My Beautiful Sister

You know how you have friends or family that live so close, but you don't get around to visiting them as much as you would like to? You don't really need to make plans to go visit because they live in the same town and you can visit them whenever? And then one day things change so much that that person is going to move and then you realize that you should have gone to visit more often or gone out to get icecream or just stopped by to say a quick hello. Well that has happened to our family. Ryan and Ali have gotten a divorce and yesterday Ali moved to Arizona. I am so sad that she had to move. I know it was the best thing for her to do and that things will work out, but I am so sad that I am not going to be able to see her whenever I want to.


She has been such a great sister-in-law and I have been blessed to have her in my life. She is just as crazy if not more than our family--and those of you who know my family know how crazy we are. :) I will always remember the very first time I met her. They had been married for a couple of months and we were in the airport to pick them up (She is from Spain and that is where they were married). When they got off the plane I was so excited to see Ryan and meet her, I started to walk towards them and Ali gave me a big hug and said "It's good to meet you Tiffany." I was so shocked (I don't know why) that she knew my name and everyone elses for that matter. They lived with us for a couple of months before they found a place and moved to Provo. It has been 11 years (in November) since then with a lot of fun times and some really sad times and the chance to get to know each other well and get to become close like sisters. Girls day won't be the same without her and family get togethers will always be one person short.

Ali, I just want you to know how much I love you and how much I will miss you. We will see each other again. Just remember to have fun down there, meet new people, experience all that Pheonix has to offer and be good! You will forever be apart of our family and nothing will ever change that no matter what anyone says--we have it on paper!!! I love you and miss you already.

Not the best pic, but it works!

Dan the Chef

Dan is the Chef of the family. He cooks dinner most nights because I am working, and I'm so thankful he does because he cooks some real tasty dinners. Tonight we tried a new recipe called Pineapple Beef Stir Fry. It was so tasty I thought I would share it with you all.


1 lb flank or sirloin steak, cut into strips
1/2 cup A.1. Steak Sauce, original or sweet & tangy
1 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 can(20 oz.) Pineapple Chunks, drained, reserving 1/3 cup juice
1 cup sliced red bell pepper
1/2 cup sliced green onion

Combine beef, sauce and cornstarch until well blended. Heat oil in large skillet placed over medium-high heat; add beef strips. Cook and stir for 3-4 minutes or until no longer pink. Add pineapple chunks, bell pepper, onion and reserved pineapple juice; heat to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 2-3 minutes or unitl sauce thickens slightly. Serve over cooked rice. If desired, top with soy sauce.


Enjoy!

3 Months Old

These past 3 months have flown by. Tyda is getting so big and starting to actually do stuff. She laughed for Dan for the first time last week. She is talking (cooing) and smiling and enjoying her sisters. She started sleeping through the night (9 hours) a couple of weeks ago--HALLELUJAH! She is such a joy and I'm so in love! She is so cute and we are so blessed to have her.

July 21, 2008


October 15, 2008

Hawley's New Hair Cut and Permanent Marker

Every morning the girls get into bed with me and wait until I wake up. Today was not any different except when I woke up I leaned over to get my glasses and I saw something that looked like string or hair or something on the floor. So I just looked at it trying to figure out what it was and why it was on my floor and then I looked at Hawley and saw what I have always dreaded--Hawley had cut her hair. I just looked at her and said "Oh. My. Gosh." She looked at me and with such excitement said "I cut my hair!" I couldn't believe it. I just kept saying 'Oh my gosh' while I went into the front room and there on the couch was all of her hair. I even started to cry a little. I was in shock and I knew that to try to fix it it would be completely short--all gone. I still can't believe that her beautiful hair is all gone. I guess one thing about it is now people will be able to tell them apart. The lucky thing about hair is that it grows back, although Hawley's hair is the slowest growing hair IN THE WORLD!! Well as I was cleaning up the hair (which isn't the easiest thing when it is everywhere) I called Jenna and we volunteered Joy to come and try to fix it. I can trim and do a few other things with hair, but there was no way that I was going to try to fix this myself. You can still see a little where she cut some cause it was so short, but Joy did a good job and I'm glad that she took a little bit of her Friday night to come and help out. Thanks Joy your the best!






Joy and Jenna


If you thought that that was all that I had to write you must have been thinking of someone else, because I swear I have my work cut out for me. After all of the hair and stuff I decided to take a shower and left the girls watching cartoons. When I was dressed I decided to check on them and they were no where in sight. I went to the kitchen and there they were on the counter eating tootsie rolls and drawing all over the counter, microwave, and the cute letter holder Ali gave to me with PERMANENT BLACK MARKER. Luckily they didn't get it all over themselves. I tried to get it off with the magic eraser, but to no avail.


I'm not sure if I can handle anything else today. Lets just pray that that is the extent of the excitement for today.

Enchanted and Sleeping Beauty

So the girls' new favorite movies are Enchanted and Sleeping Beauty. We have to watch at least one of them every day. They like Enchanted better and love the song that she sings in the park 'How Does She Know'. They will sing that all day long. I do enjoy Enchanted better as well, so that is a plus.

New Found Love

The girls have discovered hot chocolate! They love it. I'm a big fan of it as well, so it will be a good winter with LOTS of yummy hot chocolate.

On a side note, can you believe that we have already had snow!!!! Insane.



Hawley's totally cheesy smile.

My cute Scarlett.

Tyda's Blessing Day

Yesterday we were able to have most of our family here so we could bless Tyda--we missed those who didn't come and are extremely grateful for those who came. It was a very good day and I'm so blessed to have all of the family the we have. Dan gave a very good blessing. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful husband. My dad bore his testimony and told all of his kids that if they love their spouse the way he loves my mom, then we would be just fine. I don't know what I did to deserve him, but I got one of the best guys out there!




It was a wonderful day and things are going well for all of us.

Lagoon

For all of you who don't know, Morgan really looks like this when she sucks in her stomach. It is pretty scary!! :)


As you can tell from my dripping wet hair, it rained on us ALL day long. It is quite a hurtful thing to go on fast moving rides with the rain pelting your face. Everyone got babysitters for the kids and boy am I glad that we did. It was wet and cold. Half way through the day we went out to the cars to warm up a bit and wait for the haunted houses to open. When they opened we went through those and then we went on a few more rides and left. There were a couple of new rides since I went last time, so we had to ride those a few times. We went to Chili's to eat and then came home. It was a fun time and I'm glad that we were able to go. I love being around family, laughing and having fun. Thanks to Sarah for watching the twins--they really did have fun with you. Thanks to the Skene's and Sarah for watching Tyda. Hopefully she wasn't too bad.

Time Out, Naps, and Growing Up

Hawley got into trouble the other day and so I put her in time out, but she wouldn't sit there, so I put her in her room. She was crying and screaming and then all was quiet. This is what I found when I went to talk to her


The girls still love to be with their Daddy. Naps are quickly going out of style with the twins. They rarely nap anymore, so when they do fall asleep I don't care when or where or how long. Just let them sleep!


Here is a new pic of our growing girls.

Conversation with 2 year olds

I just thought that I would share a cute conversation that I had with Scarlett yesterday. They are so funny with things that they say--I wish that I would get on the ball and write everything down. I have some things written down, but not everything.

When we were getting ready for church the song 'I am a Child of God' came on, so we started singing it and then I asked the girls if they wanted to go live with Jesus and Hawley gets a little excited and says 'Yes'. Then I ask Scarlett the same question and she just looks at me and says "No."
"Why?"
"Because I want to live with Mamma!"
"Well I'm going to live with him someday."
"I live with my Mamma."
"What if I go to heaven to live with him?"
"I go with my Mom."