BRINLEY'S FIRST HAIR CUT!!!!

I procrastinated a while before deciding to finally cut brinley's beautiful long hair but she really needed it. I have found just about everything in this child's hair that she could possible put in it( we even found shreds of carpet embedded in her hair while at the stylist). Finally with the pleadings of my close friend, who is a hair stylist I conceded to get it done. However I had very strict reservations that I was not to cut it short, but to just trim what needed trimming (mark loves his little girl with long hair) My friend wanted so bad to give her a cute A-line cut and was trying her hardest to persuade me that it would shape her little face so well. I stood strong and only gave in to letting her give her slight bangs. Brinley was very confused and I think a little concerned throughout the process but was a trooper! so here she is my little girls first haircut what a doll! THANK YOU SHEA!




UPDATE: Brinley now weighs 23 pounds at age 2 1/2 and Jace weighs 21 pounds at 10 months. Here are some recent pics of them together. when brinley sits behind jace and tries to hold him she can barley put her little arms around him! We always joke that she is going to be one protected sister when she gets older!

ONE REASON WHY I LOVE MY HUSBAND!

Ok. so after we moved we needed a entertaiment center for our t.v. ( which was at the moment just sitting on the floor) thus our conversation:

Me: hon, i am having a baby shower here next week and need to either move that t.v. out of the way or buy an entertaimnet center.

Mark: i am not moving that t.v. again, ( the t.v. is very heavy -it took four men to move it) we will go looking tomorrow.

(Tommorow- after looking at many many centers)

Mark: why don't i just build one, then we can get what we exactly want and all it will cost is the lumber.

Me: fine. when are you going to have the time? because the shower is next week and all you have is this weekend.

(Mark rarely takes a saturday off- so this was going to be interesting)

Mark: hopefully, some of my jobs will be done by friday and saturday i will plan to build it.

Me: Are you going to have enough time to finish it on saturday?

Mark: i don't see why i shouldn't- at least the main frame of it.

Me: that is why i married you.

Mark: so i can build stuff for you?

Me: Yup, that's pretty much why.


mark finished the entertainment center within 4 hours on saturday and we then stained and distressed it. He still has to build the doors for it but at least i have my t.v. off the floor. Thank you my love! so here is the finished project that i again have been late on getting up on my post.

i also finished a project of my own- i wanted to fill in the big arches that look into our living room from our formal dinning room. i found these old windows at an antique shop and sanded them down and painted them.

THE 80'S- THEY'RE BAACK

(1) 80's ward party, (7) wild women-3 which are prego, (1) bonnie tyler song, (3) practices and (1) richard simmons later and we have 1 awesome AIR BAND. we rocked the party and won the competition- ok so there were only 2 other bands to compete against, but hey we at least looked hot! sorry to the many fans who requested to see us perform- but i cannot seem to find the fire wire to my lovely camcorder so i am unable to show you at this time the hysterical performance. As it is i have posted these pictures a lot later than i told you i would, but finally you can at least can see our wonderul attire that brings back soo many memories!

A SIMPLE PRAYER THAT WILL MAKE YOU SMILE.

Each night I love to hear Jaron say his prayers. they are often very random and can go on for a while. so far we know for sure that he loves himsef and his spiderman, since his likes to repeat it several times before his ends his prayer.

"dear heavenly father
thankful for this day
i love daddy
love mommy
i love myself
i don't love brinley"

me: "jaron that's not nice to say"

"ok, i love brinley- but she bugs me
i love jacers
i love spiderman
love pappa and grandma
have 2 pappas and 2 grandmas
thankful for santa he brings me present
thankful for easter bunny
i have 2 choices
cause i need to make right choice
going to see grandma tomorrow and i'm going to be excited
cause i love myself
i love spiderman
i fight bad guys
i yell at brinley
mommy says no
uhmm cause i love myself
i love jesus
jesus died
nephi died
my fish died and he went down the toilet
in the name of jesus christ
amen"

Easter- What a Sugar Overload

Well another Easter has come and gone. We were just glad that we were able to enjoy it. On monday Jaron and Jace had the flu which quickly passed to the rest of us and thankfully by friday we were all done and were looking foward to Easter weekend. On saturday we had a ward breakfast and easter egg hunt. Brinley was more than excited on finding eggs, she would scream of joy every time she picked one up. Then came sunday morning filled with baskets of candy and toys and another egg hunt left by the easter bunny. Later after church we headed over to grandma's where my children recieved even more baskets with toys and candy and yet another egg hunt. This time the adults also enjoyed there share of Easter fun by hunting for there own eggs and instead of candy there was money! Now that's an easter egg hunt. This was all followed of course by a wonderful easter dinner that gaves us stomach aches by time we were finished- we just couldn't stop eating! My favorite part this year, was dressing my children of course- they are just too cute!

An Unexpected Move! Yet Still in Colorado!

we decided to celebrate our 9 years of marriage with a new house! just kidding- we actually were not looking. we loved the house we were in and we were still in the process of finishing the basement. we absolutely loved our ward and had no desire to move. Then one day on a spontaneous moment we were all of a sudden with a realtor looking at homes. we figured since its a buyer's market and the intrest rates falling that why not, we acutally would walk into a good amount of equity. Basically from the time we saw the house we wanted until we closed it was one and half weeks. It was so fast that a lot of our ward didn't even know we were moving until it was announced in elders quorm and relief society to help us move out. we didn't move far though, just 15 minutes down the road to the other end of castle rock - same stake just different ward. Right after we celebrated our anniversary we were on the move packing and cleaning. we just recently rented out our old home and so far we are loving our new home. Now to calculate- in 9 years we have lived in one apartment, 1 condo and 3 homes, and all but the small apartment we rented in utah has been in colorado. we are still planning in the near future to actually build our home and where is it going to be? - colorado of course. This is what happens when you marry a colorado native- though I am very much taken by the state as well, how could you not be?

9 YEARS AND WE ARE STILL HAVING FUN!

Tomorrow will be our 9th anniversary! and to celebrate this year we are doing it in two parts.

PART 1 . a little NHL action- Colorado Avalanche vs Phenoix Coyotes. we bought some sweeeet tickets 8 rows from the ice just to make sure we didn't miss a thing! with a hambuger, fries and a dr. pepper in hand we watched a fast exhilirating game while screaming our heads off for our home team. though we left this awesome game that night sadly defeated (3-2) in overtime, we still had a blast laughing , screaming and eating our way into our 9th year of marriage. PART 2. will be this weekend and that is to follow! but for now some pictures of this great game called HOCKEY!