Hard Easy

One of my favorite colors is red. I love red it is all over my house. Well, we might have to change it because at our house we now bleed BLUE. Justin was accepted to BYU's graduate program. We are thrilled!! He starts this summer and will work on it for 2 years straight. When he first applied he asked if I believed in miracles I said of course. Well it is true miracles do happen. All joking aside he will be great they couldn't have asked for a more qualified hard working candidate. I can just see him as this cool young administrator telling kids to get their acts together. I love it! So when I am complaining that I never see my husband and that he doesn't have time to put his dirt clothes in the basket remind me HARD EASY. It is a saying we have in our house it can be hard now and easy later or it can be easy now and hard later- I choose hard easy every time. I wish that it could be easy easy but thats life!

A rose is a rose is a rose

What is in a name?? If a rose were not called a rose would it smell as sweet? I don't know lets find out.


1. )YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: Kizzy Sequoia (Your first pet/current car) I think that I should start touring and change my name
2.)YOUR GANGSTA NAME: chocolate snickerdoodle (fave ice cream/fave cookie) that is more porn star then gangsta
3.)YOUR FLY GIRL/GUY NAME: A-Pit (first initial of first name/first 3 or 4 letter of last) Fly??? Whatever!
4.)YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: Green Tamarin (fave color/fave animal) or instead of the rock star I will become a detective
5.)SOAP OPERA NAME: Arloa Ogden (middle name/birth city) pretty dramatic! Let's here it for O-town!!
6.)STAR WARS NAME: Pitas (first 3 letter of last name/first 2 of first name) Yum! Any one up for a star wars pita??
7.)SUPER HERO NAME: Red Water (2nd fave color/fave drink) well maybe I will be a superhero rock star that does detective work on the side. But then were does that leave me with my name???
8.)NASCAR NAME: Darwin Charles (first names of grandfathers)
9.) WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: Ann Irvin (mother and fathers middle names) I think maybe I will scrap all that other stuff and join the witness protection program.
10.)TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: Grisham Greenvalley (5th grade teachers last name/city that begins with same first initial) Lindsay is that how you came up with your name??
11.)SPY NAME/BOND GIRL NAME: Summer Gerber Daisy (fave season/fave flower) Oh the choices!
12.)CARTOON NAME: Pineapple Ringy (fave fruit/something you're wearing plus -ie or -y at the end)
13.)HIPPY NAME: Cake Maple (something you ate for breakfast/fave tree) yep I ate some cake for breakfast!
14.)YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: blog painting snowy tour (fave hobby/fave craft/fave weather element + tour) just wierd

Well maybe I will just stick with what my parents gave me because a rose is a rose is a rose. I would still be me even if I went by Red Water because lets be honest I pretty much am a super hero!

Birthday Marathons

Makayla's Birthday was more of a marathon then a day celebration. We started on Thursday with a family ski day. It was so fun for Makayla to ski for my parents, Clay, and Justin. She received her present from us this day too, a nice new ski helmet. It is a Dora Helmet and she loves it! The cutest thing I have ever seen is her skiing down the mountain and singing at the same time. I think she was making up a song because I didn't recognize it. She is an awesome little skier and just a natural athlete. On Friday we had the family party. It was fun to have her aunts and uncles and grandparents and some of our really good friends over for a little celebration. She loved having everyone over and getting presents from everyone. I think she loves her new purse from Clay and Brittany (it is pink with some serious bling) . She took it to church with her lip gloss and dolls in it. Then on Saturday morning we had the friend Princess Party. It was so fun we had a pink carpet for the girls to walk in on with a grand entry. We princessed the entire downstairs with toile, pink flowers, pink balloons, and disney princess stuff. We played Princess Bingo (I made it), pass the magic wand, the girls made tiaras, and ribbon dancing. The girls came in their princess dresses and they all looked so beautiful. We had a special guest come Belle. The girls thought it was fun to have her come but Makayla new that she was one of Dad's runners so it wasn't quite as fun for her. The girls had a great time and they were all so cute. My mom made an amazing princess cake. You can judge between the family cake that I made and my mom's cake who the skilled cake maker is. Justin asked my mom if she was as crazy as I am about parties and she said no but Lets be honest I think that she is the reason that I love to do cute themed parties at home. There is something personal and fun about it!! Plus you don't get to do this kind of stuff very long they grow up too fast and don't want you around eventually.


Okay pictures to come. My computer is being dumb!

Makayla is FOUR!

If you know her, you know how awesome she is if you don't take some time and spend it with her. I could stop there but since it is her birthday I will elaborate. Makayla is a fun and energetic child that could talk your ear off. She makes me laugh, get frustrated, and laugh some more every single day. I love to do things just with her because she is SO much fun. She is dramatic, creative, imaginative and thoughtful. She is a pleasure to be around most of the time. I just really feel so lucky that I have such a great kid. She is AWESOME!!!

Some interesting things about Mak:

1. Every night she asks me to tickle her back but it is her armpits that she likes tickled.

2. She draws pictures for other people everyday and folds them up really small to deliver them.

3. She is a child always busy doing something. She has yet to watch a feature film (Any Disney Princess movie included) all the way through. When she is about half or three quarters of the way through she is bored and moves on to doing something active.

4. She loves to sing. You can catch her making up he own songs all the time. She even Sings and Skis, now that is talent!!

5. She has the most amazing memory. She can tell me details of a story that I have forgotten. She remembers names, faces, birthdays, and anything we have discussed.

I love you Mak, LaLa, Mak Attack, Makayla!!!

Happy Birthday!!!!

Winter Fun

These are some random pictures from this winter. Sledding, snow forts, polar express and elk refuge. It is just a reminder to myself that the winter does bring lots of fun things even though I am ready for HOT weather. I think that it is the Vegas in me. Good times!

Watch out Peekaboo Street Here Comes Makayla

This week I took Makayla skiing for the first time. She did amazing!! By the end of the day she was skiing in here little pizza and turning down the hill. We went to Brighton on Thursday, we ditched preschool, what am I teaching her already?? It was a beautiful day for skiing. It was warm, sunny with great snow. We started the day on the flats and practicing straight runs and before 10:30 we were up on the hill skiing down. I would ask her if she was tired and needed a break but no she just wanted to keep skiing. "I want to go on the roller coaster again mommy." When we were on the lift the first time she asked if we would have to jump off not with concern in her voice but more like excitement. We had so much fun together skiing and she was just fun to be with. We took a short lunch break and skied all afternoon until 3:00pm. She got in the car and fell right to sleep. Now every morning she asks if she can go skiing, I think I have created a monster!!! But I would be more sad if she hated it. So when she is 16 and ditching school to go skiing I guess I can only blame myself. Maybe I will tag along :)

On the lift ready to jump off!

Ski Bunnies