Trip to Utah

Thank Heavens that my parents are crazy snow clothes collectors! They had pants for all of the teenagers, as well as boots!
You should have seen Papa Neilgo down the hill on a skate board, without wheels! He made it all the way down, it was great!

Brady was a MANIAC on the slopes! He took air every time down, screamed adn laughed the whole time, I'm not sure he's ever been that happy! When I asked him if he had fun his response was;

"it was AWESOME!!'
Unfortunately Zachins was too tired to sled more than once. He laid on Dramma PP instead!

We all went sledding. SO FUN! Zach had to borrow pants and boots, but he was a cute vision in pink!

Jeff had to work in St. George the day before New Years, so we stopped for the night on our way to SLC. Me and the boys toured the Bringham Young House. It'll be better when they are older and know they aren't supposed to touch everything! But it was great for me to see. My grandma & Pa Linford served their mission in St. George and I remember doing the tour with them when I was around 11. My grandpa's story about the tiny tub was the best, but the tour was still great!

My FAVORITE Place!!

About every 3 months I make a trip to the COIN LAUNDRY down Charleston. I take treats, drinks, and two funny kids! When I tell people I've been to the laundrymat they usually resond, "oh, why? is your machine broken?"

NO! i love the Coin laundry!

I go when I have around 12 loads to do. It Takes 2 hours, and costs anywhere from 10-25 dollars!

TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!

i save an entire day of slaving over laundry, and the kids get to go somewhere new! In my DREAM HOME i will have 4 washing machines and 5 dryers.

i love u Coin Laundry!

Family Christmas

These are in the wrong order.... but here we go! Today is the day after Christmas, Saturday, and we wanted to do some sight seeing. We live in Vegas, but we never go down town! So we woke up, got ready and headed to the MGM to see the lions....Zach growled the whole time, and screamed when we pulled him away from the VERY crouded window!
We also went to the Bellagio. Their garden room is beautiful. The kids loved the train they had, as well as the larger than life polar bears, all made of flowers! Beautiful!

I've never been to the M&M store so we went there too... we paid 24$ for just over a pound of candy...so what, 4x's the price in a store? But we saw a movie, a race car, 4 levels of memoribilia, and Zach never broke anything! Brady won't smile at me....

The aftermath.....

Chrsitmas Eve. We are so happy because we wrapped all the gifts a week ago, so we watched The Christmas Story after setting out the Santa gifts.... oh and our kids were in bed!

Thank you Dramma PP for the jammies! Brady finally got to open something! For the past few weeks Brady asked me a few times a day what he was getting for Christmas.... my amswer was always Underwear! Two days before the holiday he couldn't stand it anymore.... "moooomm, please don't say underwear anymore!"

Christmas Eve Dinner! We stayed home ALONE this year.... WOW it was GREAT!!! I made a huge dinner, ham, sweet potatoes the works.... it took 3 hours to make, and 10 minutes to eat!

Isn't it Pretty!?! Thanks sister for the homemade GREAT apron! I love it!

Santa came to our ward party.... Zach disappeared so many times I lost count, he'd run back into the Santa room, pull his beard and yell in his face, "hi santa!!" It was so dang funny! And of course Brady ran around the church all night will all the big kids!

Who needs a play room???

Zachie's new church outfit!

Letter to Santa!

Santa at the mall.... "mom, I didn't even cry", Brady said when it was all over! Love that kid!

Life

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you. Yep, 29! And yes, Jeff put the '9' on backwards! Still, it was yummy!

The week before my age change, was Thanksgiving. We headed to Utah. Where, thanks for a great planner sister we did a lot of FUN things. The Dino Museum....A train ride, swimming, a LIMO ride (dad rented one.. best surprise EVER!) Lights, Mcdonalds, good food and a lot of resting. It was wonderful...

Brady looking at the air machine in the museum, so cool.

Boys resting in the morning.

Zach and his 'bink'. He is obsessed with it... I guess I missed the window of easy opportunity to get rid of it!

The boys on uncle Newel's put-put.

Zach is talking all the time. His favorite things to say are, binkie, blanket, mama poo poo, Beanhouer, motorcycle, tractor, airplane, and SANTA HO HO HO! As well as almost everything he hears. He is in to Everything.... I mean it... he is a monster with making messes, screaming, and being wild. Last saturday he fell over the pew at church... right onto his forehead, lucky parents.

Brady is getting older and while it makes me a little sad I am so proud of all the things he is able to figure out and do. He is writing, with help, a lot of things. He hates to color, and he talks your ear off if you let him. He is obsessed with motorcycles, loves his baby brother, and still loves watching movies. He is the greatest cuddler, and sweetest boy ever.

How can 2 brothers be so different? I love them to pieces!!

Zach-er-ezie

Zach was dipping his lettuce in ketchup then squencing up his face.... when we noticed and started laughing he didn't stop... this kid will do anything for a laugh!

squenchie face~ which he does on demand now!

The BEST big smile. Love this baby! He tells me when he is poopie, but only lets me change him if I have a good reason... not just come and change, but something like, lets get that kaka poopoo off your bum... then he thinks, OK! He is starting to talk like crazy, and we are so sad that he is getting bigger! he loves to play chase, attack Brady, and watch the garbage truck.

Happy Birthday to my BEAN!

This boy was so excited for his birthday that we had to have a candle in his toast! So he could blow out the "fire". Yes, it was still dark outside! He crawled into bed with me and when I said, 'Happy Birthday buddy', he said. 'yeah, I'm 4 now, because I growed up!' so cute!

Here he is listening to Papa Bobbus tell him happy day! He thinks everything is funny, hence the face! Brady also peeked at presents in bags, he couldn't stand waititng for Zach to wake up from his nap! (so we didn't).

Zach has discovered candy.... it is his new love! That and water, tractors (every driving thing!), his family, birds, and poking people in the eyes!

Blow out the Candles dude!!!

We spent the day with cousins, going to the Disney store, lunch, and then home to wrap presents and set up for his party. We had a great time! Brady wouldn't wear his costume at the party he said, "no mom, birthday boys don't wear costumes." oh, well now i know!

7.5 years

A 7 year Hump? yes, i guess we've had that.

Last night in bed I asked Jeff if he thought that after 7 years of marriage I had started

dressing frumpy, like an old boring mom.

He was quiet for a long time, I got a little nervous, so I laughed, "WHAT!"

"well, you've always dressed like that."

at least he was honest!

Then we hugged and rolled to our own sides of the bed.

In true marital happiness!