A Momentous occasion

If you would have told me 10 years ago when I first got started with the family that one day Cody's dad would enter the temple I would not have believed you.  We had the opportunity to share that remarkable day on Saturday while Daron received his endowments.  Cody was Daron's escort and I was Angie's.  It was so exciting to be there and to have the opportunity to share it in such a special way.   It is also so exciting to see the progress one person can make in just a few years.  I hope he knows how proud of him Cody and I are and how excited we are that he's making these steps in his life.  :)  Here are a few snaps outside (freezing our hiney's off) afterwards.

P.S. I can't believe Angie doesn't have these up on her blog yet.  

Christmas Day

This is where it all started. Santa visited us and was very generous. So generous that our stockings were too heavy to hang on the fireplace! I was able to snap some pictures before the chaos began! LOL. Asa woke up at 8:30 am (and when you go to sleep at 3am, that is too early) He said he wanted to get up and "watch my show" . So cody and I went downstairs with him and found THIS!!!!

Coen Was more than ecstatic about this ride on Lighting Mcqueen!! he was all smiles when he saw that. He ran over got on it and was laughing the whole time. It's been a big hit!!!
Asa got a "helmet Hero" and it looked really fun but for some reason he hasn't full enjoyed it....But Daddy has! LOL!!

Asa also got a Little Einsteins rocket. it's been lots of fun!
And yes what is christmas without crying??!! We all cried at least once christmas day.
Asa showing me his new "cars" Luigi and Guido
Flippling through his new Disney story book
Coen dunked his beloved Cell phone in the tub one day, so we got him a new one! He loves it!
Christmas cheer
They had the cutest See n say's at costco briefly. This one came with an interactive "buddy". He's so cute! I am not sure who likes it better, me or Coen!
MeeMah and grandma Kathy came over to share the excitement for a bit. I am not sure why my dog, Lexie, strongly believe's she needs to be in the middle of everything. But there she is!
It was a fun day in our home for Christmas.

Christmas eve.

Here are some snaps of Christmas eve. Coen was so cute and cheesing it for all the pics. He just started doing that and it's so funny. Asa also likes to have no shirt on at all times. So, he's not actually nekked. They were so excited to be able to actually open a present! Asa has been obsessed with wanting to open presents for weeks now. He was even okay with the fact that it was just pj's.

50 Thinkgs about me

Another Tag.. FUN!!

50 Things You Didn't Know About Me Till Now


1.What color is your tooth brush? Green and White
2. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Sleeping
3. What is your favorite candy bar? It changes all the time. right now I LOVE dark chocolate kit kat mini's.
4. Have you ever been to a strip club? Negative
5. What is the last thing you said aloud? What show do you want to watch?
6. What is the best ice cream flavor? Mint Chip
7. What is the last thing you had to drink? Juice last night
8. What are you wearing right now? Pajamas
9. What was the last thing you ate? Chips last night
10. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? Actually, I redeemed a gift card that I got for christmas last year! I had been saving it because I was convinced I would lose my post baby weight, and i didn't, so I redeemed them and bought a super cute pair of expensive jeans and a sweater :) I love spending someone else's money!
11. When was the last time you ran? Last night at the grocery store with Asa so he didn't pee his pants!
12. Who was the last person to send you a message/comment on your blog? I don't remember
13. Do you take vitamins daily? Nope
14. Do you go to church every Sunday? I'd like to think I do, but in reality I don't. Not because I don't believe, because I do, things just come up.
15. Do you have a tan? Tan?? What's that? I am the whitest person on this planet. I take FOREVER to tan and who has time. And besides I don't want skin cancer, and i probably would get it knowing my luck.
16. Do you like Chinese food over pizza? No, I don't think so.
17. Do you drink soda with a straw? The only time I will ever drink soda is at a restaurant on a whim and so yes I will drink with a straw
18. What does your last text message say? Cody asking me to make a phone call.
19. Are you someones best friend? I hope so
20. What are you doing tomorrow? Hanging out with my sister.
21. Where is your dad? I am sure he's at work
22. Look to your left, what do you see? The other couch, end table and a dog bed with a dog laying on it.
23. What color is your favorite pair of shoes? I don't have a favorite.
24. Do you use chap stick? when i need to
25. Whats your favorite thing to do in your free time? Free time?? What's that?!?! If i had any I would do something creative (using my cricut or stamping). Ideally without kids. But that never happens
26. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? Drive thru, I would never get out of the play yard if i went in! Definitely drive through!
27. Do you have a dog? Sure do. Lexi. My Brindle Boxer. She's a good girl most of the time, until she gets into my bag of diapers waiting to go out to the trash. UGH! Then she's not a good girl.
28. Last guy you talked on the phone with? Cody
29. Last girl you talked on the phone with? Momma
30. Any fun vacation plans soon? Nope. I wish we did, but we don't
31. Do you dye your hair? Actually, no I dont. I got some highlights about 4 months ago just to warm up the color a bit, but you can't really tell. For the most part my hair is its natural color.
32. Can you say the alphabet backwards? That would require thinking, and I don't have the mental capacity for that.
33. Do you have a maid service clean your house? LOL YES!!!!!! She comes and does our bathrooms every week. I love it!
34. Are you jealous of anyone? Occasionly I get envious of some people who have a better life situation than us presently, but we have a lot to be greatful for and I remind myself of that when I start to feel envious.
35. Do you love anyone? Abso-possi-lutely
36. Do any of your friends have children? Yep
37. Do you use the word Hello daily? Yes. I like to say it to my baby brat who immediately puts his hand to his ear like he's talking on the phone. It's SOOOOO cute! And I say it every time I answer the phone.
38. Do you like cats? Yes I do
39. Have you ever been to six flags? Nope
40. How did you get your worse scar? I fell on an old heater when I was 18 months. I have a faded scar on the back of one of my thighs. Come to think of it though, it's pretty much gone now.
41. What is your favorite smell? clean boys
42. What is the last DVD you watched? We don't watch DVD's. We watch movies on pay per view (because we don't like to return them when we rent them) so the last one we watched was Iron Man
43. Have you ever been to Disney world? Nope
44. What is your favorite number? 311
45. Do you toast your pop tarts? If I ate them I would, but I think they are nasty
46. Have you ever waited tables? Briefly
47. Where did you have your first kiss? LOL behind the movie theater!
48. What should you be doing? Probably getting dressed or making breakfast for my kids
49. Do you enjoy wasting time blogging? Yes
50. Who do you want to tag? Angie, Becca Barton, and Audrey (maybe she'll update her blog if she's tagged LOL)

Daily routine

This is how our day goes...
8am we are still in bed and Asa slithers out of bed (yes he sneaks into our bed in the middle of the night) to sneak away to grandma's.
Mommy: Asa where are you going?
Asa: To grandma's
Mommy: No, grandma is sleeping
Asa: No she's not!
Mommy: Yes she is (She isn't really, but that's what I tell him to distract him from leaving me so early.)
Asa proceeds to look out the window to discover that grandma's car is in fact in the driveway, which always means she's home and accepting small visitors. Asa proceeds to sneak out the house. Here are the pictures to prove rain or shine clothes or not, he is going to GRANDMA'S no if's and's or but's about it!!

Birthday Bash!

It is amazing to think that 3 years ago I became a mother! We celebrated my big boys 3rd birthday last night. He had a blast. Throughout the day he would say "Happy birday ah me!" We had been hyping him up all week about how it was going to be his birthday and he was so excited. I don't know who was more excited....me or him! I decided to be ambitious and make his cake. We were having a "race car" birthday, so I had to keep in theme and made a race car track. I am not a huge cake fan, mainly because of the frosting. So I decided to make a whipped cream, cream cheese frosting. Oh boy was it GOOD!!!! It did take about all afternoon though. Baking is not one of my natural talents, so it took me probably twice as long as a normal person LOL.


Asa was so excited for the cake. he talked all day about his race car cake
It took him about 10 tries to blow the candles out. It was so cute.
Opening presents
Baby brother for a present
Being excited over the HUGE Cars coloring book his Auntie Em Gave him
The aftermath.

It was a good time and it was so fun to see him so animated throughout the whole evening.

Good times in Cali

So last weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Disneyland with my "in-laws". Cody's very generous Grandma treated all the "girls" to go to a trip to California. And it really was the best time EVER!!! I think about the trip every day and how much I loved going and getting to know cousins better. Thanks Gramma Sis for including me! I couldn't believe I went on rides like the Tower of Terror, and Screaming California. It was so fun though. I laughed so much that whole trip that my stomach ached every day. Angie even played off to the parking attendant where we pay to get in that she was a "real" asian that "no speak enlish". He totally believed her and worked through the whole $12 fee with her! Then she would tell us all "I clean toilets, drive white folk, and get to go to disneyland". Good times! Thanks so much everyone for the best trip! I will definitely remember this forever!

In the small quaint airport in Long Beach you board outside...and there are only 4 gates! it was so cute!

Having a good time in California adventure

I got to see Asa's favorite character Lighting Mcqueen! I sent this pic to Cody from my phone and Asa called me and was so excited that I got to see his "race car". He loves this movie.

Minnie Mouse's house. Look how cute this Chaise is! I loved the toon town!

Okay, the above two need a little explaining. It was hilarous. One of the nights we were getting on the shuttle to the parking garage and we had to squish in wherever we could. Well Angie and I ended up sitting across from a local older couple who comes to DL on saturday nights for the dancing. Well after we had made a bit of small talk with them it occurred to me that since we were kinda squished in there, there was no place for my arm other than around Angie. So I whispered to her "do you think they think we are "together") and she said yes and we laughed about it. So she proceeds to tell this couple that we are on our honeymoon and they totally believed us and asked what we voted on Prop 8!!! So that was our joke for the rest of the trip. So of course since we were on our "Honeymoon" we had to have a picture in front with the mickey head. Who knew that we could go from MIL to married LOL.

6 out of 10 of us had names that started with "A"-Angeline, Andrea, Anna, Angie, Amy, and Alecia.

For more of our disneyland adventure you can see THIS post from Jennifer and THIS post from Amy.

Bored

Well I'm bored. It's nearly 11 PM and I should be in bed, or at least getting ready for bed, but I find myself glued to the internet (not uncommon) I have already blog surfed, facebook-ed, and learned the basics of Digital scrapbooking. I now know that I don't have the patience to learn the technical bits to "digi scrappin". I see many beautiful pages done "digi" but I don't feel like I could be bothered with it. Though, I just developed 440 prints that I apperantly couldn't bothered with scrapping those either LOL. Oh well. I can blame that on my two boys and lack of "free" time right??!? So anyway. I figured I'd post some pictures of my family that we took a few weeks ago just for fun.

This was a candid shot of my dad. He was just sitting there looking like he needed his picture taken. Turned out to be a GREAT shot!

Here are the younger half of my sibblings. My two brother's, their pets-Ping(the duck), Neeko(the cat), Mac(the dog), and of course my parents.

This is my sister, Emily, and her family

And then my older brother, Jonathon, and his family!

So there we have it. Now you are all acquainted with my family. And when I do something that seems "off the wall-ish" it could very well be that I came from a hippy-granola kind of family. Though I love every bit of the fact that my dad is a raw foodist and is fluent in Yoga, my older brother is a genius with every thing he touches, that my sister is the "numbers" person, that my mom is so creative it's just not funny, and my two little brother's, well they are yet to be determined. Though, they are oosing the "genius" and "creative" traits as well.

Halloween

Here are our Halloween photos! Asa hated his costume. Not that it wasn't good enough, just that he couldn't be bothered with wearing it. Coen thought it was hilarious and was laughing and dancing around the house when I first put it on. It was fun. We went trick or treating breifly (like only 6 houses) and then went to a halloween party where the boys got to be free!

Photo Tag

I saw this off another blog and thought it would be fun. So here's the deal, you go to your picture folder, chose the 4th file and the 4th picture. And then explain.

SO here is mine....Cody likes to download all of his Iphone photo's to my laptop...and it looks like this one is a picture of his missing tools from the lube shop! Too funny! I was hoping it would be a cute picture of one of my kids or something LOL.

Pumpkins

Alright I don't like that blogger now puts all of my photos up backwards. This one was telling a story and now you get to start with the ending. Oh well. So here we are. I bought our punkins like a week or so ago and finally got around to carving them. Asa loved every second of it. If you could see the back of one of them...wow, it's full of marker where he was drawing on it. It was fun though. I can't believe halloween is right around the corner!