Everyones doin it so why don't we!!!

8 Things we're obsessed with:
Donette
1. The Twilight series(I have no life)
2. Smelling Colby's stinky feet
3. Powdering my rash (ahhhh darn you ezema!)
4. Money
5. My Kids
6. Escaping reality
7. Peanut butter
8. Nagging Baron about....everything

8 Words or phrases I use daily:

1. "I'm gonna get thoughs feet and I'm gonna eat 'em!" (talking to Colby)
2. "Baron, pick up your towel"
3. "Brie, go potty before we go"
4. "Don't use that bathroom, the other one is safer"
5. "Cereal for dinner?"
6. "Colby, we need to change your stinky bum"
7. Ah crap!
8. "Brie, you don't need to be so dramatic!"

8 TV shows I like to watch:

1. The Office
2. Law and Order
3. Lost
4. Matlock
5. Brady Bunch
6. Little House on the Prairie
7. Antique Roadshow
8. King of Queens

8 Things I did yesterday:

1. Slept from 6am to 12 noon because I attended a 2:35am premiere of the movie (Twilight)
2. Drank 8 cans of diet Coke
3. Did homework with Brie
4. Played with the kids outside
5. Watched the movie "Prime"
6. Changed three diapers
7. Yelled at Brie
8. Apologized for yelling at Brie

8 of my favorite places to eat:

1. PF Changes
2. Robintinos
3. Dairy Queen
4. Crown Burger
5. Mcgraths
6. Rumbi's
7. Johnny Carino's
8. Tasty's

8 Things I am looking forward to:

1. The after life
2. Baron getting a job
3. Christmas
4. The economic comeback
5. getting health insurance
6. my next trip to the library
7. my walk tomorrow
8. The DVD release of season 4 of 'Lost'

8 Things on my wishlist:

1. For Baron to get a job
2. To be a size 8
3. For Colby to be out of diapers
4. For me to be more patient with Brie
5. To conquer debilitating grief
6. To get rid of the hard water ring around the toilet bowl!
7. Family vacation to Hawaii
8. To get rid of this friggen rash!!!!

HALLOWEEN FUNSIES!!!!

Despite our current lame situation we still had a wonderful Halloween season. We went to a pumpkin walk with the kids at the Benson Grist Mill in Stansbury Park last week. We also attended the ward Halloween carnival and trunk 'r treat. On Halloween we filled the day with decorating cookies, carving pumpkins, and trying to get Colby to put on his Thomas the Train costume for trick or treating. No dice. Two months ago he wore the thing non stop, I finally had to hide it. Well he wouldn't wear it for the ward carnival or for Halloween. My brother said we should just let him go trick or treating as a homicidal maniac, they look like everyday people. In all we had a great time and I know the kids did too. Well I am off to see if I can score any Kit Kats out of Bries Halloween candy....I'm bad! Oh by the way the "Just Buried" cake I did for the cake walk at the ward carnival. That thing took three cake mixes, six cans of frosting, two millanos, two oreos, three fake spiders, and a partridge in a pear tree. Also sorry about the lame format. Every time I tried to put the images in a nice strait line it deleted them all. I would try harder to fix it but I just don't care enough...apathy rules again! Hey never mind, I just viewed the blog and it looks fine.... and yet again 'doing nothing is awesome'. I guess this shouldn't be my life motto.

Our Little Brie is Growing Up

Brie loves helping me in the kitchen. She is a good little helper.
Playing on the beach with Grandma at Bear Lake
Frolicking in the waves!
Sitting pretty!!!


Brie started her first day of Kindergarden today. She has Mrs. Harms as her teacher and is in the afternoon schedule. Brie has been excited for weeks to start school. She knows her numbers, letters, colors, and many other things important for starting Kindergarden. She is going to do great this year in school and both Baron and I are so proud of her.









This is what she wore for her first day. Grandma Taggart bought this pretty seaquin aqua colored dress with leggings and her ballerina necklace was given to her by Grandma Barker. Doesn't she look pretty!

Dinosaurland Family Trip

We just got back last weekend from our very first family vacation to the wonderful, amazing, exotic....Vernal, oh wait it's none of those. Whoops! Oh well we still had fun as a family even though the main portion of Dinosaur National Park was closed due to the fact that the building housing the query (that big wall with all the dinosaurs bones) is structurally unsound and won't be open till 2011. I read nowhere of this closure that happened two years ago! So maybe we should have just taken a trip to Thanksgiving Point to see the dinosaur museum there. The trip still had it's good parts. We loved the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum, wow is that title long enough? There were hands on exhibits for the kids to experience and a lot of cool info for Baron and I. Now I sympathize with my parents when we would go to museums on our family vacations. My parents would want to read all the information at every exhibit and it would drive us nutts! Well here I am, a parent, and wanting to read about what we drove 175 miles to see! Did the kids let us? Nope, one tantrum after another. Oh well, I guess that is part of family vacations, at least until they are old enough to threaten, bribe, ground, berate, etc. You know all the tried an trues of parenthood (I hope you are feeling the sarcastic vibe, don't call social services on me.) We had a great time in the outdoor pool with the kids. Brie was showing off her skills learned during summer swim lessons this year. We're talkin mad bubble blowing skills! Colby loved riding the giant inflatable lobster we bought for the trip. So in all I feel like it was wonderful time spent with my family and totally worth the trip.