SUMMER!

It is summer already! I have recently read a blog that I love, and will now post like. (There is a new post like every other day at least. The post are maybe only a paragraph long, but I LOVE having something new to read every day.) Well, Summer is actually boring. I have no transportation, except for my bike, and I have a HUGE new sunburn. Post for Ya' later! Posted by SYDNEE at 6:06 pm

Pool Problems (and pool party)

So, this week, our pool became nasty nasty nasty! It was sooooooo gross. And we did what every person who cares about their pool does. We drained it. Dad went out and got a special sucky thing, and within 5 hours, there was nothing in our pool except for my mom, and her special acid wash. We filled up the jacuzzi, and I got in the pool when the deep part wasn't even filled up a foot high. I was in my clothes and just swam. I jumped in the jacuzzi, and would run up and down the pool. I was scared of slipping, but I didn't. Our pool was such a pretty color of green, and when I saw it full of blue water, I said to myself, BLUE AT LAST!!!!!!!! Here are some pictures of the process. If they get too gross, just turn your head.

It is finally blue! In just a few days, I will be in it ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!! If you see me and I look like a raisin, you will know why.

Post for ya later!

This post was posted by SYDNEE at 5:13 pm

A Post just to say we posted

Sydnee, again. Bakerella posts on her blog like every other day, and us, every other month. I thought that was not good enough so I told my mom, "I am posting on our blog today. How do I do that?" (I learned how to type without looking, so I can post easily.) I just checked for comments, and I did not check them early enough. The only trick I played yesturday was when I texted my friend that I got a puppy. A diffrent friend of mine told me she was moving to reno. My favorite trick I heared was to super glue coins to the ground somewhere. People try to pick them up,and can't. Spring break is too short. It's Friday already and I feel like break was 1 day only. Well, even though posting on the family blog is a good excuse to not do your chores, it wont get me out of doing them. Post for ya' later!

April '

Long time, no post! (this is Sydnee, by the way) I am exited for General Confrence. That is really weird because it is just sitting in my house. ( did I mention that we are not going to Utah?) I am so exited for girls night! I love the free food haha. .After girls night last year, ( when we won the grand prize of a picture of the Las Vegas Temple) we tried to go to Baskin Robins, which is my absolute favorite ice cream place, but the line was long and we had some hungry "men" at our house to feed dessert. Since tomorrow is April Fools day, does anyone have a good prank? Even if your comment is late, I will use it next year. We dont have a little hand squirter that stretches on our sink, so don't leave the comment of taping the handle "on" switch to the squirter so the next person to turn on the sink gets soaked. Did that make any sense?  I once heard the prank of squirting shower gel in a persons bed. Or unscrewing the lid to the salt so when somebody goes to salt their food, it is covered in all the salt there was in the salt shaker. My mom's birthday is on Tuesday, and Seth's is next Saturday. Well, it is bedtime. Good-bye to the 6 or 7 people who read this post (or blog).  
                                                                                             

A Quick Update so that darned "Posted 1 month ago" will go off my blog!

Fun things in our lives:
     1.  High School Basketball season ended (not that going to 3 basketball games a week wasn't fun, but.....)
      2.  Sydnee received a "1" - superior rating at the district wide Solo/Ensemble....and it wasn't her best performance.  (She is truly amazing!  Maybe it's a good thing she didn't do her very best, the judge wouldn't have know what to do with her:) )
     3.  My mom came to town to watch my borther's kids.  It was good to see her, if only for a few hours.
     4.  Seth and Sydnee got really good report cards!  (I was a little nervous for a few weeks)
     5.  18 more SCHOOL days until I go on track break!
     6.  The weather here is over 65!  Yea for the sunshine!  Bring on SUMMER   (I am NOT a winter person!)
     7.  Brent was able to confirm Carly.  He loves helping people progress in the gospel!
     8.  The Olympics.  I REALLY like to watch them.  However, I only truly care about the results of the US athletes.  I wonder why NBC shows them sooo late in the evening.  How come my parents(who are in Texas today) know the results way before I do?  (I don't want to stay up until 11 pm to see the results...but I will)
     9.  Warren and Mary Lou Harward stopped by for a visit.  How we love those 2.  They have had a great influence on us.
     10.  Hannah is coming down for Becca's wedding.

And Then There Were Four....

     Well, time flies when you're having fun they say.  We had a great Christmas and enjoyed having Hannah and LJ here for nearly two weeks.  We loved getting to know LJ better.  We played lots and lots of games and watched lots and lots of movies and ate lots and lots of food.  And then this morning at 4:30 Brent and Syd took them to the airport...and then the Christmas decorations started to come down and the house seems unusually empty......sigh.
       We went to a beautiful wedding reception tonight and it brought back wonderful memories of LJ's and Hannah's wedding and reception. (the pictures should be online for a little while longer.  Go to jeannahayes.com then click on proofing the password is: JHSLJHANNAH and you can see most of the pictures fromt he wedding and reception.  But be forewarned there are nearly 500 online - and another 1,000 on the disk we received!).   Jenny and Craig are going to BYUI, too.  We hope they will be good friends with Hannah and LJ!
     

Home for Christmas

   So, I'm going to try to hook up to http://www.southernhospitalityblog.com/ for her holiday home tours.  But if I don't get linked, it's ok.  I still want my friends and especially my family to be able to come home for Christmas.  I am excited because Hannah and LJ and my mom and dad will all be here for Christmas, but I am missing having them home earlier.  So here we go!

    We have our fake Christmas tree in the living room right in front of the window (I think it is partly so I don't feel guilty for not having lights outside YET)

Doesn't EVERYTHING look better with white lights?  (Hey, maybe I need to wrap myself in white lights?!?!?)  We don't have a star on the tree, the one we've had since the kids were little is too tall for this room, so last year we went to HAVEN a great store in Victorville, CA and saw this idea.  I like it...but I need a star.  (Syd did the loverly drape arrangement)

OK...we are surely lacking in the gift department.  I have done a lot of shopping, but I am WAY behind on my wrapping.  (Thanks Mom, for embedding in me that presentation is as important as what is inside the box- a philosophy that, at this point in my life, I refuse to give up!)

The Dixon's made that cute manger scene on the wall.  I love that it reminds us of the simple beauty of what Christmas is really a celebration of-the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  (Hey, and Jana is OCD about gift wrap, too.  Right, Jana?)

I have since filled the jars with gold balls and added some candy canes to the white mints.  (What's a girl to do with 10 cool glass jars left over from the candy buffet at her daughter's wedding?)

The ceramic nativity in the music room.  (Can you believe I MADE this myself...ok with a lot of help)

One of the Christmas trees in the alcove between the living room and the music room  (notice the guitar in the background)

Mmmmmmmm...I love me some gingerbread men!!!!

Kitchen curtains and something new...a gingerbread tree!!!

Let's go to the family room.  A gentle reminder that gingerbread are cute (REALLY cute),, but that Christ is the true reason we celebrate!

well, that should whet your appetite!!!  I am off to the eye doctor, but I'll be sure to add more pictures later!