It's Tootin' Tuesday! Time to toot some horns.

A BIG congrats goes out to Erin Summerill who just won the Macey's photo of the Month 1st prize. She's a great photographer and just thought i'd share how awesome her shots are.... and brag about how cute i think my baby is. ;)

For anyone who knows Erin you'll full heartedly agree that she is GREAT!

Erin is the person i will be choosing to "Honor" for Tootin' Tuesday. Since she would never toot her own horn. :)
Erin single handedly ripped apart a heroin house and turned it into a fabulous family HOME.
She also has started her very own photo buisness and she's awesome. as you can see by all the shots i've posted of hers.
and lastly to top it off she is always willing to give a helping hand. you can ask her to do anything and she's right there ready to help ya out.



Yah for you Erin. Have a TOOTIN' TUESDAY!

HERE SHE COMES... MISS AMERICA!


We had a miss america paegent party. it was great. we made crowns and laughed at all the girls and pretended that we didn't wish we were them. although secretly i'm sure we all wish we were. :) i'm afraid Isaiah had a little too much fun watching as you can see in the pic we couldn't stop him from staring at the t.v.


This is my Awesome Crown. I'm a winner!... or something.

With the weather being so dang awful, i thought ya'll could use a pick me up.

Don't believe in the power of prayer? try again... Last night we played games with Mark and Erin Summerill, after a vicious game of Settlers and a ridiculous game of scrabble (it was only so lame because both Erin and I used all seven letters to make a word, earning ourselves 50 extra points, only to loose) we lost our keys. we spent an hour looking, searching, ripping apart Erin's entire house from her couches to her kids toys when finally i convinced Nick it was time to ask for some help. We said a prayer and not 15 seconds later Mark had the keys in hand. Talk about awesome.

GLOBAL WARMING or UTAH STORMING?

it has snowed so much lately that even the garbage truck got stuck on our road.
it got stuck really bad and was there for an hour and a half. Then the suburban slid down the driveway into a giant pile of snow.

doesn't really look like it's a burning planet.

Did you have a naughty, or a nice holiday season? Mine was rather nice.

and now, on to a random story.... about 3 months ago this happened to Nick and I.... and it's really funny so i would suggest you continue reading, even if you're not an avid reader.... The night started as any other would. We had just gotten our newborn son Isaiah to finally hit the sack, (at about 12:30a.m.) and were trying to catch up on some house work that easily finds itself left undone when you have a new baby. Just before heading off to bed i realized we had left something important in the car, i can't remember what it was now but it was important back then. Anywho, Nick decided to run out and get it. it's now 1:00 in the morning mind you. He opened the door only to see a young girl sitting on our porch with no shoes on and looking quit nervous. Thinking it was just a friend of Clint's he asked, "oh, you here for Clint?" she shook her head no, and not knowing what to do he got the stuff from the car and came back in the house to tell me the goings on. We decided that even though we would have liked to have slept, we better go invite this stranger inside and see if she needed help. Nick again stepped outside and asked, "Are you okay?" she responded, "not really." to this she was invited in. Turns out she was at an underage drinking party over in Cedar Hills, about 2 miles away. and although she claims to have not been drinking by the rest of the story you'll have to assume no one could have been sober to do this. the cops showed up and she got nervous and ran, along with all of her buddies. As they ran they tried to stay in contact with each other via the phone. Her friend, who was on her phone, said, "they have dogs." well that was the last of it for our dear friend. She took off full speed, with no shoes, no phone, no friends, no nothing and ran all the way to our doorstep, through field after field, after field. And then just sat there as she had no clue where she was or what to do. CRAZY! well we got her a phone, some shoes, and a glass of water. Heck we even offered her a ride to wherever she needed to go. She did get ahold of her friends from the party, who also claim to be sober. and that's the last we ever heard of her, or my shoes. which she promised to return, not like we really believed she would, but still, after all we did for her she could have at least brought my shoes back. oh, well. so that's my crazy story about opeining your door in the middle of the night, and how maybe you shouldn't unless you have an entire collection of shoes you won't feel too bad about loseing. :) Happy Holidays everyone.

Wanna get a FREE meal? just find this in your dinner platter while eating out.


totally gross huh? we went out to eat today and i found this in my nacho's. it's like a paper bag with glue on it or something. icky. icky. other than that our new years day went pretty well.


Isaiah has had a good day playing with toys and laughing. here's a shot of him when he's off in la la land or something


and one of him loving on kari


and one of him laughing at daddy.

Happy New Years, everyone!