Christmas

We had such a great Christmas this year! We were able to spend time with friends, and family, and all the people we love! (There was a few people that we missed, but hope to catch up soon)
We were all so spoiled this year. We spent a few days at my parents house and had so much fun with them and all my family members. Then came back home and got all ready for Christmas....
Our family got a wii this year and we have been having so much fun on it together. We also had a lot of fun with Ryan's family on Christmas Eve, and the day of Christmas.
After everything has been opened and all that is over, the things I remember most is who was there, and the fun we had. I love being with our families, and spending the holidays all together. There is nothing better than that.
The day after Christmas I woke up at 2 in the morning with sharp pains and couldn't decide if I should take a trip to the ER or just wait till morning... so I took a few Tylenol and the next morning went to see the doctor and had a bunch of tests and found out I have Appendicitis's. My doctor said that if I could just wait it out, and keep taking Tylenol it may just go away on it is own... so that is what I am doing.... I still have the pain... but do feel a little better. I will update if anything changes.
So that is all we have been up to.... and through all of this.... we forgot to take pictures, and so I am so sad that we have no pictures for our scrapbooks. I can't believe it!!!

funny girls

I have some funny girls! This last week at church Alexis was being so weird.... not like she was grumpy, or something wrong, just doing little things to get on our nerves. So Ryan finally said, "Alexis, what is with you today, why are you acting like this?" And Alexis just looks at him with a straight face and said, " I am just trying to figure out what you are going to do to me"..... Hard to get mad at her when you are trying not to laugh.
Alexis had a performance at the High School Basketball game last night, and while walking into the game, Elizabeth passes this girl that had a Hello Kitty necklace on, and she just reached up and tried to touch it... instead she touched the girls boob, and then kept walking like nothing happened... the girls friends busted out laughing so hard, and the Hello Kitty girl just looked so scared, and really had just been violated... I had to apologize, but it was really funny.

Heidi's Fudge

Great gift idea!!!

My brother Chris has opened his shop in Rigby Idaho!!!! If you have not gone into see it, you need to go asap. It is so so nice. He has put so much work into making the shop look just right, and getting the kitchen to be mmmmmhhh a dream kitchen. He makes all sorts of great candy there, and it is all fresh!!!! They also make yummy carmeled apples!!! They put snickerson them, and also have the apple pie carmeled apples. You can look at the website to see all the great gift boxes you can get to send to in-laws, co-workers, neighbors, or who ever.

Go to www.heidisfudge.com

My Weekend

This weekend Ryan and I went to Twilight together, and we had a good time. I thought way to much in the movie, and talked to Ryan a lot to explain things into detail a little, so I am really wanting to see it again already. I really liked it, but there was some parts that I couldn't help but laugh out loud about. (like when the Dr. walked into the room looking like a ghost... his hair even looked like it had baby powder in it) and when Edward threw Bella on his back and ran up the mountain, (it reminded me of the game on the price of right where the dude goes up the mountain till he falls off). But over all I think they did a good job of sticking to the book. I can not wait to see the next movie that comes out. Now that they have made millions on this movie, I am hoping to see a higher budget movie the next time around.
Did I tell you that Stephanie (the author)s aunt is in my ward???? Yea, I am that cool! I know someone that is family with this huge star!
After the movie, Ryan had to run and help our brother in law Dan do a few things, so I was able to go to the Kohls big sale they had till Midnight. Everything in the store was 60 to 80% off, and then you also got 15% off your total amount. And I saved a extra 20% by getting a kohls card!!!! (after I paid, the lady had someone come up to her and tell her that she wasn't suppose to give both % off at the same time, so I was way lucky) I had a lot of fun shopping for the girls, and a few other people on our list.

Grandpa is a movie star!

If you are interested in info on this movie go to..
www.moneymakingmorons.com

Grandpa Harris is in the movie Money Making Morons, and my girls are in love with it. They laugh so hard and think it is the best movie in the whole world. Brytlee who is almost two now, and will not watch TV at all is probably grandpa's number one fan!!! She was just throwing the biggest fit because she wanted to watch it. She caries the movie case around with her and loves to look at Grandpa's picture on it.
Alexis wants to make a movie of her own acting the same way grandpa did. I think it is a great movie for kids, (Annette's kids have a copy of the movie, and now I guess the whole neighbor hood is quoting lines from it, and Summer has used it as her babysitting movie)
I told Ryan that they act a lot like how me and my high school friends acted....

Breaking the Law

Our Christmas tree! It is finally up!!!! I let the girls help put all the decorations up and they did a great job. Alexis keeps going up to it and fixing little things here and there. She loves to decorate.

The girls have been wanting to put up our tree for a couple weeks.... But Ryan said "No". That didn't stop them from asking over and over and over and OVER again to put it up. So Ryan told them that it was a rule that you could not put up your Christmas tree until Thanksgiving was over. And that put a end to the begging. Later that night we went for a drive and there was a ton of lights on houses and tree's in windows and Elizabeth said, "Why are all these people breaking the law?... They must not believe in Chicken day huh mom"! I don't know why she called it chicken day, but she said it to a few other people after that and it just made me laugh.
Thanksgiving day! Grandpa Merrill giving the kids a safari ride. They were all yelling out what Animals they could see...(zebra, elephant, snake) and Lizzy started to cry because no one would give her the chance to say anything... She was so sad.

I thought this picture was really cute of her dance pose.


My girls love to dress up, and love to dance. I remember a year ago or so when Elizabeth just started to talk good, and she came out and said "Lady's and Gentlemen...." It was so cute. I took a lot of the dress ups to Grandma and Grandpa Harris's house because I got sick of it all over the house all the time and so now they have to find other things to dress up in. (that explains why they are in swim suits in December)

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. Ryan woke up early and played basketball, and then came home for a power nap and then played a game of flag football. After he was done we drove to my family's house and had a yummy Thanksgiving dinner. There was so much food (I ate sooooooo much). The kids all had so much fun playing they didn't really eat much at all. We played a really fun game that I don't remember the name... but had wolves, half bloods, priest... and something like that.
The day after Thanksgiving we woke up at 3:30 for the 4:00 sales. We went to the mall first, and then to Shopko, Sears, Target, Fried Myers, Walmart and then home for a minute, and then back to shopping.... It was the longest day of my life. I couldn't believe that I was one of those weird people out shopping so early, and all day. But I got most of my Christmas shopping done, and had some fun doing it. After all the shopping was over, we took the kids to the pool and swam for a couple of hours. Then home for bed! I don't remember a time that it felt sooooooooo good to go to sleep!!!

Ryan's crazy 8's

Tag

Crazy 8's tag

favorite tv shows

1. Family Guy

2. Seinfeld

3. Clone Wars (cartoon)

4. Simpsons

5. Smurfs

6. Sportscenter

7. meercat manor

8. The Daily Show

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Wendy's

2. BW3's

3. PF Chang's

4. Outback

5. anwhere with fresh peel n eat shrimp

6. Damon's

7. Jimmy John's

8. Jack in the Box

8 Things that happened yesterday:

1. I went to sleep without nookie

2. I played a flag football game

3. the Dolphin's lost

4. I went to church

5. I played with Lex and Liz and Brooster

6. I had an after church meeting

7. I surfed the web

8. the Titans lost their first game of the season

8 things I'm looking forward to:

1. a son

2. next football season

3. attending a super bowl

4. going back to england

5. Tues, January 20th 2009

6. shooting a big buck

7. star wars VII

8. the battle of Gog & Magog

The Movies

The girls and I went to see Madagascar 2. It was so funny, cute, and all that. We loved it loved it!
There was some parts that really had us laughing. I was a little sad that I wasn't standing in the hour long line for the Twilight, but I had a great little date with my girls. I am hoping that if I let a couple of weeks go by the lines will die down, and then I can just buy a ticket like any other movie and walk right in....
I was so happy on the way home I filled up with gas, and a full tank of gas was only 28 bucks!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!! This winter when the price of gas was over three dollars, I had to pay 70 bucks for one tank of gas, (just makes me sick) so I was very happy today!

Bloody Mary

Alexis came home for school telling me stories about some girls in the bathroom... saying the saw a ghost, and that it would open the doors with a big gust of wind, and then scratch you when you were going to the bathroom.... And that if you looked in the mirror you could see the ghost. I tried to tell her it wasn't real, and this is how that all went down..
Me, "you know that they are kidding right"
her, "then how did the door open"?
Me,"Some one probably kicked it open and then ran off"
her, "then how did the girl get a scratch"?
Me, "she probably scratched herself"
her, "no, it is real"
Me, "no it is not"
her, "the kids say it is real"
Me, "Lexy, It isn't real"
and then she just walked away shaking her head, like I don't know anything, and I have never been to school and so I would never understand....
So really though, do you all remember this kind of stuff at school? If you say bloody Mary in the mirror three times with the lights off, she will show up in the mirror.... OHHHHHHWWW

Funny story

The girls and I were over visiting a neighbor yesterday and his wife passed away two years ago. He has missed her so much and has not been the same person from it. So when we got there, he was smiling from ear to ear, and so happy. He told us that he had visit from his wife, and she let him know that she was great, and there was life after death. (It was a really cute story he told us)
So later that night, Alexis kept asking questions, and wondering why no one ever comes to see her... I told her "probably because it would scare you to death, and no one close to you has passed away" then she named all the people she knew that had died that could come and chat with her.
After I put her to bed, 10 minutes latter she came running to me, and said, "Mom, I almost saw someone".

Pajama party

Alexis had her first pajama party at school today. She was so excited she woke up once in the night, and then for good at 6:00. (that is not like her at all. We usually have to drag her out of bed half asleep and then spend 45 minutes getting her to wake up and not be a grump)
I went and helped her class this morning and it was so cute seeing all the kids in their pj's. They were able to watch a movie, and eat some treats. They all brought a blanket, pillow, and slippers so they could be comfy. She was so excited! I love Alexis's teacher, she is so nice, and one of the best teachers.
Elizabeth said something really funny today. My friend Sharie was coming to our house today and so I said to Elizabeth, "should we do your hair? My friend that did the makeup party is going to be here soon". Elizabeth said, "what was her name"? I told her "Sharie"
"Oh, but her real name is Bob"...... I couldn't help but laugh. For some reason she called Sharie Bob the last time she was here also.

Tag

Crazy 8's tag

8 TV shows I Love:

1. Grey's Anatomy

2. Family Guy

3. Desperate Housewives

4. What not to wear

5.

6.

7.

8.

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Cafe Rio

2. P.F. Changs

3. Mexican ?

4. Olive Garden

5. Bajios

6. Applebee's

7. Chili's

8. Wingers

8 Things that happened yesterday:

1. Wake up Alexis for school... (grumpy girl)

2. go work out

3. clean the house

4. do 7 loads of laundry

5. take Lizzy to Pre-school

6. Pick girls up from school

7. go shopping as a family for winter gloves

8. ran into one of my sisters ex boyfriends and talked about how wonderful her husband and family are.

8 things I'm looking forward to:

1. Christmas!

2. a new house

3. Thanksgiving with family

4. Twilight at the cinema!

5. hanging out with Ryan tonight

6. playing volleyball once a week

7. a clean house

8. traveling

8 people I tag:

Mom
Annette
Ryan
Lindsy
Sharie
Shalee
Tiffany
Shellie

Alexis School Picture 2008

Alexis brought her picture home from school today and although it is adorable, I am trying to figure out if I should do retakes or not. She has a look on her face that is not really a true smile, but still cute... I don't know what to do. Ryan said he really liked it and loved her blue eye's so we may just stick with it.
Alexis is so sassy now that she is ALL GROWN UP.... ha ah. She keeps telling me "WHATEVER" and "DUH" I didn't think that started this early? I guess I was "LIKE TOTALLY WRONG".
I can not even count how many LIKE LIKE LIKE she says in a day. Oh, and she just yelled at Elizabeth and called her "Kid" she is so funny.
I love you Alexis!

New Merrill Baby

Brad and Sara had their baby yesterday at 4p.m. She was 7 lbs, and 1 oz. Everything went very fast and Mom and Baby are both doing very well. I can not wait to see her! I have not heard for sure on a name but I think she is going to be Ava.

Trick or Treat

We had a great Halloween this year! We all love to dress up as you can tell!

Early in the day the girls and I got dressed up and went to Alexis's school to help with the Halloween party. It was a lot of fun, and so cute to watch all the kids play all the games and get all dressed up. I read Halloween stories to the kids and had a fun finger puppet treat for them.

Elizabeth, Alexis, Sydney, and Ashlynn
So cute
My big daddy pimp with his sweet grill, and me the witch!
My pimp and little ducky

Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Super Girl!
The girls loved the trunk or treat. Brytlee was so cute, she would take one at first and want to open it. I told her to put it in her bag and then go get some more.... after about three people she got the hang of it and would go up to them, say "trick or treat" and then grab two hand fulls of candy and then run to the next trunk.... it was funny.

Brytlee was very hot in her little duck suit and didn't like it very much.....
My super sweet eye lashes, and red, red lip stick!
Ewwwh..... baby, he is looking soooooooooo good!
We went to Ryan's Grandma's house and the girls did a trick or treat. (they got a treat)

Minutes before I finally gave in and took the duck suit off of Brytlee. She went from sad and tired to bouncing of the walls as soon as it was off.

We went to Ryan's parents house, and saw some of the cousins in there costumes. They all look so cute!
We went to a spooky house after that and the girls loved it. (Elizabeth was a little scared, but as long as I was with her she was alright) Brytlee loved it and wanted to keep going again and again. When we left she kept saying "bye bye spooky" all the way home. We made one last stop at Ryan's sisters house before we went home, and they were gone.... She left candy on the front door steps so Elizabeth said, "lets just take it" It was so cute.... then Ryan went inside and trashed the place. He put toilet paper all over and then pulled the couch apart, and took the pillows of the bed.... The girls and I didn't think that was very nice, so........ I am so sorry Hamblins....

Alexis Cheer Pictures

Alexis had her first performance for this year and she did a great job. She is really enjoying it and is getting really good at her jumps, moves, and gym.



She was practicing her toe touches and was doing a great job. I caught a bunch of funny faces when she was jumping and had to post them.






Her friends Justy and Kasey. They lived next door for a few years, but moved a couple blocks away... we have stayed good friends and Alexis is so glad she gets to take cheer with them.

It was so funny.... in the middle of the performance Alexis forgot where she was suppose to be and when she figured out that she needed to be on the girls back she ran and just jumped on her, and the little girl fell down.... Ryan and I couldn't help but laugh.... it was so cute.


Good job Alexis!!! You did a great job and we loved watching and cheering for you!

Ryan shot an Elk

Ryan and his Dad both shot a Elk the other day.... They were both girls and Ryan thinks it was a mother and daughter.... Ryan's dad shot the mom (which was huge) and Ryan shot the daughter.
It is big, but not as big as the mum

Brytlee and the Binky

Brytlee found our neighbors Binky in our back yard and thought it was the funniest thing ever. She has never had a Binky in her life, and was thrilled to try one out. She would put it in her mouth......

And then start laughing so hard. She would try to suck it, but couldn't stop laughing long enough to try it to long.

I had a hard time not laughing with her because it was so dang cute. The best part about it... she knew she was being funny.
I just love the huge bugger in her nose in this picture.....

Soccer Player

Soccer is over for Alexis now. I was really surprised how much she learned this year, and how much she loved to play. We just got her pictures this weekend and I and so happy with how they turned out.

The Team!
It will be fun to watch her next year, and see if she is as into it as she is now. She loves to go outside and play against Ryan in the back yard. (Ryan is Mr. Athletic and is good at every sport. He played a ton when we lived in Florida and was the teams MVP. The team was very surprised that a white boy could play....) Elizabeth will be old enough to play next year also, so it will be fun to see how she does and find out if she likes it or not.