Frustrated!

For Christmas, Jason gave me the best gift ever!  A couple of years ago, we had our gmail email account hacked.  The hackers changed our password meaning I could no longer access my email.  More sadly it meant I also couldn't access my blog.  I was crushed.. I could still look at my blog but I could access it to add posts or more importantly to print my years of post.  We tried for a long time to figure out some way to print the blog so we could have access to all those memories...failed attempt.  So I started a new blog, which I admit, I have not been the best at (or even second best...I've been bad).  So, back to Christmas, somehow Jason worked some serious computer magic with the help of a blog printing company & for Christmas he presented me with my 1st blog, all printed out in a beautiful book.  I cried, a lot! 
Needless to say, as I've looked through that book numerous times since, it's made me want to do better on my current blog.  So following Christmas, I organized my pictures, made my list & set out to get my blog all updated, only to be foiled in my plan.  For some reason, when I choose to upload pictures for  post, it doesn't give me options to choose from files on my computer.  Kind of puts a damper on things.  I have heard lately about people using up all the alloted memory for their blog , but mine seems to still have a lot of memory (before I have to pay, what's the deal with that??)
I'm frustrated!!!  Anyone have any suggestions?  I need to talk to my blog consultant (Jen) but I am swamped trying to get New Beginnings put together.
Hopefully soon, all will be well & I can once again get caught up.

The Big Game

I will just prefice this post by saying, Jason and I love college football.  Doesn't even matter who is playing, we love to watch it.

So, last night was the BYU/Boise State game here is Boise.  Of course, we are BYU fans since we went there, but we have always really liked BSU, even before we moved here.  Like most people in Boise, we had looked into tickets to go but had never found any, so we were resigned to watch it at home.  About 3:30 yesterday afternoon, some friends of ours called...they have season tickets but had been invited to sit with other friends at the game.  They wanted to know if we wanted their tickets.  Seriously??  We were so so excited.  It's been a long time since we've been to a college football game and this was a pretty hot ticket here in Boise! 

So we jumped at the chance.  We are lucky enough to have great family that was willing to watch the girls and we headed  to the game. 

Fast foward 4 hours....so the game was hard to watch, frustrating, infuriating at times and BYU lost but we still had a great time.  It's always fun to be there in person and take in the atmophere.

As a side note, Boise State people really love their tailgating.  I have never seen anything quite like it!

 

 

Going in for our only school....if only we could have just kicked the extra point!



Love Notes

Like most kids, my girls love to write little notes to everyone.  Yesterday, Lauren spent a good portion of her afternoon writing a little note to each person in the family.  They were so cute & she worked so hard on her handwriting! 

After she had gone to bed last night, I found this note on her own bed!

I think it's my favorite!

Her Spot

This is Abby's spot.  If you attempt to sit in her spot, she gets pretty bent out of shape.  While in her spot, she needs the three B's: blankie, bottle & binkie.  And then she'll tell you exactly what cartoon she wants.  A little pathetic but so hard to resist!

 

She can thank her Great-Grandpa Madsen for her spot.  This chair was his for years, until we inherited it as newleyweds.  If it's up to Abby, it will stay with us for many more years!

Classics

You know how some things never go out of style.  I always think I should save all my clothes because at some point they'll come back in style, right?  Well, we discovered one of those classics in our house last week.  As my parents have been cleaning out their house to move, they've naturally passed on many gems to us kids.  I have been on the receiving end of quite a few articles of clothing.  Most of them dont' seem usable but Lauren picked this cute green dress out last Sunday and really wanted to wear it.  Initially I thought it had been mine as a little girl, but then as we looked back through pictures I found it had been my older sisters when she was Lauren's age.

This little Nordstrom Best dress has stood the test of time and still looks amazing!  Lauren thought it was so cool to be able to wear something of her Aunt Deborah's!

 

City of Rocks

At the end of August we went to Southern Idaho for the Polson family reunion. It was in the tiny town of Albion at an old teacher's college (now used for reunions). We had a great time visiting with family we haven't seen in a long time. 

One of the days we went to a nearby destination, City of Rocks. These pictures do no justice, but the place was amazing.  Rock structures sticking out of the mountains everywhere.  The kids had a fabulous time climbing and the adults loved the views. 

We had a great time until we got a flat tire and had to head out (thank you very sharp rocks!)

 

 

 



Surprise!

• After everyone left from the 4th of July, we packed ourselves up and headed to Seattle.  Jason's mom was celebrated a big birthday and we had decided, with the other siblings, we would surprise her for her birthday.  So instead of going to Jason's parents house, we all headed out to the lake house.  We arrived there Wednesday night & Jason's dad brought his mom out Thursday for her big surprise!  She had no idea & she was super surprised.  It was so fun.  Our girls love having their little secret & being part of such a fun surprise.  We stayed and play for several days at the lake and it was perfect.  The weather was perfect!  And when I say perfect, I mean I even loved the random rain & lightening & thunder storms!!  We spent the week playing in the water and spending time with cousins.  We could hardly get our girls out of the water.  They are now in love with the jet ski & think they are so big since they got to drive it.  Since the it was the middle of the week we basically had the lake to ourselves which was amazing! 
• Thanks Grandma for having a birthday!