Adios Twins

The twins reported to the MTC this afternoon. Taylor going to Paraguay, Preston going to Argentina. Sterling and I got to drop them off. Adios for two years twins!

Spiders and Sleep

The other morning I woke up to a HUGE spider on our bed. I opened my eyes to a semi-dark room and saw the thing climbing up the corner of our bed. The thing looked kind of like this:

I jumped over Owen screaming spider! and ran to the bedroom door way. I stayed there and screamed and jumped up and down and pointed while Owen tried to find the thing. I COULD NOT understand what was taking him so long to find and kill the spider. It was HUGE and right in front of his face, jumping from the bed and back to the wall. I had never seen anything so big and scary that moved so fast and I couldn't understand how it got into our house. Finally after a few minutes of frantically searching, Owen yelled to me "How big is it!?" and I showed him by making my hands to about the size of a x-large pepperoni pizza. He stared at me for a second and then started laughing. Really hard.

I looked back to the bed for the spider and it was gone. And Owen was still laughing. I read the other week that lack of sleep brings hallucinations. I think I need more sleep. I don't want to wake up to spiders anymore, real or sleep-deprieved made-up ones.

California Lovin'

.:Here are some highlights from our Spring Break in CALIFORNIA:.

Knott's Berry Farm (Six Flags was closed...sad)

Everyone soaked from the water ride. I'm glad I sat out

Pretending to be excited for the ride. WORST RIDE EVER. I hate ones that just drop

Owen's favorite ride when he was little. Too bad he was to big to ride again

The whole group

Mom's Birthday

Lots of card playing

Disneyland!

It's a Small World

Lots of Settlers playing

Beach time

The ocean was freezing so boys resorted to digging holes?

Twin's mission farewell at church

Remember the little rat puppy from a previous post? Not a rat anymore. Cutest little guy ever! And he is for sale :)

Spring Break?...

Yes please! Off we go to this lovely place to celebrate Spring Break:

My family in Mesa has the week off so we are headed to California for some quality play time. Sadly, BYU does not celebrate a spring break (boo!) so I convinced the hubby to ditch one class to come anyways. This is the first and last FULL family vaca we have had/will have in a while because of brothers on missions.
We get to visit the happiest place on earth:

And the hubby finally gets to see me on one of these:

Super excited! Pictures will come soon...

What My Future Wife Will Be Like...

I recently discovered this entry in the hubby's mission journal dated back to 2004:

I just thought I should write down a list of what my future wife will be like...

*A family, testimony about temples

*desires to help family in all ways

*a good smart, worker

*talents in some board sport (i.e: snowboarding/surfing/wakeboarding,etc...)

*smaller than me (that cuts down a lot of girls...)

*fun & has stupid/crazy ideas

*cute/hot/gorgeous GIRL

*wears skate shoes (could change after wedding)

*a person that doesn't need to be entertained

*happy

This made me want to laugh and cry at the same time when I read this. It makes me think about how certain people are placed in your life to help you grow and learn, but are not THE ONE. And how when THE ONE does come around, it is so ridiculously perfect.

Beauty Mark

Do you want to win a hot make-over!? I do!! Check out the Beauty Mark (see pink little button)...my friends Courtney and Hillary have some MAD hair/makeup skills...and are giving away a complete make-over to one lucky winner. I hope I win...that means another road trip to AZ!

February Update

February turned out to be a busy month for our little family. Luckily I got a few pictures to capture our adventures.

Valentines Day weekend we headed back down to Arizona. My little brother, Sterling, was coming home from his Raleigh, North Carolina mission. Seriously, what a stud. We were best buds before he left so I was super excited to have him back. I was the one who dropped him off two years ago at the MTC, so it was surreal to have him back already.

We met Sterling at the airport

My mom was the MOST happy to have him back. Two missionaries down, two more to go

We got to see our puppies! This is Jade in her favorite cuddle spot with Owen.
When we got to AZ, we thought Jade looked a little on the heavier side. We wondered if she was preggo, but we did not know for sure because she is so young. Well Friday night around 1:00AM, sure enough she had a puppy herself (just one)! We were so nervous it would be hard for her, but she has been a good little mommy. I am waiting to post some pics until the puppy is a little bigger, right now it looks like a little black rat :)

We drove back to Utah and brought Stephanie (Owen's little sister) and her new baby, Kennedy up with us. They got to visit for a whole week and stayed with Lydia. Owen's mom was also in town for when Lydia has her baby. Also, Owen's other sister Emily and her family moved up to Utah this week. So it was fun hanging out with family up here, especially a bunch of girls (and Owen)! Unfortunatley, I got no pictures of this week. But we did a lot of hanging around, eating, and even a trip to Costco...Thanks Linda :)

One night everyone had a sewing project. I worked on these baby quilts. My family is going to Disneyland in a month and if you sign up to volunteer for a service project, they give you a ticket to Disneyland. It's a pretty sweet deal, so I made these two tie baby quilts. They turned out pretty cute and were super easy/cheap to make. So Disneyland here we come...

Lydia and Dan had their 3rd little girl.
Heidi Marie Liddle:

Dan and all his girls!

We also squeezed in a little snowboard trip with some friends on Friday. Owen and I snowboarded all day at Sundance, then went to Brighton with Brock and Liz that evening for some night boarding. Sooo tiring, but it was a lot of fun! I think I still prefer going in the day, night time is a little too dark for me and freezing.

Brock and Liz Mason

Now we are spending the weekend and weekdays babysitting these fun kids. Emily and Joe went on a cruise (luckies). I'm glad to have these kids close to us now so I get to know them a bit better.