Happy Birthday Karen!

Karen is still the Goddess of Fruit!

What a wonderful sister, aunt, daughter and friend she is!

We all love and admire Karen....she is "K"eeping all of us connected "A"rtistic to the ultimate max "R"eady to show love and lend a helping hand "E" ternal in her perspective and actions "N" ear and dear to all our hearts! You are the best... Bubs!

Karen has been a sister to me and also an extra mom that I desperately needed all along the way, her head massages melt me, her piano playing transcend me and her diligence to her family mesmerize me, how lucky we are to have Karen in our family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN!

Cat Lady

Mimi and the Yellow Cat (A Sequel)

We know Mimi is not a complainer and is a model good sport. Still, there are some things that are just plain wrong. The other night Butterscotch slipped inside to escape our suddenly turned cold weather and immediately darted into Mimi's room and then under her bed, where she was already asleep. I figured he'd sleep under there for a bit and then at some point come and get me to let him out. So, when I heard Mimi calling for me to come a couple of hours later, I hurried in.

"I DON'T SLEEP WITH A CAT!!"

Mimi and the "Yellow Dog"

Yes, Mimi voted. Absentee ballot, but dropped off today at the polls. The other day, Yesenia and Chrisitian were quizzing her on her preferences with this election. A name came up, I won't say who, and she said she would sooner vote for a yellow dog than that candidate. The big thing in our neck of the woods is if we are for or against being our own little city in this unincorporated area known as Arden-Arcade. Not a real catchy name for an address, but proponents said we could vote on a better new name than the hyphenated one.

Happy post- halloween. We loved all the halloween reports and pictures. If you were here, we would pass out the mini candy bars in the pumpkin basket. Promise.

So long, farewell

Yesterday was my "farewell" (although I've been advised that you can't call it that anymore. It was my "talk right before you leave on your mission.") My dad spoke about not hiding your light behind a bushel, and then my mom spoke about the importance of the individual, then we sang a musical number - "The Olive Tree" with Pam, me, Mariah and Charlene singing, Andy on the flute, and Jennifer Duerden as the accompanist, and then I spoke. I talked about coming unto Christ through faith and obedience. I was so happy Andy and Charlene could be here this week (they got to go through the Laie Temple Open House too). It worked out so perfectly. They are heading back to Folsom today. It was fun spending time with them. I still don't leave for Utah for another two weeks, but it was nice to have a spiritual send off. Here are some pics we took afterwards. (Pam and Jake and Mariko had to leave after the meeting so they're not in the pictures, but they were there :) and Ethan and Isaiah kept running off to Sunday School (um, priorities?) so they were kind of hit or miss in the pictures).

Halloween 2010

So, Logan and Brodie wanted to be there favorite superheros, and cousin Luke's mom and dad(on my mom's side of the family) suprised brodie with his batman costume in the mail! he screamed with excitement when we opened the box. I had just painted a little black kitten nose and whiskers onto Sienna's face(not wanting to spend the money on a costume-so mean, right?!) Then I went out to the garage to find a black shirt for her in the storage tubs, and i saw a costume that Mimi and Karen had given us last Christmas! I didn't think it would fit her for a couple of Halloweens, but she's so tall that it fit her like a glove! thank you so much Grandma and Karen! we love you!

Love, Liz, Brian, Logan, Brodie and Sienna

happy halloween

these are from friday and skeleton cowboy on saturday. i was a raven and tony was the policeman from monopoly (since that was the theme for his work). i would write more but this keyboard is really hard to type on. miss you all.

We love the Mikolyskis

Scott, Robin, Kaden, and Lucas came to visit. It was so fun to see them. Being with them was so natural and comfortable like we see them everyday. The kids were cute together and I love Robin's laugh. It was rainy here, so the kids played in a puddle, napped, and then we went to Danny's lab and the beach. Robin helped the kids frost and decorate cookies too. After they left Gio said, "I love them. I didn't want them to leave." At the beach Danny was taking pictures of the perfect mouse sized barrels.

design

i stared messing with the design of the blog cause i was avoiding cleaning my house and taking care of my baby and doing my homework. then bo, who noticed that i was ignoring him, unplugged the computer. so this was as far as i got on the design. like? dislike? i can try and mess with it more later since i have a paper to write tomorrow, so i'm sure i'll want something to do besides my paper.

more palmers in utah

eating lunch under the table

yummy pizza

bo loved hanging out with his cousins. he also thought they were hilarious.

crawling around so we wouldn't get in somebody's photoshoot

riding the cougar.