Funny Girl

Here are some of the conversations that we have been having lately

After noticing that her bangs had been cut I asked;

Me: Fin did you cut your hair?
Fin: No?
Me: Did Tucker cut your hair?
Fin: ...Ah...Yes?! Yes he did mom...
Me: Why did he cut your hair? (knowing full well that she was the culprit.)
Fin: He just didn't like my hair in my eyes always. Mom now I know how to just cut my hair all by myself. My auntie Melinda (who is a hairstylist) taught me and now I just know how.
Me: So you did cut your own hair!
Fin: Ah......no I didn't.

Monday I tried to teach Fin a little bit about Martin Luther King on our car ride up to the Museum. At the end of my little story I asked her what he taught us about. This was her response:

Um...he taught us about skin.
...and that humans are people, and I have pink skin... huh mom, I have pink skin... I love the color pink. Mom I wish I had my own cute pink bird.

She has had the sharing bag in preschool 2 times already. The first time she was asked to bring her favorite Christmas gift to show the class. She chose to bring her "Goblins" as she calls them. They are huge fuzzy pompoms that she decorated with pipe cleaners, feathers and stickers. She said that they were her "favorite creatures ever". The second time she chose to bring her "PD" which is a little calculator she got as a happy meal prize. She could not be dissuaded, and I tried. She told her class that her PD was a very important thing and that it was kind of fiery hot so no one could touch it.

As for this little devil he is the very definition of terrible two's.
Favorite phrases:

No mom...I not.
I stronger mom, I big.
Need food mom, need more food.
Ah, Sankyou (thank you) mom. Sanks.
Like it! (Which really means: I do not like that! Don't even try to make me eat that!)
Hear that sound, mom hear that? (Which is ALWAYS in reference to a toot.)

When he's not busy making a mess he is usually standing in the naughty corner.

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My sister-in-law Michele paints these beautiful one of a kind pieces of kitchenware. I LOVE her bowls. They are beautiful. Today she was featured on Studio 5 (a local news program) check out her clip below.

It was a great week...

We loved almost every minute of the past week (apart from the toddler meltdowns). Christmas was filled with family and delicious foods. The kids loved waking up Christmas morning to a Santa Trap and gifts under the tree. When Grandma asked Finley what she got from Santa she replied with a very long sigh..."He did not bring me a Barbie!" Who knew she wanted a Barbie? He can't get it right every time!

Christmas Morning

We rang in the New Year with our cute cousins and a traditional Pizza Making Night. Our kids love making pizza with their dad. Happy New Year to you all.

The Celebration

The Birthday Boy

Take me out to the ball game...Take me out with the crowd...buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks.. I don't care if I ever get back....let me root, root, root, for the home team...if they don't win it's a shame...For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, At the old ball game."

We ate hot pretzels, nachos, Chicago dogs... complete with cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and relish... chips, pop and candy, candy, candy. I should have passed out toothbrushes and tums as party favors instead of high pitched baseball whistles and bubble gum.

We watched The Sand Lot and swung at a baseball pinata. The best part of the night (according to some) was when my nephew Drew cracked me right across the forehead with the plastic bat we were using to break the pinata. People fell off the couch they were laughing so hard.


Opening gifts was a little rough.
This was the low point of the day. Things got much better once he opened his new batting machine.

A Christmas Story

The night before we went to see Santa, Fin saw a little bit of the movie, A Christmas Story. She saw the part where the Ralphie goes to see Santa and Santa puts his big black boot on Ralphies face and pushes him down the slide.

When I told her the next morning that we were going to see Jolly Old St. Nick, she got a panicked look on her face. She said "Mom, I don't want to see that man! He will put his boot on my face and kick me down." It took a little convincing before she decided she wanted to meet him.


We spent the afternoon Shopping in Cold, Cold Park City and then headed out to Find St. Nick. The line to meet him was SOOOOOO long! We waited for about 20 minutes and having not made much progress we bailed and headed to Macy's to mail him a letter instead, hoping that would satisfy her need to talk to Santa... well, it didn't, so we went to find another less-crowded Santa.


We found one and he had reindeer! Finley loved it. Tuck hated the idea of sitting on a strange looking strangers lap and cried his eyes out.
(90th S & State, Tree Lot)

Merry Christmas

We are 1 for 3 as far as "Merry" Christmas outings go. We went to my hometown of Alpine last weekend to cut down our Christmas tree and both toddlers were in tears. It was a bitter 21 degrees, windy and snowy. The best part of the day was the marshmallows that came in their hot chocolate and visiting their cousins.

1st outing- Tree Cutting: tears

2nd outing-The Lights at Temple Square: cheers
Even though we FROZE the kids loved it. They were mesmerized by the incredible amount of lights. They also loved seeing the nativity and baby Jesus, or "Baby Finley" according to Finley. We brought my little niece Fanny along. We love her!

3rd outing- Santa- There were cheers and tears
More in the next post.

One year older.

Hey Batter Batter, Swing Batter
Tucker ropes a fastball into the left-center gap
Rounds first
and slides safely into Second.


Today Celebrates Tuck's 2nd birthday, Thank goodness we're gonna have a 2nd chance to celebrate because this little slugger was sick as a dog. It was a rough way to spend his big day. We are hoping for a Grand Slam of a Party next weekend, until then...
We love you Tuck. Happy Birthday Son.

red rock everywhere

Our Thanksgiving weekend was spent in the Red Rock.

The guys all went out for the annual turkey shoot (skeet shooting in the desert) while my mom and I stayed home and cooked the feast. Chad came home from the shoot 10 dollars poorer, and my brother Jonny came back 50 dollars richer.

They managed to high center the jeep. The youngsters got a mouthful of red dirt while watching the men folk unwedge the jeep.

Wrig got spooked by the gun shots and managed to cut the underside of her leg on a rock and received 8 staples. She hated the turkey shoot, every minute of it and will not be invited to participate next year.



The dinner was AMAZING. The nights were spent laughing. I love this time of year. More than anything I love seeing red rock everywhere I look.

Snow White

Like many other 3 year olds, my little girl loves princesses! When she was two her world revolved around Cinderella. Now that she is three her world has turned Snow White. When Chad heard that the Disney Princess on Ice was coming to town he couldn't resist buying her a ticket. We took her Aunt CC for her birthday and had one of the best Saturday mornings.

I have to admit I got a little bit choked up watching how excited she was when all of her favorite characters skated out onto the ice. It really was magical in her little mind. She brought with her a little Snow White doll and made sure that her doll could see all of the excitement too. I love this kid!


She commented to me last night as we drove home past a temple. "Mom I love that Angel Moroni he is a really cool guy. He is big just like Hercules." Perhaps there is such a thing as too much Disney...