the birthday girl

I thought I better post a few birthday pictures of roxy. She apparently is going through a phase where she won't smile for the camera, so consequently I have many many pictures of her that look just like this...

by the way, this is the dress that she peed in, on the slide at Carl's JR while todd was watching all the kids. Not only has he never had to deal with a public pee situation, but, a little boy was trying to lick it up.. oh the joys!

Go Cougs

This past week was a blast! I'm going to try to highlight the main events so you won't snooze through this. First I should mention we missed out on Mara and Lake. Mara just moved and couldn't find a babysitter and Lake's little girl broke her leg the NIGHT before leaving.

Alright- Here's the intro- We all met our Freshman year at BYU Helaman Halls. Pepper and Lake, Southern belles from Mississippi, Kim, upstate NY(pronouncing Cosmo "CASMO") Brooke, Canadian turned homegirl from Eastern Washington, and Mara and Shelly Californian babes. We all hit it off, had the year of our lives and have been friends since then.

It all began Thursday afternoon.....

Cafe Rio

Olympics

Friday-Shopped til we dropped.

Ikea. Great deals, swedish meatballs and mac&cheese

yummy home cooked dinner (I'll post the recipe later)

Olympics-lovin' Nasti

Talking, Crying, Laughing till 4AM!!

Saturday-

2 words...Mamma Mia. I loved the music so much we illegally downloaded it that night(I hope I just didn't incriminate myself)

4wheeler ride around my neighborhood. Yes, we all fit. Yes, we got many funny looks.

dinner rez at Bucca di Peppo @9:00 PM (that's right people life has so many possibilities without our "balls and chains"(kids))

Lots of free food

Breaking into the neighborhood pool -now before I throw you all into a tizzy, we got permission from my neighbor but her husband forgot to give us the key and I wasn't about to knock on his door at midnight, so we checked for security cameras and then hopped the fence.

Movie in theatre room at 1AM

Sunday... a day of rest

sacrament meeting

visit to Shelly's grave

goodbye to Kim

Monday

goodbye Brooke

crazy scavenger hunt in SL park with kids,lots of sweating, no treasure

goodbye pepper

hello piles of laundry and forgotten chores

I love ya girls, til next time

I'm back

We are moved in!! Goodbye Utah County- hello Davis. It has been a CRAZY month, poor Todd, I've never seen him so tired and stressed, unfortunately it won't get any better because this weekend by college roomies are flying in for the weekend and he gets the kids. They are staying at our house which has really forced me to get the house put together. I will try to get some pictures up next week.
A quick shout out to my almost 3 year old, Roxy. On Friday she will probably get ignored (refer to the statement above) so I'll tell her happy b-day now. She has been a trial from the get -go (epideral didn't work) but whenever she laughs I forget about all the screaming, yelling, and crying she did beforehand.

Still no Tiff

I am sorry that Tiff still doesn't have the Internet here are some picture and videos of the house

I'm Still Here

Sorry for all you who have to put up with me again.

This is whats been happening.

The kids have been taking swimming lessons and so poor Tiff has to take all of them to the pool all by herself. They had fun even though the weather was not very good it was the two weeks when it was cold all week and then the weekends were warm. They all passed their levels and so they can now move up to the next level.

This week is Strawberry Days in Pleasant Grove and so on Monday they had free swimming at the Pool. I was out of town and so Tiff once again had to go to the pool all by herself with four kids. I thought that everything would be ok since the kids just had swim lessons and were all good enough to pass thier class. What was I thinking. Tiff was holding Camilla and watching Roxy and Meg play. Then all of the sudden she noticed a crowd starting to gather and so her motherly instincts kicked in and started counting kids. One Camilla holding her, two Roxy bugging Camilla being held by Tiff, three where the "H" is Meg no where to be found. Jump up looking for Meg Push way through crowd watch lifeguard jump in pool to rescue a crazy redheaded girl. How embarrasing. Meg was ok and so I asked her why she didn't doggy paddle to the top she told me she didn't know how.

As for me I have been living at the new house 900 square feet of ceramic tile 700 square feet of hardwood, electrical trimout. It just seems like the list goes on and on. Here are some pics.

Living without the internet

Poor Tiffany is at home with four crazy kids driving her nuts day in and day out and she doesn't have the internet anymore. My brother who lived in the basement moved out and cancelled the internet and so we don't have it anymore. We are trying to figure out what to do because we are only going to live there for a couple more months. Do we get it for two months or can she hold off. Its starting to look like we will cancel our cable and then get the internet. Tiff thinks that since it is summer and all the good shows are not on we might as well.

So i'm sorry to say that I might have to blog a couple of times (since I have nothing else to do at work other than read all of your blogs all day).

Here is an update on the house followed by some pictures. hope you enjoy.

So I can't figure out how to move the pictures (or I am too lazy to keep trying) you have already seen the pictures.

The first picture is the downstairs bathroom I started the tile and so thats what you see. Tiff told me that I better make the tile straight. I told her thats what the grout was for.

The second picture is the front room (Living room) Tiff wanted me to make it look like it had raised panel. It looks really nice.

the last picture is coopers room the poor kid has to live with it being yellow. Unless somebody out there can convince Tiff to make me paint it some other color that is not so girly.

Hope you enjoy.