By the way....

Happy BLOGSVARY!!! Yup that's right! Its been ONE year today since I've joined the blogging bandwagon... Here's many more to come!!!

goofy kids

I was making dinner for the kids and all I hear both of them laughing at each other... This is what I find them doing... They dumped out the cookie cutters out of the clear plastic bucket and put their face in it and squished it. It was a funny sight to see!

I love it when the kids are able to entertain each other and come up with funny, yet creative way to keep them busy. They make me laugh.

Ready... Get set... GOOO!!!

I finally got Coleman on video playing with his cars... Boy... that kid loves it!!

He's not even 2 yet... he sure knows what to do!

Time Out for Women

Lets rewind back a little bit here... Okay in Christmas time... its a tradition for Dave's family to have the holiday poppers on our dinner plate and we would cross our arms and hold one to each other's poppers and PULL at the same time where all the poppers can pop at the same time and we would get a fun surprises inside the poppers... My awesome mother-in-law with many talents hand made them and filled in surprises for each person. Well, all the men got tickets to go see the MONSTER TRUCKS show and the ladies got to go to TIME OUT FOR WOMEN!!! Wahoo! I love fun surprises!!

Okay now lets move on forward... Time Out for Women finally came and went! It was so much fun and it was a much needed spiritual boost for us. The event started Thursday night and again Friday morning till about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. On Thursday, my mother in law came up and we went to the evening section (Katie came up the following day) and we had some AWESOME singers and speakers... Michael McLean and Kenneth Cope both sang that night and Brad and Debi Wilcox and Chris Stewart spoke to us... during the break... I came up to Brad and told him to read my lips and mouth out the words "YOU DID GREAT!!" and gave me the BIGGEST hug ever! During his talk (he was the first to speak and the break was after) he used to teach 6th grade at an elementary school back in the day and he had a deaf little girl in his class and she came up to him and asked him in her broken deaf English language... "WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS HAPPY?! DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM??" He told her to read his lips and said "Yes, we all have problems but don't let our problems take our positive attitude away." Basically his talk really inspired me and I had to come up to him to tell him that. He was SO excited and was so enthralled that I was able to catch everything he said during his presentation. He and his wife are the far the most hilarious couple ever! Love it! After the show... we talked with Michael McLean and Kenneth Cope very briefly and had a quick photo shoot :) The best thing of all is that we got to sit in the front row and sit with all the well known LDS authors and couple of General Authorities and their wives... Sister Oaks sat by us that night! Ahh the benefits of being deaf. LOVE it!

Ginny and I with Micheal McLean!!

Kenneth Cope!!!

(Pictures doesn't do justice... its from my phone, I didn't think we're allow to have cameras but we can! The light from my camera is pretty blinding...)

On Friday, Katie (my sister in law) made it up with us and so GLAD she made it. We all got a cute FREE bag!!! We had Emily Watts, Wendy Ulrich, Michael Wilcox, and Emily Freeman to talk with us and Kenneth Cope sang a lot of songs to us... It was such a fun, fun, fun day! Thanks GINNY!!!

Already?!

I just got some paperwork for Ella to fill out for KINDERGARTEN!!!! Ack!!!

Coleman my man...

This little man LOVES Hot wheels... or any other "wheeled" cars. He plays with it DAILY. He'll go to his spot and play and play for hours by himself. Whenever hes done with it he'll sing to himself "Clean-up, Clean-up..." and would line his cars up in a straight line. (I did NOT teach him that) It just cracks me up every time I see it. I love my little guy.

Coleman playing with cars on a bucket

See how he likes to line them up after when hes done playing with them. There's more in many different location in the house. Silly boy.

Boy... I'm Quirky!

Alright... This has been one of my "tag" forever ago so I'm doing it now. I have to reveal 6 of my quirkiness... so here ya go.

1.) I ALWAYS eat around my sandwiches, hamburgers, etc. The middle part is the best and I had to save it till the end.

2.) I unload everything out of the dishwasher onto the counter before I put them away... it drives my dad crazy sometimes.

3.) If I'm eating Lucky Charms cereal... I would eat all the cereal part first and save the marshmallows for last... I love how the marshmallows tasted just by itself.

4.) When handeling raw meats... I wash my hands like 5 times before, during, and after handling it. The idea of getting Samonella or E coli freaks me out.

5.) If I start on a project... I absolutely HAVE to finish it... or else it will never get done.

6.) I hate tomatos but I LOVE salsa! Even fresh ones!

I tag anyone who has never done this before.