I've been tagged

I was tagged by my sister Rachel (check out her blog) and here is what the tag is...

Archive Meme Instructions: Go back through your archives and post the links to your five favorite blog posts that you’ve written. But there is a catch:


(click on each link to see the post)
Link #1 must be about family
I love my kids and my husband and looking back at these pictures, although it was a crazy afternoon trying to get pictures, it was also a lot of fun watching them play and just be crazy kids. I feel bad Tyler is not in these, but he was behind the camera.

Link #2 must be about friends
This one might be a bit of a stretch, but anyone who knows me knows this is my all time favorite show, I love Friends, I have 6 of the 10 seasons and this is truly one of my favorite past times, so does this count as "must be about friends"?

Link #3 must be about yourself, who you are… what you’re all about
This is who I am, I'm a mom and I love it. There were a few more that I wanted to put here, running, sipping cocoa, cooking, but when it came down to it, this is what defines me the most, that my children have smiles on their faces.

Link #4 must be about something you love:
I love to scrapbook, I love putting together memories and I love getting to be with good friends while I am scrapbooking.

Link #5 can be anything you choose
How could I not put the Josh Groban concert on here. I loved that evening, especially since it was with Tyler and some of my sisters, they rock, and we got to listen to Josh Groban, a small slice of my personal heaven!

This was so much fun to go back and read and look at many of these posts. I don't do that very often, so I am glad I was tagged, thanks Rachel.

And now I tag
1. Paula (my other blogging sister)
2. Ashlee (the queen of blogs, she runs three)
3. Montay (my friend who has joined the world of blogging , YEAH!!)

The kid loves Basketball

Triple Threat

He's a baller

Reagan went to the first day of basketball camp at the high school and loved it. They spent about 2 hours with the boys' team learning some basic skills and playing a few games, giving each kid a ball of their own. Next week they will do the same and then next Tuesday they will perform at half time at the girls' varsity game. Reagan is pretty excited about it all, but the excitement has taken on a life of its own. The kid has become obsessed. He has played some soccer, he has done golf camp and golfs with Tyler a lot and he has fun and enjoys it, but I have never seen this type of obsession with him. He sleeps with his ball, he took it to school today for show and tell, and wanted to take his basketball shorts, shirt and shoes as well. I let him wear the shoes, but I figured that would be good.

Coach Harr told the kids to practice dribbling, get the ball dirty and if they wore the ball out enough they would find the secret word hidden under the top layer of the ball. That did it, he wakes up wanting to dribble, it is the first thing he does when he gets home from school and he has taken it over to both Grandma's houses to dribble. While Mollie is napping, he bundles up and goes to the garage to practice, (it's a bit too noisy on the Kitchen floor during nap time). Anyway, Tyler and I couldn't be more pleased, the coach in me and the player in him seem to make an obsessed child. Can't wait to see more.

Old Navy Clearance

I love the yearly Old Navy clearance sale. Tyler and I took the girls, Reagan was at basketball camp (more on that in a later post), and went over to Old Navy. They have a large clearance sale where everything that is already marked down for Clearance is then another 50% off. Unbelievable. Now, if you are not an Old Navy shopper than this is no big deal, but I am and I love their clothes for the entire family. I didn't buy a single item over $4.75 and we got some really great stuff. Anyway, I just had to share. If you get a chance go check it out, you won't leave empty handed.

A Winter Wonderland

These are looking out my front window.

Even though Christmas is over, I feel like Twin Falls looks like a Winter Wonderland today. It snowed all day yesterday and dropped about 5 1/2 inches on us. Now for those of you who live in areas where that is not much, this was a pretty big storm for us. There has been more in the past, but yesterday was so fun to get that snow. I think I was able to enjoy it so much because I am feeling somewhat normal again; Reagan finally went back to school, I slept through the night without being awakened by sick children, and we seem to be on the mend, (knock on wood.) Anyway, I digress back to the subject, it is just really pretty here and we are supposed to get even more snow in the next couple of days, we'll see what happens.

I had to throw in this picture of Mollie in her new little outfit from Christmas. Isn't she so cute!

Bella Dancerella

For Christmas, Santa brought Elise a Bella Dancerella Studio and she has loved it. One problem though, it really bothered her that the dance teacher on the DVD kept referring to her as a Princess. "Mom, she keeps calling me a princess and I don't have a princess dress, so I am not a princess." I took pity on her and decided to make her a little princess/ballerina skirt so she could be a "Princess" Those of you who know her should realize it doesn't take a skirt to make Elise a princess, but she loves it and spends quite a bit of time dancing with Belle, Ariel and Aurora.

A New Topic

Hailey D. and Mollie racking the balls

She was quite the poser.

Reagan took this all very serious.

I think we may have turned the corner from sickness to healthiness, at least that is where my mind is going or it will go mad, "Mad I say!" and so I will move on. One of our semi-healthy days we did venture out of the house to go bowling with my family. I got to bowl with the kids and so I scored a 108 (with bumpers, YEAH!!!). The kids had a ball. My mother was amazing and scored a 187 (without bumpers). We all think she is moonlighting at the bowling alley. It was a highlight of our holiday and as I said the kids had so much. Reagan was pretty impressive and Elise won the prize for best form. Mollie and her cousin Hailey just kept the balls in order for us.

Reality Bites Part 2

I will avoid the graphic details here, but I figured I would give a quick update. We got hit with a second round of some nasty stuff and all five of us from Tyler to Mollie have had the stomach flu the last three days. It has not been pretty. Anyway, hopefully we will get better soon and I will be able to post fun things again.