Family Pictures

These pictures were taken by Amber Togisala-Togisala Photography-and I must say she did a fantastic job! 
You can check out her work HERE.  I hope you enjoy these pics!

This pose traumatized Z-man the rest of the shoot.   

My kids' expressions are priceless!

Gpa Ted and Gma Sandi with their grandkids 

Up next is family pictures with Trevor's side of the family....it's only been a year in the making.

Random

I am tending my cute niece (1) and nephew (3) today.  My nephew told me he wanted to help me with the laundry (his mom wasn't kidding when she said he would help!) so he sorted with me and we took the baskets into the laundry room.  Now, our washer and dryer are in our storage room which also houses our MASSIVE food storage shelves, an extra fridge, some more shelves full of storage, as well as our cat and dog.  Yes, I am a sucker-I bring my sweet lab in every night to sleep-I don't want her scared outside or cold!  Anyway, we walk in and H immediately says, "It stinks!"  Turning to his sister who was still in the family room he says, "Don't come in here.  It stinks, so stay there."  So protective.  And yes, it did make me laugh.  I am not stupid-I know that if animals are in a room, chances are that it will stink.  I just thought we did a great job in containing the smell by changing the litter and spraying Febreeze just about EVERY time we go in there.  Well, the saying goes, "Out of the mouth of babes..."  Thanks H for reminding me that my storage room stinks :)

It's in the blood

Look who's taking after her momma....

Merry Christmas...in February

I really am late, Late, LATE on this post.  We were able to enjoy Christmas Village as a family.

 
Then, Christmas came and went and, as usual, we enjoyed it.  However, poor Trevor came down with the stomach bug so he spent most of the day in bed.  We had Christmas Eve with Trevor's family.  It consisted of a family talent show and then a gift showdown-his parents gave all of us (and there are 23 of us) a trip to Disneyland.  It's no secret that we are fans of that vacation so we were more than thrilled!  Here are a few clips from the talent show.  Enjoy:

Since Christmas was on a Sunday this year, we just had one hour of church-Sacrament Meeting, where we partook of the Sacrament and enjoyed a wonderful Christmas program full of music and definitely filled with the Holy Spirit testifying of Christ's birth.  After church, we came home and opened gifts and sent Trevor to bed.  My family stopped by for "breakfast" at 1pm of french toast, eggs, bacon and sausage.  Unfortunately they didn't stay long due to the icky sicky in our home.  The rest of the day we enjoyed playing with the new toys and spending time together as a family.  Later that night the kids and I went back to Trevor's parents for leftovers and to hang out for a bit.  All in all, it was a great day.  Poor Trevor.

Merry Christmas!

Back track

I am soooooo behind.   Lolo's preschool sang Christmas songs at the local Christmas Village.  It was so cute, so sweet and soooooo freezing!

These cute little tykes sang their hearts out-well, screamed their hearts out :)

Whussa-happenin..

So I started this thinking I had pictures all ready downloaded onto my computer, but I was WRONG.  So, I am changing gears.  Instead of cute clips of Lolo's Christmas concert and cute pics of Diva playing basketball, and SUPER cute clips from Christmas you will get a brief overview of what is to come.  Oh wait, I just GAVE the overview. 

Lots to come in 2012-basketball, baseball, running, a baby-a miracle called adoption.  Is that a good teaser or what?  If you are thinking we are adopting, then check my side bar or click on Punkins in Love.  I will not post more than my buddy Amanda will post, but her blog will explain it all when she is ready to divulge more details.  I will say this:  I HEART adoption and I HEART Jared and Amanda.

Back in High School

Each Christmas season a group of us friends get together and P-A-R-T-Y!  OK, we actually sit and chat ALL night long and we laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.  Then we laugh some more.  These gals are my chums, my girls, my gal-pals, my buddies-we can reminisce with the best of them.  Good times, I tell ya!


This year Jess was the hostess with the mostess.  We met at her mom's house-oh, we loved being at Cheryl's home in high school-that place has some of THE funnest memories (I know, funnest is not grammatically correct).  The best one was how the sugar canister broke (how it actually broke is still a bit of a mystery-we know Stacey was involved somehow, but accidentally) and we GLUED it back together so that Cheryl wouldn't know.  Well, she found out-how could she not when the SUN was coming through the cracks of the opened canister.  We laughed and laughed and laughed.

Also this year, our friend Melinda decided to grace us with her presence....jk we have totally missed her.  She lives out of state and it's very hard to coordinate everyone's schedules.  But it was sure great to have her there, as well as April, Jenni, Allison, Stacey, Jess and me.  I sure love these gals and I cannot wait til next year to get together again and see who else shows up.  We definitely missed those who couldn't come.  All right gals, it's at Allison's next year-mark it on your calendar.

 Back-April, Stacey, Melinda, Allison.  Front-Jenni, Me, Jess

Til next year, goofy friends!