Froerer Family

Glasses for Ivie

2011-03-04T23:24:00.000-08:00

We have been getting Ivie ready for Kindergarten and at the Doctor's office they said she needed to get glasses so a few weeks later here she is. Pink glasses of course! These sparked her interest because they had a tiny Dora picture on the very end of the part that goes behind her ears so no one can see Dora but I guess she knows that she is there :) When we took her to the Optometrist she freaked out when we left without a pair of glasses and I had to drag her to the car with her screaming, "I want my glasses!" The receptionists were laughing and said that they don't often hear that from the people that come in. One of Ivie's cute little friends at preschool heard about her glasses and asked her mom why Ivie got to have glasses and then later on when they were eating she started saying that she couldn't see the tomatoes on her plate. How funny! I guess this will help motivate Ivie to keep her glasses on. Anyway here's a pic when she first put them on.

Here's a couple of pictures of us at the Dam with Steve Collard and his group. Zander caught one of the three fish that were caught all day. And Brighton stepped into one of the ice holes. His leg was completely soaked up to his hip, good thing the holes are very small! We had to strip him down and borrow Steve's hoodie. I'm glad it was such a warm day. He obviously doesn't look upset about it.

Here's a couple of pictures with Zander skiing. My brother-in-law invented this awesome device called Hookease that teaches kids to ski very easily and it's a ton easier on the one teaching as well!

Winter Fun

2011-01-22T23:12:00.000-08:00

We went up to an awesome cabin in Bear Lake after Christmas with the Shaw side family. It was a blast! We did a little Michael Jackson dancing on the Wii, went sledding, snowmobiling, and hot tubbing every night.

Cute girls! All of Ivie's girl cousins on the Shaw side. And in matching pj's of course.

My sisters Shannon and Jayclyn. We were laughing because JC was doing her best to let us know that she didn't want to go snowmobliling. She would have been happy to stay and watch her movies or daydream about her and Gerard Butler's family but we all made her go. It makes me laugh every time I see these pictures!

Playing in the snow! Lance took the kids on a little snowmoblie ride. It was sooo cold. Lance and all the boys had a full day of snowmobiling and came back with a little frostbite on their faces.

We have been over to the ice sheet in Huntsville where Lance has started to teach the kids how to skate. They were excited and Zander couldn't wait for his turn even though the skates were quite big on him.

Brighton turned 1!

2010-12-07T17:21:00.000-08:00

These pictures are really dark cause we had to use our video camera but I'm pretty sure we have probably ten different versions between my sisters' and mom's cameras.

I can't believe my little guy is one year old. He was supposed to be my baby for a while. He has been kicking around little balls lately so I decided to do a soccer ball cake. He really likes cake so we found. He demolished it! (and by the way we did not give him the whole cake just maybe half - haha) What a cutie! He didn't really get the whole present thing so he had a little help.

I know I'm kind of a lame mom for not doing a big grand party. I guess it's what you get after three kids. I'm pretty sure all he cared about was the cake and presents anyway. I can't wait to get his one year birthday pictures taken but probably won't happen until after the crazy holidays.

Holiday Sale

2010-11-19T12:13:00.001-08:00

Are you looking for unique vintage style gift ideas?

I am having a holiday promotion on everything in my Etsy shop. Use the coupon code HOLIDAY when you check out and receive 10% off your entire order valid until December 20. Combine shipping with multiple items and save even more!

Tons of great gift ideas including jewelry, headbands, and baby items. I am adding new items everyday so be sure to check out the new stuff. Thanks and happy Holidays!

Awesome gift idea!

2010-11-14T00:11:00.000-08:00

These temple pictures are awesome! I got a few as presents and they look so good. The metallic pictures are so bright and look so different and cool. Really affordable prices as well. Check it out!

http://buyldstempleprints.blogspot.com/

Halloween

2010-10-31T15:09:00.000-07:00

Ivie had her 5th birthday. She wanted a unicorn cake so we came up with this. I wanted to try these cake balls. They were fun and I definitely ate too many.

We had a Family night where the kids got to go pick a pumpkin from Grandma Froerer's garden. Then they painted them.

This year for halloween we all kind of did our own little thing. Ivie was a witch, Zander was a firefighter, Brighton was a dinosaur, Lance got to be Heman, and I fulfilled my young girl dreams by being Rainbow Bright, and . My mom tells me that when I was younger I used to say, "my name isn't Breklyn it's Rainbow Bright!"

My mom hosted a family halloween party at the old methodist church on 26th street. It was really fun and scary too. My Mom and Dad and especially my Uncle Jerold and his family went all out in decorating and games. We had a scavenger hunt in the dark and there were so many creepy things in an already creepy building. I had to pretend not to be scared so that Zander would calm down. They even had a fake hobo asleep in a sleeping bag with his cart, jugs of water and boxes of food. Pretty much everyone, including me, was fooled and thought that some guy really had snuck in and set up camp. Then of course we had kareoke and got to listen to my Dad aka Steve Perry sing a concert to us all night long. :)

On Halloween we took the kids trick or treating to a grand number of 5 houses in the pouring rain. Then we headed off to the Collard's for another fun party with fun games, and too many delicious treats!

family pictures

2010-10-09T10:04:00.000-07:00

These were taken at the beginning of the summer. I'm just barely posting them. It was raining really hard but Austin and Karen were going to leave for Med school in the next week so this was our last chance for a family picture. Mitzi did these and they look awesome, especially when you consider the conditions for taking pictures.

Before and After

2010-09-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

We finally moved in to our newly remodeled house. It's been a crazy and busy summer. I finally have some pictures to post so I'm doing some before and after shots.

First a before and after of Zander's hair cut. Isn't he a handsome little guy. This is after we've moved in so he was long overdue for a hair cut.

You can see our tile and carpet in the living room, but until I have organized a little more I think I'll wait on taking an "after"shot. :)

Before: These are in the master bedroom. We added a bigger closet and took the carpet and wood floors out and put new carpet in. Framed in the dinky little space over the closet. Also notice the ceiling. Half of the ceilings in the house had to be replaced, mudded, textured, primed, then painted. So glad it's done!

After: So it's a different view but it is the same room. We used the framed in wall as a headboard and painted it blue.

In-between: This is the closet that we made. This is before it had doors or paint. We also enclosed the master bathroom as well. I'll post more pictures later.

Before: Now this was fun. I found this in a shed in the back of our house and thought it would be fun for Ivie's room. It was in pretty bad shape. Lots of parts missing, bent all over, and ugly!

After: Wa-Lah! White spray paint, some new pink beads to make up for not many clear ones (and to add some girliness to it), and new covers over the coils. I love it!

Before: Ivie sitting in her room. Actually the half mauve half teal carpet has already been taken out so you really don't get a true before.

After: We painted her room a light yellow. It reminds me of a banana smoothie. I think it turned out really cute. We still have to finish her closet that we discovered the day before the carpet came so I'll post those later as well.

O.k. last one for today.

Before: This is the laundry room.

After: I'm starting to really love this little room. I still have big plans for decorating and organizing pretty much the whole house but it will have to happen after the main stuff is finished. Sigh!

There will be more pictures of the bathroom, boy's room, and others soon. And I must say Thank you to all of you who helped us so much with tearing stuff out, framing, putting up drywall, mudding, sanding, painting, cleaning, packing, moving, etc. the list could go on and on! We truly appreciate it and feel so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends that support us and always help us out.

Spring!

2010-05-25T19:15:00.000-07:00

AAhh, Spring. I love when all my perenial flowers start blooming. Especially without any effort on my part! It's the one time of year that my yard looks somewhat nice. Even the mass load of dandelions in our grass look great. (as long as they are in bouquet's from Ivie and Zander) One morning they were both picking them and both proudly brought me a dandelion bouquet. It was so cute the difference between the two. Ivie's was very carefully picked and put together. Zander's was full of energy. I could just imagine Zander running to each dandelion he saw and picking it as fast as he could. They were both so excited and proud of their bouquet's I just had to take a picture.

This is just a picture of some new earrings I have in my little boutique. I just think they're so cute I wanted to show'em off a little. If you like them you can call me or go to my etsy shop. Zandie.etsy.com

Easter

2010-04-04T21:53:00.000-07:00

The Easter bunny brought a little surprise today. Can you see it hiding in the corner of the couch. Zander spotted it first and then Ivie caught on. They were so excited and both wanted to hold the bunny all day. They have had so much fun with the bunny. We think it's a boy and we haven't decided 100% on a name yet. Ivie definitely has some creative ideas though, like Cajika, and Santa Claus. We'll keep you posted.

The kids also got to have an easter egg hunt at my Parents' house and at my Aunt Valerie's huge neighborhood and family egg hunt, and probably one more to come at the Froerer's

Zander and Ivie just picked through the candy they wanted instead of just grabbing piece in sight. This meant that they both ended up with about 5 suckers each and just a handful of chocolates. Which is fine with me. I don't know about anyone elses children but mine are not happy after a day of eating candy.

Funky Fresh Vintage- My new Boutique

2010-03-23T01:16:00.000-07:00

Check out my new boutique. I have my feather headbands as well as necklaces, earrings, and more. I will also be adding more things soon. Such as my sister-in-law Victoria's adorable crocheted headbands, hats, and hair clips. If you see anything you are interested in let me know.

http://funkyfreshvintage.blogspot.com

Brighton's blessing

2010-03-14T15:21:00.001-07:00

We blessed Brighton last sunday. He looks so cute in his little white suit. I wanted to take a lot of pictures but these are the only ones I managed to take. It's always a little crazy after the blessing. We had everyone over after for lunch. The one of the kids was taken before church and it was the best we could do with trying to get three kids ready for church in time. There was a little bit of drama with Zander and his sippy cup. Everything else went great. Thank you to everyone that came and helped!

2 months old

2010-02-10T09:09:00.000-08:00

Little Brighton is getting so big. He now weighs 13 lbs. and is too big for his 0-3 month clothes already. This is so different since Ivie fit in 0-3 stuff until she was probably 9 months old. I had Brighton in a outfit the other day that Zander wore when he was about 7 months. Anyway, here are some recent pics of our cute little guy.

Feather Headbands

2010-01-13T17:08:00.000-08:00

I've had a few people ask me where they could get these headbands. I made some for friends and family members for Christmas and these are pictures of the ones I've made. I'm going to be making more for a few more people and so I'm offering to make headbands for anyone who wants one. I'm charging $10 if you want one of the first two. I can also get these two dyed in other colors such as pink, turquoise, purple, orange, blue, and red.

These cost a little more because of the peacock feathers so they would be $12

If you would like to buy one email me at breklynfroerer@yahoo.com

Brighton's newborn pictures

2009-12-19T16:57:00.000-08:00

I'm so excited about these pictures! It was so much fun! Thank you Mitzi so much for all the time and effort spent in taking these great pictures. We truly appreciate it. Here are some of our favorites.

By the way, we hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!

He's Here!

2009-12-08T15:12:00.000-08:00

This is one of my favorite views of newborns with their curled little backs and their cute hair.

After 3 and 1/2 long hours of Labor and 4 whole minutes of pushing we finally have our little Brighton Finn. He weighed in at 8 pounds and 12 ounces and measures 21 inches long. And we finally have a dark haired baby. I think that he looks a lot like Lance's baby pictures. And I'm pretty sure his eyes will be brown. He's a little sweetie! Ivie and Zander are so excited to have him home and meet him for the first time. Zander just kept pointing at him and jumping around and saying "Baby, a baby!" Ivie likes to stroke his head or feet and says "Hi, baby Brighton"

I'm excited!

2009-12-04T09:19:00.000-08:00

I have a few things to be excited about. Today's my birthday. Always a day to look forward to with fun things planned. I really just planned on celebrating in the hospital but I'm still here and no contractions yet so I might as well have some fun. I'm also excited for little baby Brighton that will be here soon. I am scheduled to go in Sunday morning if I don't go sooner. (probably not) Yesterday I had my last appointment and the Doc says he's close to eight pounds and I'm at a 3 for any of you who are interested. So I'm still feeling like I could go at any time just because he's bigger than my other babies and I'm really feeling it. My hips feel like they're broken into pieces and the pressure on them and everything else feels great as you can imagine. I'm also excited for Christmas. I kind of wish that it was in a couple of days just because I want to give all the presents that I've been planning on for so long. But then I remember that I will be having a baby and I'm going to wish that it probably wasn't so close in a few days so that I can feel up to all the Christmas activities.

Well, this post is getting long but here are a couple of pictures from our first Christmas tradition for the season. We had family night and the kids got to open their first presents a pair of pj's and their ornament and then they got to hang it on the tree and we decorated the rest of the tree. Then we read a Christmas story and sang a few Christmas songs.

Next time for sure we'll have some baby pics!!

Waiting on Brighton

2009-11-12T21:39:00.000-08:00

I have been trying to get everything ready for the new baby. I've organized drawers, closets, blankets, clothes, etc. I have cleaned the bassinet and put clean sheets inside. I even bought newborn diapers and anything else I could think of so that everything is ready when we get home from the hospital.
It probably sounds like I think I'm going to have the baby any minute and obviously I have a few weeks left, but it feels really good to be ready just in case.

I have pretty much bought and wrapped most of my Christmas gifts as well. I want to make sure I don't have anything I need to get done after Brighton is born, especially Christmas shopping.

This is the quilt that I made for Brighton, it was one of my first real quilts so it's not perfect but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Anyway, I went to the Doc today and he said that little Brighton is measuring at 7 lbs. 4 oz. which is just 2 oz. shy of what Zander weighed when he was born and I still have 3 weeks! He got a pretty good picture of his little face. I took a picture of it so it's bad quality but you can still see his little face. Lance and I were laughing because he looks just like Zander so along with the ultrasound here's a picture of Zander as a newborn and you can see what you think.

So now we're just waiting until Brighton is ready to come. Hopefully the next post is of real pictures of our little guy. Now let's do a fun little poll and see who's right in a few weeks. Tell me what color of hair you think he will have and what you think he will weigh. My guess is blonde hair and 7lbs. 14 oz. Lance's guess is blonde hair and 7 lbs. 1 oz.

October Fun!

2009-11-02T08:48:00.001-08:00

Ivie had her 4th birthday on Oct. 27. She wanted a princess cake and got to pick out her barbie. She's even dressed appropriately thanks to Grandma's dress ups. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday breakfast and she said "Pink pancakes and eggsit" which means egg nog. She also got to go out to lunch with Grandma Shaw and shopping with Grandma Froerer. I also took her to Color Me Mine on 25th street and she painted a mug and put her handprints on a plate. I'm interested to see how they turn out but we had fun anyway.

Ivie decided a couple days before her birthday that she would cut her hair. I thought she was playing quietly in her room while I was on the phone and then when she brought out some of my jewelry I knew that she had been into forbidden things. I came into the bathroom and found jewelry, makeup, scissors, and a little stool she had brought in to access them. Then I noticed the huge chunk of hair in the garbage and tried not to scream into the phone. Obviously she had a great time in there. Ivie is in time out in this picture and holding a baggy with her hair inside as I try to explain why she can't cut her hair. I trimmed a couple inches off later but we are just going to try to cover it up for a while cause I'm not ready for her hair to be that short.

This is at Black Island Farms which we found out later is not as cheap as we thought it was :)

The kids sure enjoyed it. We thought for some reason that the entrance into the courtyard was free and didn't think twice when we just walked in. We assumed that you had to pay for the cornmaze and some of the bigger activities but we thought the courtyard was just open to everyone. Well we came to our senses a few days later but we were surprised that we were all able to just walk in without anyone saying anything.

For Halloween I dressed up as a Star-Bellied Sneetch from Dr.Seuss, Lance and Zander were Thing1 and Thing 2 from the Cat in the Hat, and Ivie was Ariel. I think that Zander's costume was very fitting for him. He has been a little stinker lately causing all sorts of chaos around the house. But doesn't he look cute posing on the beanbag!

Zander running in circles

2009-10-12T11:06:00.000-07:00

So I have tried to upload this video a few times. I finally gave up trying to put up a shorter clip so this one is pretty long and you really only need to see 20 seconds of it.

Zander does this every day for at least 10 minutes straight. Lance and I always laugh cause he just keeps going and doesn't stop except for a few seconds to catch his breath or to get back up when he falls. He's so determined to keep going even when he's tired and out of breath. Sometimes we'll say "faster Zander" and his eyes will get big and he'll try even harder to go faster. I took this video after he had been running around for a while and then chasing Ivie around the house for a while.

Ivie & Zander Pictures

2009-09-13T08:42:00.000-07:00

We had Mitzi take Ivie & Zander's pictures and they turned out awesome as usual. Zander was a little stinker trying to get him to smile or even look at the camera but his pictures turned out a lot better than I expected. Each picture really captured the personality of our little monkeys. Here are a few of our favorites. Thanks so much Mitzi for going all over the place and for the great pictures- we absolutely love them!

Eyelashes and Tea Parties

2009-08-19T11:12:00.001-07:00

I finally decided to have my friend Mitzi do my eyelashes. I was a little worried that I might touch my eyes too much and that they would hurt or drive me crazy. I have been surprised how much I like them. Everyday I wake up and I have long black eyelashes. I don't even feel like I need to put anymore makeup on unless I want to. This is great for me since I really don't put makeup on everyday but I don't want to go out in public without it or people think I'm 12 years old. They haven't bothered my eyes either. Maybe because I know I can't rub my eyes or maybe because I don't have to wash mascara off. And I love that I can go swimming and not worry about my makeup either. Anyway, not to promote my friend or anything but I would definitely recommend getting these eyelash extensions. I honestly think they are the Best!

My Cute Aunt Cindy had a Alice in Wonderland Tea Party. She really put a lot of work into it to make it a perfect event for the kids. Everything was so cute. The kids really loved it. Especially getting their own decorated little chocolate cake. Ivie absolutely loves tea parties and dressing up so this was great for her. Zander usually loves running around without clothes on so he didn't really love this part but he certainly loved the cake!

Eyelash Extensions Giveaway!

2009-08-01T09:55:00.000-07:00

My friend Mitzi is doing eyelash extensions and they look awesome! My sister got them right before she went to Cancun and loved that she had long black eyelashes the whole week even when she was swimming. Mitzi is offering a giveaway for a full set of eyelashes. Check out her blog for all the details so you can enter too! She also charges a ton less than any of the salons around and does a better job than most of them as well.

http://mitzirae.blogspot.com/2009/07/giveaway.html

Lake Powell, July 4th, Lagoon, and Pregnancy!

2009-07-08T21:17:00.000-07:00

We had an awesome trip to Lake Powell with a bunch of awesome people. We spent a lot of time tubing, playing games and eating food. We had perfect weather, and the perfect shady spot. What better vacation is there! We got home, took showers, and got up early for 4th of July celebrations. We had a full day of activities and we were so tired that we ended up watching the fireworks from the back deck of the Froerer's home. Zander fell asleep before the fireworks even started, and Ivie followed only a few minutes after.

I finally finished cleaning up my house on Tuesday, (with a few laundry loads to go) and then we were off to Lagoon on Wednesday. I have been so tired lately and I kept thinking it was pregnancy related but now I realize that anyone would be tired after this kind of a schedule. As for pregnancy, I am now about 18 weeks and we found out that it is a little boy. I'm just starting to feel little kicks which is my favorite part about being pregnant. The vericose veins, I would say, are my least favorite part! But at least they give me an excuse to sit down and let Lance help me.

Random pictures

2009-06-02T19:56:00.000-07:00

Zander's hair is getting whiter and whiter and his cute little head is getting pretty tan it almost looks like his hair is glowing. I get a lot of people that say, "Oh he finally has hair, I think it's mostly because it's hard not to see now that it is so white. I love his little smile with all of his cute teeth. He' s also starting to do the Digga digga talk as we used to call it when Ivie used to jabber away.

I got a new swimsuit for the summer. Ivie decided to try it on too. I just hope it doesn't look better on her than it will on me :)

Ivie and Zander painting together. They look very serious. Notice Ivie's artistic hair.

duck pond

2009-05-18T19:11:00.000-07:00

My kids love this place. It pretty much has everything to entertain them until I want to go home- they could stay there all day! The ducks and geese always walk right up to Ivie and Zander and they get so excited.

The Canadian goose looks like it's talking to Zander who seems as if he might actually understand him.

We're expecting #3

2009-05-11T22:10:00.000-07:00

I am due December 7th. Gotta love those winter birthdays. Apparently I do! I am still in the really fun trimester; when you feel tired, sick, and pudgy. It is sad that I am already showing, either that or I have been eating way too much pudding. Probably the pudding, but what do you do when you don't want to eat anything else. I have definitely been a victim to pregnancy cravings this time around.
Ivie is excited, she tells me it's a girl and wants to name her Selma, or Tysha. When I tell her that we can't use those names because they are names of our friend's little girls, she tells me I can name her san-ha. I guess we'll see. We actually already have names picked out for a boy or a girl. Hope she's not disappointed if we don't use her suggestions :)
Despite all my complaining in this post, we are really excited to be expecting our third little froerer. And if this one has blonde hair and blue eyes too, I think Lance might start wondering if these are really his children. I guess they get my looks and Lance's craziness.

Easter (2nd attempt)

2009-04-14T23:11:00.001-07:00

O.K. so I got it to work. I'm still getting used to the new

format on our new computer. That was our present from the Easter Bunny. And perfect timing since our laptop died again.

Easter!

2009-04-14T22:57:00.000-07:00

We had a fun Easter. A visit from the Easter Bunny brought underwear, fairy wings, hair clips, and my little ponies for Ivie; and a memory game, dot painters, and a little fuzzy pet for Zander. The pet was supposed to move on its own, come to find out that it has a string attached to it and it was just a cheap magic trick. Zander and Ivie still fight over it. I just cut the dumb string off. We then had a Easter egg hunt at my Mom's where the adults also got candy and prizes. Lance loves this kind of stuff and obviously got into it.

(I am having a problem loading all the pictures on, hopefully I'll figure it out)

Lion House Roll recipe

2009-03-30T11:15:00.000-07:00

I have had a couple people ask me for my roll recipe. It's actually the Lion House roll recipe. I went to a cooking demonstration and they taught us exactly how they make them. Here it is.

2 cups warm water (110-115 degrees)
2/3 cup nonfat dry milk (instant or non-instant)
2 Tb. dry yeast or two packets (they suggested SAF yeast)
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup butter (at room temp. or softened but not melted)
1 egg
5-5 1/2 cups flour

In a mixer (bosch or kitchen aid type mixer) combine water and the milk powder and stir until milk dissolves. Add yeast, then sugar, salt, butter, egg, and 2 cups of the flour. Mix on low until ingredients are wet then turn to med. speed and mix for 2 minutes. Add two more cups of flour mix on low until ingredients are wet and then on med. for 2 min., add 1/2 cup at a time until dough starts to clean the sides of the bowl and feels soft and slightly sticky. Let dough rise covered until double (this could take 15-45 minutes)(don't let it overrise or it will taste yeasty) Sprinkle counter with flour and put dough on top and roll out to about 1/4 inch thickness.
spread about a 1/4 cup of butter on top then use a pizza cutter to cut strips about 2 inches wide and 3-4 iches long then roll and place on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart,with cut edge laying flat on baking sheet. Let rise in a warm place for 1-1 1/2 hours. Bake in 375 degree oven for 15-18 minutes. or until browned to your satisfaction. Brush rolls with butter when they are first taken from the oven.

You can use this recipe for cinnamon rolls too. After you roll out the dough and spread butter on it. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Roll up like a jellyroll and take a piece of waxed, unflavored floss and place under dough then cross and pull to cut the dough into the cinnamon rolls, allow to rise until double. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 for 10-15 min.

Frosting
3 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1/3-1/2 cup cream, or milk
mix until smooth and spread on warm cinnamon rolls.

Sego Lily Blogger Contest

2009-03-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

So all I have to do is tell you why I think I would be the best Blogger for Sego Lily Spa and I get 24 FREE treatments? Well then, let me just tell you that I am indeed the best blogger in the world. It has been my lifelong dream to be Sego Lily Spa's Blogger, as well as to go to the spa on a regular basis. Unusual, I know. Oh, how I daydream about the cucumbers over my eyes while someone massages my scalp, my body being wrapped in scentaliscious sea weed, my feet dripping in delectably soothing mud baths. When I first heard about this opportunity I had a long talk with my fingers and toes and we decided that we could handle a few extra pedicures and manicures during the upcoming year. I have had the chance to experience the Sego Lily Spa before and it was quite fabulous. From the luxurious robes, refreshing tonics and deliciously delicious fruits, the relaxing ambiance, to the incredible massage that made me want to make the spa my permanent residence. Therefore, I would be absolutely ecstatic to win this contest, and I would be more than happy to blog about all of my amazing experiences.

http://segolilyspa.com/blog/contest-entry/

Hawaii pictures

2009-03-02T08:39:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from our trip. There were so many fun things that we did. The Bamboo forests were really cool. We tried climbing up the bamboo to get fun pictures. We also got a camera that can take underwater pictures which came in handy when we went snorkeling or saw dolphins. We went on a few hikes to waterfalls. They were really fun, as long as we were on the right trail. Lance led us on a not too fun hike through mud and spider webs. (not my favorite part of the trip but I guess it's really funny now looking back) We finally decided to turn back and found the real trail and then it was really cool.

Hawaii!

2009-02-24T22:15:00.000-08:00

We are having so much fun in Hawaii. Yesterday we went snorkeling and saw tons of fish and then we saw some dolphins and swam out to where they were it was so cool. There were probably 20 dolphins with babies too. Lance got some awsome pictures underwater and a couple of them jumping out of the water. Then today we took a whale watching trip and saw a ton of humpback whales. Most showed their backs and then we saw their tales but there were a bunch in the distance that jumped clear out of the water and you could see their full body. You can see a ton of whales even from the road and pretty much at any time of day. This is definately a cool time to come to Hawaii. We sure do miss our little sweethearts at Grandma's and are anxious to see them soon. We are so grateful for our parents' willingness to watch the kids so that we can have a few adventures. We will post some cool pictures soon. I'm off to the hot tub!

Viruses!

2009-02-06T19:07:00.000-08:00

Well, our computer has been revived which is great! But now it seems that Ivie, Zander, and I have caught viruses of our own. Hopefully it will only last a couple of days. There is nothing like feeling crappy and taking care of two kids that feel as crappy as you do.

One thing that has been so fun has been watching Robin Hood 20 times a day. Lance has been very helpful when he's been home. I'm sure he's ready to get back to normal life and being able to hang out with friends again!

No Computer

2009-01-18T16:46:00.000-08:00

Well, our sad little lap top died from a virus. We did all we could to save it, but there was nothing else we could do. Oh well, we had six great years with it. So anyway, we might not be posting for a while considering the circumstances and because right now is not the best time to just drop a butt load of money for a new computer. I might post from parents' houses or something. It will probably be good for me to take a break from addicting online shopping and facebooking, and maybe I will clean my house a little better.

Ivie Elves

2008-12-29T11:40:00.000-08:00

This post was a desperate attempt to try to get this thing to work on my computer for our family reunion in Bear Lake. I am having issues getting it burned onto a DVD and was hoping that if it was on blogger it would have better quality but oh well. If you are wondering who the people are they are my parents, aunt and uncle, and my Grandma. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-22T13:26:00.000-08:00

I'm so excited for Santa to come for Ivie & Zander. I hope they will love everything they get. Christmas is so fun with kids!
So We also did this look a like meter for Zander and it said that he looks more like his mom too, but only by 4% instead of 8%. So any of you who think that my kids look like Lance, you are right by about 42-46% I was surprised that the meter didn't say they looked 50-100% more like me. Hope everyone has a great Christmas, and have fun playing in the snow!

Froerer Look-alike Meter

2008-12-22T11:25:00.001-08:00

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family tree chart - Geneology

Froerer Look-alike Meter

2008-12-20T16:18:00.001-08:00

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Family Pictures

2008-12-05T14:08:00.001-08:00

We had Mitzi take some family pictures for us and they turned out great. Mitzi really has an eye for great pictures, as well as finding great spots for taking pictures. As for us, we are all doing great. I just had my birthday on Dec. 4 and got the straightener that I've wanted for a while. (Thanks, sweetie!) I also wanted to set up all my Christmas decorations for my birthday, but I guess I should have let Ivie in on my plans. Her goal was to break as many things as she could, and make as many messes as she could. Maybe she thought that if she was having lots of fun then so was I. However, she did give me lots of hugs and kisses all day and would say, "Oh, I love you, Mom." That's always a good birthday present.

Ivie's birthday,halloween, and redneck party

2008-11-16T18:12:00.001-08:00

Ivie turned three years old on Oct. 27. We had cake and ice cream with all her cousins, aunts,
and uncles. We did face painting for the kids. Ivie chose a butterfly.

We were a fairy tale for Halloween. Lance was a duct tape knight, I was a princess, Ivie was the fairy, and Zander was a dragon. Ivie loved using her wand and saying, "Bibidy-bobidy boo!"

My side of the family decided to host a redneck party instead of doing the same Thanksgiving dinner that we always do. We all dressed up and look absolutely awful. After lunch they had pony and horse rides. They also hooked a mattress with a rope to a four wheeler and pulled people around on it. Ivie loved the pony and horse and kept wanting more turns.

Ivie's birthday, redneck party,an\

2008-11-16T18:12:00.000-08:00

Obviously this post was a mistake. I'm trying to do this while holding Zander who constantly wants to pound on the keys.

Awesome pics

2008-11-05T10:26:00.001-08:00

My good friend Mitzi took these awesome pictures of Ivie and Zander. They weren't being very cooperative either so the fact that she got even one good picture is amazing! Notice, however, that we couldn't manage to get a picture of them together. Ivie fell asleep right before we got out of the car and and when she woke up she wasn't very happy. Every time we tried, Ivie would keep pushing Zander away. There are more pictures, but I seem to be having trouble uploading all of them, so here are some of my favorites.

Also, I just found out about another scam. My poor little Grandma called me and said that she just found out that she won $100,000 and that she got a check for $5000 to pay the taxes. She was to cash the check and within 48 hours take the money to western union or money gram and wire it to her tax representative in Canada! She totally believed it and was planning out all the gifts she was going to buy her grandchildren. I felt really bad to tell her it was a scam. I guess my mother had also told her it was a scam but she was still hoping it wasn't. She wanted me to look up the company on the internet justto make sure. I explained to her how the scams work and told her my own experience. Then I told her that I could write her a check right now for a million dollars but that doesn't mean that I have it. After that she said, "Well, you've just burst my bubble." One good thing that I heard, from someone who works at a bank, was that they usually can tell when someone brings in these fraudulant checks and they won't cash them.

Spread the word about secret shopper SCAM

2008-10-24T15:18:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't blogged for a while, and I need to catch up but I wanted to let everyone know about this secret shopper scam. Lance thought it sounded fun for me to do since I shop a lot and enjoy it too. He signed me up to be a secret shopper under a company called Gateway Evaluation Services. They sent me a check for $990 and told me I could keep $100 but I had to send the rest with MoneyGram to my fake relative Mya Froerer in Canada. It of course sounded too good to be true but this was Lance's idea. I called him and told him that they had just sent me a check, etc. He said he thought it sounded like a scam. I defended what they said on the letter. I am so gullible. Then I told Lance that I would look into it and wait until he got home. It actually took me a while to find but I finally typed in secret shopper scam and a ton of info came up and the situation they explained sounded word for word with the letter that I got. I guess if I was to cash the check, which is fraud, then immediately send the cash via moneygram I would then be held liable to pay back that money when the bank discovered the bounced check and since the money would already be gone, except for the $100 I would be out $890. Some of the cases even said that people were sent $2000 or more and then had to pay all of it back to the bank. Anyway, I just want to spread the word so that no one falls victim to this scheme!!! I read that any money making scheme that pays good money for little work, has you pay any money, or has you wire money to anyone you don't know very well is a SCAM!

Sigh!!!!

2008-08-22T23:46:00.000-07:00

Well, our vacations are over. We had a lot of fun and now we have to clean up our house, do loads and loads of laundry, and catch up on our messy yard. Oh yeah, and Ivie has picked up a brand new habit... hitting- yeah, so much fun! She has spent a lot of time lately in Zander's car seat which has become her time out seat, the only one she stays in :)

VACATIONS GALORE!

2008-07-29T13:14:00.000-07:00

We just went to Lake Powell with my side of the family. It was a lot of fun. Then we drove straight to Lance's big family reunion in Huntsville. We have one week at home and then we're off to Island park and then Lake Powell again, this time with Lance's family- Fun, stressful, and a ton of laundry!
Ivie has been into taking pictures lately. She says, "Can I have Cheese?" I thought she was actually asking for cheese but I eventually figured out that she meant she wanted her picture taken. She's been posing with Zander, dolls, and obviously sunglasses. The last picture was taken the day before we went home. They both just fell asleep on the bed while Lance and I were standing right there. All of a sudden they were both really quiet. We thought it was really cute!

Backyard update

2008-07-11T12:04:00.000-07:00

So it's been about a month and this is the small bit of progress that has been made in the backyard. Last night Lance told me that if I made a check list with specific things that he could do in one hour he could get it done faster. It is quite overwhelming to think what to do first since the whole thing looks bad. Hopefully next time I post pictures, they will actually be worth looking at!

SUMMER!!!

2008-07-02T19:07:00.001-07:00

I am so excited to finally get to be outside. Ivie loves it. Zander?, not so much but he does take naps. Our backyard is looking a little better.
One day I noticed Ivie sitting next to Zander reading a book. They looked so cute I couldn't resist taking a picture.
We also got season passes to Lagoon. Whoo-hoo! We've gone about three times already. Ivie definitely loves it.

Backyard update

2008-06-06T17:02:00.000-07:00

Well, it's obviously been a few weeks since Mother's Day. Lance keeps informing me that there is a processing period so he still has till next Wednesday and then the next Wednesday. As long as there is some progress being made it's o.k. with me. Here are some pictures of the small bit of progress that has been made so far. The first picture is the area that is supposed to be taken out for a nice grass area. The next picture is of the grass area that will be terraced. Then the pool has been emptied but needs to be cleaned out.

Sister's wedding

2008-05-31T15:28:00.001-07:00

My little sis got married on May 30. Ivie's cast matches her dress but everyone still asked about her leg. She doesn't seem to mind it anymore. She was so excited to wear her princess dress.

Poor poor Ivie

2008-05-20T14:01:00.000-07:00

It's only been about a month since Ivie had her stitches and now she has broken her leg. I was on the trampoline and did a small bounce, I guess it was a little too much because it knocked her off balance and then she started to hold her leg. That was Sunday afternoon. Monday I took her to the doctor to see if she had broken it and they said that she has a small fracture on her Tibia, right below her knee. They referred me to an orthopedic surgeon but couldn't get her in until Tues. morning. They put a full leg cast on it, but said she has to have it for only 2 weeks. Ivie thought it was very traumatic but thinks that her cast is pretty cool now because you can draw on it.

Happy Mother's Day Question

2008-05-17T13:21:00.000-07:00

For my Mother's Day present, I got a folded up note that said "For your Mother' s Day gift you get one free yard in one week" I thought it was great and very thoughtful, but kind of hard to accomplish. I asked Lance and he said "yes, I'm going to clean the pool, terrace the sloped grass, and tear out the garden beds and put in grass (to say the least) in one week. Then he informed me a couple days later that it was a coupon and the week started when I turned it in. I turned it in to him that night and he said, "Well, technically it is 12:01 am so I have till next Wednesday, ha ha." The joke is on you Lance!
So what does everyone think, Will he get it done by next Wednesday or will it take him just a little bit longer?

We blessed Zander on May 4

2008-05-17T13:09:00.000-07:00

2008-04-24T00:23:00.000-07:00

I just think putting pictures on are so much more fun so here are a few more of our monkeys. Ivie is enjoying painting herself. Zander just looks so cute in his little hat. Ivie and I are at Thanksgiving point.

poor Ivie

2008-04-24T00:05:00.000-07:00

Ivie had her first real accident. She tripped on a step right onto the hard wood floor and split open her little chin. She needed two stitches and she sure put up a fight while getting them. The doctor said, "Boy, she is small but she sure is strong." One thing that did help her settle down was my promise to give her ice cream.

Zander is getting bigger and cuter everyday. He is a little drool monster lately. He giggles almost every time I change his diaper or get him dressed.

update

2008-03-27T09:22:00.000-07:00

Zander is now about three months old and weighs 13 lbs. Ivie loves her little bro. She loves to cuddle and kiss him and wake him up when he has finally fallen asleep. What a little helper! Ivie 's newest sayings are, "Oh be gosh!", and "Mmm, delicious". She also loves singing songs such as "Gimme, gimme, gimme a man". She can do a somersault all by herself and loves to copy her aunt Vienna with her cheerleading practice.