Just for Fun

Just a few pics I wanted to share from this year

The girls with our neighbor Jalese. She's moved now but what a cutie she was they had a blast together

Dan and Joe playing guitar hero...

The girls...

My nephew Cohen

Dress Up

California-knows how to party

The minute Mia got out of school on Friday (May 29) we headed to Cali and suprised my parents. We stayed for only a few days but I was glad to to see my parents and my sisters I miss them so much!

We had to go to the beach the first day of course (Saturday) and had a BBQ with some of Tracy's friends. It was totally cold (figures) but that did not deter the kids from having a great time
Zoe loved every minute of it!

Joe making the best sand castle ever!

Always a happy grandbaby when you're with Grandpa! Jada got to play in and eat sand for the first time Poor Mia was beat after the beach-I don't know how she could sleep like that! We went and visited Grandma Green on Sunday afternoon. I miss her so it was really fun to see her!Steph and Mike let us stay at their home Sunday night- San Marcos is so beautiful! We had such a good time. Here's James pushing Jada in the baby stroller aw!

I think this is the first time we'd been by the San Diego Temple since we were married! I wanted to stop but there was no time, so a picture from the freeway will have to do :)!

Sea World!!! Me, Jada and Kya checking out the Sea turtles while Joe Zoe and Mia went on a ride

Tracy and Kya at the star fish pond The girls in front of that one white whale or dolfin or whatever-you can see I pay attention lol

da dm- da dm- da dm- da dm- da dm- da dm- da da da! (get it?)

Zoe was out before we even left the parking lot!

Kya got a penguinJada was very tired too Our last day in Cali- we went to the March airforce base Museum and checked out all the cool old military stuff and took a tour of their plane yard. My favorite, which I did not get a picture of was the SR 71 blackbird that goes Mach 3 which is like 2000 miles an hour or something ridiculous. Our fam in front of this sweet old plane, I have no idea what model it is or anything but I liked the colors :)

Kya loves airplanes she calls them airmanes!

Zoe's Preschool Recital

Their theme this year was Wizard of Oz so I made a Dorothy costume for Zoe. I did not have a pattern but it turned out great!

Zoe also learned Tae Kwon Do at her Preschool...

The video isn't working though boo!

I love this video-




Zoe says she wants to be a "Super Star Singer" when she grows up :)!

Mia's Hip Hop Recital

"Hi I'm 7 going on 14"

Here's some pics and video of Mia's year end recital (so cute)

sorry the filming is kinda bad but still worth watching!

"Chain Hang Low"
(FYI Mia starts out in the center and then transitions to the front left)

Fast & Furious

Totally saw Fast & Furious tonight with my bro and my sister in law. I totally loved it. There was a little Transporter 2 essence of ridiculous stunts (well mostly one in particular but I won't go into detail, you'll know which one when you see it) but easily overlooked as the story line/plot was suprising good! It actually takes place time-line wise before the 3rd movie so they had Han in it a little. You could definately tell they tried to appeal to the Latino crowd, alot of hispanic influence in there. I hope it does well in the box office, if so they will do another one. I know our theater was packed-but there isn't much else to do in Utah besides watching movies and eating. So anyway 2 thumbs up from me for Fast & Furious. Side note too much American Muscle racing and not enough rice.

Twilight...Obsessed Much?

Yeah I'm obsessed. Twilight is my new 90210 what can I say? I can picture my room as a young teen: my Jason Priestly poster and various 90210 paraphernalia plastering the walls-ooh including the dirty poster of Eric Nies from The Grind standing shirtless in shallow water that came just above is -ehem-. In it's place if I were still a teen: Robert Pattinson and everything Twilight. I would definitely have the Edward pillowcase I saw at Hot Topic, the special edition jewelry box set from Costco, with charm bracelet, movie, and all, as well as some various accessories I've seen kicking around Walmart. Oh if I were a teen. I am seriously considering hanging up the mini poster that came with my book on the back of my bedroom door, I wonder if Joey would notice lol. I know Joe kind of rolls his at my my obsession but I think he secretly is intrigued by the series, c'mon what guy isn't? He has decided that Edward is like the Metro sexual of the Vampire World lol.

Breaking Yawn...er Dawn

That is the name I give to the 4th installment of the Twilight series. Ok spoiler alert if you have not read the series or the 4th book and you want to keep it suprise don't read this. Ok so uck where do I even begin?



I am going to have to read the first two books again to remember that I do like Twilight. From the evil spawn pregnancy to Edward injecting Bella's heart with his venom and taking her soul-the whole story was such a disappointment.



There were all of these stories that could have been so good and just pooped out. The wedding-lame. Jacob showing up at the reception-disappointing. Ok honeymoon mildly entertaining with the trashing of the furniture and bedding. How about when they figured out Bella was pregnate with Edwards "evil spawn" and the servant woman comes to bring them dinner, there could have been some more interesting stuff there, but there wasn't. I mean for all of the blah blah blahing that the author does she could have embellished there! Maybe? How about when Jacob imprints on Renesmee? That could have been cool except it wasn't. How about the cool house they build for Edward and Bella? Lame. How about when Charlie finds out? Eh not so much. How about the lawyer? Nothing. How about the Volturi fight? 300 pages of build up to-oh-nothing. I will say I did like the beginning when Bella is driving the ginormous Mercedes and her own Cullen's credit card. That's funny I can picture it, that's about all that I liked.


Here's the problem. At the wedding I am waiting for Jacob to burst in the doors, stop the wedding, ask Bella to have puppies with him, she says yes they run off the end. But she still chose freakin Edward. Overprotective, too good for everyone, trying to change Bella with the whole car thing, Edward. Why not silly, obnoxious, honest, friend, lets Bella make her own decisions Jacob?

poor joe

Joe: (looking in the mirror with shirt off) "Look at my belly! "

Michelle: "I know it's crazy!"

Zoe: "Dad, I think you should put your shirt back on..."

kids...they say the darndest things

Mom: "Zoe I told you not to stamp all over Mia's picture and you did it anyway! If she comes home and beats you up over it I'm not gonna stop her"
Zoe: "Well I know Karate so..."

Origins Shampoo

I absolutely love the shampoo my sister Tracy got me for my birthday. It's Origins: Jump Start. It has a wonderful herby, earthy smell that is to die for. I love the way it makes my hair feel so clean and soft without weighing it down at all. It actually gives my hair so much more body and makes it so light, it is so much easier to style and blowdry my hair when I use it. I guarantee you will notice a difference if you try it! I know my sister swears by the rest of their products too as she worked at their store in Vegas and had an opportunity to try them all out!