Sunday, May 23, 2010

Let's Play Catch Up!

Ok, I have a lot to catch up on, and I need to get caught up before the next two weeks come... Maci's last day of school is on Thursday, I'm in charge of her end of school party on Wednesday, and then she gets baptized in 2 weeks and we have a lot of family and friends coming to town for that so I'm gonna be busy busy!! Ü  But we're excited for all of it!
So first off, here are my kids in the their cute Easter outfits...  My new favorite color is YELLOW... don't worry pink, you're still my favorite too!  I just have two now! haha!

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I even matched the kids, and my Husband thought I looked good so he wanted to take some pictures of me... Don't worry, I left out the ones of JUST me but put this cute one of me and the kids.. I just love these two!
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And because he's a goof, I had to share this one! 
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A couple weeks after Maci's birthday we knew that the guy we had bought her bunny from had babies that were ready to leave their Momma's.  We had told Kernan that he could get one...  Maci and Kernan were talking about what he should name it, Maci's is named Reese's because that's her favorite chocolate candy, so she said,
"Kernan, what's your favorite chocolate?"
Kernan responded with, "Chocolate Milk!"
He had us all laughing!!  So when we got to the day that we got to go pick his bunny out, I said,
"Are you going to name your bunny 'chocolate milk'?"
he said, "No, my bunny name is Harry Potter!"
And indeed that's what he named it!  He knew exactly what he wanted his bunny to look like too!
White with some grey on his eye.  They handed me the cutest SOFTEST black bunny, I tried to get Kernan to pick it, but he said to me, very seriously, "No Mom that one not right."
So introducing, HARRY POTTER.  Picked out just right by Kernan! (this picture is from my phone and 2 weeks old)
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Here is a picture of Harry Potter I just took 2 days ago... Baby rabbits grow to fast, just like kids!
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Now, remember that black bunny that was just OH SO CUTE that I tried to convince Kernan he needed to choose and he didn't?!  Well, I came home with it!!  I'm telling you, this bunny has the SOFTEST fur!!  It's not like normal bunny fur, it's SO SOFT!! (have you gotten the hint yet? he is totally soft! Ü)
So introducing SWOOPS... named after the University of Utah's mascot!
Here is his picture from 2 weeks ago taken with my phone...
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And here he is just a couple of days ago... Don't you want to just come pet him?!  You can anytime!!
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And here is an updated picture of Maci's bunny...  When we brought the babies home, he like doubled in size!
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Swoops was my Mother's Day present from my kids... I love him!  Brian got me a super cool clock jewelery box that is awesome!  I also got called to be the 1st Counselor in the Primary Presidency in our ward on Mother's Day.  It's been a few weeks now, and I'm loving the calling so far!  But the BEST present was our phone call with Elder Peterson!!  He sounded SO good!  And it was so good to hear his voice!  We have to wait 7 months to hear it again...  But he's doing so good and having much success on his mission!  We are so proud of him!!

Then 2 days after Mother's day, Kernan and I hopped in my car and headed south.  My Mom and Brother share the same birthday, and my Mom wasn't to excited about her birthday this year seeing as it would be the first one in 21 years that she spent without my brother.  So I thought, well if she can't have my brother on her birthday, she should have her favorite child! hehe!!  So we drove down and SURPRISED her!!  The only one that knew we were coming was my Dad!  He snuck us in the back door, she was sitting on her chair on her computer and heard a little voice, turned around and saw Kernan.  She said it took her a minute to realize that it was his voice in her kitchen and that he was actually standing in her kitchen!!  Surprise successful!! Ü
I took this picture on my drive down, it is the scariest bridge EVER... The Hoover Dam bridge...  It's been fun to watch the progress of it!  Although, I'm scared to death to actually drive on it when they get it finished!!  I know how high off the ground that thing is, I'm not sure I'll be able to do it!!  Yikes!
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On my Mom's birthday, my Brother and her planned to go to the temple at the same time.  So at 8:30am my Mom and Dad were in the Mesa Temple and my Brother was in the Spokane Washington Temple! So cool!!  While they went through the session Kernan and I ran some errands over in Mesa, then we went and walked around the Temple waiting for them to come out...
I decided to take some pictures of it while we were waiting...
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I love this look!!
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We were laying in the grass in the front of the temple waiting and I thought this was a cool shot...
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I wish I would have taken a picture of Kernan running across the grass to my Mom when they came out, but I didn't... Dang it!  It was so cute plus, while we were at Walmart when they were in their session, I found a cute "I love Grandma" shirt for him to wear so he had that on!  Pictures of him in it coming soon!
Here is what I gave my Mom for her birthday... Don't worry I sewed it together, this is just a picture of it laying out on my office floor.
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And the finished product!  I'm pretty proud of it!  It's the first thing I've ever made using a pattern, and wonder under and appliqueing!!   Now I need to make myself one! Ü
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One of the days we were down there, we went to the mall... I HAD to go into the most beautiful store in the mall!  The APPLE Store!!  AWWW...
I sent this picture to Brian while we were in there.. He's in trouble, he has 2 Apple nerds on his hands!  Kernan didn't want to leave he was having so much fun playing on the iMac!
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I got to bring Jaxin home with me when I left!  She had 4 days left of school but she already knew she had gotten straight A's, which meant she got them ALL YEAR LONG!  Something I could have never done!!  I never even got straight A's once!!  So my parents let her come home with me as a reward!!  It's been so fun having her!  I basically get her all summer with the exception of like 2 weeks when she'll be at Girls Camp!  Crazy that she's old enough for girls camp!!
Here are the 3 crazies in their SUNS shirts!  All 5 of us wore our Suns shirts Monday, but it didn't show to be of good luck so we'll wear them the day after they win next time!  We're hoping they beat the Lakers and head to the FINALS but right now, it's not looking so good!
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Then the other day when I took the pictures of the bunnies... I snapped some cute ones of the kids playing with them... They had brought them in and were playing with them in my room...
Kernan LOVES his bunny!  It's the only one of the 3 that he'll hold!  He always says to me, "Mom, Harry Potter so cute, huh?!"   Love that boy!  and yes his dad shaved his head, SO NOT happy about that!
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Introducing our 4th bunny, Kernan... thankfully just for the hour they were playing! haha!
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Jaxin doesn't look to happy in this picture, but I promise she was!!  She had just been having a staring contest with Reese's up on her chest!  Should have snapped a picture of that, but I didn't have my camera out yet!
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And finally, yesterday was the "re- Grand Opening" of Brian's shop and the entire complex...  They've had a lot of changes to this complex in the last little bit so they decided to celebrate how far they've come...  It was pretty exciting and I'm SO proud of my husband for all the hard work he puts into both these businesses!


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He had one of the local dealerships loan them these two NICE cars!  A Ferrari and a Nissan GTR
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Here's a view from the road looking down...
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They had two of the radio stations broadcasting LIVE and Brian was on both of them!  The kids and I sat in the boat and listened to him on radio, after he was done he walked over to us and Kernan said, "That was so funny!" haha!
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The Ferrari...
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The Nissan GTR...
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Alright, I think you're all up to date on the happenings of our family...  It's going to be a busy couple of weeks, hopefully I'll find some time to update the blog through everything!  Until next time... Ü

1 comment:

Britt said...

those are some sweet rides! way to go, Brian & Jess!!

Good Luck on Everything in the future.