CUTENESS

Last week the boys had a little photo shoot down at JCPenneys. It was a last minute thing...seriously! Getting pictures taken is something that stresses me out the most so I avoid it if possible. I knew I needed to get them done before Rusty got too big and out of his cute 6 month baby stage. Tuesday night as I was checking emails a coupon came through and I saw that you can make your own appointment online.

Why not tomorrow morning? 

Just get them done.

No thinking about it.

 No trying to find perfect matching outfits.

Worring all week about them tripping and getting a big fat bruise or noticeable scratch marks.

Tomorrow it IS!

The next morning I rummaged through Lanes drawers and found his only button up shirt without logos or pictures on it. Luckily he had a haircut the week before or else he would have looked like his uncle David:)

Rusty pretty much only has and wears the five pack onsies from Target everyday. I don't like wearing clothes, why should my kids have to?! We went to the mall an hour early so I could feed them lunch and go to the GAP to find something for Rusty to wear. Told you, what a game plan!

With Marcie's help we managed to:

go upstairs to go potty,

go downstairs to buy an outfit,

go upstairs to eat lunch with no ketchup or milk spills,

go downstairs to look one more time at outfits to make sure we picked the best one,

go upstairs to go poo poo (gotta teach him how to do both at the same time) 

then back downstairs to take pictures.

They turned out so cute!

I  love my boys! I love that I can say my boys! I don't know why I had so much anxiety about it because they both were angels the minute we started posing them. I had a smile on my face the whole time standing back adoring them taking pictures together as brothers. I  know they are going to be best friends and that is the greatest feeling!

Afterwards we took a trip back to the GAP to return the really cute but already have white shirt at home but didn't think to bring it and wish I could keep and not feel guilty $25 pair of shorts. I had intentions of keeping them but just couldn't justify it. Is that bad? Don't tell me if it is! Lane got a well deserved DQ cone and play time on the toys.

It was a fun day. Productive and glad it's over...until Sept that is when it's family picture time. Help us all!

The Tastes Of Summer

We went over to Grandmothers to pick her blackberries which were in big time abundance. Picking blackberries will always be a special memory for me as a child. It is weird that my kids are picking them with me now! How did I get this old? However, I am so happy my boys will get to have their own memories with their great Grandmother. We scored 2 gallons worth and I was tempted to black market them seeing how at the grocery stores they are $3 for 160z. We also picked some peaches and apples while we were at it.

We had 2 siblings graduate from high school. Congrats David and Valerie! We had our traditional celebration dinner at Texas Roadhouse with my family then Casey took Lane to Mt. View and

me and Rusty went to Mesa High.

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The swimming pool has become our second home. Lane is a mexi already and Rusty,well he is going to be our little white boy.

Awesome Awards Go To:

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FUNNY FACES :}

OUR NEIGHBOR.

We have 3 ladies who are single and all three have houses across the street from us. Casey has become their handy man. Last week one of them had Casey paint her whole house. She is a flight attendant and was gone during the painting process. Apparently Casey missed a "few" spots and wanted him to do some touch up. She had to leave again for work but said he would be able to tell where the touch up spots were when he went over. Ok he said. The next day he went over for what he thought would be an easy fix but came home laughing saying I needed to come see this.

We think she went through a whole roll of tape. Mind you I don't have pictures of the kitchen and the other side of the living room, but you get the point. It looked like the walls had broken out in blue zits! We think she is OCD ...

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WAFFLE COOKIES

Our new favorite thing. Use your favorite cookie recipe, ours is oatmeal chocolate chip. Drop cookie balls in Belgium waffle iron and cook for 1-2 minutes. Best part about these cookies are that it cuts your cooking time in half and you don't have to heat up your kitchen by turning the oven on!

Birds Are Siiick!

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Sick in NOT a "cool" way. You might recall this post I did a while back. This just confirms and reiterates my huge dislike for these creepy, disease ridden creatures.

Here we have exhibit A:

Casey truck had become the victim and target for dumping grounds the past few weeks. Tired of driving around the poop mobile we took matters into our own hands.

Exhibit B:
Termination of the nest

Exhibit C and D:
No Lane, we are not going to put the eggs in our fridge!!!

BYE BYE BIRDIE {S}

This brought to mind one of my favorite episodes and why I can relate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD5oNvkhI-M


Ditto Ben. Ditto.

Why We ♥ Cousins!

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♥ We get to have spend the nights when parents are out of town and do lots of "boy" stuff.


♥ Have fun running around in our under dudes and playing in the hose.

♥ then remember duh, there is a swimming pool right around the corner!

(can you tell Lane is my child and preferred the warm water:)

Life can be tiring. Oh to be 5 (almost 6) months!

2,190 days ago...

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6 years ago my stud muffin and I got hitched! It was the best day of my life! I knew without a doubt that Casey was meant for me... hopefully he can say the same:) Not once was I ever nervous about the big "plunge" I was about to take in marring the man of my dreams. 2,190 days later life is just as amazing, if not more!
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April 30, 2004 was a magical day so to celebrate our anniversary this year we went to the most magical place on earth, DISNEYLAND!!!!!
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We were excited for this vacation to say the least. The last time we had gone anywhere without kiddos was 3 years ago. Also the last time I had gone to Disneyland was when I was 16 and Casey had only been once and couldn't even remember when that was. You are probably thinking how mean of parents we are for not taking the boys but let me just tell you, it was totally awesome without them! Don't get us wrong we love our kids but it was so liberating passing all the strollers with whinny, tired, cranky kids and just smiling as we walked by and wishing those poor parents all the luck as we ventured onto our next ride!

We had a flight out early Friday morning which was pretty much full of people with our fun idea. Once we landed we hopped into our shuttle that took us to our hotel, which again was full of people with our fun idea:) We checked in then off to the happiest place on earth!!!




Now remind you, we both couldn't really remember what Disneyland was like so we made sure we did everything that there was to do. This picture was on the Matterhorn. Holy bumpiest ride ever! We laughed so hard and poor Casey got a beating with me being in front and having him absorb all my jerking around.



We had to go on the Casey Jr. train ride! My mom still thinks that we need a son named Casey Jr.





Another good laugh was on the Autopia cars. I got to drive my honey around. My foot got tired of pushing down the gas pedal so half way he gassed while I steered. I wasn't the only one having problems with the gas pedal. When we first started out this poor little girl was on her way back and apparently her foot was getting tired too. She was leaned back and slunched down pushing the pedal with both feet as hard as she could with the most exhausted look on her face while the car behind was bumping her home. It was hilarious and we couldn't stop laughing for the longest time.

We took a little break to get a good spot for the dance party parade. I love to people watch...especially with a big crowd like Disneyland so I took the opportunity to feel better about myself. I spotted some pretty good stuff. Tons of hiking sandals with socks offenders, girls with their boyfriend jeans gone terribly wrong, fanny packs, lots of fanny packs. I don't care if its a Gucci ... you NEVER wear a fanny packy pack!

We stayed as late as we could and as long as our feet allowed us that day. We ate dinner in Down Town Disney at Tortilla Jo's. Super yummy mexican food which we were both craving.

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Saturday was California Adventure day! We both had never been so I was so excited to finally be able to do all the fun rides everybody always talks about. We woke up nice and early; early for being on an anniversary vacation without kids:) The best part about our hotel was that there was the best restaurant next door called Tiffy's. Let's just say we kept Tiffy's in business the three days we were there! I think we might name our first daughter Tiffy:) It reminded me a lot of good old Swenson's restaurant that used to be on Main Street. All their food was homemade and had the best homemade ice cream parlor as well. Each morning we ate breakfast then got a huge waffle cone and ice cream to eat while we walked to the park.

Hands down Tower Of Terror was my favorite ride! On the first drop my necklace flew up and almost chipped my tooth off. It was awesome!

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We did pretty much all of CA Adventure. We ate dinner in Down Town Disney again at a yummy pizza restaurant and stopped into Tiffy's for our chocolate and peanut butter fix on our way to the hotel. Sunday morning we packed up, ate breakfast at...Tiffy's and got our last ice cream cone then off to the airport.

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We had a FULL two days of fun and it was so hard for me to leave not knowing when we will go back. I had so much fun being alone with Casey with no other worries around. It felt like back in the day when we were dating and soaking in all of each other that we could. We promised that every year we would go on a trip together by ourselves even it was just an over nighter to Payson. He seriously is the best hubby a girl could ask for!

JuNk shout out!

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I am having a garage sale in a few weeks. If anybody has a DI pile going

{like i always do} and don't want to make an extra trip down to Broadway and Country Club... I would be more than happy to come pick up your "treasures":) Leave a comment or email me at lobeystuff@juno.com, Spanks!!!

R.I.P. T-Bone Chalupa

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Yee-haw, nothing like a good ol' roundup to make for a fun Saturday activity! My parents invited us over for their wards BBQ this past weekend. What started this whole get together was that the priests had been raising a cow in one of their leaders backyard. Well it got nice and fat so that very same morning it got a nice bonk on the head and needless to say we had a yummy, very organic meal!



I love LaRee! If you ever need someone to laugh with, she is your girl! Also I think ribs should be my middle name. By far my most favorite meat EVER... can you tell?!





They had fun games like catch the greased pig, tug of war, an egg toss. They also had a petting zoo. I really hope that the people who brought their animals for this went home with alive pets or at least survived the night from being mauled by the kiddos. Seriously, the baby chicks that were yellow turned a nice shade of brown! Lane was one who contributed to the near possible deaths. He loves animals but we do not have pets so he gets overly excited... you get the picture. He loved it and for the last 30 minutes all he did was chase around the chickens.















If it weren't for the smell, dirt, waking up early to feed animals, I could have lived on a farm. Ok probably not but it's fun to pretend sometimes:)