Thought for the day!

As the morning begins and all our family gets up to face a new day Bill usually has a "Thought for the day" Most of the time it has to do with sports (ya I know shocking!) Jacob is playing Y basketball right now so Bill likes to give thoughts to inspire him, like "Be aggressive" and "Take it to the rack" and "Use your butt as a weapon". When I am having a bad day he will say, "The day is going to pass anyways so make the best out of it". We all get a good laugh or sometimes we roll our eyes (shh don't tell Bill) and the kids will say it to each other as jokes during the day.

Well I wake up with thoughts that I like to share with my family too. I will often change the meaning of a word or mispronounce it. I will get stuck on a word or a phrase, this word or phrase will stay in my mind for days, weeks or months. I use it as often as I can because I am Hilarious! It's okay you can admit it. I am okay with it. My kids have developed this trait or as I refer to it as a Talent! We have a list of words that we all use on a daily basis, to those outside our family they mean something completely different than they do to us. We all have a twisted sense of humor, and all these inside jokes. I never knew having a family would be so fun! They kill me sometimes, we can be somewhere and something random will come out of one of their mouths and we are all cracking up. People look at us like we are Ferns. (that is one of our words, means geek, nerd or dork). Not everyone can appreciate this kind of humor, I have to give credit to my sister Anna and her husband Darren for some of these words, I love when we talk and and she gets all our strange lingo!
The word for today is Keester! The first time I said it they all gave me a confused look, and then I could see the light go on in their eyes, and everyone was using it(even Bill). I was So Proud.
We will be going on a trip soon, a very LONG car ride. I am sure we will fight, get annoyed with one another, and crack up laughing as we add some new words our list. I love my family! I don't know how I got so lucky!

Young Women Evening of Excellence

Sunday night we attended Jordyn's Young Women Evening of Excellence. She had to complete a 10 hour project, she decided to do photography. Here is a few pictures that she has taken. We are so proud of her, she is such a beautiful girl.

Happy Birthday Bill!!!!!!!

November 7th is Bill's birthday! He is ???? years old. I thought it would be fun to put some pictures of him throughout his life. These pictures of him melt my heart! He is a wonderful husband and father to our 3 kids. We Love You SOOOOO Much Bill!



Bill at 5 months

9 months

13 months

Kindergarten

18 years

Our wedding

Law school graduation

Coaching baseball

And Then There Was One

This year for Halloween we lost our two girls! They ran off to be with their friends and left us with just one kid. I have to admit that I was sad to let them go, but I know how important it was for them to be with friends. I have been trying to let them have more freedom and this has been painful for me. This past year Jordyn has been asking to go and do EVERYTHING and now my Emily is following behind her. My kids are growing up! Bill and I took Indiana Jones out for a fun night of trick or treating. He got 245 pieces of candy. This morning Emily and Jake weighed their candy and it was 12lbs. They were thrilled. Bill and I were plotting to get it out of our house.

Jordyn as Jordyn(she didn't dress up this year) Jake as Indiana Jones and Em as a Jonas Brother