Four Kids and A Dog

I do not even remember what weekend this was, but Melissa brought her dog to play with the kids. I'm not sure who had a better time: the kids or Sammy! It made for some pretty cute pictures.

Jarrett and Rachel getting Sammy to do tricks.

A delightfully cheesy grin from Jarrett. He loved giving Sammy treats!

Ali absolutely adored the dog. I thought she would be a little freaked out, especially since Sammy is pretty big and very energetic, but she jumped right in and made a new friend!

The kids insisted on "walking" Sammy. The only problem is that Sammy is a big, strong dog! She dragged them all over the yard. It was way funny!


And because he's adorable, here's some pictures of Ronny. He didn't really like the dog unless he was far away from her. He does like blowing bubbles and eating popsicles, though. :)

A Thing That Happened A Long Time Ago but May Prove to be Interesting

Okay, so I've been at the Legos again.

Wait!

Before you roll your eyes and turn away, know that there is more to this story than there first appears to be . . .

This, of course, is the zombie army. Basically, we have a bunch of Lego people missing body parts. Obviously that makes them zombies. For the record, by best buddies Nicole and Melissa were involved in the creative process.

This is Chuck the Copper. I don't think we ever decided if he was a good guy or a bad guy, but he has a pretty sweet 'stache.

The zombie stronghold! You should see it in person. It is COOL. And very well-defended. Especially since the headless guy is standing guard.


Unfortunately, I failed to get a picture of all the other people, but I will tell you their names and you can imagine, because I think it's funny.

Gansta Bill (has a very gangsta metal detector)
Stevo the Dweebo (only good for doing laundry)
Willis the butler (probably has some kind of ulterior motive)
Larry and LaVerne (they constitute the biker gang)
and . . .


The WASP!!!

Okay, so the wasp is totally not a Lego. It did infiltrate the construction zone, though. We were happily adding more guns to the zombie stronghold when Melissa jumped up and started screaming. Four bites later and lots of slapping and jumping around, we discovered this little bugger had crawled up Melissa's pant leg and decided to munch on her! Random, no? TOLD you this post got more interesting. :)

Conference + Easter + Birthday Party = Fantastic Weekend!

Laziness + Becca = Late Blog Post . . .

No surprises there, though.


Anyway, I have lots of picture from the first weekend in April, but let's start out with some of baby Livvy. Being the youngest, she has some catching up to do in the picture department. Also, she's stinkin' cute! :)

She sort of looks like she has no legs . . .

I was trying to get a picture of her curly eyelashes.

Relaxing in her Easter outfit. Notice the bunny slippers. :)

Okay, so this is not a picture of Livvy (which I hope you gathered), but it cracks me up. I have no idea what he was doing with that pillow case, but I just love his little smile.



In an attempt to get the kids to sit still for General Conference, we helped them make spaceships out of boxes. And, of course, with spaceships you need . . .

. . . Space helmets!

Or Easter baskets. Whatever happens to be handy.

Rachel, Ronny, and Ali examining the spoils on Easter morning.

Ali showing off her basket.

Boxing! The Easter Bunny (ahem -Dave-coughcough) got the boys boxing gloves. They had SO much fun with them!

Rachel getting in on the action. I promise, this looks worse than it was. :)

At the end of the weekend, we got to celebrate Tyann's birthday! Apparently, she turned four. Speaking of candles, Rachel TOTALLY blew them out before Tyann could get to them. Little goof. Anyway, it was a really fun weekend!

Ali's Baptism!

I just realized that I don't have a single picture on my camera of Alison from her baptism. What kind of aunt am I? My only excuse is that I was too busy wrangling the younger kids to get any pictures of beautiful Ali in her dress. Luckily, Ali has a mom! Check out Tyann's blog for pictures of the wee eight-year-old herself: http://dtpangan.blogspot.com/2010/02/alis-baptism.html

I did manage to snap some shots of everyone else while I was wrangling.

Bree, telling me off for something, I'm sure. Rachel and Ali both had big beautiful flowers in their hair for the occasion, and Bree wanted one too. Cute, no?

Ronny with his uncle Taylor. I love how relaxed they both look!

Trying to find entertaining things for everyone to do while waiting for the program to start. From left to right: Jarrett, Bree, Rachel, Ronny, Carson, and a bit of Grandma.

These two usually play quite well together. Just look at those adorable little expressions! By the way, Taylor made the game they are playing. I believe I'm the reigning champion. (At least over the kids. But I wasn't going to mention that . . .)

Ronny the Magician balancing his binky very carefully. You can see from his expression that he takes his work (and his binky) very seriously.

Again, apologies for not having a picture of Ali. At her next baptism, I will do better! Oh, wait . . .

They Say It's Your Birthday

So, don't know if you noticed, but I haven't been posting much lately . . . I shall blame that on school and a lack of inspiration.

Anyway, here's some birthday pics. Yes, I know. My birthday was like, a bajillion months ago. Be happy you're getting them at all. ;)

Me and my twin in matching hats and shirts! We're just so adorable, huh? This picture is from our actual birthday as opposed to our friend party. Los parentos took us to Los Hermanos, and it was amazing. Then we received our hats and a bunch of other fun stuff from the fam. It was a good day!

As for the friend party, Nicole and I knew we needed to do something especially awesome, it being our twenty-first and all, so we threw a huge party. We decided on an 80s theme (we were born in the 80s after all) and got all dressed up and played Rock Band. Good times, even if I did look like Willy Wonka. Seriously, my hair . . . is my hair.

Me and Nicole and our Barbie birthday cakes Becky made us! Very cute.

Us singing "Happy Birthday" to each other very dramatically.

Blowing out the candles! We even managed not to melt any Barbie body parts. And yes, there is a story that goes along with that. Feel free to ask Nicole.

Christmas! (Belated)

Once again, I'm frightfully late on my posting. I have to get my Christmas and New Years pics up so I can post stuff from my birthday! Which was amazing, by the way. Also, I still have Hong Kong pictures I need to post! Yikes.

Anyway, on to Christmas. This first picture doesn't actually have that much to do with Christmas, but the Christmas Tree IS in the background.

Carson with a chipmunk on his head. Random but awesome.
(See the tree in the background? See it?)


Okay, on to actual Christmas pictures. :)

My new Droid phone! Which I love! A whole lot! Probably more than anything! ! ! !


Bree zipping up her new PJs.

Carson attempting to do the same.

Those of you who remember THIS, will appreciate almost as much as I did the fact that Taylor and Faith got me a Lego set. I LOVE it.

Bree concentrating very hard on opening her present. Don't you just love that face?

Carson LOVES books!

He also loves his new hobby horse. He used it as a weapon instead of something to ride on, which was pretty hilarious.

Rachel, Jarrett, and Ali opening Twister!

Ronny getting read to by Grandma . . .

and Grandpa . . .

Then trying to do it himself! I love the upside-down book and the little bare foot. :)

All the kiddos playing Twister. The game was a HUGE hit! That's pretty much what we did the entire time we were there. It was a blast!

A video of the kids playing Twister! Jarrett tries so hard to get the right hand/foot and color. :)

New Years, Birthday, and Hong Kong coming soon!

More Adventures With Bree and Carson

If you don't at least get some laughter from the next few pictures, consider yourself inhuman. Ready? Make sure you're sitting down.

L. O. L.
Carson's expression just about makes me pee my pants every time I see this. Little scholars, both. They LOVED their "glasses."


Okay, picture this. You walk up to the front door of your house and a huge note in your mom's handwriting is taped to it. It reads: "Please do not disturb the spider web."

Uh . . .
How big a spider web are we talkin' here?

So, with more than mild apprehension, you open the door and walk in to find . . .

This?

Not exactly what you were picturing . . .

Aha! There's the spider! And . . . Bree?

It's all coming together now, isn't it?

My mother made the mistake of giving Bree a ball of yarn and turning her back for more than 1 second. That little tornado of a three-year-old wrapped yarn around every stationary object in the house, and probably would have got Carson too if she could've gotten him to hold still long enough. On the plus side, She was extremely entertained, and it really wasn't that hard to clean up.

Ready for some more of Bree's creativity? Let's call this next section "A Hundred-and-One Ways to Use Toilet Paper".

Faith, don't worry. I know that you shouldn't let small children put plastic bags over their heads. But really, isn't this picture worth any potential danger she might have been in? Concrete proof that Bree is insane. Just look at those eyes!

I looked up and there was Bree, up to her knees in unwrapped toilet paper. I still have no idea how she managed it.

The creativity continues . . .

For the record, she could walk around like this! Flexible ankles is all I have to say about that.

Her masterpiece! Admittedly, I had to help a little with this. As you can see, she wasn't quite tall enough.

Getting ready for a dramatic toppling.
(can toppling be used as a noun? I sort of doubt it. Pretend with me, okay?)

There it goes!

The aftermath.

So, I forgot that my camera's videos can't be flipped, so you'll have to watch this sideways. My bad. I promise it's worth it, though. :)

Stay tuned for more adventures with these two, because there always are. :)