new talent~

briea has a new talent. she now smiles in response to us coming into her line of sight or when we talk to her. i love her so much and i love her sweet smile!

i know she sees a lot of smiles during the day, especially from these two handsome fellas!

life is a highway~

ok.. so recently cullan has started asking to watch the movie cars again. at one point he was addicted to anything cars. then he got over it for a while and now he is very interested in the movie, or i guess i should say the music. he constantly asks me to play the video to "life is a highway" on you tube. so i decided to capture a little bit of it for you. please forgive my frustration in the video. as most of you know we have an on-going battle with our computer. on this day, we were at war! so forgive my frustration and just enjoy cullan!

how could you not love this kid-he is so funny

ps. notice kael in the background totally egging on cullan. sometimes he can be such a stinker!

good day-sunshine~

Finally we get to play outside!

education update~

well as most of my blog readers know garran has decided to pursue more education. for a while we have been going back and forth about where we should go to continue his education. so finally the other night we sat down and picked eight schools we will be applying too. i know a few of you have been curious. so here is the list, in no special order. although i can tell you that i think number one is his top pick!

1. University of Tennessee Knoxville
2. University of Iowa
3. University of Northern Illinois
4. Indiana University
5. Arizona State University
6. University of Georgia
7. Western Carolina University
8. BYU

ok so there it is. one of these places will be our new home before to long.. well it will still be a while but whatever. these are the schools we will be applying to. wish us luck!

the conversation~

garran and i were sitting on the couch and cullan walked into the living room-

cullan: this is my tummy! (holding up his shirt)

meg: it is a very cute tummy.

cullan: yep, its hungry.

garran: what does it need

cullan: it is hungry for a cookie

garran : its hungry for a cookie

cullan: yep! lets get it.

garran: (laughing) ok..lets get you a cookie

cullan: yippee!

garran and i laughing at this conversation

cullan comes back into the living room.

cullan: this cookie is yummy in my tummy!

stake conference~

ok so every 6 months at church we have something called stake conference. it is when a group of people in our area gather and have a meeting with leaders of our church that speak to us on different topics. ok well this time it was a broadcast which meant we got to watch it on this big screen! anyways cullan and i were sitting beside each other and we were waiting for everything to get started. cullan has never been to a stake conference where it was a broadcast so this was a whole new experience for him. all of a sudden the lights dimmed so that people would be able to see better and this large screen drops down.

cullan looks at me with these big excited eyes and says -

"we get to watch tv at church"

i replied "kind of"

cullan then smiled at me and said "oh good mom because this is my favorite show"

i just died laughing. i think he was half expecting it to be cartoons!

ps. our first attempt at a family picture is on our photo blog! Click HERE if you want to check it out. pretty funny i think!

pink lady~

practically-perfect in every way!

5 years~

ok so this all started last night around 11:30 when i told garran i just needed a quick picture for my blog today of the two of us. this is how we started. ok so we started off somewhat normal. not the best picture, but we were up late with briea and i just wanted something that was typical us. except that garran decided to be silly and fluff his hair up=)
then we tried this. i just wanted a couple different ones to choose from!
ok now you can tell its getting late. the craziness is starting to break through.

oh yeah there it is in full force.

happy anniversary honey.

after 5 years i love that you can still make me laugh more than anyone i know!

easter mail~

today the kids got some fun easter mail from my mom. they were so excited when the ups man came a knocking on the door. garran helped the boys open the box and the first thing out was for lil miss! she got this sweet little soft bunny. can't you see how much she loves it already.then the boys pulled out these yummy suckers but somehow briea ended up grabbing one of them.

then they found the gift from grandpa george!the boys were so excited. they have been talking about fishing for the longest time. they sat and played the game for a long time.
kael catching his fish.
cullan was so excited. he thinks it is a really fun game.
they also opened coloring books which kael has asked me to "read" to him multiple times.
it can be very difficult to explain to a two 1/2 year old why you can not really read a book that has only pictures. oh well. he is cute.

thanks mo mo and george for the fun easter stuff!!!

the enforcer~

today at playgroup we had a little problem.

cullan got hit by another child that was there .

the other little kid wanted the toy back that cullan was playing with and so the kid decided to hit cullan a few times to let him know.

well cullan was caught of guard and then started crying. (getting whacked in the head hurts)

so anyways kael comes over, stands there and looks at cullan and then turns to the hitter.

he immediately got that little finger a waving and started telling that kid "NO NO"

then he asked cullan if he was ok...but kael was not done.

after the moms had broke up the scuffle and everyone was going on with playing - kael continued to follow this child around kind of bumping them. i guess he was trying to send a message!

finally kael walked over to me and said "mom put em in time out".

my sweet little kael -- the enforcer!!

it's official~

i'm a shoplifter!

ok so yesterday i had mentioned that i had to take briea to the doctor for thrush. well usually we use Walgreen's for our pharmacy. however yesterday i was going to get some groceries so i had the pediatrician send the medicines to walmart and i thought i would just save myself a trip. so i got to walmart. did my shopping. went to the pharmacy and picked up brieas prescription. now while i was there. i did the consult with the doctor and watched the cashier scan the meds. so i took it and walked off. i went up to the front and payed for the rest of my groceries and left, not really thinking anything else of it.

this morning in was talking to a friend of mine on the phone when i got a beep. i looked at the caller id and laughed. my friend asked what i was laughing about and i said "walmart is calling me!" so i answered it. it was a lady from the pharmacy asking me if i had picked up brieas perscription. i told her that i had. she then proceeds to tell me that they have no record of me paying for it at any register. i instantly start to giggle because i tend to do that in somewhat stressful situations. trust me its something i have been working on. police men never find it funny when im giggling while they are writing my ticket. anyways- so i proceed to explain to her that i saw the cashier at the pharmacy scan it. i assumed it was covered under our insurance and that with some medications there is no charge or a minimal charge. i just thought it was covered and left. guess not. oh well we got it all taken care of and have no fear---the police will not be coming to get me anytime soon!!

(hmm should this go under the laugh instead of cry moments...=)

laugh rather than cry #2

after a long visit at the pediatricians office due to briea having thrush, i run to the store and then home to make dinner. (taco salad) kael decides to pick out what he likes and then before garran or i could even stop it, he dumps his plate with the ingredients that he does not like on the floor and hands me his plate and says "more please mommy"

early eggs~

so can you guess what we did at our house yesterday?

thats right we got a head start on easter and had some fun with some eggs.

cullan had been asking me about coloring eggs forever. so i gave in.

here is garran with his technique!
his finished project!

cullans finished egg-the pack came with stickers to make faces.

the eggs in the dye. the blue came out the best.

cullan coloring his egg getting it ready for the dye.

so many fun things to do at easter!

happy egg dying to everyone else out there!

fun around the house~

today we ran some errands early in the morning and then we watched conference at home. we have a tradition where i make what we call super bowl food for general conference. i always do a veggie tray with some kind of dip, some wings, some fruit, all kinds of fun stuff. so in between the two sessions we had fun just hanging out as a family and enjoying each others company. briea was being so good. she has been a trooper. over the past few days she has developed thrush. so she has been a little more grumpy than usual. she is still such a sweet baby though.

our boys of course were being little hams. they love the camera. i accidentally took this picture of kael.cullan then saw it on my camera when i was scrolling through some of the pictures and asked if he could do it too. i started laughing because the one with kael was just and accident, but i said sure. so here is cullan being too funny. he is such a cute boy!

then i wanted to take some pictures with the boys because i am always taking pictures, but am never in them. so i decided to hold my camera out and just try and get a few shots with me and my boys. here is how these came out=)my sweet cullanator.do i have some handsome kids or what! i think i might be in trouble down the road.

of course daddy got in on the fun too. i forget what i had them say, but they are always good for a funny picture together.

day trip~

so my friend jamie called me last week and invited me to go with her to visit our old roommate who lives about 2.5 hours from us. i was so excited because our old roommate michelle had just had her first baby in february and i had not seen him yet. not to mention i had not seen her in almost five years! so i was super excited about the whole trip.

so jamie and i headed out friday morning around 8:30 and we were on our way. my boys stayed home with garran and jamies older girls were with their grandparents, so we all just had our babies. so much fun.

meet brevin. (he really was happy to meet us.)see he calmed down.of course we had to let them all play together. it was the first time briea and brevin had ever met. i know they sound like twins. i guess they are pretty close. only a month apart.

we had a fun time chatting and catching up. then on the way home jamie and i stopped at this fun mall and went here-we dont have one in our town, but oh my goodness.. i could do some damage in this store. they had the cutest clothes. i needed a money tree in my backyard before i went there=)

so while i was there look what i found....

thats right.. the cutest bathing suit ever for lil miss. i just loved the flowers on the top.. everything. i love polka dots too. it is just so cute. i cant wait to take her swimming in it!

thanks jamie and michelle for such a fun day=)

love it~

i saw this on a friends blog and loved it. good dads are awesome!

if for some reason it wont play. click here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jds1QZrJq1Y

something different~

im doing something different with my photo site. i decided to use it for what i really love. taking pictures of our life and having a record of all our fun. so i got the idea from a few other blogs. each day i will post a new picture that has something to do with our life. i think it will be a fun way to see a year of our life. i started today. ENJOY!

garrans girls~