Super Bowl fun!

I totally forgot to post about the Super Bowl!  

The game was so good!  Even though our Cardinals lost we are still proud to call them our team.  We had several people come over to watch it with us which always makes for a fun time!  GO CARDINALS!

The Hunting Expo...

Yesterday we went as a family to the Hunting Expo @ the Salt Palace.  Last year David took the boys and I stayed home with Reagan and Talan.  I'm thinking that next year I'll let David take the boys again!  Reagan told me time and time again that she was tired and wanted to go home.  Talan protested the Expo from the time we got there until we left.  It was very much a guy thing!  David was in testosterone heaven along with the other 5000 men there!  Me, I wasn't in heaven to say the least.  Not that it was terrible or anything, I would have just rather been doing ... well, anything else!  Okay it wasn't really that bad but I think Reagan and Talan would have enjoyed being at home more!

Toyota had a photo booth and the kids could pick their own backdrop.  They stood in front of a green screen and posed with their props.  Reagan opted out of the photo shoot all together!  

My rock star Carsten jamming out with Brooks and Dunn.

Fisherman Ethan catching some big ones on his fishing boat.

And Bradon hanging out in the pits with the Toyota team.

Do you think you'll ever get divorced?

Carsten is one of the cutest kids!  He is full of energy and full of mischief, but he has a really good heart!  I have written in the past about him being the 'tenderest tough kid' that I know. 

 I can remember when he was a Sunbeam in primary.  After church one Sunday his primary teacher (who was a boy that had recently been converted and was preparing for his mission) came and told me that he thought that he might have finally committed Carsten to baptism!  He was so excited about this and could hardly contain his excitement as he told me.  He said that every week in their Sunbeam class he would ask Carsten if he wanted to get baptized someday.  Carsten would always respond with a confident NO!  The Sunbeam teacher said that it was his personal goal to teach Carsten about how important is was to get baptized and somehow get Carsten to commit to baptism hopefully before he left on his mission.  After several months of asking Carsten and always getting the same NO response, Carsten finally said YES! 

 

I think that Carsten finds joy in being different, marching to his own drum and marking his own path... He enjoys seeing peoples reactions to the things he does and says.  It's this one particular characteristic about Carsten that sometimes has me worried about his teenage years that are approaching a lot faster than I might want to think!  

Anyways, let me get to the reason for my post in the first place.  The other day David and I were in the office and Carsten and one of the neighbor boys were in the kitchen having a conversation.  Carsten asked this boy, " Do you think you'll ever get divorced?  The boy thought about it for a second and said, "Probably if my wife made me really mad!"  Carsten responded in a real thoughtful tone, "Not me!  Because I'm going to get married in the Temple!"  I was shocked!  My heart melted instantly!  My sweet little Carsten!  What a good boy!  Then the neighbor said, "Well I'm going to get married in the Temple too, so I'm not going to get divorced either!"  Then as they both just sorta sat there in thought, our neighbor said, "Carsten, aren't you a little young to be thinking about divorce?"  

I thought that this was a funny little conversation.  Funny, yet endearing!  It's little surprises like these that make being a mom all worth it!  I'm proud of my little Carsten and his desire to be good!

Reagan's Hair blog!

This is the hair do for today's hair blog entry.  Reagan wants a hair blog so bad!  I told her that we could post blogs about her hair on our family blog.  She says, "I want my own blog!"  I say, "Now you know what it feels like to want!"

So we did french braids on either side meeting up in the middle.  And then we combined the ends of our french braids and did a fish tail braid down the back.  

Then for the first time ever in Reagan's 4 1/2 year old life we curled her hair with a curling iron!  It curled up nicely because her hair was dirty!  I told Reagan this and she said, "Hair gets dirty?"

When is it going to be Sunday?

This morning Reagan came up to me and asked, "When is it going to be Sunday?"  I told her not for a few more days.  Then she asked me, "Do you know why I love Sunday?"  I  asked why?  She said, "Because my teacher is Harley!"  Then she said, "Do you love her?"  I said, "Yes, I love Sister Harley!"  Then she said, " I love her!"

This was the cutest little conversation.  The love of a child is so pure!  I called Sister Harley to tell her about our conversation.  Sister Harley said that she loves Reagan too!   Lately Reagan is either teaching an imaginary preschool class or she's teaching all of her imaginary friends a primary lesson.  Cute little girl!

Super Bowl XLIII

Get your Cardinal Red on, 

the Cardinals are in Super Bowl XLIII!

This is one of the most unbelievable things ever!  Ever since coming to Arizona, the Cardinals have been nothing to talk about.  Now they are going to the Super Bowl!  

We are excited to cheer for our home team this year!  

Go Cards!

We will be hosting a Super Bowl party this Sunday!  

So come one, come all, to our Super Bowl Ball! 

When is it going to be summer?

Today after the kids went to school, Reagan asked me "When is it going to be summer?" Later in the day when the kids came home from school, Carsten asked me, "When is it going to be summer?"  So do you think the kids are getting sick of winter?

The first day of summer is June 21st.

We only have 145 days to wait!

The LDS Film Festival!

It was great having Mark and Camille and Grandma Arnett here with us for the Film Festival!  Mark was extremely sick with an unknown illness causing him to lose his voice, have terrible coughing episodes and to feel 100% miserable!  On Thursday they were at the Festival watching a film and one of his coughing episodes began.  He got up and quickly walked toward the back of the theater for the door.  The next thing he remembers is that some man was helping him off the floor.  He had fainted!  While fainting he did a fancy face plant leaving his face with an attractive rug burn!  Poor Mark, things were going from bad to worst for him!  I was quite worried about him and his worsening condition.  I called my sister Staci and told her about what had happened.  She went ballistic insisting that he goes to urgent care.  She hung up the phone with me and called Mark giving him a BIG piece of her mind!  Needless to say, Mark went to urgent care that night!  They decided that he has bronchitis and they gave him some really good drugs.  Friday he stayed home laying low and by Saturday he was able to go to the Festival for his big Film Festival debut!

We got a sitter for Talan and took the rest of the kids.  It was a lot of fun!  There were lots of people there to see the film.  One of the staff members told us that up until then, Baby Boomerang had had the largest audience of the festival so far.  Awesome huh?

I absolutely loved Baby Boomerang!  I had seen it before but last time I saw it was when Mark showed it in a movie theater after Grandpa's funeral.   I don't know if I was a little numb then or what but it touched me so much more this time.  I really miss Grandpa!

My good friends Shari and Laurie came to see the movie.   They both said that they really enjoyed it!  I told them that they were my BEST friends for coming!  

We had a good time hanging out with Mark and Camille.

And Grandma too!  

Grandma is so dang cute!  She was really good at promoting the film.  She would hand out flyers while telling people all about the film.  With tears in her eyes she would tell them that Grandpa died last March.  I think that the first time she got all chocked up it surprised her that she was so emotional.  Then she realized that her emotions really brought in a personal touch and she found she had people promising her they would come to the film.  From then on I think she hammed it up a bit using her emotions for the best!

Reagan loved spending time with her GREAT Grandma!  I think Grandma enjoyed spending time with Reagan too!

Thanks Mark and Camille for choosing us to stay with.  We had a fabulous time!  Congratulations on a successful Film Festival and it's good to see that you're starting to feel a little better.  Oh yeah, and thanks for all the good laughs about the rug burn!

Baby Boomerang.

My Uncle Mark and my Aunt Camille and my Grandma Arnett are coming to Utah for the LDS film festival and they will be staying with ME.  I'm really looking forward to their visit and so are my kids!  Everyday Reagan asks me, 

"When is my Great Grandma going to get here?"

My Uncle Mark made a documentary film about my Grandfather Charles Arnett and his World War II experience called Baby Boomerang.  It took him 14 years to make this film and he completed it just 1 week after my Grandfather passed away last March.  The film is really quite good!  My Uncle is a very talented, creative and funny person.  His film has been chosen to be in the 2009 LDS film festival.  The festival is this week and Baby Boomerang will be shown on Saturday, January 24th @ 12:00 noon At the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem (745 South State Street, Orem, Utah).  Tickets are only $4.00 each.  We are hoping that anyone and everyone will attend.  If there is anyway you can make it, please do!

Tickets can be purchased at the door or on line at scera.org

For more information about the festival go to www.ldsfilmfestival.org

If you want to learn more about Mark and Baby Boomerang then go to www.babyboomerang.com.

www.piggiesnponies.blogspot.com

I was on my friends blog and she had a link to www.piggiesnponies.blogspot.com on her blog.  I clicked on it and found the cutest blog for anyone that has a girl!

It has one cute hair do after another!  Lately Reagan has been a little difficult when it comes to doing her hair.  I showed her the blog and let her pick a hair do.  This is the one she picked!  I think it turned out pretty cute!  Reagan sat extremely still for me and she was so excited about her new do!  When I got done and took pictures of her hair, she insisted that we need to have our own special blog of hair do's!

I'm loving this messy bun too!