blair and maisy

June 30, 2011

Hawaii

We went to Maui after graduation.

1st venture to the beach on our trip.

Waiting for our Luau to start...

Blair up on stage learning the hula with Claire.

This is what Claire did every time she touched the sand. She hated it!

Much more content with me holding her :)

We went with our good friends Claudia & Ira. We love their company, and it was also nice having a Hawaiian tour guide ;)

Out on the balcony.

Will was the photographer on these pics of Claudia and me, and also of the top pic on this post, and many other great ones. Quite a talented little 4 year old:

At the top of the Haleakala volcano.

Ocean in the background. Hawaiian countryside.

On the road to Hana.

Coming to play at a natural pool.

Claudia and Claire.

The boys going to check out the waterfall.

Shaved ice, and banana bread. Note: Blair's favorite discovery were hot dogs with pineapple chunks in them sold from trucks on the side of the road.

Maui sunset. There's nothing prettier.

The Grand Wailea, where Ira used to work.

Ready for Snorkeling. Blair and Ira saw a sea turtle!

Tarzan!

Look at those eyelashes!

UTAH
From Hawaii, Blair went straight to Mississippi, to start orientation, and get us a house. I went straight to UT to visit family for a bit with the kids while he was doing that.

My sister Wendy had a baby the day before I got there, so I got to meet the newest addition.

We went up to Heritage Park and had a fun time with a cousin and grandma Diane. We were on a train here.

We had fun spending time with family, and a couple of friends too. Here are all of my siblings, minus the youngest who is on a mish.

We were excited that cousin Laurie and kids, who used to live in Vegas with us until last year, were in town from IL, and came over to visit.

The Bjarnson cousins. Man, where was my camera when we were at the Curtises house with the cousins there? I don't know. But we spent a lot of time with them too. Especially on their new play land, and all of the regular tractors and cars and toys that the boys love- fun!

So now we live in Biloxi, MS, and so far it is great! I'll update my blog hopefully this week with pics of our new house and Mississippi :)

May 18, 2011

Big Grad, and some sweet videos.

Guess who graduated med school? My honey! Four long years, but now it's all done.

I caught on video Blair being hooded by his dad at graduation. So neat! It's down below, along with some other videos that all happened last month that I have been working on lately. Being that we are moving next week (and being moved by the military and I am paranoid of things getting lost or damaged), I have been backing up all of my home videos and pictures, and scanning all of those hundreds of photos that were developed on normal film that I had laying around. It has become quite the project, but I am almost done! In the process I finally figured out how to edit videos from my camcorder and camera on my computer, and burn them to DVDs. This will be quite useful in the future!
So for this post I have a video clip of Blair's graduation, Xander's karate, Claire on a rocking toy, and I updated Will doing his hip hop dance in the previous post. Anyway, if you're ever bored, I have hours of home video at my house that I love watching with people :) ha ha, there is no time left before we go. I can't believe our move is right around the corner. So many changes to come!

Blair's Graduation:

Xander's Karate:

Claire:

More pics of graduation:

Blair with his siblings and parents

All of the Curtises came down

With my parents.

A little celebration party at Lake Las Vegas.

April 30, 2011

Hip Hop Will

Check out Blair joining the dance at the end :)

Here's a dance learned at preschool about being healthy. He's the one in the middle with the yellow shirt, along with his friend Savannah who is in yellow too. They learned this dance, along with a line dance, and a salsa dance all about health. Good stuff, and entertaining for me :)

The funnies

Will 12/14 " Mom can you please pour the milk for me because it’s almost full, and there’s a 65% chance that I’ll spill it."

11/14 Me: Why did you dump out all the toys?

Claire: Because I was trying to find something to play with

Me: What did you find?

Claire: The glow in the dark dinosaur

Me: Then why didn’t you put the other toys back?

Claire: Because I had to use the bathroom, so I just runned.

Claire 11/14 "Mom I can’t find any of my jammies, so should I bring you the sew kit so you can sew me some?"

Claire 11/14 "What do these constructions say?"

11/14 Claire: Mom Can I have this?

Me: Sure

Claire: Yes!!! Mom, thanks for asking me!

Claire 11/14 "Oh my Geez"

Claire 11/14 "I had a great dream last night. I got to see Dixie, and eat shrimp!"

Claire 11/14 "Our scarecrow fell over, but we’ll still be able to find our house because you know the numbers!"

Will 11/14 "The only good thing that happened to me today, was that Kord gave me a penny. But then I lost it."

Claire 9/13 "I love polka-dot butterflies."

Claire 9/13 " This pencil needs to get sharpt. Can I sharpt this pencil in myself?"

Claire 9/13 after pulling a piece of tape off of something successfully, "I am a great job."

Claire 8/13 "One time a dog pooped on the grass."

Me, "Why are you telling me that?"

Claire, "Because it was weally gross, PU!"

Claire 8/13 I walked in and exclaimed what a mess it was. "I didn't got that out," said Claire pointing at one little thing.

Claire 10/12 "Ehhhhh he he, ehhh he he."

Gaurd at the Airforce gate, "That sounds like a fake cry."

Me, "Yep."

Claire, "Ehhh he he, ehhh he he. It NOT a fake cwy."

Will 10/12 "Mom, could I miss school on Wednesday, because they're going to learn something really hard like minus?"

Me, "Well what would you do the next day when they were still learning more about that?"

Will, "No mom, we don't have to make up the homework when we miss."

Claire 10/12 "You not funny Will."

Claire 10/12 (almost in tears with the saddest little voice because she wanted all of the toys) "Mommy, brothers not sharing a me."

Claire 10/12 chasing her brothers around slowly with her arms outstretched says, "Bwains, bwains, bwains!" just like a real zombie.

Will 10/12 "Xander is white, and I'm white, and mom's white and Claire is white and dad's a little white."

Will 3/12 "Dad and I are getting gooder at disc golf."

Xander 3/12 seeing frozen peas in his drink that had spilled into the icebox, "Mom, there are green cotton balls in my drink."

Will 12/11 "I know something that's not a word: spit-buggar."

Claire 12/11 "Ha ha, fuh-ee (funny)"

Will 12/11 after he broke a plastic fork, "I would like to put it in recycling because that saves the world."

Will 11/11 as he rubs the carpet, "I like this house because it's hairier than the other one."

Will 9/11 "Mom, could you call my nickname 'shark' please?"

Will 9/11 in a prayer while Blair was away for a month, "Bless that we would ever see dad again, and if we drive there it wouldn't be too long."

Will 3/11 after I asked him how primary was, he said, "I was the 1st kid in class. I thought I was going to have to taught myself."

Will 3/11 "Mom, is today fast Sunday."

Me "What is fast Sunday Will?"

Will, "When we eat really fast."

Will 3/11 "Xander is saying mean things, like that I'm not the leader."

Blair told Will to go to the bathroom with him while we were out somewhere and he was doing the potty dance 3/11, "Hey I had to go to the bathroom too!"