Breakfast!!

Dad got up early this morning and made all of us breakfast in bed! Eggs and bacon yum!!

Alex Visiting

Obviously Alex has a little time off for Christmas and we messed around!

The door approach

Cinderella's slipper!

She seems to like him a little (or A LOT!)

Ummm...excuse me...where's my daughter? I think she got swallowed in that hug!

Getting ready for homecoming

Here's Cedie getting ready for homecoming! (Thank you Grandma Roxie

for doing her hair and making the jacket!!)

I am having an affair...

With my organic chemistry textbook. Brodie has been accusing me of it for months now, so I thought that I would just come out with it. He says that he wishes that I would hold him, turn his pages, and stare at him for hours on end. Too bad he doesn't look like this!




My lover is quite demanding--takes up so much of my time--and space! Our affair will not last forever, though. Just two and a half more weeks (and three more exams) and we will not get to see each other until the Spring 2010 semester--of course I may have to go for the younger model (newer textbook) by then!

Easter

The horse whisperer returns

We got a brand new phillie she's just barely two years old and she's pretty smart too. I really like her anyways. We kind of have a connection LOL not like Me and Bears Mo Red though. :) I had to hold her on Sunday and she was so calm because I was rubbing between her ears and my dad got to actually pick up her feet she was so calm. When I stopped and stepped away a little bit she followed me it was pretty cool. She's really good looking, and she has quick feet we found that out because my dad got rope burn yesterday trying to hang on to her. She was buckin and kickin around because she wanted the saddle off. haha good times

Blow Hole

This is one of the three blow holes in the world!!!

Cruise

Mom and Dad went on a cruise to Mexico and Dad got a little freaky with the towels....

Numa Elementary Science Fair

Ashley and I entered into the Numa Elementary Science Fair and placed. Ashley got first place in the 4th grade category with her Baking Soda Blunder. It was about how much baking soda needs to be in a cake. I got second place in the 6th grade category with which diaper absorbs the most liquid. I went to the state level and someone stole my board.

First Chair

Kylie is totally freaked. She got first chair!!! Just for all you non ork dorks(Orchestra Dork) that means that she got the chair that is reserved for the best violinist in the group you are playing with.Kylie didn't know she was first chair until she got to the performance.Kylie says that she was at a performance in Reno and Mr. Fleming was asssigning seats to everybody. Torri and Kylie got in a argument about who was on the end (first chair) then Mr. Fleming put her friend Jamee on the end.Later when they were practicing Mr. Fleming asked who was on the end. Then he told Kylie she was first chair because she improved enormously and was very good.

Soccer Mom? Me???

Okay, so I have never really wanted to be a soccer mom--mainly because I can't do the minivan thing. Cedie played soccer for one season when she was about seven, but other than that I have been able to avoid the mandatory soccer for kids law. Maybe it's because I have been worn down by too many children, or maybe a temporary loss of sanity and/or reason, but Courtney was able to talk me into signing her up for AYSO soccer this past spring. I figured it wouldn't be too bad, and that it was only one child in soccer. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago--time for Cedie to go to high school. I learned from personal experience that it is important to be involved in extracurricular activities (besides a boyfriend) in high school, so we told Cedie that she had to choose an activity. I was pushing for cross country, but she chose soccer--because she didn't want to run that much. (I really wonder if she had ever seen a soccer game before--did she realize that they run the whole time !?!) She tells me that she had 78 minutes of straight conditioning the other day! She showed up the morning of tryouts, not knowing that the other girls had already been practicing for a month, and managed to make the JV team. She is loving it--she loves that it is a "full contact sport" and she likes being a defender because the "refs are not looking for contact as much on the backfield." Courtney is no less competitive--she saw her friend at a scrimmage and walked up to her and said "We're going to beat you!" They both crack me up. Anyway, I'm posting a couple of pics of the soccer girls in the Fallon Labor Day parade. Courtney never even realized that I took her picture--she's the blonde in the maroon jersey. At least we did get her to look in our general direction. Cedie is actually smiling--notice her pretty long hair that she got for her B-day. We'll be at games most of the day tomorrow!

Tiffany's Famous!

Okay, maybe not famous, but she was asked to sing at the Canteloupe Festival on Labor Day. I thought she did pretty well--I would not have wanted to sing in front of that many people at her age (or my age, for that matter.) This was the first time that I had tried video on our little digital camera, and apparently you cannot zoom while it is recording so you just have to take my word for it that the girl in the blue shirt is in fact Tiffany. Also a disclaimer--neither Tiffany or I had anything to do with the choice of song! We continue our search to find something that Tiffany cannot do well...

Cloe & Coco

Hey guess what. Cloe and Coco are now naked mole rats with poodle feet.We had to have their feet groomed super short because they kept getting cheat grass and foxtails in their paws. The sad thing about it, is that when they first came home I couldn't tell the difference between them for my life. OK maybe for my life but still it was hard to tell the difference.

Spiritual experience with my best friend

My older sister, Cedie, is my best friend and at girl's camp at the testimony meeting I got up and bore my testimony and started to cry(I was crying because I felt the spirit stronger than I had ever felt it in my life).Right after me Cedie came up and said,"I guess when your sister get's up and starts crying you kinda freak out."Everyone laughed and Cedie said,"Dang it!" because she didn't want to cry,but started to. The whole time that she was up there I cryed and wanted to give her a big hug. After the song and prayer my wish happened. I was so grateful that I could share at least one spiritual moment with her without goofing around like we normally do. I am also grateful that I could share the strongest spiritual moment o f my life with my best friend and my older sister, Cedie.

DRAMA AT GIRLS CAMP

This last week Kylie and I went to girls camp. Kylie was a second year I was a third year at girls camp you are supposed to get to know the girls and become friends and take my advice if you want to deck them you are not doing a good job. Anyways The very first day at girls camp a girl walks in our tent shakes up her soda and opens it of course it went everywhere. That experience just made me want her to get real cozy with my fist. Then we had a really good week we went rock climbing and canoeing. We all had fun untill the last day when a girl stole some money right after our hike. The girl who stole it put it in her bra and our leader told her to scoop her bra. Then the girl who stole it lied about and said I dont have it so my leader said fine we are going to the bathroom. It was a touching experience for me. Not that i touched her or anything it just really really ticked me off. So ya girls camp was way fun loved every minute of it. :) lol

Peer pressure is alive and well

Yes, we finally have a blog! I swore that this day would never come but I do like to look at everyone else's. Hayley (my wonderful sis in law) actually called Spring (my sis) to get me to do a blog. I resisted for quite a while; however, Cedie and Kylie need a project for YW so they actually get to do this. The idea is that they will be doing a blog each Sunday. We'll see how well this works, but here goes...
P. S. This bs in our blog name is for Brodie and Shaye, just btw.