Family Picture Time

So we took on the frustrating task of trying to get a good family picture. As many of you know that can be very trying. And for anyone that has met Katie you can imagine just how impossible it can be to get a good one of everyone. So anyway we went to the river bottoms and also our back yard. The wind and lighting was not on our side but I think we got some nice ones. We are wanting to make one of the family shots into a very large print so...

Let me know what you think!

Some of our good friends helped us out. Thanks Josh & Leah!!

The ones of Katie are lucky shots.

We got two good ones out of about 50 takes.

She is beautiful!!

This one looks really good in color because of her eyes.

MY HAIR!!!!

So I decided I wanted to go very short again. But I still wanted to donate to a place like Locks of Love. Anyway I didn't have 10 inches to give yet so I am donating to Pantene Beautiful Lengths. It's just like Locks of Love but they only need 8 inches and I think they also give to women not just kids. SO in order to get the 8 inches I had to put my hair up in these silly pony tails all over my head. Then I gave Craig a ruler and some scissors and said go for it.

Well here are the before and after shots of the long vs. short pony tails but now I am going to trust Craig to try and trim it up nice enough to get me through the weekend.

I will post more pictures to show you the final look when it looks presentable.
I hope that's very soon. =(

Wish me luck!!

O.K. So Craig did a surprisingly good job on the back of my hair. I wanted to have a bit in the back to flip up just at the neck line but in order to get the entire 8 inches in the back we had to cut it almost right at the hairline. So it will grow out to the style I was thinking of. For now this is good with me. I may take more off the top later. It's a bit big.

Thanks Honey for helping me!! Love you!

Sorry about the blurry pictures but they may make me look better. ;)

Our Squirt

Well most of you that know me know that I love animals. I just can't help myself. What some of you don't know is that we have 2 dogs, a cat and 2 birds. Well a few weeks ago our beautiful yellow Budgie named Squirt hurt her leg somehow. She seemed to be healing and using it more every day. But I guess she wasn't. The last two days she has slept most of the time and shortly after I put Katie on the bus today she passed away. I know this may not seem like a big deal to some but I will probably cry for the next two weeks over this. I don't know why but these silly little creatures just make me happy and I hate it when they leave me.I buried her in the back yard and made her a little rock monument. Silly to you but not to me. It makes me feel better.
I never was able to get a good picture of her. I found this look-a-like of her but my Squirt was even prettier than this one. She was always so timid and sweet and I hope her friend Sprite will not miss her too much. Anyway here is that picture and under it is one from today of Sprite. Love your pets even if they are just silly birds.

This is a pretty bird but Squirt was just a bit prettier. She looked a lot like Sprite but all yellow with a little bit of white along her cheeks and at the tips of her wings. I'll miss you little friend.

Sprite is on her swing here so not a very clear picture.

I still think she's cute though. Why do I have to get so attached to them?

Lots of Cell Phone Pictures

So I am always taking pictures with my phone when I forget my other camera. But we all know that most phones don't take great pictures. Anyway here are a few that actually turned out O.K. Some are from a long time ago and some are from just a few weeks ago.

Have a great day!!!

Cross country skiing with the Special needs kids.

Kim, Cody & Jared
Kids from the Special needs class.

Katie being cute

My nephew Tanner

He is so cute!

Alexys, Craig, Katie & Cadence

This is the Super Bowl. We went to my brother's house and this screen is about 7 ft. tall

That's a door to the right so you can see the size.

It was fun to watch it this way.

Katie swimming

Katie and Alexys on a Sunday drive.

Buddies!!

(Tanner is covered in frosting from making his own ginger bread house)

I think this is funny. My dog Jetta likes to relax when she eats.

She also sits on the stairs to relax. Like with her bum on the steps and her feet all on the ground.

Katie and her friends whose names I can't say let alone spell.

I love 11:11 so this was a great day to take the picture.

(Notice the date)=)

A flower from Tracy's funeral

A sad and happy day for St. Anthony Bridge St.

She just couldn't stay awake.

Always the fashion diva!

My Girl!

If only we had an extra $11,000 to spare.=(

She loved these!

This was a day I was sick in bed.

Still sick...

We couldn't find her and then I realized she was standing right in front of me. So funny because she was standing so still. I had to snap a picture.

So Cool! He loves T.G.I.F.!!

Hair Cut

So it was time for Katie to get another hair cut. I went a bit longer this time but she seems to love it. When her hair gets too long it tends to look stringy and it get tangles in it. Now I only hope she doesn't try doing it herself. Oh well I guess if she does. It will grow back right? She was so excited to go to school and show everyone her new look. She is such a ham!!

Singing

So Alexys had her Winter concert tonight. They did a great job. She is in two music classes at school. One is the Freelancers (that is the one that Craig and I were in) and she is also in the show Choir called the Sound FX. I wish I could have recorded the entire performance but I don't have a good video camera anymore. They performed ABBA. It was a fun show! Anyway here is the solo she had. It's not a great video but she sounds pretty good anyway.

Enjoy!!

Spring??

Katie loves to play outside when the sun is out. She had a Dr. app. today so I kept her home from school and she got dressed ate some cereal and went outside. Of course she had to take her best buddy Grover with her. She spent 2 hours out there yesterday after school. I could only get her in by telling her it was time to eat. It's nice to see Spring on its way. As you can see in the pictures our grass is finally showing for the first time since Dec. It looks a little funky because I have yet to rake it but I'm sure within a few weeks we will be seeing signs of green! Can't wait!

I love Spring!!!!!

Alexys is 15!!!!

Alexys age 2 Alexys age 14

I can hardly stand to even write it let alone say it. My baby is growing up!

Alexys turned 15 on Sat. and It is just too crazy how fast time flies.

We spent the weekend in Salt Lake with just me, her and her Grandma Housley. We did some shopping, eating, swimming and sight seeing. We just never seem to get bored of seeing the sights around Temple Square. We went to the Beehive House and then we saw the Joseph Smith movie again and on Sunday morning we

went to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing in the Music and the Spoken Word.

Mom took us to The cafe at Little America for lunch on Sat.

They always have such good food!

I do have some pictures but we only had our phones and we took all the pictures with Alexys' phone so they are at school right now. I will post them when she gets home.

Anyway!!! I guess that's it!!

It really was a fun weekend!

State Wrestling!!

(Hope you enjoy my soundtrack for this post. I thought the songs were funny.) =)

Friday and Saturday were Idaho State Wrestling. And of course we had to go. Craig loves wrestling and one of our good friends is one of the coaches for our team so we spend a lot of time going to watch these matches. So on Sat. we spent about 12 hours at the Holt Arena in Pocatello supporting our South Fremont Cougar Wrestling team. They did pretty well. We took 2nd place in our district for team and we had two of our boys take State title in their weights. I think they were 135 Brock Banta and 235 Brian Rodehouse. Close to those weights if not. Anyway we had a great time and we are very proud of these guys.

Craig, Alexys and Katie wearing our school colors.

Go S.F.!!!

During the long moments between our boys matches we had to have something to do so I brought toys!! Here is one of the things I made with them. Of course we were a very popular with all the little kids around us so I had to sanitize them all when we got home.

Another picture of them before I got them to cooperate for the nice picture.


If you click on the picture above it will enlarge it so you can see the two boys that took first. I have a line around them. Such a great day for them.

We love our Cougars!!!