Santa

Santa has just left the building . . . but he will be back shortly with the (forgotten) bird for RJ. Hope you all have a great Christmas Morning!

Thanksgiving '08

Bradley, Luke, Khloee, Payton, RJ

Christmas is just around the corner but I wanted to make sure I jotted a few fond memories down from Thanksgiving this year. We had such a fun time and I am so glad that we took the chance to travel to Layton this year and spend time with family that we don't get to see as often. The kids were so excited they had a calendar in Tanner's room counting down the day's till we left. The only problem was that Tanner would X out a day and then Luke would go in and X out a day so the countdown was going faster than the actual days were and they were getting perturbed at me that I kept moving the date back!

Here is my gratitude list from the pictures I took this THANKFUL weekend.

I am so Thankful for . . . .

These two cute girls that I hope will grow up loving each other and being the best of friends.

A husband who is still a kid at heart and thinks he can keep up with them. (Which I think he showed them he still had a few moves, but oh my, did he complain later about muscles that he forgot he even had.)

Kandice, Misti & baby Julia all bundled up.

Cute sisters to share the drive and the weekend with! I didn't get one of Trudi but I was glad she was there and I think she is cute too! We missed Cheri but we did get to share a few moments together across the phone lines as we tried to get the hot deals on Friday Morning. And once again, super cute sister!

Kyla, Payton, Porter, RJ

Cousins to share memories of some first experiences with, like our first exciting train ride! (can you feel Porter and RJ's excitement).

The trip to Temple Square to see the beautiful Christmas lights. I don't ever remember seeing the lights at temple square so I was excited to get the chance to go, even if there were a thousand other people there. Being surrounded by the masses is not exactly Kory's idea of a good time so I must thank Dave (Kandice's husband) for cheering his spirits by letting a STINKER in the middle of the visitor center that had people screaming for the exits. So yes, I am thankful Dave has rotten gas! (Typical Kory, to find a "bomb" worth the trip.)
I am thankful for our first family picture this year. Not exactly professional, but it will have to do . . . until next year I am sure.

Welcome to the world baby Julia

This is only like a week late but we think it is still worth writing about. We are so excited to have a new little niece in the family. We think she is pretty cute and Khloee thinks she is head care taker when she is around. We can't wait to get to know her and see what fun things she will learn from her older brothers. (because we know that little girls still unfortunately learn lots of things from their older brothers!)
We were lucky enough to get to keep Payton and Porter a little bit while Misti was in the hospital. While she was sitting around in a hospital bed, we go to build a hut and have a fun movie party outside. Much funner than squeezing out a baby, I must say!

WWF Wright Style

The past month we have been enjoying watching the boys wrestle. They have loved it and it has taught them lots of good things besides wrestling moves. I am surprised at how well they handle their wins and their losses. Luke keeps the same expression on his face, win or lose. And I thought for sure Tanner would cry every time he got pinned but so far they have both handled the losses well. I have unfortunately been busy doing the Women and YW volleyball tournaments on the weekends that the boys wrestle so I have yet to see Tanner wrestle a full match. But here is a little footage that I got of Luke in the short time that I was able to be there.

I think their Dad likes it more than the boys do. Uncle Todd has been great about coaching the boy's on their moves, (Since their dad isn't a whole lot of help in this area.) Thanks Todd!

You voted for who?

I just wanted to post this funny conversation I had with Tanner the other morning. The morning of the election, before Kory left work, he asked me if I was ready for taxes to go up and the U.S. to change a whole lot. Meaning, he thought Obama was going to win the election. Tanner, piped up when he heard the names Barack Obama and John McCain. He said he knew who he wanted to win and they had done their own vote at school. He told me he wanted Obama to win and I told him I was glad but that wasn't who I was going to vote for. He got all huffy at me and asked me "why"? We talked a little about it and told him that was OK for us to want different people for president and that was a great thing about our country, we could choose the candidate that fit our beliefs and ideas the best. (even though none of the choices were that great.) Just then his dad walks by and Tanner asked him who he was going to vote for and he told him McCain. Tanner slammed his fist down on the counter and in his angry voice said, "I knew it, I knew you were going to say that!" I thought wow, I didn't know he was so into politics. He was pretty ticked off!

I asked him, "why are you so upset about this?" He said, "You wanna know why?" Still in his angry voice. "Because you know that big lizard? The really, really big lizard? Uncle Brock used to have one?" And me being brilliant in the lizard department, said "an Iguana?"

"Ya, an iguana. Obama sounds like Iguana, that's why I want him to win!"

People out there are voting for him because of the color of skin, why not throw in lizard lovers as well.

Making the switch

In honor of Halloween I am crossing over to the dark side!

I have decided to make my blog private.

So, if you would still like to view my blog, please leave me your email address so I can send you your exclusive invitation!

Happy Birthday Turdi

Oh, to be as OLD and wise as my fabulous sister, Trudi. She is such a fun sister and I only wish she were closer so that we could hang out more often and she could teach me how to keep my house whipped into shape like hers. (or better yet she could do her house AND my house). As my gift to her (since I didn't get her anything else) here is a small tribute of memories that I have of her.

1. Her tenacious attitude when it comes the after Thanksgiving day sale's. There are so many memories tied into just that one day!

2. Her Brazil photo album which gave me my first introduction on how to french kiss. Thank you for that.

3. being confident enough to show off some sweet volleyball moves as her talent at the Washington city princess pageant.

4. Giving my the chance to tag along and learn from the masters when she went toilet papering the elite citizens of Washington County. Not only letting me tag along, but showing me that it is not enough just to get up from trampoline where we were sleeping. But to put big cinder blocks under our blankets so the trampoline sagged down. Just in case mom and dad checked on us. (She thought of it all folks.)

5. Letting Misti and I crash her house when we ditched our beloved job at Teltrust. We loved to go hang out with her and Ashley. She probably didn't love it as much as we did.

6. The determination she showed on the rock wall will be an inspiration to me for years and years to come.

And lastly, I have a little video of someone else that wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday and share a memory!

I hope you have had a great birthday! I love that I have you to look up to and that you have set such a high standard because it only makes me work harder to be able to reach your level. You are such a good mom and wife and I am lucky to call you my sister. I also love that you have so many nicknames. Choodie, Turdi, Gert . . . the list goes on!