Feast Your Eyes On My Cute Family..

We had our family pictures taken a couple of weeks ago and I honestly thought things would go a lot worse than what they did. I was prepared though with skittles stashed in my pocket for bribery when Lil' Cohen just couldn't take it anymore. All in all he did good, considering it was his nap time and he was beyond tired, and the girls well..lets just say they love the camera and attention anytime! As for Scott and myself we were wishing that our photographer could have photo shopped about 50 pounds on both of us..yuck..the reality of pictures really bites!

I need to give a shout out to Alex Perry for doing these awesome pictures for us. She has just started up her own photography business so anyone interested look her up at: legacy-photo.blogspot.com. She is the cutest thing ever and she does an awesome job! Thanks soo much Alex.

Let The Holiday Parties Begin!!

This Friday we attended our ward Christmas Party. I so cant believe it is December and Christmas day is just around the corner....I am NOT ready!! We had such a fun time and it was so well planned out. We had the usual ham dinner, and a buffet of treats that the kids LOVED! I think Claire made 4 or 5 trips loading her plate each time(I hope everyone got through the line at least once before Claire came along) After dinner we had the Syracuse High Choir serenade us with beautiful Christmas songs and then followed by a "surprise" visit by the big guy himself. I love this time of year and all the activities it brings along with it. Hopefully, time will slow down a bit so we can actually take time and enjoy every minute of the season!Claire, Emerson and their friend Maddi waiting to eat!
Claire with just ONE of her many treats!

Daddy and Cohen. Cohen was to interested in the basketball hoops in the gym. This kids LOVES basketball...

Our friend Maddi and our sweet Emerson telling Santa she wants a horse, a baby doll, and maybe a cat. Hmm...I'm thinking Santa thinks the doll is sounding just about right:)

Look at Claire's nervous little hands. She was practicing in the hall what she was going to tell Santa she wanted. She asked for a doll and a swimming dog. Easy enough!

I LOVE the face on Claire here. She was ticked that she wasn't on Santa's lap, she thought that she wouldn't get the chance to tell Santa what she had rehearsed for so long in the hall....eventually she got her turn!

UNTIL THE NEXT PARTY....

Edward....Here I Come!!

Team EDWARD! This is me right before going to the movie.

Oh....the excitement nerves were really kicking in just then!
Team Edward...All the way!

The "Twilight" gang

We only had eyes for each other:)

I don't care if you haven't read the book...go to the movie just to see EDWARD!! He played the part amazingly well and he for sure swept me off my feet....well, at least for 2 hours:)

MOOOOVE OVER BELLA, HERE I COME!

We Bleed RED!!!

Enough said!!

Thanks Mom and Dad for hosting Codee's birthday and then keeping us all around a little longer to watch the UTES kill those Cougs.....Yeah baby!!

Happy 35th Codee. We had such a fun day bowling with you. Thank you for being my sister and our "special" aunt. WE LOVE YOU!

Bronco Bramma!?

Claire walked into the kitchen while I was putting dishes away and this was our conversation.

Claire: "Mom the president I voted for won!"

Me: Oh yeah, who was it?

Claire(very serious tone of voice)" you know.. it was Bronco Bramma"

Me: well cool. good for you. I am so glad you voted for a president."

Claire: "Wait! Is he going to be the new president or prophet?

"Daxton's Box"

Check out this blog. The story will tug at your heart and many times leave you in a cry out loud moment. There are so many ways to give this season and I have made the looking a little bit easier on you. The website is dbkunz.blogspot.com. Listed on the sidebar there are items needed for "Daxton's Box". What an easy way to give. You may donate the items listed or make a donation to help purchase the needed items. I know we will feel such joy in our hearts to be able to help families feel some sort of comfort in their time of loss and sorrow.

Saying Goodbye...

Last night Scott and I drove up to University Hospital to say goodbye to his granny. It was hard to go into her room and see her laying in her bed so motionless. I was yearning to hear her say,"hey, doll how are ya? You look lovely." I sat by her bedside held her hand and thanked her for being my friend, for loving my Scottie so much, and loving my little ones. I am so grateful for the time she was here in Utah that she came to eat pumpkin pie at my house, visit with my kids while I had Dr.'s appts, and having bbq's at Steph's house. I am grateful that I got to really spend time with her a few years back as she helped me sew fabric blocks together in hoping to get a quilt done(we got all the blocks sewn, but regretfully never pieced the quilt together) she was a perfectionist at the sewing machine and often times checked my lines and literally made me start over from the beginning, but I loved it. I loved hearing all of her stories of her days growing up in England. I will miss our weekly check in calls, and her letters that she used to type to us that always managed to have a sticker of a cat on it somewhere(in homage to her love of cats, and closing every letter with "love granny & puddin' followed closely with a pawprint)

It is hard to say goodbye, but the thing that makes it feel a little better is knowing that she knows how much she was loved by me. Love you Nana Peg!

Next Project Runway Star??

This year Emerson was introduced to stitching by her gramma Warrick. Emmy loved that hobby and talked all the time of "making things". We had asked the girls what they wanted to do this year be it dance, gymnastics, art etc. Emmy was not interested in any of those and then lo and behold I found a flier for sewing class, I mentioned it to Emerson and the next day I was calling to sign her up. She LOVES it!! She has been in class for a month and so far she has made a hair scrunchy, this cute book bag, and she is finishing up on some fall pumpkin decorations. Now she really wants to make some clothes, doll clothes and a night shirt. I guess it is time now for me to whip out the sewing machine. Watch out Project Runway.....Emerson Colquitt is on her way to big the next top designer:)

TRICK-O TREAT!!

This is the only photo I got of Emerson at her school Halloween party. She looked so cute! What a fun class she has this year.

Don't we have the cutest grandparents in the world? They stopped over on Halloween to see the kids and to bring us a darling Halloween decoration to display next year.

Scott, Codee, and Cohen passing out candy at the trunk-o-treat. Codee went around asking everyone there for a pepsi:)

The kids starting round 2 at the trunk-o-treat. These kids scored big time this year!

After the trunk/treat we went over to visit my sis and bro/law at their cute new house. They gave each of the kids a special treat. We love having you guys live so close...now if we could only get you to babysit every once in awhile:)

Scott and I dressed up this year as well. Doesn't Scott made a beautiful pregnant lady? Somebody shoot me if I ever end up looking like that. Love ya hun, and I am so glad you have such a fun time on the holidays.

Emerson as the spider witch bride. A pretty dang cute one at that!

Claire as a "nice" witch and her pet crow!

Cohen as Elmo. He was too interested in what was in his bucket.

He HATED wearing this costume. I think he thought Elmo was eating his head. Poor kid...scarred for life:)

Happy Halloween Everyone!!

Dang Computers

Sorry my page is a bit skee-wamp-pus!! I don't know what happened but after journaling about our trip to California it just disappeared and now is out in cyber space somewhere. Not only did my journaling vanish but the layout and the spacing on my page is weird as well. I guess I could go in a retype everything and sort my page back out,but being the lazy sucker I am, I will not be doing that again today!! Makes me mad. I spent a good 30 minutes writing about our fantastic trip and now.....its GONE! I will journal it again another day, just not today! Most of you don't care what we did, where we went, what we saw, what we ate, how the airplane ride was....but I need to have it written down for my own little online journal. I just hope I don't forget before I actually go in a journal it.....you know me and my memory---SCARY!

CALIFORNIA 2008

Laguna Beach!! For those of you who have watched the show Laguna Beach this is where the show was filmed. In fact we saw Lauren "LC"S HOUSE, THE SURF SHOP WHERE Stephen WORKED AND THE HOTEL WHERE they STAYED FOR PROM NIGHT. the TOWN IS GORGEOUS, THE BEACH WAS SPECTACULAR, IT WAS AMAZING!! In fact I will live there someday:)

We LOVED Laguna and cant wait to go back!!

Waiting for the parade

Cohen and I cruising in our "cool" ride

Waiting for the Tower of Terror

The face paintings that made me choke costing about 31 smack-a-roos! Oh well it is Disneyland after all :)

Scott and Cohen riding the carousel

Tea cups!!

Being the major animal lover she is...Claire did not want to leave the petting zoo area.

Winnie the Pooh

We LOVE Disneyland!!

We Love SeaWorld. Every year we go I am reminded on how much we love that place. The kids loved the rides at the Sesame Street Park, the Atlantis roller coaster(me not so much)shipwreck rapids, tide pools, and of course the dolphin and Shamu shows. The girls are insistent on wanting to be dolphin trainers now. Cohen loved seeing the penguins(called them ducks) touching star fish, and he LOVED the Budweiser horses so much that he tried to go into one of the stalls with these massive horses. We also loved having my autistic sister(aunt Codee) there at the park with gramma and grampa. It was so much fun seeing how excited she got riding the rides and she absolutely loved the scary Atlantis best.We couldn't wait for the following day to get her on all the scary rides at Disneyland