BOING!

After years of begging we finally got the kids a trampoline (aka Austin and Addie's birthday present) This thing was a BEAST to put together!!!! On one of the pieces it took 3 tries of putting together, taking it apart, and putting it back together again. On another piece it took 4 adults, a few pinched fingers and a band-aid to get together. Their were a few words said,"Their is no way this is going to happen!" and "This was your idea so you do it!" and of course a few bombs were dropped. So after 6 solid hours we finally got it up and if we ever move, the trampoline stays.

Addie doing homework

Today Addie and I were doing homework:

ME: Cat, can you hear the short A sound in cat?

Addie then puts her head to the paper and listens for a couple of seconds.

ADDIE: No I can't hear anything

TWILIGHT PARTY

Saturday night my sister and I went to my friend Kristin's Twilight Party! It was a lot of fun. Its funny to see about 30 grown adults squeal when Edward makes his grand appearance in the movie. Their were Twilight themed snacks and to top everything off, Edward himself graced us with his presence!
(NOTE: On the picture with just me and my sister, Austin is pushing Aubree so she can't take the picture so thats why I'm laughing. I don't normally pose like that for pictures! UGH!)

DADDY DAUGHTER BALL

Tonight was the Daddy Daughter Ball for activity days. I had Modena make her a new dress (yes my very talented mom MADE the dress! Hey I picked out the material so I get some credit!) to wear for her very special night with her dad. She had lots of fun and giggled when I asked her if she had fun dancing with her dad. At the end is Addie posing in her dress before she headed off to preschool.

Scrap Book Pages

WEEKEND AWAY WITH THE GIRLS

A couple of weeks ago the YW presidency went away for the weekend and stayed at Lyndsay's cabin so we could plan the whole year. We were done in 2 hours and spent the rest of the night watching Jane Austen and talking. We stayed up until 4:30am!! It was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again soon.....

RAHNDI'S PHOTO SHOOT

Here are some pictures I took of my cute sister in law Rahndi prego with a baby girl.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

LOVE STORY

CUTE PICTURES OF AUBREE & AUSTIN

Austin wanted Aubree to read to him so of course I had to whip out my camera!

JAZZ GAME

Here's Aubree at the Jazz game with her dad. David is always taking her to the football and basketball games. Aubree loves spending time with her dad and cheering on his teams. A couple of weeks ago Aubree's class was having a U of U party and Aubree came to me and said:
AUBREE: (about to cry) I'm very nervous for tomorrow

ME: Why?

AUBREE: We're having a U of U party tomorrow and I'm very nervous that daddy will find out! Please don't tell him!

WHITE TRASH CIRCUS

I had free child tickets to a circus out here in Tooele so I dragged my sister with me since David was working late. The first shocker was when adult tickets were $16!!! The kids had a lot of fun but everywhere you looked their was yuckiness from the people around us smelling like alchohol to the elephant doing its business right in front of us! I started hysterically laughing screaming "I paid for this!!"

Addie

Here's a little update on Addie:
*she loves dresses and skirts
*she loves make up
*she has to have her blankets fluffed with the bottom corners smoothed out at the end of the bed & has been known to wake us up in the middle of the night for us to do this
*she took care of Aubree when Aubree had the flu in the middle of the night:got her drinks and toilet paper to wipe her mouth
*cannot sleep without Aubree
*eats every 5 minutes always saying "I'm STARVING!"
*is extremely short for her age (Aubree's teacher about fell off her chair when I told her she was going into kindergarten next year!)
*has an excellent memory:we will read her a book for the first time and she will read it back to us almost word for word (her grade level of course!)

THE GIRLS DANCE RECITAL

The girls had their dance recital last night and they did great! Thank you to everyone who were able to come!

Addie's Playdate

VIEW FROM MY BACK PORCH THE OTHER NIGHT

Utah does have its perks...

TWINS!

So many of you know David has an identical twin brother, Shane. Bless all of you who married a twin! Sometimes it can be pretty funny though. One time my friend ran into Shane and his wife Rahndi and thought that David was having an affair! Sometimes I watch their little boy Levi and when David comes home he'll just sit and stare at him with a very confused look and then all he wants is David.
So I recently bought new glasses and had David pick them out since I couldn't figure out which ones to buy and a week later Rahndi did the same thing and Shane picked out the same pair! We didn't know until we hung out a few days later.