stitchery

My sister-in-law melissa does the coolest stitchery, and i have recently decided to also pick up this talent. i'm always looking for something crafty to do. here's one that mel did for our wedding.....
And here is my first one, i made it into a pillow for my friend shannon. currently i am working one one for jaynes room, and i'll post a picture of it when i'm done because i think it's gonna turn out really cute. it's really pretty relaxing and surprisingly addictive. i've never really enjoyed cross stitching, these stitcheries go really fast, and make cute gifts

You ANIMAL!!

So there are several animals that hang out at my house.... my nephew eli and nieces kenzie and alexsisCindy (she ripped out one of there little claws today, it was so sad. she tried jumping over the baby gate by herself)
And this is Tomas... he lives in our tree. he loves to chew on my window screens (drives me mad) and leap around joyfully in the yard. he has a little friend named phillip (fill-leap) who is a foreigner and is such a bad influence (its always when phillip is visiting that Tomas chews on my screen) i call him a foreigner because he lives across the street, which could be like crossing the ocean for a little animal.

Family visit

my brother warren and his fam were down in utah for a couple of weeks staying with my brother jamie. warren lives in arizona, so its hard to see them sometimes. we were lucky enough to make the trip down to utah this weekend and play:) one friday i went to a relief society birthday party sleepover with my two sister in laws. we played games, and had a guest speaker, and dinner, it was really fun. one of the games was a who's line is it anyway thing, and i was playing a kid. so i was the first person up, and some of the other sisters there shouted out "who are you?" i was like "i'm a kid" and they were like "no in real life!" i forgot i was just visiting, and these ladies didn't know me.... anyway it was really funny, maybe you had to be there. then on saturday we had lunch at my sister kim's house and played games (which i won, totally a surprise because my siblings kick butt at games, i never win) so here is a picture of me and my 3 oldest siblings.....one of my other sisters was on a sweet anniversary trip, and came back to utah to pick up her kids from kims house, so she couldn't take a picture with us until today....
also here's some of the grandkids (we're missing shaina's and rebekah's kids)...
also, jayners was having a sandwich and cousin eli decided to join in... how cute!
I LOVE MY FAMILY, i just can't wait until our reunion in august:)

Terry Fator... Ventriloquist

Darick took me to watch a Terry Fater show. He was on America's got Talent, and won. He's a Ventriloquist, but he sings and talks for the puppets, and is seriously amazing. i personally think he sounds better when he sings for his puppets, then by himself, it was just really cool. i had a great evening. i took some videos.... but something happened to them, so here's some youtube....

bouncing and sniffing

here's another video of jayne, have you ever seen the sniffing accountant episode of Seinfeld? jayne, keeps sniffing! She aslo learned a new way to play with her bouncer

Shiner

Darick was playing basketball on friday, and got elbowed.... this is the result. i think it makes him look so ruggedly handsome:) he's my dream boat

ELi

this is my nephew Eli... i watched him a couple of days ago, and he was making some pretty cute faces. soooo cute in fact, i had to post them.