I don't have a license for these!

Sometimes Carsten says the funniest things!  

More times than not I forget what he has said all together. 

So I'll blog to remember... 

Last night he came into the office where I was and said, "Mom, I don't have a license for these, you've got to help me with this!"  I looked over to see what he could possibly be talking about.  He was holding the baby fingernail clippers!  I said, "What?  You don't have a license for these?"  He said, "No!  Those things are hard to use!  I don't know how to use them!  Can you help me?"

A license!  

Where does this kid come up with this stuff?

Spring Break - Saturday

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

On Saturday we made a trip up to Logan Utah to watch my cousin Eric Shultz play in the Utah State spring scrimmage football game.  It was a lot warmer than I was thinking it was going to be so we did our best to protect Talan from the sun with his hood.  Talan loved sitting in the stands being his own man!

Before the game started David took Talan down by the field.  Talan wanted to walk out onto the field so bad!  Time and time again David had to steer him back off the field.

There's Eric!  #66  

Eric is a good kid!  He got home from his mission last summer and wanted to play college football and now he's living his dream!

  

Bradon and Carsten liked having free reign of the stadium.  They wandered around sitting in various places.  That's them sitting in the red and orange shirts.  

Big Blue the Aggie bull!  

We are going to have to catch ourselves some of that Aggie pride!

It was Blue (1st string) vs. White (2nd string)

The final score was 40 blue - 35 white.  Eric played on the offensive line.  He played probably 80% of the game.  He did a really good job!  Poor 3rd string guy, he didn't get in the game but just a few series'.

We're pretty excited to go to some of Eric's games this next year!

  

After the game they had a meet and greet/autograph signing down on the field with the players.  Then we went to the player and family BBQ.  We had a great time!  

Spring Break - Friday

All the kids are still feeling under the weather.  

Yesterday we took Reagan to the doctor and he said that she has croup and pneumonia.  We got her started on some meds and she has started to feel a little bit better.  All the other kids aren't as sick as Reagan, they just don't feel up to par.  Well except for Bradon.  He's been feeling pretty good.  In fact he went to the Adam's house yesterday afternoon and hung out with Kaden and Connor until this afternoon.  He had a sleepover and everything!  Bless Julie for putting up with another boy for that long!  

So today, the rest of us did a lot of hanging out again.  We played an extremely long game of Monopoly and watched some movies.  We are hoping that by tomorrow everyone will be feeling better and we can get out of the house for a little while and do something fun!  

Ever night as I tuck Carsten into bed he still informs me of all the horrible things life brings him.  Tonight he informed me that 

"very single spring break someone gets sick and we can't go and do anything!  

Spring breaks are no fun!"  

So let me get this straight.  You had no fun going to the aquarium?  No fun going to the candy factory?  No fun going to the movies to see Mall Cop?  No fun hanging out with mom and dad playing games?  You've just had NO FUN!  He gave me a little grin and rolled over and said, "goodnight!"  

Yeah, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!

A plug for The Pampered Chef

I don't work for The Pampered Chef, I don't sell The Pampered Chef, but I did host a Pampered Chef cooking show!  And can I just say that The Pampered Chef makes hosting a show well worth it!  I sent out 40 invitations.  I had 11 people come the night of the show.  And then I called a few people who had mentioned they wanted a few things and I got their orders.  It was easy!  Pampered Chef stuff sells itself!  Most people have a list of things they want from The Pampered Chef.  If not written down, it's defiantly stored in their heads.  I think I had something like 16 orders, sold something like $800.00 in product and I earned $165.00 in free product for myself.  I also earned 3 items at 50% off.  1 bamboo item at 60% off.  And anything else I ordered was 30% off.  I ended up spending $125.00 out of my pocket and received something like $450.00 worth of product. Amazing!  This was not the first Pampered Chef show I've hosted.  I have hosted a few shows over the years and every time it's been equally worth it!  I own so much Pampered Chef stuff and most of it was free!  

This is what it all looked like after I took it all out of it's boxes. 

(Minus the citrus peeler I forgot to put in the picture.)  

Amazing though isn't it!

My consultant is Summer Pratt

(801) 885-2707

www.pamperedchef.biz/funwithsummer 

Anyways, I highly recommend that if you want to receive some free Pampered Chef stuff, host a show!  I mean yes, there is some work involved but it is totally worth it!  

Give Summer a call, you'll be glad you did!

Spring Break - Thursday

Are you FRIGGIN kidding me?

It's a winter wonderland out there!

CANCEL THE TEE TIME!

Seriously... David was going to take the boys golfing today!  

Here is the official measurement from the back patio.

10 inches over night!

I think I'm starting to understand why 

everyone and their dog

goes to St. George for spring break!  

Holy HECK!  This is incredible!

Is he plowing or playing?

This is our cute neighbor Jake.  One thing great about the snow is that it gives the guys an excuse to get out on their 4 wheelers and play!

This snow is so wet and heavy that it's pulling the branched down.  

I have to admit though, 

IT'S BEAUTIFUL!

My spring easter decorations look a little out of place.  You know they say that it's normal to have spring snow storms, 

but I don't think I'll ever get use to it!  

I'm an Arizona girl 

and this is just weird!  

I got on the phone and called my good friend Shari and she can hardly believe this too!  And she's from here!

Well the good news is that it's not going to stay.  The sun is out and it's starting to melt already!  The temperatures are suppose to rise and by Monday they say it will be 72 degrees.  Perfect weather for the kids to go back to school!

Spring Break - Wednesday

The day started off with a little rain that turned to snow!

Then it really started to stick!

 Nice spring break weather huh?  

How many inches is that?

David took the day off work to hang out with the kids.  

With the weather being so beautiful they did a lot of indoor play.  They played the Wii and Xbox, they had a nice game of Monopoly, and then he took the boys to see the movie Mall Cop.  Totally funny movie by the way!  David and I saw it and we laughed throughout the whole movie!

Reagan is sick today so she's having a nice day in bed!  I guess if your going to be sick, a yucky day like today would be the day to do it!   Hopefully tomorrow will look a little bit better and the kids can go outside to play.

Spring Break - Tuesday

We had so much fun with the Iverson's yesterday that we decided to go on another little field trip today.  

We went to the Sweet Candy Factory for a factory tour.  David even left a few hours early from work to join us.  

We all put on some "SWEET" hairnets 

and off we went on our factory tour.

 

Talan was so good to leave his hairnet on the entire time 

even though it drove him CrAzY!  Cute kid!

At the end of the tour we got to try all sorts of different candies.  They also gave each of us our own little bag of taffy.  And then of course we went shopping in the factory store.  Who could resist buying delicious treats after seeing all the hard work put into making it?  

Not me!

Spring Break - Monday

We went to the Living Planet Aquarium with the Iversons.

It worked out great!  They were already planning on going and we just happened to have annual passes that are going to expire at the end of this week.  So we invited ourselves to join them and they agreed!

It's always fun to go places with friends.  And especially friends with teenage girls who want to look after your little ones!  It was a lovely vacation for ME!  Thanks Hailee and Sydnee!

Don't you think this picture really captures 

each of the kid's personalities?

Thanks Iverson's for letting us tag along!

Easter outfits

Easter morning didn't go exactly like planned.  The plan was to get all the kids dressed and then take them outside to take pictures of them in their new easter outfits.  They all looked so stunning!  The boys all got new suits and Talan got the cutest little sunday outfit with a little vest and tie. Well, after getting up and making homemade cinnamon rolls and dinner rolls, doing the easter basket hunt, preparing the ham and potatoes for dinner, hemming up Carsten's dress pants by hand, helping to get the kids ready plus myself, I only got Reagan outside for the easter picture!  So I'll have to get them all dolled up again (on a less busy day) and post the easter outfits photo later.

But doesn't Reagan look great!  

I love this dress and I think that she looks 

absolutely adorable in it!

The Easter Morning Egg/Basket Hunt!

The kids look forward to our traditional Easter Egg/Basket hunt every year.  Our Easter Bunny hides 5 eggs for each child with clues inside leading them to the next egg and then finally to their easter basket.  It's a lot of fun watching them get so excited for the event!  They have to wait for everyone to wake up before we can begin because we start with the youngest child and work our way up.  This year was Talan's first year and he took his sweet little time waking up.  It was literally killing the kids to have to wait.  Finally they snuck upstairs and woke him up!

Good morning Talan!

Talan was so funny!  

The kids read his clues and then when he would find the egg he would just throw it on the ground like a ball.  He was very easily distracted.  The kids would run into one room to find his next egg and he would run into another room to play with a toy.

Come on Talan, get with the program little man!

Finally after a long hard hunt he found his basket in the master bathroom.  The funniest part was that he walked right past his basket to play with the door stop!  Classic 15 month old!

 Reagan is getting this hunting thing down.  Except for we did discover that she didn't know what a "grill" was.  We had to help her out with that one.

It's cute to see how the kids react when all the attention is on them.  They love every second of it, acting a little shy and silly!

Reagan found her basket in her closet.  It was all PINK!  This year all the kids baskets were color coordinated with the eggs they found.  Reagan's eggs were pink and her basket contents were all pink too!

Carsten was quick to find all of his eggs.

Cute kid!  

He even found a few of Talan's eggs before the hunt began.

He found his basket in the corner of his room almost under his bed.

Bradon is pretty darn quick too!  His first clue said, "You love to hunt for eggs, Wii love to watch you find them!"  He ran to the Wii before he even finished reading the clue!  Little smarty pants!

This kid couldn't be tricked!

He actually knew where his basket was before the hunt began.  He "Accidently" found it!  Yeah right, whatever!

Ethan loves to savor his hunt!  He takes his time enjoying every moment.  It's big, it's red, it's new...  What in the heck could that be?  As Ethan thought about it Carsten was dying to just go to the truck to get the egg.  Finally Carsten blurted it out, THE TRUCK!!! 

 Ethan was like, oh yeah!

It's so cute how no matter how old they get 

they still love this simple tradition!

And there he found his basket in his basement room 

behind the LA-Z-BOY!

Happy Easter kids!  

We are glad that you had a good time!