Easter Weekend:)

Alright, wow talk about your blog catch up! BTW, I blogged about the month of March but had already started it and saved it as a draft soo it is under the post about the wax story! OK now on with it Megan!

This Easter weekend we got to go over to Safford to spend our time with my family! We stayed with Monica and Jeff and had a lot of fun that night! Saturday morning we woke up not so early and headed out to Klondye for our 2nd Cousins reunion. They decided to invite our grandma and the rest of the Crockett side their reunion! How nice they fed us and gave all the kids a Easter basket LOADED with lots of fun stuff. They live out on a ranch and had lots of outdoors for the kids to roam without us worrying about them too much! They had an Easter egg hunt for the kids and then it happened...we spotted the cute little puppies and that was it, the kids were hooked! Well so was I, it turns out they were to be given away as Easter gifts! So what did I do? Yea momentary lapse of brain function and said "I want the brown one!" Oh he is so cute! So here he is!

I think we will name him Max, that is the name we actually all think would work! The kids are so excited, he is a great puppy. It's sort-of funny how he doesn't like being outside, although that is where he lives. He probably never went indoors before now and now he is hooked! Every time the door opens he runs to get there before it closes!

So the Easter Bunny visited in a way that has changed our lives completely, thanks to my impulse reaction to hearing that something is "free"!

Sunday was a good one, Church, food and family! We went to church with Jeff and the Kids (Monica got sick) then headed over to my mom's house where she fed us Ham and lots of Jello's. Then visited until it was time to leave! It was a great day and good to be able to see everyone!

General Conference!

Wasn't Conference great this year?...Yea that was a question! We did have G.C. on all day on Saturday and watched the first session while making breakfast and getting ready for the day, but my kids just like to make things like listening very difficult! Anyway Saturday after the morning session Justin decided to move a wall so painting the house would be easier and to make the look of the house nicer too! Anyway so we missed the second session on Saturday and Justin missed the Priesthood session that night due to needing groceries at Sam's Club! At this point we are really glad that we get the Ensign! On Sunday morning, it was a bit more calm, we let the kids play so we could get something out of conference. When the first session was done we called the kids into the room and explained to them that they were going to watch the second session with us quietly and revently. During the break this is how our kids entertained themselves!

Yep they got every shirt in their dressers and layered themselves up to the point that when they hit each other it didn't hurt! What? Why? I don't get it! Oh well they were playing quietly! That went on until conference started again and we called them in to watch! Or Sleep? Yea I think everyone fell asleep but Eli, I say I think because I did fall asleep! Man are we glad we get 2 copies of the Ensign! I always like General Conference the spirit that is in my home and the love that is shared! Hopefully in 6 months we get a little more out of it!

Umm...just for fun!

Ok first of all I tried to post something earlier but blogger wouldn't upload my photos so I will go back to that post tomorrow (hopefully) and fill everyone in for the month of March...totally busy! I don't see April being so busy though so maybe I can get more things posted! Yea let's just see!

But I loved this e-mail when I got it years ago and I think of it often so I am posting it here so when I do think of it I can just easily find it and read it!

WAX is Not your Friend CAUTION: Be prepared to laugh out loud...I laughed till I almost cried as I could just see this happening! ( And feel it too! ) All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now...the wax. My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: "Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet." So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out.
(YA THINK!?!) So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. ("Cold wax," yeah...right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works! OK, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this!
Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire. With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the one strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my *hoo-hoo* and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek .
(Yes, it was a long strip)
I inhale deeply and brace myself....RRRRIIIPPP!!!! I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!....OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!
Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP!!! Another deep breath and RRIIPP!!
Everything is swirly and spotted.
I think may pass out...must stay conscious..
Do I hear crashing drums???
Breathe, breathe...OK, back to normal. I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it.
Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX??? Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip. I touch. I am touching wax.
CRAP!
I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake...remember my foot is still propped up on the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down. DANG!!!!!!!!
I hear the slamming of a cell door. "hoo-hoo*? Sealed shut! Butt?? Sealed shut!
I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!"
What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???
WRONG!!!!!!! I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub...in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax. So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cement-epoxied myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter - "So, my butt and who-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!" There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, "Are we talking cheeks or who-ha?" She's laughing out loud by now...I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else's night. While we go through various solutions. I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!! By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event. My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace....the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point?
I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It's sooo painful, but I really don't care.
"IT WORKS!! It works!!" I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up.
I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair....THE HAIR IS STILL THERE.......ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!! So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated my own leg at this point. Next week I'm going to try hair color...... Now thats funny ........ Notttttttttt

March Madness!

March was, as I predicted, very busy. I started the month out with 2 day care kiddo's. PJ (3) gets to come on Monday's and Tuesday's for a few hours. And Jack (5 months) gets to come on Monday's, Tuesday's and Thursday's all day. This has kept me pretty busy so far, hardly time to blog let alone read others blogs. On March 5 Justin and I decided to celebrate our 12 year anniversary a little early! Yep 12 years who would have thought...look how young we are almost babies! We went up to scottsdale for the night before Justin had surgery. Oh did I forget to mention that. Yea Justin was getting shoulder surgery on March 6th that is why we dicided to celebrate early. We spent the night in scottsdale so we could be closer to the hospital (so I didn't have to wake up at 3:30 basically). Anyway, the hotel was so nice this is what I said to Justin as we walked in..."wow a hotel with the stairs on the inside" yea I know we are such hicks! It was so nice the guy at the counter as we checked in told us we should try out the "heated" swimking pool. Oh I didn't even think of that so we headed off to Marshall's to find swimming apperal. While we were out we dicided to eat out at Red Robin. Wow that was good! I liked the Guacamole Burger and Justin enjoyed the Peppercorn Burger. After finding the hospital (so I wouldn't get lost in the morning) we headed back to the hotel where we enjoyed the Hot Tub. The pool was heated but not enough for us Arizona Natives. The next morning we headed off the the hospital where I sat for a few hours and Justin had his surgery! It didn't last for too long and the pictures were really gross, I thought about posting those but I changed my mind! I also took pictures of him before he went in but with my cell phone, which stopped working about 3 weeks ago! Anyway the month was just busy with day care and Relief Society! We had our R.S Birthday Celebration. It was a Fiesta with a Pinata and everything! I heard several times it was good hopefully I can continue the good and not anything bad!
On March 25th Parker turned 5
He was soooo excited, he kept telling people days before the 25th I am five today is my birthday. He got a ton of loot and wants to spend all day building houses with his lego's, and going to the store to spend his money! He is so cute and smart. He will start Kindergarten next year and with any luck he will have all day, but if not I guess I will survive another half day year!

After we got the cement done in February I decided that the house couldn't go any longer without a coat of paint so we went though so may paint samples and finally picked one that worked and came home and found out it was a very very lime green color. YIKES! back to home depot we go with a different color and wow what a difference. The lime green would have fit into our neighborhood just fine but we really don't want the missionaries to tract us out on a monthly basis! So here is a before picture we have a LHOT of work to do!
Spring Break was this month too. We didn't do much because of the fact that my kids are rotten. But we did make it over to Safford to visit cousins and Grandma's and Grandad! The kids were so sure they could potty train Emie too. They didn't have much luck but tried. Emie is her own person no one will tell her what to do!
The month was so busy that I can't really remember what exactly what happened and when it happened so this is just what I can remember! I hope you didn't laugh to hard when you saw our wedding picture!

Cause There's Nothing Else To Do!

So February has been an exciting and busy and insane month...it started out slow so I thought good I will be able to post things as they happen, well it didn't work out that well so here I am updating the whole month in one post!


Before it got real busy I was tired of looking at my ugly kitchen so I thought what can I do to make it look better or at least not as ugly so I found this desk on craigslist and brought it home...boy does it make the kitchen not so cluttered! That for me was a nice thing just because now it doesn't seem so make my house so blah! What do you think? The before picture doesn't even show the whole mess so in your head picture another table full of other crap!











Justin doesn't really believe in Valentines day but he always brings me flowers to let me know he loves me...Yea I know, I was surprised too. Anyway this is a picture of the flowers and the little craft Parker made for me in school! So cute!

On the weekend of Presidents day Justin had a long weekend and a new gun so we decided to make a trip to Safford. I had different reasons to go, the Gila Valley Temple grounds dedication was taking place on Feb 14th. It also was my nephews 4th birthday...So lots of reasons to take off! These are pictures of the kids digging in the dirt where the temple is going to be located. Actually I think they said where they were digging is where the Celestial room will be, so exciting. We actually put some dirt in a container and collected some rock for the memory!

After the digging fun, we decided to go visit "Old" Grandma. My Grandma is the best but she can't do things the way she used to so when we are there we always try to go over and visit. She loves to see the kids and see how big they are getting, she also loves it when Justin comes to visit so she can have a political discussion and be entertained by his opinions. Not that they are different but that she gets him to talk. Anyway I have a picture of Michelle with "Old" Grandad in this same outfit so I thought it fitting to get a picture of Emie with "Old" Grandma in the same outfit. I don't know why it's just me!

P.S. Grandma never looks at a camera so this is as close as she will come...with her eyes closed!

I didn't go shooting with Justin so I don't have any pictures of that but boy was he excited to get a few rounds through it. And I also didn't get any pictures of Bronson's birthday party but that was a fun evening. Poor kid had to wait all day for his party and he was so excited about getting batteries! Check it out here.

That brings us to our house...what can I say about our house. It's not the biggest, or the prettiest, or anything else. We knew it would be a work in progress, so this last week was a week of progress. We have wanted to cement in our side yard so that we would have a place to park the white car, and make the weeds go away. Plus we also got the step out the back door done so now officially our addition is DONE! We also got a patio done so we can put a Bar-Be-Que grill out there and never use it there either;). So here are the before and after pictures of the side yard and the while getting it done pictures of the back patio. I thought Kevin and Tressa would appreciate these photos of Kevin hard at work!

This picture is the before, Justin worked really hard to get it to this point. But this picture makes it look like Parker worked really hard on getting the dirt moved. He was this dirty after picking up a piece of wood to make a bike ramp. Finally they are using their heads on how to have "boy fun", thanks to Skyler!This Shirt is still dirty I am shouting it as we speak!

The kids all wanted to check out what was going on this is before we gave in and let them outside! This is a cute picture of (left to right) Madelyn, Kaitlyn, Emie, and Bronson.

That is what happened after we let the kids go outside. No Problem Kevin said and fixed it.

This is the after, doesn't it look great?

On February 27th Emie Turned the BIG 2

She is so cute! And not at all in the Terrible 2's (not yet). She is such a great baby a great way to end a large family, I hear having 4 kids makes you a large family now, I donno? Anyway Emie makes me laugh everyday her personality is fantastic and hilarious, she is so pretty and such a little princess. She loves her mom and dad and sister and brothers yep both of them! She is a tiny little thing and has all of us wrapped around her little finger. As the youngest should! I can't wait for her to get older and to see her personality grow! I am so grateful for her, I am grateful for my Heavenly Father for asking us to have her and I am so happy I listened! Here are some pictures of her on her Birthday... She is trying to hold out her I'm 2 fingers so cute!
Look at the AWESOME cake I made!

She wouldn't blow her candles out, I guess she figured that blowing Bronson's candles out on his birthday counted for hers too!

She saw this little chair at Wal-Mart and loved it so I thought why not I will go ahead and get this for her. She loves it still (I was a little worried) and gets upset when someone else wants to sit in it or touches it!

See she loves it and is so happy! And it is useful for naps too, so comfortable!


March is already starting off in a rush, maybe the next time you hear from me will be in another month! I will try to be better we will see with the time ever slows down!

Catching up!

Wow has this month flown by...There is so much to blog about hopefully I can get all the pictures uploaded to my computer soon so I can tell you all how much fun we had this month! So stay tuned and I will get going on this stuff!

Malcolm in the Middle

So I was sick and tired of my kids the other day, they kept fighting and yelling and being kids I guess. Anyway I was sick of it so I said "that's it come in here, kneel down, and put your hands on you head"! Let me tell you...that is the best form of punishment yet! The kids kept whining and saying how uncomfortable it was for them! Both Justin and I were like "good, it is supposed to be hard, not fun you guys were being rude and bad"! Anyway I got the idea off the show Malcolm in the Middle, good show I would watch it if you guys have some naughty kiddos'!

By the way Emie was joining in on the "fun" while the kids were in trouble. She is hilarious!