Surprise!!

Well It has been a while but we have just been so very busy! We had Halloween in Arizona and also stayed to be there when Riley my niece was born. Then we came back to Texas and spent thanksgiving with Brock's grandparents up in cypress TX. Then after that we started working hard! Brock was studying for his finals this past few weeks and also we have been working trying to get all the paper work in order for something extra special. Can you guess what that would be???? WE ARE GETTING SEALED THIS MONTH!!!!!! Finally after 3 1/2 yrs of be being "pushy" its paid off ha ha ha. we are so so so excited. So next week we will be in Arizona! we are staying for 3 weeks. Rian will turn three this month too! crazy! And Maddox will be two in 3 months my babies are growing up too fast!. so my plan is to be pregnant by February... but i have the whole convincing brock to have more babies obstacle to figure out first. What to do what to do.... well here are some pictures of Halloween for ya'll! sorry they are a bit late!

crafts I have been working on

This is one of the many many Tutu's i Have made for Rian

And another tutu for the princess

This quilt I made for rian because she loooves pirates and I thought it was girly and kinds like pirates right?!

This quilt was made for my new niece expected this week!! yay! I am soo excited!

And this is a skirt I made out of the left over fabric of rian's quilt

Ok really these pics are backwards the one below is the before and the one above is after. This dress up wedding dress was made by my mom for me when i was five. i loved it so naturally i wanted to give it to rian but problem was it was ripped, stained, the lace was falling off, it was way out of fashion, and like 5 sizes too big! So i set to revive my favorite play dress of my youth and it came out pretty good! rian refuses to take it off! I had to take the picture when she was taking a nap cause no one is allowed to touch her "pwetty mawied dwess" (pretty married dress for those who don't speak baby lol)
All of these pics were taken with my cell phone cause our digital camera is broken so sorry they are a but out of focus!

could not agree more!

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."-Marjorie Hinckley


I saw this on a friends blog and i could not agree more with sister Hinckley

Pirate Rian

This is Rian's Halloween costume's head dress. I had to modify it a bit just special for her because, of course, my kid have the biggest head ever so no normal kids hat would possible even come close to fitting on her head. So I took the original pirate hat and snipped it in a few places. then to hide the altering and make the hat larger I added elastic. Then to hid the elastic I used a hot glue gun and added yarn to make her have pirate dred locks. then after all that the hat was still just a bit too small so i have to clip it in to her hair cause i have come to realize that if i snip that hat any more it will fall apart her head is just too big! maybe i should go try to find an adult size hat.... but doesn't my little pirate princess look adorable! she really wants brock or I to be snow man for halloween ( i have no idea why) but any time the subject of Halloween comes up she says "you gonna be a snow man mommy/daddy?". She is just so much fun!

cowboy hats and curls

Rian's hair is finally long enough to put rollers in and she actually begged me to do it! it was so fun having some girly time with my princess.

cowboy hats were the art and craft of the day....

I let both the kids but their foam stickers any where they wanted on their cowboy/cowgirl hats they loved it but soon all the stickers started ending up on their bodies and my table and entertainment center.

Almost every day when daddy comes home from school he gets on the ground and gives the kids a ride this time he thought if he did it two at a time there would be no fighting who went first... he was right of course but he got tired alot faster! ha ha ha

I found these pics from some dates we went on in AZ. Brock will do anything to make me laugh! This one is in that weird hippie shop on mill ave. isn't he a hot little toker?! haha

This next one is at the park by our old apartment right before i had rian... he really enjoyed himself on that duck. I was afraid it would snap under his weight but none the less it was hilarious to watch!

crazy kids!

Well Brock has started his 3rd tri... so far he says its not so fun just alot of really really hard classes. but he is excited because finally this tri he starts to learn adjustments. I am excited too! I love it when he practices on me. I am so proud of him! He is doing such a great job he finished last tri with a 3.6 GPA! I am so great full that he is so dedicated to his schooling so he can provide a great life for us!

Rian is getting so big. she is full of attitude and energy. me not so much, its hard to keep up with her. she loves to play dress up and house and dance and sing at the top of her lungs. On Sunday I was in the primary waiting my turn to do music time and the nursery leader cam in with rian and whispered that rian needed to go to the bathroom. As soon as Ri saw me she shouted(in the quiet primary room) "mommy meg! I need to go poo poo right now! Will you wipe my butt!" everyone stopped what they were doing and laughed, I turned red, And Rian smiled pleased with herself for getting everyone's attention with one simple outburst. I quickly grabbed her and ran out of the room and back to the nursery rooms toilet. And the best part is i had to fight with her in the bathroom for 5 min. just to get her to go potty! of course! she is such a stinker! she always knows just what to say in public to make me embarrassed! Like when she is misbehaving and trying to run away from me and i grab her she will start screaming "ouch let go of me let go! your hurting me! oooooooooooooowww!" you wouldn't believe the looks I get from people like I was the worst mom... then as soon as i let go she just grins and looks at me and whispers "just kidding" then runs off again. she thinks she is so funny. and she is. clever too!

Maddox is just such a boy and definitely filling his annoying little brother roll perfectly ha ha. He is finally getting that he can do things to Rian that make her upset. getting back at her i am sure for all the mean stunts she's pulled on him. And now he is big enough that she can't really push him around anymore. the other week he took her sippy cup and wouldn't give it back so she just stood in the middle of the room crying and i came to find out why and i see him running in circles around her shaking her cup and laughing and her crying " my cup, my cup" it was so funny but i tried really hard not to laugh to hard so that he would know that teasing his sister was not OK. Then a few days later rian was sitting on the floor playing with a doll and maddox come over grabbed the laundry basket trapped her in it and sat on top of it so she couldn't get out. he thought this was hilarious she was screaming let me out and he was shaking his head no and laughing so loud. I love that little boy he is just such a cutie and he looks so innocent! You would never believe that he had every done anything wrong, sad to say that i am sure rian has probably gotten blamed for some of his mischief just simply because when I find something wrong he looks at you with those big blue innocent eyes like he is completely oblivious and then ri will look at you with a devilish grin sure that maddox will be blamed but it just makes her look guilty ha ha ha so now i have to be very careful about every situation and make sure i know what really happened. ha ha ha man they keep me busy!

This week I tried to go back blonde doing my hair all by my self with the occasional help from brock. And now i have ended up with fried melted hair and a strange orange brown tint to my hair with a few highlights. ha ha ha it is so funny! i managed to tone down the orange starburst look but my hair is just awe-fully melted but it is all good cause i really wanted to cut my hair off but i was feeling a bit guilty cause it took forever to grow it this long and my whole life i thought i had wanted long hair but now that i have it i just think its boring! (plus I am pretty sure brock likes my hair longer better). so this gives me the perfect excuse to cut it! yay! so I am going to have Courtney (brock's cousin) cut it off this Friday and i am so so excited! oh i am teaching a hair class for the young women this week and i am oddly nervous! i forget what is common knowledge to me might not be the case for them! so what do i teach! ha ha ha wish me luck!

Best one

SO I really like this pic of edward and bella. I just thought i would share it i stumbled upon it while looking for trailers of the new moon movie and i think it is the best one i have seen! I love the glowing apple and how edward looks dangerous and bella so pure and fragile one of the first times i have seen these guys acually look the part they play in the movie.

Brock's 26th Birthday

Yesterday was Brock's 26th birthday so we spent the afternoon at the beach in Galveston it was so much fun! then afterward we went and got ice cream at Ben & Jerry's

Mermaid Rian (good way of containing your kids so they can't run away)

Brock's sand ball creation and my dellapitated sand castle

The kids helping build the castle

swimming in the ocean, or standing because I really didn't wanna get to far out! some guy on the beach said recently they were on shark watch cause someone sited one! ahh~

Mad likes to play by himself so ry can't take his toys and mom can't tell him no sand in the mouth ha ha ha.

Rian collecting sea shells, surrounded by tons of big whole shells yet she went after the tiniest broken pieces

She seems to make new friends where ever she goes!

Fun weekend with the ellis's!! (MASS PICS)

So our friends Rachel and Josh Ellis and their little girl Maddison came down for the week and we had so much fun! so here are the pics that josh took with his new spiffy camera! We went to San Antonio and saw the Alamo and went to the river walk then the next day we went to Kemah boardwalk and then out to dinner for Brock's b day and then to the aquarium in downtown! It was so fun!

The carousel at the Aquarium in downtown Houston. who says you have to be little to ride!!

The Ferris wheel was so fun it wen t faster than normal ones kinda scary!

Up in the bubble in the sting ray exhibit the girls loved it!

Rian could not get enough she pet a sting ray, a shark, a star fish and a crab! Maddox on the other hand wanted nothing to do with those slimy critters!

And of course we had to take our friends to visit Kemah boardwalk! Here they are playing at the splash pad!

The girls walked around like this all day every day it was so stinkin cute~ oh and kept referring to each other as friend like " friend, wanna play friend?"

Rian is very very dramatic and this is her pretending to be scared of the train even though she has ridden it hundreds of times!

And this is Rian kissing "friend" she is a very passionate two yr old! lol

Gotta love random photos!

The cutest Kids!

Kemah from above !

Us in the observation tower ride

Maddox loving his sea horse!

Passed out cold at the Alamo

The River walk the girls took the double bumping Maddox into maddie's pink stroller... we only got a few funny stares...

Maddox having had about enough of the fun boat ride on the river walk!

Weird hospital on the river walk looks like one wall

Statue on top of a theater on the river walk

gargoyle heads kinda creepy

Trying to see the fishy's

Her devilish grin

And her mischievous look finally caught on camera!

more randoms, i look annoyed! and i was the boat guy was... well you get the picture!

I'm On a boat!

In front of the Alamo

Playing in a fountain at The Alamo

Maddox throwing a a fit at McDonnalds because sea world was closed! the whole reason we drove to San Antonio in the first place!

Our bedroom finished

Well here is our bedroom with the new bed set courtesy of my wonderful mother in law and and our "new" dressers! Thanks to my sweet sis once again for teaching me how to do the dressers and for the idea in the first place! And thanks once again to my mother in law for my gorgeous bed spread and pillows I absolutely love them!!!