2010 Family Pics

here are our family pics for this year! beware...i'm about to vomit 18 pics on this, but it's the easiest way to show the grandparents! We had a great photographer Ashley. She did a great job! Thanks again. 

you know we have to take at least one goofy one... 

awwww, precious.

ok, 2 goofy ones... 

ashley even gave us a great option for our christmas card... 

but in the end we settled on this one. it's my favorite of all time.  

merry christmas!

let them eat... styrofoam

 so my sister kayla and i made another wedding cake this week. i think it turned out really cute.

this cake is 2 parts styrofoam, one part real cake. it's pretty much the best way to do it if you ask me. you get all the greatness of cutting the cake and shoving it in your new spouses

face without all the cost.

the flowers are my favorite!

it was really fun working with my sister. hmmmm...maybe we'll have to join forces. Any ideas for a catchy name?

 

haha!

**Top Ten Things To Say About A Christmas Gift You Don't Like**

10. Hey! There's a gift!

9. Well,well,well...

8. Boy, if I had not recently shot up 4 sizes that would've fit.

7. This is perfect for wearing around the basement.

6. Gosh. I hope this never catches fire! It is fire season though. There are lots of unexplained fires.

5. If the dog buries it, I'll be furious!

4. I love it--but I fear the jealousy it will inspire.

3. Sadly, tomorrow I enter the Federal Witness Protection Program.

2. To think--I got this the year I vowed to give all my gifts to charity.

1. I really don't deserve this.

Merry Christmas...i'm still alive just in case you were wondering =)

from treasure, to trash, to treasure

this was my wedding tiara almost 10 years ago. i loved it, and my mom really really loved it =), and my kids really loved to play with it...as noted by it's falling apart-ness(because when was i ever going to wear it again?).

until i decided to rip it apart and make something i could wear again! I'm a bracelet lover and i am so happy with how it turned out!

i took off all the round pieces, E-6000 glued them to some flat beads, strung them up, added a little more bling and a clasp and there ya go! 

happy 10 year anniversary to me!

oh yeah...

it was halloween! i'm a little behind...obviously.
here's how it went down.

we had a Cinderella, a Super Girl, and an Iron man this year

  

 once Lucy figured out that all she had to do was go up to people and say Trick-or-treat and they would give her candy she was off! it really is quite a great set up. maybe we should try the same thing for other stuff like...dinner, or money or cars. hmmm.

 hannah and caleb.

 me and Linc. i stole a wig from my friend marni and started talking to Lincoln. It was funny cuz he didn't recognize me for a few minutes. He just kept looking very confused at me and then
finally it dawned on him that i was his mom.  silly.


we had a great Halloween! hope you did too!

oh barf, Legoland

We had never been to Legoland so we decided to give it a whirl on our way home from disneyland. I'll start with the last picture of the day first...just for your viewing pleasure.

Here is Lucy right after she barfed all over herself and the aquarium. it was lovely rinsing out all her clothes and blanket in the bathroom. this is her so sad because she had to take all her clothes off and wear her sweater...and because she just barfed. this cute picture almost made it worth it...

until she continued to vomit THE ENTIRE 6 HR. TRIP HOME. we are talking barf every 5-10 minutes for an hour and a half and then sporadically throughout the rest of the trip. wow.

it was so sad and when Lincoln started feeling "funny" and holding a cup to his mouth i told Peder- "if he starts barfing we are getting a hotel! i cannot do this!" luckily Lincoln was all right. it was probably just the smell of vomit in the car for hours and hours. it kinda makes me feel woozy just thinking about it now.  Luckily after the first vomit we stopped at a gas station and i bought 3 large soda cups, ya know "just in case" she threw up again. it was the best $1.50 i have ever spent.

now rewind. here is legoland in all it's glory...before the barfing started.  

we had a really fun time there. it helped tremendously that it was raining in the morning so NO ONE else came to the park. well, hardly anyone anyway. we rarely had to wait in a line and when we did it was really short. in fact they had a roller coaster that Lucy could even ride and we all went on it 3 times in a row. the kids thought it was so great.

so there is our trip. i love making family memories. actually this trip reminded me of a time when i was young and our family drove to sea world. I'm a barfer remember...and i made it all the way there without throwing up...until....we pulled into our parking space at sea world and i just lost it. i threw up all over the truck! it makes me laugh just thinking about it now. lucky me I've passed down the tradition to my kids, and someday they will laugh too.

The Land of Disney

We were lucky enough this year to get some of those free tickets to Disneyland for doing service in our community. we finally went and had a great time. it went something like this...

cute girl...

cute family...

dumbo...(we missed you grandpa!)

Winnie...

in the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki room...

 waiting...in a very slow moving line...

to meet the fairies...

buzz...we had to do this one twice and i might add that i am the greatest EVER at this ride. we are talking over 200,000 pts people. i'm just gonna say...level 4 baby.

autopia...

i have to stop here to say that this girl was hilarious on this ride. she drove- obviously, and was laughting histerically every time we hit the center bar...which was constantly. it was so funny!

cute cute cousin Anna came and met us for some fun. ya know, cuz she can just come anytime she wants. ya know, cuz she works there. she's super cool like that.

this is them cracking up because i turned around to take a pic of them and aparently so did lucy. only she stood up out of her seatbelt and started waving frantically. nice.

this is lincoln at his jedi training ya know. let my just say that this is the best and the absolute worse thing in disneyland. you pretty much have 100 screaming kids wanting so desperatly to be picked out of the crowd by the jedi master "sensing the strong force within you".  then you have 20 really happy kids who get to participate and 80 who don't. we tried 3 times to get this kid picked...

it was worth it in the end but i have to say that i dont' think Walt would be too happy about the set up. i mean it's THE happiest place on earth. not just for 20 kids every 2 hrs.

we only had a few really "fun" things happen like lucy waking up the night before and not being able to go back to sleep for 2 HOURS. Lincoln crying his eyes out on the Indian Jones ride. Lucy getting to the very end of her rope in (a long) line for Peter Pan (for the second time because it was Lincoln's absolute favorite).
we had a great great time. i highly recommend going in the "off season" -during the week. we were able to do everything we wanted to and had a fabulous day.

tomorrow's blog....legoland (where the real "fun" of the trip began....)