Family Pics

Don't you love taking pictures with kids. First of all, outfits...what a hassle, then you have to bath and make sure everyone is clean. Then you find a place and hope the lighting is right. Then you have the awesome photographer try to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time. Hopeless really and yet we torture ourselves every year for these classic memories. And each year I am so grateful for photoshop. This is 100 pictures later and still not everyone is looking at the camera. Oh, and another thing, no matter how much you bribe, someone is always mad. Can you guess who?? This is one of the only smiles.

Annie's Hat

Things are never boring at our house and we don't buy toys because the simpliest things bring such joy, and hours of entertainment. You can save a lot of money that way. Don't you love the socks!!

Matt turns 31

So my hubby is 31 now. (And yes that is all we take pictures of these days is birthdays.) Matt was hilarious!! On the Sunday before his birthday he agreed to have a family dinner with my family because we don't get together as much as we do with his family. He cooked the chicken...yumm...the cheesy potatoes.....hmmmm... and we had a yummy cake from Costco because lets not kid anyone, I can't decorate like that. Everyone else brought stuff to go with the dinner and it was great. Then Matt led us all in a round of "Happy Birthday to me". And of course the candles were out in one blow. He was so lucky to get all new tires for the suburban as a present because the day before he, like usual, decided to drive 50 mph on a dirt road coming back from a ward boys' overnighter. He, of course, got a flat and then the spare also had a slow leak. The new tires have a bigger tred and he likes them. Absolutely no stress on my part. Happy Birthday Honey!!

Time Out for Women

This is the Schaugaard girls at the "Time Out for Women" in Logan. We always have so much fun together and have done so many girls-only things throughout the years. I love this family!!! This is the first time we have gone to one of these and it was fabulous. Thanks to Steph for planning a great over-nighter. We drove together, ate dinner, went to the concert part that night. Then it was off to the hotel room where I picked to sleep in the room with the "snorer" and the other pregnant sister who would be in the bathroom all night, just like me. That way we could switch off and I wouldn't wake anyone. The funny part was we went right to bed and slept great, the other room stayed up talking. I was so impressed that they could just keep moving. I needed my sleep.....The next day was full of great speakers and wonderful music like Kenneth Cope. My favorite parts were getting autographs from all of the performers and speakers on my cool Time Out for Women bag and of course the non-interrupted talking in the car and between everything else. Sometimes it is great to just get away from family and life and rejuvenate yourself and turn your focus again on what is most important. And I will never look at a sink full of dishes the same way again. :)

You go girl!!

Sage's 7th birthday!! She invited her two best friends over for dinner, cake, and then we went to the movies. We saw KungFu Panda which the kids loved. Sage and her friends did not stop giggling the entire night. It was great at the movies. Good thing it was at the $1 movies on main street in American Fork and there are always so many kids that no one cares if they are loud, which is great for us. Sage got her ears pierced, girly jewelry and make-up, and lots of Barbie stuff.

ANNIE!!

I can't forget about my sweet Annie. She is such a great girl.....not baby anymore. She is showing off her tricks. Annie has the best glare and grumpy face I have ever seen. But only for a second, then you are hooked and give in. Mostly she just wants to be loved. She will go to the most random people. Like at nursery, she won't go to any of her teachers, but loves to go to one of the guy teachers in another class. It is so cute!!! Her favorite without comparison is Mindy from across the street. Annie can say her name and runs to her ever chance she gets. Mindy will be moving soon and me and Annie both will be loosing our best friend. The one that is always there for you and the one you can talk about everything and nothing. Annie loves to watch SuperWhy and The Letter Factory. She is starting to sing, which is so much fun in the car. Annie loves my big belly and loves to lay her head on top of Jersey and get kicked over and over. They will be such "friends".

Creed goes to Preschool

Creed started preschool this fall. He is going to Learning Dynamics by our house, otherwise known as "the apple school". He is such a smart boy and knows all his letters, sounds, colors, and we are working on shapes and reading with him. He impressed his teacher during his assessment. But don't be fooled, anyone who knows him knows that his smarts don't stop there. He has managed to "beat" every form of child lock known to man, flooded our house three times, and snuck Annie out of the house to pick strawberries and blackberries in our yard during nap time. He can run the DVD player, loves to play on PBSkids.org and can pull that up by himself. He can put on his own 5-point harness safety belt and can now undo it, too, which is just fabulous while we are driving around the city. The only thing now is his resistance to potty-training. I have googled ever trick in the book but if anyone has any brilliant ideas, leave them in the comment section. I would really like to not have to change three in diapers.