Sarahs Shower!!

So I'm supposed to be finishing up the tissue puff balls I'm making for Sarah's reception but I decided to blog instead!! We had Sarah's bridal shower tonight and it was wonderful. She got lots of fun things plus all the good food we ate all night. She will be Mrs. Blake Wells in 14 days and I couldn't be happier. Top 14 reason I LOVE my Sissy Su-Su

1. She is stunning!! Seriously, beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes........no she is not adopted.

2. She knows every word to every song

3. When we were growing up and shared a room I made her scratch my back everynight (and she used her pretend cat claws- best story ever--just ask me)

4. Hard worker

5. Best cookie maker

6. She is a fun Aunt

7.Great sense of style

8. Even though she looks like a Barbie...she loves outdoorsie stuff, like: hunting, camping etc..

9. We laugh at the same things

10. She introduced Ryker the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" song and danced to it.

11 She is humble

12. Lets me be a bossy big sister

13. She is the only one in our family with a "musical bone" in her body

14. SHE IS JUST THE BESTEST SISTER EVER.

Love ya

Look at her face in this picture....I don't think she knows what this is =)

Are you sick of Udall cousin pictures?? I hope not because their are plenty more to come.

Thanks to everyone who helped and Aunt Sharon for letting us use her house.

Tut Tut...It looks like rain

Well I love the rainy weather........could I handle it all the time no. But here and their, I enjoy it very much. The ONLY draw back is I have 2 active kiddos so not being able to play outside is a killer. We managed and still went and ran errand in the rain, we just can't be homebound. Good thing we had these umbrellas and rain boots.

I'm finally Private

This is why I had to go PRIVATE......look at the comments in the last post. WEIRDOS!!!

Craft Night!!!!

If you are in LOVE with this cute cute home decor......check out my other blog for more details.

cacklingleah

Men + Jewelry= Barf-a-roni

Ok so Men and jewelry don't mix in my my world.....with 2 exceptions.........

Wedding rings.....which Shaun wears faithfully

and I will allow this.........

He is now in CTR 4 (they changed the names of classes again) and Ryker was SO excited to show me his new ring he got. He still has it on.....4 days later.

A few funny remarks have come about since wearing the ring and talking about what it stands for but this was my favorite.

Amelia took something of Rykers and ran off (she likes to tease him) so he ran after her saying...."Ameli you are going to have to wear a CTW ring for Choosing the WRONG!!!"

Holy cow I love this kid!!!!

And yes Barf-a-roni is a word.....I use it all the time when something is NASTY.

Oh and I know I'm lazy and haven't made my blog private yet......someday.

and a Happy New Year

Wow 2010....does that seem crazy to anyone else? Well here a few pictures to capture the day. The day after Christmas we actually went to Cali for 4 days, I will post later. Then came home to a messy house filled with new toys. Since we left the kids really didn't have time to play with their new stuff so while Shaun and I cleaned they played non-stop.

Here they are in Ryker new cool bed tent. I had a CareBear one when I was little and wanted to relive my childhood memories so we got Ryker one. He has been sleeping in it ever since.

This random picture just cracks me up. She wouldn't look at the camera but she looks like a pink bag lady.

Then New Years night Abe, Shantay, Briss, Sarah and Blake came over. I only took this one picture =( but Blake brought over the Wii and Ryker had fun sword fighting with everyone. After the kids were snug in bed we played a board game then rang in the New Year.

On New Years day my dad likes to plan a "Sellards Day Trip". Last year it was howling rock but this year with new baby Bristol, our CR-V needs tires and Sarah needed to get wedding stuff done, my dad with Abe's help...make his famous tacos. They are so delicious and my mom makes guacamole, pico degio(sp?) salsa and much more.

I spent a good amount of time holding this little nugget. She is like a little rag doll. Love her. Ps don't make fun of my hat....I love hats and will wear them all I want. =)

Then Millie found some of Wuggies chapstick and pulled a Miss Lippy (from a movie). The picture doesn't do it justice but she kept cakin' in on. Then ended up trying to eat it....I don't think scented wax is good for the belly.

Happy New Year.

Christmas Recap

What a fun busy time. I love all the family parties and things that we do to celebrate Christmas. We had our Udall Cousin gift exchange. This is most of the married cousins... I just love them.

Then after the party we decided to look at light in a neighborhood and saw this set up where this sweet old couple totally decorate their house and sit outside and let kids come tell them what they want for Christmas. We were just going to drive by but both kids wanted to get out.

Then we have one of Shaun's family parties. I love this because Leann (Shaun's Mom) has all the nativity dress ups and the kids love acting it out each year. Ryker of course always wants to be an animal. This year he was the donkey.

Millie sitting on Santa's lap.

Since Doug is a fireman's and usually is on duty Christmas day we have always celebrated Christmas with them on Christmas Eve. We always get matching PJs then open presents. Well this year Nolan the Policeman (yes we are a very protected family with a cop and fireboy) and he had to be on duty at 4pm so we got in our PJs around noon and opened gifts and had a big Christmas feast. What a fun day.

Cute cousins. We love Rileybear

Amelia's favorite gift was her Dora doll. Once she opened it she didn't care about anything else.

Christmas Morning...Risen' Shine....Ryker woke up at 6:30. He was so excited and ran into our room "Mom, Dad SANTA CAME!!!!!" It took us about 30 mins to finally want to wake Millie up and she woke up with a smile.

Beautiful morning faces. =) I know I know you all wished you looked as good as me in the morning hu??

Rykers loot: Video watch, Buzz boots, Dragon thing, Alien game, Diego dress ups, Army guys and storage house for them, Buzz cartoon movie

Millies loot: Dora stuff, my little ponies, princess chair, kitty kitty, laughing elmo, little people, mini van

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Then after we got ready we headed over to my families house for a big breakfast. I didn't get a family picture =(

My parents got Ryker the ultimate Nerf gun...watch out

We thought this was funny....after they opened their gifts Amelia went and got one of her presents she got last year and she loves when my mom dances and sings with her...they were putting on a show for everyone.

Once again a great Christmas. I love the holidays and the time we spent with our families.

Ok time is running out .......

So I started another blog that will have my random thoughts and ideas on. It will not be private and It will let you know when I updated my family blog.

Also I'm going to make my family blog private in a few days so hurry hurry if you want to keep up with the family....my kids are really cute so I know you want to =)

www.cacklingleah.blogspot.com

Awe Man......

So in the words of Swiper the Fox (from Dora the Explorer)

Awe....Man......

I really didn't want to EVER do this but someone left a random comment on my last post and I have that site meter thing and never check it much but some random sites are coming to my blog and the last thing I would ever want is to have pervs or creepy people looking at my family. So it is that time to go private. I wish blogger would make it so if you find someones blog that you know and it is private, then you can like click a box saying please invite me. Oh well....so with that being said let me know if you would like an invite. Merry Christmas!!!!!

Sunday Christmas

Oh I love matching outfits.....nothing is cuter. It is a good thing I don't have twins because I would make them wear matching outfits till they are 18 yrs old =) Well I will dress my kids the same on holidays until then too.

Look at them a year ago....are you kidding me. My sweet bald Millie is now a sassy, piggy-tailed toodler. And Ryker looks like a boy now, not a little kid.

It only took 40 tries and LOTS of M&Ms to get this one sweet shot.

Yes, even Shaun and I match the kiddies. We didn't get a picture all together =(

And this is how it all ends!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Early Christmas Present

Ok so this isn't really an early Christmas present because Shantay, my sister-in-law was actually due on December 12th....but at 9:10, Friday December 18th my first niece was born

Bristol Noelle Sellards

7 lbs 10oz

Her is a picture of my brother Abe and Shantay. Shannie was induced that morning so the whole day was just a waiting game.

Here she is......Miss Briss. I'm in love. She is so itty bitty with a cute squishy face.

Shantay did A-Maz-Ing and the best part was.....she let us all be their for the whole thing. Yes all 5 Aunties, both moms and her dad. It was a full house and I'm so grateful she let me watch this little thing we call the miracle of life....holy cow it truly is a miracle.

The whole Sellards gang happy to meet the newest member.

I had to take a picture to document my Millie who grows up more and more everytime I blink my eyes. She has been using utensils for awhile but watching her eat cereal is a fur-sure sign she is no longer a baby. Oh Millie PLEASE stop growing I BEG YOU!!

I'm sure most of you know I love teaching preschool because it gives me an excuse to make children's crafts....Here is my little red-nosed reindeer. I was freaking out over the cuteness of how all my preschools reindeer's turned out.

Randomness

So either I'm WAY obsessed with my kids or I really like toys.....ok it is both. I finally finished my Ryker and Millie dolls. I'm in wuv with them. When I was done I was so excited and wanted to show someone....Shaun being the only other adult in the house was the lucky winner and he didn't share the same excitement. He just looked at me and said "You made my son a DOLL" then covered his face and sighed. It didn't burst my bubble.....I just said "Yup, and I don't care what you think....he will love it".

Ok so Ryker may not LOVE it but I'm always making things for Amelia, so it is more of a keepsake....or Amelia can just play with it. Of course mine are not as cute as the original...but I'm pleased none the less.

I got the pattern from this web site wee wonderfuls

Ok moving on to more important things. For FHE we talked with the kids about "giving" this holiday season and how their are many kids who don't have much for Christmas. Ryker has saved some money over the past few months...earning a dollar here and there. We were so proud of him for wanting to use some of his money to buy another boy a toy. We went down to the mall and Ryker looked at the tags until he found a little boy that was 4 -just like him. So we picked his tag and another little girl. I hope it is a great tradition we have started. Ryker keep asking if he could have the toy he picked out for the little boy but we keep reminding him he has lots of toys already. I think it was a great teaching moment.

It was a great night and I'm grateful for this wonderful Christmas season....it was so sad seeing all the tags on the Christmas tree....I WISH I had the means to buy all the kids something for Christmas. So if you have not ever gone and picked a Christmas Angel....PLEASE do. =)

Oh and I think we need to start a new family rule....no cell phones during dinner =) I love my pink lady. And yes she was having a full on conversation with....Dora the Explorer. "Hi Dora, Hi Boots"

A Great December Weekend

It doesn't get any sweeter!!!

Holy cow, I know all moms think their kids are the cutest ever and I'm no different......I just see pictures like this and want to hug and squeeze them all day long. Love Love Love them.

So since September I've wanted this apple fabric to make a dress for Millers. But with the economy the way it is, Shaun and I are really having to be careful and we end the month with not much (if anything) left in the bank. But when I was at JoAnns with Missy and Leann...Missy brought over this fabric that she thought was cute....it was the apple fabric. Thanks Leann for getting us this fabric and even though it is no longer fall I still had to make Millie a little jumper, with gold buttons to go with her gold shoes =) She sure is the "apple" of my eye. Thanks Millie for being my little model and letting me "try" out my sewing skills. Hopefully when your older you won't look back and say..."mom, what were you thinking".

We had a great weekend!! Our friends from Tucson came up for a visit. Kendra had some things she was selling at a boutique so they stayed with us and we got to hang out for a few days. Shaun and Dan meet 5 or 6 years ago while going to Scottsdale Community College. They were the only "preepy" looking guys in their classes (film/editing/video classes) if you could imagine what most of the others were like. They had to do a video project together and edit it as well so they came over and I met Kendra for the first time. We didn't have kids yet but they had sweet little Kyla who was like 4 months old. Ever since then we have been the best of friends. Dan and Shaun have so much in common.....they could quote movies all night long, while Kendra and I just roll our eyes.

Then we were both pregnant together. Jackson is one month older than Ryker. They played non-stop.

2 years later we were both pregnant again. Bryce is one month older than Amelia. Poor Bryce was just woken up from his nap.

And now Kendra is pregnant with her 4th....sorry to say I won't be having a baby one month after her. But we love you guys and can't wait to see you for New Years!!!

Happy Turkey Day, Trimming the Tree and Hobo Dinners

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. We went over to my Grandparents house and enjoyed some great food with some my moms family. Here is a picture of some of the gang.

When we got home that evening I was cleaning up the kitchen and noticed the kids were being quiet. I walked in and saw them both drooling over the big toy catalogue and pointing to all the toys they wanted. I remember when Abe and I would do this.

The next day I went shopping...no I didn't wake up at 4am but from 10:00am till 4:00 I shopped with Missy and Leann. Shaun had fun with the kiddos. Then that night we had a BBQ with Shauns family that were in town from Utah. So Saturday we got around to putting up the tree and hanging the light up outside. Amelia just like to make messes, but Ryker took it very serious and worked hard to help get all the decorations up.

Then Saturday night my brillamt brother thought it would be fun to have a bonfire and smores, well I added to the fun and wanted to make hobo dinners. My dad has a neat set up for cooking charcoal so we had 12 dinners cooking outside...it smelled delish.

It may not look beautiful but it was the best. Everyone downed their chicken and veggies...even Adelle who I don't think I've ever seen her eat a vegetable before...I think my mom needs to make these weekly so that we know Wuggie is getting some sort of nutrition. Potatoes, carrots, squash, zucchini, asparagus, onions, broccoli, garlic and marinaded chicken. My new favorite dinner.

Then out to the fire to get warmed up....it was cold that night.

What a cute couple!!!!! Only a little over 2 more months and they will be hubby and wife.

The fire was way to big and way to hot to get close enough to make smores so we used the still hot charcoal to warm up the mallos. Gama helping Ryker boy.

Abeos and Shannie.....um this girl is due in like 1 week and she looks like she is only 4 months pregnant. Am I jealous.........YES!! Seriously, my sisters are bean poles then I have little Miss tiny baby bump here.......I hate being the "large" sister on the fam.

Well this is probably why I'm the "large" one of the group. I have no willpower or shame for that matter. We didn't make your typical smores.....we used cinnamon graham crackers and for the chocolate we had toffee chocolate and resses peanut butter cups....can you say sugar coma. So good but I wanted to throw up after eating 2 of these bad boys.

Ryker only wanted graham crackers and milk....of course. But Millers was eating all of Shaun's smores. Daughter like Mother.

Great weekend, oh we also had Thanksgiving with the Martineaus Sunday night....pictures to come soon. Love this time of year.