ABC's About Me

A - Age: 33
B - Best coffee: not a fan, but do love the smell
C - Chore you hate: Just one? Cleaning the bathroom
D- Dog's name: Sadie
E- Essential start to your day: Local/national news online, and People Online
F - Favorite color: Red, at the moment
G - Gift you love getting: Anything that is a surprise
H - Height: 5'4
I - Instruments you wish you play: Guitar
J - Job title: Health Program Specialist and mom/wife
K - Kid(s): 2 girls.
L - Last CD listened to: Toby Keith
M- Most memorable Christmas present: puppy
N - Nicknames: Poison, Ives
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Just with childbirth
P - Pet Peeve: people who take the elevator up one flight at work!
Q - Quote from a movie: I'm your huckleberry - Tombstone
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: 1 Sister 2 brothers
T - Time you wake up: 6:10
U- Ultimate vacation destination: Some super warm island
V - Vegetable you dislike: Onions
W - Why you run late: I hate to be late, but if I am it's because of the kids.
X - X-rays you've had: teeth, ultrasounds, knee, foot, elbow, back
Y - Yummy food you make: All the food I make is yummy!
Z - Zoo favorite animal: Lions and monkeys

Easter Sunday

Getting the girls ready for church is always a struggle, but when I want to do something a little more fun and different with their hair, it's nearly impossible! But I did manage to get them to hold still long enough to make it cute. Too bad it doesn't stay like this for long!

After church we have dinner at our house. Mike's family, Josh's parents and brother, and Ryan, Kinzie and Kambree all joined us. It was a good day to spend with family. Plus it was a beautiful day outside! I think spring is finally going to come!

Thanks for spending Easter with us! We love you all!

Easter Egg Hunt

I took the girls to the community Easter Egg Hunt Saturday morning. McKinzie and Kambree and McKinzie's sister and her daughter also came. It was kind of cold, but the girls had a great time "finding" the eggs. As you can see in the picture below, it took a lot of hunting to find the eggs!!

Project Filter Proudly Presents...PBR rider Wiley Petersen

My program, Project Filter, has been sponsoring Wiley Petersen for the last couple of years. He is the first (and currently only) cowboy to ever refuse Smokeless Tobacco sponsorship and instead be a spokesperson for a tobacco prevention program. He is so great to work with. Better yet, he is currently 4th in the world standings for PBR! So we are getting a lot of publicity! PBR is in Nampa this weekend so we held a radio remote at Double D Farm and Feed today and had Wiley there to sign autographs. It ended up being a great event. Hopefully he continues to ride well and hopefully keep riding his way to the top of the standings!

Project Filter team

Liessa and Kiarra with Wiley

Easter Chicks

This puts a whole new meaning to coloring Easter eggs! These chicks are so cute! They injected dye into the eggs just before they hatched. They end up hatching in their various colors. We were assured that the dye they use is not harmful or toxic to the chicks. They will lose the colored down in about 3 weeks and their normal feathers will appear. I seriously wanted one of the greens ones! I wish they would stay small like this instead of growing up into chickens!

Just a Few Pictures

I haven't posted many pictures of the girls lately so here are a few fun ones.

Supermodel documentary hour!

Little Miss Model

Ready for Spring

After weeks of being sick, everybody is finally starting to get well again. And now I could not be more ready for spring! I even went through both girls closets and started hanging up spring and summer clothes in anticipation of good weather. A girl can dream right? It's just time!

I am in the process of potty training Tenlee. Wow, this has been a chore! Baylee was so easy to potty train. It didn't take any time at all. But Tenlee has been a struggle. She gets the concept and wants to be potty trained. So I know that it's not that she isn't ready. She definitely is. The problem is she does so well at daycare, but at home she just gets lazy and won't tell me. Even if I ask her every 20 minutes and take her in to go. But she will still go in the pull-up. So today I decided that I was going to let her wear big girl underwear in hopes that if she had an accident, it would make her realize she can't just go when she wants to anymore. 3 pairs of underwear and pants later, I went back to pull-ups. I know that she will get it, but I just wish she would hurry! Someday...

Baylee is growing up so much. I hear her say things that just blow me away sometimes. She is such a good girl and very sweet. She goes in for Kindergarten registration in a couple of weeks! I can't believe she will be going to school next fall. She is so excited! She's ready. I think it will take me a little longer to be ready for that, but I'll get there.

Josh went snow mobiling for the last time this year (or so he says). I think he has really enjoyed going with David, Ryan, Mike and others. I'm glad he is spending time with them. Work is still going good for him. He loves what he does.

Work for me is good. Starting in May I will be a lot busier. We have so many events that we are sponsoring and attending. It will keep me busy for sure. But I look forward to it. It the part of my job that I truly love. Josh and I will be going to the PBR in Nampa next week to watch Wiley Petersen ride. My work, Project Filter, is one of his sponsors so we will be there to support him. He is currently ranked 4th in the world standings. He has been such and incredible spokesperson for our program. And he is truly one of the nicest people I've ever met. I'll post pictures next week after the event.

Well, that's it for now. I'll post pictures another time. I really need to get better at taking them!

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

For months Baylee has been begging me to cut her hair to her shoulders. At first I was a little reluctant to do it, but then I realized it's just hair and her hair grows supper fast. Plus, it might just be cute and so much easier to take care of. So I agreed to let her cut it. But we just never go to it until this weekend. I was getting my hair done so I called my stylist to see if she could do Baylee's too. She was so excited to go to the salon! I've always just trimmed her hair myself, but this was definitely not something I wanted to tackle on my own.

I have to admit, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Baylee's new hair! It made her look so grown up. She loves it too and can't wait to go to school on Monday to show it off to everybody. Here are a few pictures from the salon. I will post more when I have a chance to do some cute, fun things with her hair.

Grandparents

Yesterday would have been my grandpa's 90th birthday and my grandma's 88th birthday. They had the privilage of sharing a birthday, just 2 years apart. It's been almost 10 years since my grandpa died and almost 8 since my grandma passed. Wow, has it really been that long? Both died within weeks of their 80th birthdays. We've always said they planned it that way. 80 was just a good number I guess. I miss them and think about them on a daily basis. I came across this picture the other day while going through some old pictures. I was afraid I had lost it. I just love this picture. Wasn't my grandpa handsome? He looks like he should have been a movie star. And my grandma was the most beautiful person inside and out. They lived life to the fullest and loved each and every grandchild so much, but of course I like to think I was the favorite! I know that no matter where I'm at or what I am doing, my grandparents are watching over me. I just hope that I'm making them proud. I love and miss you both!!

Our Family Valentine's Day

We were invited by Josh's sister Crystal to go snowmobiling with their family yesterday. So we loaded up the girls and drove to Crouch (by Garden Valley). From there we rode the snowmobiles up to Silver Creek Plunge Hot Springs. This hot springs is only accessible by snowmobile in the winter. Tenlee was not a fan of the ride at first, but by the time we got there she was enjoying herself and actually fell asleep on the ride home! We had a great time! The weather was perfect. It was snowing when we got up there, but then the sun did come out for awhile. It was a great way to spend the day. I had plans to clean the house and get caught up on some things, but I'm glad that David and Crystal were able to talk us into going with them. Thanks guys!