40 under 40

I have to brag about Aaron. He was nominated to for one of 40 successful executives under 40 years old in the Utah Business magazine that came out in January. He was interviewed and got his picture in the magazine. Pretty sure he was the youngest and best looking of them all. The web site is www.utahbusiness.com if anyone wants to check it out.

A Man What?

Ashton said something funny today. Greyson had the Mr. Potato Head bucket and was pushing it upside down across the tile floor. It was making this horrible sound like fingernails on the chalkboard. I asked Ashton to get it from him and take it back to the carpet. This is what Ashton said " Greyson you're not supposed to do that with the bucket, you're supposed to put things in it like a "man bag." "What, I said?" "A man bag, mom." "Umm, ok where did you hear that bud?" "Well, it's on Madagascar." "Right, I said." So if you don't want your son to think man bags are cool don't let him watch Madagascar!

Annual snowmobilin' trip

Every year Aaron and I drop the kids at granny's and go to Idaho for some snowmobiling. Most years we have been to Island Park where it looks like Antartica in the winter. The last two years we have been going to Victor, Idaho. It is just 3o minutes away from Jackson Hole. It is nice and quiet there and Jackson has the best food! We always go with friends. This year we went with Gunns, Whalens, and Rameys. I love going on trips where you laugh so hard your gut hurts all day. We played rock band, ate, slept in (my favorite), argued while playing games, and snowmobiled. Although leave it to me to somehow not get any pictures of that. P.S. If you are dissatisfied with my lack of pictures, you can visit Lisa's blog because she has plenty! P.S.S. The picture of the buffalo and the hand in the air is Aaron as he was running and totally ate it. Guess there was a little bit of ice on the ground.

my exciting find

I love finding new things to decorate Mesa's room. I always want to make it a fun and happy place for her. She still takes a nap every day and I want her to love being in her room. I just got her new pottery barn bedding off ebay and I searched for some wall decor to match the bedding. You can find anything on ebay. With all the vinyl lettering becoming popular I was looking for a tree and bird that I could stick on her wall by her bed. I found the perfect thing. And I found a bird cage at Target too.

trying and trying to gain weight

Greyson has slowly been sliding down the weight scale. I have been trying hard to get some rolls on him. It probably doesn't help that he runs every where he goes. So I have been sneaking some pediasure in his bottle and I found out that chocolate pediasure is a bad decision with his long history of constant diarrhea. It burned his poor little bum and he was not happy. I took a few pictures after changing his diaper because there are a lot of people who think he never cries or is unhappy. Here is proof!

A gray kindof girl

I get up in the morning and grab clothes for my kids out of their rooms, sometimes before they are even awake. I find that whatever I am wearing that day I usually get the same color of clothes for my kids too. Marin asked me a few days ago if my favorite color was gray because I am always wearing it. So Sunday as we are getting ready for church I realize that Marin, Ashton and I are all wearing gray and black. I am pretty sure I don't own anything that is orange, pink, purple, or any shade of green. Kind of a boring closet!

Greyson SMASH!!

One of the more popular christmas gifts was the large, very green hulk hands. They scream and yell at you and make crashing noises. Greyson thinks they are great and one night we were all watching tv and he comes out of the toy room with both hulk hands on. We started laughing and yelling, "Greyson, smash". He thought he was pretty cool.