Kian cracked head causes wide spread brain injury

Kian's forehead was cracked open on the computer desk Sunday morning (with the help of his older brother Gabe). It was bound to happen sooner or later. The urgent care doctor chose not to stitch it. Just a few steri-strips and we were sent home. He's pretty happy about the whole ordeal. :)

What we couldn't have predicted was the transfer of Kian's brain trauma to Rob and I. Later that evening we both were showing signs of serious head injury. Accidents are so unpredictable in that way.

Batch two!

OH. SO. FUN.

While doing a BUNCH of mending this morning (mostly sewing on patches for the boys AND Rob...UGH!), I simultaneously scanned in a bunch of new photos. I know...I'm a fantastic multi-tasker (as long as I can remember what I am supposed to be doing. :) ).

After the kids went down for a nap I touched them up....(roughly)!

Now I will share them with you.

It's your lucky day.

Fall 2000

Rob's actually in the picture with another girl. Not that I have jealousy issues but do we really need HER in the photo? I. don't. think. so!

Fall 2000
I'm not sure Rob and I were even dating yet.
No worried...the tatoo is airbrushed.

Fall 2001
Rob with his room mate Dan.

November 2001
Rob and I were actually broken up when this picture was taken. How did we get from there to where we are in the next picture? Mercy...I took pity on the poor fool. :)


Feb/March 2002

Newly engaged. So SWEET!


July 2003

Gabe and I
YEAH...I know I was chubby. Dude, I had just had a baby!

July 2003

Rob and Gabe
Rob was SUCH a proud papa!

Dec 2003

Gabe's first Christmas

Early Spring 2004
Gabe and our pet Russian Tortoise "Harvey"
Gabe hated touching the grass! He he.

Spring/Summer 2003

And we wonder why Gabe is so obsessed with video games now!
Like father, like son!

At an end for now.

Don't cry...there will be more.

YOUNG(er) and IN LOVE (infatuated)!

When you are as "blond" as I am, sometimes it takes a little while to put things together. After installing Photoshop Elements on my computer 7 months ago it finally dawned on me that I have a scanner on my printer (that I have never been used because I didn't think I had the software). Well, tonight I finally put two and two together. I have both a scanner AND the software now. Duh!

I AM SO EXCITED!

I started scanning photos right away. Some of them still need a lot of touch up work (and some need to be rescanned because I didn't realize how much dust was on the scanner glass and the photos and couldn't figure out what all of the white specks on the photos were until I was 90% done with this batch....my mom always said I was her "blondest" blond!

These are pics of Rob and I when we were young and enjoying "new love"!

Rob with some siblings just after we started dating (Nov 2000)
It's amazing how much everyone has changed!

Um....yeah....super HOT!

Who can watch a football game when there are so many distractions on the side lines?
I'm a super big fan of football pants...especially when you put a certain Gillespie booty into them :) Yowsers! (Fall 2000)


The famous "Robbie squat"...even in college I could pick him out ANYWHERE on the field. See what I mean about football pants? (Whew...is it getting hot in here?) (Fall2000)

In Salt Lake on top of the conference center. (April 2001)
(He had a nice shaved head then too!)

Morp at Snow College (May? 2001)
We totally bought our gear at Sanpete Thrift...awesome!
(Sheri...do you remember this dance?)

Um...yeah...like I said before....SO SUPER HOT (I LOVE the dimples)!

On a boat cruise on Lake Coure D'Alene (summer 2001)

Engaged FINALLY! (Feb 2002)

Engagement Pictures (Spring 2002)

Bridals (Spring 2002)

Back when I used to really smile... :)

...before the stress of life, kids, a ppd kicked in.

Wedding Day (May 10, 2002--Manti Temple)

Honeymoon in VEGAS (May 2002)

Another honeymoon pic (May 2002)

There will SO be more to come! I hope you are as excited as I am!

Glasses....like second Christmas!

We got a letter the other day that Gabe's glasses were finally ready for pick-up. Gabe has been long awaiting this day. He was so excited.

So...after dropping Gabe off at school, I headed over to the optometrist to pick them up. Then I trucked (actually vanned) back to the school to give them to Gabe. He was way to hyped up to wait for after school.

He raced down to the office (which is VERY unusual for him). We fitted them and he put them on.

Now this is a quote...a direct quote...

"Wow....everything is so....CLEAR!"

All of the office ladies were giggling...me too. But truthfully, I felt a little bad wondering what he has been missing.

Then he read to me some words off a poster that was a few feet away from us with such a bewildered expression as if he had never even noticed it before. Crazy!

When he got home we took some pictures. This, in and of itself, is a MIRACLE. The kid does not like having his picture taken. He couldn't hold a straight face. That just makes them all the more cute. :)

By the way...he totally picked out the blue frames...he thinks they are so cool!

Funny kid!

On another note, I made meatloaf for dinner. It was a first for me...and a first for the kids. THEY LOVED IT! I was not expecting such an enthusiastic reaction. Gabe said he would love to eat it every day for dinner and lunch...and even breakfast if he could. I was flabbergasted. It's kind of nice to feel appreciated every now and then.


Just thought I'd share.

Holly Jolly Christmas!

We had a super Holly Jolly Christmas!

Festivities started Christmas Eve when we had some of our good friends over for dinner. It was cozy, and relaxed and a super good time.

After they left we gave the boys their Christmas jammies and took some pictures...

I LOVE these close-ups!

then off to bed.



****Christmas Morning****

*Gasp* "Mom...Santa ate ALL the stuff we left for him"

Waiting to see what's under the tree...
(these two were pretty happy. The others...not so happy to wait)

Kian loves following me around when I am sweeping or vacuuming(in fact, the vacuum is his favorite toy). Now he has a new toy to follow as well (Gabe's Spy Tracker (aka remote control car++)). It annoys Gabe a bit but Kian LOVES it!

Gabe and Kian playing with Kian's new ball.

Modeling the jester hats I made them...

and their new play clothes (Halloween clearance).

We spent the morning playing with toys and the Kinect and then took off for Spokane.

We had a fun weekend with lots of family (and Val). :)

It was a really fun holiday.