Thanks Amanda & Trachelle

This is for Amanda and Trachelle to see the color of my hair. They helped my by email and phone to mix the developer and right color and teach me how to apply permanent hair color by myself! Well, almost by myself. Dave helped me. Can you imagine Dave in the bathroom helping color my hair! He made sure I was getting all the hair in the back and that I didn't create a new hairline in the back and around my ears. He was my support system. It is always more fun when someone is with you to laugh at you!

When Wes got home from school today, his poor finger was totally smashed in the car door of his carpool. The door latched and everything. It looked gross. One part of his knuckle was pointing in one direction and the other part of his finger was flattened and then pointing the opposite direction. It made my stomach turn. Dave was at the gym, so I called there to have him paged to come home, so he could assess it (went to EMT school!) and tell me if we needed x-rays. He didn't think it was broken. I thought for sure it was by the way is was so jagged looking. After a bit of ibuprofen and lots of ice, the swelling went down and he wanted to rest it on his Gogurt. So that is what you are looking at in the picture and why Wes looks like he was just crying.

My Oh My, Laundry was Piled High

This month has been so crazy, I can't believe it is almost over. Valentine's Day is finally over and things were going to slow down enough that my mountain, yes mountain, of laundry was going to be folded, until I came down with strep throat! Strep, I haven't had that for nearly 11 years. Since Dave and I first got married. So the pour laundry had to wait another few days until I could get off the couch in the other room!
I enlisted Wes's help for this major task. He had tons of fun. We separated it into 4 piles, for each of us to make things easier. He found all of his "chonies" and put them on his head. It made his head shaped so long and forced his eyebrows down, it looked so strange. We were laughing so hard, I had to get the camera out and start taking pictures of him.

The kids were playing "Where's Waldo" in all of the laundry. Since Wes was a police officer, you could spot him right off, but Brooke blended in pretty well with her onsie on. She would run and fall face first onto the piles without any support with her hands to catch her. She was laughing so hard.

I had to finally give in, YES, the "chonies" are clean. She insisted on having her picture taken with them on her head too! It only took Wes about an hour to fold his clothes. Not too bad for his first time folding. When we were finished, we went to Grandma Kay's to play the Wii. Wes loves the Bowling on it. He scored 182 that day. Blew me out of the water! I didn't ever come close.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Brooke and I went to help at Wes's Valentine party in his class. My "station" was helping to make these bags for their valentines to go in. This is my friend Jill (another mom) helping too. Wes likes her daughter, Savanah. She is really cute. You can see the finished bags sitting on the counter in the next picture.
Brooke followed Wes around doing the different stations. Here they are decorating heart shaped cookies.

Wes was proud of his cookie. He wouldn't leave me alone until I took a picture "for your blog mom".

This station was fun. They had to use chop sticks to pick out their candy hearts to eat and then they had to chart them. They were doing math at the same time!

Here is Brooke's cookie. She would eat the candy and then put more on the cookie and then eat it off and put more on!

After school we drove through McDonald's and then went up to see Grandma Ione, who is down visiting Uncle John. How do you like Brooke's chicken teeth? Silly girl...Wes and Grandma match today, black and tan!

Brooke found all of Aunt Geneal's dress up necklace's in the closet and put on every one of them to show Grandma. Then she had to have Grandma take her picture. She gave Grandma so many kisses and poses for pictures. It was really cute.

An Important Trip to Temple Square

I decided to take my children to see who had been our Prophet for the past 13 years, viewing at the Conference Center at Temple Square. It was a very spiritual experience for all of us. One we will never forget and will hold close to our hearts forever. It took us 3 hours from the time we got there until it was our turn to personally thank President Hinkley.
When we left Temple Square, this is what the east side of the Conference Center looked like! This picture doesn't quite do it justice. This line took 5 hours get through!

We had to stop and take a self portrait by where Dave and I were married! Wes thought this temple was cool. We all look tired and emotionally drained, there were quite afew tears by us all, even Brooke, although hers were of a different story.

Roxy

Roxy is a fun puppy. She is definitely a ton of work and patience. Which I am the first to admit, I don't always have. She has only had 3 accidents inside in 5 weeks, is that good? I think it's pretty good. She can finally hold it all night long!!! Yea!!! Roxy follows directions better from Brooke than from Wes. Brooke has no fear of her. In fact, she has no fear of any dog of any size, growling, barking, or anything. Which makes me a bit nervous. It will hurt her someday. She just grabs Roxy and starts to wrestle her and Roxy takes it.

She loves her kennel, a bit too much. She lays on her back and totally relaxes. I caught her attention and she started to flip over to look at me. Silly dog.

When we got out the vacuum it totally freaked her out and she wouldn't get off Dave's lap. It was funny. Then she slowly started to sniff it and jump back and forth at it like she wanted to attack, but didn't dare. Like the collar we tried for a couple of weeks? We didn't like the regular one we had at first so a lady talked us into this one and she still would strangle herself on it, so we are back to the one in the first picture.

How do you like Brooke's belly onesie? We are potty training her and so I snap it up to keep it out of the potty. I like this picture. So here she is. Growing like crazy. 3 weeks ago at her vaccinations, she was 15 pounds at 9 weeks. We take her again of Friday. I can't wait so see how much she weighs, she has doubles since Santa brought her on Christmas.

Ashley Pulham

Meet Ashley, Wes & Brooke's newest cousin. Becky, my sister went into labor on her due date! Who does that?! I think it is so cool. I was at the hospital with Becky and Derick (but in the hallway, giving my mom a play-by-play on the phone because she was in the airport in Alaska getting on the plane to come down here!). It was fun. I just stood in the hallway crying, knowing what my sister was feeling (doing it all natural) as she let the rest of us know how she was doing (in her own special way)! It only took about a minute for Ashley to be born. Then I got to go in. She was so beautiful and tiny. She was 6 lbs 15 oz and 18 1/5 inches long, with blond fuzz.

I took my kids over to see their new cousin, once I knew they were definitely healthy (I am very conscious about RSV or any illness for that matter around newborns), she is about 5 days old. I brought my camera just in case Becky wanted to take some pictures of Ashley. Just before we left she was awake, so we tried a couple. I like this picture just because she always had her hands in her face during the ultra sounds.

I think this one is sweet. She is just perfect. Everything on her is perfect. She is beautiful. I can stare at her for so long, she is so pretty.

Tiny feet! We had fun taking these pictures. My mom had this black material draped on her and then holding her and Becky kind of draped the material over her legs. It was fun. Becky especially likes her creases in her big toes.

I like this picture too, if you look at the first picture posted, she has big hands, but then you look at them with Becky's hands and they are so small. Babies are so precious and such a gift to us, what a responsibility...

I am 6 years old now

Today is Wes's 6th birthday! All he can say is "I am 6 year's old you know." He has been looking forward to this day for a long long time!
At school he was "king for the day" and got to bring treats for the class. He choose Ding Dongs. I am not sure why he picked them, I think we have only bought them once! He must have loved them!

After school, we met some of his cousins (and Gramea and Aunt Shirley came to surprise him!) at the Kangaroo Zoo to play for a couple of hours. It has blow up slides there.

He had so much fun, we couldn't get him to stop for a picture.

When we got home that night, we had cake and ice cream with our family and opened presents. He got this cool Hot Wheels track that has a dragon head that moves back and forth and the car has to knock off. It is pretty cool. He hates to be away from it.

Happy Birthday Wes!!!