So we had a great time in Oklahoma!
I took the girls swimming in the hotel pool everyday. I got really stir crazy in the hotel all day with just 3 kids!!!
We watched alot of cartoons on the Disney Channel. My girls fought over little kid cartoons and big kid shows. Annie loves the teenager shows. She is only 6.

Annie really improved on her swimming skills. She is very nervous of water, but is doing great, she even jumps into the pool without someone catching her.

Ellie hates being splashed, but so do I
She loves the water and I was trying to teach her to float on her back.

Crazy Mags loves to jump off the edge of the pool to you and hold on to your back, but she is soooo afraid of the water. She will not float on her back anymore. She is crazy and always tries to hide from the camera. I tried to take her picture like 40 times and this is her yelling at me to stop.

We tried to stay really busy, so we had lots of fun family time. We went to alot of movies, out to eat alot, shopping at all of the malls and to the Oklahoma City Zoo. The weather was great. It was in the 60's while Utah was being dumped on with snow. My poor dogs! They missed us.

So Annie's teacher was really cool and sent me homework for Annie. She missed 2 weeks of 1st Grade. She is such a little smarty pants and is doing very well, so the teacher thought it would be a great learning experience for her. Poor girl has already been to Oklahoma like 20 times, but she still loves it.

My cute girls

We did have a crazy tornado experience. I don't know how anyone lives with the fear of tornados. The day before we left a storm rolled in and we were having a tornado warning and the sirens were going off and the weather was horrible. Ellie and Mag slept for hours, but Annie and I watched the weather all day. I felt much better when Scott finally got back to the hotel. The tornadoes were 15 miles away and ripped the roof off of a Target. Scary. That night a long ways away a tornado killed 8 people. Oh I am thankful to live in Utah. Our only fear is the "BIG ONE" and like that is ever going to happen. Okay I really pray it never happens, but I don't usually think about it so I really don't worry about it. Tornados are a year round disturbance.

Someone really needs to teach me how to post my pics in a collage. I hate this formatting!

Denver

So we stopped in Denver to visit friends on the way home from Oklahoma. Scott worked on a cruiser all day with Tony Williams while the girls and I played with the Sanders Family. We never make plans in advance and luckily Jason was working at home for the day and Dani only had to work in the morning. He let Jackson stay home from Kindergarten to play with the girls. Annie, Jackson and Mags were so cute together.

Ellie and Emma were adorable and this is a blurry picture. My camera sucks!!!!!!!! I finally made friends with the girls because I played play dough with them. My Ellie followed the twins around all day. She was in heaven. I actually learned to tell them apart too, but I will let you figure out who is who in this picture. I don't want to brag on my skills too much. Actually I think Emma is on the right?

The Sanders have an awesome finished basement with a gigantic blow up toy in it. The kids had so much fun on it.

That evening we ate at Buca Di Beppo. It was an awesome Italian restaurant. The kids were crazy. It was great birth control for Tony and Lacy. And finally after trying to convince Scott to stay overnight at Jason and Dani's house all day long, he committed. What a chore that was. He wanted to leave Denver at 8 pm and drive home. Crazy boy. I don't love my bed that much. I would have been asleep in about an hour. And he would have been too tired to drive. Thanks Dani and Jason!!!

My Girls

I had to take a picture of my girls today because they were making me laugh. They are all happy little girls that are full of so much energy! No wonder kids areso skinny because they never stop moving.

Ellie is 18 months and talks so well. I can't believe all the words she can say. Last night before bed I gave her the phone to talk to Scott and She rambled on to him saying different words. After a couple of minutes, I took the phone back and boy did she scream! Wow. She is also a big trouble maker today she took a tube of my chapstick and rubbed it all over my bedroom while I was working on the basement. It is a good thing that we're done.

Mags is 3 1/2 now. She loves to do everything all by herself. If you look carefully you will notice that her shirt under her jacket is on backward with the tag sticking out and her pants are on backwards. Her underpants are usually on backwards too. She loves to wear dresses and usually fights to wear one every day.

Annie is such a sweetheart. She is also very emotional 6 year old going on 16. I think I'm in trouble with this one. She is also a WII junkie. I can't wait unitl summer so we can play outside in the Sun!

New Years Resolution

So I have a few New Years Resolutions

1. Finish the basement and go play more with my kids (Camping, Hiking, Climbing, Traveling, I'm not picky)
2. Exercise more and tone up!
3. Scrapbook - I am 6 years behind. My kids love looking at their baby photos and I have to get them into a book.
4. Read - I love reading and never take time. I love history, old classics and the scriptures and I want to spend more time reading.

The Basement Remodel

So we have been working on our basement for so long. We have
a family room, laundry room, 2 bedrooms and a bath downstairs.
It has taken so long because we have done everything ourselves.
My husband is so amazing. He is willing to learn how to do anything.
It also helps that he is a perfectionist, so everything is always perfect.
This is my cute bathroom. My favorite thing is the tile floor.

Scott and I just finished installing the cultured marble.

It was so heavy. I could barely carry it.

The bathroom is all done!!!

This is all of the rock for our fireplace. My funny father-in-law told

me that it would look better on the fireplace. Ha Ha.

Almost half way done.

Annie and Maggie's new room

I let both the girls help me paint the polka dots on their new walls. Annie

originally wanted chocolate brown walls because Aunt Jenny painted

a chocolate brown wall in her bedroom, which is so cute. I talked Annie into

chocolate polka dots instead because it is so dark in the basement.

Will I ever be done with touch up. The carpet is scheduled to

be installed in a week. I don't know if we are going to make it.

Cute little Maggie actually kept the roller in the template.