hApPy BiRthDaY sHiLo & jEn!!!

I have two sister in laws with birthdays in January. I love them lots! I only had 7 brothers growing up so now I get to have 5 sister in laws and hopefully more to come. I am so blessed.

I got this idea from katherine bundy (levi's cousin). She did a tribute for her sister's birthday. She listed something about her sister for each year. I thought it was a really sweet birthday wish.

SHILO
1. She is the oldest child in her family
2. She has 1 brother (levi) and 2 sisters (teisha & star)
3. She has 4 kids: shaylee, gunner, gavin, & taya
4. Lives in Orem
5. Sweet to her nieces & nephews
6. Cute wife to cory
7. Does floral arranging- she arranged our wedding flowers and they looked so gorgeous!
8. Very giving & generous
9. Makes yummy fudge jumbles
10. A very good sister
11. Hard working
12. Level headed in the most stressful situations
13. Almost always in a good mood...I can think of like 2 or 3 times she was in a bad mood.
14. Wise beyond her years...she has been through so much early in her life and has many lessons learned.
15. She'll come in and help you out without even asking her.
16. She is an awesome mom to her 4 children
17. Very patient
18. Gives good advice
19. Great listener
20. A great cook
21. Seems to balance everything on her plate well (both her dinner plate & her life plate)
22. Makes good multi layered jello (that is truly a talent)
23. Thoughtful person
24. She has your back
25. Creative- previous jobs include: little theater director, floral manager, & scrapbook designer
26. Fun to be around
27. Has a large DVD collection
28. Happy person
29. Nicknamed "toad"
30. Her favorite cereal is Life


Jen
1. She is the second oldest in her family
2. My brother Blake's devoted wife
3. Amazing mother to Jayce
4. She is really close to her family
5. Very good at fashion...she always looks like she stepped out of a magazine
6. Her hair is gorgeous
7. She loves jewelery
8. Way smart
9. Very good at math...me, her, & blake had the same math class in high school and she is the reason I passed!
10. Very patient person
11. Nice to everybody
12. Her nieces and nephew love her lots
13. She is such a hard worker
14. Very patient
15. Determined
16. Tough...she had rods put in her back and she hardly ever complains
17. So much fun
18. Loves to read
19. Good babysitter
20. Most people call her "Jen" but Doran & Bella call her "Jenny"
21. Brown eyed girl
22. Wedding reception at "somewhere inn time" was beautiful, so we copied them
23. Lets me borrow her new books
24. Supportive of her family
25. Has lots of cute shoes
26. Just got a digital camera
27. My first sister ever

Here, use my toes

We are eating dinner Saturday night while Paislee & Kailia are on the couch just chillin. Levi checks on them and just starts laughing. I, of course, HAVE to get the camera out to video tape this once in a lifetime moment. It was a mutual thing. They were both cool with the toe suckin fun! So funny!

My Dear Santa...Please Come Over Again

Bella is getting an early start on her letter to Santa. I guess she really really liked all the presents this year!

this is what happens when i am blogging

My girls get neglected when I am blogging and this is what happens

Best Dad Award

The Best Dad Award goes to Levi. I was going through the pictures on my camera and found the following pictures (Bella was the photographer, Levi the model). I was laughing so hard. What a good sport!




Here are just a few reasons why he wins this award:
1. He lets Bella "help" him in the garage
2. He has what seems to be never ending patience
3. He is so much fun
4. He is a sweetheart
5. His little girls have him wrapped around their finger
6. He lets Bella climb on him and beat him up (and pretends it doesn't hurt)

help!

My Grandma Sirrine has been asking me to help her scrapbook all of her accumulated pictures of her, my Grandpa's, all their children, their children's children, and their children's children's children pictures. (Plus old pictures of my great great grandparents) A little overwhelming.

At first I thought it was totally doable. But after spending two different sessions organizing photos into piles and piles and piles I think I'll have to take a different direction with this.

I love a scrapbook. I also love digital scrapbooking. But with the amount of pictures we are dealing with, I think we need to go a simpler route. My grandma absolutely loves the digital picture frame she got for Christmas and said she'd wished it went to music.

So, I got the idea of doing a digital scrapbook/slideshow on DVD with her and my Grandpa's favorite songs. I would have to scan in selected pictures which would take a while...and then sit down at the computer and type captions for the pictures as my grandma tells the names, dates, places, & stories. I think this would be more efficient with our time, capture & preserve these precious memories, and distribute to each family. I don't know how many DVDs this would take. There is still a huge box of SLIDES in her garage! I think we could get some nice labeled photo boxes for everything as well. She also has 7-8 scrapbook albums with pictures & letters that are falling apart. They should probably be de-acified as well. (Is there some sort of spray for this????)

This will be a huge undertaking, but I know it will mean the world to my Grandma and all of her posterity. Please! Anyone! Ideas? Tips? Solutions? Software recommendations?

When I am big...

Last night Bella, out of nowhere, had the funniest conversation. I had to write it down. I wish I could have recorded it.

Bella: When I am big like mom & dad I will be really big.
Mom: Oh really?
Bella: I'm gonna reach things and be really tall.
Mom: What else?
Bella: I will make some-pings, like cookies, and reach really tall.


I didn't realize how left out she felt because she couldn't reach high and make cookies all by herself.