We Love You Grandma Asay!

I was looking through our photos for good pictures of Grandma Asay, and I discovered that every photo of grandma is a good one. She is always smiling on the outside and on the inside. We love her and miss her so much! What an example she is to our family of unconditional love and sincere warmth and happiness.

Congratulations Morgan!

We're so proud of Morgan for making it on the drill team.

Books I Love

I have recently read 2 amazing books, so I've been thinking about my favorite books of all time. It's hard to remember everything but I think I have a pretty good start. These are not in any particular order. If anyone has a suggestion for a good book, let me know! I travel a lot at work, and listening to books on my i-pod is a good way to stay sane. Here's the list. (For those of you who are psycho about punctuation like Worthy and I are, I couldn't get the underlining to work!)

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
To Kill A Mockinbird by Harper Lee
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
ANYTHING BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER!
The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’Engle
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenedes
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Tales Of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card
Mother Of Pearl

I know there are more, but it's a Monday. My brain is still waking up.

THE LAST TIME I POSTED WAS NOVEMBER!!!

Please don't fire us. Our lives have been quite eventful. I'm on spring break right now, so I actually have time to breathe. I still love all of you even if I've neglected the blogs! I can report that I made it through February, which for some reason has always been difficult for me. This year it's been HORRIBLE but now it's March and life is going to be okay! Little flowers are starting to peek up out of my gardens. This is a good sign!

This week is our spring break, and we've been having a fabuous time. The kids and I planned Harry Potter week! We have watched the first 4 movies as a family, and we'll watch the 5th one tonight. We've also made all kinds of fun crafts, including butter beer, chocolate frogs, and broomsticks and wands made of all kinds of edible stuff. The kids also decided to pass off our Harry Potter x-box game this week. Right now they are eating their Bertie Bott's every flavored beans. Morgan just ate a sardine flavored one. In case you've never had them, the flavors listed are: booger, black pepper, blueberry, earthworm, dirt, cherry, cinnamon, ear wax, sausage, grape jelly, grass (this one is weirdly good), tutti-frutti, lemon drop, vomit, soap, sardine, toasted marshmallow, buttered popcorn, pickle, rotten egg, and 2 mystery flavors. Yum.

I'm starting a new walking challenge so I can walk New York when my mom and Jen go to the US open in August. I'd love you all to join me! You can sign up at www.walkny.blogspot.com.

Our Beautiful Girls

I was reading Chrislynn's post and looking at Sophia's pictures, and it took my breath away how much she looks like my little baby Morgan. So I went through some photos today (I thought it would take a few minutes and I have been have lost in memories all afternoon) and I found some pictures. I think Morgan looks like Chrislynn and Sophia looks like Chrislynn and Morgan. It's fun to see the similarities between our beautiful girls. I'm also posting some pictures of Tim and Drew--I can't believe how little they were when Morgan was little! Enjoy.

I'm Such A Slacker!

I really do love you all. Life is crazy and I have been intending to post for weeks. So here is a short one.

We just got back from a fun family trip to Salt Lake and Provo. We saw the specialist at Primary Children's Hospital for Kate's eyes, who had good things to say. Kate is doing a great job wearing her glasses and her eyes are slowly correcting themselves.

We stayed with Tim and Nancy on Thursday, which is always fun. We love them. But, I must confess, I went up to put my children to bed and woke up after 10. I guess my children put me to bed, too. So I hardly got to visit with Tim and Nancy. Big Worthy and Morgan got to go to the BYU football game on Thursday, thanks to tickets from Tim and Nancy. They had a great time (Morgan especially liked the people watching).

Friday night we stayed in a hotel so the kids could swim with Daddy while Moog and I went to the BYU volleyball game against Utah. We had a fabulous time. I even caught a signed toy volleyball from one of the starters! Needless to say there were a lot of crazy fans, both blue and red, so we were entertained. Morgan and I also got to do some shopping, so the trip was definitely worthwhile!

Our biggest news is that our basement is torn apart. We have spent weeks getting everything out of it, ripping down shelves and reassembling them in the garage for storage. Last night Clayton came over and helped us get started with the framing. Thank goodness for Clay, the Home Improvement God. We feel more comfortable now and I think we're ready to go for it!

We love you all and I'll try not to be such a slacker in the future.

Has Anyone Seen My Tooth?

Oh, Yeah. The tooth fairy has it.