All I want is Everything

I am so blessed to have so many wonderful things in my life. If only everything would correlate so that I could enjoy it all to the fullest extent. Kasey has been applying and testing with Northern Utah Police agencies for a few months and is desperately working to gain a career bustin the bad guys. I think it'll be really good for him. Plus there's the benefit of the uniform. Rawr.  He finally got off the graveyard shift at Smith's, but now he is usually working swings. The nice part is that it saves us money on childcare, but the sucky part is he's not home at night to watch the kids while I go out pole dancing....

That's right, pole dancing. Seriously, if you've never been on a pole, you are missing out. It is the best workout I have had while having a blast! I haven't tapped into the arial silk or arial hammok classes yet, but as soon as our schedules allow it, you bet your booty I will taking those classes. I go to French Kiss Fitness. There is a studio in Syracuse and one in Ogden. I started going to their hip hop class in Ogden after I had Phoenix, to get back into shape and thought I would never be one of those women on the poles. Here I am, 4 years later and the Syracuse Studio is just brand new and so convenient, I love this fitness membership. I am going to plug the studio, so that you can all see what really goes on there. We're not training to strip and work the clubs on the weekend. It is amazing, the things that these seasoned girls can do. www.frenchkissfitness.com Seriously, if you are looking to get into better shape and are not the biggest treadmill or spin bike fan, check it out. It is not embarassing, but it is challenging and in return, empowering.

Phoenix and Parker:

Phoenix is starting dance on June 5th at Studio 48. I had to take away her dance clothes until she actually starts because she wants to wear them ALL OF THE TIME and I know she will destroy them. She will do so good. When I do let her wear them, I catch her in her room, twirling around and practicing pointing her litle toes. She is a little sass, though. She not only has the most argumentive attitude, she cocks her little neck and raises her little eyebrow when she is telling me off. I have to try really hard to take her seriously because it's seriously so funny.

Parker has started saying "oh oh" When he drops something. He's still not saying any other words, really, besides "mom" and "dada" once in a while, but he talks jibberish fluently and he gets really animated in his facial expressions when he is talking to you. He's a Paddy-Cake pro. And despite his appetite, (yesterday he had a cup of applesauce, a bunch of goldfish and 2 hotdogs before church, and continued to snack throughout the whole 2 hours of Primary) I cannot get that boy to pack on the pounds! He is in the 1% percentile for weight for his age. Look at his 15 month photos though. SO HANDSOME!!  He had a bruise in the middle of his forehead for about a week and when it finally went away, I thought I should hurry and get his photos done. Naturally, that morning, he ran into the bathroom door frame and got an instant goose egg. Good thing he had this adoreable hat!

So excited for summer. Bring on the babies!! I get a new niece in a few weeks and a new nephew in a few more. Watch out, babies, aunt Randee just got new backdrops! Hold on mamas, you're so close!! I am so happy for you and can't wait to change those little bums!

Red Rockin' Out

As usual, Moab came and went way too fast. We usually have 4 vehicles in our little entourage, but this year, only 2 jeeps went. We didn't have enough seats to take everyone on a Super Saturday trail, so we opted out and took Kyles and Rorys 4-wheelers instead. We're super famous for flying by the seat of our pants or "just winging it", which usually results in spontaneous adventures. Not so much this trip. We'd spend hours trying to figure out what to do and just end up on wheelers, at the pool, or on a 2 hour drive through a burned down forrest, which I'm pretty sure took us into Colorado a little bit. I totally missed having Tyler's family there. Tyler is the craziest and yet most rational of all of the Scott's. He can seriously talk you into or out of just about anything.



Parker after his gravel face plant. Doesn't he look so tough?



Sweet little Phoenix. She did so well this year! She climbed all the way to the top of the sand hill and wouldn't let anyone help her

This is Adrie on the "Scenic" drive through the twisted, motion-sickness inducing, directionless drive. No one forced me into the car, so I can only blame myself, but I assure you that I have learned my lesson.

On Saturday afternoon, we went and played around on Steelbender for a few hours. We had forgotten how tough, but fun that trail is and I think we decided on that trail next year. Kasey had me drive for a bit and it wasn't nearly as scary as driving the spot on Poison Spider that I tried last year.

As is every year, but the time Sunday rolled around, we were all sick of each other and we all wanted to kill each other. Kasey swore that we wouldn't be going next year...
ah, another succesfull Scott family vacation.



Movie Review - The Hunger Games

Yay for Kellie to get me a ticket to the movie the day before it came out at 8:00pm! I just don't know if I could do a midnight showing these days. It was very much worth the $13 ticket.

So The Hunger Games is another book-turned-movie franchise. It is just getting it start at the end of the Twilight era. I am a total Twi-hard, mind you. I loved the books and tolerated the acting in the rediculously cheesy film adapations. The only thing that Twilight and The Hunger Games have in common is the girl caught between two dudes problem. I will take this moment to voice my side on team Peeta. I can argue my point later. Jennifer Lawrence plays the PERFECT Katniss. And Willow Shields as Prim surprised me. She has such a small role in this film, but she totally made me cry! Luckily Sarah brought tissues since she cried while reading the book. I cannot rave enough about the emotions that these two young ladies portrayed. Every character that was cast totally fits the character descriptions in the book. Too bad Cato had to die, He's a stone fox.I wish that there could've been a little more attention to the relationship between Peeta and Katniss going back to the burned bread, but that's just for the sake of those who haven't read the books. It leaves a few holes. Having read the books, it all made sense to me. I thought it was filmed very tastefully, considering the muderous content. A few of the scenes were very shaky and made me sick to watch, but it's better than seeing it clearly, I guess.

Can't wait to see it again and again. 4.5 stars

Future Cosmetologist?

We have been pretty good about keeping our scissors on top of the fridge to prevent the inevitable self-hair cut, but I didn't think about my hair scissors in the bathroom. Well, Phoenix was left unattende for just long enough to find them and begin her career in cosmetology. She got the side realy good, (like so close, I'm just glad she didn't cut her head) and she got to her bangs:She also got into my (hot pink) nail polish and painted her nails, her shirt and her carpet.... The very same day, when I got hom from work, Phoenix told me she needed to go to the bathroom and she used my bathroom. After about 2 minutes of it being too quiet, I busted in and caught her with my eye shadow. Seriously, is she a 3-year old or what?

Considering that it took 3 years for her hair to come in at all, I'm sure the hack job would take a long time to catch up to her current length. So I deliberated and decided to get her a cute little pixie cut. The stylest advised me to dress her in pink and make sure I style her hair because at her age, she might get mistaken for a boy. Well, she got that alot of the time with her "longer" hair if it wasn't fixed into a pony or adorned with a flower. I think it looks so cute You can see where her bangs are still a little choppy in this one:

I'm just hoping that it doesn't take 3 self hair cuts to get it out of her system like it did for her cousin.

Phoenix has been asked to give the scripture in Sharing time on Sunday. Her scripture is Alma 37:35. Kasey sat down with her to practice it. He will have to help her on Sunday because she is in junior primary and I teach senior primary, so I will be in with my class.

Watch out! We have a 1-year old!

Happy 1st Birthday, Parker!

That was seriously the shortest year ever. I can vividly remember our time in hospital last year. I am just so grateful that I only had to leave my little miracle at the hospital for 3 extra days.

Here we are celebrating already. We had a little monkey party and I think it turned out pretty cute. Try entertaining 11 kids aged 1-11.

We played a few games so the older girls wouldn't be bored .

We played Face the Cookie from Minute to Win it, which Heather won:

No wonder where she gets her skills: Tyler dominated in the adult division:

Parkers Cake and the cupcakes for everyone else:I haven't been able to get that hat on him long enough to take a photo since, so I am considering myself lucky to have gotten this oneOf course, the aftermath of the cake masacre photo: (although it wasn't much of a masacre, he pretty much just poked holes in it and maybe licked his fingers once)Thanks to everyone who came out and celebrated Parker's birthday with us and helped me go through the pizza, cupcakes and banana splits! It was crazy (as is any event involving the Scott clan), but Parker had fun and he got some fun toys and cute clothes. He got a zuzu pet from Aunt Stacee that he is starting to warm up to. He was totally freaked out by it at first, but he's getting used to it. And the most annoying, laughing, dancing monkey ever, Thanks Grandma Suzy and Papa Tori. It's actually ok in moderation. I swear, grandparents think they're so funny to give obnoxious, messy, or noisy toys to their grandkids, just to irk their adult children.

44 minutes until the end of 2011...

New Year's Eve at home again. Lame. Kasey is at work and the kids are too little to drag out. I can wait for them to grow up, but when they do, we are totally having a New Years Eve party! Some of my best New Year's Eve's were when I was in Elementary school. Back when I had a bedtime that I got to stay up past. Having sleepovers and banging pots and pans. Seriously, kids make holidays so much fun! I Can't say I'm thrilled or sad to see the last year go. It was a pretty good year:

In Febuary, we got to add this little monkey to our family

Phoenix was in big sister mode instantly

In June, I got an awesome birthday present: A job on base! It has been such a blessing to me and our family. I am not worried about getting enough hours to pay the bills anymore, I get 40 hours every week! I haven't had that in a long time. It is so cool to see what goes into building airplanes and such a thrill to see them take off up close.

I got to shoot a few weddings, Saw the new new Twilight movie, and decided to try my hand at decorating for weddings (I have yet to book one, but I will get a little practice on at least one in 2012. I also got to teach the gospel to a wonderful group of 5-6 year-old girls.

I'm super excited for 2012! There's so much to look forward to! One of my bestest friends is getting married! And I get a new niece and a nephew this summer! I have a whole new primary class of 8-year olds! I get a raise soon! And of course there's Moab, my summer boutique, camping at Sourdough, My birthday and 7th anniversary, The Hunger Games movie, and Thriller! It all starts in just 9 minutes! It's looking to be a very Happy New Year, indeed!

On the 7th Day of Christmas, My parents gave to me...

So I decided to try out the 12 days of Christmas on my kids this year. Last year, Phoenix wanted to stop and play with each gift she opened, so I decided to give then their gifts one day at a time so they can appreciate them. On the first day of Christmas, Phoenix was so naughty that she didn't get her gift. I didn't really plan ahead for that, so I guess she'll just get it on Christmas. Otherwise, it's going well. I have to give credit to Kyle for giving me the idea when he did it for Kellie last year.

Jayk, Rylee and Phoenix looking for elves in the Christmas tree.

On Saturday, Dec 17th, the Scott family ventured out into the winter weather to see the lights at Temple Square. I must say that I'm pretty proud of this photo: Even Iron Man loves to see the Temple

Kasey and I have a photo of us in front of the fountain that was taken 7 years ago, when we were engaged. Now every time we go to the lights, I make him take another one with me.......7 years? Seriously?

And we still love each other! Good thing too, because 7 years ain't nothing when you're in it forever.

After freezing our tushies off for an hour, we got the VIP treatment. We got to see Temple Square from Gateway Tower West's 9th floor. Heated window sills? Yes, please!