Life with the Anderson

Ragnar yet again.

2012-02-02T09:30:00.000-07:00

Ok so i've mentioned it on here before but as a family we're running ragnar on June 15-16th this summer. So we had an imprompto meeting on sunday and figured out which legs we were going to run. I was a little dissapointed because i had like a 3m, 5m and another 3m. that weren't very hard. But i figured ok i'll be able to do great times i was going shoot for 9 min mile average over them all. So kurtis and his uncle matt where getting everyone the info on there legs on monday when we found out that last year the race was 10 miles shorter due to snow and construction so this year its not 192.5 miles is 202.5 miles so now i'm running leg 8 and kurtis is running leg 9 i'm running a total of 15 miles i think it is and running a 3m, 7. something mile and a 5 mile i think it is. So now definatly need to train hard. i'm still going to try for a 9 min pace cuz i'm running right now at a 10 min but its only a mile and half. So as the time increases i'm going to keep it where it is and then gradually get quicker. anyway getting excited. yeah isn't that INSANE getting excited to go basically do a half marathon. it will be way fun though for those of you who don't know what ragnar is you should totally check out there website they have races all over the country and they are really hard to get into basically you have to know someone who's been in it before to get in. anyway here is the site. People do all sorts of crazy things as teams i've seen people running in inflatable sumo costumes, with surfboards, with cross country ski's, in lord of the rings costumes, all sorts of stuff. check it out...

http://www.ragnarrelay.com/ i'm running in the Wasatch back race runner 8

My 1st Leg

My 2nd Leg

My 3rd and Final Leg

december

2011-12-15T09:38:00.000-07:00

Ok so Here goes a December Rundown. We'll start with the latest 1st. I sold a Coat Just like the one in this picture just last night on etsy.

On monday we had Kurtis's work Party. Everyone went to Texas Roadhouse for Dinner then back to the office for cheese cake and a gift card exchange. It was pretty fun we both really enjoy the people he works with so its fun to get and spend some time with everyone when they aren't working. Plus we didn't have the kids so that was great.

We went to the BYU Basketball Game against Weber State with Kurtis's Grandpa and Grandma. It was sooooo Much fun. I always forget how much i really love basketball until i go to a game. I started loosing my voice by half time. Before the game we ate at Red Lobster. Oh so yummy and i ate entirely WAY to much. But i didn't want to take left overs and leave them in thier car during the game. During dinner i got to hear the story of how they met and it was really fun. We always have fun with Grandma and Grandpa Williams. Everyone says Kurtis is just like grandpa and i get told i'm like grandma in a lot of ways. But i can't think of anyone better to be like so thats great.

Brooklyn is crawling now the Morning after the big Wind Storm we had she started crawling for real instead of all the army crawling she did since she was 5 months.

And We had our Ward Christmas Party on the 3rd. It was really really well put together. when you walked into the ward they had all these appetizers in the foyer then you went into the gym where they had 4 or 5 rows of tables all decorated on the back wall there were all sorts of desserts all cutely decorated and they served dinner out of the kitchen. there was a craft area for the little kids. and for entertainment we played christmas Jepordy it was great. Then the bishop read the kids a story and in came santa. When the kids got to see santa kyler darted in after the 1st kid from way in the back to sit on santa's lap. That a Huge 180 from all the rest of the years he has been totally freaked out. It was a really nice break for the ward after so much had happend with the windstorm everyone was helping everyone out it was great. Infact kurtis left after he ate to go help one of the ladies he visit teaches to get her fence back up so she could let her dogs out while she's at work. Definatly a memerable time.

Other than that we have the Cousin Sleepover that kurtis's aunt does every year this friday and saturday morn. then we have a Ugly sweater party with some people in the ward on saturday. But after that we are free till saturday night when all of kurtis' dads side of the family gets together to do games and open presants and talents and such before grandpa reads the christmas story and we all go home for christmas.

I just wanted to take a min to thank my friends and family for there support. through out my life i have been really lucky to have some great friends who i don't always see all the time and infact really don't see hardly at all but.. they are always there when i need them even if i'm just having a breakdown when kyler writes on everything in permanant ink. They have been there to laugh with, to do stupid things with, and to cry with when i've needed and i want to thank them all for their love.

I also want to thank my family both sides. I am a true beleiver that your family is who you make it. Otherwise i really wouldn't be related to hardly anyone. But i have wonderful family everywhere. So thank you for your support and love for me and my family. We love you all and hope you have a Merry Christmas wherever you may be for the holidays.

Then a special thank you to my Missionary Brother in laws. Thank you for setting such a great example for my kids for the power of your testimonies and for the love you share to those that are around you.

-Kevin when you left i swear i said your name at least once a day. thanks for teaching kyler how to push up the cushions on the couch and jump on the couch. It was a great way to have me remember how much fun you had with him before you left. And how much we miss that when your out. I am so Excited for you to get home it has really hit me in the last 2 months that you'll be home so soon and i've been getting so excited for it. For you to meet brooklyn, for kyler to get to play with you again, and especially to see kia when you get back. You are such a strong great missionary and you are serving the lord in the way he would have you. YOU ARE his tool to find those who need his help and are seeking the light of Christ. Merry Christmas

-Karson: 1st i'm sorry i haven't written yet. I kinda feel like since you've been out not a ton has happned. But thats no excuse. We love you and are so excited for you. I'm excited about your new area and feel like things are going better for you. Kyler misses you, and is getting better at helping grandpa with the sheep and chickens. he will acutally get a pen away from the sheep now. lol. Know that what you are doing is exactly where you are supposed to be right now. The people you meet are there for a reason wheather it be for you to help them or for them to strengthen you. remeber that the refiners fire isn't always easy and but to "fear not and know that I am God".., for all flesh is in his hands and he knows what you need an when you need it. We Love you. Oh and i started watching glee and LOVE it. Merry Christmas Its not quite the same with out the Karson Elf at home but you get to let other people see the karson elf in ID.

Merry Christmas to everyone!!!

How the Wind Tried to Steal Christmas Spirit

2011-12-03T08:40:00.001-07:00

Every Who in West Bountiful liked Christmas a lot…

But the Wind, From the north, He Did NOT!

The Wind hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now,please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be that the Season was going justright. Or It could be, Perhaps, it was the time of his might. But I think that the most likely reason ofall may have been that the wind comes any time at all.

But, whatever the reason, the time or the season, He stoodthere Dec 1^st hating theWhos, Staring down from Canada with a sour Windy front at the warm lightedwindows below in there town. For he knew every Who down in West Bountifulbeneath Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.

“And They’re hanging their stockings!” he snarled with asneer. “This Month is for Christmas! It’s practically here!” Then he growled,with his Wind Fingers nervously drumming, “I MUST find a way to keep theChristmas Spirit from coming!” For, this Month, he knew….

… All the Who Girls and boys would spread Christmas cheer withfun and with poise. They’d rush around giving goodies! And Then! Oh, the noise!Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That one thing he hated! The NOISE!NOISE!NOISE! NOISE!

Then the Whos, young and old, would sit down to a feast. Andthey’d feast! And they’d feast! And they” FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! Theywould start with green Jell-O, and potatoes with cache valley cheese which wassomething the Wind Couldn’t stand in the least.

And THEN they’d do something he liked least of all! Everywho in West bountiful, the tall and the small, would stand close together, withChristmas bells ringing. They’d standhand in hand. And the Whos would start singing!

They’d sing! And they’d Sing! AND they’d SING! SING! SING!SING! And the more the wind thought of the Who-Christmas-Song the more the Windthought, “I MUST stop this whole thing! Why for 2011 years I’ve put up with itnow! I must Stop Christmas from coming! … but HOW?”

Then he got an idea! And awful idea! THE WIND GOT AWONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! “I know just whatto do!” The Wind Laughed in his Throat. And he made a quick Map and grabbed his coat. And he chuckled andclucked, “What a great Windy Trick! With this map I will get them real quick!”

“All I need is some warm pressure and cold…” The Wind Lookedaround, But since in Canada warm pressure is scarce, there was none to befound. Did that stop the Wind? NO! Hesimply called up his friend, Santa Ana in Californy and told him thisstory.

“see the Whos in West bountiful would love a Warm Christmas,what a time it would be they could enjoy lemonade by the side of the Tree, theycould wear shorts and t-shirts instead of long johns and gloves. It would be so much fun and would show themyour love.” So Santa Ana smiled and said“I’ll send them warm weather it will be my pleasure.”

THEN THE Wind jumped in his Sleigh and headed our way.

He said “Giddyap!” and the sleigh started down toward thehomes where the who’s lay a snooze in there town.

All their windows were dark. Quiet filled the air. All theWhos were dreaming sweet dreams without care when he came to the first house inthe square. “This is stop number one,”the old Windy Claus hissed and he climbed to the roof, emptiness in his fist.

Then he slid round the chimney, a rather tight pinch, but ifSanta could do it, then so could the Wind. He got stuck only once, for a moment or two. Then the stuck his head outthrough the fireplace he blew. “TheseChristmas lights” he grinned, “are the first things to go!”

Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,around the whole house, and he took every present! Chairs! Balls! Bikes! Even Some Cars! Wreaking havoc on swing sets bending wiresand bars!

Then he slunk to the roof. And he looked at the home and startedgliding. He took the Whos shingles, Hetook the Whos Siding. He tore up the house as quick as a flash. Why, That Wind thenhe started to Dash!

Then he dashed round and round with happiness and glee. “And NOW!” grinned the Wind, “I’ll get theTree!”

And the Wind grabbed the tree, and he started to shove. Whenhe heard a small sound like a coo of a dove. He turned round fast, and he saw a small Who! Little Kyler Anderson, Whowas Just over Two.

The Wind had been caught by this little who son who’d wokeout of bed from a sound like a gun. He stared at the Wind and Said, “Why areyou blowing the tree’s down? Why?”

But, You know, that old Wind was so smart and so slick Hethought up a lie, and he thought it up quick! “why, my sweet little tot, Do youwant a white Christmas or not?” The WindSaid ”You see the snow is at my house my dear. So I’m just trying to blow itdown here.”

And his fib fooled the child. Then he blew on his head and thensent him to bed. And when Kyler was inbed all snuggled up, HE went back outside and pulled the tree up!

Then the last thing he took were the logs for the fire. Thenhe went round the chimney, oh that old liar. On their house he left nothing but nails and some wire.

It was a quarter past noon… All the Whos, out bed , all staring unpleasant, when hepacked up his sled, packed it up with their presents! The Tree’s, and windows,their cars, and their Power!

Three Thousand feet round! Up the side of hills, he made allthe towns look like landfills. He was Windishly humming. “they’re finding out now no Christmas cheeris coming! And I know just what they’ll do! Their mouths will hang open aminute or two.. Then all the Whos in West bountiful will all cry BOO-HOO!”

“that’s a noise,” grinned the Wind, “That I simply must hear!”So he paused. And the Wind put a hand to his ear. And he did hear a soundrising over the foe. It started in low. Then it started to Grow…

But the sound wasn’t sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! Itcouldn’t be so! But it WAS Merry! VERY!

He stared down at West Bountiful! The Wind popped his eyes!Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!

Every Who in West Bountiful, the tall and the small, washelping out! Without any hesitation at all! He HADN’T Stopped the Christmasspirit from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or another, it came just the same!

And the Wind, with his Wind-feet ice cold in the snow, stoodpuzzling and puzzling:
“how could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It camewithout packages, boxes or bags!” and he puzzled for hours, till his puzzlerwas sore. Then the Wind thought ofsomething he hadn’t before! “maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from astore. “Maybe Christmas…perhaps...means a little bit more!”

And what happened then...? Well…in West Bountiful they saythat the Winds died down three sizes that day! And the minute he didn’t feelthem with so much fright, he whizzed with his load through the day and thenight. He brought in the snow and some funfor the feast and he...

HE Himself... was no longer a beast!

Samantha Anderson

Who GotRan Over By a Reindeer

2011-12-03T07:58:00.001-07:00

Kyler: "Grandma did you get run over by a reindeer?"

Janet: "Oh i Don't think so."

Kyler: "Grandpa Got run over by the reindeer?"

Scott: "No i'd Shoot the reindeer."

Kyler: "Then we can eat him for Lunch!"

Glad to know my son knows the law of living off the land.

a Hurrican in Utah

2011-12-02T07:42:00.003-07:00

Welli dn't know if its been on any of your news stations i'm sure it will be soon. the state is trying to get it classified as a disaster area. To bring in the chirstmas season we had a hurrican with out water. The fastest the wind got was 102 mph in centerville where i shop only 2-3 miles away from my house. My town got the 2nd highest of it with gusts up to 92 mph. We were out of power for over 12 hrs and there are so many more people still without power i mean our whole area no power nothing open no gas stations open no stores nothing. When i went to smiths grocery store when i found out it was open they were giving away dried iced for peoples fridge and freezers.

I was awake pretty much the whole night the wind started at about 2:15 am and didn't die down at our house till about 9:30 am our. I was watching the news when the power went out at about 6:20 am and it came back on at our house at around 10pm. And we were sooo sooo sooo lucky. The only thing that happened at our house is that our back fence went over its gone. but people around us lost siding off there houses, shingles off there roofs trees toppeling over on garages and fences. Our neighbor alex's trampoline was on her side of the fence one time and then in the neighbors fence the next second i was watching when it happened. one of our neighbors's roof from there shed was completelly blown off. all in all everyone i know if ok nothing horrible happened to any of them. But we heard of peoples houses that are just demolished. Windows blown out of cars and houses, semi's blown over, full 3 story building being built that are now just a foundation, roofing from schools embedded in cars i mean just crazy. I'll get some pics up later but for now were just glad to get a good night of sleep and that we have power and heat back on. And were so thankful that all that happened to us was the fence we feel to lucky that nothing and i mean nothing else happened.

happenings this week

2011-11-30T13:43:00.008-07:00

So I made two coats for brooklyn and that must have gotten me into a good mood because i acutally did my hair for probably the first time in over a month or longer. Anyway here are the two coats made them both in a day plus bonus the fabric i supposedly needed was to much so i have enough for 2 more coats so hopfully i can sell them on etsy. They aren't quite done yet i have to put the bottons on and by the way they are reversible.
Black and white tweed material cute cute this is the one i put her in today.

and the reverse side

This one is a Brown/purple/pink/white tweed with pink satin accent

and the reverse side

And Brooklyn in her new coat

Brooklyn is 6 Months old

2011-11-13T15:45:00.003-07:00

Oh Is that a Camera

Give Me a Little Kiss

She Smiles for Daddy

Are We Done Yet

ragnar training

2011-11-09T10:20:00.002-07:00

ok So for all of you that are intrested in me putting myself through missery to get into shape to run ragnar i started a sister blog to help keep me motivated. I'm posting everyday on it so i'm sure this blog will get a little neglected. but its all for a good thing anyway if you want to keep up with it it's in my blogs that i watch under ragnar or bust. which today i'm busted lol. anyway thankgoodness todays workout is over.

So check it out leave me ideas or motivation. good food recipes or training ideas that would be great. thanks so much to all of you.

Sam

1st snow Today

2011-11-05T14:51:00.006-06:00

1st Snow and kyler wanted to go outside. Good thing this year he has all is gear ready so he's not cold and can have fun. Not much snow but he sure had fun with it.

I managed to get a shot of some of it falling

Ninja ran out of the pic to fast he was trying to have a snowball fight with him. Though i don't know if you can call is a snowball fight when ninja can't fight back.

Brooklyn and i stayed inside nice and toasty. Then kyler finished is fun day playing in the snow with some nice "warm water" aka Hot chocolate.

Kyler's 1st BYU Game

2011-11-05T10:33:00.004-06:00

On october 22 we ended up all getting to go to the BYU Game Against Idaho State. Kurtis' uncle Kenny has season tickets and all his family couldn't go plus kurtis ended up getting Hunter's(cousin) ticket before and was going like a week before kyler and i were. It ended up that there was a almost a dozen of us family there. Kurtis grandpa has season tickets too so Kimly and Jon sat next to them. Plus we'll i'm not exactly sure how there realated i think its kurtis' great aunts sons daughter. if that isn't to confusing for you. anyway she plays the piccalo in the band and it was parents day so her parents were there too. Who would have thought i would get a tan on in the end of october.

kyler had to have his own seat to get in but he sat on grandma's lap most of the game. he was her date grandpa didn't want to go.

Cosmo Kyler's favorite person there,

The Beggining of the game

Edwars Stadium before everyone got there

This is Kurtis, His uncle Kenny, and Mom Janet and kyler at our seats

Grandpa Willams took us all to breakfast before the Game

This is Kyler doing the end of th Fight song his favorite part was after the song ends the cougar growls and he loved it.

OCTOBER

2011-11-05T10:05:00.003-06:00

We really quick the 2nd to last weekend in october got to go up to Kurtis' grandpa's cabin near Price UT. Kurtis loves to go there and they cabin is way nice. We bring a generator and it has a tv and dvd player so at night the kids got to watch a movie while we played games.

These are HUGE Petroglyphs way up on a rock face Kurtis said that when they were younger he and his brother tried to climb up to them and the closest they could get is where the trees are in the corner of the pic which was like 20 ft below them. He's convinced that they repeled to make them.

These one's were just off the road i liked this one cuz i said it had a little mexican guy (or cowboy) in the lower left corner.

We saw all these on our LONG way home. we decided to take the back way out and it ended up taking us 2 hours to go 15 more miles. but we did get to see a lot of cool stuff.

Here's a pic of 5 generations of andersons if you include the pic of Kurtis' great grandpa in the pic behind them.

We went up for the Deer Hunt or that was the excuse anyway. They only saw like 3 deer the whole time and only one of those was a buck but We all had fun. This is kyler in his orange.

And yet again.

This is Brooklyn after we got back from our hike. With her little rosey cheeks and nose. We went up to the top of the 1st ridge and were on our way back down when we found Kyler and Janet so we went back up with them. I was in my very "Best" hiking shoes. I ended up going up in my no traction $1 croc like clogs from walmart but hey no problems so it was all good.

And this is her orange i figured since i was wearing an orange hat this should be enough orange for the both of us.

1st day of Ragnar training

2011-11-04T13:57:00.003-06:00

kyler fell asleep around the last corner and man was he out sorry to say brooklyn was wide awake.

Ok so as a family we decided we're running ragnar this year. For those of you who don't know what it its its a cross country relay race from logan to park city ut. It take 12 people each running 3 legs 2 days and covers 192 miles. The aveage runner runs about 15 miles over the two days. but up and down mountains during the day and the night in whatever weather June 15 and 16th will have for us. So anyway thats what i've gotten myself into. So i decided today before it gets cold again i would start my training.

Well i think the world or karma didn't want me to start today. I decided to get some music ready to train to so i know what song i want where. I always listen to music on my runs anyway so i just i figured i would get some pump up songs and ones with a good steady beat i could have a good pace to. Since i did that i didn't even thing about acutally getting outside till 11:30. But since kurtis called and said he wouldn't be home for lunch i figured ok so i got the kids ready in warm clothes with a warm bottle and hot chocolate for kyler and out we went. .... and thats about where it stopped momentarily anyway. i had a tire that was flat so i figured no biggy mom and dad got kurtis an air compressor for chirstmas last year so i was just going to air it up quick easy done right. ... WRONG. My tire had a huge bust out flat. so off to walmart got the kids in the car. got the tire and some ink and back home we went. Got the tire on and off we went. Mind you a storm in coming in so the wind was a little crazy i tried to keep the kids out of it for the most part. all that for a 15 min run. WOW lol any way here are some pic from our first day.

Homemade Corn Dogs (Baked)

2011-10-07T11:09:00.003-06:00

ok so i don't really like hot dogs but i do occationally like a corn dog. don't ask me what the difference is i don't really know apparently if a hot dog is disguised in a corn muffiny coat i love it. so anyway i hate paying full price for well anything and since i don't eat that many corn dogs i thought why not find out how to make my own. So here is what i came up with.

Ingredients

1 box corn muffin mix (jiffy mix)

1/2 cup flour

1 egg

1/3 cup milk

2Tbls butter

1 to 2 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp cumin

they say to add 1/2 tsp of some hot sauce but i didn't have any and they turned out fine.

1 package of hot dogs (i used bar S)

Directions

Preheat oven to 425

combine all ingredients with a mixer will be kinda a muffin batter consistancy

pat dry hot dogs

dip in batter and try to get completely covered with batter. no thicker than 1/2 inch

place on nonstick cookie sheet i would spray it before to just in case

put in oven for 12 to 15 min.

Kyler and his "Mario" Gloves

2011-10-07T10:04:00.004-06:00

So its trying to snow here this week so the kids are stuck inside and wearing actual fall clothes. So kyler picked out his "mario" shirt to wear today and then was looking for his mario gloves. I figured he was looking for his cars gardening gloves becuase they are red but all the sudden he comes out in Kurtis' goalie gloves. So i had to get a few pics. go "Mario Goalie"

and here is brooklyn in her cute fall clothes i'm so excited to get her in these is been so hot here she has only worn pants maybe 3 times since the first few weeks she was born and only worn a jacket the day she came home.

Crazy Good Home Made Chicken Nuggets

2011-10-05T14:09:00.004-06:00

Ok So i got these off of one of the blogs i follow usually her stuff is gourmet but this is wonderfull. Kyler loves chicken nuggets and now i can make them at home. They are Mc Donalds look copycat recipe and sooo yummy. They are probably way better for you than Mcd's because you know whats going into them. So make them they are really really easy and so good.

Note: Don't bake them it doesn't work. Also you could use bread crumbs if you like instead of flour.

Tip: They freeze well so you can make extra and freeze them. And i only use about half the salt in mine and they taste fine so do what ya like.

Makes about 30 nuggets using 1 1/2TBS Cookie scoop.

Chicken Nuggets:
4 half chix breats cut into cubes
1 egg beaten
1 1/2 tsp salt Kosher
1/2 tsp celery salt (i didn't have it so i didn't use it i used a little garlic salt though)
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp coarse black pepper

Egg Wash:
2 eggs

Seasoned Flour:
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp coarse black pepper
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp baking powder

Directions:

Cut chix breats in 1 in. cubes, place in food processor with other chix ingredients and process till it makes a coarse paste.

Mix four mixture and set aside

beat eggs in a bowl and set aside

use your cookies scoop or your hands to scoop out mean and put in flour bowl roll around till meat is entirly covered. Than shape meat in to balls with hands.

when all are shaped press balls down with fingers till about 1/2 in. thick.

Dip in egg wash then back into flour then put on a plate dusted with flour so they won't stick.

heat oil (i use vegetable) in shallow pan i use my wok and bring to about 365-375 deg F

Place nuggets in hot oil and cook on one side for 2-3 min then flip and reapeat. (remember that the chicken continues to cook even after you have removed it from the oil.)

Remove chicken from oil and put on a paper towel lined plate.

cool and eat

So Yummy!!!

Here is a honey mustard sauce recipe too:

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup dijon mustard

2Tbs Mayonnaise

2-3 tsp lemon juice.

Mix and enjoy.

Goings on

2011-10-04T09:02:00.008-06:00

Well this is from about a month ago but i love this pic of my loves.

As of Saturday morning Brooklyn can now roll over. I was listening to conference while kyler was watching snow white and i was making cake balls and there she went. She's been really close for a few weeks now. now we just have to watch out for her crawling. she is already scooting her self across the floor.

And here is Brooklyn in her halloween costum. I was just going to put her in the cougar costume we put kyler in his 1st hallween but when i saw this it was perfect. I always call her snow white because she has such light skin and dark hair with her pretty blue eyes. so its perfect now if i can just get kurtis to dress up as grumpy. Kyler is going to be Bob the Builder and i'm either going to be dopey or Wendy from bob the builder.

And this is a pick of all 5 babies born on my side this summer. I was the 1st then the twins Kolton and Kooper, then Gavin and Baby Kjar 5 babies in 4 months what a summer. and yes

Brooklyn is the only girl. It seems to go that way that if i have a boy everyone else has a girl if i have a girl everyone else has a boy. Luckily on kurtis's side there are girls so were good.

Other than this we've havne't been doing a lot. Kurtis is working and going to school. I've been making dressess. I had an request all the way from florida which i made a few weeks ago. It's not like a job but it does bring in a little extra money and makes me feel like i'm helping out. I quit working a famous Footwear again. With kurtis going to school 3 night a week and needing to do home work the other nights i didn't think it was a good idea for me to keep working. Brooklyn is growing like crazy. She loves to scream and thinks its funny. She also fake coughs like kyler does. I think its pretty funny. Kyler poor kid has been having trouble going poo. He's now on meralax and things seem to be going a lot better. We are having a little trouble with him getting to into something and waiting to long to get to the bathroom which is really really frustrating for me. But since potty training went so well i guess i'm getting it now. Ninja feels a little left out but he's getting spoiled he sleeps in our room pretty much every night and when the kids are alseep he gets me all to himself.

lack of motivation

2011-09-28T08:49:00.002-06:00

Well lately i've been having trouble being motivated to clean. I've just been so tired lately. The kids i swear know when the other is actually sleeping through the night. when brooklyn sleeps all night kyler is up like 3 times and when kyler sleeps brooklyn's up. And brooklyn wakes up every morning around 5:30-6am and i get her back to sleep about 15 min after that then kyler wakes up at 7. not that that is bad it's really good actually. I just have been exhausted. Any ideas?

It would probably help if i would start running again. Especially since its so nice in the mornings right now. I was doing really good in july. I was going to zumba a few nights a week and jogging almost every morning + band work outs and ab circut in the morning and whenever i had time. but when i put my knee through some glass and then got a bruised rib i didn't do anything all august and then that has transpired into all sept. I just need to get motivated again i acutally really love to run once i do it but i just have a hard time getting into it again.

Plus we're running Ragnar as a family next summer. Which is a relay race from logan to park city i think. anyway you run 3 legs and the shortest is 3 miles long longest is 8. You run get in a van and sleep then run again. Its a 2 day race it will be fun i just need to get motivated to get in shape for it or i'm gonna die.

Right now i'm wishing i had the energy i had at the end of my pregnancy where i was deep cleaning my house every day and making things constantly. right now i have a hard time even getting motivated to make dinner, an i love to cook.

Anyway enough whining gonna turn on some music and get going.

911

2011-09-11T08:09:00.002-06:00

Well I woke up and started watching the memorial service at ground zero. I thought about everything that happened that morning. I was getting ready to go to seminary. My parents alarm clock was the radio turning on and i was generally up when it went off at around 5:30 or 6 in the morning. I had missed the first tower getting hit but it was blaring on the news. I remember driving into town and having the radio going and listening. Its my Friend Callie's birthday today. Which i might not have remembered so well except for the events of that day our senior year. When the second tower was hit i was sitting in Math Class. Or teacher Mrs. Mikklesen had the tv on and the class pretty much sat in silence. i don't remember doing any work that day really except for one class American History ironically enough. Mr Biggs was also the only teacher that didn't let us watch anything either. I remember Crying in math watching everything happen. I remember the news casters reporting that one of the planes had a class of i believe high schoolers going on a trip from Seattle that were now gone. I remember trying to think of how those parents must feel. I can't imagine being on that plane those poor people realizing what was going to happen and not being able to do anything about it. I remember watching as people lept from the buildings that were on fire committing suicide instead of dying in the towers. and i remember the crews going in to try and help and then my heart sinking into my feet as the towers fell. I remember thinking about all the people that went in to help those on the lower floors to get out and being devastated thinking they were all dead as the towers fell. I remember my cousin trying to get a hold of a friend that was out there that frequently was at the worlds trade center.

I Remember hearing about the other plane hitting the pentagon and the releasing of fighter pilots around DC to make sure nothing else was coming. and i remember hearing about the brave few men that overtook the hijackers and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

To our parents generation it was where were you when kennedy was shot this is our moment of the unforgettable. It was our nations moment of unity no matter who you were, what your religion, political stance, weather you were old or young. We all came together to remember these people to feel this attack on our homes. The attack on America. Everyone Believed in a higher being at that moment and no one was afraid to say the lords name and believe over the air or the radio waves in press conferences in schools.

Where are we now. Why can't the nation work together that well all the time? why does it take a huge tragedy to take us all away from our pride. Why can't we remember, and do things for the greater good all the time instead of being so selfish. Why don't we realize that if we all lived for each other that we could all have everything we need.

Its been 10 years have we really forgotten that much? if we can all remember vividly what happened that day why can't we remember the camaraderie that we had at the time as a nation and why can't we live that way all the time?

I remember the streets covered in dust and debris. and i remember the bodies and parts of bodies around the trade center.

recap

2011-09-09T09:09:00.002-06:00

ok so since summer is over i thought i would recap of what we did this summer mind you nothing all that exciting.

May- had a baby, took kyler to Thomas the Train for his birthday.

June-hmmm had Karson Endowment and uhhh thats about it.

July- Blessed brooklyn, Kurtis turned 27 Hung out with the family for the 4th of July, I put my knee through a glass table but didn't have to get stitches. Started a think Called the Deseret Treasure Scavenger Hunt with some friends it is our turn to make the clues kinda fun maybe i'll post some of them on here and see if you can solve them.
24th of july parade and fireworks
Brooklyn finally started to sleep through the night.

August-Said goodbye to Karon as he headed out on his mission. Took brooklyn swimming well more like she had a float ride. Went to the aquarium and zoo as our staycation with kyler. Brooklyn stayed with grandma. Went Boating with the Bairs. I attempted to wake skate and found that i wasn't strong enough to do it yet. But hey i can still wake board. oh and kurtis started school. AND WE GOT INTERNET.

Sold a Dress

2011-08-29T09:58:00.003-06:00

I'm so excited i sold my first dress last week for $25.00. It sold to Lady in Mesa AZ. anyway i just wanted to share my good news. Hopefully i'll continuing to sell some more and i can make it kinda a side job. here's a pic of the dress i sold.

Interent Finally

2011-08-23T07:51:00.004-06:00

Ok so i know its been forever since i've really kept up on anything on the internet. I was so out of the loop i didn't know that one of my friends was going to have a baby. But alas no more or at least i have no excuse to be because ofter 2 kids and 4 years of marriage we finally have internet.

I'm not going to update since before brooklyn was born but i am going to say whats going on.

Kurtis is going back to school which is why we have the internet now. He has a few online classes and luckily for us his fafsa money helps us pay for this otherwise we still would be internetless. but he's going for is Bachlors in business.

I am taking care of a three year old who is going through the terrible two's now. and a 3 month old that thinks she needs all the attention right now all the time. And i started sewing again. I'm making dresses right now just for baby girls but need to make some a little bigger they will be coming soon and i'm going to put back up my purses that i haven't sold yet on etsy in hopes to get rid of them finally. Other than that not alot going on.

Kyler is 3 and driving me nuts. I think he has finally started to get the baby blues and has subsequently started acting up. I had my first day that i needed a break from him since he was born! But he is still a good kid. Loves to play with other kids, loves nursery at church and loves the park. We recently went to the aquarium which he love especially the penguins and the zoo where well he was afraid of the animals. lol

Brooklyn, Is well a princess. Born that way her hands start to shake and go up by her face when she's mad, she loves all the attention and has 3 degrees of crying to make sure you know how mad she is. But she is also a cheeser and makes me laugh on daily basis.

36 weeks and 2 days along

2011-04-23T08:49:00.002-06:00

Ok so i'm going to the dr. everyweek now. I'm offically 1 cm dialated and 60% effaced as of wednesday. So really she can come any time now. The dr. said she won't be as big as kyler was and seems happy with all the progress. she said she'd like to see here wait to come out until at least next week but after 37 weeks all is good. I"m acutally hoping to deliver the week after mothers day i was aiming for the 14th but i'm almost hoping i go in a little earlier that week so my dr. can actually deliver me this time.

I lost a lb. this week probably due to the fact that i shampooed our entire house and both our cars last week i think i've gotten everything ready. Rooms ready all the clothes have been washed and put away all of the baby stuff has been cleaned i've gotten all the esential items taken care of and have enough diapers for a at least a week. plus i have bags packed and in the car from me the baby, kurtis, and kyler. And i have a list of numbers of who to contact first for kyler and then 2ndly for ninja. now its just the waiting game.

I've gained around 20 lbs with this one and hope i kinda stay there. i don't have hugmongous swollen feet or really anything this time my ring can still come off my finger and the only thing that really hurts are the leg cramps i get durning the night and the fact that i think she tries to push herself out every night by pusing on my ribs.

We're still debating on well now three names so cast your vote for Brookly, Kwinn (quinn), or Lea. Anyway other than that just getting ready for easter. Oh and kyler is pee trained he wears big boy pants and tells us when he needs to pee even sometimes during his nap and at night when he's in a diaper, but still no poop on the toilet yet. so hopefully soon he's been really good for about a month now.

Anyway love you all

Sam

32 weeks today 4 years today and hopefully 32 will win big today!

2011-03-24T11:03:00.002-06:00

So I just realized that I'm 32 weeks exactly today and i'm wearing a Jimmer Fredette Jersey with #32 on it so maybe that will be good luck for him tonight in their sweet 16 game against florida. Yes BYU basketball has comsumed my life latley so much so that kurtis and i among other things will be spending our anniversary night watching the BYU Game. And if we could afford it we would probably be there right now.

4 Years and counting. This anniversary is probably the closest to our first one as i am pregnant. Its weird to think that we've been married for 4 years lets take a look back on what has happend the last 4 years.

yr 1- got pregnant i think thats about it.
yr2- had a baby quit my job, lived with his parents, bought a house, Kurtis switched jobs, went on a trip to the dakota's, colorado trip
yr 3- got a dog i think it was before our last anniversary, or and went to disney land.
yr 4-got pregnant, bought and sold a vehicle, bought a scooter.

I think we're doing good those are the big things i guess we're really quite boring but thats not a bad thing.

I love you kurtis you are my everything and i love you most eternally i WIN.

So yes today is a good day even though its supposed to snow and i'm sitting a car place waiting for my saftey and emissions test to get done. Happy 4th to us, happy 32 weeks to me, and GO COUGS!

A new post finally

2011-03-04T11:23:00.002-07:00

ok where to start. lets see

Pregnancy- Its a girl. we're thinking about naming her brooklyn grace or kwinn(said Quinn) grace. If she's going to come out like she is in my belly i think she's gonna be a fiesty one. She lakes to kick anything that i touch with my belly and has recently just started rolling. As of now i'm 29 weeks. 11 weeks to go. yesterday was well honestly my day from hell. I had symptoms of preterm labor in the morning and my dr's office took about 2 hrs to get back to me with wether i should come in or not. Also becuase i was feeling like this i decided it was probably a good idea to get someone to work for me at famous so i started looking for someone at 11:30 am for my shift at 4pm NO ONE in our district could work. anyway so inbetween getting the call back from my dr. telling me i should just take it easy for a few days and monitor the symptoms (little fluid leakage, and tightning of my stomach and dizzyness) and calling people to find someone to work for me kyler comes to me with a red permanent marker and open with writing all over his hands.... so i go look in my newly designed nursery and wouldn't you know my 2 year old has drawn on the crib, bassinet, rocker recliner, the carpet, the baby swing, kurtis' old bed drawer, and a few of his toys oh and on the dress i made back in septmeber for the baby in hopes it was a girl. I know the best thing to happen to someone who is not supposed to be getting stressed out. So after very calmly puttin him in time out and talking about how we don't play with markers i texted becky who i'd been talking to all morning for confidence in myself. And she let me know that permanent marker comes off with rubbing alchohol. THANK YOU. so i got almost all of the marker off the bassinet cover is still soaking in alchohol as the red is turning from red to orange to a yellow and then hopefully back to the cream color it was.

Oh and so i think i narrowed down the reason i may have had the sympotms in the first place to the BYU basketball game on wednesday night. They lost by 20 and i watched it at kurtis' aunt and uncles house (kurtis went to the game with his grandpa). Anyway i really only watched maybe 15 min of it cuz i was so frustrated and it was making me sick. I'm pretty sure my blood pressure got a little high during the game and i didn't feel great for the rest of the night and then everything else happened the next morning. So i hope they pull it together other wise i might not get to watch the Tournament. I know how rediculous but this is really the only thing it can think of that happened in that time frame.

Anyway other than that today i feel great. I ended up having to go to work last night anyway but the manager i closed with seriously wouldn't let me go past half way down the store and made me sit in a chair up at the front for most of the night. (thanks again Steph) When i got home kurtis had me close my eyes and took me ups stairs where he had drawn me a bubble bath with candles around it and had me relax for as long as i wanted in there before showing me his other suprise for me. He had cleaned our house and done the laundry and the dishes as well as made a cake for our ward activity today. Then he made me promise not to do anything today and just to relax. I LOVE YOU KURTIS thanks for loving me so much and taking care of me.

So today is going great. I'm waiting to get a free pair of glasses from Coastal contacts and relaxing writing this blog. My birthday is tomorrow and i have no idea what were going to do kurtis keeps asking me what i want and i honestly have no idea. the only thing i can even think of is a cook book on how to make baby food.

ok as for the rest of our life. well.... not much to report. Kurtis has been playing in a volleyball league on monday nights and is loving it. are ward church ball had there first offical win last weekend and kurtis was way excited. kyler is well kyler growing talking like a 16 yr old girl meaning allllll the time and 90/per. I've been decorating the nursary and making all sorts of things. I've made 2 diaper bags, redone my bumper pads, made a blanket to match, made 2 dresses, a flower headband, recovered our car seat and made a car seat cover for it, and am thinking about making a blanket or a hooter hider. plus going through my house and cleaning like crazy. I hasn't been so bad the last few weeks. but january and begginning of feb i was going crazy with nesting.

I probably won't get on this again till sometime around or after the baby is due so i promise to put pictures of her on after she's hear. hopefully soon we will be getting a new computer and then eventually getting the internet. Kurtis is hoping to go back to school this fall were just waiting to see if we get grant money to cover it from fafsa. anyway hope all is well with everyone and i can't wait for spring.

sam

holy crow its been a long time since i've written

2010-12-27T09:49:00.002-07:00

I guess this is what happens when you don't have Internet.

well i hope everyone is doing well. As for us we're doing good. Lets see since june hmmmm what has happened.

July kurtis turned 26 we went to the 24th rodeo in ogden and watched the fireworks at the terry's house on the hill.

august well hmmmm i don't really remember anything from august.

September there was a little more going on for labor day we went to "The Cabin" a cabin that kurtis' grandpa helped his dad build back in the 30's i think or 40's. its way nice the way they said it made is sound like a little cabin but i know people in montana that there houses are built like these cabins. there is a main cabin a bunk house and a kitchen cabin. it was really fun getting to hang out with the whole family and be away from the city.
After we got back kyler and i went up to montana for a week or so with Ashley, Ryan and Riley. We had a fun ride we took Ninja with us and Riley really liked that. I got to see jay play football we went to plains and tfalls and even hotsprings for games it was pretty fun. basically we just kinda hung out.

After we got back kurtis and i decided to see if we were pregnant we had been feeling like we were for a few weeks and yep we were/are. we decided not to tell anyone for a while but i ended up getting really really sick with this baby so we told people a little earlier than we were planing.

We came up with kinda a fun way to tell everyone we found a big brother shirt for kyler and took him to kacie's game in it and let them figure it out it took a few of them a while. to figure it out. we sent my family a picture of him at the same time. so anyway the big news of the year is......

WE'RE PREGNANT. we're due May 19th and we get to find out what the baby is this coming thursday the 30th. We're hoping for a girl and with the horrible differences between the two pregnancies if its not a girl the only thing these two pregnancies have in common is that both babies were in my womb. I started to feel good again right before thanksgiving. but before that i was nauseous 24/7 and didn't really eat anything for about 3 months. i've gained about 3 lbs so far total but it might be a bit more after we get home from montana mom and dad always feed me so much when were here.

Anyway had a good halloween. Kyler, ninja and i dressed up as Woody, bullseye and Jessie. it was pretty fun. I tried to get kurtis to dress up as stinky pete but he i guess was just stinky. lol.

thanksgiving was good. we had 2 of them as kurtis' parents were gone to a soccer tourney in vegas for Kacie on the actual day. but we had a great time at grandpa williams on the actual turkey day. and they all had fun mocking me when my cowboys lost.

i had a fun baking day with the Krantz girls out at kami's house in westvalley. we have a little tradition of baking all day and making a ton of stuff to kinda put it in perspective i made about 35 lbs of fudge to split and we had over 300 sugar cookies around the same spritz cookies and drop cookies. we also all came away with Carmel's, toffee, peanut brittle, chex mix, white chocolate popcorn, and a cheeseball. And i'm pretty sure i'm forgetting some things. Anyway it a way fun time to have with everyone.

christmas was kinda crazy. We did a christmas at our house the sunday before we left and at Kurtis' parents that night then we left wednesday night and stayed in Idaho falls and got to mission around 1:30PM on thursday. We had Great Grandma Krantz' 90th bday party on her birthday Christmas eve and all of my parents family except her sister Kristen and her kids were at my parents house for Christmas it was way fun to see everyone and kyler had a lot of fun. Then sunday after church we went with the Krantz's on a old fashioned hay ride out in pablo which was really fun Kyler and Riley had a ton of fun sledding down a hill. all in all a great holiday.

Oh and by the way of people we're related to there are many many babies being born all close to us. We found out Kurtis' cousin Misty is due 6 days before we are and my cousin's are both due within 2 months. Kami is having twins and is due june 16th but will probably deliver about 3 weeks early and ashley is due july 16th so lots and lots of babies. And we just found out on the other side Phillip and Guadalupe are pregnant too. so so many at least this baby will have lots of relatives the same age.

Hope you get a little of whats going on with us right now i know i've forgotten lots but hey at least there is a post now. lol

Sam

wow its been a long time.

2010-06-14T09:28:00.002-06:00

Ok hmm its been so long what all do i say. Lets see....

Well kyler is doing great now his nose is fine except that the day before his birthday he fell and forgot to stick his hands out and rolled up on his nose like a seal. So he spend his 2nd b-day and memorial day since they fell on the same day with a big scuffed up nose. didn't seem to bother him though. what else. He is two repeats everything knows his letters and likes to sing and dance. he loves cars and nemo. He's spoiled rotten he go so much stuff for his birthday i think i should pack half of it up for christmas.

Other news... We're buying a Chevy blazer today and hopefully selling my car today as well. umm kurtis started looking for houses again much to my anxiety. the water rate for our city just jumped from $41 to $75. each month so if we moved out of the city we'd save around 17,000 over the life of our loan just on water.

Bags for bettys is getting into the local farmers market i'm rather nervous but excited at the same time it all seems to be falling together nicely and i have my first shot at it on the 24th of this month.

Kurtis's sister kimly got married on the 22 of last month and now lives in our ward/church boundaries so we get to see them every sunday at least and they like to help with kyler which is nice. Kurtis is yet again playing softball and seems to be thinking its ok. i keep waiting for him to say no to them because he ususally ends up in a bad mood after most games but thats because of the teams they play rather than his team.

I've started running again i ran 4 miles last week and then had to take a few days off because i'm pretty sure i strained my achillies. but hopefully its good now because i'm missing it.

I'm still almost to my goal weight i have 5 lbs to go and were starting our diet again today so we'll see if i can do it. my goal is to do it before i get pregnant again and i'm getting my IUD out on July 8th so go go pounds off quickly.

By the way we have no plans for trying quickly to get prego but i just don't want to know when i'm pregnant in hopes i won't gain as much this time. anyway i got to get going ive got a lot to do today and i need to find my phone so i'll talk at you all later.

Love sam

PS becky let me know when your coming for sure so i can have the beds ready for you your still welcome and were excited to see ya.

ok so another update sorry no pics i keep forgetting them.

2010-05-17T08:56:00.002-06:00

Ok so hmmm. quick update. We still don't have internet. lol. we'll start with kurtis

Kurtis has lost somewhere around 35 lbs on our diet which offically ends saturday Yay. although we're not really offically going off of it for a while more. He is playing softball monday nights and occationally a volleyball game when a friend needs a sub on thurdsays. Work is in full swing for him and he comes home all nice and muddy everyday. He has declared war on a stump in our back yard. I personally think the stump is winning but he is convinced its not. he spend well all of saturday trying to get it out and it is still there. Though he tells me with a sharpened axe he thinks it will come out in about an hour... we shall see tonight. His knee is healing up but he has some nasty lumps in it left over from the fluid and such. Other than that he's great.

Kyler- well kyler is almost 2 enjoys playing with the dog pushing poor ninja to his limit. he loves everything cars now and nemo. He has just started saying "how bout" and then something other than you say. He loves being outside as do i but we only have intermitten days right now the rain has been crazy weird here lately. so were praying for sun. he pretty much can identify and say any letter in the alphabete but doesn't know his abc's just yet the song anyway. still not potty trained i gave up after ninja became potty trained again. he likes to help clean and pick weeds even though they may not be weeds. Last year kurtis weedeated my decorative grass and this year kyler pulled it up. so i guess its jsut not supposed to be there.

The big news on kyler is that for the last month he has had a runny snotty nose or rather nostril and we have been to the doctor and has bunch of different ideas about what it is. I took him in a little over a month ago thinking that the really stinky breath that it caused was probably strep. but no the doctor said its probably a cold and the mucas was causing the smell if it didn't go away in a week to call and they would give some meds because it was probably a sinus infection. After a week of the amoxicillen for a sinus infection and week 3 of the sickness we decided it might be allergies so the we called the doctor again and he said to go get claritin for kids and give him that once a day. After a few days of that we figured that wasn't the cause as it did absolulty nothing. so then end of that week we were talking with Janet kurtis' mom and she happend to remember that her sister stuck a bean up her nose as a kid and that it smelled really bad. We decided that was probably it so decided we would take him to the doctor on monday as it was saturday night. Sunday i looked up what you can do for something stuck up a kids nose and found that you can manually blow there nose for them so kurtis blew i held and covered his ears and janet was the offical tissue holder. when we blew his nose i about puked the mucus smelled about like a rotting fish or deer or something like that. I'm just glad kurtis blew because if i had done it i would have thrown up in kylers mouth or somthing i know it.

anyway monday came on week 4 of this sickenss and we took him to the doctor. to make a longer story short the doctor pulled out a piece of batting material out of his nose about as long as my pinky. Bleah but that immediatly stopped the really stinky breath that could knock you out from about 5 ft away and he is now almost done with his meds to clean up any leftover infection. just in time for aunt kimly's wedding on saturday. THE JOYS OF HAVING KIDS

now Me- i've offically lost 11 lbs but am bloated this week so i hope next week i'll have lost 2lbs without doing anything lol. i can again fit into my prebaby clothes for the most part except for some shirts as my boobs are still quite a bit bigger then they ever used to be. i jsut got some stuff for my garden mostly herbs, garlic, thyme, tomatoes, and i bought a few fun things like tigerlilies and bamboo. We've been getting our yard all nice for summer. I dream about having a backyard bbq with friends but it still hasn't happened yet. i just need to plan it. Done shopping for kyler bday just have to wrap everything. My purse business i'm hoping will get even more off the ground next month when i join the local farmers market. I've got 4 more purses to finish and i'll have 24 for the market. I've already sold around 10. i've become pretty much a full time crafter lol. other than that not much is up. just enjoing my family and our new pet .

Hope all is well witheveryone. Love ya

Sam

hey sorry its been so long

2010-04-25T16:02:00.003-06:00

Ok no pictures just an update. our neighbor moved recently so we no longer have internet service so thats why i have been such a slacker. on to good news its getting warm in utah and we have been cleaning up our yard.

I did a little DIY project where i painted and recovered the seats on an old metal card table from i'd say about 1960. But it turned out great we love it now.

also kurtis had to go to the emergency room a few weeks ago from a failure to tie his shoes. it ended up that he didn't acutally do anything major to his knee but it was swelled up to about the size of a grapfruit. i have picture of both of these that i'll get up when i remember to bring my camera.

Other news we love our puppy he is doing great. I've sold about 6 purses so thats going good. I cut my hair recently. And combined Kurtis and i have lost over 30 lbs in 2 months. him losing most of that i've only lost 9 so far.

we are getting new neighbors what we are really excited about they have a 2 year old son as well and she is getting ready to have another one in june though she doesn't even look pregnant. They are a fun nice couple and we're so excited for them to acutally move in. He's a big BYU fan so we figure there will be lots of talking with him and kurtis.

ummmm kyler and i are going to montana the end of this week to a bridal/groom shower for my cousin josh who happens to be getting married the same day as my sister in law. but two states away.

other than that not to much has been going on we're excited about the weather and the summer and can't wait to get out into it. I'm excited to start running again and biking so other than that i think thats really it.

hope all is well with everyone.

sam

3 years and counting

2010-03-24T09:25:00.003-06:00

well in about 2 hrs we will have been married for offically 3 years. I have to work to night so yesterday we went out to dinner and did our anniversary shopping. We got a safe to put our important things in. On our way home from kurtis' parents we were talking about things that have changed since we got married.

1.We had kyler
2. i quit really working
3. we bought a house
4. kurtis switched jobs,
5. we have three pets ( goofy our fish, mander our salamander, and Ninja our puppy)
6. we've gotten life insurance
7. we've bought new furniture
8. we've made a few other big purchases ( piano, and laptop) both presents for me by the way.
9. we've both gained a lot of weight
10. we're both on a diet to loose it.

I feel so blessed and accomplished at 26 and having all that we need and a lot of our wants. Besides our house we have no debt and have been really lucky to not have many major expenses for medical or other reasons yet knock on wood.

We have a wonderful little boy who besides getting into everything right now and starting the terrible 2's early is really a great kid and really easy.

We live in a wonderful quiet nehbiorhood where i can take kyler on walks to the park and we can play in the backyard and feel like its just us.

We have a beautiful home that besides our leak last spring we've really not had to do much with.

We have a great support system of family so close that if we need anything they are all there and willing to help. they have been so great for us and are really our closest friends.

were so thankful for kurtis' new job he's been there now for just over a year. He loves the work and i think really has ever come home mad once since he has worked there as opposed to pretty much everyday before. he enjoys learning new things and loves working outside and in the dirt. Ke also loves who he works with. We're so happy for this job.

I'm so thankful for kurtis for his willingness to works so i can stay home with kyler i've loved getting to watch him grow up and to be able to take care of our home. Kurtis may not know it but he does help out around the house more than he thinks. I love him so much and am so thankful that through it al we've ended up together on this crazy road. We've shared so much in the last few years. When we first got married everyone told us we would argue like an old married couple, i think that has been a blessing to us we've always been comfortable with each other so we are absolutly able to enjoy each other and enjoy time by ourselves while being together aswell.

Kurtis i love more than anything 14349 13.

church Ball champs

2010-03-23T12:19:00.003-06:00

Well thiss last weekend we had church womens basketball region. My stake has been playing together for a about a month. We actually have a pretty good team. we have one girl that played for weber all 4 yrs and was really really good. She's on most of there all time records. we also have another girl that played over seas on a pro team. and we have a few other girls that are pretty good too. and they are tall. The first time i walked in was a little in awe i think 4 of them are over 6 ft. Holly from my ward used to play in high school and then we have another girl that played highschool ball in cali which is basically like playing college ball in MT. Anyway most of our team was gone for the reagion games. We only had 6 girls to play most games with one exception we had 7 one game. This group of girls had never really played together but we had so much fun.

We actually ended up winning region. I think i've figured out why i always had random brusis in highscool. i made it through most of the games unscathed but our second to last game with a pretty hot headed team i jammed my thumb really bad and then it got bent back. I iced it when i got home and the next morning it was still huge and was starting to turn colors. I couldn't really move it so i thought i might have broken it but as you know me i played anyway. I actually think it have me a nice light touch on the ball because i think i scored like 12 points including a buzzer beater at half.

Anyway i'm so glad i got to play with these girls i had so much fun and can't wait till next year. Oh and my thumb isn't to bad i just have a bruise all around my palm and into my wrist. lol seriously i've never had a jammed finger hurt this bad but i think i only broke a blood vessel or something and thats why its brusied so bad. I'd take a picture but it just kinda looks like a shadow so i don't know if you could see it.

oh and a big thank you to kurtis who stayed home with kyler and ninja while i was out playing 4 games. he was stuck at home with them for 3 nights. thanks hun love you.

Poor Puppy

2010-03-19T08:54:00.002-06:00

Well since Ninja didn't come with his shots and wasn't neutered the poor puppy gets both of those this morning. The poor thing cried the whole way to the Vets office because he didn't get to eat and didn't really get to get out of his kennel except to go to the bathroom this morning. I normally would just put him on a leash but kyler is constantly spilling food and since the dog couldn't eat anything becasue he's going into surgery i didn't want to chance him finding something in the car. We dropped him off in Clearfield (about 20 min. North of our house) at a vet clinic as they had the best price by about $100's. We're going to go pick him up at 11:00 and he'll probably have a pretty mellow couple of days I'm gonna have to try to make sure that kyler leaves him alone. anyway here are a few pics since he's been at our house.

Ninja

2010-03-17T14:07:00.002-06:00

Ok so we decided to go with Ninja. He is a great little dog. I wasn't sure he was gonna calm down at first. Let me tell ya this dog is fast. I honestly think he did a lap around our living room on each couch and up the stairs around kylers room twice in like 30 seconds. anyway he finally did calm down. the only bad thing he's done is he tried to hump kyler once or twice. but good news for us he is getting his shots and getting neutered on friday.

We're so happy for our new addition. The only problem we have is that he hates hates hates being left alone but hopefully he'll get a little better. I mean i only leave for groceries and small arrends so its not a long time but he barks when i leave. anyway more later i'll get a few morre pics up too. thanks for those that weighed in on the subject.

Addition to the family!!!

2010-03-15T15:06:00.003-06:00

Well we've been thinking for about a year now on this decision and i guess we've finally decided. We are going to be getting a DOG.

A few nights ago kyler woke up in the middle of the night and kurtis went and got him and took him downstairs. when he came back to bed he told me they had been looking at puppies. I said "oh really what brought that up" and then it all came out. Kurtis told me that he "kinda promised kyler he would get him a puppy if he would be a good boy". I guess earlier that day when i went to go get our babysitter they were outside playing with our neighbours dog and kurtis had to drag kyler inside and when he did he was in hysterics. kurtis couldn't calm him down and kyler just kept crying and saying puppy puppy. so Kurtis told him when he finally got him to stop crying that if he was a good boy he would get him a puppy.

We've gone through this a few times before looking for puppies i mean. this time we're really down to two. We have one "on hold" till tomorrow that is a chiuauah?, beagle, poodle mix and there is one we saw at the animal shelter we liked two who is a chiuauah, terrier mix.

We're going to see Ninja tomorrow he's the 1st one. he isn't neutered and doesn't have any shots but we would be paying $40 for him and he doesn't really shed. I think he's a little cuter that the other one and he is house trained already and comes with his bed, a collar, leash and some toys. he's really good with kids she says and does well in the car. He is 5months

The other one is named BUD. He isn't what i would call cute at first i guess but after you meet him he is a sweetheart. He played wonderfully with kyler. he gets neutered on wednesday and gets his final shots along with a microchip. He nuggles down into you when you hold him and he doens't really seem to shed much either. but we do have to house train him and we would have to get a kennel and food and toys ect... He is 1yr to 1.5 yr

I've said we'll go get ninja tomorrow from this lady but we want to play with him a bit before we acutally decide fully, but i'm now kinda feeling bad about poor little bud. I just need some opinions. Let me know what you think.

I"m trying to put a pic of each of them on here. Ninja is black and Bud is yellow/blonde. Give me some feed back.

The Year of 25.

2010-03-07T13:23:00.002-07:00

Well i've been thinking about doing this post for a while and maybe i should have done it then because i can't remember all the thing i was going to say but here goes. the 25 things i've done or learned while being 25.

1. I acutally enjoy cleaning. After cleaning my parents house even though it wasn't so fun in the middle of the task i really enjoy seeing a finished result of cleaning and decorating a space.

2. Traveling on a plane with a 1 yr old is never easy or fun. especially by yourself and when they loose your luggage.

3. I acutally enjoy running when i finally make myself do it.

4. Craft projects really arent' that bad.

5. Cutting yourself bad enough to have to get stitches really isn't that hard and only takes a second.

6. Baking a cheesecake is really easy. If you haven't had it and you like cheese cake ask me to make you my dolce de leche cheesecake sometime

7. Loosing weight after you've had children or rather one child is not easy for everyone. I ran 1 to 2 miles for 3 months and only lost a pound. but now i'm down 10 so its alright.

8. Your family can be your friends. We don't really hang out with friends anymore probably because of schedules and kyler needing to get to bed, but we do hang out with our families all the time and play games and have fun. its actually really nice.

9. Disneyland really is a wonderful place even if the first time you go to it your 25.

10. I can kinda play soccer. i played indoor soccer this year on a family team and had a blast.

11. The almost terrible 2's are HORRIBLE.

12. i love Jane Austin

13. I got to Enjoy the ocean for the 1st time since kurtis and i got married.

14. Kyler doesn't like the ocean but likes seagulls and sand.

15. you can get a scratch on your eyeball but still be able to function well... for the most part anyway.

16. A rearranged living room can change your whole house.

17. I can acutally sew. Keep Checking out Bags for Bettys.

18. I got to go into a water resivore before it was filled.

19. Going to see my brothers graduation. even though i had to fly out before he actually graduated getting to spend the time with him right before he did.

20. I'm not very good at starting new blogs. I've tried to start two other blogs but they both only lasted about a week.

21. it is possible for a grown adult to enjoy cartoons better than her 1 yr old son. I love Jane and the Dragon and Jacob two two.

22. Getting to go see a childhood friend get married. My Friend Nick got married this summer.

23. i've learned how gratifying it is to be able to teach 17 and 18 year olds and to watch young men grow as they get ready to go on missions.

24. That it is possible to love a child more and more each year, and a husband.

25. that i have a wonderful support system of family , and friends that i love to talk to and hear from all the time.

Thanks to all of you that have been a part of my year of being 25.

hmm

2010-02-23T20:03:00.004-07:00

Well I'm not sure what i'm going to write but i got sick of seeing my last post so idecided to fill this with some whatever writing.
The frustrations of starting your own buisness.
1. time spent
2. money spent
3. no results yet
4. frustration
5. dirty house
6. fast pressured dinners
7. loving your product but not getting any bites yet.
8. the scariness of not getting any bites yet. i know it takes a while but its still scary.
9. the frustrations of sewing troubles
10. trying to figure out how to get your name out there.
I know starting a business is hard work, and i know it takes time but it doesn't mean i can't be like everyone else that starts a business and be frustrated. I'm afraid to make more bags cuz what if i don't sell them. and i'm afraid to stop becuase well what if i start selling them. I keep justifying it by thinking about the spring and haveing a booth at the farmers market. then i think about the cost of that ugh. and i have to deisgn a stand that with "stand out" and look professional. I guess i just wait for that one to get here and take it when it comes. In the mean while i've learned how to sew an internal zipper pocket and make it look professional because hey i'm going to be a professional i guess. Anyway if i liked animal prints i'd love my newest bag. so here it is for you to look at. let me know if you have any suggestions on bags that you guys like and designs you like so i can see if i can recreate them.
I haven't worked at famous more than one day this month so i've had a lot of time to get things together. and lots of designing time. i'm starting to make smaller bags as well but haven't taken any pics of them yet. please give me as much input as you can its really great. thanks to all.
Sam

Couponing Love

2010-02-10T15:34:00.002-07:00

I Haven't done any couponing for a while but recently started following a couponing blog that i love. I got all this loot for for 26.75( i had a gift card for one place so for everyone else it would be 34.50). WOW and really i get 12.00 back in the mail and i got a $6.00 coupon for walgreens for my next purchase of 6. or more. So if you figure that all into it all this stuff only cost me $8.75. AMAZING. I LOVE Coupons!!!!!

Check out the pic i drew for my logo do you think it looks kinda like me?

2010-02-05T14:15:00.002-07:00

This is the Pic i started with its a artists drawing of Betty Page

This one is my Pic that i changed the face and hair of to look like me

And this is what it looks like with a little help from photo shop.

I think this one looks the most like me. Anyway i have a friend helping me come up with an offical logo. He has a shop called Resistance Ride Shop "For Us by Us" They sell hoodies and t-shirts. you should check them out at www.rideresistance.com

Got Some Pics Up. How long could i be a stay at home mom in UT without starting my own home business?

2010-02-02T22:20:00.003-07:00

The Answer is 20 Months. Thats right i'm offically a utah stay at home mom trying to make a living now. I just registered my company name and will hopefully have that all squared away tomorrow. What am i doing you ask. Well those of you who know me the best thing of the last thing i used to like to do and you'll get close...... I am sewing handbags and purses and am going to try to sell them. I'd put some pics up but my camera is dead so you'll all have to wait. All i know is that i've showed the first one that has many mess ups on it to a bunch of people and they think its a great idea. I've made 2 more since then (and that means i made 2 purses yesterday) and started another one today i'm trying to make a few before i start to sell them. I'm thinking i'll put them up on etsy first and see how they do. Anyway Wish me luck. I'm a little nervous but i'm feeling pretty confident. Hope all goes well as i just spent $22. on my company name. Oh yeah i forgot to tell you what it is. Bags For Bettys.

So cross your fingers for me as i start out on this new journey.

kyler pics

2010-01-27T13:07:00.004-07:00

I entered kyler into the Regis and Kelly Live most beautiful baby contest so we had to take some pics here are a few of the good and not so good ones. by the way i'm pretty sure i saw Becky's (Anderson ) daughter as one of the contestants as well.

this is my new scrapbook page i love it.

Mr. napolaone

I love this one we were watching the Jazz game and he was walking around like a little playa

Hooray. Wahoo

Sometime i'm going to get some good pic's here he just wanted nothing to do with it this day

He didn't really like being up this highThis is kyler thinking he's getting away with something

the cheesiest grin ever.

lets call it sickness delirium

2010-01-25T11:02:00.002-07:00

Last Sunday it all started with kyler and i having a cough and sore throat. And now more than a week later it has effected our entire house and maybe my sanity. Anyway Some more random thoughts.

sickness dislike list
1. one nostril breathing.
2. no nostril breathing
3. the nasty taste of cough medicine
4. kyler's snot on all of my clothes as i can never keep up with his nose.
5. headaches. i really miss the 23 years i had virtually without a real headache.
6. Flem induced laryngitis
7. hot and cold flashes
8. packed sinuses
9. cruddy gunkie eye goobers
10. not wanting to do anything ad if you do do something regretting it later.

that said i've still had some nice things the last week.

1. Kurtis took a day off because he was sick along with the rest of us.
2. watching movies in my pj's while being wrapped up in a nice fuzzy blanket on the couch
3. kyler nuggling down with me.
4. Homemade Chicken noodle soup
5. reading. kurtis finished a book this week and i finished one and started another. and i've read 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish to kyler probably 20 times this week.
6. Napping and not feeling bad about it. I can't nap generally but when i'm sick all i seem to want to do is sleep. and i have done a lot of it during the day as kyler has only had one night this week that he slep though.
7. Warm showers
8. not going out in the hustle and bustle. the only place i've been in the last week is to costco for milk. oh and we stopped at target for some meds.
9. fuzzy socks. warm fuzzy socks
10. sickly family time. since we're all sick we spend all the time together. the only problem is that

random thoughts

2010-01-21T13:01:00.004-07:00

I love the cosbys. Ok i know this is an old sitcom but it is probably my favorite sitcom of all time and the oder i get the more i like it. It reminds me of my Uncle Kenny and my cousins.

I hate getting older A few months ago i sprained my ankle pretty bad and i just recently started working out again and feeling great. Well monday we played some family basketball and i went up for a rebound against my husband and came down on his foot and sprained it again. So now i am layed up again. I HATE GETTING OLDER. i know that all the injuries i sustained as a younger person are already going to be giving me arthritis as i get older but i hate it now when i hurt myself it is acutally something that hurts me.

i miss clean air. Until just a few days ago utah had the top 5 cities with the worst air quality in the nation. It hurt to breathe outside and was all gloomy. it makes me miss my home in the big sky state, i'd gladly take the freazing cold if i could at least breath.

I've turned into a utah mom. Complete with cooking, cleaning and crafting. I even just started a new blog about these three things so i can have somewhere to talk about just them. Growting up i never thought that i would ever live in utah let alone actually become one of the utah moms. lol.

I love being a mom. Kyler loves and nuggles are the best things there are. I love it when he learns something new and gets excited about it.

New Years Resolutions

2010-01-12T09:26:00.002-07:00

ok So i don't really beleive in making new years resolutions simply because most people fail them so instead of resolutions i just call it my working list for self improvement. So here you go

Lose 10 more lbs and become healthier in my eating and lifestyle
do at least a mini triathalon
read jesus the christ.
Finish all the works of jane austin (i have 3 left to go i got all of her books for christmas)
teach kyler his ABC's
start potty training Kyler.
dejunk my junk(house storage)
get a garden growing
try to live a greener life
do family night every week

thats my list for now. There's a lot of reading and a lot of exercise on it. So hopefully i'll be able to at least accomplish half of them. anyway there it is its out there maybe it will give me more gumption to do it all.

Oh and side not if your the work out at home type i found a great video for only $9.00 at walmart or $8.00 at costco that i've been doing for a week now. Its "The biggest Loser Cardio Boot Camp" I would reccomend it to anyone. It lets you choose your work out and gradually get harder at your own speed and the greatest thing is that you don't need anything but the video. it helps if you have some free weights but you don't need them. I kicked my but last week or so i feel like it literally did. I haven't been this sore since i was in basketball hell week. but its a good sore and i feel great for the rest of the day after i do it. So there's my little plug for them.

christmas New years and beyond

2010-01-05T10:13:00.005-07:00

Ok so i haven't blogged for a while Kurtis keeps telling me "hey you haven't put anything up yet." so here is my attempt. we'll see if the computer complies with my efforts. oh by the way my finger is now better i had kurtis take out the stitches last week. we spent New years Not quite knowing what we were going to do. Kurtis ended up not having to work from after tuesday that week and i was supposed to work both wednesday and thursday but ended up not having to work thursday. we were going to go up with Kurtis' family to his sister Kimly's fiance's families cabin at the border of wyoming and utah from wednesday on but becuase of the work schedules didn't work out then we were going to do the regular new years with earnshaw family but we decided we didnt' want to take kyler all the way to provo and back late at night. so we ended up going to kurtis' aunts house and playing games. We got thinking after that we should have just left thursday for montana and spent a few days there. I really wish we would have but oh well. i won't bore you anymore i think thats whats up with us right now.

This is Kurtis' winning challange from would you rather the other night with our friend Katie and Brandon.

Kyler jamming out on new years day with his saxophone. Mabey he'll be like mommy and play a real one someday.

This was my attempt at taking kyler sledding last week. Didn't end up sledding at all but eating a lot of snow and chasing a cat.

Oh and sucking on his hat.

eating more snow

Running after the cat

This was one of the mornings kyler was trying to get out of his chair and got stuck.

I did get him out but of course not until after i got a few pics.

This is the Larry H. Miller sing a long at Energy solutions arena. This was a very fun thing to go to. It was free and they gave us vouchers for a jazz game, a bee's game (baseball), buy one get one free at the motorsports go carts, and 1 free large popcorn at a movie. Plus that night we got a free hot dog and drink. Also Peter Brianholt? was playing a mini concert so it was great. he is amazing if you've never heard of him google his youtube video of taylor swift and viva la vida that he played it is amazing.

Kyler not sitting at the sing a long

Christmas morning. I don't have very many pictures this year but a few video's i just didn't want to wait for them to load so here ya go.

Our hill of paper.

Santa's cookie and water by the fireplace we wanted to make sure that santa was being a little healthy and had lots of water .

the Cost of crafting

2009-12-23T08:30:00.003-07:00

so i made some really cute mittens that matched a pair of sweater boots i made yesterday i bought some old shoes and some sweaters from the DI yesterday for 20. and i still have a ton of material left over to make more but i won't be getting to that for a bit as i ended up going to insta care and getting 4 stitches in m left pointer finger. I was poking a hole through some material with some scissors and all the sudden it went through. only problem was that my finger was on the other side. so i sliced straight from the side into the nail. some pics are of my finger at the end.

Mine

2009-12-21T08:39:00.002-07:00

Ok so Kyler is a little word sponge these days. in the last week he has learned blue, phooh, tiger, and a jillion other words. One particular word we have been working very hard to not let him here is mine. But alas we have failed. On saturda night we were over at kurtis' parents house playing games and it was me who slipped i wasn't talking to him i was talking to kurtis and he happened to hear. and then it was like the seagulls off of Nemo. He spent at least half an hour in the play room just saying it over and over and over to the dog to the chair to the toys. I do have to admit it was rather funny. But we are hoping that he hasn't quite gotten the conatext for it yet. As he just started nursery yesterday and christmas is just around the corner. Not exactly my favorite choice of a word for him to learn right now. oh well My Bad.

What i love about this time of year!

2009-12-14T09:25:00.002-07:00

This last weekend i had my annual holiday baking session with my cousins at Kami's house. I love this because it gives us a little of home. I remember when i was pretty little at Aunty Kays house making all sorts of goodies. we are in fact a very gooodie family. While we were making things the question came up of what is the holiday treat that you associate with christmas. So i thought i would write a list of some of my loves of the season.

1. My holiday treat is Fudge. It just says christmas to me. Everyone in my family makes fudge. My mom, aunt and grandma's are my favorite. My grandma even makes some peanutbutter fudge that i like and i HATE peanut butter.

2. Snow & christmas lights- I love how lights glitter off of the snow. And my favorite is right after it has snowed a bunch and then everything is just calm no one is out and its just calm an quite. It makes me think about the night that christ was born and is just very peaceful.

3. Manheim Steamroller Music-This is a tradition from my parents. When we were decorating for christmas we always had this on so now it is what i listen to all season. My favorties are carol of the bells and Stille Notche.

4. Claymation Holiday Cartoons- I actually like to watch these on thanksgiving night. Which stems back from when i was rather young and they used to show them on tv then. Kurtis got me the box set for christmas the first year we were married. Now i'm teaching kyler to love them. My favorite is actually Santa Claus is Coming to town and then of course Rudolf the red Nosed Reindeer.

5. The lights from the chirstmas tree. I love the light that a tree gives its possibly my favorite thing inside. combine it with the music and i could just sit and read a book next to the tree all night.

6. shopping for everyone- I actaully love shopping for everyone. I always try to be done by thanksgiving now as we are usually either going up for thanksgiving and thats a lot cheaper than shipping or just because i prefer to spend the holiday season relaxed with the presents under the tree when i put it up. But i love getting my list all ready and crossing things off of it. And just finding that present that with make someone happy or their eyes light up.

7. Decorating- I don't have a ton of decorations but my entire house is green ( the lady we bought it from really really liked green.) so christmas is very nice and easy to decorate for. this year i've kinda done a mountain cabin christmas. Lots of pine and dark colors. hopefully i can continue to add to my decore through the years.

8. Family- It just feels like we are more in contact with family that we usually aren't as in contact with during this time of year. This christmas is a little harder for me because its our second in a row away from my family. We did it this way becuase we want to be on track with everyone else. All my cousins go up ever other year so we wanted to be ontrack with them. I love christmas at home but kurtis' family does a really good christmas too. I wish i could combine christmas eve games here with grandma's birthday their and then have christmas day there. But i love it both ways.

9. Fuzzy PJ's on Kyler- something about his fuzzy pjs makes me think of christmas morning.

10. Stalkings by the fire when we looked at our house i loved that it had a fireplace with a mantle. So i acutally do get to hang my stalkings by the fireplace. I also can't wait till i get our new stalkings. My mom sent us some this year that are just the red and white ones but she had my aunt embroider our names on them. But i'm holding out for the knitted ones i grew up with. a lady acutally makes them and they each have your name on them and a picture of something example mine is a snow man, i'm going to get kyler a puppy with a christmas hat on and i'm not sure what for kurtis yet maybe a santa or a rocking horse. Anyway my aunt has these foreveryone in her family and extended and their mantle is getting pretty full. But i love these stalkings so mom and i are working on getting each of our houses a set for us. My mom already has them for our immediate family but not kurtis or kyler yet.

11. my christmas skirt- My grandma made me a christmas tree skirt last year for christmas which i love. I was actually trying to find one last year and figured i'd wait till after christmas to see what i could find. And then i got this one and absolutly love it. my moms was made by my grandma too so it reminds me of home. Plus its is now offically a family heirloom.

Mayo

2009-12-12T08:49:00.002-07:00

I just was impressed with myself for actually making mayo on from scratch that i needed to blog about it. Problem is i didn't get to take a picture of it because we used it before i charged my camera. looks and tastes good. It has a slight oil flavor but you make it from ingredients that i at least already had in the house.

1 egg
2 T lemon juice
dash of tabasco sauce. I didn't have this so i used vinegar since thats about all i taste in tabasco. I might add some hot sauce to it next time.

You mix this up with a food processor or i did it with a hand jucie blender thing and when its smooth you start adding 1 1/4 cup vegetable oil to it slowly while you keep blending it.

(you have to use vegetable oil they said or it won't turn out, and the lemon juice cooks the egg so you don't get sick)

So if you run out of mayo or just don't want to go to the store try it out. You can add your own flavors to it too. i got it from Homecooking the blog on my blog watch. Its a lady from Helena MT who just likes to cook. I really like a lot of her recipies and have made a few before she has even like her new chocolate mousse cake i found that one a few years ago. But its fun for ideas.

Thanksgiving in Cali

2009-12-02T10:13:00.009-07:00

This year we were supposed to go to Montana for Tday but my parents were a a family friends son's wedding in San Diego so we decided that we would go with Kurtis' family to California for Kacie's soccer tournament. We spent thanksgiving day at Disney Land and had a lot of fun. It was the first time for both Kyler and I. Kurtis hasn't been since right after graduation High school so it was a lot of fun for our whole family. According to everone else it wasn't to increadibly busy. We got to go on all the major rides at least once i got to ride screaming 2x. We had a hopper pass so we spent the morning in disney land the afternoon is california adventure and the night at disneyland. My favorite rides were space mountain and screaming. Kylers was probably Its a small world he loved all of the different things there. Kurtis' favorite was Soaring over California. That was really cool i have to say. anyway. Here are some pics.

This was our trip to the beach we went to Corona de something it wasn't busy at all so it was nice. we were only there for about an hour or so it seemed to me but i could spend all day at the beach and still not have enough. Kyler loved the sand and the seagulls but wasn't sure about the water. It probably didn't help that it was pretty cool outside and the water was freezing.

California here we come....

2009-11-24T08:07:00.002-07:00

alright we're heading out to LA today we won't get there till tomorrow but we'll see how it goes. Its gonna be the whole family. There are two cars and 9 of us going. We are going to spend thanksgiving at Disneyland and then we have soccer games to watch on friday and saturday and will be spending a long day in the car on sunday. hope we get a lot of good pictures for you on our trip. Love you all and hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Turkey day treats and kyler

2009-11-20T14:01:00.005-07:00

Yesterday Kurtis had a class till 9 for work so kyler and i were on are own all day. man did i get bored so i decided to make some treats that i saw on Studio 5(this is also the show that i won the new moon tickets on) any way here they are not great pics. But the acorns are made with PB and Chocolate with almonds and pretzels. The leaves are sugar cookies. These are some more acorns and my turkey farm. I adapted these a bit the faces are supposed to be made out of candy corn but i couldn't find any for sale in the 3 places i went so i gave up and used cashews instead i think they still look great. The wattels are made from red hots and the body is a chocolate creme from wal mart $1 for all these plus there were a few left over. The feathers are sugar cookes from the batch i made with the leaves and the feet are pretzles.
The last creation didn't turn out as well as i would have liked but probably becuse i improvised a bit i made some round sugar cookies and covered them with chocolate the tops are chocolate covered marshmallows and the black band is sum ribbon and the gold buckle is a laughy taffy i rolled out and cut into 8 pieces. either way i figure they will work for my visiting teaching if i can keep them around long enough.
This is kylers had. His cousin Sarah made it for him during conference, but he has just recently started to like it. He looks like he is about 3 to me in all these pictures

I think this one looks like he's trying to be cool but really he's just pulling off the hat.

My Little boy is getting to Big to fast.

This is his new hair cut i haven't been able to spike it like the lady that cut it did. Probably becuas i didn't acutally see it when it was done. I was at the movie when Kurtis took him for the hair cut so he was in bed when i got home. He looks a lot older to me now. Thank goodness for cookie cutters hair salon for kids kurtis said the had an apointment for and were home by 6:10. She was that fast and he didn't even scream at her. As far as i'm concerned we can go there every time so i don't have to fight him to get his hair cut.

NEW MOON!!! LOVED IT

2009-11-18T22:29:00.002-07:00

Ok I just got home from the movie and am so glad i have tickets for Friday. It was amazing. First let me start with what we had to do to get in. I was given a special ticket which i had to exchange for the real ticket at the theater. It was on a first come first serve basis and they said that they gave out more tickets than there were seats available to insure that it was a sell out. Well after we got our tickets and picked our seats we started the process of getting into the movie. We were searched and gone over with a wand and had our bags checked to make sure that there were no cameras or any other form of electrical device that could take video or picture. Luckily we were some of the first into the theater so we didn't have to wait long. after that we just had to wait for an hour for the movie to start and once you were in you couldn't go out. any now the movie.

With out giving you any spoilers it was amazing. The acting the cinematography, the visuals the screen play it was all great. there were a few parts where the digital cinematograpy was kinda hoaky but over all it was just flat amazing. Everyone should see it the action in this one is AMAZING. and taylor lautner is jacob black. he does a great job. Oh and by the way kudos on the native's casting. my one critique of the first movie was the way they talked about the rez this one since the native's are actually natives was spot on. it actually kinda made me miss the rez.

Once again much better than what i expected and so excited to see it again.

New Moon Special Preview... Guess What I'm GOING!!!!

2009-11-17T16:15:00.003-07:00

There is a local tv show thats on during the week that does little give aways. Last week or maybe the week before they announced a contest for NEW MOON Advanced preview tickets, a game and some New Moon Sweetharts. To enter you just had to say what character you were most like. i don't even really remember all that i wrote but anyway I won. I'm so excited. I'm Taking Kurtis' little sister Kacie. I can't wait!!!! so exciting. I'm not exactly sure if i'm supposed to write this yet since i don't think it airs till tomorrow so hopefully i don't get into any trouble. Anyway i just had to blog it because i'm so stinking excited. Laura i have to gloat a little cuz i know that Erin is a twihard and that she is part of the events by alice don't know if she is going to this or not, i know she gets to do a ton of other cool stuff with the event. Anyway Wahooo!!!

The Suprise Getaway

2009-11-16T13:31:00.003-07:00

Last week Kurtis suprised me with an overnight get away to Park City. Tuesday morning he left for work and gave me a envolope to open after he left. It had a set of instructions for me to follow.

1. To pack kyler a bag for over night.
2. To pack me a bag for over night.
3. To go to red box and pick up two movies of my choice
4. That he would be home from work around 12:30 and i need to have all this done by then.
5. to relax as much as possible and that i wasn't allowed to do any cleaning.

Anyway i was so excited i had no idea where we were going if we were all going or not. So when he got home he got a bag ready and we left. Went and dropped of Kyler and headed out. he told me where we were going after we got into salt lake. We stayed at this nice little bed and breakfast in park city downtown. It was really homey and the owner Deb was so nice. her policy is that she wants to give you as much time to yourselves as possible so she leaves the doors open for ya and lets you know when breakfast is ready the next day. She's an outdoor enthusiast so she'll take you on excersions if you want to. We were just there to relax though. Park city is a crazy place to be in the winter becuse of the skiing. But we happened to be there right before the season so it was perfect we were the only ones staying at the B&B that night so it was nice a quiet.
We decided to go downtown for dinner to place called Mustang's. we probably wouldn't have except Deb brough us one of the little town magazines that had a bunch of coupons for dining in it. This is a Fine dining resturant. Kurtis doesn't much like these because he likes to order what he wants with a salad and all the sides. But it was really good food. here are a few pics of us a dinner.

and this is what we ordered for dinner its Shrimp scampi with freash basil and pinenuts. The shrimp is acutally tiger prawns so they were huge and yummy.

this is kurtis trying to figure out why a tree was sticking out of his dinner. Lol. It was soooo good thought i loved it the flavor was amazing. I do wish there was a little bit more lemony flavor but other than that heavenly. we were a bit suprised too because the protions sizes were huge. I didn't even eat all of mine and we were stuffed. It ended up costing us like 42. including the tip because we had the buy one entree get the 2nd one free for there so it wasn't to bad.

All in all a wonderful getaway i love kurtis so much and am so glad that he is sweet enough to think of these little suprises. I'm so lucky to have him as a husband.

2009-11-13T08:46:00.002-07:00

This is from my cousins blog it is all comprised of her family. Her sister put it together. I loved it so i thought i would share. Though no one in my immediate family has served yet in the armed services i have a lot of friends and relatives that have. I tend to get choked up when there are special services for and of the branches and i am absolutly appreciateive for the men and woman in the services. I do have a uncle that is serving right now and two cousins from the same family. Thanks to all our veterans and for all those that are currently serving. Including all of my friends husbands, brothers,sisters and other family.

And the winner is!!!

2009-11-06T13:39:00.002-07:00

This is my hands down favorite halloween group i've seen in a long time. And they just so happen to be my cousins. kuddos to the Osthimers. If any of you know them this totally fits the family. Love love love love it. I love it so much i had to share it with all of you. I may have to try to do this next year at our house. Freaking halarious!!! I told kelly she i was a picture for christmas of this. Oh and just so you know Colby the one in the dark suit is Mr. Smithers who they alway catch.

My attempt as sewing!!!

2009-10-30T17:42:00.004-06:00

Ok I was bored and decided i needed a project and figured i would get out my sewing machine for the second time in 2 years. I didn't want to do anything to hard but nothing so easy i would be done really fast. So i decided to make kyler some PJ's. The problem was that the pattern i got at is smallest size was for a kid around 3. So the neck on the top is a little big and they are both a little long. but they seem to work good enough and he seems to like them. Overall i'm pretty happy that they at least turned out looking like actual pjs. Here are a few pics.

Happy Halloween

2009-10-28T13:20:00.003-06:00

We got snow yesterday for the first time of the year and i decided that on monday i wanted to get some picks of kyler outside in his halloween costume while it still looks like Fall so here ya go.

This is my favorite one. I had great ideas for pics but couldn't get him to sit down long enough to get any of them. He had just gotten finished telling me what a cow says.

And here is my little nuggle been and his beloved puppy.

The Attack on Baby Einstein

2009-10-27T09:46:00.002-06:00

Ok i have baby einsteins that i got from my mother in law for christmas last year for kyler. He absolutly loves them. It is a great supplimental video to help you teach your children in my opinion. I know they say your not supposed to let your kids watch any TV before 2 years old and here is what i have to say to that. How many of you who say this watched tv before you were 2 i'm willing to bet about 95% of you did. Especially if you were the youngest or actually anything after the first child. Now if your mad at your parents for letting you watch the smurfs or the chipmunks as a kid and wrecking your chances at being a genius i'm sorry for you or rather i'm sorry for your parents to have to deal with your big pain in there butt.

These give me a little time to do the laundry while kyler runs around the room and tries to do what the kids do in the video. He learned what his nose was and how to dance etc... from baby einstein. Though i'm sure it wasn't entirely from baby einstein becuase we were working on these things with him too, but they are a great help mate. There for i don't think they are bad and i don't think that i'm a bad parent for letting my child watch them. If your worried about your child being obese why don't you talk them out on a walk or let them play outside or maybe you should start with your diet. Take some iniative and make other changes in your life. Generally children emulate there parents so if your lazy your child will be too. If you have an activce lifestyle your child will too. Quit blaming other things for your problems and start taking responsability for your own actions. Then maybe we can solve some of the real problems in the world.

I loved what this person said.

swalizuh
#12
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:31:26 AM
I would like to thank the CCFC for their hard work and would like to draw their attention to other matters at hand. The Wiggles. By watching these videos, my son, does in fact, NOT wiggle! It's more of a bopping from side to side and spinning. Exercise or an attempt by four older men in colorful clothes to brainwash and take over the lives of our children!? Plus, Barney is not a real dinosaur! What are we teaching our children, lies!
Please don't insult our intelligence as parents. Anything in excess can be detrimental, even to adults.

Our Pet

2009-10-22T14:29:00.002-06:00

In about June Kurtis and i had been talking about his work he was telling me how they see salamanders all the time. So i told him the next time he found one he should bring it home for me. Those of you who knew me as a kid should know this shouldn't be any suprise. So a few weeks later he and his uncle matt climed into one of the man holes and rescued this guy. He has been there for a few years. They figure his egg got washed into the hole and he has never been able to leave since its just a hole. So now he is our pet. So far he doesn't have a name sad i know but he gets regular cleaning (his tank anyway) and lots of crickets. He is a Tiger Salamander from what i can figure and can get up to about 15 inches long. Right now he's probably around 10 or 11''. They can live up to 20 years in captivity so we should hopefully have him for a long long time. Let me know if you think up any names.

Witches night out

2009-10-22T14:18:00.005-06:00

Every Year There is a Witches night out I had never been till last weekend. it was fun and kinda crazy. I went as a BYU Witch.

This is our entire group with 3 ladies that dressed up as the Sanderson Sisters from Hokus Pokus.
Katie and Lindsey. They have these witches all over the grounds.

The girls were looking at this guy. it is acutally a guy he scared them when he movied it was pretty funny.

Here i am Showing my pitching skills in the witches league

We stopped here in the way back to the car and all too a pic.

Katie i have more pics of you too.

My heisman Pose

Our Day at The Zoo

2009-10-22T13:42:00.006-06:00

Last month Kyler and I went to the Zoo with Kim, and her two girls(sydney, and Bella), and Ashely and Riley. Here's a pic of Kyler Sydney and bella.

Kyler and Bella are 2 days apart.

Bella Loved the elephants.

The baby elephant was born a few weeks earlier. It was really fun to see here there were a ton of new babies at the zoo this summer.

This is Ash and Rylie

Kyler and the Dessert Owl. I wish i would have gotten a pic of him bending over and looking at the fish it was quite funny.

This is a cool thing the zoo has its huge. it also makes sounds and blows water out of its trunk.

Kyler didn't want to leave the meerkats. There were babies in this exhibit too. He loved them so much.

Kyler the Gorilla King

Kyler the Alligator Hunter

They have a really nice play area for kids Kyler didn't want to leave the zoo even though we got there are about 9 and didn't leave until 1.

Review of Music, books, etc...

2009-09-30T14:13:00.002-06:00

Ok so if you don't know yet i'm a little obsessed with the twilight series. I started reading twilight last year two days before kyler was born and read it in 3 days. I also go my mom sucked into the twilight hype as she came to help with kyler and ended up reading the book while she was staying with me. Which my mom hasn't READ a book since probably hi school because she has dislexia and its very hard for her. Anyway obviously i love this series. I can talk about it in depth and the symbolisms in it etc forever. However back to my point. The author has a wonderful site and she seems like a very fun person i love reading her posts on her site expecially her music reviews and likes. Probably more because i'm a music person and love so many different styles of music. I feel that she and i have very similar tastes in music. Anyway on her site she did a few of her favorite for the summer so i figured i'd do a few of mine.

Books:
Wurthering Heights- this book is rather depressing ina way but i love the ending. It shows how even though a person can truly be horrible how much love can control someone. My favorite character in the book is catherine II. I love her will and her um.. compassion? well you might have to read it to understand that.

Pride and Pred.- I love this book i've read it 3 times this summer. I read it while i'm reading other things just because i feel inspired by it. I love lizzy. I love how well a grasp Jane Austin has on the female psyhci. Plus i'm just a sucker for this kind of almost real life romance. I also watched sense and sensibility while in montana and have decided i need to read the entire jane Austin collection. I would say its a must for everyone well maybe every female.

Twilight series: As above i'm not going to go into detail. All i can say is i've only heard one person not like this series. I kinda takes you back to that high school ideal of romance and helps to rekindle the romance in yourself. I seriously can read these over and over i could probably read the entire series in a week if i could just sit down and read all day. I know if you haven't read them you probably won't by now but i urge you to. i was very skeptical i didn't want to read them and just decided i'd see what all the hype was about and i'm so glad i did.

Harry potter series- i know its been around for a few years but really the second time through was great. I read all the books in secession before i went to the movie and i loved them all so much better the second time through JK Rawling is a great writer.

The hourglass door- I picked this up to appease Kurtis in between reading books i'd already read. It was a bit confusing and not a great ending but entertaining. More for a teen reading but kinda fun as a filler. like the concept and could be a fun movie i think but wish it as a little better written.

Movies-

Harry Potter and the half blood prince- i went and saw this at the midnight showing and haven't seen it since but even though i was a little disappointed by the ending(not at all like the book) it was wonderful. It was hilarious and serious and just all around a great movie. I love the harry potter series and watch all the movies frequently at home so i think this is a great step in the potter path.

Forever Strong- LOVED IT. It was hilarious, and has a great message. Plus its based on a true story. and one from utah so its kinda cool for those of us that live here big Buddha from channel 13 has a pretty good part in it and chunga from 101.9 the end is in it as well. All in all a great family movie with great motivation.

17 again- Ok i thought this was really funny in parts. It was very predictable but still worth seeing.

The knowing- ok so i'm pretty sure they are trying to show the tree of life at the end of this movie. Its an interesting little spooky show worth watching once i probably wouldn't watch it again though. Just an interesting way to look at whats coming.

Music- Honestly i haven't listened to much new music this summer i've kinda went back to my high school favorites mixed in with newer favs. I will say i have a guilty pleasure with miley cyrus. i really like a few of her songs and have even learned the dance to her hoedown song.lol yeah you can all laugh now.

Muse- I've listened to a lot of muse this summer because kyler's favorite song is supermassive black hole and he tends to like there sound of music which if fine with me because i like them they just aren't my favorite. but if you haven't listened to them you should check them out they kinda have a queen ballad feel. there lead singer sounds a lot like Freddy mercury. They are nice for relaxing or just chilling in the house.

The ting tings- thats not my name i don't know why but i love this song in fact kurtis and i can sing the may chorus and kyler will dance. its kinda an annoying song but its just fun.

The All American Rejects original cd- Ok i was in Alaska when this came out and someone flew out to work in the middle of the summer and had this cd i fell in love with it then bought it when i got home and listened to it all that year. Now i still love this cd it has become a part of my everyday music list.

Jimmy Eat World original cd- again just like AAR above same story. This used to be my running song in high school and has become my running song now.

"Why Does it Always Rain on Me?" — Travis- I love this song as most of you know it was on my blog all last spring. Now that its starting to rain again here i think i might have to pull it back out.

Twilight soundtrack- I had kurtis get me this for Christmas last year because i saw a few of the songs on it that i liked and figured since twilight wasn't mainstream yet and stephanie meyer was in on so much of the movie details and i liked her musical choices the cd might be good to. And it didn't disappoint. It also looks like the Newmoon soundtrack wont' disappoint either except for Death cab for cutie it looks like its going to be great too. (i just really have never been impressed with death cab sorry) But anyway love love love iron and wine now its a good cd to have you can listen to the whole thing over and over again.

Iron and Wine- Heard about these/this guy from the twilight soundtrack (thank you kristen stewart she was the one that suggested this song) and fell in love with the sound. I didn't realize i actually had heard a few of the remakes of his songs. They are worth checking out. Kinda a cat stevens feel.

AFI Crash Love LP- Ok i don't have this one yet i just checked it out today but i really like it it's alot more mellow than anything else they have but hey it kinda fits my life now. I love afi a friend introduced them to me a few years ago since then i've seen them live and have them on my phone and both ipods. Absolute must for Snowboard season and great for getting up if your working out running whatever love it.

OK i could go on with music forever but i'll stop there i hope you don't laugh at me to hard and that maybe i've given you something else to check out. anyway. enjoy-

- Sam

I think i'd like to have a Girl.

2009-09-27T11:39:00.002-06:00

I was just looking at all my friends blogs. Specifically those that already have girls or that are awaiting the arrival of one. I've decided that i think iw ould like to have a girl for my next child. I know i don't get to pick and that i've pretty much only ever really wanted boys with maybe one girl in the mix but they just look so fun. Not that Kyler isn't fun. He is my baby. My nugglebean he is a momma's boy through and through. He is my little buddy we do everything together. But it might just be nic eto have another girl around the house. We went to the zoo on Tuesday with my cousins and their little girls. There is such a difference in girls and boys. Kim's little girl bella is just two days younger than kyler. but she will walk around and just stay with us you don't really have to tell her to or ask her to she just does it. If i even let kyler out of his stroller all i would have been doing would be chasing him and making sure he wasn't trying to get into any of the cages. but thats the difference between boys and girls. Plus little girl stuff is so cute. i have to admit it. cute little shoes oh so many cute little shoes. I started working at famous footwear again in august and i look for shoes for kyler they just don't really have any cute shoes for boys. there is really like 2 full bins of shoes for infant boys but girls they have 4 full to the brim bins. so many different shoes different colors and styles. plus cute clothes for girls are cheaper than boys. You can find really cute girl outfits for a few bucks where boys clothes anything nice is like 12 bucks at least for a little outfit. not fair. plus all the cute little head bands and hair things. Although with my luck if i do get a girl next she'll be balled till she's 4 and ornery, because kyler was exactly the opposite. anyway heres hoping for a girl when that time comes again. and mind you its not coming for a least another year so don't worry i don't have baby fever or anything. all i have to do is think about hving to be pregant for 9 months and that is birth control enough for me.

Frustrating!!!

2009-09-21T07:49:00.003-06:00

This morning while watching the news i was repulsed by a story about a family who took their bath time photos to wal mart to get developed and ended up loosing their kids because the lady who developed the pictures labeled them as lude and sexually explicit photos. There weren't allowed to show the nude photos in the case but showed 4 photos taken on the same roll. The walmart employee said that out of the 144 pictures taken on the family vacation to San Diego that 7 of them were sexually explicit. The 4 that they showed on good morning America were pictures of the girls wrapped up in towels standing next to each other, and with their dad. This is absolutely ridiculous. I will NEVER again take any of my photos to wal mart or even buy anything to do with pictures or cameras there again.

This family was not only separated from each other as the children were taken by child protection services, but also suffered economic losses. The wife/mother is a school teacher and was released from her position because of this case. Not to mention the emotional stress on the entire family. What about the emotional toll on these girls. Did any of these people who were supposedly protecting these girls think about that? I'm absolutely appalled that this could happen here in America. what is our system coming to. I feel like the book 1984 is starting to be not to far off. is there anything that is sacred about the constitution any more. Does anyone out there have a high enough moral complex to see the innocence that should be seen that way. Or do we live in such fear of each other that things like this happen to innocent people. There are rules and laws for a reason but is there reason enough in the people who lay down these laws.

has this woman who has inflicted this pain upon these people ever had children. I would guess no. and i hope that she has apologized to this family for the pain she has inflicted on them all and probably mostly the children she thought she was protecting. It is time for America to take a stand and take back the freedoms and common sense that most of the country has. And put a stop to the crazy ridiculous people who are the minority that seem to have there voices heard because they have the right to complain. its time to complain back. Our country is going to hell in a hand bag. Look at how close our country became in 02 after 9/11 now look at how few even care about that day and what happened. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! Look around you and see if you like what is going on. Its time to fight for what you believe in and not just sit idly by. We are the sleeping giant and what we think and believe matters change your world by working for what you want changed. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

clean up and clean out

2009-09-03T09:18:00.004-06:00

the last week i've been on this cleaning kick. I deep cleaned my kitchen on monday and i've been doing little crafty projects with things around my house to find new uses for things in my closets. I've been somewhat on this green kick too. I have such a hard time throughing things out and thinking there just going to a landfill to make everything dirty. so i've been trying to do my part to go green. here are some of my projects.

Some branches from my tree in the back yard that were dead and one of kylers old formula cans covered in paper make a nice door deco for my front patio. getting ready for fall.

This is my reversable anderson A for our front door. Kyler helped me put leaves on the 'A" for our fall look but right now its the purple from below

My cubbord cleaning. I have all my oils behind my flour and sugar etc i just like that it looks more organized

This is my favorite new addition. This is our breakfast in bed tray. Kurtis got it when i was preganant i think anyway he got it to make me breakfast in bed. we've only ever used it like twice and other than that its been sitting on top of our fridge so while cleaning i thought i would put it here and use it as a dry erase board. for dinner ideas or things i need to remember for the week.

next is my organizing attempt at my pantry. using baskets and bowls to try to organize things it looks much better than it did but now that i look at it in film it doesn't look that great yet.

This was my favortie thing i have these silver cans that i got when i was in college to put sugar and things in but i haven't used them forever so i decided to put my cookie cutters in them and my flavoring and food coloring added a little scrapbooking flare and whala. i think they are cute and add something to my space. I know its all dorky but i get some fullfilment out of it all so there ya go. now i'm working on making a multi powerstip container out of an old bread cubbord. we'll see how that goes.

some pics long over due

2009-07-23T14:09:00.003-06:00

Harry Potter Wands how to

2009-07-13T13:11:00.003-06:00

I Saw how to make these on Good Things Utah last week and Since i'm going to the midnight viewing of The Half Blood Prince i thought why not go all out. So these are really simple and i have to admit kinda fun to make. i wish i had more little kids or crazy adults like me to give them to or sell them to becuase they are so fun to make and really simple.

Here's what you need:

-1/2 inch dowel to desired length. (I just bought a few 36'' long dowels for 99cents at walmart. I made my wand to resemble Hermione's so i made it 14'' long However i would just suggest cutting the dowel into equal 12'' wands)

- wood stain or paint- I used woodstain because we have a bunch in our garage i also think it makes a more real effect.

-sand paper- used to make sure you won't get any slivers and to round the top of the wand

-a Peeler (potatoe)- for aging the wand and rounding the tip

- hot glue gun

-Candle Cup 1/2" hole wood peices- (i just found them next to the dowels at roberts for 99cents)

- Krylon 18 kt gold leafing pen ( i got mine at roberts for 3.00 with a half off coupon its to most expensive part of this project, but one will last you for a long time. They cost about $6.00 without a coupon.)

1. cut your dowels or have somewhere like home depot or lowes do it for you.

2. use you peeler to round the top point of the wand and to age the dowel. I just rand it up and down the dowel and left the nics and things to that it made it look more real.

3. attache the wooden candle cup to the handle end of the wand.

4. stain or paint the wand and let dry.

5. use the hot glue gun to make handle designes and whatever else you would like on the wand.

6. use the gold leafing pen and go over the hot glue.

Bam your ready to cast your spells just like harry potter.

I also used some branches from our former pine tree to make some fun wands as well. they turned out good too so you can just use whatever you have around you as well it all works good.

Summer thoughts

2009-07-08T09:48:00.002-06:00

1. Becky i totally wish you lived closer. Not only so we could be work out buddies but for so many other reasons.

2. I hate fish.(we have/had a bunch of fish for about 3 months and now all the sudden they all died within 3 days of eachother. and they were in 2 different tanks. I have one left of the original fish and i decided it was ok to go get some 13 cent gold fish to replace them with. but oh my goodness one of them died last night and i only got them that afternoon. oh well)

3. Michael Jackson was a person who everyone loved in some way. I think he was a music icon that few have ever attained or will attain the staus of. Does that mean he lead a perfect life. No because no one does but i think he had a lot more hard times than any of us will ever know and i know he's had a lot more hard times that i have that we do know of. Therefore i shed some tears for the king of pop yesterday, and listened to music in his honor and to just dance. I have always said music speaks to the soul. His music just makes you want to dance. So i say remember the music remember the fun remember the happy times that it fills in our lives. for me i remember halloween parties, dancing as a kid to bad with alvin and the chipmunks, spending summers outside listening to the great beats of michael.

4. My bike seat makes me feel like i've given birth again. Lol. other than that i acutally quite like to bike. I'm having a hard time going back to running right now. I have resolved to ride my bike to the store the library and anywhere else i don't feel threatened by cars. Its really refreshing and actually fun. I like being outside with the wind in my face and getting somewhere and knowing i really got myself there and that i'm doing something better for the world.

5. Triathilon training really isnt' that bad... yet. I'm hoping that by next spring i will be able to do a triathilon. You notice i didn't say compete in i just want to be able to do one. And it actually a sprint one that i'm working on its a 9 mile bike ride, a 5k and i think its a 350 swim. i'm doing well on the biking and running but the swimming might be a bit hard. but i'm hoping that this winter i will be able to get in the pool and learn the correct way to swim.

6. My mother in law is amazing. I am so happy that i have a great relationship with her. She is actually my inspiration for the triathilon training. She has already done two this summer and is going to do her third next month. She is on several rec leagues for different sports and is going to play on our soccer team that starts tomorrow. (i'm scared i've never really played soccer before yikes!!!) She is always willing to do whatever any of her kids need. And she always helps them with anything they have to do. She plays with her kids and all of her kids love to be around her. Kurtis and i love to be over with his parents and family doing thing playing games playing crockett going to dinner whatever it doesn matter. They are our best friends. I told kurtis the other day how glad i was the i get along with his mom and family i can't imagine not liking my in laws and having a hard time spending time with them because they help me with so many thing and inspire me to do so much. I just hope that i can do the same with my kids.

7. I love parks. Kyler has grown to love being outside. And since i'm in training we often go either to the park or to the school and play on the playgrounds. i love that he loves to be outside and it makes me feel like a good mom knowing that i'm taking him out and he is enjoying being outside and playing.

8. I miss floating the river. Of all the things i miss in montana the closeness of accesible water for fun is way way up on my list. I guess i just thought growing up that everywhere had rivers and lakes around them. and its not like they don't have any in utah its just i miss being able to go ten minutes and putting in on the river and floating it swimming, fishing and enjoying it with out a ton of other people there. I miss the lake and even though there are so many people out there still feeling like you were the only ones at the particular spot you were at. I just miss the convenience of the quiet beauty of montana.

9. Fireworks make me homesick. Ok i don't get homesick very often at all. And now my home is in utah but fireworks make me miss home. For the longest time the 4th of july has been my favorite holiday because of the heat the water the beauty and the time with family. I loved4th of july for what it means for this country and the simple symbolism of the fireworks they aren't just pretty they were the price of freedom. and where we see them as pretty they were a thing of fear when the true fireworks happened. I miss being in the firework stand helping people makeing people happy for the goodies they get to celebrate with. I miss lighting the fireworks. i miss the hail that always seemed to come on the 3rd of july. i miss soda and pizza and card games. i miss boating i miss it all. The 4th of july used to be the epidomy of summer for me. it was everything that was fun and exciting happy and it just breathed summer for me. I dont' think i really ever spent the 4th with anyone other than family and maybe that is why i get homesick when the fireworks come out.

10. I love summer.

now that i've gone on and on i will finish with just that i love summer.

Its been so long stupid wifi

2009-07-01T10:48:00.002-06:00

Ok so lets see. Not a ton has happened since we got home from Montana. Kyler of course had a bday and a haircut. He looks like a little boy now. He also started throwing tantrums which are driving me nuts. He actually dances with his body now instead of just his hands. Kurtis' bday is tomorrow. He keeps insisting that he doesn't have a birthday and that he doesn't want anything. Which drives me crazy. Just tell me something you want. So he is getting cereal and a massage for his bday. I have been running and just started biking in the last few days. We got a nice bike trailer/stroller so kyler can come along for $60. on ksl. Great buy i was so excited. We actually took a walk over to grandma's house to get kurtis' old bike and ride it home but the back tire needed to be patched so we ended up walking back home. I figure a 4 mile walk = running a mile and a half. Kurtis was in a mud volleyball tourny last friday and we went to a josh graisen? concert on saturday as part of it. it was a nice night out with some friends and without kyler. I just threw my back out again two days ago from pedaling the bike up a hill a little to hard. now i'm kinda laid up. Oh we got pictures taken of kyler for his first b-day and they are so cute but i won't have them on here just yet.
Our wifi has been horrible lately we haven't been able to do anything so we haven't been able to update this for awhile. HOpefully kurtis isnt' going to look at it this so he will see his bday presents. Anyway hope all is well with everyone. Love you all.

Montana Cleaning oh my!

2009-05-28T17:47:00.002-06:00

ok So i know its been a while since i last was really even on here. so here is a rant for ya all. LOL.

So i'm in montana for Blakes Graduation. (yeah i know crazy he is that old, and he has a girlfriend, just to weird for me but it works) so anyway i've been here for almost two weeks. I came early for the purpose of cleaning my parents house. My goodness. here i am a 3 days till departure and am still not done close but not done and not done exactly like i would like but its getting close. So far i have conqured a mountain of dirty clothes, torn out carpet, painted a room. moved an office to a room previously used for well we'll call it STORAGE. thats being way nice. I've filled a dumpster twice, sent my brother to the dump twice with a back of a truck full of garbage bags, also had him make two deliveries to the folk shop, rearranged a kitchen made two shelves, turned a flour cupbord thing into a regular cupbord and no to mentioned cleaned so much and been so frustrated that i got a cold sore on my lip. All with a 11 month old at my heels the whole time. wanting the time he usually gets with his mom and even more since were not at home. MAN AM I TIRED!!!

On the good side: i went to lunch with Callie, Hayley and Laura(oh and kaden). It was so nice to see everybody. I got to see my Uncle Darrin and Aunt Kathy and their two kids, my grandparents and my uncle rory and his girlfriend and her kids. Got to go bowling with them for Garretts b-day. I also got some new clothes since my luggage got lost my mom got kyler and i some clothes to tide us over for a few days. Now that story.

Ok so i was really nervous for the first time ever for my flight to montana. I think it was just because i've never really flew when i had to be accountable for anyone but myself. So everything was going well. We Janet and Kimly took me to the airport and got me and well thats about where the trouble started. I got to the check in counter because i was checking a bag. I get there and find out my bag is to heavy and if i don't get rid of 5 lbs then they are going to charge me $90 to check it instead of $15. What a rip can i tell you. anyway so we get that situated and then get me checked into the flight. I asked if there was by chance a free seat so kyler could sit in his car seat on the way there. But there wasn't so we checked it and when up stairs to go through securty. I know sounds like nothing i wrong right. Well here's were i am proven wrong. They speed me through the line because i have a baby and i get up to the guy to check my ticket and he kinda laughs and asks if i have a ticket for me. I just give him a kinda confused look and then he shows me the ticket. The lady at the desk had checked me in as Zachary woods for a flight to billings. GREAT!!! so i go back down and find the lady that checked me in and she looks a little scared finds me my ticket and checkes me in as me then we go back up and everything goes pretty well actually considering i was flying with a baby. There happened to be TWO open seats right next to eachother on the plane i'm on so i acutally could have had the car seat but since it was already checked whatever. So kyler does good anyway listens to my ipod with his headphones and kinda plays in his own seat. Then we actaully get into missoula about 45 min early. We go to wait for our luggage and wahoo it doesn't come so i go to file a missing thing and they don't located they put it in the system and tell me to call if i want to check and see if they have found it. But they would call me if they did. So i tell them what i know and that it's probably at billings and show them the ticket they gave me originally and it also has the luggage scans on them. (so glad it didn't throw it away) anyway so the lady was really nice that helped me she told me that there was no reason for the slc lady to check me in as him especially since he originally got on his flight in san diego. she also put a special notice out for billings, slc and san diego to see if it went to any of them. 2 days go by and by them i'm getting annoyed so i keep calling on the third day i finallly get sick of waiting and call billings myself. Guess what they have it its been sitting there 3 days. So i ask if they can send it to missoula and there we have it delta people are stupid and lazy. I found my own luggage and had it sent myself to the airport and they charge me for my luggage WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!!

Anyway i'm doing good can't wait to get home to my house and relax. LOL

The Joys of Owning a home.

2009-05-08T08:03:00.003-06:00

Well (i think it was) Tuesday Kyler and i were outside working on the back yard. Everything was going great, kyler was climbing in the rocks of our landscaping a i was using a hedge trimmer as a weed wacker. then we decided to hook up the hose and clean off back patio. well our outside water is off b ecause we need to fix our sprinklers. (when we turn the water on at the main valve all the sprinklers turn on and won't stop) so we have one faucet out of the house in the back, so we hooked the hose up and started cleaning. Then all the sudden i looked into the window and there was water runnig dow it. OH CRAP!!!! it was shutting off when we shut the tap off so we knew it wasn't back farther in the line. But water was running down my wall and even out of our ac vent in the celing. Everything turned out ok it was a burst pipe. The whole thing to fix the pipe cost us $25.00 and the help of a few family members. I do however have some holes in our walls that we'll need to fix soon but still won't cost to much we already have the paint that our previous owner left. so its justsome sheet rock and putty, along with enlisting some more family help.

Stupid Graduation.

2009-04-28T08:36:00.002-06:00

Ok here is a venting blog. I had my parents get me a flight a few weeks ago so kyler and i can go home for blakes graduation, and can also make some money cleaning their house. so we booked from the 19th-31st of may. We were trying to make sure i got back intime for kyler's daddy to spend some time with him on his birthday. However now we find out that MISSION IS DOING STUPID GRADUATION ON SUNDAY THE 31st. Ok so my flight leaves at like 11:30 and we actually get into SLC at 1 when graduation starts.

now this wouldn't bother me so much but the only reason they are doing this is because its softball state on saturday. Ok now still not so bad i can understand this but........ there are only like 16 real students from mission graduating and like 9 foriegn exchange students. So really how many of them are on the stupid softball team.......BLAH. Not only that but if softball is still the way it was when we were in high school they don't even have to really play well to get to state basically every team gets to state because there aren't enough teams. BLAH... and yet another BLAH for good measure. why didn't they decide to do it on a weekday as this is also memorial day weekend. BLAH BLAH BLAH...... Where is picard to tell them this stuff to make them see reason. Of all the authority in the school at least he had somewhat of a logical mind. The worst part of this whole thing is is that it was scheduled for saturday before.

So now i'm trhing to switch flights or rather my dad is trying to see if he can switch my flight and hoping to ge able to stay at least to see my brother walk in and hopefully get to see the whole graduation. If not We'll i guess i'll have to have him get his gown on and take a picture with him anyway.

Some of our easter pics

2009-04-21T08:57:00.003-06:00

no re-update but a new one.

2009-04-20T08:39:00.002-06:00

Well i'm not going to get the pics up from last month. And honestly probably not this month either but... here is a new update. We are doing good after a few draining weeks. The weather here hasn't been to great the last few weeks but we are starting to see the sun now. And it seems that everything is starting to fall into place. Lets see...

Frist off we are in the middle of refinancing our house we should be closing next month. We are droping a whole point off our original rate so we are excited about that.

Easter- It was kyler's first easter and i was so excited for it and then the sick bug struck. Kyler and kurtis were sick starting the friday before easter and lasted until the end of last week. Kurtis didn't end up able to get out of bed so kyler and i had easter by ourselves. Kyler seemed to be more excited about the plastic eggs we had all around the room than he was about his basket. He loved dying eggs. Actually i think it was that he loved the vinager water on the eggs. We would get done dying an egg and he would put it directly into his mouth lick it off and when it was all liked off he wanted another one.

Our new obbsession seems to be Settlers of catan the game. We played it with kurtis' aunt and uncle a few weeks ago since then we bought it and try to play it as much as we can. we are however very competative about it.

yard work. Kurtis' new job as a bountiful irrigation guy has seemed to give him a new wind in fixing the sprinklers in our yard. So saturday we spent most of the beautiful day out side. Starting with Kacie's soccer game at 8:30 then we came home and started to fix the yard took a trip to lowes and the gardening store. Kyler and i were working in the back yard moving around some rocks round our trees we are fixing the lanscaping that the previous owner did to make it a little more friendly for us to take care of. Kyler had a lot of funn out side. We also have been taking a lot of rock walks. We pick up rocks to add to our back yard. While we were doing that kurtis fixed our blowout valve and started to figure out our sprinkler system. However we are still working on that. The sistem doesn't seem to run on our timer so we have to figure out where we can start it from. the ones in the back yard are fine but the font don't seem to work.

On other news. I'm trying to get fit agian. I need to lose about 20 lbs. to get back to my prepregnancy weight so i'm trying to do it by walking. Kyler and i take a walk everyday. Today i think we're going to walk to costco and shopko to pick up the thinks on our list and then come home it should be a few miles no biggy. Am so glad i can say that now. becuase when i first started it was a lot to walk round our block i was so out of shape. But now we jog it most of the way. So we'll keep you all updated on how it goes.

quick updates

2009-04-04T15:45:00.002-06:00

March march march. What a busy month. here is a fast recap i'll do better posts later well hopefully anyway.

1st week- we went to montana for a week while kurtis was between jobs. We got to celebrate my bday at home. Went to my Cousin tammy's who now owns the 44 bar for dinner and went to missoula for lunch(chinese buffet) cleaned parents house.

2nd week- Kurtis started his new job at bountiful irrigation, got ready for kevin's mission farewell, karson's eagle award, celebrated my bday with family here. Kyler had a dr. appointment. Hurt my back and went to the chiropractor 3 times that week.

3rd week- All kurtis's family was up for kevins mission farewell, spring break and karson's eagle scout award

4th week- anniversary, took kevin to mtc, made our house into a b & B and sent kurtis on a scavenger hunt to lead him here as a suprise for anniversay. Kyler started walking

Thats the quick run down i'll update with pics and more details on certian things maybe this week.

Polyvore.com this was fun thanks becky

2009-03-19T09:18:00.002-06:00

i wouldn't pay what they pay for most of these things but they are fun to put together. Now i just need to get back to my pre baby size to look really good in these.

Some more little cowboy

2009-02-27T11:19:00.003-07:00

This is the Rocking horse my Grandpa Krantz Made me when i was a little girl. He revamped it and gave it to kyler for christmas along with my big old barn toybox he made me when i was little.

Montana trip and my Birthday

2009-02-26T09:26:00.002-07:00

well we're getting ready for a lot in march. Kurtis is starting a new job on the 9th. I turn a quarter of a century old on the 5th we're speding the first week of march in Montana. so i figrued now was a good time to do an update.

Kyler. you actually see more of kyler than the rest of us but i figure that is normal for parents. He is growing like a weed. I just bought him a new car seat we are hoping to install in the car before we go to montana. He has 6 teeth. two on the bottom and 4 on top. they seemed to all come at once. He is now saying daddy, started giving you 5 and is clapping. Just last night we got him to lift his hands into the air and yell kinda like ye was saying yay. He is attempting to walk. He takes about 2 steps and then sits down. He has a cold right now and isn't feeling to well. But he is doing good. I think he will have fun in montana.

Kurtis. Kurtis is actually getting ready for his job change. He is a little nervous as he has only worked for joel and one other person. His last day is tomorrow and i don't think its really hit him yet. But he seems to be doing well. He just got word that he might be playing on an indoor soccer team which he is excited about. Other than that we're having fun working on the house and playing our wii and his xbox.

Me. well i'm diving head first into being a stay at home mom on a budget. I'm enjoying having fun with kyler and finding new inexpensive ways for my family to have fun and save money. I've been writing on my new blog samasecretlifeofastayathomemom.blogspot.com. I've been seeing what i can make new from what i already have to beautify my house and i've been learing the art of couponing and my newest goal is to make a full and complete beautiful dinner for my family every night for $5.00 or less. So far i've made some goodies but i haven't got them all posted on there yet. I've been testing my baking skills as i don't have the patients to follow directions so baking doesn't ususally go so well for me. Other than that i've that i've started a exercise regiment and am trying to eat better. I want to loose about 5 lbs by my anniversary next month. And i beleive i can do it becuase its really not that much for me to generally loose. and after that i'll only have 25lbs to go to be back to my pre birthcontrol weight and the weight i was in highschool. I know its sounds like a lot to loose but before i get pregnant agian i want to get down to at least close to it. Now doing go crazy i'm not getting pregnant any time soon. At least that i can see right now. Maybe next year. I'm enjoying my little boy as much as i can right now. Plus to be honest i hate pregnancy so its a deffering factor. Other than that just enjoying being here and living. Getting excited for spring. You all know how i get spring fever. I just love the sun. And i'm excited for kyler to be able to play this summer.

we're working on the outside of our house i'm trying to figure out how to get myself a garden and what to do with my saded dirt on our front porch as it doesn't get enough sun to do much with. Also we just finished fixing our gate to the back yard. We had someone letting there dog poop in my back yard when we first moved in so kurtis made a gate one night and just needed to fix it a bit so we did that last weekend. and we started a project to get our bricks by the gate all even.

Well i can't think of anything else at the moment hope all is well with everyone.

Love The andersons

The cowboy Way

2009-02-17T09:01:00.005-07:00

We went to a place called Smith and Edwards up by brigham city. We saw this had for 4.99 and decided it could be part of kylers v-day present.

Cuz a cowboy ain't a cowboy without some hay in his mouth.

"Hey There Little Missy"

Ridin My First Bull

#1 Cowboy

Kyler puppy photoshoot

2009-02-11T16:40:00.003-07:00

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails Thats What little Boys are Made of.

The Seceret Life of a Stay at Home Mom

2009-02-11T16:37:00.004-07:00

I just wanted to let those of you who read my blog, that i've just started kind of an advice blog. It has organizing, decor, and food ideas and tips on it also will have saving money tips. i just started so there isn't much on it yet but hopefully it will grow. I think somehow i would kind of like to make this into a buisness but haven't yet figured out how to do it but hopefully soon. anyway you can get to it from this blog if you want its on my friends list as sams secrets blog. Hope you enjoy it feel free to give me ideas and comments i would love them. thanks.

some Christmas Pics

2009-02-03T16:42:00.004-07:00

Daddy's santa booty

Kylers Santa booty

Our christmas (eve) family pic

Kyler and daddy's new pjs

All the cousins in their new Pj's

Ok this is a funny story. Aunt susie below always lets kyler "air out" and Uncle rick always says hey he's peeing or he's gonna pee on you. Only this time he really meant it. LOL. We were all like yeah right whatever and then we looked down.

Can you see the little dark spot on the carpet?

taking a Nap w/ Uncle Kevin

Unwrapping Presents with grandma

Karson, Kimly, and Kevin Did their verson of the Chipmunk Christmas Song

I'll share my chewy with Aunt Kimly

Cousin Makelle and Kyler

Kyler Helping Mommy with the Laundry

2009-01-23T09:33:00.002-07:00

Yeah Laundry does this to me Too.

Random Pics

2009-01-23T09:09:00.006-07:00

I just figured i really needed to update our blog so here are some picks from the last few months.

Our Christmas Tree

Our outside tree

This was at thanksgiving in MT.

Grandpa was playing with his labeler

he he he
Today i learned to crawl Nov. 28

Me and Great Grandad

Me and Grandad sleeping

Daddy

My first time eating dirt.

Yummy Mommy your herbs are growing great!

This is my Blue Steel pose

Merry christmas Everybody

This was at our christmas sub for santa bizzar

The movie Game

2009-01-13T08:41:00.009-07:00

I got this from Becky's facebook and thought it sounded fun so hopefully people still look at my blog.

1. Pick 25 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out (or bold) when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. No Googling or using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun.

1. On my speck they eat rainbow and poop butterflies. - Horton Hears a Who- Jer.

2. Soon we will all have to choose between what is good and what is easy. -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- Kurtis

3. What about you? Don't you have any needs? No I'm Jesus.- 27 Dresses- sam

4. So your saying you lost the map? you don't have it? No. I'm saying i forgot to hang on to it while my ass was free falling off a 100-ft. waterfall. So you don't have it?- without a paddle- sam

5. You're going to surf in that? No, I'm gonna surf in my da-na-da-na's. Your what? Da na da na! You're wearing nut-huggers! - Blue Crush-Laura N.

7. Goose who's butt did you kiss to get in here anyway? The list is long, but distinguished. -Dirk N.

8. Man, the Admiral's gonna freak when he hears you blew up his satellite phone. Not as much as when Rudy tells him that it was attached to the boat. - Sahara Laura N.

9. I dont give a flying fart in space what you think!- What a Girl wants- Sam

10. Don't change the facial structure. I'm making you taller. Don't you want to be taller? You're a midget in 34 states. Yeah, well, I'm an animal in the other 34... 24. 22.- Oceans 13- Jer

11.Slut in Truck.- John Tucker Must Die- Sam

12. The fact that you're not answering leads me to believe you're either (a) not at home, (b) home but don't want to talk to me, or (c) home, desperately want to talk to me, but trapped under something heavy. If it's either (a) or (c), please call me back.- When Harry Met Sally- sam

13. I'm, 4-foot 6, I don't shave, I don't have a job, and I'm gonna be an uncle. Is there something weird about that? Finally, someone who thinks like I do. Oh, yeah, a 12 year old.- Father of the Bride Part II- sam

14. Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people. - Farris Bullers Day Off- BJ D.

15. You like Chagall? I do. It feels like how being in love should be. Floating through a dark blue sky. With a goat playing the violin. Yes - happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.- Notting Hill- Jer

16. I'm wiry. -Replacement-Jer

17. I'm gliding here! - Miss Congeniality Katie barnedt

18. Can I borrow your underpants for 10 minutes? - Sixteen candles. tiffany mooseman

19. Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry -Spaceballs- Dirk N.

20. Blinkin, I'd like you to meet Ahchoo. A Jew? Here? No no, not a Jew. Ahchoo. - Robin Hood Men in Tights- Laura N.

21. If Jordan gives birth to a fine Irish son / There will be Cocktails and Dreams for him one day to run / A business that will yield the financial windfall / To be franchised in every suburban shopping mall. / If a daughter arrives to bless our clan / I guess the shit will finally hit the fan / But this I shall promise thee / I'll never let her marry a guy like me. / Still if our child is the naughtiest of girls or the wildest of young men / I swear I'll be the best dad I can / And never ever get spooked again.- cocktails- Sam

22. Oh honey you know what's happened I got a runner in my pantyhose, I'm not wearing pantyhose. -Pretty Woman- Tiffany Mooseman

23. The CIA ain't got shit on a woman with a plan! - Two can play at that game- Sam

24. I don't wanna be your girlfriend no more big head!- Love and Basketball- sam

25. You don't even say hi to me. Hi...- Laura i thought for sure you would get this so i totally know why dirk looked at you funny. -Twilight-Dirk N.

53/100

2009-01-09T16:39:00.003-07:00

I wasn't tagged to do this, but I liked this one and I'm taking a break from working...The idea is to highlight in bold the ones you've done.

1. Started your own blog.
2.Slept under the stars.
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower. the first night kurtis and i really talked was a meteor shower
6.Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disney land.
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis- this wasnt on purpose even though they facsinate me it was on accident and i didn't know what it was becuase i wasn't looking at it and i screamed really loud in my moms ear because i was on the phone with her.
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched an amazing lightning storm- the most amazing one i've ever seen was on the way home from alaska we were on the boat and there was a lightning storm on land we were just getting into canadian waters and it was one of the most amazing things i've ever seen in my life.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch *I've taught myself lots of different arts/crafts
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight- we have these at least once a month
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinning dipping
27. Run a marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birth place of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David in person
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing- never really commercially but in the middle of the ocean and got some fish. dont' know if it really counts
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book- been published in a magazine before
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Visited Italy

Kyler the Red Nosed Reindeer

2008-12-18T12:03:00.004-07:00

We Just Got a new camera on Monday so you can expect me to be better about our blog again here are the first few pics from it.

Kyler and i Decided to do a Photo Shoot.

Don't feed the reindeer

I think i can already walk even though i've only been crawling for a few weeks

Ooo he's an angry reindeer

Looking cute for Santa

Hi Everybody

We decided it was ok to feed the reindeer if he looked so cute

Here are some elf pics for becky

wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas!!!

What i like about Christmas

2008-12-14T09:28:00.003-07:00

1. Do you like hot chocolate or egg nog? Actually i'm not to fond of either. But like both i don't however make an effort to go and buy either. I do love cider though. Hot chocolate makes me have to pee, and i go through phases with egg nog on weather i like it or not.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just put them under the tree? Santa has never wrapped a present in my life that i ever remember. He doesn't have time for wrapping and what if the paper ripped in his sleigh or when he was coming down the chimmny? Nope i with laura on everything is not wrapped and there are things sticking out of the stockings santa's presents are our for everyone to see christmas morning with your stocking layed next to it.

3. Colored or white lights on tree/house? ok i dont think i used to be so picky about lights until i married kurtis who used to put up christmas lights as one of his jobs. Now i notice things you'd never even think of and have grown a hatred for icicle lights. On the tree it doesn't really matter to me i like any mini lights multi, single colored i just love the lights. outside NO mini lights. Except i do kinda like our neighbors. I like multi but i love the opece? the see through outside big lights. they have a brighter color. I don't really like the blue led's they look kinda purple to me and just don't look right. I do however like them if its just blue and red or blue and some other color. but kurtis has told me the blue i like are really suppoesd to be white but they give a light blue tint. basically i like all light i love them they all make me happy even icicles as long as people have them up. we dont' have them on our house this year because we want to put up LED's for cost purposes but we're going to wait till after christmas so that we can buy them on sale.

5. When do you put up your decorations? We don't have a set time. Last year we didn't have a tree in our tiny apt. but i put up lights and other decorations i'm not sure when i did it i thin it was like the second week in december being prego at the time i can't really remember anything. This year we did it the first week of dec. the week after we got back from thanksgiving in MT. i think from now on it will probably be that way. We waited and made it a family thing kyler even got to put on some ornaments until mommy got to tired to hold him and do it at the same time.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? I don't really know. At home we have the same thing every year for christmas dinner. Prime rib, baked potato's, stewed beans, lefsa(danish potato bread thats a family tradition my grandma makes it, its part of our heritage), homemade grandma rolls, and salad, parfit, and pies. i don't know whats really my favorite because i've never had anything else so i'll have to wait for this year since its my first christmas away from home and see what i miss. I think my favorite is probably Stewed beans and lefsa eaten together.

7. what is your favorite holiday memory from your childhood? I'm not so sure i have one probably is just everychristmas eve going to great grandma Krantz' for her birthday and singing songs eating and playing games i love it, its my favortie part of christmas.

8. Do you open a gift on Christmas eve? Growing up, we opened presents from our relatives at grandmas house on christmas eve. We don't buy for eveyone now that there are so many of us, but now that i'm part of the anderson clan they open there relative presents and jammies on christmas even and play christmas bingo and have dinner i think i'm not sure if that was just for us last year or not. I never did the jammies thing until last year but i kinda like that tradition.

9. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? I like to try different things. Right now since all of kurtis's ornaments are packed and we dont' have a very extensive set of bought ornaments i decided that i wanted to have a BYU tree this year so it is Blue and white and gold. I usually do a red and gold or red and white tree with my fake poinsetta's on it. but i like my tree this year just as much as i like ever other tree. i just like them all again the lights i just love the glow. i don't think i could ever do a crafty tree but i do like to do different colors and i to those of you who don't think blue is a christmas color try finding a snowman with out a slight hint of blue in it or a wise man or mary? blue is definatly a christmas color.

10. Snow! Love it or dread it? neither i neither love it or dread it. I like it through december at my house i hate driving in it. i love playing in it i hate shoveling it so i think its just in the middle i don't like dealing with it but i like playing with it but after december i would be happy if it just stayed in the mountains. Oh and i'm growing a new hatred for it becuase my husband has to plow now for his boss and he is gone alll the time so i think that might give me a sort of distane for it now.

11. Do you remember your favorite gift? I think i'm kinda like that car commercial i have a favorite every year. I don't think i have ever had one that stood out more the only think i can think of is my stereo that i got when i was in 5th grade i think? maybe sixth. i loved that

13. What is your favorite Holiday dessert? pudge. in my family its not fudge we have a special recipe for pudge it is the best think in the world i love it its the best chocolate and probably the only chocolate i eat in large quanities. and i'm not sure if its a dessert or not i consider it to be one because i don't really like desserts that much but Cheeseballs i love them. i was just saying last night its a good thing that we don't make those the rest of the year.

14. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Grandma's house and family. I love getting together playing game and singing songs it makes me happy i don't feel like its a real christmas without it. It was hard for me last year because we are off track with everyone on and all my cousins where still in utah for christmas and there werent' very many at grandmas house for her bday. but we are getting back on track soon.

15. What tops your tree? this year its an angel. I'm not sure if we ever had a tradition of star or angel growing up i think we always had an angel. I don't really have a preference but i like my angel i think she goes with my tree perfectly and reminds me of what it must have been like for mary to be told that she was going to be giving birth to the literal son of god and all that she went through. and it reminds me of the angels that have come through the centuries and that are still to come.

16. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? I think most adults prefer giving. it makes you feel good and its just so much fun. i have a hard time staying on budget because i keep seeing things i want to give people so i just don't go out anymore.

17. What is your favorite Christmas song? ok so everyone knows i LOVE music so there are a few. I love the entire manheim steamroller green christmas cd it is what i listen to well basically everyday i love they version of the carol of the bells and stille nohte.but i also love all the songs from a muppet christmas carol, its cold out side, and virtually every other christmas song.

18.Candy canes?I don't like them again i dont' really like sugar and have never really had any special love for candy canes. i did put a big in some hot chocolate the other night and it was yummy. and i like them on the christmas tree my mom usually puts some on the tree and we get to eat them off gradually. but i ususally gave them to my brothers. but i dont' go buy them so...

19.Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? In many ways yes but also i think its good becuase i'm starting to fear that if it weren't it would be lost altogether. and most of the united states at least would have any reason to even partially remember the savior at this time of year or any other. christmas is what you make it so...but i think even with all the shopping and presents at least there is still a sense of giving and charity and still the spirit of christmas at this time of year.

20. Favorite Christmas movie? I like a lot of christmas movies in fact for christmast last year kurtis got me the big pack of christmas classics that has all the claymation movies. I love that rudolph, santa claus is comin to town, frosty, and of course i like the old grinch, charlie brown christmas, and elf and al the Santa Clause movies with tim allen but i think my favorite has to be a muppet christmas carol. I just love the way it makes you feel and the music in it to me it really shares the message of the season. you can ask my husband how much i love christmas movies i would watch them all year long if he would let me

21. Can you ice skate? yeah but i wouldn't say i do it very well i can go straight and go fast and do little circles but i'm not what you would call very comfortable on them.

22. Are all your Christmas presents ready yet? I've actually been done shopping for a while. I do still have 2 presents to wrap and need to get some stuff for the stockings but other than that yep i'm done.

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Our House

2008-11-05T11:13:00.009-07:00

This is our house

View from the street nice big shade tree out front

This is right outside my door still boxes that need to get thrown away

and my garden nome that becky gave me for my wedding

Our back yard kinda you can't see it very well

This is our room kinda i didn't get a good pic but here is our bathroom

and our tv

Here is the upstairs bathroom kinda

The Laundry room its actually a lot bigger than it looks

These are our extra rooms the first is our computer room office whatever

the second is the acutal extra room its huge

his is kylers room

The upstairs hall

Our living room notice no pics really up yet

Front doorway and the hall the door on the right is what we call our closet bathroom

our closet bathroom

Our Kitchen and dining room.

We Have A House!!!

2008-11-02T17:29:00.002-07:00

Well last night we spent our first night at our HOME. Wow that feels good to stay. We are in love with the house still even after unpacking. I'm almost all the way done unpacking i figure one more day and i'll have it all unpacked and put away. Its crazy to think we got everything into our little apartment now that we have been able to fill our house. I'll get some pics up sometime. Since my camera doesn't work right now i'm not as good with taking pics as i was for a while. Hopefully by then i will have the pictures on the walls and the house will offically be finished.

We WON!!!

2008-10-30T18:50:00.003-06:00

The last blog i did had some of the pictures we entered into the BYU Bookstore Photo Contest Well We WON!!!! Here is the pic that won and if you want to see it on the website or need to get some BYU stuff here is the web address: byubookstore.com

2008-10-22T09:01:00.007-06:00

So we decided to enter this contest for the BYU bookstore to see if we can win daddy a Bronco Mendenhall Signed football(hes the coach of BYU). Either way we got some really cute pics out of it.

kylers first snow

2008-10-13T11:22:00.002-06:00

these are all with my phone as our camera is broken right now

this is what mommy grandma and uncle karson do for entertainment

2008-10-13T11:17:00.003-06:00

kurtis, Scott and Kevin all went to the Roundup yesterday night,so we decided to have some fun with kyler. enjoy...

family pics

2008-10-13T10:35:00.004-06:00

these were taken the day kyler turned 3 months old. we figure we'll do some more at 6 months.

the Dakota's

2008-10-13T09:54:00.007-06:00

Well its Kurtis' sister Kimly's last year playing soccer for SUU so her parents are trying to make it to every game. We got to go with them on a trip to the dakotas and made a few fun stops along the way. Oh and by the way if your ever thinking by some weird train of thought to go to south dakota make sure its during the "Summer" season. EVERYTHING Closes after september. We ended up staying in a Budget host inn twice. Picture walking into a 1972 motel. anyway we had fun here are some pics.

oh and our camera broke so most the pics are of mount rushmore.

We're getting a house!!!

2008-09-23T14:58:00.002-06:00

Ok so bad luck turns into very much happieness. We are getting the twin home. We should close on our loan in the middle of october and get in and situated before the holidays. I'm so so so excited. We've been looking for a house for almost a year. we've put in a few offers but nothing has been like this. we are both in love with our little place and can't wait to get in. I'll post some pictures once we get in since this is a sale by owner and we don't have any pics otherwise. Its a good thing that the house makes me so happy becuase i HATE packing. It's not to bad its just a pain when you have to wash everything before you pack it becuase your house makes everything smell. We're hoping that if we get all of our furniture out by the end of this week it will have enough time to air out before we have to move it into our new place. Anyway i hope all is well with everyone else.

By golley i think we found it!!!

2008-09-19T16:57:00.003-06:00

Ok so everything happens for a reason. We have recently found a twin home for sale on kinda a whim. We of course are sick of our apartment and i am absolutly sick of renting from incompatent landlords. So on tuesday we set out to go look at a few places i had found online. I had been looking at this one home for quite a while. I wasn't sure why it had caught my attention so much because it was only a 2 bdrm 1 1/2 bath and we have been looking for something bigger. However i put it on the list. It just so happened that across the street was another twin home for sale by owner. so we called on it the lady said it was 3bdrm 2 1/2 bath and 1600 sq ft. also that she wanted 170,000. or rather that she was hoping for that much. The next day kurtis' parents went with me by it in the afternoon and Janet made me call and set up an appointment to see it that night. so long story short we fell in love with it that night we, went and talked with her yesterday about a price and agreed on $165,000 and to split the closing costs. The only thing we have left to do is talk to our loan officer and gett the amount approved. Which we have an apointment set up for on monday (he is out of town till then or we would have done it today). And we figure if that goes well we will fill out a purchase contract on tuesday and get the ball rolling. So cross your fingers for us.

okay!! Breathe

2008-09-12T17:19:00.002-06:00

Ok so i think Kurtis' family has finally convinced him to move. Now i'm saying that if were gonna move i'm calling the health department and making our landlord make some changes and pay a heafty fine. Don't know where were going quite yet and its not happening this weekend. (kyler and i are going with his parents to Ceder City to watch kimly his sister play soccer for SUU) But i'm starting to feel better about it now. we tried our best to get rid of the smell and it was gone for about oh a day and its back now i can't get it out of things becuase it just keeps coming back. but as of right now we're looking into a few apts. We also have a lot of offers to live with family so we'll see what happens. I just want my baby safe i try to stay out of there as much as possible and keep the windows open so there is at least fresh air coming in. But you all are right its time to get out. Anyway just thought i would update. I'll put some pics on when things slow down. we have some cute family pics we took last weekend. ha ha now you have to wait till i get them up here. don't you just love that. :-)