Really Dallas? Really?

Dallas has no shame while watching his favorite movie Bugs Life !

QT our favorite drink stop!

How much do I love diet mountain dew from QT? A TON

500 piece puzzle in 48 hours!

I have had this puzzle for years but have never had the time to bust it out. On jan. 24th B.J. took Major to the beach for B.J.'s dads birthday, just having Dallas was way easier so I took it out and worked on it when Dallas was napping or when he went down for the night and I got it done in 2 days. Very relaxing.

Recovering

This month has seem to just fly by. When we got back from the snow my kids were just finishing up their antibiotics for ear infections, and then B.J. started sneezing up a storm and he has had allergies like crazy it turned into an ear infection so he went in and got on an antibiotic then within an hour I was coughing up a lung and I started an antibiotic as well we are all on drugs and recovering. My sister Mindi and my sister-in-laws Jenn and Annie have started this workout with my brother Spencer he kicks our boodys but Ive been doing the workouts from home and since Ive been coughing I am trying to take it easy. B.J. and I have been married for 7 years on Feb. 5th so we are going to do a combo valentines and anniversary and my mother-in-law is going to watch our kids at her house by the beach and we are going to go to catilina island or somwhere fun for a night or two. I am really excited to go and be alone with B.J. it has been awhile since we have done that. I will have some cool pictures next post.

Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Snow!

This past weekend we were invited to go to a cabin with some good friends Jared and Melissa Palmer. The cabin was about 20 miles out of Payson and we had such a blast! This cabin was amazing it had like 5 or 6 bedrooms and 6 or 7 bathrooms I kinda lost count after about the 4th bedroom. It was totally out of control and there was still a ton of snow on the ground so the kids were in heaven. Jared took us out on the Ranger it was like a 4 wheeler that fit the whole fam damily. We went through the woods and snow and even some water. What a blast! Here are some pictures of our fun trip.

Dally-Dog loves to swing!

This is Major waiting in the Ranger ready to go for another ride!

Dallas and his nachos !!!!

Our church changed to 9:oo on sundays and the church is now true again for me(ha ha) .We went at 2:00 last year and the year before that we had 1:30 church. It was really hard with my boys naps to go at that time. Now we hurry home from church and feed my boys a snack and put them to bed. Dallas is at the age where he wants to feed himself so we go through about 4 outfits a day. He is my child that my mother cursed me with. Dally-dog is a pistal but sooooooooo... much fun and has the best personality. I dont think B.J. and I can make a child that isnt a spaz. REALLY!

Thank the dear Lord it's over!

I have always had mixed feelings about Christmas I LOVE the spirit, decorations, family parties, FOOD and the whole shabang. I also am very busy at work and feel like my days off are a rat race. I do it to myself, for example I homemade my Christmas cards this year and it was way fun but I spent about 15 hours on them and around 100 dollars just on the materials. I had half of the cards done and B.J. told me I should go to the post office and make sure that they wouldn't cost a fortune. He ended up going and they said it would cost $1.17 a card to mail. I was pretty upset. I ended up hand delivering 25 of them mainly my family when I saw them and a few other people. Then two weeks before Christmas we went to the post office to mail my other 25, and the mail lady said that they were only 42 cents a piece. So I could have mailed them all anyway. CRAPY! Christmas overall was soooo... much fun. Major and Dallas are at the best ages for the santa thing. We are also very lucky to be able to see both families. I am sure I have gained a few pounds but it will come off after the treats stop coming, and I get back on my exercising schedule. I am so thankful for all of my family and close friends. You are all wonderful. I love you. I promise to be a better blogger in 2009! I hope you all have a good New Year! Here are a few pictures of our Christmas.

SANTA MADE IT!

My big baby is gone for 4 days.

HELLO!!!!!!! I may go down as the laziest bloger in town or mabye it is that I have been working my *** off doing hair so everyone can look marvelous for SANTA. Anyways Melayne and her boyfriend Cory came down for a little vacation this past week and we had a ton of fun eating out playing games and just hanging. They left yesterday and took Major with them. My mother-in-law was with them too and they are coming back in a few days but how weird to have one baby at home? I miss the living crap out of him. Dallas seems to love being the only child and I think it is nice playing with a toy for longer than 3 min before Major runs over and grabs it. Well everything is going well, this is the first Christmas without Kamber and it is very sad, we miss her so much. Last Sunday we went to Ethans to eat dinner and after Ethan made a bonfire and Kylie, Tayler and Major frosted gingerbread cookies. I sat there and thought how much fun Kamber would have had and it just made me sad. There are days I feel fine and I do know deep down she is well and happy and I know I will see her again and then there are days I am so sad . Jenn and Ethan are amazing. I dont know how they are doing it, but they are. Christmas is a wonderful time I love it. I am so thankful for my husband, kids, family, job and all the many blessings we have. I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Love Candi

TURKEY WEEKEND

I ended up walking and jogging the Turkey Trot, I mentioned in the last post that I was getting a cough and it ended up being a full blown lung infection. I went to the doctor on the Mon. before Thanksgiving and he put me on a really high dose of antibiotics. It was way crapy. Ive been running 3 times a week and worked up to 4 miles and then I get sick, VERY BIG LETDOWN for me. My sister Mindi did it and my sister-in-laws Jenn and Melayne and my two nieces did it and I am very proud of them. Our Family wore Kamber shirts and we ran for her. That was really special. I will say I wasnt sore at all and I think it is because I am in good shape. Can you be in good shape when you have 20 pounds to lose? Oh well I am feeling a whole lot better and next year I will go after it again.

Family photo shoot with Leah

We went to a park on Sunday and Leah (B.J.'s sister) took our family pictures. They turned out so freakin cute. Leah is an amazing photographer. She got great shots of my kiddos and having her in the family is such a blessing. I am hanging in there, I had a scratchy throat on wed. and by the end of the night I had lost my voice. I dont feel sick at all, but I do have a cough and I cant talk. The worst part is trying to yell at my kids or husband and not being able to. It so sucks. Major will yell "Mom" and I will answer him but he can't hear me so he asks 15 times and I have to go over to him and get right in his face so he can hear me. We are having Thanksgiving at my house for B.J.'s family it should be interesting our house is not that big. It should be fine. I better be over this crap by Thanksgiving, or I will be walking the Turkey trot.

Halloween

We went to my parents ward Halloween party it was a lot of fun! Major got to ride a horse and Dallas got to walk around in horse poop. Dallas is my BUSY BUSY boy. I tell people that if I can just keep him out of jail I did my job as a mother. He has a rader built in him that just attracts him to messes and danger. B.J. installed cabinent locks when Major was a baby and they worked great. He would try to open them a couple of times, realize it was no use and walk away. Dallas on the other hand puts his back into it and litterally grabs the cabinent with both hands and jerks it back and forth 20 times as hard as he can until it opens. I call him Dally-turd because he is a huge turd. I could not live without him.

Playing in the baby pool in October. What the crap is up with that?

Ok, these pictures were taken like 3 weeks ago I am ready to have cooler weather sick of swimming and all the pools are too cool but it is still hotter than two cats screwin in a wool sock. You can thank my brother Ethan for that lovely mental picture. Ethan has the best one liners ever we all wonder where he comes up with them . The other day we were at his house for Sunday dinner and he walked us out to the car and as we were there visiting he says out of the blue "Well, I'm hot I'm sweating like a petifile in chuck-e-cheese!" I'm still laughing out loud about that comment. Anyways, halloween was really fun Major was Batman and Dallas was Donald duck. I want to freeze my children so they never get big. It makes me sad to think how fast they are growing up. It blows my mind to think that someday they will be like me and I will be like my parents. The older I get the more I think we are all just young kids in older bodies. Kinda crazy.

Here is our fancy bike! We looked like high rollers.

Ethan and Jenn rented one and it looked pretty slick our bike was more of a cruiser and Ethan's was more like a crotch rocket. I know you are all surprised that Ethan would rent the fastest motercycle they rent, he was very safe and I was surprised he didn't do anything crazy.

We went to Village Inn and ate some breakfast that morning after picking up the Harley. Marla my mother-in-law was nice to come to our house and watch our kids so we could go on a ride to Canyon Lake.

This is Taylor, Kylie, Major and Dallas wearing the harley helments before the ride.

Dinner for B.J. birthday

K ,I know this isn't a good shot of the kids, but we had been at the resturant for an hour and they were spent. B.J. and I look pretty good in this picture though that is all that matters I guess.

THE BIGGEST LOSER

Yea ok so I win the biggest blog loser award. Can you all tell I am pretty much over the whole blogging every other day thing. I have been pretty much crazy these last couple of weeks. This time of year is so DAM BUSY (yes I know I spelled it wrong it makes me feel a lot less guilty if I dont spell it right.) Everybody needs their cracks filled in and their hair looking cute for their family pictures. I can not complain though I am so grateful I went to hair school and got a trade. I have stayed busy even In this VERY SCARY economy. I have some really cute pictures coming your way, B.J. turned 32 on Oct. 11. I rented a really nice Harley Davidson Motorcycle for us to ride the whole day. Ethan my brother and his wife rented one too and we had a freakin blast. We rode up to canyon lake and then drove to the resturant that night and then we took a night drive to Foutain Hills. I hope we buy one eventually. I would love to have a motorcycle. Did you know there is a special wave that you do when your on a bike? It was pretty impresive. Jenn and I are offically motor mamas. I swear every motorcycle that passed by us on the opposite side of the street waved. We also looked like HIGH ROLLERS driving around a 20,000 dollar bike. At the end of Sept. we went to Laughlin Nevada for two Miserable nights. I love to travel but I don't understand why I forget how crappy it is to travel with small children driving for four hours there, then the sleeping arrangements sucked donkey cause Major wanted to be in bed with me then when Dallas wakes up he wonders where the freak he is so he wants to sleep with me too and thank HEAVEN B.J. didn't come it till 3:00 that morning cause I dont know where he would have slept. After 3 hours of crappy sleep with Major I realized the floor would be much more comfortable then getting kicked 25 more times in the side. When B.J. came in that night and crawled in bed with Major, I thought to myself " Good luck with that one!" On about 41/2 hours of sucky sleep you can only imagine that we were ready to go out to the pool and live it up. Not really the whole trip ended up being a bust. I was a Royal Beyach to B.J. and he was Poopy darts back so it's not fun to be on vacation when your in a dissagreement. On the way home B.J. and I decided that we were not going to not travel until Dallas is 16. Somehow I think we will make it up to the snow come Jan. or Feb.