you're invited!

Hey Family and Friends,

     We put the tramp (thank you Smiths) up this week due to the lovely, and  I do mean lovely, weather we are currently having.

So... with that being said, this is YOUR official invite to come over and entertain us with your sweet trampoline skills. We appreciate front flips and back flips and really tricks of all kinds.

So come jump and we'll have lunch or at least a snack to pass the time.

8 months

Siri

Miss Siri is 8 months today. 

She offically Crawls but would rather stand and try to walk.

She walks along our couches.

She talks more and more and tries to repeat the sounds we make. Especially when we sing or hear people singing.

She still laughs the hardest at Chamberlain. Although Grandma Chamberlain can get her laughing pretty good when we skype her. Maybe its cuz grandmas eye look so big with her glasses on so she can see us!

She has two teeth that we see all the time.  

She has a great laugh.

She still has blue eyes with a little hazel to them. 

She is a great baby and is just happy happy happy. 

Chamberlain can pick her up and move her from spot to spot which he does all day long, and Siri just smiles. 

She loves being bathed in the sink.

We love her. 

Chamberlain wants 5 more babies just like Siri.

ouch.

First black eye. 

He got in a fight with a basketball standard and it won.

I'm sure there will be many more to come.

how many men does it take

to plant a tree?

Apparently a lot!

We looked out the window this morning to find several men from BYU replacing our Apple tree in our yard.

I tell you there is nothing like BYU replacing something in your yard. 

They go above and beyond that's for sure.

Not only did they replace the tree but they raked the leaves, weed whacked and mowed the lawn. 

We even told them that all of that was not necessary and that all we needed was the tree to be replaced.

But they insisted and cleaned up our yard nice and neat.
Although its not an apple tree its a crab apple tree, but its a lot prettier than the tree we had before.
Thanks BYU.

There is nothing like a nice spring snow storm to start your day followed by a warm sunset to melt it all away.

cougar life on 700

{all 3 of us with our cougar pride waiting patiently for the Jimmer show to begin in 2 hours}

Its been exciting living across the street from campus. Especially on days like today. You can feel the excitement in the air.

Looking out our front window we have seen lots and lots of students walking to campus with their school pride on. 

Even Ms. Siri is in on the cougar onsie action.

When I picked Chamberlain up from preschool today at Allison's {who may or may not live across the street from the house of rose} had all her BYU clothes on complete with pink tutu. Even Allison's mom and dad had BYU gear on. Then as we were walking to the car a few boys in the neighborhood came out to play hoops with their BYU pride on also.

Its exciting to see people in their cougar blue. 

Last Thursday Chamberlain wore his Jimmer shirt to school for the first tournament game. Allison said; Hey, I  know a song about Jimmer Fredette and busted out with "teach me how to Jimmer."-Priceless. 

They are 4 years old and here they are sitting at the table making bird crafts discussing the coolness of Jimmer and his crazy shots and how he is a winner. Awesome. 

Yesterday Josh upgraded our cable just so we could watch the game tonight. 

You could say Jimmer is everywhere here, in all conversations and all over the place. 

I went to the grocery store today and the majority of the workers all had on BYU shirts. 

What a great sense of togetherness there is in the productive city of Provo.

I'm glad we get to be apart of it. 

What a great time to be a cougar.

Whether we win or lose its still such a wonderful time to be cougar. 

Rise and Shout 

jet packs

Chamberlain insisted that he needed a jet pack this morning. Not just any jet pack, a jet pack just like buzz light year. This is my attempt at a jet pack.  Might I add that the turquoise duck tape we have had since the first year of our marriage. It just keeps giving and giving. I hope it NEVER runs out. 

This is my fave. I love the shadows.

I'm sure the jet pack will be right up there with the rice hat. 

He also got a shout out (go buzz light yeaarrr) from some college kids driving by on our walk to meet Josh at school.

At that point he got embarrassed and almost took the pack off.
 Sometimes I see so much of my personality in him.

i think i can cut hair

I am not a Hair Stylist, and yet I find myself thinking I can cut hair.

I dislike so much when I get in these moods, I think I can do anything when I get in these moods. but really I just think that I can and really I can't.

I noticed that Siri's hair was getting a little mullet-e and yes for some people that is so in right now, but not for me. So I think about her hair CONSTANTLY and how I need to cut it. I think about it so much so that I decide to cut her hair on a whim.  Like this morning in the shower, I think to myself, I can cut her hair right now... and I did. I had josh hold her while I snipped away. 

Why I don't just wait and take her to someone who can cut hair, is beyond me.

I have no idea what I am doing when I cut hair. However if you want a buzz all around I can do that...kinda.

I guess I think about it because I am not sure how to style her hair everyday. I usually just let it go with the wind...

Below are the before shots taken on Sunday after church. Yes she went to church with hair unbrushed. I can't help it, we have church at 9am and its hard for us to get their on time. I just simply forget to brush her hair.

 see what I mean when I say "go with the wind."

I think if you look closely you might see a rats nest growing in there.

Now for the afters.

Its totally uneven and I probably could go a little shorter. Like perhaps more of an A-line cut but at least it didn't get all tangled today. 

Now that I got that out of my system I hope I wont do it again. Next time I'll just take her to a professional.

I think hair is hard for me,  I had short hair mostly growing up and I can barely do my own hair now, so I might struggle in the hair department. It's going to take some time to figure this out. 

PS. Chamberlain had hardly any hair and the hair that he did have was blonde blonde blonde!