Carlie's Hair

I made a goal 2 weeks ago to start learning some new hairstyles to use on Carlie's hair. I was inspired by my sister in law Amy. She finds all these great ideas on people's blogs. So I decided it was time to quit being lazy and get to work. Here are some pictures of my second hairstyle. It is definitely not as good as this lady http://www.princesshairstyles.com/. But, I am pretty happy with myself and now I have two new styles for Carlie's beautiful hair. My plan is to try a new style every week and practice it that whole week. I am also taking Amy's advice and only washing Carlie's hair every other day. On the second day I am using the same style from the day before with a little touching up.

Batgirl and Batman

Carlie dressed up as batgirl for her cousin Adan's 5th birthday party. Believe it or not batman is only 5 months younger than batgirl! I wish I had taken more pictures...the kids all looked soooo cute! I was scrambling last minute for a costume for Carlie. I posted on facebook that I was trying to figure out a batgirl costume for Carlie and one of my old students (the amazing Alexa Boldt) offered her mask and cape. Hooray for facebook! Alexa saved the day. I was able to make the rest of the costume from items Carlie already had in her closet. I wish you could see her black boots...oh well!

My Daddy

Today is my dad's birthday. What should be a day of birthday cakes and yelling yeh-hah at the end of the happy birthday song is a day of sadness and remembrance. My dad would have been 64 years old today. He was the most amazing man I have ever known and can hardly wait until I see him again. So here is a tribute to my father from his younger days, because he was always young at heart.

Look at that smile!!

on his mission in South Africa...now he is on a mission in heaven

He LOVED to fish. I have wonderful memories of stream fishing in the

White Mountains with my daddy....

STUPID CANCER!!

This is also a reminder to me to scan all my childhood pictures....all of my pics of my dad were before the age of digital cameras.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

I am trying out new backgrounds, etc. on my blog. So don't be disturbed when it looks all mismatched and crazy!!

I am Super Cute and I Know it!

getting ready to play in the snow

flying home from Utah

cougar fan

Berk has a SERIOUS shoe fetish

I am so cool

loving the hair

I know that I am biased, but Berk is so cute I can't even stand it!!

"My Boys"

Carlie calls her cousins Gavin, Dallin, & Matthew, "my boys"

What a Poser!

My daughter all of a sudden started doing these strange poses for pictures.

I have no idea where she gets it from..

Christmas Eve Early

We had to be at the airport really early Christmas morning

so we did Christmas morning a day early. Berk and his light saber. Kinda dangerous to give a 20 month old a stick to wave around Corey's dad loves to give us political gifts since we are quite liberal and he is quite conservative. So why not an Obama Chia Head?

What a cutie in his santa hat

Carlie and her new Barbie razor scooter

science nerd that I am LOVED this present....plus unfortunately it is soooooo true

Santa and his new soft-shell jacketthe distruction of all the commercialism....but hey it was a nice morning with our kiddos.

Small Box Shortage??

Corey ordered the game Uno for his mom for Christmas from Amazon.

Opened the large box and and this is ALL that was inside.

Nice job in saving the planet Amazon!

Carlie Sandwich

Corey had Carlie make her own sandwich and this is what she came up with. 2 hot dog buns...one on top, one on the bottom. Funny girl.

No Way..We are all Looking at the Camera!!

I love my little family!!!

My Mommy is Pretty

I need to do some serious blogging...I am way behind. My sister just sent these pics to me from my trip to Utah after Christmas and I think my mom is the most beautiful lady in the world.
So here is a post for now, maybe I will do some more this weekend....

Year In Review 2009

Every Christmas I make scrapbook pages for my mom and my mother-in-law as a present. Here is what I came up with this year.