What a good time to come back to blog...

My Mom's birthday is today for another hour so I thought I'd take a moment and get back into updating my blog. First of all I want my mom to know how much I love her and appreciate her. Sometimes when I think there just isn't another person on this planet who gets what is going on in my life, pow, I'll have a long phone conversation with mom and I'll realize that she gets it. I can't imagine how some people have to go through life w/o their mom. Thanks for being an A+ grandma too, nothing shows a person how much they love and respect you more than how much someone loves your children. Hope your birthday was one to remember.

So I have to apologize to any of you who have checked in every so often only to see the same lame-o valentine's day post from 3 months ago. That's right around the time I started to look into Facebook. I must admit, it is a whole lot easier to network with your friends and family and keep tabs on what is going on with everyone. But I realize that blogs also serve a purpose for family who live far away who want to see more videos and pictures of the kids as they grow but don't want to have to create a Facebook account.

Anyway, I'm back to at least once a month I swear. You can only imagine when my last journal entry was if I have neglected my blog for so long. But I'm going to put a few different posts here in the next few days to catch everyone up on the last few months. So sit back and enjoy my randomness.

Valentine's Day

Lorie was kind enough to agree that for Valentines Day this year we would let Emmitt experience Monster Trucks since he loves them so much and they were coming to town. Unfortunately we could only afford one adult ticket and one kid so I had to bite the bullet and be the one who went and left Lorie @ home. It was such a blast! At first Emmitt didn't really like the noise but once he settled in he was in heaven.

FHE Sledding w/ the family

Since we've been married we have done an official Family Home Evening...oh...idunno... lets just say a few times to avoid embarrassment. We always said that once our kids got old enough to understand better THEN we'd do better. Well here we are and we've officially started.

Last week we had a 'stag dance' and just turned on the radio, moved some furniture and started dancing. I know you are all imagining Lorie busting a move and looking good and then you think... "OMGosh does Asa dance?" NOPE! I proceeded to make an absolute fool out of myself. Of course I made sure not to have any video evidence so you won't find anything here. BUT, we did take advantage of perfect snow conditions today (it snowed overnight on Sunday- so no 'good' Mormons would dare sled last night and Monday is a school day so no little kids would get out before us and ruin the snow.) to go sledding.

It was Emmitt's first time, and yep Ruby took a turn too with Daddy (much to Lorie's disapproval). These videos are of Lorie's attempt to snowboard and Emmitt "sledding" on his bum. Enjoy!

Thanks Trish

Recently we went to California for Christmas thanks to Grandma-Claus. While we were there we were able to take advantage of my OLDER sister's ability to make people look better than they look in person.



We entered this photo in the Regis & Kelly baby contest. Hopefully they give it a good look.

You can tell by how white we all are that we are not native to sunny CA.

Diet Coke w/ Lime... Suck one!

Hello my freinds hello...

Sorry we went underground for a while. We've got a lot of catching up to do so there should be plenty of "posts" coming for those few of you who haven't had your Emmitt & Ruby fix. Here are a bunch of fun videos from Christmas and random other stuff.

Our new Christmas tradition

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

BYU Fans.

I know I'm sort of brain washing Emmitt, but it's so cute. If you haven't heard him sing the cougar fight song then you haven't lived. Here's a video of him doing his favorite thing at the stadium... Still don't know if they got the first down or not?