French Family: November 2011

Sunday, November 27, 2011

The First Cuts Always The Hardest...?

Bree has a mulet. It's a pretty gnarly one too. So tonight I decided it was time to chop it off and give my little girl a more stylish do.

I forgot to get the "after" pictures so stay tune...

Friday, November 25, 2011

Karaoke? Yes Please.

A few of us got together after Thanksgiving at Ken and Gloria's house. We were all just hangin' out until someone turned on the karaoke machine and then music madness broke out. It ranged from my dad's solo of an Elvis Presley song to...

Everyone singing Summer Lovin' from Grease.

Now I should mention that most of us are not musically trained but that didn't stop us because we brought the house down with our skills... or lack of.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

We hosted Thanksgiving Dinner at our house this year for my side of the family. We had a great turn out and as always delicious food. With the girls all dressed up in their turkey day shirts, family and the food ready it was time to eat. After dinner, it was watching football for the boys and talking for the girls. Later we played the game "Would You Rather" with made up situations which left us all laughing hard and pondering some very tricky questions. It was a nice way to end a very wonderful Thanksgiving Day. Now everyone is gone and the house has been picked up and I'm sitting here writing this and I realize I have much to be thankful for in my life. Most of which revolves around my family and faith. It's these two things and all they in compass that bring me to my knees each night giving thanks for their presence in my life.

Friday, November 18, 2011

6 Years

Today Spencer and I celebrated 6 years together. Spencer had to go to Arizona for work but luckily I was able to tag along and we took the opportunity to celebrate our anniversary there too. We flew into Phoenix Tuesday morning and headed up to Sedona to do some sight seeing. It was pretty awesome to see the red rocks just pop up out of the bright blue sky. We had planned to stay the night there but at the last minute we changed our minds and drove back to Phoenix. Bad idea. We were unaware that not only was Orchard having a company anniversary party but that every other company was also gathering in Phoenix too. We drove around for a good two and a half hours trying to find a hotel under $100 bucks. After contemplating whether to sleep in the car we ended up at La Quinta. It was a place to sleep and it came with a free breakfast too.

We found a quaint little sandwich shop for lunch

It's a must to always have ice-cream on vacation - this was our first of many on this trip.

Visited the Chapel of the Holy Cross - a churn building surrounded by red rock and amazing views

On a mountain trail in Sedona

On Wednesday we checked into a much much nicer resort and Spencer was off to meetings. This meant I was able to relax. No house to clean, kids to feed, errands to run just me and 4 hours to twiddle my thumbs. That night Mrs. Robin Orchard took the company out to dinner. After dinner we played cards with Corbin and Natalie.

Thursday was another day to relax while Spencer went to meetings the first half of the day. He got a break for lunch and the 4 of us went to find a place to eat. We ended up at Dairy Queen which apparently was frowned upon from the locals. That evening we celebrated 10 Years with Robin and Orchard Medical Consulting. It was a great party.

Friday we were free until our flight back home at 6pm. Robin was so generous to pay for a movie and lunch at the iPic theater which was totally amazing. So Spencer and I and Corbin and Natalie saw Puss in Boots 3D. It was the most surreal movie watching experience any of us ever had. After that it was back to the airport to fly home.

We had such a great time and loved the time we were able to spend with just each other. It was so good to pick up the girls from my mom's and be home again. After such a great trip I would like to make our anniversary getaway a new yearly tradition.

What's She Thinkin'?

Kate has said and done some pretty funny things and I'm afraid that I'll forget them so I am writing them here where everyone can enjoy them.

10-12-12 Spencer picked up Kate from school today and she proceed to tell him that she told her whole class our phone number. Spencer was shocked because he didn't think she even knew our cell numbers. So he asked her to tell him and she quickly replied "2". 2 is Spencer and my speed dial for each other. Ha!

5-18-11 We got some lunch at Del Taco where the kids could play. There was a boy with long hair playing there too and Kate says in front of everyone, "Mom, hers a boy, for real !" The little boys mom just chuckled.

4-24-11 It was Easter Sunday and Kate asked about the Resurection... the rest of the convo went like this...

Kate: Mom what's the resurection?

Me: It's when you come back to life after you die

Kate: what does that look like?

Me: Oh it's pretty

Kate: So it's Pink?

3-20-11 Kate got some Barbies from a neighbor family who now has older children. She's been playing with non-stop and when Spencer asked her the name of one of the Barbies she quickly replied, "oh her name is Porky". That Barbie is sure to have a complex now.

3-20-11 Spencer and Kate were talking about the garden we want toplat this year and Kate said this... "Daddy, I want to grow a hugen pumpkin and call it Humpkin"

2-10-11 Kate and my mom were talking about riding horses and my mom asked Kate what her horses name was, she took a second to think about it and then replyed, "He's a pink horse named blue. "

9-29-10 Kate was in a bad mood and wanted something that I wasn't going to get her so she gave me the stink eye and then said,"mommy i'm magic and going to disapear from here and then ride my bike to get a treat at the store with daddy!".

9-17-10 Kate is in Spencer's football pool and she makes her picks each week by pointing to the team she wants to win. The other day she was coloring and Spencer was reading off the teams and Kate was telling him who she wanted.

Spencer: Jets or Patriots?

Kate: humm.... Jets because they're in the bathtub

Spencer: What?

Kate: daddy i said Jets because they're in the bathtub!

We have a jetted tub that kate likes to play in and turn on the "jets" and once he remembered that it was just common sense to pick the Jets... because they're in the bathtub.

7-26-10 Kate was telling me how she wanted someone to play with. I told her that I would play with here but she looked at me with her big eyes and said, "no mommy, not you. I want someone little like Brooke, Austin, or D-Bo." (D-bo is my dad)

5-9-10 After church we decided to go to the park. When I asked Kate which park she wanted to go to she said the red one. I told her I didn't know where that one was and then she said... "It's in utah idaho american south." Got it.

10-4-09 Spencer asked Kate if she wanted some ice-cream and she replied, "I sure do!"

10-1-09 Kate was in the tub while I was getting ready when I heard her singing like Ariel, "ah ahh ahh, ahh ah ahhh". When I looked at her she was on her belly and I started to laugh. She then quickly sat up and said, "what mommy?"

9-16-09 Kate's new favorite movie is the Little Mermaid. She was watching it when she turned to me and said, Mommy, I want to go to the ocean floor to say HI to Ariel and all the fishies".

9-1-09 It was past Kate's bed time when she asked to watch "Dora". I told her no because it was time for bed. Then she asked if she could watch football. Spencer perked right up and gave me a look like how was he supposed to turn that down? I guess she was willing to do anything to say up. Te-he-he We compromised by reading books together as a family.

8-27-09 Kate and I were driving in a construction zone in Provo when she saw a very large building crane. Then she said, "Mommy, I want to get in my bathing suit and ride that dinosaur."

8-23-09 Kate went into Spencer's office and said in a very frim voice, "Dad, I need my own computer." My dad says we're done for because Kate is already smarter than both Spencer and I.

8-20-09 Kate's new favorite things to do is hide things in drawers and cupboards. Just recently I have found Monk-monk in almost every drawer in the house - she even hid him while we were camping in Grandma camper. I have also found a hot pocket, a beach ball, sippy cups, hair accessories, shoes, measuring cups, small books and toys, and all sorts of stuff. I still giggle when I find things but I'm sure this will get very annoying very soon.

8-9-09 We were late to church so we just grabbed the first chairs we could see in the overflow. As soon as we sat down both Spencer and I looked at each other and gasped - the young lady in front of us had the worst body order EVER!! Kate didn't notice at first but it didn't take her long before she said very loud, "Eww that's stinky! Stinky mommy stinky!" As most 2 year olds do, she kept repeating those words. Needless to say we had to get up and move after the opening prayer.

7-22-09 "Mommy, see the mountains. I love them so much!"

6-22-09 We were all watching some T.V. when Kate came up to Spencer and I holding her Mrs. Potato Head and said, "What the Chicken?"

6-1-09 Spencer and Kate were looking at a rainbow in the sky when Spencer decided to name off all the colors in the rainbow, "Blue, purple, green, yellow and red" Then Kate looks at him and say, "And orange daddy, and orange". What 2 year old would know what color he didn't say?

5-30-09 Kate was having a hard time falling asleep so I laid in the guest bed with her to help calm her down. I was almost asleep when I heard some strange noises. Then a small voice says, "that was me". This went on for a good five minutes and I couldn't help but to snicker a few times at the silly noises she would make and then follow with "that was me" just in case I didn't know who or what was making those sounds.

5-20-09 A man with brown shoulder length hair walks onto the airplane. Kate points at him and says, "Jesus mommy, Jesus!!" She repeats this about 4 times while pointing right at him and each time she says it louder and louder.

5-9-09 I was taking some vitamins and Kate wanted some so I filled a syringe with water when she wasn't looking and told her to open big for her medicine. She did and then looked up at me with her big brown eyes and a face of disappointment and with a sigh said, "water mommy?" My mouth fell open and for a second I didn't know what to say then I started laughing.

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