a new way of shopping

so i must share this with all of you!

this picture was taken at a grocery store where they had this huge section of the store dedicated to buying food like this through a dispenser!

however much you wanted, by the pound!

you name it, they sold it like this,

grains,

rice,

pastas,

seasonings,

candy,

cereal,

beans,

granola,

coffee of course,

and so much more!

pretty much anything dry

i didn't buy anything that way but next time i will.

this was bizarre to me, but maybe it's not to some of you!

i just thought it was kinda fun :)

this.

movie.

was.

freaking.

awesome.

 Russell Crowe= best robin hood ever

how adorable

are these?

annalee

the other day i called annalee, my neice,
on the phone she was playing with at that moment.
to her utter surprise the phone started ringing for real and she got to answer it!
and then it was for her!!!
and it was BIBER!!!!!
my mom texted me the pic of her talking on the phone

moral of the story:
it was cute.
she's stinkin adorable.
and i miss her.

savages

casey and i are savages.

did you know this?

well we are :)

and we are proud of it.

last week we went to the grocery store to pick up oreo ice cream

on a week night after a long day

we are obsessed with all things oreo, did you know that too?

so on our way home we really wanted to eat it!

right then!

in the car!

but problem: no spoons :(

solution: be savages

bite around the edge of the container

once no more ice cream can be reached that way,

casey used his fingers,

yes we are savages.

teeth marks can be seen in the back left corner still

we thoroughly enjoyed are savage, ice cream eating car ride

happy mommy day!

mommy.

mother.

mama.

mootie.

mom.

i have been blessed with beautiful examples of mothers in my life

i'm so lucky to know and have so many amazing women in my life teach me

my own, wonderful and sweet one.

i see myself become more and more like her each day,

and you know what,

that makes me really happy :)

i am who i am because of her.

my husband's wonderful, sweet mother

she teaches me new things about motherhood and my husband everytime i'm with her

and she taught her son so well, he was so lucky to have this wonderful woman raise him.

i see my SIL's and cousin's with their kids all the time and hear them talk about them and i hope to be what they are and to be able to teach and love my children like they do theirs

i'm so lucky to watch first and then to do like them

i've been blessed with wonderful grandmothers,

grandma holman,

granny woodruff,

grannylynn,

and casey was lucky to learn from

grandma jo

and grandma christensen

there are so many more beautiful, kind, wonderful, amazing, talented women 

who have taught, guided, befriended, and nurtured me

so i just want to say

thank you.

thank you for being you.

happy mother's day!!!

a time for reading

it's summer time.

which means worktime

and with this job, it means reading time.

i'm taking a trip to the public library, hopefully soon, but am stumped with what to get

any ideas on good books you've read lately or not so lately?

i haven't read in ages it seems like bc of school but i'm ready to get my read on

so please, share with me your goods!

busy busy busy bodies!

well folks, we made it to cali!

we had such a fun time last week in arizona visiting my side of the family 

we played much too much with little miss annalee

and the adorable new phoebe!

here are some of our activities!

played with annalee... a lot and we loved it!!!!
i was "biber" or "K! biber"
and casey was "asey" or "C! asey"
we trued teaching her the "k" part of our names and she couldn't put the "k" and the word she already knew together, so cute!
but she's learning so much!
it's so fun to teach her knew things and hear her parrot us!
i love this age!

she's hilarious when you say smile!!!

 pretty much our day often evolved around
when can we play with annalee?
when is her nap?
when can we pick her up?
you know :)

casey taught her how to sword fight...in the store
we also taught her the "okey pokey!"
and we loved hearing "no! annalee (very mumbled) do it!" 

we learned she loved getting her nails painted!
what a girl!
we did them blue and changed to pink after a few days
whenever she wasn't in the talking mood, i just asked her about her nails and she got all super happy and then played with me :) loved it

i've never heard the ABC's so much as i did when we were with her
we also sang like a bajillion songs to entertain her in the car haha

went to bahama bucks and loved it!
casey loved it so much we went 3 times in a week, goodness

we also met this cute little girl!
miss phoebe!

you just got to love holding a newborn!

proud mommy and sister

proud aunt and uncle too!
we're so lucky to have 3 cute little nieces on my side!

climbed kamleback mountain in phoenix with my mom!

i haven't done that hike in awhile and goodness there are BOULDERS!
it's not a hike, it's like a boulder climb!
haha, but fun memories still

went to the Gila Valley Temple walk through!

it's smaller than it appears!
but it's so pretty inside!!!!!!!

we were so lucky to have blair, annalee, and phoebe come with us at the last minute!
to say the least, annalee was quite entertaining through the "reverent" temple :)

but we did all enjoy the plentiful amount of cookies at the end

everyone minus mom

had to go motorcycle riding!
i don't know why but i still say motorcycle riding even though i was the only one on one, everyone else was on quads etc!

casey had a little/big oopsie daysie and has some new battle wounds
you gotta learn somehow huh? :)

everyone minus mom again, poor mommy

i think the arizona desert is soooo pretty :)

and it was wonderful, everything was blooming!

oh yes and casey did his first balloon job with us,
this was his new hairstyle :)

funny the day my mom needed help, it was 3 jobs...that turned into nightmares!
ha!
you may like balloon drops, but we do not :)
a first in my mom's balloon career, it was triggered early!
luckily i saw it and ran up the ladder to save it before all the balloons came out! goodness!
to see how one of the proms turned out, visit here

 we had a wonderful time in arizona and were sad to leave!
we're safe in sacramento with lots of bug guts on our car to prove it,
getting into the gist of our jobs,
our apt is awesome and we love it,
someday we'll go shopping for food too :)