Welcome Home Embrace!

This will make any mother with returned missionaries cry, i'm just warning ya!

The motherload -click on picture for album-

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So i have not updated for a long time so here is the motherload. Last week we were in utah for the whole week! it was wonderful and so relaxing! the best way to start our summer 7 week break! thank you mitch and kristen for allowing us there and to brent and nina for having us over to swim and seeing tyler's awesome game! we realized that we are heat wimps as we were absolutely dying in the heat!! The highlights were being with family, ikea, cabella's and visiting my companera, Miss Matha! We also had a jane austen lalapalooza and watched 3 films! i am so proud of my bradley for watching them and wanting to know the story! he is now cultured! We returned home and stopped in blackfoot to see my old roommate miranda's wedding. She looked beautiful and it was good to see her and her husband.

When we came home there were tons of cars in teh driveway and Mildred had passed away last friday. She was in the nursing home and her granddaughter was passing through and was with her. I am so glad that she wasnt alone, she was with family and she can be with Ralph her husband, and her son Brad again. The funeral was today and it was great to hear her stories. She has left quite a legacy. Her one son who wrote the letter has been very nice. They have mentioned that we can stay but we know they have so much to sort through and for the time being everything is okay with our living situation.

Hunter had his 15 month checkup and is in the 88 percentile in height!! how that happened we dont know! he has grown 3 inches in the last 3 months! he is constantly looking for a way to rip off his diaper and be naked! he LOVES outside. we could be outside for hours and wouls still cry when having to come in.

We went to the folkdance street festival on monday and it was tons of fun. hunter danced a little withthe drums from the CHina group. They close down mainstreet and it is different countries performing their dances and a parade. it is the best! i love the family community of rexburg!

I woke up this morning and i couldnt even open my eyes in the dark because they were so sensitive to light. i have to wear sunglasses and my eye is ugly and red! It is getting less sensitve to light but is still awful! Welcome home bubba, see my hideous eye!

Well we are on our way out the door to meet at the airport to welcome home my brother in law from his mission!! we are all so excited!!
Even though i am out of school, this week has still been busy. But it is so nice not to have to worry about a project, test etc!!


love to you all! i will post pictures later!

another tag

8 things I am passionate about…in no particular order:
1. Being a mom
2. The gospel
3. reading good books
4. playing games
5. Doing things with family
6.laughing
7. child development
8. sleeping



8 Books I Have Read And Enjoyed
1. Goosegirl
2. Enna Burning
3. walk two moons
4. Tisha
5. The Book of Mormon
6. The only alien on the planet
7. I capture the castle
8. goodnight gorilla

8 Words/Phrases I Say Often
1. give me a kiss
2. i love you
3. doodlebug
4. bugaboo
5. Did you fart?
6. time for prayers
7. another five minutes
8. i'm going to bed


8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die (in no particular order)
1. REPENT!!
2. go to the temple
3. tell everyone how much i love them
4. have a tru blue vacation i.e. beach, camping with brad and kiddo(s)
5. be a better example to everyone
6. have a home
7. kiss my children and tell them how much they mean to me
8. laugh with brad

8 Things I Learned This Past Year
1. i just want to be done with school
2. When you follow promptings of the Holy Ghost, things fall into place
3. i need to be better
4. i still need my momma
5. Yet i am okay without my momma too
6. family is everything
7. plans change
8. Motherhood is awesome!

8 places I want to see
1. Pearland again
2. Pyramids
3. ruins in mexico
4. the louve
5. italy
6. hawaii (again)
7. puerto rico
8. mom and dad to show us africa

8 things I miss
1. going back to a "home"
2. Gramma's house
3. Santa Cruz
4. Ocean waves
5. my sisters
6. my parents
7. energy
8. my old body!!!

8 things I currently want/need
1. a subaru
2. a nap
3. money!
4. a baby
5. a shopping spree
6. blonde hair
7. a tan
8. A game night with friends


8 People I Want To Tag
1.Samual
2. Kristen
3. Celeste
4. Buff
5. Kaitlyn
6. Hollie
7. maggie
8. carly

Tagged (Brad)

i am: Don Juan, The Greatest Lover in All of the World.
i know:that the color pink should only be worn by girls.
i want: a Nintendo Wii.
i have: a HOT wife.
i wish: I could loose weight without excercising.
i hate: Incompetent moron drivers.
i miss: snowmobiling.
i fear: Hunter groing up too fast.
i feel: nervous about taking 18 credits next semester.
i hear: voices in my head.
i smell: rotten gas, but who is it; Hunter or Ally?
i crave: College Football.
i search: for the remote control everyday.
i wonder: what the voices in my head are telling me to do?
i regret: Not starting School sooner.
i love: Ally and Hunter.
i care: about my job.
i always: Get up with Hunter at night.
i am not: happy about getting up with Hunter everynight.
i believe: In the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
i dance: never!!!
i sing: Raffi songs in the car.
i fight: dirty commi aliens in HALO.
i write: Only when I have to.
i lose: most of the time in Dutch Blitz.
i win: most of the time in Rumikube and Settlers of Catatn.
i never: Wear Pink.
i listen: To Glenn Beck everyday.
i am scared: of going bald.
i need: another Vacation.
i am happy about: having a nice dinner with my family.

Tagged (Ally)

i am: Content
i know: that i am definately getting older
i want: To be able to have lots of kiddos and to go and see my family
i have: one semester left then i get my Bachelors!!
i wish: brad only had one semester left too!
i hate: rude people
i miss: my parents!
i fear: bigfoot (just ask my mom and sister celeste)
i feel: gassy
i hear: meatloaf, anything for love
i smell: brad's sweat
i crave: Dr. Pepper
i search: for hunter's pajamas always
i wonder: if california is going to burn to the ground
i regret: goofing off in school my first semester, who takes clogging anyway? seriously
i love: My Doodlebug and bugaboo
i care: about global warming, NOT
i always: laugh at random things and usually can't stop
i am not: pregnant
i believe: in Christ
i dance: always!!
i sing: even more than dancing. i make up my own songs, poor brad
i fight: the urge to spend money on cute clothes for Hunter boy
i write: On my blog and to my family in emails
i lose: nothing by being me
i win: games occasionally
i never: like to wake up early
i listen: to hunter talking. i love it! and his laugh especially
i am scared: of bears
i need: a hug from brad, immodium and sleep
i am happy that: I have brad and to be a mother, it is complete joy
i tag: Sam, my Sistahs, Maggie, Kristen and BRAD!

Tagged #1

Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. I can't wait to see what people remember.

Hunter's first hair cut!

We cut off hunter's little curl in the back, or as we called it his mullet. Also a bit off the top was trimmed. Brad's cousin Jessie did it while lacey held hunter. He was interested to see what was going on but i think he did great. i kept his hair in a little plastic bag, Brad's request because he wasnt there to see it happen. he was boating with his brothers, as he should be. he looks so handsome, but i keep reaching back to play with that curl that isnt there anymore. maybe it will grow back.