Beauty Contest

Miss Wyoming Merry Christmas Pagent...,.Well there were 18 little girls in just the 0-2 division, and Emmerson was a finalist, which means she gets to go to state, unfortunately I don't think I'm cut out for the Beauty Pageant ordeal, All the moms glaring and checking out your kid, Nope, not for me. It was kinda fun while it lasted, & we'll always have the memories! One Lady actually asked if she was mine, funny hu? She must look like her father.....ya think?
She got her little title ribbon....

Beauty Baby

Santa?

I think the crying ones are the BEST! You guys know you're laughing right now! Seriously this particular Santa Clause happens to be my Uncle Allen, but what poor man volunteers for this kind of abuse! Anyway Emmerson wasn't about to warm up to a fury guy with no face...

Happy Birthday Katie

My Little Women had her first birthday on Nov. 21st!

& yea she has tons of names. Matt and I are wierd as it is with our names, and our little women kinda gets slammed with bizarre ones. Her middle name is Kate, so I often called her Katie, Katers, Matt calls her B Brown.. (Her dark skin color, we're wierd) Anyway she had a sweet little party with a whole bunch of family. She got a lot of dollies, which was a reality check to me, that wow I have a little girl, & barbies are probably on the agenda for next year. We sure love her though..
Deer in the headlights...

A Mouth full of food, she's a happy girl!

Boo...

This was just one of Maddox's dinosaur costumes for Halloween.

The kid is sooo beyond belief obsessed with Dinosaurs, we have every dino movie ever made,

He throws a fit about wearing his dino pjs that have every dinosaur on them versus the ones that only have T-Rex and triceratops. He wears them under his clothes Every...single.....day.. I have to wash them while he sleeps. It's pretty stressful, but he's a pretty particular kid. Trust me, I've tried to reason with him, but like Cami said, "ya pick your battles."

Now baby sister, (that's her name according to Maddox) loves to wear anything. She especially loved her cute giraffe costume for Halloween.

The Kids outside waiting for Matt to come home right after we carved pumpkins, they loved it!

Coop

My brother's cuter than crap little boy. He's his momma's boy, they look soo much a like. He's in an old truck, he wasn't wanting pictures taken, but I think this one's pretty dang cute.

SuM mOrE

The Pictures look a lot better their actual size. Anyway, my mother wanted me to see all of the pictures I played with, so she could choose which ones I printed off for her before we came home. So here they all are mom.
There was a little pumkin display set up in old town, Matt thanked the lady for setting them up especially for us.

A couple Family Pics

Thanks to Kim, we finally got some pictures to work with. There are plenty more to come. She did an awesome job. A tid bit nippy for the youngsters, but it was a good day. Here's our little family! p.s....Matt and I keep complaining how it's impossible to look good in pictures, when Emmerson takes all the glory, even when she's not looking!

A Cute little bridge we found
Good Lookin TWINS

There was a kissy one, but we'll leave that one out....

I know I should pay someone to take pictures of our family, but

seeings how photoshop is kinda my thing, I'll just continue being

stubborn. Here are my babies..........

Another bites the dust....

Well here she blows..... so I'm not one to brag, but this cake has NO flaws. I watched a fondant video, and believe it or not....it helped...TOnz, so I hope I have a happy bride tomorrow with this one. A couple things I'd like to mention..NO person touched this cake except myself. The baking, the fondant, the dying, the decorating......thanks....Also it's completely cake made from 'Scratch?' I never really understood that expression, but I'd like to mention it...Hope everyone likes it!

El finito............Well Almost

Well here it is....My first wedding cake of the week. One more left. Can you believe I only had 2 this summer and they were both in the same week. Anyway this one gave me some grief and only took about 9 hours. Not bad considering I had my extremely pregnant sister in law helping me most of the time. Anyway I just hope Matt's cousin is happy with it. It's always fun....when it's done. Happy Weddings....stay tuned for the next cake in 5 days, it'll be less funky & more elegant..........Wish me luck...

10 things people might not know about me.

Okay well everyone probably knows everything about me, but I'll try...
1- I'm kinda a clean freak, (nothing compared to Amanda) but yea when a comforter or pillow isn't sitting just right, it'll drive me crazy until it's perrfect.
2-I don't take showers, we never had a shower when I was growing up, so I still now prefer baths. (why not? they're relaxing, soothing, something I need everyday!) Matt always talks about the big tub he's going to make sure our next house has, cause he knows I love em.
3-I LOVE scary movies, okay not soo much as I did prior to my lil ones, but I still love horror.
4-Okay I'm taking up 2 spots, but I love weird serial killer stuff. It was my major for a while in college, and for one year while working at a pretty intense job of me sitting there answering phones, I read all about...almost every serial killer out there on crime library.com. (Check it out) I gave it up after well, having a life, and becoming terrified their was a killer everywhere I went.
5-I love to do wedding cakes. I'm still a rookie, but with hard work, (Liz's help) I'd like to do more.
7-I golf. Ok so I'm not awesome...well as awesome as I should be for as much as I do, but I do golf a lot more than the average mother of 2. Thanks to golfer of the year, I do have some pretty nice sticks, and shoes, Matt thinks he needs to take care of his women. We have won the couples tourney once and taken second once, We've only been in it twice, but I worked really hard those days, didn't want to disappoint MAtty...
8-I no longer wear high heels, this is for all my old school friends...I had a height complex and I never thought I'd live past it, but lets just say I don't have back problems as bad...I've accepted my 5'3...okay 5'1 bod..
9- I like to lay out....okay so my ten things make me look like a real winner....seriously Matt would laugh, but I work my butt off all day and when it's nice I like to take 30 minutes to myself and go lay out and throw water balloons for max, sometimes at him..which I also enjoy..
10- I receive power tools for birthdays, Christmas, mother's days...you name em. Matt knows I do stuff, like stain fences, sand...a lot..and drill awesome stuff....hence...I get power tools., and I'm grateful...

Fourth of July stuff

Halarious I know...notice how Maddox's hand kinda over powers Emmerson's body. He's going to be a big boy, so people have told me. Anyway Matt and I especially like how Emmerson's arm is outside the truck like she's posing already. Super cute...
Fourth of July day out at the lake. Matt displaying parent of the year...Maddox got a new toy, Matt was just testing it out.

MORE BEDROOM STUFF FOR BONNIE & OTHER STUFF 2

So these posts are way odd I know. They're just a couple of pictures I had in my camera. We took the kids to Ross park a couple weeks back. I'm not even sure if I've already posted this. Anyway it was fun and warm and the kids loved it. P.S. Maddox really really loved Carter's 'Lightning Mcqueen hat.
My room. I'm pretty sure there were finger smudges on my camera lens. I wonder why.......anyway crapy picture quality..

Our guest bedroom, which will be redone shortly. I just finished one of my bathrooms upstairs, and this room is next. Well maybe the cabinets. Something. I know I sound crazy, but when I walk by rooms I don't like I actually get sick. It's a weird quirk of mine.

aWeSOmE stUfF...

This is for you Bonnie. Well recently my friend asked to see some pictures of some of the rooms in my house seeings how she'll NEVER come visit. Just kidding, but not really. She wants some ideas for painting, i'm not that creative, I once was when we first moved in, but Igot sick of it and repainted. A lot of my friends here make fun of me for being paint obsessed. I'll take it. Keep in mind Bonnie, I haven't decorated her room as much as I'd like.
My green wall. (my ugly cabinets located towards your left) they will soon be painted.

my smallest child. Yeah she went blonde (can't win em all) She's extremely adorable, so I'm not going to complain!

Uncle Ben at the zoo with his two little nieces (Super cute)

Maddox actually took this picture of me. He's kinda obsessed with my camera. He actually starts shaking when he sees it. That's how bad he wants to have it. So I let him for a couple minutes.

Girly stuff....

This is the kinda stuff that happens when both of your kids are sleeping.

Last night Maddox woke up yet again with a way high fever. So we were up all night long. Including Emmerson. Anyway this changing table we bought for Maddox when he was a baby. It was a deep cherry wood color. Anyway a couple of days ago I felt like getting crafty and making a mess, so today I finally completed it. The crib is out in the garage awaiting its transformation. It fits her room perfectly. White and girly! P.s. it turned out WAYY better than I could've imagined. The next step, getting Matt to let me transform the kitchen cupords.

Prinny PRincess..Pierced Ears..

Here's to you Kim!
Recently my friend and I were horrible mothers and took our precious little babies
and did something REAL mean.
We paid someone to pierce their little ears.
But look how stinken cute, RIGHT? Also I heard it better to do it while they're young, because
it's a lot worse when they can whine and complain about if it's going to hurt, Emmerson doesn't seem to mind at all.
My friend Kim wanted to get her little girl's done for a couple months
now, so I just kinda had her come with me, and both girls only cried for about a minute,
but I just wanted to post a picture of her to show
how pretty she is.
I promise we're not mean mommies...
HAPpy MotheRS Day by the way....to all you moms...

Happy B-Day Grandma....

Okay I know this is kinda funny, but my great grandma is 92 years old.

That's pretty good too, she's pretty stinken healthy also.

Anyway this week we went home to visit the family in Bear Lake, it was raining the whole time, so my mother and I decided to put an entire day to visiting grandmas. This picture is of my great grandma Susie. My great great grandma Olive lived until she was 98. That's pretty amazing to me. We looked through photo albums and she knew all the dates, the people, and some of the smallest little details such as what they had to eat on that day. Here's to you Grandma, We love you.
My little happy women on her brother's bday.

Maddox and his litttle friends.

WOODY.....BUZZ

Well, this would be our little woody, obviously loves Toy Story, so my mom thought it would be cute to make him a leather vest with fringe hanging off the bottom and burn his nme into it. It came complete with cowboy hate, & two guns. He loves it. He had an awesome birthday party, We had a little party out to a park where the wind decided to take over. I think all in all it worked out pretty good. Maddox's grandma Smith and Grandma and Grandpa Tarbet came up along with Uncle Ben and Uncle Josh. He had tons of little friends come and blow bubbles and it was a blast. Thanks everyone for coming and playing and being good friends! We love you all!

EASTER eAsTEr & a Lil Birthday fun....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my baby........Three years old.

It was a pretty fun couple of days. Maddox's birthday was the day after Easter this year, so he's had his fill of cake, candy, eggs, and presents.

This was a lil birthday cake I built or him. He looked like him to me. All chocoloate inside. Tasted 'Dood'

Dying Easter Eggs Friday night, (Dora the Explorer Dye Kit) We only had one casulty. Maddox thought the little dye tablets were candy, it was a little to late when I caught him. Lets just say the green wasn't as bright as it could have been.

Our good friendsthe

Sorensens invited us to a little Easter Egg hunt in their fun backyard. Matt was helping Maddox find some eggies. He had a blast.

SPRING?

My Little Girl Blue
We Went Golfing almost everyday for a week when the weather got almost to 70 degrees. It's obviously back down in the 20-30's but we loved it while it lasted.

Maddox really likes to golf, funny I wonder where he gets it from. We bought him real golf clubs for his birthday in a couple of weeks. I think Matt's more excited them him. I love my golf boys.

Cute....