My bIRtHdAY!!!! WoOT!!!!

Today is my birthday! Hurray! I am 24 years old at approximately 1:03 pm... come to my party!

OK for everyone who missed it: here are some pictures:

Mari KONG!!!!

Ahhh she is destroying the countryside....where did that monster come from???

LOvE fESt 2008

I am in LOVE with this boy...I mean ninja turtle undies?? Nothing is sexier & look at those muscles...(swoon)Angel Marian and cutie Irelynd make Valentines together...They are so cute...I should scan them in... they both have so much talent!
PB and drake are feeling the love....They are so cute and happy! Two of the joys in my life!
YAY! sissy Valerie came to play with us for the day or week... we are looking a lot a like again since my hair is getting longer and Valerie cut hers (now they are the same length) And I am losing weight....I am happy...what a beautiful person to look like!
This is the darling valentines card that Zander made for me. It consisted of a pink envelope with a bunch of red heart confetti glued on it and then as much candy as would fit on top of that...it was the first one he made! I love that little boy he is so special especially to me!
Cody wasn't able to be there and since it was love fest all I could think about was him...here are our love cookies! mmmmm....
three cute sisters--we all love each other so much...I am so lucky to have these two best friends!

Valie....looks lovingly at Marain....this is so cute I think. Val, you are an amazing mom and I am so impressed with everything you do for that little angel. You are so strong and she is worth it. I look up to both of you...thanks for making my week happy!

the grossest thing I have ever done.....

Today I did the most disgusting thing....but I didn't throw up and I did it all by myself. I cleaned out my cougar skull! After a year of having it chilling in our freezer, I decided to do something with it and asked a professor if I could use the dermested beetles. he said I could but first I needed to remove the fleshy parts of the skull: tongue, eyes, brain ect. The water was red, piece of the skull kept shattering off where the bullet had hit the jaw and my knife was not actually that sharp...ok I will stop the description but I had to tell somebody that I have taken my biology to the next level. I am glad I did it once--it was interesting but really next time I am paying someone...

martinlutherkingweekend...

the best christmas gift EVER

So I am really proud of the Christmas gift that Mindy and I gave Grandpappy this year. I was trying to study for finals when inspiration hit and this was it...TADA---I am amazing!

YeeHah Christmas Time

Gingerbread Houses

Cody's goal in being an Uncle is to help Amari crawl or even better walk.

He does exercises with her whenever we are over there and urges her to progress. I can't wait to see him with our own kids. They are going to be the best at EVERYTHING! (I am already bragging and I don't even have any conceived yet)

All of Mindy's kids love mommy's new dog: Sylvee Loo ( I know abby and mom have the spelling all picked out and I probably slaughtered it but i tried sorry). Zander was being so loving here!

Sweet Amari is very good at sharing...

...and so is Ellee!

We start the gingerbread houses... Zander decided he did not want to work on his families house but wanted to help me. He let poor tired Cody take a nap and quickly named himself chief architect. It was beyond fun. I love my zanderzoozy!

Mindy and Mom got the memo about wearing Christmas colors.

Drake is very happy and super photogenic...look at that smile.

Irelynd looks lethal with the iceing aimed that way

uhhhh...

mmmm...

YAYAYAYAYAY I love candy and gingerbread!

Abby and Devo's house was color coordinated even thought devn had to steal some skittles from my house. "I would expect that from Jeffrey but not from you dev!"

Zander and I were a spectacular team. He is very creative and very good and sticking candy in nice little neat roles.

Devy wevy as a normal big brother decided to do the boy thing and decorate my front yard snow angel...

Irelynd wanted a snow man so Mom tried to make one with the frosting and it didn't really hold up very well so mom asked me to fix it so being the funny person I am I put to black licorice ends and a half a skittle. We thought it was pretty funny and Irelynd loved it and grabbed us back a few minutes later and had added the pretzal arms... heehee

Cody and I make such a cute couple hu? Us and our cute final production (Zander had to go to bed so Cody basically took a picture with me).

Finishing a wonderful eveing in the best way possible, Mindy brought out some fabtabulous hot chocolate. (all those who know me must realize that I am a hot cocoa connoisseur and praise from me is a big deal)!

bear denning!

Bruised and Bloody....and looking like a penguin

For some reason I thought it was a good idea to run straight into a brick wall...sometimes ideas don't turn out the way you want them too...ok you got me..another lie... I was playing flag football and going for the qb sack but unfortunately the girl didn't dodge and I ran straight into her and ended up with a fat bloody lip and a fat bloody nose...OUCH!
I tried to take some pictures for sympathy but none of them turned out spectacular...talk to Paul if you want the real info I made him come over and look. Alright enjoy the pictures and feel sad for me!

does my nose look broken here? it really hurts...

BYU FOOTBALL

Last night BYU defeated TSU making us a really cool school. I am sure it meant something but to me football games mean socializing with cousins and brothers, seeing my grandparents, yelling until I go hoarse, and eating hotdogs! I don't have pictures from last nights game but here are a few from the one against someone last week.

Cody and I are such a freaking sweet couple (matching of course!)

Steph and Ryan our bestest friends...

Me and Erica...she was bored sitting with the old people ;)

Paul and Christine...I hope she isn't putting pressure on his hurt shoulder (you should have seen the touchdown--it was amazing!

OK erica got bored sitting with us too and so I painted her nails dark pink(aka red but she only wanted pink)

Here is an awesome shot of all of our group singing...you have to bear with my horrible voice and it is really too loud putting the sound on silent might be a good idea!

marathon runners FoREvEr

So Cody and I went running tonight!
I made him wear matchy st george marathon tees...remember that was why we met? I think we will be running partners forever. Imagine us holding hands running into the sunset together forever....

home for a time...sigh

I was missing home soooo much that my dear Cody went home with me for a weekend. It was so much fun! There is something about home that just makes me completely utterly happy! I love it! Cody had to write his proposal for research so I mostly canned with my Momma (yummy apple pie filling) and played with my cutie niece Ellee! We went on a walk to pit park and petted the llamas...

pooper scooped....

and played in fall leaves...what a scary black Halloween cat (jk it's mitzi and she's not all black)

Here is everyone being scary with gummy fangs

ok devos look the realest...becasue Victory is his! He really did win all the games we played!