Kid's Say the Darndest things . . . and classic grandpa.

First short story. Little Katie said to me today . . ."Mom can we keep Abby forever and EVER????" ha ha ha. Too Cute! (Of course I told her yes). Then we were at the gas station (filling up to finish mowing the lawn) when she said, "I want a kid, not a toy kid, a real kid". I said, "we have a kid . . . we have Abby" she said "no Abby is a baby . . . I want a kid." And lastly, we (well I) was watching the tale end of a tevo'd soap opera (horrible I know) when Katie walked in to see a couple kissing. She then said, "hey they are kissing and biting" ha ha ha. And because I laughed she decided to say more, "kissing and biting and knuckle and five" (knuckle is the thing you do when you put your hand in a fist and bump knuckles together with someone and five is . . . well, a high five). Apparently these are all ways of showing affection to another human being. (Minus the Biting Part!)

Second funny story.
I LOVE Cody's grandpa Don, but I tell you what he is a saver like I have never seen. He is known to keep things long after their "due" date and try to make something out of pretty much nothing (or other people's trash). So . . . with that being said. Onto the story . . . Cody and His Dad had been haulin' hay and stopped by to drop Grandpa off when he offered them to come in and have some cherry pie that he made "all by himself". Cody was weary but he followed his dad and enjoyed a semi-decent piece of cherry pie. Then his dad asked Grandpa, "so you really made it all by yourself, crust and everything?" This is when grandpa smiles and says, "do you wanna know where I got the crust?" (Cody is saying NO in his mind, but biting his tongue.) Grandpa continues to tell them that he went and bought a 99 cent pumpkin pie . . . and ATE the pumpkin out of it, then refilled the crust with cherry, to make this yummy pie, they had just enjoyed!!!! Oh MY! I love ya grandpa, that's classic!

Knock Knock . . . who's there?

Katie: "Knock Knock"
Mom: "Who's there?"
Katie: "Horse"
Mom: "Horse Who?"
Katie: "Horse stuck in the mud".

Katie: "Knock Knock"
Mom: "Who's there?"
Katie: "Sheep"
Mom: "Sheep Who?"
Katie: "Sheep stuck in the mud."

long delay . . . maybe even 10 minutes . . .

Katie: "Knock Knock"
Mom: "Who's there?"
Katie: "Horse"
Mom: "Horse Who?"
Katie: "Horse stuck with sheep"

he he he, One of Katie's favorite things right now is knock knock jokes. Most of them don't make a lot of sense (other than the interrupting cow joke) but she put a lot of thought into this one.

Katie also has been asking me all sorts of questions these days. It all started with a story I told her about when she was little. I used to take her for bike rides in the little trailer and we would stop and get the mail. When we got a magazine in the mail, she would pretend to read it in the back seat. My little old lady (I think she was two). She also sat on the little potty and read a magazine (not sure who she got this from, he he he). So now she gets the cutest little look on her face and says, "tell me more about when I was a baby." Too cute (I had to document the face.)



And then there's the neighbors. We just got new neighbors on the west of us. I am happy there is actually people living in the big empty house now. A lot of the houses up here just sit. BUT . . . now they are building a house on the East side :( I do love people, but it sure was fun to have all the wide open space. We went out and took pictures of the "hole" that they just started to dig yesterday (note the fabulous dirt we have up here! Can you say rocks and clay???) Katie wanted to be sure to have her picture taken with the dirt . . . what a girl.

Ok, let's try this again :)

Alright, I am going to try this again. Hopefully things will slow down and we can get everything back in order. Here's our "christmas letter" update, ha ha ha!

Cody is working in Payson building a Walgreens (yes that's a two and a half hour drive ONE WAY!) But he is almost done. When he's not at work he's either watching kids for me (so I can go take pictures) or he's working in the yard (YAY for a YARD!)

Ann is still BUSY with photography and trying to get the studio all fabulous. I just got my window signage yesterday (haven't seen it yet, but know it's there) The past month or so have been a little crazy health-wise so we are trying to slow things down and get healthy! (We also downloaded a 62 page e-book on how to "guarantee" having a baby boy, ha ha ha!) I have found it very relaxing to work in the yard.

Holly (Cowgirl) is growing up so fast! I can't believe she will be eleven in August. She is in 4H down in Hooper and is loving it. We got to go down there last week and it was fun to watch her learning. She also just received a FREE lagoon day pass for taking some brownies and flowers to a neighbor who lost TWO dogs (I would love to claim this was my idea, but I LOVE IT EVEN MORE THAT IT WAS HER IDEA!) So the neighbor girl bought her a Lagoon pass to thank her. I am so proud of her :)

Katie (Princess) is still a princess. She is taking antibiotics for an ear infection and hasn't complained once about her ear hurting?!?!? She got her kindergarten shots (even though she won't start for another year and a half) and keeps reminding me that she cried but she got band-aids. She turned four on April Foul's Day and loves her new princess bike (she rides it all over the house).

Abby (Baby) is HILARIOUS! She is such a mellow kid (attitude wise) but when it comes to just sitting back and chilling - there's not a mellow bone in her body. She does a little shoulder dance that is so cute (we MUST purchase a video camera for this). She has eight teeth and a new crib (due to a horrible "overflow" accident in her crib).

We love life and hope to remember (just like my mom says) THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES! Summer - - - bring it on!

The Blog Wagon . . .

Ok so I have completely fallen' off the good ol' family blog wagon! I have to say, I haven't missed it much :) I have so much going on with my photography these days that trying to keep up three blogs is just too much! So I may be back, but don't hold your breath. I will have to keep journaling the old fashioned way with a pen and paper and maybe some day I'll get those scrapbooks printed out. In the meantime visit my photography blog or testimoments blog if you are interested to see what my life has been up to, and then there's facebook . . . I'm there :) AND I just got twitterpat'ed and joined twitter (for my business) so (oh dear!) you can view that here (join me!) TWITTER So bon voyage for now (my life really isn't that interesting anyways!) THANKS!
Ann~

The little baby bean is ONE . . .

Today is baby's birthday and she is officially one year old! She turned one at 10:14 am and as I held her when the clock hit 10:14 am this morning, I can't help but remember the chaos of her birth. I am actually thinking that this moment is just a little better than that one :) To see her smiling, happy, and healthy is a great gift! We are always giving her nicknames and one of them is Abra Cadabra . . . so . . . here's her birthday party invite that I just emailed, ha ha ha . . . it was fun to make, the kids and I giggled all the way . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BEAN!

Fun little adds . . .

My cousin Parker Jacobs posted these videos on facebook, they are like 1970 LDS ads and they are too cute and still true . . . so enjoy . . . my cousins are in two of them . . . the little girl at 5:06 and the boy at 8:03 . . .

Snow Revisited . . .

Ok so I posted these on my "facebook" account, but I intended to post them here. As it seems like everyone has heard, we got a TON of snow up here on Tuesday. The final count was 33 inches in 24 hours. CRAZY! It is actually the first time in my life where I have felt totally and completely SNOWED IN! All the other times, it was like, ok, I shouldn't go out in it, but I could :) This was I CAN'T! It was a lot of fun to just hang with the girls and cancel anything I had going and just chill (literally). So here's the pictures from that glorious storm.





Then last night Cody and I ventured out to the great city of Wendover (note my sarcasm) for a little get away it was a lot of fun and when we came home we found that we had left our front door WIDE open! All the way! The house was freezing and the heater had been going none stop (we are so excited to see that bill). Luckily we live in the middle of nowhere and no one came in and stole our stuff :) Note to self, whenever leaving to go somewhere . . . close the door behind you.

And last but CERTAINLY not least, we are SOOOOOO excited that Dave and Kathryn had their baby early this morning! Little Cole Richards Todd came in a hurry. I'll let Dave and Kathryn do the official announcing but I am so excited to talk to them and see the newest little MAN! YAY YAY YAY!

Long time no post

Ok~ so it's been a long time and no post so we will do a little update (not that there's a lot to update) but~ I have been crazy busy with my photography workshops and while they were successful (I think) I am glad they are done with. I have all sorts of ideas for "expanding" my business but am just trying to think of the right way to go about it, so we shall see :)

Hubby is working with his dad in Provo right now on a Hotel and is hating the drive, so . . . he was super excited (not) when he found out his next job will be in Payson! At least it is another Walgreen's building so he can get it done in just a few months, but we are planning on him staying out there one or two nights a week :(

Cowgirl is sick today (throwing up all night, boo) but for the most part a healthy beautiful girl. She LOVES the video game Zelda and has told us (and many other people) that she thinks Link is "dreamy". She is growing up fast and I am happy to say, really has no interest in boys :) (BIG SMILE).

Princess is a hoot, she makes us laugh continually by the things she says. She has "graduated" from the nursery and says that she is a Sun Blink now (it's supposed to be sunbeam). When she sings the song it goes like this, "Jesus wants me for a sun BLINK" (as she blinks her eyes hard). Funny Funny Girl.

Baby is just the happiest little thing ever! Her smile is the cutest thing, she has 5 teeth and will be one on February 25th. She has been sleeping all night for 4 nights now (keep our fingers crossed) now I just wish that Princess and Cowgirl would do the same, he he he. Baby is super close to walking and seems like she has been since she started to crawl but she is cautious so we still haven't made it too far. She is a little dolly who LOVES her daddy.

We love our family and are super excited for DAVE and KATHRYN to have their little man! YAY! So that's the run down for us these days and ya know life is grand.

State Capital Crowd . . .

I was at the State Capital yesterday taking engagement pictures . . . while I was waiting for the couple to arrive I was looking around the building and I noticed something, kinda gross. I looked up and saw A TON of Barn Swallow nests under the newly remodeled building. Check it out! Now I know what these look like because they try and make them on our front porch, but we prevent it . . . BUT WOW . . . there's a lot :)

Pomp Pa and the Grand Babies . . .

Here's a cute picture of "Pomp Pa" (my daddy) and the grandbabies. These two little ladies are only one month apart and they love him. Ohhhhhhhh so cute!

The Twelve . . . Reindeer?????

Ok so the other day I was reading a book 21 DAYS CLOSER TO CHRIST (great read I highly recommend) and there's a picture of Christ walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Princess was with me and started to ask who the people were in the pictures (painted by Simon Dewey). So I pointed out Jesus and then there were the fishermen. I turned the page and she said "who is that" . . . I replied, "That's Simon and Andrew" and to that she said "Where's Donner and Blitzen!" HA HA HA . . . apparently we need to work on our church history OR our Christmas Song knowledge. Either way I had a good laugh.

Christmas Post #3

Ok, so my life may not be interesting enough to post three times in one day, but hey, my kids are cute, he he he . . .
Here's the last post for the day and it's Christmas Morning.
Princess got the ever so important "Talking Doll-House" and she knew as quick as she looked under the tree which one it was. Cowgirl got an iPod (which was a total surprise as you can tell by the look on her face, LOVE IT!). As for baby, well just look at her, she got clothes :) She loves the wrapping paper though . . . Hope your holidays were happy and bright!

Christmas Post #2

So at the same party we have a pinata for the little kids and my super BRAVE/CRAZY Father in Law holds it while the kids take a swing/stab at it! There are pictures of him doing this from way back when, what a trooper! The kids went through a couple of times before someone finally broke through (they even had to enlist the "bigger" kids). My little princess got FOUR pieces of candy and thought she was in Heaven, so easily pleased.

Christmas Post #1

Ok, so to catch up for the holidays I may be doing a couple of posts. We started off the holidays with the BIG family party (at the church, yay!) We had family, food and fun, that's what it is all about right!
The kids did the Christmas Nativity and it was so cute, here's the pictures from that

I especially love the "nose-picking" shepherd.