Girl Scout Cookies!!!!!

Do you love Girlscout Cookies?
Do you love Rylee?
Do you love us and want to spare us from going door to door?





If you've answered yes to any of these questions......



it's time to buy Cookies!!!!

4$ per box, money due when cookies arrive (mid-Feb)

Thin mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, DoSiDos, Trefoils, Lemon Chalet Cremes

Thanks! xoxo....us.

Tis the Season

Anyone else losing brain cells by the minute? Anyone out there:
-Find yourself giving fish food to your dogs? Poor guys sat in front of me, eager for their glucosamine as I sprinkled fish flakes on their faces.
-Forget to put jackets on your kids, and when they cry, respond with "just move around alot, you'll be fine."
-Thank the dog for licking the cheerios off the kitchen table, grateful that you don't have to clean it now?
-Have your kiddo wake up at 10:30 at night to say "um...mom, you never got my homework out of the car today."
-Spend 3 hours trying to load songs on a new ipod for your daughter for Christmas, text a friend to ask for help, then realize it's not plugged in all the way?
-Wear your pajamas to drop the kids off at school, thinking noone will see you, then almost run out of gas and find yourself at a gas station by a high school in camouflauge flannel pj's.
-Sing loudly to yourself in the car, to the point your daughter says "mom, stop! There might be other 7 year olds in the other cars"
-Set the house alarm at night, then walk straight to the back door, and open it for the dogs to go off. I'm sure the neighbors enjoy the alarm as much as my kids do when they are sleeping.

Ah....Tis the Season

Feeling Defeated

When you are feeling defeated, surround yourself with the things you love most. Here is Kennedie. I refused to take her boots off and change her for the 52nd time today. I then found her in her closet, surrounded by the things she loves most, shoes. Head burried in her knees, crying and talking to her shoes.

Lovin me some daddy at the Suns Game

Rylee's latest date night, which kept her out until 10pm on a school night, Holy Moly that's a big deal when you are "7 and 3/4."

Catching up

So Todd asks me every night "did you post pictures of...(insert fabulous family activity)..yet?" Every night I say, "Nope, I will tommorow for sure." Ah...ever just feel like by the time you sit down at night it's all you can do to get back up, brush your teeth, and go to bed? (Add to that that I look for scorpions outside every night for 30 minutes...yes...OCD is fun! lol)

SO...to catch up, we went to Rocky Point a few weeks ago, we had an awesome time camping on the beach for 5 days

Todd and his new toy. We were driving out to JJ's Cantina for lunch one day and had AC/DC "You shook me all night" on when Maddie says "I love this song, we sing it in church every Sunday!" By the way, I'd give anything for his tan skin, look at that face!

The girls: Emily (11) Rylee (7) Madison (4) Kenzie (2)

Sweet Kenzie busy in the sand




Madison and Uncle Michael. Look at the way she is looking at him...I love it! The waves were unusually big for Mexico, so he was out there with her holding her hand. She looked at him and said "I'm having so much fun, it would be so great if you were 4 too!" Aw....

Sisterly love in Sedona

We had a great weekend in Sedona, camping with some fabulous friends and the kiddos. He went to the Trout farm, where it's pretty much impossible not to catch a fish. Todd caught two, I stood there for an hour and got nothing, which is fine since I don't eat them, and can't stand the thought of the hook going through their little mouths. Anyway, here are a few pics:

Todd and Rylee at the Trout Farm

Kennedie ready to be a helper once a fish is caught

The girls going for a morning walk. (could we be any more blessed?!?)

Rylee, BFF Jamison, and Madison climbing a tree.

Flat chested because....

While driving around today (and right before nap, hence the sassi-ness)

Me: Maybe this afternoon you can ride your bike, it's not too hot out
Maddie: I don't like my bike
Me: Maybe I should give your bike to a little girl who needs one
Maddie: Well maybe I should give your boobs to someone who needs them! (I'm thinking maybe she already did).

I think maybe blondes really are more sassy :)