Babies With Guns and Other Funny Kid Stuff

I went down to Cedar City to go to my brother-in-law Dave's kung fu seminar this past weekend, and had way more fun than should be legal! The kids were hilarious and crazy as always, even though I didn't get to spend much time with them or Tyann because I was at the seminar all day on Saturday. This pic is Ronny with Jarrett's toy gun. I think his state of undress and the binky make this all the more funny. :)


This little man cracks me up! He got all ready for church and he just looked so cute in his little suit that I asked him if I could take some pictures of him. He happily obliged, modeling his outfit in a very GQ fashion. He's such a little stud! He was also very cuddly all weekend. He kept pretending he was a cat, and would come and curl up on my lap and meow and expect me to pet his hair. Very, very adorable.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the girls this time around, but they are as beautiful and smart as ever. They're both writing stories and they wanted to bounce ideas off me so I got to be creative with them; and believe me, they are very creative!

I'm going down again this coming weekend with the whole fam, so I'll get to spend a little more time with them, and maybe I'll even get through a movie with my big sis without falling asleep after a long day learning kung fu. :)

Oh, and because I don't feel like making a separate post, here's a random video of BreeAnna "reading" a book:

The Violent Death of Spiderman

This is a random, but amusing video that I forgot was on my camera. This is actually when we were all pretty sick so we probably shouldn't have been out in the cold in our PJs, but it was just one of those things that had to be done. I don't even remember where we got the pinata, but we didn't have anywhere to hang it up so this is the result. The quality of the vid is awful because it's night and my camera doesn't take the best videos in the first place, but you can pretty much tell what's going on. :)




At the end when Lauren goes to pick up the candy, you can see her kind of freak out and run away. That's because some dumb boys decided to throw freezing water at us. It's a wonder we didn't all end up with hypothermia. Or hypo-freakin-thermia as I said today when the wind was trying rather hard to freeze my eyeballs out of my head. Ah, spring.

Enter At Your Own Risk!

My apartment has had its share of germs this semester! All of us, except Lauren M, got hit with this nasty influenza thing a while back and we even hung up a quarantine sign outside our door because that bug was intensely contagious. Then, a few days ago, one of my roommates puked so much she got really dehydrated and passed out and went to the hospital for a couple hours. Another roommie started puking yesterday, and I really hope I don't get it! Anyway, the picture is of Courtney reading LC (in the polka-dot blanket) a really strange story to make her feel better. LC was the first one to get sick with the influenza thing so this is a happy scene before we knew what we were in for. Ulrich (the dog) and Amy's elephant were helping to act out the story.

Severely Belated Birthday Post

So, for some reason, I have no amazing pictures of my birthday even though my birthday itself was amazing (it was also like, a month ago, but sometimes I'm just slow. I can't help it.).


We got to drive up to Idaho so Nicole and I could celebrate our birthdays together. This is at the bowling alley in Rexburg.


These are the shoes that I quickly discovered are really, really bad in -100 degree weather and twelve feet of snow. Mom bought me new ones in Rexburg.

This is a random pic that I find absolutely hilarious. I have no idea what either of them are doing but it does attest to the fact that I have a strange family.

So, yeah, basically my birthday was way more fun than these pictures make it look.

Growing Old is Inevitable, Growing Up is Not . . .

I recently commented to one of my friends that I seem to be growing more mature in some areas of my life but less mature in others. For instance, I am getting better at boring grown-up things like managing money and studying, but yesterday I bought myself pirate bandaids and put one on the back of my hand even though I didn't have an owie. In fact, I am wearing one on my finger right this very minute. It's strange, but wearing my pirate bandaids makes me feel like I have license to act a little childlike. I used the words "pretty, pretty please" to ask my mom for something, and I have this strange urge to stick my lower lip out when things don't go my way. I suppose that means I shoul stop wearing my pirate bandaids, but I don't want to! So, if you see me wearing one, please excuse the occasional pout. And no, nieces and nephews, you can't have one. They're mine.

P.S. I was just going through my pictures and realized that I have a ton of fun stuff to post about, so stay tuned and I might even get them on here in chronological order. :)

Chopped!

Today was my good friend Melissa's birthday, and we decided to celebrate by getting our hair cut together. We went over to Great Clips and when the lady asked me how much I wanted her to cut off, I said a couple inches. After she washed my hair and realized that it is much longer wet and straight-ish than dry and curly, she said it was long enough to chop ten inches off and donate to Locks of Love. I figured, why not? So, off came ten inches, and I love it!

If you want to see a pretty good "before" picture, check out my New Years post.

Warm Weather + Family = Great Weekend!

I had the extreme pleasure of going down to Cedar City this past weekend with the fam. We had so much fun hanging out with the Pangans, and Neil even began making a kung fu movie with the kids that will soon make its debut on Youtube! We also got to go down to St. George where it was a blissful 63 degrees and see Dave's new kung fu school. A perfect weekend!

Rachel and Ali sitting in the warm sunshine of St. George
enjoying some chocolate after lunch.

Jarrett, Ali, and Rachel by this weird tower/house thing by the
ever so delicious Mongolian BBQ restaurant.

Rachel is learning to play the guitar! Mom wrote down a bunch of simple songs for her and she caught on really quickly.

Poor little Jarrett was sick all weekend. He did his very best to keep up with everyone, but he crashed on the floor and fell promptly asleep with his new baseball right before dinner on Saturday. Poor guy!

I went a little camera happy on Ronny, but he is just so cute I couldn't help it! That middle one there is him in a clothes basket. He absolutely loved it! We dragged him around in it for a good half-hour probably.