There is this guy!

There is this guy!  He is the funniest person I know.  He always makes me laugh even if it is really corny.  He has sooooo much passion that it often gets him in trouble for being "angry" ;) I always know where he stands on any issue.  But, he is never afraid to hear other views on said issues.  He always listens to what I have to say even if he doesn't want to hear it.  Look at that smile!  Gets me every time...so contagious.  He has crazy amounts of desire to be good.  He wants to help people and influence others for the better.  His heart aches for others if he sees them struggle or even fall.  He makes dang cute kids!!  I mean look at those kids!  He wants to give me everything!  He isn't very patient...he wants me to have everything I could ever need now! not tomorrow but now!!  He works so hard.  He loves me so much.  I love you Jeffrey Scott.

Together Again!

Hello blog world!  It has been a long time.  Please forgive me!  This photo is at the Boise Zoo, where we celebrated Loralei's 3rd birthday!  Hooray!!  So much has happened in the last almost year!  The best part is that here we are together as a family!  As I look at this photo, I see smiles, well almost everyone...Loralei is much more concerned about the giraffe slide then the friendly women who offered to take our picture. :) I see mending hearts from a tragic accident that has forever changed our families lives.  I see growth individually and also spiritually from that event.  I see new confidences in Jeff with the start of his new job!  I see some sweet cowgirl boots as a result of our new lifestyle out in the sticks!!  I am sure I have some form of chicken poop on my pants as well.  I see growing girls who amaze me everyday with all that they are learning and know.  Kindergarten...what an adventure!   I am so grateful for all of the support and love that we have received this past year!  Thank you. 

The Family!!! Just a few favorites!

Thank you Laura! 

You might just think we are crazy?!

Our Beauties making late night grocery shopping fun!

Since Christmas our lives have been CRAZY fast!  Just a few new things! 
1.We have added a new member to our household, Meriah my cousin moved here from Oregon.
2. The girls have both had birthdays!  What?!?  I am too young to have a 5 year old and a 2 year old.  We had a wonderful time at Chucky Cheese for Anna's big day and Loralei actually loved the gang at Red Robin singing to her, or maybe just the balloons. 
3. We have had a change in our work schedule.  Different days of the week each rotating week, which makes it hard on the good ole workout schedule :(, but good for long weekends :).  Jeff also doesn't work at Malibu with us girls.  It has been different for sure not having him there, and we have had to really work together as a family to make the finances work....but whenever you follow the spirit in faith you always are blessed!
4.Miracle after Miracle after Miracle!
5. We got a NEW sweet car!  I know I actually said it a car.  No more gas gusaline Tahoe!  Hooray every time I fill it up I actually do a little dance!!  I have gotten a few funny looks!
6. As some future goals have come into view some different action steps are required to achieve those goals.....so we OPENED a sports cards shop.  Now this is the crazy part.  We have been looking for about a year for a location that was the right price for the right size and location.  So in the mean time Jeff has been on ebay selling his brains out.  Well with ebay you have fees and shipping costs and hours on the computer?!?  Well with some urgency behind us Jeff found a location on craigslist and checked it out.  The minute that we walked in I knew that it was going to happen and this was the place to do it! Again, it just felt right! 
7. Busy Busy Busy!  So exactly a week later Jeff tore down a wall, painted, built 3 display units, and moved our crowded office (all of our cards) to the shop!  The Grand Opening was great!  Thank you friends and loved ones who showed up to support us!  Oh and Annabelle will be mad at me if I don't mention that in the shop is A's Treats & L's Sweets, yup my amazing entrepreneur daughter has her own snack bar, come on you want a Reeces Peanut Butter Cup,and also shaved ice coming soon, very soon.
8. Day 2, Our Amazing new neighbor, Island Grinds came over and asked Jeff if he could bring his friend over, you might know him, he is from the San Fransisco 49ers....Mike Iupati!  So we got to meet a very humble and kind giant of a man!  He signed a ball and even took pictures with us!
9. Happy Happy Joy Joy!  Jeff has been sooo busy, people are jumping with joy that there is finally a sports card shop in Nampa!  As we are thrilled that they are coming in week after week and actually spending money!  We are just a few days away from the 1st month of business and I think we are both amazed and humbled at how well we have been blessed. 
10.  Loralei has been having some trouble with her eyes lately, so we got a referral from her Dr.  So today we got to go to the specialist.  I am excited to say that we will be picking up some glasses tomorrow.  She is crossing her eyes to help her focus because she is farsighted.  Crazy huh.  I am grateful for a Dr. who is so good with children and that they took the time even when L-train was not so excited, to be thorough and make sure that everything was okay and they got everything correct and exact.  Now we will see how hard it is to keep the things on her face :/ 
       So sorry to be long winded but it has been too long!  I couldn't pick from all of our pictures.  I am sooo blessed, and these are just a tiny drop of the blessings that we have had in the past few months.  Come see us at Good Sports on Garrity Blvd in Nampa! 
  

Moments before this picture I had just made Loralei upset, so she went straight to her sister and gave her a hug. I LOVE that they are both smiling. Ahh!
Before cutting the mullet, that my youngest was growing, I thought alright I will see if she will let me do piggies, so with the water faucet on and a toothbrush in hand, she was easily distracted enough to give it a whirl. Hooray now look how grown up she looks.
This is Christmas Eve morning at my parents house.

Sorry this photo is out of order, but this is Annabelle and her teacher, Mrs. Asher, this was a reading prep class that focused on phonics. It was amazing to watch Anna's confidence boost.
This funny girl asked that Santa bring her a tall red pixie stix. So Santa brought an even better treat, one of every color.
I think that Loralei is still in a Toy Story coma, poor Dad could not get her friends out fast enough.
Christmas Day afternoon we went to Jeff's parents, this is a Care Bear tent, and this is the girls laughing once again. I love that she is covering her mouth while she laughs. And of course Anna will do whatever it takes to get a laugh out of her sis. This next picture is cuddle time with Grandpa Hankins and Rocky, she wasn't too sure of Rocky's cuddles but she was loving on Grandpa.

Another out of order picture, but this is the Christmas Eve PJ shot. I LOVE that my Sweet Pea requested a TMNT night gown. So of course Dad had to be in on the TMNT fun, well guess what L- train got, yup Toy Story, and I was lucky enough to get some ADIDAS "pajamas". He He. I love getting new workout clothes, disguised as PJ's.
I LOVE Christmas and all of the fun times that the season brings. As I have neglected the blog, I was looking through the last month of pictures trying to decide what to share, I can't believe how fast time flies, and how big these girls are getting. I love my lil family so much. Thanks for viewing and having an interest in my lil family.

The Tooth Fairy visit!

About a week ago Annabelle said "Mom I have a loose tooth." "What? You can't be big enough to have a loose tooth, " feel feel in her tiny mouth. And sure enough she has a loose tooth. So Friday night I was brushing her teeth, with one swoop of the brush she exclaims "Mom what is on my tongue?" "Oh that is your tooth!" She was sooo excited, and so am I that it was a great experience, other than we didn't get to tie a string to her tooth or anything cool like that. Well at least she has more teeth right. So the tooth fairy made her a little pink bag with red string on the top that had a $2 bill and ...she said that the tooth fairy would bring her 5 coins....so of course there were 5 coins.

Hair Cuts!!

Summer Fun!

We have gone camping a couple of times at the Green family property.









Loralei preping the pan for pizza, such a little helper. We are pros at the slip n slide. We can't get Loralei off of the four wheelers. Which is good for me because you can't get me off of the four wheelers either. We experimented with a volcano, that was awesome. I love how creative Annabelle and Jeff are. Thanks to our friends the Harps we have enjoyed Jabbers, great clean place to play. And after all of that crazy fun my girls are getting closer and closer. There have been multiple nights when we have to put them in the same bed to get them to calm down enough to fall asleep. Then I come back in to seperate them and they are all snuggled up. Ahh! I just love these girls.

Clank Clank Grind Grind Rattle Rattle

A couple of weekends ago Jeff had a football game in Spanish Fork Utah. We thought that this would be another great opportunity to go for a quick and easy family trip. We got to Provo Friday night had some dinner and a museum with some close friends...the Hatch's. Saturday morning took a tour of the Conference Center...Amazing! Then hit up the Visitor's Center to see the Christus, again dragging the Hatch's with us. Next on the to do list...the Hogle Zoo, well since it was the first nice day for a few months every one was at the zoo. So we made our way to the This Is The Place Monument instead, where we took a stroll and again enjoyed the company of the Hatch's, whom I want to thank for letting Annabelle hang all over them. Thanks again!














Now off to the big game. Well, that didn't go so well for our beloved Matadors, weird game, bummer ending, they got their first loss of the season! Insert Debbie Downer noise now! Well at least us girls had a great time. And after the game we got to go swimming!













So Sunday morning, we got all packed, got some good breakfast and headed out to hit the zoo, thinking all of those darn Mormons would be in church and not at the zoo, I know we are terrible for vacationing on the Sabbath! So the fun begins, a little noise coming from the car, we think naaa just tire noise, well it is now pouring rain, and we pass the Cabelas exit near Lehi, CLANK CLANK GRIND GRIND RATTLE RATTLE! Panic! Thank heaven's for smart phones, and wireless internet, and ipods, and the DVD player in the car.

We got the joyful experience of riding in a tow truck and finding out the hard way that NOTHING is open on Sundays in Utah!!! The pictures are exactly how everyone was dealing with the wait in the garage's parking lot! A nice lady in the Texaco down the street gave Annabelle a sucker, Loralei of course crashed out, Jeff dealing with a smile and me freaking out quietly. So true so true. So again we have to hand out more Thank yous for our rescuers the Woods. "Because that is what friends are for." A valuable lesson learned that weekend. So Monday we got a Sweet Ford Fusion rental car and split Utah fast and furious.














Since we promised and promised and didn't make it to the zoo, we detoured to Pocatello for the Zoo, very sweet zoo by the way, even in the rain. Thanks Erin for the idea a long time ago.
So a week and 4 days later Jeff and I head to Utah to retrieve our poor Tahoe. Frowny face. Nice 23 hour trip, Thanks again Wood's for putting us up. And thanks Mom and Dad for saving the kids from having to take that drive again.
So now the questions start to flood in.....what do we do with the car that has 100000 miles on it? Ahh! Decisions Decisions!

Busy Busy Busy!

These are our first round of children all grown up! Fisk and Chelsea we love you like you are our own! I mean you practically lived with us for the past 8 years! It has been amazing to watch you both grow!

Thank you Miss Stacie! Annabelle had so much fun! I am so grateful for the opportunity for Annabelle to grow physically strong and confident. And she is so darn beautiful!

Montana Or Bust.

Very fresh newborn Buffalo.Big Horn Sheep



This past weekend we had the great opportunity to go on a family trip to Montana. Jeff had an away game in Montana. So Friday we headed to McCall for some much needed visitation with our Northern family. They so kindly opened their home to us. So Saturday morning we headed up Highway 12 through country that we together as a family have never been on! Hooray I love a new adventure. Shortly before game time we arrive in Missoula. Burr! We girls stuck out the game in the car in from the cold wind and some rain. Matadors won!! Good Game Jeff! Sunday morning we of course had to hit the "waterpark" that was inside of the hotel - sweet slides and some fun fountains. Then off to Yellowstone. I have said this before but, Wow my girls travel so well! Before we got to Yellowstone, to break up the trip we stopped at the Montana Grizzly Encounter, very cool low key bear exhibit. The 800 lb Grizzly even waved at us, good job, Brutus. We have never been in the North Entrance of Yellowstone, so took the extra milage and entered from the top, so before you get to the Entrance you travel in an open fielded canyon, of course filled with wildlife. Before we even got to Yellowstone we saw, Elk, Deer, Antelope, Big Horn Sheep and Buffalo. Then we got into the "Park." Sorry just wanted to feel like a native. Once again we weren't let down by the majesticness of the National Park. We actually were within seconds of seeing 2 wolves. Well at least we got to follow the tracks following along the road for quite a few miles. Shucks!! A car going the other direction pointed them out 2 seconds after they went into the thickness of the trees. Staying in West Yellowstone was fun, good pizza if you ever are wondering, and of course another swimming pool. Monday we finally headed home. Thank you family for the amazing vacation.

Easter Bunny!

Ok so here are some quick photos of the Easter Bunny that played around my house this Easter! Thank you Anne for giving us the opportunity for some great laughs!