Prom 2011: The Asking

Yet another belated post!

On April 4th (Spring Break), I woke up early to go with my mom down to the fabric store. After the fabric store I pulled into my parking spot in the driveway and got out of the Jeep to see this:

right in front of my face. Couldn't miss it. Nice placement:) ha ha.
Clue #1:

Instantly I knew it was Adam-yay!:) So I headed to the Wii-the Cabela's game more specifically.

Clever, huh?! We quite enjoy the competition of who can kill the most animals. Kinda brutal I know. But we've gotten really good!
Clue #2:

To the piano!
The hiding spot.

Clue #3:

I knew right where to go:) The falling apart sort-of couch frame thing that we have outside.

Clue #4:

So this guy was funny. Adam claims it "ruined the whole thing", but I say that it just made it even better! When I came in the door from the fabric store, already on my treasure hunt, Otis of course would not leave me alone so I frustratedly went to get him a treat so that I could finish the hunt! But to my surprise, when I opened his bone bowl I saw that there was a clue! I didn't read it and I didn't cheat ha ha I promise. I left it right where it was and proceeded on my mission! But when I got to this point, I went back to his bowl and continued!

Clue #5:

Again, he ran into a little trouble when the pot that we had found the rattlesnake under was no longer there. But he improvised and hid it under a shovel that was nearby.

Clue #6:

Down to the basement...in front of the door that overlooks the temple, I found this on the floor:

I took it upstairs and opened the box and this is what I found.

Seriously? Could I have a cuter, sweeter, more amazing boyfriend?! He totally made my entire day, week, month, whatever ha ha. I could not stop smiling! He is wonderful. Such a clever way to ask, such great clues and hiding spots, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE my ring. Love it. (Not to mention that I was sooo excited to go to Prom with him ha ha...!)

Thanks to my amazing man for the best Prom asking ever!:)

Smile!

A really REALLY long time ago, we all went shopping. Mom, Cailey, Chiara, Adam, Mason, Madden, Macksen and Marley. So that's not everybody-but it sure seemed like a lot of our family in one store ha ha. There's no story to this, but I couldn't resist posting these pictures. They make me smile:)

It actually was her birthday! Or at least close to it. I don't remember...


My studs...
#1


and #2


The best picture of all:)

GIRLS TRIP

A while back, the Haycock girls took a trip down to the ol' St. Geezy. It was so great. We got almost all of the girls together, but unfortunately Jill couldn't make it with us:( Originally I wasn't in the mood to go and was kind of bummed. 5 minutes into the drive the yelling and fighting began. At this point, I really didn't want to be there. About 2 hours later we had picked everyone up and actually started the drive. There were 7 people in one car that holds 8 ha ha. It was jam packed and our luggage barely fit. The drive there was kind of hard for me honestly. I felt claustrophobic and couldn't handle the noise.

After the drive things started to pick up! We went shopping lots and lots, watched Carly's soccer game from the car since it was pouring rain, ate out every meal, took naps, it was great!

At one of the stores we were looking at this cool green table for Curry and Cody's house (which they got!)and Marley became really great friends with these big Buddha statues ha ha. I tried to get a picture of her kissing them (which she did a lot) but she is a busy bee and moved too much ha ha.


In the hotel room the beds had about 10 pillows each, and none of us wanted that many, so while Carly was in the bathroom getting ready to go to sleep, we stacked all of the pillows up on her spot. It was pretty funny when she came out!


The next day we went to Thai Pan or one of those stores, I don't remember what it was called... and they had the weirdest stuff! Here is a picture of Carly with the gigantic fake flowers.


The ride home was much different than the ride there. It was actually fun! Miss Marley played with Cailey's makeup and it was so funny to watch her putting it on! I don't know why, but when I put a video from my phone onto the computer, the sound doesn't transfer with it. But this video still makes me laugh:) Sorry about the silence!


Thanks for the fun trip to the George girlies!

R.I.P

About 2 weeks ago, I had a very strange event happen. Here's how it went:

I walked up the driveway to go to Adam's house to get an Ap American review from him that I needed to study. I manually unlocked the truck's driver-side door (nope, no automatic locks here!) and tossed my purse onto the passenger seat. I proceeded to hop in and put the key in the ignition. I turned it and instead of hearing the solo buzz of the engine humming to life, I also caught a strange pop/bang sound. A little confused but unconcerned, I checked to make sure Otis had moved away from the car and then put the truck into reverse and backed up about 5 feet. When I looked forward I immediately jammed on the breaks, put the truck into park and hopped right back out. Underneath where the truck had been before I reversed, I saw quite the sight. On the right there was a pile of weird black plastic and bolts, and on the left was this number.



This picture does not do it justice. The splotches just look gray, but let me tell you-in real life they were a good shade of red. All of a sudden it clicked in my head what had happened and I was terribly disgusted. I called to my mom who was outside doing yard work and she came over and also quickly put the situation together. We opened the hood of the truck and to my dismay, I saw this:



Yep, that's right. I blew up a squirrel! Still wondering about the pile of plastic? That would be the work of Otis. Trying to get the squirrel, he tore apart the bottom of the truck. Poor little Nutsy (that's what we call squirrels over at our house...) was scared to death of the big mean dog that had pinned it inside the truck and the next thing he knew, he was a goner.

Sorry Nutsy! I didn't enjoy this experience almost as much as you didn't.

Easter

I'm less than a month late on posting this-that's impressive, right?! I think so.

Easter was such a fun day. After church the fun began! Everybody in the family who could make it came up to the house and we had a yummy dinner and a fun night. We hid eggs outside for the kids to find and they had so much fun!

Mason and Madden searching


Macksen


Marley did such a good job finding all of the low down eggs:)


Okay. Now here's where the absolutely amazing pictures begin. I can't even tell you how much I love these pictures and my little kids!:)

Mason, 10


Madden, 8 almost 9


Macksen, 3 almost 4


Marley, 2


My 3 handsome nephews and 1 beautiful niece


These are the 4 most amazing kids you will ever find. They are so smart, happy, athletic, funny, they're wonderful and they have fantastic parents! Thanks to them, Easter was great this year:)

To The Most Amazing Mother Ever...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I honestly don't know what I would do without my mom. She is incredible. If you want to meet the sweetest, most creative, loving person in the world-don't look any further. She's right here. My mom will drop whatever she is doing to help whoever needs help.

This mother's day my dad, Cailey and I woke up early to prepare dinner and then after church Bill, Colter and Judd helped us to make a lovely dinner for the "mom's" who could come over- Mom, Chiara, Jill and Carly ha ha.

After dinner Mason, Madden, Macksen and Marley gave their gifts/presentation to their wonderful mom and to their wonderful Nani. The following pictures are priceless:)

Macks and Mar with their cards for War


Sissy giving her mommy loves


Macksen's turn


Mason and Madden did a poem reading/presentation for their mom about all of the things that she does for them. I had 2 favorite parts. The first was when I was helping them prepare it and Mason was reading through the poem and it got to the part about mother being a chef who cooks good meals, Mason simply said, "But my mom doesn't cook." Ha ha ha! Too funny:) My second favorite part was Madden's wonderful production. All I told him to do was put on the hats as Mason read about them. But much to all of our surprise, we got full-blown actions and facial expressions to go along with them! Madden's my little show-biz boy!

My mother's job is sometimes hard, and I have heard her say,
"The hours are long, and if I could, I'd like to change the pay."
Her profession has variety, and I will tell you now
About the many hats she wears-and why and when and how.

My mom's a NURSE who fixes and patches
All of my hurts and my sores and my scratches.

My mother's a CHEF who fixes each dinner
Fit for a king-a blue ribbon winner!

My mom's a CHAUFFEUR who drives pretty slow
But gets me to places where I need to go.

My mom's a DETECTIVE, and no one is greater
At getting the truth from me sooner or later!

My mom is a GARDENER and works really hard,
Planting and weeding and grooming our yard.

My mother's a MAID-at least that's what she said
'Cause she cleans up the house and makes every bed.

My mother's an ANGEL-a queen in disguise-
Who teaches the gospel with tears in her eyes.

Today take these hats off, and we'll use your scrubber.
Let me do your work, to show WE LOVE YOU, MOTHER!

Loves from Madden


Loves from Mason


Then it was my mom's turn! The kids gave her coupons for "sheepherders" and help in the yard, and with cleaning, etc. Such a cute idea, huh?!


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO THE GREATEST MOM EVER!

Tonsils?...Not Anymore!

Today is May 7. The day after May 6. Yesterday was my AP American test. That means today is the greatest day! With that test over, school is basically over. All that's left is CRT's and those are easy ha ha. Summer...here I come!!

Anyway...there has been so much going on lately and now I can finally blog about it. I didn't know where to begin, so I looked through all of my pictures on my computer and phone and realized that there is a lot from even a long time ago that I haven't posted! So here's to the next few weeks of lots of posts:)

January 13 (i know-that's a looong time ago) Cailey and I got our tonsils out. It was quite the fun experience ha ha. We went to the surgery center really early in the morning and put on those adorable little gowns that everybody wishes they could wear every day ha ha. Our nurse was the coolest lady and she talked to us for like half an hour. Her 6 year old son had just gotten his out, and she took the liberty of telling us that he was fine like 10 minutes later, but for someone our age we should expect about a 2-3 week recovery. Yay...not! She wasn't trying to scare us, she was just being realistic ha ha. She put in my IV easy as cake, gave me some wonderful warm blankets and moved on to Cailey. Cailey was a different story ha ha. It took a few tries to get in her IV and then it got all swollen and weird and painful. Guess I was the lucky one that day! ha ha. (Seriously though-I was even like completely delirious when they took the IV OUT! And that is the part that I hate the very most!) Then our doctor came over and Cailey got him laughing at us by telling him I smoke ha ha. He was kinda weird, but funny. Anyway, I went in first and I tried to stay awake when they put the mask on my face to knock me out, but nope. I was out like there was nothing to it. I woke up and felt crazy ha ha.

Thanks to my amazing mom, she took care of us all day every day. She's awesome! We took lots of liquid lortab, sucked on lots of lidocaine lollipops and eventually got all better!:) However, after the pain, my uvula (the dangly thing in the back of your throat) was super swollen and I kept chocking on it! I know how disgusting that sounds, but it's true! ha ha. It was a good week and a half:)

Yay for no more tonsils!