Friday, September 11, 2009

sum it up!

That about sums up the summer. Katie will be starting full time at Qwest next week. She is ready for the challenge but is anxious to get back into the workforce after being a stay at home mom for 3 years. Hopefully I can keep up better so I don't have to spend hours doing catch up posts! Thanks for reading!

1st day of PRESCHOOL!!!

Our little 3 year old started preschool this week. Her first day was tuesday 9/8/2009. She is loving every minute of it! She was so excited to wear her backpack and get there.


All of the kids line up and grab a spot on the rope. They have to walk across the street so this helps them to stay together. This picture below is to prove that she is taller than everyone in her class at present. The kid in the red backpack is a hair shorter than her. She jumped this year from the 78% all the way up the the 98% for her height.....watch out boys!

Here they are crossing the street. Mommy and Daddy are so glad that you are growing up Abigail and are so proud of all that you are learning. We love you so very much and are excited for you to be in preschool.

The Eastern Idaho State Fair


Monday we headed to the fair and met everyone there minus Clayton and Elizabeth & Oliver and Keisha (we missed you!!!!) to watch Mom and Daryl show their skills with the horses. I got a few fun pictures with Abigail and Grandma Ruth in the buggy. Also some fun pictures of the kids on the rides. Thanks to my family for allowing us to join in the fun!









Maybe against my better judgement!

So yeah, I am really brave to post this picture of myself and my fellow runners! I had recently started training for a 10K race and ended up running the 5K for several reason. I am glad to say that I ran the whole race and finished feeling great. I didn't get the best time ever but I finished and that was really all that mattered to me. I am finally into a routine of things where I can happily shed some extra inches! I have lost 10 lbs since I started the training schedule for this race and hope that I can continue in that direction. I am so glad that my sisters and cousin and friend ran this race and can't wait to run another one! L-R is Patty (my cousin who ran the 1/2 marathon) Gretchen (10K) me (5K) Christa (1/2 marathon) and Mohna (10K). Great job Ladies....WE DID IT!!!!!!

Stephen turns 34!

Stephen turned 34 this year. Of course I cheated and bought him a lemon meringue pie, because he really likes them. I have yet to find a cake that he really loves, I am certain I will find one eventually. I don't have any pictures at present to post on his birthday but I thought between Abigail and I we could come up with a few things we LOVE about our Daddy and Husband!

1. He is very kind hearted
2. He has a great sense of humor
3. He is very organized (when he wants to be :)
4. He laughs with us and has tickle wars
5. He tries to hide his crying spells during a sad movie, but we know the tears are welling up!
6. He is a really silly dancer
7. He loves to plan surprises
8. He is a good night time snuggler
9. He tells really great 'off the top of his head' stories
10. He has an amazing singing voice
11. He has a great ear for good music
12. He has a talent for all of the arts
13. He hangs things perfectly straight on the walls
14. He is striving to make things better for his family
15. He loves us for who we are
16. He makes silly faces when he rides my Dads old moped around the neighborhood
17. He has a testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Happy Birthday Mom!

A few of us kids were able to go to the farm and celebrate Mom's birthday this year. This was my second fondant cake and I have to say the first one turned out better. All I can do is practice to get better so I have to keep at it :) We all had a really fun time talking, playing, riding horses and eating cake! LOVE YOU MOM!


Abigail turns 3!

Abigail's birthday was an anticipated event by the 3 members of our family. I have wanted to learn how to better make cakes and decorate them for quite a few years now. It is just something that I think is fun and amazing. I haven't been able to get into a class yet so I got online and checked out a ton of books from the library on cakes and decorating. I started a few days before and tried my hand at fondant. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out considering it being my first cake. Abigail had made a final decision on a ballerina barbie cake so here it is.....
Daddy took her out for a lunch date and when she came home the cake was finished. I love her face in this picture because you can't tell that she likes the cake at all :)
the finshed prize!
Patiently waiting for the party to start.


Abigail loves to dance so Mommy and Daddy got her a new pair of ballet slippers. She also got a scooter, helmut and pads, a play horse, books, a teddy bear, earrings and rings, her first pair of leggings, a school dress, some candy, money and I am sure I am forgetting something! Thanks everyone who contributed and participated in Abigail's birthday this year. She loves you all so very much!

Youth Jam



Then came the youth jam at the river. We went with our friends Kristy, Seth and Rebecca. Abigail got her face painted by her preschool teacher! We also made some really fun masks, painted on huge boards and made sparkly pine cones.

Yahoo for family!

The following weekend we had the THUERNAGLE family reunion at Lava Hot Springs! It was a great time had by all (until some of us started getting sick) It was a pretty warm weekend to be camping in the middle of July. I think we will shoot for June or August next year, is everyone with me on this? On the first night we were there, Abigail picked up a hot coal from the top of the dutch oven and got a pretty good burn with 2 huge blisters. She re-injured that wound ALL weekend by falling and scraping all the skin off on rocks and I will spare you the rest. It was an interesting task for everyone to handle all of the crying that came out of her mouth. It was just horrible to look at! I don't know that I even got a picture of it, I will have to do some searching.

Here is a shot of Madalyn jumping off the highest platform and Caleb went right behind her....way to go you little dare devils!
We celebrated Madalyn and Isabel's birthdays at the reunion also, that cake was delish!
Here are a few of the happy campers standing in front of the Andy Thuernagle tent.



back to reality!


After returning home from Oregon we had much to catch up on. Next came the Stosich Family reunion here in Idaho Falls. Jeanne Marie did an amazing job putting everything together! Here is my Mother Ruth with half of her sibling. L to R we have Davidjohn, Eugene, Tom, Patrese, Myra, Ruth and Kim. All of the siblings were in attendance at some point or another.



Here goes nothing!

It's been months since I updated. I got so far behind it was exhausting to think about catching up the blog. I will have to add as I go but here is the quick version of how our summer has gone. Steve parted ways with his job in June. We then headed to Oregon for a few weeks to spend some much needed time away from home and with Steve's wonderful family. We had such a great time it was hard to come home!!!

Us at the beach
Steve taking some R & R with Maci, Jacob and Abigail

Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us come and stay. We had the best time ever!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Abigail's got talent!




The conversation while watching America's got talent last night went as follows

Abigail: I need to get down and dance Mommy!
5 minutes passes

Abigail: Mommy, I am going to get me a car, drive to that show, and dance for those people!



I thought that was pretty stinkin cute of her to want to do that. It does infact go along with the statement that she made last month when she told me she wanted to be a star when she grows up....." the kind that are on TV" she said.

p.s. the photo above is my new favorite. I took it last week at Grandma & Grandpa Forrey's house right before bedtime.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

GIVEAWAY!

Hey all! This is a giveaway from a friend of a friend. She makes hair bows that are so cute! Enter to win 5 bows or your choice along with 2 headbands. It is worth it to zip over to her website and take a look. Good luck! It ends July 15th!

http://itsallaboutthebow.blogspot.com/

Thursday, June 4, 2009

HELP!!!!I My neighbors are out of control!!!!

I have been more than kind and lenient toward my neighbors.  They are OUT OF CONTROL!  They leave beer cans in my yard, steal my stuff, play in my yard, stay up until 2 a.m. blasting loud music and are just flat out rude!  I have talked myself out of doing this post for nearly a month now.....it just keeps popping up and staring me in the face.  Tonight set me off because I came home around 10:30 from a softball game (rah, rah, Legacy Dental!!! we lost tonight by the way:) and Abigail's bike was in the street blocking the driveway!  I got out fuming mad and moved the bike, parked the car and came straight in to write the letter posted below to the neighbors!  I do have to admit that this letter is horribly written with bad grammer and everything, so you should get a good chuckle out of it!  I had to post it because I never delivered it....Steve wouldn't let me out the door :)  Otherwise I would have gone right up, rung the doorbell (YES...at 11:00 at night!) and handed them my letter.  I think they ought to know what they put people through.  I was nice and only wrote about the bike to them.  That kid of theirs pushed Abs off her bike the other day, took off on it, and then came back around, Abigail kindly asked for her bike back and he actually spit on her and took off on her bike again.  His mother did nothing as she sat there and watched the whole thing!  He is around 2 years old and is constantly outside without supervision on an incredibly busy street.  I fear that he is going to get hit by a car one of these days!  Anyway!  That is my vent and I will be calling social services in the morning!  I hope they do something about that household.  I sure would love to have neighbors that don't drink, smoke, blast loud music through all hours of the night, that STAY OUT OF MY YARD and don't steal my stuff and that are responsible enough to watch their kids!!!!!!  Good night and good riddance!  For those of you that don't know Beth, she used to be my neighbor.....BETH!!!!!!!!!!!  When are you moving back to Idaho?  Steve and I need some decent neighbors again, we miss you!
Dear Neighbors,
    Your son may not come into my yard anymore!  He has gone into my shed, gotten my daughters bike & taken it to ride.  I had to then come ask for my property back.  Tonight the bike was gone again & then left in my driveway so that I had to get out & move the bike to pull into my driveway.  PLEASE be more responsible about watching him to prevent this from happening again.  If it goes missing again, I will call the police.  Please be more respectful toward property that doesn't belong to you.

Thank you!

    Your neighbors @ 127


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

New Moon!

Okay so this trailer for New Moon has been floating around and I took a look a few days back.  It looks like it is going to be a great film!!!  I know I am excited....is anyone else?  Click on the official website link above or on the word trailer and take a look, you won't regret it!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Patient excitement!

A few months ago we decided to get Abigail signed up for preschool.  Since that day she has been talking non-stop about how she is going to go to school soon.  SHE CAN'T WAIT!  The school is only a few blocks away from our house, which is really nice.  She will be going 2 days a week and thinks that she has to get her backpack ready right now.  Last week was preschool roundup.  Just a fancy way of putting it that the fees are due and the kids get to meet the teacher and take a look around the school.  When the morning arrived that we were going, she couldn't talk about it enough.  Of course once we got to the school she wouldn't even step one foot inside :)  I had to actually pick her up and take her in.  She thought it was really the first day of school and that I was leaving her there.  Once she understood that she was just meeting her teacher, she ran off and proceeded to play with some of the other children.  I really think she will enjoy going to school and meeting new friends.  She definitely takes after her mother on the social side.  She also informed her teachers that she would prefer to be called by Abigail which was news to me.  We usually call her Abigail or Abby Kate, but most everyone else just calls her Abby.  She knows what she wants out of life already!  

Abby: "this week I would prefer to be called Abigail, I will grow up to be a doctor and a dancer.  I want to be a star!  The kind that go on TV....like Pinnochio!"

She is a very talented little child and we are so blessed to have her in our family!  Mom and Dad love you Abigail!  Here are a few pictures of our doll in front of the school she will be attending in the fall.


Thursday, May 28, 2009

The "skinny" on Evelyn!


Here are the stats on Evelyn.....what a healthy little girl!  She was Emily's smallest baby so far and is a SKINNY little thing!  Welcome Evelyn!!!!

Don't you just LOVE THAT HAIR!!!!  I still didn't get a shot of the dimple.
Here is the new princess with Nana & Papa Grant
with cousin Abigail & sister Isabel
Isabel is pretty proud of her new sister.  Abby in the background having a hard time being patient for her turn to hold Evelyn.
Vaughn held his sister so softly and gave her lots of kisses.
ISN'T SHE SWEET?!!!

TINY sweet taste!!!

Yesterday was a really long day!  Emily went in around 12:00 in the afternoon and came out in the evening with this cute thing!!!  Stay tuned for better photos today!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Binki-lovin' chimney sweep!

I preparations for Emily having her baby, we have been getting out all of the baby stuff to go through.  When all the masses of things get taken out there is bound to be a new found toy for a 2 year old.  Abigail has discovered the bags of bottles and binki's and thinks she HAS to have them.  When she was a baby, we forced a binki on her and she didn't want anything to do with it!  She loves to give it to her baby doll and play mommy with the bottles.  I figure I will let her run with it for a few more days to give the fetish a good amount of time to pass.  She looks so stinkin cute with her puppy dog eyes in the picture, I just had to share it.


After a fun filled day with swimming and park time this was the face of my angel!  We had played in the water at Emily's house for several hours and she had sunscreen on her face.  After the water time, we headed to Uncle Charlie's softball game at the park.  Abigail and Vaughn baked dirt cakes for Emily and I and this was the result.  Sunscreen mixed with dirt made her look like a chimney sweep.  This picture doesn't do her justice, but you can kinda see all of the dirt caked onto her face and all over her hair.  Thank goodness for bathtubs!  Steve and I just love her little imagination...even if there are messes that sometimes accompany her!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

What in the world!!!

What is this?  I haven't looked it up online yet, but will.  Abby and I were digging in the garden this morning and found it.  Funny thing is that she totally screamed when she had a teenie tiny little ant on her finger and when she saw this....... Well, she wanted to hold it!!! Crazy kiddo!

Friday, May 15, 2009


Here are a few of us friends that met at the park today.  My sister Emily is in the green shirt and will be having her baby ANY MINUTE!!!  Our friend Valerie (next to Emily) and her 3 girls, and our friend Brittnie (far left) and her son.  Funny enough, Emily and I used to babysit Brittnie when she was a little tyke!

Vaughn peeping though the bars at me!
Isabel swinging super high!
Abby getting ready to go down the slide!
I told Abby to turn around and look at me & say cheese....this is what I got instead.  I will take it, she is a doll!
We had a very fun, much needed day at the park.  It has been so windy here that we haven't had too many chances to get outside!

A long time coming!!!

I shouldn't have posted this picture because Steve wouldn't approve with him in his skivies!  I had to post though because we have been detouring Abigail's naughty words with SOAP!!!  Steve said a not so nice word the other day and Abigail immediately went to the bathroom, got the soap and shoved it in his face.  IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!!  
Abby: Daddy, we don't say naughty words! 

I am glad she is learning something and teaching others too!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

A new baby coming!

My sister Emily is going to have a baby girl any day now.  On Friday May 1st, I had a diaper and wipes shower for her.  Here she is getting ready for all the fun to being.  As an activity for the shower I decided to do what my sisters did for me.  They made Abigail a wonderful book of nursery rhymes.  They are made from magazines and scrapbook cutouts.  It is one of her very favorites to look at daily.  So pictured here are the guesting making their pages for Evelyn's book.  Steve got me a cricut expressions for Christmas last year we went crazy cutting everything for our pages with that.  We had a really fun time with yummy treats, delicious punch and good conversation.

I do have to note here that Mohna is in this photo WITHOUT FOOD!  It has been a running joke in our family that somehow she always gets caught on camera eating.  It is pretty funny how that works.  I managed to get a non-eating shot of her!  LOVE you Mohna :)
I made my traditional diaper cake.  This time I decided to decorate it with a adorable little dress on top and ribbons around the layers that match the dress.  That way Emily can make some bows of her choice to go with the dress with that ribbon.
Everyone having a good time working on their pages.
Peanut butter cookie tarts filled with chocolate and sugar cookie tarts filled with cream cheese, cool whip and powdered sugar mix with a fresh strawberry slice on top.  MMM-MMM-GOOD!