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Hello hello.

This is a montage of pictures over the past week or so.

The first are of my very cute prego friend Tricia. This is baby #4 for her! Can't wait to meet Darcy or Brody! xoxo

Nattie and Taylor took advantage of a light snow fall yesterday!

These are the pictures of Senior Night at Centennial HS. It is a special night for the boys who will graduating this year! They are presented with a Senior shirt and their parents are given flowers. Over the past 3 years Jason has been with the Patriots and assisting Collin, we have grown to love these boys! Here are some of the fun moments of the night!

The ever handsome Coach Blue

This is Mark. He is one of our favorites! He was escorted by his little sisters! He is a great kid!

(okay, here's the deal. CHS has choir students sing the national anthem. the majority of the time it is....ok. i could not resist snapping this photo of the girl who sang tonight. the patriotism of her ????ensemble????)

Can a movie help your marriage???

If you are married, getting married, divorced, or getting divorced you MUST take the 2 hours out of your life and watch this movie. It may make the difference.

I had talked about this movie to Jason months ago but we never watched it. When Jason brought it home from Red Box yesterday I was touched because I was thinking he had recalled the conversation we had. As it turns out he thought it was a fire/action kinda movie. (or so he says)

We watched it. Together. It changed our marriage.

In a lot of ways the movie was a mirror of our own lives. Of course the movie was way more dramatic, but some of the feelings were the same. I do not want to spoil any of the movie or turn you on or off to the idea of watching it. Just let me know if you have seen it, or what you thought when you watched it! I think it would be awesome if a group of us were able to talk about it!

The movie is based off the book The Love Dare. You can get it at Wal Mart for under $10.00

When I woke up this morning........
I had my very own copy of each.


Thanks for the gifts Jab.
I know the return on this investment will be ETERNAL.
xoxo Bella

Sandra Dee.....Paula Abdul.... eat your hearts out!

Profound

ABOUT MONEY

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A HOUSE, BUT NOT A HOME.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A CLOCK, BUT NOT TIME.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A BED, BUT NOT SLEEP.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A BOOK, BUT NOT KNOWLEDGE.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN SEE A DOCTOR, BUT NOT GOOD HEALTH.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A POSITION, BUT NOT RESPECT.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY BLOOD, BUT NOT LIFE.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY SEX, BUT NOT LOVE.

a first.....

I am going to post without pictures????? huh???? It's true! Instead of pulling my camera out at all the cute moments from this past Saturday I just sat back and enjoyed them.
Jason and I took the kids to the West Boise YMCA to go swimming Saturday morning. It's only $17.00 for us all to swim, and the kids love the kiddie pool. As do I because I can contain them and not go on freak out mode! We all swam. Ok, Jason and I floated & scrapped our tooshies along the bottom. The girls are timid in the water, not the dare devils you would think. haha. But give them 15 minutes and they are rip roarin' to go! Graden took a bit longer. But as soon as he slid his soggy little britches down that turtle slide he was hooked! We were there for just under 2 hours. We grabbed a quick bite to eat at Burger King.....HIGH ROLLERS YA'LL!

Jason asked me out on a date for that night! I know, my social calender is off the hook! We took the kids to Grammy's and went to the BSU v. Cal-Poly wrestling match. You may think I am groaning at the thought of going to another wrestling match but I am not. I enjoy going. I enjoy doing things Jason likes. And, over the years I have learned a ton about the sport. The "unies" no longer make me want to puke and swallow. But sometimes the "awkward" positions make me laugh, which in turn, makes Jason laugh!
We met up with some friends at the match (Collin and Tonya Robertson). We crashed their Chili's date! Good food, good company!
The SUB was super busy for bowling so we walked around, admired some "art" and some very official Boise State employees and then headed home. Jason and I stopped at Baskin Robbins, mmmmmmmm..... then got the kids!

It was a super fun day. You will have to use your imagination as to what the pictures "would" have looked like. (But please don;t picture me in a swim suit YIKES!!!!!)

xoxo alli

I should have seen it coming.....

Jason has been in Utah for 3 days and we all missed him tons! No one more than Graden. My men stick together. Well after church I had a Presidency meeting and took off for the afternoon. When I got home I headed straight to the kitchen to fix dinner. Graden had been in and out of my room and I had not thought twice about it. Then Taylor shows me Jasons toiletry bag and tells me that Graden had dumped it....still no light bulbs going off. Then Graden yells out "Mah"(which I hear 6 million times a day) and comes running to my legs and buries his head in. I even looked at Jason and told him that he was snuggling me and it was soooo cute.

*****this is where i look down and see all the blood*****

I grab his hand and it is covered in blood and I think RAZOR! Then all the light bulbs start going off. I scoop him up and put him on the counter and grab his hand to see the cut. I wipe the blood and there is nothing. That is when it drips off his CHIN! He was trying to shave like DADDY! He is not crying, and is be very cooperative in looking up so I can see. Jason helped me clean it up and we put him in the tub. Then I have a mother moment. He was not snuggling me, he was trying to get the weird feeling of blood off his chin, which is now all over my new jeans! And he was mimicking Jason in shaving! Yes, cute, but very dangerous! It could have been worse I know! I just felt bad I was not paying close enough attention. And of course I took pictures.

!!!!!WALMART'S GOING UNDER!!!!!!

under-WARE!!!!!!

Thanks for the laught Leah!!!! (This is not a picture of my friend Leah LOL!!!)

Youth Sledding Trip! ~Terrace Lakes, Idaho

We took the youth on a Planning Retreat this last weekend. We met at the Garden Valley Chapel and planned out the activities for the next year. There were a lot of good ideas. We had an awesome lunch, good snacks, and even some Black Cherry Shasta! We headed up a few miles to Terrace Lakes to sled. I was not planning on sledding, but after getting to the top, it was inevitable! We had a blast going up and down the hill. The kids were inventing new ways to combine sleds and make things faster! I am really glad I went. I needed the fresh air!

me n g

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Graden this morning! The girls were back at school, the roads were yucky, and we were not in the mood to go dink around! So we went home! It is so fun having him to myself! The girls are really cute with him, and love him to pieces, but it gets crowded! He is good natured, funny, snugly, goofy, and curious. He helped with the laundry, dishes, and just enjoyed having the house to himself. I love this boy!

wanna play??????

"Where's Graden????"

PEEK*A*BOO!

"Where's Graden?????"

PEEK*A*BOO!!!!!

Maternity Pictures!

This is how we ROCK!!!!!

Hit up the local WalMart.....

Bought some wicked GAIN.....

Smoked it up at Famous Daves......

Ate out of a garbage can lid.......

Went to bed at 11 PM!

CAUSE THAT'S HOW WE *R*O*L*L*. word.