Gravity: Brittany Cairns

I put this up awhile back but people from the US weren't able to hear it. Now that it's on YouTube you should be able to hear it. I get chills from this girls voice. I LOVE it!

Day in Sydney

We picked Jeremy's best mate up yesterday from the airport (Joey)... After a few "hold-up's" (*cough/ahem - that's all I can say), Joey made it in to the country safe and sound and ready to begin his trip.

We decided to start his first day here FULL of stuff to do to keep him awake and help him adjust to the time change. We walked around at Darling Harbour and went to the Sydney Wildlife Park and Sydney Aquarium. We drove past the temple to show him, but are bummed we won't be able to take him through a session during his stay because it is closed for cleaning the entire time he is visiting. :(

However, when we went to the Aquarium, they had manatee's there today! Isn't that so cool! I LOVE manatee's. I have always loved them and have always thought they were so cool, but have never actually seen one in person. If you didn't know, I always wanted to be a marine biologist growing up and the only reason I didn't go off to San Diego State University is because I could've never afforded the out of state tuition after high school. But I have always kept a love for the ocean and all animals in the ocean. On a side note, I also love that Joey was there to take pictures of my family that actually included ME in them. :)

I have to admit. Seeing a crocodile in real life is extra cool also. I think they are a lot more fascinating when you see them up close.

We drove home and talked the whole way and stayed up talking to Joey until late. After we got home I kept thinking, "Holy Cow! Someone we "know" is at OUR house." ha ha We have sure missed hanging out with our friends and family and it is SO NICE to have Joey here. I really wish Nadia and Sophia could've made it with him. It almost feels like we are home. :)

*In three weeks from tomorrow my sister will be here!*

Junk in the Trunk

....particularly the turquoise junk on the right. Yuck! We walked by this girl while in Sydney yesterday,who Jeremy and Joey heard talking on her phone and found out it was a "HIM" (seriously?), and I hurried and snapped a pic of her, I mean "his" junk. It was awful! So awful I wanted to blog about it. First of all I can't believe it's not a female and second of all, it is the worst butt implants I've ever seen!

Random Photos

At Pancakes on the Rocks in Sydney. Yummy!

At Pancakes on the Rocks in Sydney. Yummy!

Mae-Mae Goober

When Tate was just starting to talk he always called any car that had to do with "Cars" the movie, "Mae-Mae" after Mater. Now he knows all their names but sometimes, even still, we find all of us calling characters in the movie "Mae-Mae". When Teagan had these skates, he wanted nothing to do with them. I tried to put them on him and Teagan didn't like how unstable he felt in them. He wore them once and never asked to wear them again. I've never tried putting them on Tate, but today Tate brought them to me and asked me to put the Mae-Mae skates on him. Surprisingly he wore them for about 30 minutes around the house and didn't really fall in them (which if you know his nature of constant falling or hurting himself is in and of itself a Miracle). He was still wearing his pajamas when he asked me and luckily it matched perfectly. ;) Plus he is such a little poser. He makes me laugh! I just love this little tato-bug.

Steffan's 1st Birthday Photo Shoot

Jeremy left yesterday to go to Sydney for the week for training at work which means a "LONG" week for me. Fortunately I have awesome ward members who have offered to bring me dinner, have me over for dinner and let me drop my kids off for a few hours so that I can have a break. I am SO THANKFUL for them. I couldn't have asked for a better ward to be in. On Friday I am driving up to Sydney with the boys to pick Jeremy up and stay in the temple accommodations overnight. We were invited to our friend Sofia's sealing on Saturday and it just worked out that Jeremy's Young Men's group will be there Saturday morning to do baptism's. And then we will go back to Sydney again next Tuesday to go pick Joey up. Yipeee! Our first visitor!

Back to my week... to start my Monday off, I decided to do a little birthday photo shoot for Steffan's one year birthday coming up in a couple of weeks. I set it up in our dining room today and I might have well have set up a "Don't Touch" war zone because the boys wanted to play with it all day. I even Skyped with my mom so she could watch the whole thing. She even helped get the boys attention in telling them to smile. It was like she was here with me. :) I think the pictures turned out so dang cute! I really love them. I even turned one of them into a birthday invite.

 

 

Birthday Photo Shoot Fun

I wanted to do a birthday photo shoot today for Steffan's upcoming 1st Birthday. Well, Steffan is asleep and so I had the other two boys model for me to see how my "set" would look. They turned out pretty cute. Teagan didn't want me to take pictures and negotiated me down on how many I could take. lol But, he wouldn't smile for them...

I thought some of them would be cute birthday cards for me to print out at Costco and give to people on their birthdays. What do you think?

PS. More birthday photos to come with Steffan actually IN the pictures.

Faux-Hawk 3

Not sure if it's "Faux-Hawk" or "Fo-Hawk"... at any rate, they are probably both wrong. :) The boys had just gotten out of the bath and we decided to rock them all out in their jammies. Bedtime! It's my FAVORITE time of day! ;)