Look who's 3!

Weston turned 3 today! The years have gone by so fast...

Happy Birthday Weston, we love you!

Toddler-proof Valentine Crafts

If anyone is looking for some Valentine craft projects for their kids I got some cute ideas off of sugardoodle.net. One is to make little homemade soaps and the other is a cute coloring project to use up those chalky conversation hearts!

Crazy Idaho Weather

So last week was gorgeous with temps in the 50's (that's gorgeous for Idaho standards in February) and we spent most the time at the park and going on walks. Today we woke up to snow. I will never figure this place out!!!

Sorry Ladies.... I have the best husband!!!!

Gregg had a crazy 8 days with work and he was home only 1 1/2 of those days. I was about to pull my hair out, and completely stopped doing my hair all together, but when he got home he suggested I take a weekend trip to Phoenix by myself! At first I thought it was a ridiculous idea but before I knew it I was headed on an airplane with my ipod and a good book.

I spent about 4 days in the Arizona sunshine taking advantage of sleeping in, laying out(who the heck has time to do that anymore?), and spending hours just mindlessly wandering the mall. It was so fun to hang out with Carly and Melissa from our old ward and watch with a smile on my face as they chased their kids around! And it was perfect timing because Buffy's husband was gone snowboarding (sorry Chris... you know all she did was talk about you though), so we took advantage of that and went and saw Twilight (again-- and much better the 2nd time around but I still wish I would have directed it) and then we stayed up until about 3 in the morning talking about politics or something mature like that!!! I spent the other days with my parents, Boyd (ok, not really), and my sister's crazy sick family(you guys still breathing?).

It was an awesome weekend and not because I wasn't around my kids or husband but because I realized that I really am the same person I used to be- laughing into the wee hours of the morning (Buffy- you have no idea how many years younger I feel now!) and that this mom just needs a serious attitude makeover! So Gregg--- thank you for the little break and I feel like I can be a better mom and wife now!!!!! You are the BEST!! (Do you think I could do it again next year?)

Oh and for anyone who lives in the frigid tundra that is outside of the Phoenix area I thought you would appreciate this picture. It is my absolute favorite thing to see (and eat)at my parents house in the dead of winter of 75 degrees........

AZ Trip

So we are coming down to AZ the week after Thanksgiving. Gregg has a job down there to justify us going and hopefully he can fly out of the airport there for a couple weeks for work. YAY! So I would love to see all of you guys when we go down there. What are your plans the beginning of December?
Oh and I just saw Twilight. I can't decide what I think about it, I guess I will just have to go see it again! What did you all think?

I Need Your Help!

So both boys went to bed early, Gregg is out of town for work, and I really should be cleaning the house, working on pictures I took Saturday, or getting to bed early. Whatever.... anyone who knows me knows I love to waste time! I've been playing around with Photoshop on what to do with my hair. I got a not-so-great highlighting job 2 months ago and my roots are horrid. I can't decide whether to darken my hair, re-highlight it, or go blonder. So here are a few scenarios and I want you to vote on which is your favorite. The one in the middle with the obvious roots is what I look like right now. I couldn't get the darker hair one to look good but you get the general idea. Is it weird that my favorite is the gray hair one? Maybe getting old won't be so bad.





By the way...is anyone else totally loving the Beyonce song "If I were a Boy"? Just wondering.

Hawaii and Halloween

So I am absolutely ticked off. I have been avoiding blogging like the plague and what happened tonight reassured my attitude. I have spent HOURS creating a post with lots of Hawaii pics and captions only to have it disappear in thin air! Arrrggghhhh!!!! So here is a quick post with a few Hawaii pics and Halloween thrown into one.


HALLOWEEN-


Our little Bumble Bee





Our Vampire
For those of you who know Weston know he is very anti-social, so Halloween terrified him and he lasted 6 houses before he was begging to go home. This pic below pretty much sums up how he was the whole night.





Oh well, maybe next year he will be better (I told myself that last year).

HAWAII
We spent 4 days in Oahu and 2 days on the Big Island. We didn't have too much planned since we had about 3 days notice that we were going. But who cares--- it's Hawaii! We did a lot of snorkeling and we found the best at the reefs at the Big Island. Those pics are on another CD and I don't have time right now to put them on here. They are just pics of some fish. sea turtles, and my pretty face in a swimsuit(yea, you won't miss much). We also went to the Polynesian Cultural Center. Those pics suck because it was raining, dark, and I used a disposable camera (not a good combination). But here are some of my other faves:

Our favorite beach in Oahu. It was uncrowded and the sand was unbelievable. It beat the Caribbean hands down.

Volcano territory on the Big Island. Lots of black sand and rock.

One of our few pics together in front of the temple. It was pouring rain, look at that amazing hair!

An unsuspecting tourist

Beautiful sunsets

Cool roads

Alien trees

My favorite thing to do while Gregg was at work: read the Twilight series on the beach. I did read all 4 of them and loved them. (Team Edward!)

Hawaii was a blast and am so glad and extremely lucky I got to go. Maybe next time Gregg's work will send him to Australia!