Friday, August 12, 2011

Flashback Friday: Rose Parade

OK - I'm going to ignore the fact that NEITHER of you did my "let's catch up" game, or even commented about it, and post a friendly flashback friday! :) hehe jk

I know out of the three of us, I'm the only one in this photo, but I know it'll bring back memories for you guys too! Flashback with me to New Years Day 1998. Rose Parade!!! Wasn't that fun?! Hot, long, tiring, but super fun.



Remember after we finished all we wanted was a drink of water, but instead we got shuffled into a line to get In & Out burgers and Dr. Peppers? Weird!!! Why didn't they give us water?!!

Anyway - what memories do you have of that morning??

OH MY HECK!! I just realized - this photo was taken backstage at Disneyland the day AFTER the Rose Parade!! I was wondering why none of us had our hair and make up done. HAHAH!! That's funny. Ok - so my memory was of the Rose Parade, but this was before our performance at Disneyland. FUNNY!!!!

Love ya ladies!



Tuesday, July 12, 2011

let's catch up!

So what has everyone been doing? I feel disconnected. Let's fill out these questions and catch up:

What did you do last weekend?

We had a FUN weekend!! It was Josh's birthday on Friday, so I took him away to Park City for the weekend. We stayed at this NICE resort. We had a one bedroom suite - it was sort of like a little condo. It had a fireplace, a kitchenette, a king bed, and our own private hot tub on the balcony!!! It was incredible! We totally loved every minute of our little get-away. We went shopping at the outlets, ate at some yummy restaurants. And the baby did great!! She just went along for the ride. She woke up a little confused in the middle of the night on her first night, but after that it was pretty much smooth sailin'. We were sad when the weekend came to an end. We had a GREAT time. One of those fun things we'll always look back on with VERY fond memories.


What's new with your kids? (list each kid)

Well, Scarlett is almost 4 months old now (not quite). She's 17 weeks tomorrow. She's growing and growing and growing. Sometimes I tell her to slow down and be my tiny baby for a little bit longer. But other times I LOVE to see her learning new things. Just in the last week and a half or so she's really started holding onto toy and sort of playing with them. She has started getting "bored" too. She isn't as content to just sit and chill as she used to be. She laughs a little when she's in the mood and she makes the cutest babbles and coos and LOVES to blow raspberries and bubbles and get drool all over herself.

She's a pretty great sleeper! She sleeps through the night from about 9 to 5:30 or 6 and then eats and goes right back to sleep for another 2.5 - 3 hours. So Mom's getting plenty of sleep, which is a HUGE blessing!! She's an ok napper. She still wakes up every 45 minutes during her naps, but she's getting better about going right back to sleep once I go in and put her pooty (her binkie) back in. I REALLY hope she learns to sleep through that dang 45 minute sleep cycle soon! But at least she's not crying and fussing to get herself back to sleep anymore.

I swear as soon as I feel like I have her schedule down, she changes! But everyone tells me that's just how it is.


Any fun summer plans coming up?

Only thing for us is Bear Lake. That's during the first week of August. It will be Scarlett's first year and I'm excited and nervous. Camping with a baby will be a lot tougher. But I'm sure it'll be great. Josh has Scout Camp next week (he's the Varsity Scout Leader in our ward). So I'll be on my own for a few days. I'm going to miss him like CRAZY. :*( But I feel like a JERK complaining about him being gone for a few days when I think about you Les and how you do it on your own. So I'm not going to complain! :)


Anything else you wanna share?

Hmm. Not really. I'm loving being a mom!! I love that I finally feel like I'm in the "club" with you two! haha It's definitely challenging. For some reason we still can't figure out Scarlett screamed BLOODY MURDER for a couple minutes twice last night. Louder and harder than we have EVER seen her scream. We are pretty sure she was just CRAZY tired but it shocked us and brought us to tears. And then all the rest of the night after she was in bed I could still see and hear that scream in my head and once I went to bed I just broke down and bawled about it. It broke my heart. But I know she's fine and she was just tired or something. But its crazy how much you worry as a mom. It's hard sometimes to stop worrying and have faith that angels are protecting your little ones and that they'll be ok. (3 Ne 17:23-24) Josh shared this scripture with me last night and it made me feel much better.

Anyway - I LOVE you girls. Write your own 'catch up' posts ok?? I wanna hear the latest.

LOVE YOU!!!

xoxo,

Britt

Friday, July 1, 2011

Flash Back Friday

I thought I had posted these pics but I can't find them on the blog. So if this is a repeat sorry...

This post is for you Britt, way back to the day when we first were roomies :)



Friday, June 24, 2011

Flashback Friday!

I looked it up and its been a year and 4 months since we've had a Flashback Friday!  Whoa!!!  

So, lets flash back to May 28, 1999. I dug around in my box of photos and found this one!  I just went to Cameron's HS graduation a few weeks ago. Can you believe Cameron is graduated?  He was SIX YEARS OLD when we graduated!!!  We are old!


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Poor Kristy didn't get to walk with us. Doesn't she look sorta sad? :( Aww. Don't you love how we're all looking at like 4 different cameras? Oh dear.

Did you know that the girls at AF now have red caps and gowns and the boys wear black? When we graduated the girls wore white (duh, obviously) and the boys wore read. I think I like red and white better than red and black. Black caps and gowns are pretty boring. And Cam didn't walk through the giant A. Scotty did when he graduated, but Cameron just walked past a giant AF. It was definitely not as cool.

Here are a couple pictures from Cam's graduation. And yes, I did make Scarlett a CAM shirt to wear. Needless to say, Cameron LOVED it! haha!! It was fun.





Ok, so I went back and edited all the Flashback Friday posts, so they all have the Flashback Friday label. So if you click on the label at the bottom of this post you can see all the Flashback Fridays that we've done. And if you write a Flashback Friday post, make sure to label it. That way we can find them all easily.

LOVE YOU GIRLS!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Gallery style wall

So after living in my home for 4 years I'm finally getting around to decorating it. I want to do a gallery style photo wall in my front room. As of right now this is all I have...
What is your take on gallery style walls? Do you like all of the frames to be the same or do you like different styles of frames? What about color? Do you think the frames should all be the same color? How about the pictures themselves. Do you think I should do all of the photos from one moment in time like our family photo shoot with Britt or do some of our favorite memories?


Just a few of the many thoughts that have been running through my mind. I'd love your input as I have very little home decor talent :)

Friday, February 4, 2011

Kuwait?!

Les,
I just read on facebook that Matt will be in Kuwait for a year? What?! When is he leaving? Will you be ok in Kansas by yourself? What's going on? (Do you like how nose-y I am? Sorry. Just thinking about you and wish I lived close by to help you.)

Friday, January 28, 2011

A sad moment

So today I was looking through some old photos of Ethan and I ended up watching all of the videos I have of him. After about the 10th one I started to cry because my boy is so big now. I'm so sad that time has slipped away from me so quickly. I've heard for many years now that I need to cherish each moment but I'm just now realizing how true that is. Maybe it's cuz I've spent most of the day yelling at him cuz my patients is very short or maybe it's cuz I just got done registering him for preschool (which is so surreal!) I miss my sweet baby boy. What am I going to do when Madelyn gets older. I already feel like she's growing way too fast.

This is the one that made me cry and realize how blessed I am.

Hug your kids extra tight today and give them one more kiss.