn't do anything! She was so shy, she just ended up turning her head away from the audience. It was pretty funny!

This time was much better! She was so cute! They did 3 dances. She sings along with the words, and she always tells me what the steps are called! She is taking a break this summer but will start back up again in the fall! She can't wait!

(sorry about the horrible quality of the pictures, but you can still see how cute she is!)

Finally Easter

2011-06-09T09:26:00.000-07:00

I completely forgot that I took pictures at Easter!!! So here they are, loaded backwards, but at least you get to see how beautiful my little girls looked in their Easter dresses!!!

And their lovely first thing in the morning "bed head"

Cookies and Princesses

2011-06-08T08:22:00.000-07:00

Brigette always asks me if she can help me when I cook. I usually find something little for her to do since our kitchen is on the "puny" side. I kept telling myself I would let her help me when we have more room. Then I started thinking that the "more room" could be 10 years away or never. And by then, she wouldn't want to help me anymore :( So I decided we would make cookies!!! I have to say, she is going to be an awesome cookie baker!!!

Emmaree and Tera LOVE each other (most of time)! They are best friends and love to play together. Today there were no other "Big" cousins around, so they finally got to dress up like the "Little Princesses" they are!!! How stinkin cute are they??!!

(don't look at my big messes, like I said before, we are pretty low on space)

Tera asked me the other day to watch the "Monster Movie", she doesn't call any of the movies by their titles, but I usually know which movie she is talking about. This time it was Monsters Inc. I asked a few times if she was sure she wanted to watch it, she insisted!!! So I put it in for her, she somewhat watched it hiding behind the pillow for about 10 minutes. She then decided it was too scary and left the room until I turned it off!!! She cracks me up!!!!

Another quick update about Tera: We are completely DONE WITH DIAPERS!!!! Happy Day!!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

2011-05-07T20:19:00.000-07:00

To the best mom I've ever had!

Love You Mom!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

2011-02-15T10:33:00.000-08:00

This year my super awesome friend took pictures of my girls for a Valentines project we did. They turned out so cute, that I had to post them!!! Tera wasn't too thrilled with having her picture taken, but after a little while she loosened up and we got a few cute ones!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day to my favorite girls!!!

Light Bulb!!!

2011-02-07T14:40:00.000-08:00

My boredom has gotten the best of me, I am actually sitting down to blog. I should be doing the billion other things I have planned for this week.... But I'm not.

Zach is gone, agan... This week he is in Phoenix, Casa Grande and then on to a rodeo in California!!!! Yeehaw!!!

Today, we watched our little Emmaree, took Valentine's pictures, (courtesy of my awesome friend, Kristal Mulder!!!), Brigette had preschool, tomorrow we have more preschool plus dance, the rest of the week we are playing Stampin Up, putting in to go hunting, Brigette has tumbling and I have mutual... Nothing to exciting, hopefully, enough to keep us from going crazy while we wait for next weekend to roll around, and Zach to make it home.... hopefully.

"Tera"ble 2's!!!

2011-02-02T13:29:00.000-08:00

This year Tera turned 2!!! She is getting soo big, WAY too fast!!! I tease and say she is "Terrible", but she is so sweet!!! She loves to give tight squeezes and kisses. Loves to be rocked and LOVES to take care of her babies!!! When I asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said "CUPCAKES!" So with a little help from Brigette, we made her cupcakes!!!! She was sooo excited!!!!
She loved opening presents!!! A new My Little Pony, Rainbow Dancer, from Uncle Blaine, Aunt Amy and cousin Logan!!!

A dress up outfit!!!!

Complete with purse, wand, necklace, shoes, skirt, ring... (am I forgetting anything??)
Brigette loved helping Tera open her presents!!! That's what big sisters are for, right?!

She got a doll for Christmas, and for her birthday she got a snowboarding outfit for her doll!!!

Tera is so cute and sweet!!! She is getting sillier every day. She loves to do whatever Brigette is doing!!! She loves to help. She is great at cleaning up. She sings all the time. She will give you hugs and kisses. She has been going on the potty like a big girl!!!! She loves to eat the cherries out of my drinks from Sonic. And she is making everyday fun just by being herself!!!!

We love our little Tera!!!!

Finally Christmas...

2011-01-31T12:39:00.000-08:00

I know, its been way to long since I have posted on my lame and super boring blog!!! But, since Zach is gone (again...) I guess I will post Christmas, Then maybe I will post Tera's Birthday, since it is almost February.... I'm such a slacker. I was pretty excited because in December I called Qwest to get our Internet hooked up... it still isn't hooked up... It will require 1 thing. A trench dug, which requires my husband who is currently almost always MIA, to dig the trench. I'm putting my foot down and refusing to dig the trench (also, my elbow, refuses to let me dig. Which is why it will soon be replaced the beginning of March). Anyways, back to Christmas.... We had a great time!!! We got to see all of my family and all of Zach's!!! Brigette and Tera scored a new play set, complete with, slide, swings, teeter-totter, monkey bars, picnic table, sand box, two story play house, crows nest, and unlimited friends who like to come and play!!!! They also got some great gifts from Santa, grandpa's and grandma's, aunt's, uncle's and cousin's and were completely spoiled rotten.

Speaking of rotten, Tera has decided she can talk, and has become, not soo rotten anymore!!! Which is wonderful!!!! Her favorite thing to say is Uncle Beau, (I'm not too sure why). But she also loves to tell me "no" and "I be right back".
Here is Brigette looking through the telescope from the crows nest. Brigette loves that she has a playhouse, and has decided that she needs to decorate the inside. She is pretty silly like that!!!

(Tera's cute little bum)

These girls are so flippin cute and so much fun, that I keep telling Zach we need to have another one.... So far, its not happening. Most likely because someone would have to live in the playhouse, which is almost as big as our ridiculous house.

These little girls are best friends. They got matching babies for Christmas. They love to push them in the strollers, and fight over who's baby belongs to who.

I could't resist putting these little Butler grandbabies on here. They are in Pop's new camping chair. It was a fight to try to get them to all sit still and look at the camera.

They won the fight! Jack is even throwing some awesome punches in this one!!!

And my sweet Zachary Ray!!! He spoils all of us every year!!!! I am so thankful for him and the great husband and daddy he is!!!

Merry (late) Christmas!!!!

Love,

The Butler's

Las Vegas!!!!

2010-12-09T01:50:00.000-08:00

A couple weeks ago Zach had a long weekend off of work, so we loaded up the girls and headed to Vegas!!! As soon as we got there we took the girls to Mandalay Bay to Shark Reef. I have taken Brigette before, but Zach and Tera had never been. Brigette and I loved it just as much as the first time and Zach and Tera loved it also!!! Tera was a little leary at different times, could have been the huge windows that beveled out towards the water, or fish, maybe the alligator, sharks, sting rays, jelly fish and ginormous octopus?? We walked through it trying to take pictures with Zach's Nikon, finally at the very end, I snapped some with my blackberry and they turned out better!!! So we ran back and took a few more with the phones. Here are a few... Pihrana's

blurry girls

Saw Fish

Brigette in front of Ceasar's Palace and the fountains

With the Coke Bear, Tera would have nothing to do with him!!!

Blurry Tera and some Jellyfish

Duece Bigalow Fish (ok, Tiger Fish!)

Yup- I'm the only one that touched that huge sting ray!!! I'm awesome like that!!! ;)

Brigette petting the sting rays

Poor Tera's arms were a little too short!!! I thought she was going to fall in a few times!!!

The huge red octopus

It was Brigette's favorite!!!

Tera and the albino alligator

We had such a fun trip. We took the girls all over!!! Brigette loved the "Castle" (Excalibur). And she was dying to go on the roller coaster at New York, New York and to try the rides at the Stratosphere!!! She is my little dare devil, it took much talking, coaxing and convincing her that she is just a "little" too short to ride them!!! Because she is not too small!!! I think Tera's favorite thing were the mini doughnuts daddy gave ger for breakfast!!!. Brigette loved the "Eiffel Tower" and I LOVED the jacuzzi tub in our room!!! We can't wait to go back and do it again!!!! Hopefully before I get my new titanium elbow...

Its about time!!!!

2010-12-08T12:56:00.002-08:00

Its taken me forever to finally sit down and update, but here are the pictures from Halloween!!! My little Ladybug (Tera) and my beautiful Buzzlebee (Brigette) were just so stinkin cute!!!! Tera wasn't sure at first if she was up for this whole Trick-or-treat thing, but after she realized people were giving her candy, she was all for it!!! In fact, she wore the little ladybug jacket around for a week or two after Halloween (I'm sure she was hoping for more candy!!!) Here they are... my "wonderful" pictures from a great weekend of trunk-or-treat, carnivals, trick-or-treat and sugar crashes!!!!

Best Dad Ever!!!!

2010-10-22T12:41:00.000-07:00

I just couldn't pass up the chance to tell everyone it my dad's birthday!!!! He is such a great guy!!!! And the BEST dad any girl could ever have (or boy!!!). He really is the best and I love him soo much!!! I love living so close to him and my mom!!! Its sooo nice to watch my little girls get super excited to see their Papa!!!! This picture is from Wednesday. I went out and rounded up the horses for him and then we took Buddy over to Bishop Palmer's!!! But really, how cute is he!!!! I just love this man!!!!Also, I decided to show you how much Tera has been loving to dress herself. She also will allow NO help from anyone!!!! It gets quite frustrating!!!!
Just so you know, we don't let her go out like this....

Now I have to go, because Tera is making people cry......again :(

In Case You Were Wondering.....

2010-10-15T16:53:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm still alive!!!

No I haven't figured out how to post a blog from my phone, I'm still trying though...

It's getting closer to the Holidays, which means more time spent working on Holiday projects. Which also means less time paying attention to Tera.... UH-OH!!!! Yup, she is into EVERYTHING!!!!! And she is rotten, right down to the core.... Zach says he thinks she got the worst of both of us, sorry to say, I think he might be right. We still LOVE her to pieces, but I am pretty sure the next hurricane will be named after her. Since I can't find my pictures of Tera, terrorizing the house, ok, neighborhood.... alright, the TOWN, you will just have to wait for another day. (I always take pictures with my phone, and I hate putting them on blogger for the fact that they are soooo small.) But I will show you soon...

Whats new with us is pretty much nothing. Well, we did get the girls a puppy. A little blue Queensland Heeler. Brigette (with a little help from Aunt Gessa or was it Aunt Ash???) named him Rex. Tera loves to squeeze him around the neck, poor guy.

Zach has been working in Holbrook!!!! It has been so nice!!!! Home everyday by 3!!!!!! HAPPY DAY!!!!! He even got to go work in Bellemont last week when the tornado's went through!!!! Then it was off to Phoenix for Rodeo practice and tomorrow is the National Lineman's Rodeo in Kansas City!!!! He says there are sooo many lineman there he is kind of intimidated!!!! When he gets home he will most likely be working in Payson until the end of the year... poor me, no more husband home every night :(

I'm devastated....

Of course I can't forget to tell you about Brigette!!!! She is a pretty great little girl!!! I think Heavenly Father must love me for sending her to me!!! She can write her whole name, all by herself!!!! She loves to help, she plays with Rex and Pickles everyday, and helps me take care of Tera. We have lots of fun together, and I love spending my days with her!!!!

That's about it!!!!

Now quite bugging me about blogging!!!!!!! (ashley)

"Ping"

2010-09-27T16:05:00.000-07:00

Today we canned peaches!!!! "We" meaning my mommy dearest and I!!!! Last week my mom ordered a box of peaches. We went to Walmart, picked up 2 boxes of jars, lids and rings. And this morning we canned!!!! We ended up canning 12 pints of jam and 7 quarts of pie filling!!! We did sample the goods, and oh yes, they are good!!!!

My dad and Tera even helped out some!!! My dad helped cut the peaches and Tera helped eat the peaches!!! I had to finally kick her out of the kitchen because she had eaten her fair share of them!!!! You would completely understand if you had been here for the 2 very ripe and runny diapers.... yuck!!!!

I have to say, I am soo very proud!!! I have now canned butter, beans and peaches!!! I am hoping to broaden my canning knowledge and soon try pumpkin... maybe not too soon!

I had so much fun spending the day with my mom, even though we were pretty sure our feet were never going to un-stick from the floor!!!!

I also took it upon myself to write on the lids while my mom was scrubbing the stove!!! I thought I was doing wonderfully until I was writing on the very last jar....

Whoops!!!! Maybe next time I should scrub the stove! ;)

The Dentist

2010-09-27T15:40:00.000-07:00

Last week, I took Brigette to the dentist for her very first time!!! (I know, she is 4, and I am a slacker!!!) She was sooo awesome!!! She sat and watched cartoons while I got my teeth cleaned. Then she bravely took her seat and let Sister Palmer (who happens to be Bishop Palmer's wife, and one of Brigette's primary teachers) clean her teeth!!!!

I couldn't believe how great she was!!!! She sat there and was so good!!! She did everything Vicki asked her and only cried just for a minute at the very end!!!!

She had NO cavities and was so good that she got a new toothbrush with Disney Princesses on it, plus new toothpaste and 2 toys!!!!

I'm so proud of this little girl!!! She is such a great kid!!! I just am not sure anyone could have a better little girl!!!!

What a CrAzY Week it was....

2010-09-08T15:45:00.000-07:00

I have been wanting to post but have been to lazy to upload my pictures!!! So I will just tell what a crazy week we had!!! On the 28 we went to Show Low for a surprise party f0r Zach's mom. It was her 50th!!! We had known about it for a couple of months, so after Zach got off work we headed up to Linden for a great night with Zach's family!!!

The following Tuesday my mom, the girls and I headed to Phoenix. I had an appointment with Dr. Beth Purdy for my elbow. After some strength tests (which were very disappointing), some cracking of the elbow, and some x-rays, Dr. Purdy and I talked for a while and things look pretty good!!! As of now I am keeping my elbow, but do have to go back the end of November to have some more x-rays. We have to keep an eye on it, making sure it really isn't dying.

After the appointment we headed to Tucson to stay the night at Sam and Ashley's. We actually ended up staying 2 nights, but we had so much fun shopping, hanging out, working on the family history and eating Ashley's yummy cooking!!! Thursday morning we headed out and didn't get home until after 4 o'clock!!! We did have a little detour to stop and have lunch with Aunt Nanny (aka Diana) and Brittney at On the Border!!! Mmmm....

Friday I had an interview with the High School Principal, who used to be my HS government teacher, for a job to sub!!! I have to say I ROCKED that interview and will now be subbing part time, OK, I'm sure it did help a lot that he knows me!!! ;) I also ended up making 35 HS reunion invites for my friend that day!!

On Saturday, bright and early we loaded the girls up after some last minute card making, and headed to Prescott for a baptism. It was one of the most wonderful baptisms I have been to in a long time!!! The spirit was wonderful and I was very happy that we got to be there with Kohl and his family!!! We did a little shopping, had lunch at headed back to JC!!! We had to make a couple stops and didn't get home until after 8!!!!

Sunday morning we got up early again and headed out to Vernon to spend the day with Zach's family out in the woods. We had soo much fun visiting, riding the dirt bike, golfing and batting!!! Although all the swinging did leave quite a sore elbow!!! We headed home, got there around 8 and went to bed!!!!

Sorry, this is pretty long, but like I said, it was a crazy week!!! Tomorrow I am heading to Flagstaff with Jessica. She has some doctor appointments that will take all day loooong!!!! So we get to spend a sisters day together!!! Hopefully with a camping trip this weekend, my week next week wont be as busy!!! :D

A New "Do"

2010-08-26T17:38:00.001-07:00

On Monday Brigette got her first "real" haircut! She has had her hair trimmed before but not ever really cut! It was starting to look pretty scraggly!!! So, I took her to the best beautician ever- my mom!!! Brigette was so excited!!! My mom worked her magic and here is my super cute Brigette with her adorable new hair-do, that she absolutely LOVES!!!!

Thanks mom!!!

Family Picture Time!!!!

2010-08-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago a good friend of mine took family pictures for us!!! She is so awesome, and I absolutely love how our pictures turned out! Unfortunately, blogger is not letting me upload any more of the pictures!!! So, I may have to show the pictures in more than 1 post! You can also scroll down and check out the 3 pictures at the bottom of my blog!!! So for your viewing pleasure...

Brigette Grace & Tera Michelle

Thanks a ton Kristal!!! You are awesome!!!!

I'm so glad...

2010-08-22T17:54:00.001-07:00

...when Ashree comes home!!!!!!

Besties :D

2010-08-12T18:12:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to Winslow. Mom, me, Brigette, Tera, Jessica, Mason and Emmy. I got to sit by Tera and Emmy. They are best friends, they love each other and they like to hold hands... Just look at how cute those girls are!!!!!!!!

Tucson

2010-08-09T11:20:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, the girls and I decided to go on a road trip to visit Aunt Ash and Uncle Sam!!! I hadn't been to Tucson in about 7 years, so I was kind of nervous about heading all the way down there with just me and the girls. But we loaded up the Tahoe and hit the road!!! We stayed for 2 nights and we had sooo much fun!!! We did a little shopping, went to the movies and saw Despicable Me. Tera cried and screamed through almost all of it!!! What I did see was very cute and funny!!!! We also did some swimming, went to the pet store and ate some yummy food!!!Here is Tera checking out some puppies at the pet store! She absolutely loved them, and I can't wait to get the girls a dog of their own!!!

Brigette and Tera had a super fun time in the swimming pool at Uncle Sam and Aunt Ashley's apartment. We only got to go swimming once because it decided to be smarmy and rainy the rest of the time we were there!!! That's okay though, since as soon as we got home they got to do another session of swim lessons!!! Tera is convinced she can swim now!!!! Yikes!!!

After floating around the pool in her purple hippo, Tera decided to get out, check out the deck, try out some lawn chairs, fall in the hot tub and stompity stomp some ants!!!! She was pretty funny to watch!!!!

When it was time to go home I was surprised that Sam wasn't jumping with joy!!! After all, there was some milk spilled, messes made and a movie ticket stub dropped in one of his guitars... whoops!!!! I am happy though that they did say we could come back and visit again!!! I told Ash I would for sure come in November when the 1st half of the 7th Harry Potter comes out!!! We are planning on going to the midnight premiere*!!!!! I'm so excited I can hardly wait!!!!

*maybe I will wear a cape and take my wand..... ;D

Rodeo Time

2010-08-03T17:21:00.001-07:00

A few months ago Zach was asked by APS to participate in some Lineman Rodeos. He accepted gladly and has since then been to Salt Lake City, Utah, Portland, Oregon, and Montana (sorry, can't remember the name of the town!!!) These are a few pictures from Portland. He has done pretty good. In Utah he took 3rd in the written test!!!

He has been practicing a little so that he will be able to speed climb with a raw egg in his mouth and a few other kind of crazy things!!!

He is hoping to be asked to go to Nationals in Kansas City, but isn't sure he will make it. Evidentally Montana didn't add some of his score in and he doesn't have the paper work anymore to send them his times!!!

Overall, I think he has had a lot of fun and has learned a lot also!!!

Good Job, Zach!!!

Ooh~la~la Darling!!!!

2010-08-03T15:30:00.000-07:00

On July 30th my Brigette Grace turned 4 years old!!!! I just can't believe that my little 8lb 8oz baby girl is 4!!!!

For months Brigette has been telling my that she wanted a "Fancy Nancy" birthday party. So I looked all over the Internet and finally found a few things that would work! This cake pan is from her 1st birthday, its a Princess Crown, it fit perfect for Fancy Nancy, so we used it!!! This is pretty much the first cake I have ever decorated, and I was pretty happy with how it turned out!!! While I was curling Briggie's hair we kept hearing thunder. I could tell she was getting a little nervous, so I suggested she ask Heavenly Father to let it not rain until after her party!!! She did, and Heavenly Father kept the rain until the party was over!!!

This was right when people were showing up!!! Hayden and Tanner had been playing in the water, they were soaking wet and freezing but still wore their top hats and bow ties!!! Brigette was so excited!!! I should've got a close up of her in her tutu, gloves, pink feather boa, crown, wand and jewels!!! Everybody looked so cute and I am pretty sure they had lots of fun too!!!

We had a couple more people show up, but I never had a chance to get more pictures!!!

(L-R; Emmaree, Mason, Laci, Elly, Tera, Tanner, and Hayden, Brigette is in back)

My dad was even sweet enough to wear a bowtie!!!

Brigette opening presents!!

I didn't get a picture of her blowing out the candles, it was pretty windy and she blew them out as soon as they were all lit!!! We got her another trampoline since her last one flew away!!! She also got a pillow pet, work books, a microphone, t-shirts and paint and lots of other fun stuff!!!!

Happy Birthday Brigette!!!!

We love you!!!

Branding Time!

2010-07-09T16:37:00.000-07:00

Last Monday we did what we usually do every Memorial Day weekend. We branded cows!!! We drug the girls out of bed, Tera still in her pajama-lama-ding-dongs, and off we went!!!!Tera soon decided she was in charge of handing Uncle Brad the ear tags, and took her job very seriously!!! New tradition- barefooted... Notice her shoes sitting next to her, she refused to put them on her feet until we were done branding!!!

Here is my super cute daddy, he is the boss- the man in charge!!!!

Brigette remembered branding from years before. She informed us that it stinks and sat here for the branding...

Tera on the other hand LOVED it!!! Here she is with an ear tag.

She would refuse to give it to me until I showed her I was going to put the tag on it. Then would take it back as fast as she could.

Here are some of the crazy kiddos- we should've branded them... ;)

Jacob, Matthew, Michael and Brigette, and Joseph's feet.

We had one last steer to brand... Poor guy got it the old fashioned way, which was fun for the little kids to see. I must say it was a first for me to see anyone gagging over the branding (Zach).

We had a great time!!! I love my family our traditions and everything about this little farm!!!

Can't wait til next year!!!

p.s. I have some super cute pictures of my dad and Tera petting our newest calf, hopefully blogger will decide to download them soon!!!

God Bless America!!!

2010-07-05T10:16:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday we celebrated Independence Day!!! The Tubbs boys, and Emmaree, were going to be in the bike parade, that meant Brigette had to be in it also!!! So last minute we found something to decorate her bike with, put her tutu on her and went to the parade!!! Here is Mason zooming past Hansen's garage!
Here she is!!! My friend said her little girl saw Brigette and started yelling "Mommy, look at that princess on her bike!" She really is a princess!!! They were riding so fast I barely got any pictures!!!

For some reason, I have rotated and rotated this picture and it still refuses to post right, so here is Brigette on her "decorated" bike.

I tried to snap a couple pictures of the girls before we left. Tera was too interested in other things.

Brigette loves to pose though!!!

We had a great day!!! Brigette played on the water slide at the park for hours!!! Tera crashed before we got home, and I had fun chatting with friends!!! I love my country and am sooo proud to be an American!!!!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Complete Randomness....

2010-06-24T16:59:00.001-07:00

Well, we haven't been up to too much craziness lately. Tera keeps me busy, Brigette is still my little helper and Zach is still in Williams and home sometimes! Here are some random pictures from the last couple of weeks... Ash bought this horse for the grand kids 2 Christmases ago. Tera loves to ride it. This time, after finishing riding, she dismounted, knocked the horse over, layed on top of it and screamed.

My two little princesses taking a nap together.

Princess Brigette helping Tanner and Hayden hoe weeds.

Zach participated in a Lineman's Rodeo in Salt Lake. He did well and out of around 200 apprentices took 3rd in the written test. He has decided he is going to actually practice for the one that is coming up in Portland. He brought the girls some shirts...

"My daddy is a lineman"

Brigette could wear this dress everyday, all day.

Brigette can also sleep in the most random places, good thing I strapped her in...

Waiting to go...

Sunday afternoon.

I bribed Brigette that if she stayed home from Preschool another year I would buy her a bike, here it is!!! She loves it!!! Hopefully she will still love it when I keep her home!!!

Just a few happenings lately. Ashley got married in the Gila Valley Temple last week, it was beautiful!!! I will try and find some pics and post about it!!! For some reason I seemed to be the one always holding the dress and not getting any pictures!!! That's all right!!! Anything for Ash!!! I think that I also missed posting pictures from Tera's birthday back in January!!!! Now that she is almost 18 months she goes to nursery!!! But I will try to throw some in, and whatever else I can find!!!!

Monkey Bars & Slides

2010-06-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

We have been so darn busy lately it seems like all we do is run around, ride in the car and wedding stuff!!!! My girls have been so wonderful!!! Brigette has been so excited for summer to get here so she can go to the library, eat at the cafeteria, go to swim lessons and play at the playground!!! So last Monday night I took them to go play. Tera's favorite part were the slides. She loves to stand at the top of them until she starts sliding, then proceeds to fall on her butt, whack her head and then shoots off the end. Every time she would go down a slide she would do this, and laugh that super sweet belly laugh!!! I LOVED it!!!! And so did she!!!

Yes the pictures are blurry. I would have to make sure Tera got up to the slide safely, started down, run to the end and try to snap a picture with my phone, then catch her before she flew off the end!

Her favorite one, notice its taller than Zach...

Screaming with delight!

Brigette seems to amaze me more everyday. She is sooo sweet, an awesome helper, my best little friend and we have so much fun together. She tells me everyday over and over, "Mommy, I love you!" I love her too!!! I wasn't really paying to much attention to her when we got to the playground since I was a little nervous about monkey Tera. Brigette kept talking to me about the monkey bars. I just kind of nodded my head and kept watching Tera. When all of a sudden I realized Brigette was crossing the monkey bars ALL BY HERSELF!!!!! Holy cow!!!! She isn't even 4 yet!!! I was sooo impressed that I had to snap a few pictures of her doing it!!! She even did the little ones that are on chains and swing when you hang on them!!!! She is so awesome!!!!

We had so much fun that we went again Wednesday night. I love my little girls soooo much!!! They make everyday wonderful!!!

Messiest Baby Ever...

2010-06-03T13:13:00.000-07:00

Ashley informed me that Tera is the messiest baby ever... Sometimes I think she might be!!!

She loves to help her self to any ones food, even the cats. She loves to color on her legs with pens and markers. She loves to pull out her pretties so her hair is a little crazier. She loves to sit in the dirt and cover her head and legs with it. And she loves to stick her finger up her nose. Gross...
She is still very cute.
But she is pretty much...

Totally and Completely the Messiest EVER!!!!

but we will keep her...

Just for the record...

2010-05-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

I am able to:

1: Put my hair in a ponytail- YES!

2:Do a pushup- no :( not even a girly one...

3: Reach the handlebars on my bike-I don't know!!! I haven't tried yet for fear of failure!!! I cannot straighten my arm or bend it as far as it should go :(

After 3, yes just 3 sessions, I had gone 33 degrees!!! With now only 14 left to go, this is the hard part. I really don't mind physical therapy too much. Its not too bad laying on a table being tortured and shocked!!! In fact the first physical therapist I had, Mo, she left to Haiti for a week then to Oregon for the summer. So I now have Maggie. Maggie informed me Mo had told her to be as rough as she wanted with me because I would lay there and take it and not complain...

I've been thinking of complaining more!!! ;)

Also, as of my last Dr. appointment my radial head is still alive and looking good!!! Which means so far I do not need a new elbow!!! I go back in a couple of weeks and they will x-ray it again.

Lovin Small Town Livin...

2010-05-05T13:08:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post what has been happening around good ol' Joseph City the last couple of weekends. I absolutely LOVE that I get to live so close to my family. My dad came over last Saturday and spread some rocks for us while Zach worked on the deck. Of course the girls had to go for a ride with their Papa on his new tractor!!! The Saturday before I spent the day with my dad helping out on the farm. He called that morning and asked if I wanted to help, of course I did!!! I love spending time with him and love that my girls are now experiencing some of the same things I got to when I was growing up. Here is a picture of the garden.
We planted corn, cucumbers, japs, casabas, watermelons, cantaloupe, onions, squash, zucchini and I can't remember what else!!! Brigette was a great help following behind and covering up the seeds, then helping put the cups on top!!! Tera was a wonderful little girl and wandered around while my little cousin Christina chased her.

Here is my dad working in his new tractor...

I think its his new favorite toy!!! Good news, right after I took this picture I was invited to drive the tractor!!! Which I of course took advantage of!!! And I was the first to drive it after my dad!!!

This is a picture of the tractor when they delivered it to my house, it was super windy and the freeway got shut down, but she still got here!!!

Here is another picture of my dad. I wonder if he realized how many pictures I was taking and not working!!! We are in the alfalfa field trying to get the furrows right so the field will water better. If you look closely Brad is way up there on the left in a white shirt...

I spent pretty much the whole day with my dad working on the farm. I'm really excited to be here and to be able to help my dad again. When I lived at home a lot of my time was spent with my dad, either farming or fighting fires!!! I was so happy all day Saturday working with my dad and somewhat reliving my past!!! I also remembered why I was so thin!!! Working hard all day and not making much time for eating!!! I remember all the days I spent "helping" my dad hauling hay, branding cows, irrigating, planting, plowing, and whatever else needed to be done!!! I love my dad soo much, I love working and spending time with him, and I am so thankful I get to see him almost everyday and that my little girls are getting to grow up knowing the wonderful man he is!!!

Love you so much dad, can't wait for our next day of farming!!!

Here's some more

2010-04-23T16:20:00.000-07:00

So here are the promised, much anticipated pictures of my arm. I know, your so excited you can hardly stand it!!! So my big pink cast...knuckles to almost my armpit!!! Yes, many thanks to Sam for pointing out my "muffin top" arm. In my best defense, it was really tight!!!

Now on to the good ones, my scars!!!
Notice where the two pins were at and the nice incision where they cut me open!!!

Good news is physical therapy seems to being going good. If you like laying on a table while someone tortures and shocks you, good! Anyways, I have 3 major goals:

1. Reach the handle bars on my beautiful, green Gary Fischer (bicycle)

2. Do a push up (OK, a girly one)

3. Put my hair in a ponytail!!!

Next Wednesday I go to Show Low to see my ortho doc. Hopefully I am lucky and they will tell me my x-rays look wonderful and I will not be in need of a titanium elbow. If I do have to get a new elbow, I think I'm going to hold out for one from a cadaver!!!

I'm still here...

2010-04-22T10:03:00.001-07:00

just nothing to new or super exciting!!! I did get my cast off- so check back soon!!! I'll post the pics!!!

She is just so smart!

2010-04-10T10:20:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Tera wanted to go outside really bad. But she knows that she has to have shoes, and usually a jacket on. I didn't really want her to go outside, I wanted her to take a nap!! I was sitting on the couch by Jessica, with Tera and Emmy playing on the floor by us when I noticed both girls were missing a shoe, both had a shoe on the right foot, but I was holding a right footed shoe. Then I remembered that I had taken BOTH of Tera's shoes off. I picked her and noticed:

SHE HAD PUT HER OWN SHOE ON!!!

How cute is that?!

She really is so smart!!!

She's a child prodigy!

2010-04-06T17:04:00.000-07:00

This is Tera's new favorite thing to do. She gets Zach's harmonica and will play it forever!!! It totally cracks me up!!! Ash took this video when we were on our way to Holbrook the other night for girls dinner while the boys were at priesthood!!!

I HATE MONDAYS....

2010-04-06T10:35:00.000-07:00

Well not every Monday, just yesterday.

Of course, I didn't get my nasty cast off.

Dr. Walker, told me to make an appointment with the physical therapist for next week.

He says he will "for sure" be taking my cast off on the 14th.

I'm trying to believe him...

I mean, you can't do PT with a cast on...

right??

So, on Wednesday, the 14th at 9:40 am I will again be patiently awaiting my fate...

please pray for me ;)

Monday

2010-04-03T11:51:00.000-07:00

I'm sooo excited for Monday, I can hardly contain my excitement!!!!

at precisely 9:45 am I will be waiting (probably impatiently) for Dr Fergalicious to take OFF

my cast!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait!!!!!

Hopefully, they won't put another one on...

p.s. My Dr's name is Ferguson, he really isn't Fergalicious!!!

So I was thinking...

2010-03-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

that I have been a horrible blogger lately! Here are some excuses I have come up with...

no Internet at my casa, I love to blog in the am, but with no Internet, I have to go somewhere to do it, ugh...

my shattered/ pinned back together elbow makes it difficult to do everyday ordinary things, heck I just paid Jessica in Stampin Up supplies to change Tera's diaper!!!

I also feel lazy, could be the Loritabs or the nights with hardly any sleep??

Another possibility is that nothing super exciting has been happening lately!!!

Although these all seem like good reasons, and I have justified them to myself, I think it all boils down to...

gulp...

laziness...

yup you read me right, feeling pretty lazy, so with that, I have decided to become a better blogger, with better pictures and more stories!!!!

Also, in one week from today, I will hopefully get this dang cast (that goes from my knuckles to my armpit) off!!!(which leads to easier typing!!!)

Yay...

lets pray it happens!!!!

Here it is...

2010-03-17T09:24:00.000-07:00

I know...

GrOsS!!!!!

One day...

2010-03-10T11:37:00.000-08:00

One day...

when Zach sends me pics, I'll show you my wounds.

One day...

when my arm heals I will be able to change diapers.

One day...

I will be able to fix my own hair again.

One day...

I'll be able to fix Brigette and Tera's hair again.

One day...

I will be able to type with two hands again.

One day...

I will be able to stamp and scrap again.

One day...

I look forward to one day...

I hope it comes sooner than later...

I'm so crushed!!!

2010-02-20T18:38:00.000-08:00

Friday the 12th, Zach decided we would go snowboarding for Valentines Day!!! I was sooo excited!!!! We got ready, dropped off the girls at Nana and Pops and headed to Sunrise!!!I wasn't feeling to great but I wasn't going to let an upset stomach ruin our day!!! Our second run down the mountain I crashed, which isn't unusual for me, but this time it hurt!!!! Zach rode up, I told him I was OK and that I could shake it off, well I couldn't, I couldn't even move it!!! Zach took off my board and carried everything the mere 100 yards to the lodge, while I carried my arm. Well he took me to his cousins chiropractic office where Chris x-rayed it and confirmed it was broken. Chris then sent us to the Blue Ridge Walk-In clinic to have it casted. Well after 2 shots of pain killer and 4 more x-rays, the good doctor informed me he was sending me to an orthopedic surgeon!!! I told Zach I thought he was pulling my leg!!! Zach said he thinks doctors don't do that very much!!! After another doctor visit, more x-rays and a ct scan, I now know I HAVE to have surgery, its just a matter of if they can pin it back together, or if I get a new elbow!!! Monday, hopefully, I find out whats happening!!! This is a picture of me elbow last night. Tera was sooo excited I didn't have a huge splint and sling on anymore!!! She even helped Zach rub lotion on my arm!!! Then she started crying when Zach started wrapping it back up!!! There is a pretty awesome dent where my elbow should be, I think it kind of grossed Zach out!!! Well anyways, hopefully in a couple months I can be typing with both hands, change Tera's diapers, bathe and dress myself, open lids, take care of my own kids and myself and not have to hear my parents fight over changing the poopy diaper instead of putting my hair in a pony tail!!! Thanks Dad, Mom, Brigette, Tera, Mark, Mitzi, Jessica, Tiffany, Alicia, Cat, Levi, Macy, Jackie, Diana, Gina, Aunt Janet and everyone else I forgot, for all your help!!! And of course, thanks Zach, I love you (Mr. Mom!!) xoxxo!!!

She's so tough!!!

2010-02-05T16:16:00.001-08:00

Lately I have been bustin my butt to Jillian Michael's workouts. I have also been making Zach try them!!! Brigette has also decided that she can do them. Check out her form for push ups!!!
Cock your head to the side and check out Brigette's weights, aka: water bottles!!! She is so darn cute!!!

I hope its not broken

2010-02-02T18:00:00.000-08:00

Last night Tera clunked out on the front steps. Poor thing, I came home to a happy baby with a bloody nose and blood on my carpet.The pictures aren't the best but she has a little bruise on the bridge of her nose, and it is a little swollen.
This morning it still had blood coming out of it, but from both nostrils, not just the left one. Well she got really tired of me trying to wipe it, so I took a picture instead!!!
My poor baby!!!

Let it Snow

2010-01-29T09:32:00.000-08:00

Tera discovered yesterday that...SHE LOVES SNOW!!!!!

Birthdays, Hugs and Messes

2010-01-26T15:12:00.000-08:00

As you know my little Tera turned 1!!! Yay!!! She thinks she is soo big!!! Little does she know, she is actually pretty little!!! Here is she attacking Emmaree... poor Emmaree!!!
Here she is showing off her piggy tails with Brigette being crazy in the back!!!
Since Tera LOVES to climb, we have to watch her a little more closely now. Brigette decided she was done with her mac n cheese so Tera climbed on up and finished off Brigette's plate!!!

Tera Loves stories too. We got her a little book for her birthday with the lift the flaps. She loves these!!! Evidentally she only loves Brigette's because she tore the flaps out of hers!!!

Here is Tera's birthday cake. It was chocolate, with chocolate frosting. Zach decorated it (its a princess crown, same cake pan I used when Brigette turned one!)

This is Tera and her baby doll she got for her birthday from Nana and Pops.

And here she is opening her present from the Tubbs, a toy phone!!!

I do have some pictures of her eating her cake and she got awesome presents from Aunt Amy and Uncle Blaine and Logan, also some super cute clothes made by Aunt Traci (Mills), (check her out on my side bar, Marcus and Traci, she is super talented!!!) Anyways, thanks so much, Tera LOVES all her presents!!!

Happy 1st Birthday!!!

2010-01-14T12:35:00.000-08:00

Today, my little Tera Michelle turns 1!! I just can't believe it and I'm not ready at all for either of my girls to grow up so darn fast!!! She came into our lives weighing 8lbs 4 ozs, and is now a crazy little 1 year old that loves to climb, bite, eat, play and laugh!!! She has had us all wrapped around her teeny tiny fingers since before she got here, and our lives are soo much better because she is part of our forever family!!! I cannot express my love for this little girl. She is so much fun to be around. I love being her mommy and absolutely LOVE being a part of her life every day!!!
Tera absolutely adores her daddy and big sister. She follows them both around begging for attention!!! She loves to have Zach read to her and will pester him all night for a book to be read again and again.

She also loves to be with Brigette and will try to do anything Brigette does, which sometimes isn't a very good thing!!! Brigette loves Tera too though and is very patient and loving with her. Brigette loves to play and watch out for her little sister.

Tera is growing up so fast!! She has been walking for probably a good 2 months!!! She can wave bye-bye, loves to give out kisses. Can sign "more" and "please." Loves to look at books, cuddle her baby dolls, and climb on everything!!!

We love Tera soooo much and we are so happy she chose to come to our family!!!

Happy 1st Birthday!!!

Part Vampire/ Part Monkey??

2010-01-13T10:06:00.000-08:00

The older Tera gets, the crazier she becomes!!! I told a friend yesterday that I feel like I am raising a child that is Part Vampire/Part Monkey!!! She totally cracks us up all the time and keeps me on my toes!!! A couple weeks ago we went to my awesome friend Kristal's house. I was actually trying to help her get ready to move in!! When I went to check on Tera, I found her somewhat like this... When I got there she was actually holding on with one hand and leaning as far back as she could, 8 second style...

(I'm pretty sure Emmaree was afraid she was going to fall on her!)
Beside teaching herself how to climb on the chairs then up onto the tables, or up the ladder to the bunk beds, or up the drawers or stairs, one of her other favorite things to do is bite, yes, bite. I think she is just getting back at Brigette for all the "wonderful" things Brigette does to her!!! Yesterday Brigette was crying that Tera bit her, sure enough, she did...

She also likes to bite my toes if I have no shoes on and am sitting on the couch!!

Just for the record, Brigette just came and told my mom to come look at Tera...

she was on top of the kitchen island drinking out of my moms cup...

Cowgirls

2010-01-12T08:55:00.000-08:00

Lately Brigette has been obsessed with being a "cowgirl". She wears her boots EVERYDAY! Is always telling me she needs to go help Papa on the farm, and loves to sing "Cowgirl don't cry." So of course she was in Heaven when Zach took her out to pet the horses! I'm pretty sure Tera loved it too, and will want to be a cowgirl just like her big sister!!

She is sooo cute!!!

2010-01-08T14:28:00.001-08:00

Jesus wants me...

2010-01-07T12:13:00.000-08:00

evidently to go CraZy!! OK- not really, he really wants me... to teach Sunbeams...

I know!!! I have done it before, but this time its different! You see not only are there 10 KIDS!!! But two of them are my nephews...

and one of them my Brigette.

That's right...

She LOVES Sunbeams, and is so excited to go every Sunday. My mom showed her the Sunbeam background and insisted that I put it on my blog. Last Sunday was her 1st Sunday as a Sunbeam, I should've taken a picture!!! I will this week, anyways...

overall their 1st Sunday went alright... I thought, only a few of them cried, and only 1 completely freaked out. Zach came in to help during sharing time. He told me if they ever put him in Jr. primary he was going to become inactive!! Brigette was really good, she only cried at the very end, she didn't get to finish coloring her picture. Ashley came in with Tera while Brigette was crying. I informed Ash why she was crying. She felt sad for her, until one of the little boys informed us:

"Look, I hardly even colored mine and I'm not crying!"

please pray for me... ;)

CraZy GiRls!

2010-01-04T14:54:00.001-08:00

OK OK OK!!! I know, the picture is sideways!!! Anyways, I am just to flippin lazy to go back and redo it!!! One of these days I will plug in my camera and upload pictures of Tera's first Christmas!!! But for now, you can all enjoy the craziness I get to live with everyday!!! Here is Brigette, she IS a Princess!!! And Tera, she HATES having her hair fixed!!!
So we laugh all the time about it!
I can't believe how many times a day I have to fix this girls hair because she pulls it out ALL THE TIME!!!

Brigette again, what can I say... She is a NUT!!!

(yes that is an empty icecream bucket she is sitting in)

Tera has decided she is big enough to run with the bigger kids. She has also decided she is big enough to jump on the mini tramp!!!

Another thing she thinks she is big enough for...

popcorn, and helping herself to it!!!

(with messy hair!!)

So much fun!!!

It's always a fight...

2009-12-20T18:56:00.000-08:00

over who gets to be held by Papa...

oH LittLe TowN of BetHleheM...

2009-12-14T06:49:00.000-08:00

A week or so ago we made Gingerbread houses, mini ones!!!
I put them together, then the kids decorated them.

Brigette did such a great job!!! Then she pestered me for ever to let her eat it!!

I told her not until I got a picture of her with it!!! After I took the picture, she bit the head off the GIANT snowman and ate the ledge off the roof, it has been sitting like that ever since!!!

What a goof!!!

My little Tera monster...

I have a Little People Nativity, its mine, but I let the kiddos play with it...

I set it up all nice and cute, then my little Tera gets to it, and it looks like Godzilla blew through Bethlehem. But how can you not let this little cutie play with it??!!

Jessica asked me yesterday how many times a day I set it up...

way too many...

Polar Express

2009-12-07T10:24:00.001-08:00

The night before Thanksgiving we went and rode Polar Express. Beau and Jessica and their kids went and so did Brad and Tiff and their boys. Beau and Jessica ended up on a different train car than us, but that's OK, we had a blast!!! Zach especially was excited for the big train ride... The pictures aren't in order but this one is of Tera when Santa brought her the bell, she was so excited...

Here is briggie with her bell, she had a blast!!!

Tera passed out after her sugar high from the hot cocoa and cookies

As did Brigette...

We really had so much fun!!! This was Brigette's second time riding the Polar Express, I don't think she remembered from the time before because after we left the North Pole she quickly fell asleep!!!

Tera especially loved the ride, she laughed and clapped and bounced all the way to the North Pole!!!

It is so fun getting to do stuff that your kids love. I love to watch them when they get to do something exciting and new.

I absolutely LOVE being a mom. I love being with my little girls, especially at Christmas time. Brigette is really excited about being a good girl so she can be on the nice list. She loves our "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree and asks me everyday if it is time to go to Nana's for Jesus' birthday!

Merry Christmas!!! I love you guys!!!

Stars

2009-12-01T10:35:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago Jessica informed us there was going to be a meteor shower. Later that night when we were leaving Jessica's to go to my parents I overheard Brigette telling Mason:

"See!! I can see the stars! They aren't taking a shower!"

She is so flippin funny!!

Also here is a little video of Tera walking that Ash took last week when she was here!

Girls

2009-11-24T14:33:00.000-08:00

Just wanted everyone to see the cutest girls ever!!!

Emmaree, Brigette and Tera

yes, Brigette's smile is a little crazy!!!

I just counted...

2009-11-22T13:02:00.000-08:00

Tera, my little go-getter, has decided that she needs to walk!!! So far the most I have counted is 7 steps... until today!!! She took 18 steps!!! Yay for Tera!!! She just turned 10 months on the 14th!!!

What a genius!!!

Dr. Butler

2009-11-16T08:41:00.000-08:00

Brigette is now taking appointments. All ages, no insurance needed!!!Aunt Gessa was kind enough to be Brigette's first patient.
Brigette looked in Aunt Gessa's throat.

She gave her a shot, in the neck, don't worry, it isn't painful!

She listened to her heartbeat. She also listened to her tummy, we were beginning to wonder if Jessica was expecting?!

(she isn't)

She also checked out her ears.

Aunt Gessa is doing great, no swine flu!!!

Contact me for appointments!!!

Fall Pictures

2009-11-05T13:03:00.001-08:00

A couple weekends ago we went to Show Low and stayed the night with Zach's family. Jackie and Macy were there and were awesome enough to take a ton of pictures of the girls for me. Here are just a few that Jackie just e-mailed me!!! Tera hanging onto my fingers

Playing with the leaves

This picture totally doesn't even look like Tera!!! Zach was tossing the girls in the air for pictures!!

I LOVE the look on Tera's face in this one!!! Scared or loving it?? Not sure!!!

Brigette being tossed in the air!!!

And this is Tera today. She is so proud of herself!!! Every time she stands up, Brigette makes me clap for her. So this is pretty much how she has spent her day today, crawling around then standing up and clapping for herself!! Pretty dang cute!!! Also she has cut another tooth!!! That makes three on bottom and two on top!!

So cute!!

Hopefully now I will get the pictures Macy took!!!

Little Bo Peep & Her Sheep

2009-11-02T12:47:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween!!! We had a great day!!! We started it out with Zach and I going to the Snowflake Temple with the Youth to do baptisms. We then went back to Show Low and picked up the girls from Zachs parents house. Brigette LOVED Halloween and Tera could care less. She hated her costume because she couldn't see when she crawled, her ears would fall over her eyes!!! Both of my girls looked adorable!!! Here they are getting ready to go Trick-or-Treating!!

Here is Brigette and Tera with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley aka Jacob and Matthew. First we hit up the carnival in town!! Then Jessica's kids, Tiff and her boys, and the girls and me went out on the town. After about 2 houses Tera had had enough and was ready for home. She spent pretty much the rest of the night with Zach at home. We had such a fun time and Brigette already has every ones costumes picked out for next year!!! We will see if she remembers!!!

Tera also decided that Halloween would be the perfect day to:

cut 2 teeth

take 2 steps, twice

and

learn how to stand up in the middle of a room all by herself!!!

She is so proud of herself!!!

Just a few more pics!!!

Little Bo Peep and Batman!!!

Sorry this is the only picture of Jessica's kids that I got!! Hayden was the ultimate Steelers fan, Tanner was a Steelers football player, Emmaree was a princess and Mason was obviously Batman!!!

Counting Calories

2009-11-01T08:44:00.000-08:00

Yes, another Brigette story!!

When we were in Flag on Wednesday, I was telling Jessica how much I LOVE V8 Splash Berry Blend. I also informed her that it only has 70 calories. Later when I ran into a store and Jessica stayed in the car with the kiddos, Jessica overheard Brigette telling Mason about her juice...

"Look, it only has 3 calories!!"

Dang she hears everything!!!

Story Time

2009-10-31T12:39:00.000-07:00

I'm not really sure how many times I have gone looking for Tera and found her in Briggie's room doing this... She always has a story book and a stuffed animal. She is looking at the book with the animal either on her lap or right next to her. I have been trying for a long time to sneak a picture of her "reading" to her animal.
I finally got one but she caught me!! Can you possibly get any cuter than that??!!

Thank You Jesus!!!

2009-10-29T20:17:00.000-07:00

(Is it appropriate to title my post that??) IDK, anyways!!! On Wednesday it snowed and we had to go to Flag for a doctor appointment for Tera, 9 months old!!! 18 pounds, 4 ounces, 28 1/4 inches!!! Anyways... onto what my title is about!!! We went to Flag, when we got home, the snow was melted and Brigette was devastated!!! She cried and cried. So I had a great idea!!! I thought, maybe I can teach her some faith!!! So I told her (while praying silently for some help) that maybe if she asked Jesus and Heavenly Father they would let it snow again. I also told her to remember that not everything you pray for you get the way you want (in simpler 3 year old terms), and that was the end of it. Until family prayer last night. It was Brigette's turn. I had completely forgot about the snow. Brigette likes to pray by herself. So after praying for the food she asked...

"please let there be snow for Jesus."

I was really trying not to giggle. I couldn't believe she remembered!

We went to bed, I woke up at 1am with Tera...

IT SNOWED!!!!!!!!

Can you believe it!! I told the Lord thank you for hearing my little girls prayers. When Brigette woke up I didn't tell her, I let her see for herself. While standing on the kitchen chair she yelled

"Yay!! It snowed again!! Thank you Jesus!!!!!"

I love my kids

Halloween FHE

2009-10-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

Tonight Zach got home early, and since Beau is still OTR we decided to carve pumpkins for our FHE this week, yes we are a little late, but we actually did have FHE on Monday too!!! Anyways... Zach is so darn talented he can draw, paint, carve, pretty much whatever you want!!! So the kids were pretty excited and were all very patient while Zach helped them all carve their pumpkins. Here he is with Hayden... Hayden and Tanner supervising

Brigete and Mason super excited about their Jack-o-lanterns!!

Brigette picked her pumpkin from the garden all by herself and Mason got his pumpkin from Nana!!!

(Yes I just realized the last two pictures are the same, but since Tera is asleep, I'm heading that way too!!!)

I'm a little nervous...

2009-10-26T07:45:00.000-07:00

A couple days ago we were sitting around watching TV when an army commercial came on. Brigette was watching with us. Zach and I weren't really paying any attention until Brigette yelled

"I want to do that!! That looks like fun!!" The commercial showed the back of an airplane opening up and a couple of Soldiers jumping out...

I think she is just as crazy and dare-devilish as her daddy...
I'm not too sure that's a good thing?!

(I was kinda wondering if she had actually seen what had happened, but later I overheard her talking to Mason about jumping out of an airplane)

A few of my Favorite things...

2009-10-24T15:18:00.000-07:00

My little Tera Michelle!!! What can I say about this girl!!! She is sooo much fun!!! I love her little laugh, her smile, her two little teeth, how she growls and of course how she says mama!!! She loves this little horse, and loves it when I make it "buck"!! Maybe she will be my little rodeo queen!!! Yes you have my permission to chew on those cheeks!!!
Of course my Briggie!! We LOVE living in Joseph City so close to family!!! Brigette loves riding her trike to Masons house, and is always willing to ride it back and forth if Jessica and I need to borrow something from each other!!! We recently have had to install a lock at the top of the front door to keep Brigette from sneaking out and riding to Aunt Gessa's!!!

Our good ole cowboy neighbor, Leroy, stopped me the other day as he was watching Brigette ride down the street and informed me, "this is why we live in Joseph City" I think he is right!!!

Almost Famous...

2009-10-22T16:17:00.000-07:00

So, for those of you out there that don't know how super beautiful my little sister is... check out her blog, under the post about signing autographs there is a link, go there, you will be amazed at how gorgeous she is!!!! I just have to brag (not like I have anything to do with her looks or what a super cool girl she is) but still, I have to brag!!!! She is so awesome!!!! I just love this girl!!! We have so much in common and have a blast every time we are together!!!! I miss her tons and seeing her gorgeous pics makes me want to cry!!! Anyways check out her blog www.mysporkthinksheisbatman.blogspot.com or my side bar- Ashley Lois and Roomies!!!!

Yes boys, she is single....

Butter

2009-10-15T15:26:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday I headed up to Show Low with Jessica and the 4 littlest kids. We were so stinkin excited, we had been waiting for this day for such a long time!!! We were going to can butter!!!! I know, how exciting!!!!! My awesome mom-in-law was soooo nice to show us what to do, and my awesome bro-in-law (Levi) even played with the kiddos while we slaved away in the kitchen!!! Mason was super excited and Mitzi soon was not just Brigette and Tera's 'Nanna' but also Masons!! She even gave him a pumpkin!!! Which he loves!!! Anyways, we had so much fun!!! We can't wait to learn how to do beans, applesauce, chicken, pumpkin, jam/jelly... ok, I know, you get it. Anyways, if you want to see some awesome pictures, jump on over to Jessica's blog to see what you missed out on!!!!

(its all right to be jealous, not everyone can have such an awesome mom-in-law!!!)

Saturday

2009-10-12T07:28:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to the Badlands with Beau and Jessica and their kids. We packed up a picnic and some guns, ammo and some awesome targets that Beau had welded that morning. Here is Tanner doing it "Annie Oakley" style
Zach helping Brigette while Mason stands back!!!

Masons turn with some help from Beau.

Brigette again, she sure can go through the rounds!!!!

Mason getting ready, Jessica, Brigette and Emmaree watching.

While Beau, Zach, Jessica, Hayden and I took our turns shooting, the kids played on the hills. Brigette is not scared of anything, I was kinda wondering how long it would take her to make it to the top, but Tanner was good and convincing her to not go to high up!!!

Brigette, Tanner and Mason

After we went shooting at the badlands we headed into town for the Harvest Festival which included balloon animals, face painting, games for the kids, caramel apples, cotton candy, some delicious BBQ and a bunch of other stuff!! We had such an awesome day, can't wait to do it again!!!

S.S. Stampin Up

2009-10-10T09:20:00.001-07:00

On Thursday I got a Stampin Up order in, Mason and Brigette were just as excited as I was for it. Except, I was excited for what was in the box, they were just excited for the box. Brigette has a little play cleaning set with a vacuum, mop, broom, etc. They used the mop and broom as oars...
And then blew out the back of the box!!!

What a couple of goofs!!!!

Also, Briggie and I got some Squtter Nut Bosches (aka: Butternut Squashes, thank you Tubbies)
from my Aunt from the family garden. We like to draw eyes and spooky mouths on them to make them look like ghosts. This squtter nut bosch is Brigette's wickedy ghost, and that is Brigette's wickedy ghost face, she did it all herself!!! I'm so proud ;)

He's HOT!!!

2009-10-09T16:25:00.001-07:00

That's right!! It's official!! As of today my Hubby is HOT!!! Ok, according to APS he is hot, basically meaning that yes, he can now do even more dangerous work!!! I am so freakin proud of him!!! He works so hard for the girls and me, and he loves us sooo much!! He loves what he does and is even more excited to be able to rubber glove and hot stick!!!

...and yes, I've always thought he was HOT!!!

Little Girl Feet

2009-10-06T09:23:00.000-07:00

Saturday Tiff took Brigette with her to the local Pizza Hangout in town to pick up dinner while the men were at Priesthood meetings. Tiffany later informed me of the conversation she and Brigette had. It goes as follows:

Tiff: "Brigette, your feet are bare!"

Brigette: "My feet aren't bear feet!! They are little girl feet!"

Tiff: "Not 'Bear' feet, you don't have any shoes on!!"

Aren't little kids great!!!

Phoenix, Cookies, and FHE

2009-09-23T17:44:00.000-07:00

A couple weeks ago, Briggie, Tera and I went down to Phoenix and stayed with Zach while he is going to 'Hot Stick School' We stayed at the Pointe Hilton at Squaw Peak. Brigette loves it!! It has a water slide, miniature golf, a little kid playground and tons of other stuff to do. While we were down there my parents had to go down for stuff with my dads job. So the girls, my mom and I met up with my Aunt Diana at Scottsdale Fashion Square for some hanging out. While there we went to Paradise Bakery for some awesome cookies. Aunt Nanny (aka Diana) made Tera's day by giving her a sugar cookie covered in blue sprinkles!!! She was very happy to show everyone her cookie!!! Isn't she so flippin cute!!!
Tera was very excited and loved showing me her cookie!!!

Here is Tera, we were hanging out at McDonald's while Brigette played on the play land.

On Monday we had FHE at the Tubbs. I prepped all the stuff for these super cute Frankenstein cards and the kids had a blast putting them together. And they all turned out so darn cute!! Here is Briggie and Mason showing off their cards!!!

Brigette with her card again

And last but not least we also dipped caramel apples!!! They were so yummy and the kids really had a blast doing them!!!

Happy Fall Ya'll!!!

MMMmmmm

2009-09-04T20:49:00.000-07:00

"I love carrots!"

Waiting...

2009-08-31T15:27:00.000-07:00

I'm still here, I've just been playing the waiting game. Our house was finally green tagged and we should have power tomorrow, yay. Tera learned how to crawl, but first she got two teeth and learned to pull her self up!! Brigette started preschool. For an adorable picture of her and Mason, check out my sister Jessica's blog. Other than that just stampin, cookin, pickin corn, eatin melons, and hanging out, and waiting for my pictures to upload onto the computer....

She left me...

2009-08-16T09:54:00.001-07:00

Ash left me... for Tawni, Thatcher, and EA... what a punk!!! In fact this morning I got up and first thing I thought was "Oh! I wonder if Ash wants to make crepes for breakfast" Then I remembered she was gone, and I almost cried again. She left Saturday morning with a horse trailer full of her stuff. I cried when she hugged me bye, and I'm about to cry again!! I even cried when she moved from Flag and I was still in Williams (maybe I will follow her to Thatcher!!J/K) Zach asked me why I cried. Well duh!!! She is one of my best friends!!! I tell her all the time that I love her more than Tawni does!!! I have grown so close to her over the past couple years and we just have so much in common and such an awesome time together!!! Friday night we were going to make popcorn and watch a movie, she makes the corn and I make the crazy!!! But instead we layed on my bed and talked and took crazy pictures of ourselves, something we have done a few times!!! Since I don't want Ash to forget all about me, here are our Totally Awesome pictures!!!!
She was wondering why my face was so close to her, little did she know, I was touching her with my feet!!! She hates feet!!!

We are like this...

We were laughing to hard to hold the phone still!!!

I like Ash's eyes in this pic, she is so crazy!!!

Well Ash, I love ya tons!!! And remember, if you don't like EA you can come home and rock NPC with me!!!

xoxxo

Oh what a beautiful morning...

2009-08-06T09:22:00.000-07:00

This morning I was sitting on the couch when all of the sudden I hear Brigette screaming!!! She was freaking out. So first thing I think of is SNAKE!!! I go running outside and Brigette is sitting on the front steps screaming and crying. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, then she pointed to her foot, this was on it...

Can you see it??? Look hard.... harder.... there it is, by the little plastic shovel. A corn worm. Yikes!!!

On another note, our wanna-be house arrived last week

The girls were so excited, can't you see how excited Tera is??!!

And last but not least, this morning Ash got Tera out of bed. Tera then decided she wanted a bath and proceeded to poop all over Ash, and herself!! Fun!!! Tera has also decided she really wants to crawl, here she is trying a new way, maybe she wont go backwards if she crawls like this???

3 Already??

2009-07-30T19:40:00.000-07:00

Today my little Brigette Grace turns 3 years old!!! I can't believe how fast time goes by. I love this little girl so much. I can't believe how blessed I am to have such a wonderful little girl. Brigette is such an awesome little girl. She is so smart and I find myself forgetting that she is only 3 and not 5!!! She can count to about 20 (some numbers getting mixed up), she knows her "ABCD's", she loves to sing songs, and help take care of her little sister. Her best friend is Mason, she loves staying with her Grammy and Papa, playing with her daddy and visiting her Pops and Nana. She also loves to go to Nursery, read "scripers" (scriptures) and say every prayer! For her birthday she got a trampoline and a tricycle, she loves to jump and pedal all over the place. It took me all morning to convince her that she is 3 now, and not 2 anymore!! On Saturday we are going to have a birthday party for her and my nephew Matthew.

Brigette was due on Aug. 9 2006. Dr. Tindall broke my water at 8am on Sunday, July 30th. After a dose of staydol and 2 epidurals, Brigette was born that evening weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces and 20 inches long. She was so sweet and precious and I cried when they handed her to me. There are no words to express my feelings when my sweet, precious little girl was handed to me. My favorite thing to do is take care of my little girls. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with such a wonderful life and family!!

Here is Brigette with my Grandma Nellie Bushman only a few days old.

This memory I hold very dear to my heart. This was the only time Zach's Grandma Jackie got to see Brigette. It was Aug. 2 and my parents drove us out to Vernon to see Grandma Jackie. This pictures is 4 generations, Grandma Jackie, Mark, Zach and Brigette.

And here is Brigette today. Aunt Gessa (aka Jessica), made Brigette lasagna for her birthday dinner and Aunt Tiffy made a birthday cake. Brigette has a nice bump and bruise on her forhead from a run-in with the front door. But she says she had a wonderful birthday. She kept telling Uncle Beau that she was the Birthday Girl and singing "Happy Birthday Briggie" to herself. Last week she had an awesome birthday party with Aunt Macy at Nana and Pops house, hopefully someone will send some of those pictures my way, it was so much fun!!!

Happy Birthday Brigette!!!

I Love You Forever and Ever!!!!

xoxxo

Here It Is...

2009-07-27T15:14:00.000-07:00

This summer Ash and I have been riding our bikes, well Ash has been riding Zach's but at least its getting some use!!! We decided at the beginning of the summer that by 4th of July weekend we wanted to ride to JackRabbit and back. What were we thinking!!! Well it really wasn't bad and probably a lot easier than our usual ride. The only thing that sucked was my camelback leaked on me the whole way back!!! Needless to say, my butt and back were soaked, and Ash's Ipod froze up on her, but it's ok, we jammed out to my MP3. So here are some pics to prove we actually did it! If you look, our bikes are under the sign!!!

Ash and the infamous "Here It Is" sign

Proof that I rode it too!!!

I've been patting my self on the back for weeks now, and its only 13 miles!!!

wow, I'm lame ;)

6 months

2009-07-15T19:02:00.001-07:00

Yesterday my little Tera Michelle turned 6 months old!!! Wow, where the heck did the time go? Today was her 6 month check up. She went from this little 8 lb 4 oz newborn...

to this little gal!!! 15lbs 14oz, 26inches long. 75% for head and height and 50% for weight. (Zach said she is tall and skinny like her mommy, suckup...;))

She loves to play with her toes, go swimming, talk, suck on her hand, sit up by herself, do push ups, try to scoot, hold her own bottle, chew on anything, eat her hands, grab Brigette's kitty- Daisy, laugh, growl, take her shoes off, take her hair bows off, take one bracelet off and put it on the other hand (I have no idea how she does this) and loves to be entertained and paid attention to by anyone who will stop and play with her!!! Tera has been such a great blessing to my little family. She is such a little sweetheart!! Brigette loves to play with her and sing to her. I am so grateful that my Heavenly Father loved me enough to send me this wonderful little girl!!!

Mommy Dearest

2009-07-13T18:25:00.000-07:00

Today my mommy dearest is in the valley having surgery (yuck) poor thing! I thought I would post a couple of pictures and let everyone know how much I love my mom and let you know how wonderful of a person she is!!! Every night Brigette climbs into bed with my mom and dad, they watch "Sprout" together then go to sleep. Every morning Brigette goes and climbs back in bed with my mom and they eat toast. Their favorite breakfast!!! Brigette has gotten really spoiled (almost rotten) by my dear mother. In fact when she is being naughty she always cries for my mom to save her!!! My mom has a beautiful voice, when I was little she always sang to us, like her mother sang to her, I love that!! When Brigette was born my mom wrote down her mothers songs into Brigettes baby book and Brigette sings them now to Tera. It is so sweet and it makes me cry. I love that I have such a wonderful mother. She is always buying me and my girls stuff (she even buys Zach stuff!!) she is always doing the kindest things for me and my little family she is always willing to drive me to the doctor or anywhere I need to go for that matter. We love to go to lunch together or get pedicures, go shopping and hopefully one day back to Paris! She watches my girls every morning so I can go ride my bike and has told me if I go back to school she will watch the girls for me while I do that!!!

Here is a picture of my mom rocking and singing my girls to sleep. Thanks for everything mom!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

xoxxo

Makes me melt like a popsicle on the 4th of July...

2009-07-08T20:28:00.001-07:00

Saturday we had a great day. We got up and got ready to head to the park!! A couple of weeks ago I picked up some tulle at walmart and made my sweet girls some cute little tutu's. Brigette insisted on wearing hers to the park. She looked so sweet!!! Unfortunately when I finally got around to taking their pictures, Tera puked on Brigette's tutu. It was all down hill from there... We had to make sure Brigette didn't puke after that. Since she was so upset, we couldn't get any pictures of Brigette!!! So sorry to upset you, but to try and make it up to you, here are some pictures of my little Tera in her cute tutu!!!

We had a great 4th of July! Brigette got a balloon sword, Zach took 2nd place for taste in the ice cream churn and we got to spend time with friends and family!!!

*Did anyone notice the popsicles on Tera's shirt??? It goes with my post title!!! Can anyone name the movie its from?? Come on, you Know that you Know it!!!!!

Warning Labels

2009-07-01T18:46:00.000-07:00

We got a new baby back pack at the REI yard sale. We got a great price for it. It is a smaller version of the one we have for Brigette (which we also got a killer deal on at the REI yard-sale a few years ago) Its the good kind, that you wear for hiking and fun stuff like that. I was looking through the papers that came with it, I wish I had a picture of the tag to show you. It read...

"Do Not Shake Baby More Than Necessary"

I thought it was kinda funny, in fact, it made my day! To be honest, I'm still laughing about it...

By the way, just how much is necessary???

Deer Farm Escapee

2009-07-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago (when we were still Williams residents) we were almost home when we saw this...

a baby deer.

Brigette was in back locked up tight in her car seat and couldn't see it.

So Zach hopped out and decided he would try and get a little closer, he got a lot closer!!! So close he just picked the little thing up and brought it to the car for Brigette to see. She was pretty excited.

Here is Zach with his little catch. Later I teased him that the deer had escaped from the Deer Farm and that's why it didn't run off!! He did let it go after we took a couple of pictures and its mommy was waiting right up the road for it!!!

*Notice the APS shirt, I think I need to dig a little and see how many pictures I can find where Zach is wearing these shirts, They somehow always appear in our photos!!! Just though it was kinda funny!!!! (Thanks Amy Evans for pointing that one out to me!!!)

First Timer

2009-06-24T21:15:00.001-07:00

Today was the second to last day of swimming lessons for Brigette, but her first time jumping off the diving board!!! She jumped off twice today (but only after Ridge jumped off) She did have a little help from me, and her second jump was much better than her first, but Jessica only got the first one on video. She definitely is my little fish, she loves to swim and does everything "Aunt Tiny" asks her to do! She keeps telling me she wants to keep going swimming, so I guess we will sign her up again!! She loves to look under the water, push off the wall and she can float on her back all by herself!! Heck, the rate shes going, she'll be swimming by the end of summer!

Laughing Tera

2009-06-22T20:57:00.000-07:00

OK, so everyone may not think this is as darn cute as I do, but how can this not be the cutest thing you've seen today?? (I know her Nanna is going to love this!) I just love this little girl!!! I LOVE to chew on her chubby cheeks, tickle her little fat leggies and kiss her all over!!! She is SO MUCH FUN!! On Sunday she learned how to "growl." It is so funny!! All night she has been looking at Zach and growling at him, it cracks me up!! She is such a great baby, in fact, she just fell asleep next to me on the couch. This little giggle session of hers must have wore her out!!! What a sweetie!!! xoxxo

Grand Canyon Hike

2009-06-21T14:01:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Zach took a little trip with his Uncle Cole and some members from his ward. They actually left Friday night, and hiked from the South Rim to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on Saturday. He got home around midnight and had sent me these two pictures. He is pretty tired and sore today but him and Brad are already discussing hiking it together!!

Foot in my mouth...

2009-06-16T06:57:00.000-07:00

On Sunday my Grandma Bushman came over for dinner. Afterwards we were all sitting around talking when Blaine asked my grandma if she wanted to sit down. Our conversation went a little something like this:

Grandma: "No the couches are too low"

Me: "Your not too old, 80 is the new 60!"

Grandma: "I didn't say I was too old, I said the couches are too low!!"

and again, I feel really stupid....

Love you Grandma!!!

Already??!!

2009-06-11T20:26:00.001-07:00

Lazy AJ & LIV

2009-06-10T19:13:00.001-07:00

Last weekend we branded cows. It used to be everyone in my dads family would come up. They would build a fire and rope the calves and cut their ears and have biscuits and gravey and it was almost like a real rodeo!! Now its just my family. But we still love it, even if they don't rope them anymore, they just push them through the squeeze. But I wouldn't miss it for anything!! So I think my moms computer ate some of my pictures, if I find them, I'll post them!! So first is a picture of Blaine, he is reading Briggie a book from the library that she checked out. Here is Brigette using my parents propane tank as a horsey-cow, like she couldn't ride the ones in the field behind her!!!

Since my dads tractors all burned to the ground, he now has the fun job of figuring out how to run the two new ones, here he is playing with one of them.

Of course Brigette had to have a ride...

And of course Papa gave it to her!!

She waved and threw kisses every time they went by.

I think he likes the new tractor!

Here is baby Emmaree at her very first calf branding, she was late, and slept the whole time...oh well!!!

Ashree just being Ashree!!! That's also my mommy dearest hiding behind the gate.

Look at those cowboys, I just love them!!

Hopefully I will be able to find out where the rest of my pictures went. I know they aren't very great, but me and Ash walked to the branding corrals and I didn't remember my camera, so these are off my phone. If you are wondering about the title, those are my dads brands, a "lazy" AJ and the LIV that was my grandpas. It wasn't Brigette's first branding experience, but she was very upset at us for hurting the baby cows. She covered her eyes and cried almost the whole time. She didn't like it that the calves were crying. But afterwards she did go in the corral and try to pet them. And I have to give it to Matthew, he actually tried to ride one!!! Now that is a cowboy in training!!!!

Lovin Summer

2009-06-05T11:37:00.001-07:00

On Monday we went to Rachelle's. She had borrowed this awesome "water park" from Earl & Kellen. The kids absolutely loved it and have been begging me to ask Rachelle if we can come back over and play again!! Hayden and Mason went with us but poor Tanner was not feeling to great and missed out. He was pretty upset when he saw what he missed out on. I thought it was awesome!! In fact I wanted to play too!!! It has three slides and a little pool!! What a blast!!! Thanks Rachelle!!! Brigette going down the big slide!
Hayden going down the big slide head first!! Him and Rowdy were crazy!!!

Mason watering Rachelle's umm...grass???!!!

Brigette, Rowdy and Hayden

And Brigette again going in the tunnel!!!

BrOkEn :(

2009-06-04T08:15:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

On Monday, my crackberry got dropped... sad, sad, day. So now I have don't have your phone numbers, can you do me a favor?? Text them to me or leave it in the comment box (I will delete them) Just make sure you put who it is!!

Thanks,

Kourtney Dawn