You can't be kidding me...

Mark is usually a pretty manly guy but let me give a little background. When we were in high school mark got a mysterious pair of pants mixed in with his clean laundry (mom would return all our clothes to us neatly folded and sorted, Thanks Mom!) So, he decided to try them on, thinking they were my dad's. They fit but felt really funny, when he checked they size they said, "8". He was quite confused by this mysterious single digit number and used deductive reasoning to find they were mine. I have never heard the end of him fitting into my jeans.

Just the other day at dinner Mark said, "San, what if I still fit into your pants?" "I might have to kill myself." I replied, "No, you would have to kill yourself, I'm skinny now so that would mean you are too skinny for a guy!" Of course at this point he asked to try them on. I got him my big jeans, the ones I wore when I was pregnant last time. Of course he fit! We all had a good laugh, he teased me and then I proclaimed that those were actually my big jeans. He wanted the real ones, I was sure they wouldn't fit and then:

Look at that butt!! It was amazing, even a picture can't properly show just how tight those puppies were.

So, heres to you Mark. For fitting in a size 4 pair of womens jeans. You've still got your girlish figure. Lets try again in another 10 years.

A compairison photo, this is what he normally looks like...much better I think.

By the way, I saw this on Stacie's blog and thought, "I bet no one would think to give that to me for my blog..." so Thanks Kelli!!!

This is not a difficult BUT here are the RULES for presenting this, hopefully soon, sought after award:

1. Pick 5 Bloggers that you consider as your best blogging buddies and deserves this award for their contribution towards the blogging community, no matter what language.

2. State the name of the author of each blog as well as a link to each one's blogs.

3. Each blogger (upon acceptance) of this award should do a post and show the award on their blog and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award.

4. Link to MY blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5. Show these rules...SIMPLE!
I choose...

Jamie

Lo

Ali

Tracy

Chelsea & Mike

Just part of Winter...

One thing I don't like about winter: I can't help but let my kids watch more TV! I sure miss all the warm days of summer (not really the unbearably hot ones in AZ so much) when the kids can run and play outside for hours. Ah well, at least there are Christmas specials on the tube, I can finally wear jeans with out boiling, and ski season is right around the corner!

Family Pics

My wonderful sister and photographer Tracy took family pics for us on Thanksgiving morning. They turned out wonderful and we had a great time, thanks Tracy!! You are amazing!!

Dear Capt Nixon, We miss you! Hope your flight to Iraqui land is good. Remember that we love you and think of you a hundred times a day.

Big Boys

They are really growing up! Jack is doing such a great job with his potty training. He loves being a big boy and it is so nice not to have to clean up diapers (although the accidents still have to be cleaned up). I asked him, "Do you want me to take a pic of you in your new unders?" and he was super excited. As i took it I said, "Say, "Unders!" and he threw his arms up and yelled unders! This is his victorious pose:

Mean while Chase is learning to drive the Jeep:

And I love this pic of Chase brushing his teeth like a big boy, reminds me of his daddy with the towel wrapped around, so cute!

Jack said:

So, you probably didn't think anyone does Tae-bo any more but I was sweating it to my VHS copy from '97 when it came to this maneuver:
Jack was in the middle of one of his cartoon shows so i didn't think he was watching me until he said: "Wheels on the Bus Mommy?" sure enough I was doing the 'Wheels on the Bus' actions. I laughed so hard, he is a clever little boy.

Potty Training

We are potty training Jack. No, we don't make him do it from that far away...but he is a talented kid so maybe someday...

They do actually play really well together but I sill feel like this sometimes!

I didn't know where it would take me....

BLOG SURFING!

Ok so I was aware of the button at the top of blogs that says "next blog" but I never really used it before today. I started clicking the button and it was so fun! It just takes you to random blogs from all over the world. After calling Quinn over to the computer for the 10th time to look at random stuff I thought I would post a few of my favs and maybe make it into a tag. Here goes:

1. This was a european looking blog (I didn't recognize the language, neither did Quinn) What kind of city likes creapy looking spiders enough to have a monument to them? Cool pic though, this person was a great photographer.

2. This guy I had to include 2 pictures of so you could get the full effect. It looked like it was in spanish, south american maybe. The title of this post, and the only part written in english, was "American Loft Party" I love how people in other countries (except for middle eastern ones of course) want to be american but tend to confuse things. I mean really, when was the last time you went to a "loft party"? (have you ever been to one? my point exactly)

His pose just makes this post. If I had only posted the top pic you might think, "oh this guy is joking around for the camera." but no! He seriouly did this face in almost every pic, even drinking a beer...he still had the same look!

3. This pic is from the 3rd blog I ran into, it is a little mormon teeny bopper who posted like 20 pics of her latest stake dance and ward halloween party. This was the only redeemable pic, she titled it "coolest star ever!." I love how I ran into another mormon so fast, Quinn says it is because only mormons blog.
4. This person is so messed up! This pic is from their whole portfolio of art about all the contraceptive methods. They are hoping a gallery is going to pick it up soon for a showing...waah!

5. Then I ran into the provo fire fighters web site, crazy! I promise I looked at less than 15 blogs and 2 of them were mormon. This pic is from a 911 call and yes, that man is wearing his shorts as a shirt.
So, those are my 5 favorite things from blog surfing. I also thought it was crazy that I ran into 2 blogs in other languages entirely devoted to Harry Potter.
I tag 5 people Jamie, Laura, Kelli, Stacy and Dani to find 5 funny/interesting/wierd pics for their post!

We love the zoo...

We really Love The Zoo!

This kid really loves the zoo, he is about to climb up and over those bars into the Giraffe area, and he's gonna take that stroller with him:

Grandpa got to come with us (we go just about every week, sometimes twice a week). Thanks to Grandpa for watching the kids for us so we could go to a real wedding, complete with dinner, dancing etc.

Why we have to move back to Utah...

This is why we have to move back to Utah:

He stood there looking over the fence at the other kids playing in the yard next door for like 45 min. He wouldn't get down even when I offered to push him in the swing...it almost broke my heart. Can't wait for him to be back with cousins again.




On a lighter note, Chase did this while Jack was longingly looking over the fence:

He was sitting down and then just stood up and continued standing long enough for me to get quite a few shots. It is his first time standing up without the assistance of any objects. When he fell down he just stood back up 2 more times. He is growing so fast!!

Yes, he is putting a rock in his mouth, yes, it did stay there for a while because I loved watching him stand. No, he didn't swallow it.

Halloween!

We had an awesome Halloween this year. It is our first time to dress up with a family theme. We just had to to cowboys and horses because Jack is obsessed with everything horsey.

Jack at the beginning of the evening....

Jack after a few rounds of the cupcake walk, lots of cake, a few pieces of candy, 3 games of toss the pumpkin and a little bean bag toss...phew! It wore him out!

"Baby Horsey!" is what Jack loves to call Chase even when he isn't dressed as one for Halloween. This costume was very fitting, we especially love the little tail flopping around when he crawled!

The traditional picture with the loot! Gotta love that grin.

Thanks for joining us!

Hey everybody, thanks for changing your clocks to AZ time today (I am speaking to those in Utah mostly) Glad you could join us in our timezone. Also, a shout out to California and Oregon as they leave us and move foreward an hour (I don't think anyone in Washington reads my blog so its not included in the S.O.) May I just say it is nice to live in a state that is brave enough to just stay the same time all the time, so reliable these Arizonians.

Here is a fun fun fact: Daylight Saving Time was instituted in the United States during World War I in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act which standardized the length of Daylight Saving Time.

This one is more accurate!

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Chase Looks Like Who?

This meter is SO Not correct!! Chase totally looks like a mini-Quinn.

(I don't think their "state of the art" software is very accurate...maybe it is from the state of Mississippi!)

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I hate the pic but I love the books! Alice probably suits me, maybe?

I just can't help it...

I have to post these pics, Chase is so cute!!

He sits by the running water and goes crazy with it. He is so sad when we have to turn it off, needless to say he has been having some deep baths lately.

Jack had a pic just like this with a bath toy in his mouth when he was this age:

Not to be outdone, here he is copying what we think is cute on Chase...it just isn't quite the same though.

Before you think that we are only obsessed with Chase, here is a pic of Jack that I am ga-ga over. He washed the dishes all by himself. It took about an hour but they were actually clean at the end. All that running water did it's job. What a sweet, good, (and just recently) helpful boy!

Some Items of Business

First: Here is our new bedroom decor, we got it at IKEA and I love the bright orange color, it is fun to have a change!



Second: I have been doing some deep cleaning (horay to me!) and decided to vacuume the bottom of my closet. As I cleaned out my husband's shoes I found that he has 20 pairs of shoes. Thats as many as I have, isn't that disturbing? He is such a shoe horse! Here is a pic of the damage, I thought men weren't supposed to have so many shoes. p.s. He actually wears all of them, even the tuxedo looking ones are for his blues uniform... and he even wishes he had more shoes!

Third: We finally painted our house! It was a big and tall job, here is a sample pic to show the color (don't look at the messy toys everywhere!)