the maui's

Well this is Maui again, Desi is slacking on her blog so I guess I'll fill in the gaps, although that means you have to read about more snowboarding... So Shredfest is an annual event that I started 5 years ago, as all my friends and I have gotten older a lot of them have moved on and left the state to be high power attorney's, or grad students, or PhD's of some sort or another. We have been spread out a crossed the nation, but a lot of them still return home to Utah around Christmas time. So we get together once a year with whoever is in town and hit the slopes. This was the 5th Shredfest and it was awesome. It was puking snow over the Christmas holiday, and we showed up on Saturday the 27th to Brighton. As we got in line for the crest lift we found out that this lift was broken for the past 3 days!! That means that no one had riden these runs for the last 3 days that it had been puking snow! Powder Powder Powder all day long. Good times. Shredfest 5.0 Crew This was...

Well as you can tell by my capitilzation, this is Maui. The past three Wednesday's in a row have been "Quad Wednesday" at Brighton. You can get a lift ticket for 1/4 the price. I've been hitting it up with a friend of mine, and this last Wednesday the 17th Desi was able to come with us. It was a great day. Sun shine, new snow, and really really really cold. Tuesday night I asked Desi if she might want one of her Christmas presents early. Of course she assumed that she got a new snowboard, so I tried my best to disappoint her and say "new board what are you talking about?", but in the end I guess she's pretty smart. So she got to unwrap this: We had a fun day, with some of our friends. Although it got cut a little short, something about Desi wanting to get home to Nixon or something like that, anyway here are a few pics from the day.

this year at temple square, it was a nice temperature. warm enough that a coat was good enough. my goodness, last year was miserably cold when we took are trip to see the lights. my big brother came for thanksgiving, so we got to go with him and his family to see the temple... Nixy poo, he is now 5 months old, and he rolls all over the floor, and can sit up for a few minutes me and the girls, roxy age 5, riley age trouble..... 2.5 rox and her cousin elan

Lets take a mini walk down memory lane..... Remember that holiday that passed by not too long ago? Halloween. I intended to post the awesome pictures of our pumpkin carvings. I assumed they would turn out that way, b/c they just always do. In the midst of taking the top off the second pumpkin I gracefully slide my fingers down the blade of the knife. Ouch. Blood instantly started oozing, 1 minute later I was off to the Hospital. On the way their I made the normal cell phone call to my insurance to find out where my HMO allowed me to go, and ended up at the insta care on 90th South. 3 large stiches later, I returned home to finish the pumpkins, here are the results. Cinderella- Brian did this one sarah palin- poor sarah, i could not finish the details in her face, due to my sore and bulky finger These pumpkins are from 2007...

this photos is from me and my sister's favorite scene: they are in the school parking lot, and finally "together" and everyone is "staring." sadly, it only lasts for a moment, and then off to the wilderness again. unfortunatley, no. don't get me wrong, seeing the movie was like Christmas morning, it just fell short in many ways. The script: good grief, tell me stephenie was unhappy with this. i realize the script couldn't be as awesome as the book, it just screamed "made for tv." The special effects: the movie obviously is not loaded with this stuff, so that was good. but what they did have to modify, like the running and fighting, was soooo cheesy looking, again "made for tv movie." those were the 2 big down falls for me. i loved robert pattinson (he really grew on me) and kristen stewart did a good job as well(just take out the hospital scene where she botches it big time). i don't think anyone plays the "suffer in sil...

if there was one place an avid water sports nut would pick as "heavenly" it would have to be lake powell. we were lucky enough to go this past september, and we had a ball. the great thing about powell is the calm water factor; if the water is choppy cruise around for 10 minutes or so and you'll find the right stuff. wake up at 7 or 8am and there will be calm water, go out at dusk and it is still there waiting for you. calm water. glass. the good stuff. going on this trip convinced me that we NEED a boat. my kids love the water, they are brave, and always waiting for their turn. i am not brave, i hate the water, but somewhere along the lines i learned to try to ignore the fear, and just get wet. maui and roxy wakeboarding... riley wanted a turn soo badly, but it just didn't happen here is me wakeboarding, it is fun, and when you only get to go every other summer, it is hard on your body. here we see randy fishing (these are the fish that i am sooo afraid of - what if ...

i have a very crafty mom. she decided to start doing some crafts at work, to help pass the time. the first craft she brought home was this adorable tie she made for nixon. he got so many compliments on it, she decided to make some more, and try to sell them. the ties will fit newborn to 1 year, if you have a toddler or older, she can make them in that size too. a tie is $10, and i can mail it to you for $12.

the year was 1968, great and terrible events occured all around the world; the vietnam war was nearing a close, martin luther king jr. was assasinated, richard nixon was running for the oval office, david o mckay was leading the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. amid this and much more 2 young people met at BYU and fell in love... that is where the story of keith and jenni began, today they celebrate 40 years together, with their 8 children, 5 children in-law, and 14 grandchildren. we had a fun evening eating, and enjoying everyones company. while keith and jenni looked back at what they had accomplished, and look forward to another 40 years... roxy and one of her favorite cousin's courtney(looking all lady like)

better late then never. right? last night our book club got together to discuss "Breaking Dawn" it was more of a party then a discussion. people brought Twilight themed desserts : pizza, vampire cup cakes, chips and blood - i mean salsa-, tiny little cherry tarts, butterscotch hard candies, and bite size pieces of a big hunk bar. We played a twilight version of jeopardy, with the craziest questions. i have read these books several times, and was confident i would know most of the answers, sadly i did not. but i do believe my team won! thanks Steffani for going with me!

i spent an entire afternoon trying to find this band- "The Mitch Hansen Band". i am sure i am ages behind the rest of the twilight fans, but that is how i roll. amazing... he has a whole album inspired by the twilight series. my favorite is called "lullaby" it is very sweet, and soon, hopefully will be playing on here, so all can enjoy!!

just thought i should mention that maui made this awesome page, so far he has put in at least 6 hours, but it looks great, and i really appreciate it. now you know. don't think for 1 second i had anything to do with this.

every 2 years we go to bear lake with my dad, with his whole, huge extended family. it is a pretty typical mormon style family reunion - you don't know half the people there, and you stick to your own immediate family, and socialize outside that group, very minimally. they can be very exclusive - kidding- the girls with their favorite older cousin elan. elan lives in las vegas...

i realized i have mentioned very little about our middle child- how typical of me. riley is 2.5, and a little monster. she is stubborn, bossy, and does not like to share, but she has the cutest little face, it is hard to stay mad. i usually find myself laughing at her bad behavior. she likes to do what her big sister is doing... ride bikes, jump on the tramp, sing songs, steel roxy's guitar, play dolls, and watch whatever movie she is into for the week- this week it is "Monsters Inc." 2 weeks ago it was 1 of 3 "Shrek" movies. i like to call her shrek, when we do her hair in pigtail buns - she resembles him in a way. anyhow, if you call her something other than her name, she will correct you with "I not shrek, I riley." Here she is driving Grandpa Dan's boat!!

spring 07 we decided we were ready to move on up into a house. we put a deposit down to build a home in eagle mtn. brian wanted to sell once summer hit, and at the time our townhouses were selling for around $175K. super smart desi thought, lets wait til fall (since the builder had yet to give us a projected finish date) and we could probably sell for more!! we did wait til fall, well we listed at the end of August. 12 months later we finally sold our townhouse, for $153K. now we are at my mom's house in sojo. i am pretty sure roxy and riley could not be any more happy about living here, they love seeing her everynite, and tend to ask about her whereabouts several times through out the day. she has 2 good sized bedrooms in her basement, and a huge family room too. this area we have taken over, we have the majority of our furniture in the family room. all three kids beds (2 beds and a crib) line one wall in their room- my mom jokes that it looks like an orphanage- and there is...

that is not really going to be what we call the newest edition to the family, in fact nixon is short enough, i might not ever come up with a nickname - but my mom said she was going to call him that (nicky blue eyes), and i don't think i have heard her say it yet, but now i will randomly call him that - thanks mom. nixon is just over 2 months, and he is smiling all the time, and laughing, basically just adorable, hugable, and loveable. The girls ignore him most of the day, and then when they realize he is around they like to climb on top of him, give him kisses, and talk really loudly right in his face. we took him to bear lake when he was 4 weeks old, and we will be taking him to lake powell in 2 weeks. he is gonna grow to just love the water. the water, i am actually afraid of the water, everytime i am in the lake, i can't help but let my mind wander to the unknown, whenever i fall off the wakeboard, i swim to my board as quick as i can, and lay on top of it as much as poss...

i get a little ocd about alot of random things- one of which is tv shows. I am so excited for the 5th season of "the office". i hold a special place in my heart for each of the characters, including creed. maui has the previous 4 seasons on our xbox -media center thing a ma jig- and i could watch re-runs all day... if the kids would allow it. my sister and i love kevin's face, it is soooo chubby and round, you just want to plant a big kiss on it, and he has the funniest facial expressions.