Mom and Dad

My parent's both have birthday's this month. Here are a few photo's of them young until now. Happy Birthday Mom and Dad! I'm so very blessed to have you for my parent's. I love you guys!My Dad is the blond on the far left in the front.

Time for school! My Dad is the second from the left.

At the age of sixteen my Dad told a little fib like so many did so that he could defend our country. He was on the USS Heermann during World War II.

I always thought this photo was so Hollywood.

The littlest milk maid. My Mom isn't she cute.
This is the sister line up. My Mom is the fourth person in this photo. Two of her younger sisters are not in this photo.

This is my Mom around sixteen years old. I love this photo of her. When I was little I remember one of my uncles saying that I looked just like my Mom. What a great compliment.

This photo was taken sometime around 1989

My Mom and Dad just being silly. We talked them into taking the photo booth photo's. I'm so glad that I hung onto them.

Mount Olympus Games!

I know these are so silly but I just couldn't help myself. Enjoy!

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Our baby photo's

Here we all are as babies. I thought it would be fun to show all of us around the same age and see who you think looks like who. Does that make sense? Anyway, here they are.

Brett

Heather

Madilynn
Kimber

Another Madi quote

Yesterday as I was loading the girls in the car after church Madi said something funny but very correct. I said, "Oh it's warm!" and then Madi replied, "It's not warm Mom! It's HOT!!" What can I say she was right.

"I watched Elmo.. It's finished.." Huh???

Every night right before I go to bed I go in and check on the girls. Madi is almost always in some funny position so I straighten her out and cover her with her blanket. Tonight as I lifted her and laid her on the pillow she said, "I watched Elmo.. It's finished.." At least I think that's what she said. I said, "What?" and she repeated it very clearly, well as clearly as she talks in her little two year old voice. I still didn't hear what she was saying so I whispered, "What is Elmo doing?" Then she whispered back, "Elmo..." Then she rolled over and put her thumb in her mouth and went back to sleeping. I don't know if she was a little bit awake or not but she definitely had Elmo on the brain.
I knew that if I didn't write this down right away I would forget. When Madilynn is older it will be fun to read over all of these funny things she did and said.

Sisters! Best Friends!

Time to wiggle!

I love the rain!

It's so funny earlier today I read my friend Tara's blog. She mentioned that it poured down rain where she lives in Las Vegas. I put a comment, "What's rain?" We don't get much rain in Buckeye. Well, tonight it rained! I went outside around 11:pm to take the trash out and when I came back inside I had a shiver.. A shiver!! My weather center says that it's 77 degrees outside... NICE!!
It's amazing how much you start to miss the change of seasons when you live where that does not happen. Ok wait, it gets cool around October and stays cool until February or March and then it starts getting HOT!! So I guess that's kind of a season change but not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the snow and the leaves changing colors and crisp cool air. We laid sod in January. Isn't that insane? It was beautiful green sod. Brett even hung the Christmas lights in shorts. You couldn't do that in Vernal you would freeze your bum off.. I know that if we lived where it snowed I would want to be where there wasn't any snow but right now I miss that so much. It's been two and a half years since I've seen the snow and my girls never have. Hopefully this year if we go home for the holidays there will be snow this time instead of it snowing just as we are boarding the airplane to go home. I'm sure if that happens then by the time we go home I'm sure I'll be sick of the snow.
This photo was taken just after Brett finished laying the sod. Doesn't it look pretty?

The things she says (continuation!)

I almost forgot about this. I think it was the same day that Madi told me not to take the baby ever. We were all in the kitchen and Madi was sitting at the island eating and she said to her Dad, "Mom isn't a jerk anymore!" I just laughed and said, "Oh Thanks! But we aren't supposed to say that." And then she said to her Dad, "Dad you aren't a jerk anymore either!" She was just being so sweet and cute. I know she has heard me call different people jerks and sometimes it was Brett (ooops!) so she started telling us that we were jerks. It was just nice to know that we weren't being jerks anymore. Just another reminder that she is going to do and say the things that I do so I better be on my best behaviour all of the time. Being a parent is so fun and isn't it fun how it makes you be a better person.

The things she says..

Madi is very protective of her baby sister. She loves to hang out with Kimber and play. Kimber has one of the floor gyms that has the arches above with the toys hanging down. Madi will drape blankets over the top of the gym and lay underneath with Kimber. Last night as I was going to pick Kimber up so that I could feed her Madi looked at me very and said, "DON'T YOU TAKE HER EVER WOMAN!" I just looked over at Brett and said, "Thanks! That's from you." Brett calls me woman sometimes and now Madi has picked it up. It was so funny, Brett and I just started laughing. After Madi saw that we were laughing about it she said it a couple more times.. She is so entertaining, I can't wait until she is older and can really communicate with me. I'm sure then she will really have me in stitches. What a sweetie!

She does hair!

I absolutely love this blog Hair Today. She has the cutest ideas for little girl hair styles. I've tried a few of them out and I think they turned out really cute. She was so kind and put a link to my Madibu Bow Blog on her blog.

Here are a few of the styles that I've tried on Madi.

Madi's new friend!

I think it was a few weeks ago that I noticed Madi talking about Eric. She really loves the Little Mermaid so I thought that maybe she was acting out parts of the movie. Last night I heard her say, "Come on Eric!" and she told me that Eric was going potty. I laughed so hard when it finally dawned on me that Eric had to be her imaginary friend! When I told Brett about it this morning he just said, "Oh great!" Brett's already gearing up for the time when Madi starts dating (even though that is a long way off). Madi has been telling Brett that she wants to get married! As you can imagine this really crushes her Dad. He just asks her if she can wait at least twenty years. Isn't that such a girl thing? We start dreaming about getting married at so young. So back to Eric. This morning I asked Madi where he was and she told me that he was right there. So after that I was positive that she thought of Eric as someone in the room.. Do you ever wonder where they come up with this stuff? How funny and what a creative imagination to think something like this up. I think that Eric is probably Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid but he could be Eric Foreman from That 70 Show. What a silly little munchkin!

Oooo!! Oooo!! Oooo!!

This is so cool!! My Mother in Law asked if there was anyway to print off my blog pages. I thought you could print them off like a word doc and it would look ok but check this out http://www.blurb.com/create/book/blogbook I saw this on Tip Junkie. So cute!! It's a real book of your blog! I love it!! I just had to share this because it's so neat!

The Fairey's

I just found this photo today and had to scan it in. A few years ago I was trying to get everyone in my family to send photo's so that I could put together a photo movie with music. I didn't get much response.. Hmmmm.... Anyway! This photo is so cute but so funny to me. It was taken in 1981. My Mom is pregnant with my youngest brother Nathan. If you know my family you can probably list everyone off but for those of you that don't know the family I'll do my best to explain who is who. Cheryl is the oldest and she is at the very top with the long brown hair. David is next and he is on the left side with a tie. John comes next and is on the right side in a blue polka dot shirt. Then Sharon, she's next to John in a blue shirt. Boyd's next he is on the left side in a white polka dot shirt (I think we like polka dots). Then Me (Heather). I'm right in front of Boyd, beside my Mom. Beth is after me. She is the cutie in the yellow. Then Richard, he is sitting on my Dad's lap. Like I said before there is one more and that's Nathan. He is in my Mom's belly. The parent's are Bryan and Barbara. That's the Fairey's! Also missing from this photo are Steve and Carey Allen (My Mom's kids) and Rebekah and Rachel Fairey (my Dad's kids). We look a lot different now and there are a lot more people involved now too.
I believe when this picture was taken we had recently moved from Oakland, California to Yuba City, California.
Doesn't my Mom look great for being pregnant with her 11th child?! How old do you think my Dad is in this photo? Or I mean how young does he look? You'll never guess..
We're a funny bunch but I wouldn't trade anyone of them. Love you guys! I really miss my family especially since we live so far away. :(

Bumbo chair

Our good friend Holly has this really neat chair that she wanted us to try. I had seen them but never tried one out.

I think both of my girls really like it.

Don't they look like they are having so much fun?

Today while I was getting ready I put Kimber in the chair on the counter. She was just so happy sitting there looking at her reflection in the mirror. I think we'll have to get one of these chairs.

The Cutest Blog on the Block

Today I went to look at different backgrounds on The Cutest Blog on the Block website and saw this on the homepage. I thought I would try and help them out by posting this on my site so all of you could see it. You just have to go find your new code and replace it with the old one.

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Move Your Feet

Madi loves to watch Noggin everyday. This little song is usually on there. When it comes on she immediately jumps up and starts dancing. As you can see she knows all of the moves. Silly willy! You can see the little video at http://www.noggin.com/shows/movemusic.php She also loves the Grumpy song and the Taxi song. Just fun silly kid stuff. If you haven't seen them I'm sure your kids will enjoy them too.

Allergies and church

I know I can't be the only person that has ever worried about their child taking the sacrament and possibly having an allergic reaction. Lately at church for the sacrament bread it has been whole grain. I haven't noticed it having any chunks so I thought it would be ok for Madi to take. This past Sunday it had big chunks in it. I didn't notice until after Madi already had it in her mouth. It might have been ok but I freaked and had her spit it out. There is still so much that I need to learn about Madi's allergy but for certain I don't want to learn it the hard way. I guess from now on if the bread isn't white I'm not going to let Madi take it. I just don't think that people are aware of the possibility of someone having an allergy to something they are passing out. Again I'm probably being over cautious but I don't like to learn things the hard way so better to be over cautious. I don't want to keep Madi from learning about the sacrament but what do you do if she could be harmed by it? It seems so weird to be worried that something at church could possibly be bad for my daughter.

New photo's of the girls

So, you think you can dance?

Madilynn is dancing to Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani. She just loves to dance!

My Award!

It's so weird to get an award for my blog but how exciting! Thanks Tif and Amber for thinking that I am worthy of an award. Tif gave me the award for my dedication to the blog and Amber gave me the award for posting a photo of myself. Thanks girls! How fun to get this from two people! I now get to give this award to seven lucky friends!

There are rules to this award.
1. Post the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who nominated you.
3. Nominate 7 other people for this award and add links to their blog.
4. Leave a message for the people that you nominated!

I present this award to:
1. My baby sister Beth - You are just too funny and you keep me laughing. I'm so glad that I could talk you into making a blog!
2. My older sister Sharon - You are also too funny and it's been too long since I've seen you. I'm also glad that you jumped onto the blog train!
3. My Mom - I hope you get some time to blog something! I really want to hear more about John's experience with the bear in the tree.
4. Jen Moon (sorry she has a private blog). Because you have two cute kids. I'm so glad that our husbands were at basic training together so we could travel there together.
5. Stephanie Tucker - You deserve this award for all of your daughter's high jinks! I'm so glad to get to know you better through your blog. I've only know you as the wife of my brother's friend so it's fun to learn more about you.
6. Jaimie Haley - You have the cutest blog! I absolutely love the photo's of your cute boys and hearing about all the funny things they do! I wish we lived closer to you guys so that our hubby's could see each other.
7. Nicole Bender (aka Colie) - You can paint my toes anytime! You have three cute kids and you are starting your own business! Also because you are too funny!

Now you all get to pass this grand award onto someone else that you think is deserving. Have fun and enjoy your award!