Ho Ho Ho It's Christmas, He He He it's Here, Ha Ha Ha it's Christmas, My Favorite time of Year!

Another Christmas, come and gone. We had a lot of fun celebrating with the Funk's.

Here are the boys

Watching Uncle Jeremy play Wii

Carter playing with his favorite Christmas toy

JJ sharing his Christmas treats with Carter

Me and JJ

arter playing with his mini Buzz lightyear

Josh and JJ in an intense sword fight

Opening presents

JJ seeing his swords for the first time.

JJ's favorite gifts were all his little figurines and his swords
Carter loved his Bus and everything that JJ liked
Me and Josh got some money to continue building up our food storage and a couple Bumbles watches
Josh got his NBA all league pass, so he can watch all his basketball games. ya!

Funk Family Weekend of Fun Minus the Fun

We decided to pack up the family and go to park city with some good friends. We got a smokin deal because we signed up to do the time share presentation. I had dreams of it being so much fun; eating out, swimming, playing in the snow, shopping at the outlets, and just hanging out with friends.
Well to be honest.... Iam going to sound like such a brat but.... It was HORRIBLE! Now that it's over it doesn't seem so bad, but when we were there all I wanted to do was come home. The weather was so bad, our rooms were SO small, JJ decided to throw the worst tantrums I have EVER seen. I felt so bad for the people next to us because JJ was up till after midnight screaming (and he has a loud voice) "I want my stripe bed!" and "My poo is coming!" and "This doesn't look like our house!"
I feel like we didn't even see our friends.

SO, we decided we would love to do it again, but without the kiddos. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, they are great and make me smile everyday. They just didn't make things very fun.
I sound like such a brat. OH WELL. Just being honest.

Okay, I'll be positive now.... Gas was so cheap we had to take a picture And it's dropped a lot since then. It was a very economical trip.

I think the boys MIGHT have had fun. I'm not sure though.


The best part of the trip.... going home with two sleeping boys.

Today I learned......

That it's possible to go into Costco, get ONLY the 3 items you went in for, check out, and be back in your car in 16 minutes flat. That's with two kids!
Amazing don't ya think?

A little late on my Thanksgiving post

Thanksgiving weekend was so great this year. Here are some pictures of the festivities.

I love these girls, I consider them my sisters

We celebrated Josh's dad's 53 birthday!

We tried to take family pitures, as the family grows so does the amount of pictures you have to take..... and you still don't get a good one. Oh well, this is such a REAL picture

The Family!

I shot a gun for the first time, it was a Thanksgiving miracle I didn't shoot SOMEONE.... seriously!

The kids table before the feast

The pretty grown up table

The woman who makes it all possible. She is such a great partier!

What a fun weekend

This weekend was such a blast! Friday night it started off with the ultimate girls night, dinner (new york burrito) and a movie..... Twilight. I have been looking forward to this for quite some time. I even had a friend hook us up with tee shirts that had our favorite twilight quote or saying. The movie was good, it was entertaining, not quite everything I hoped for, but how can they include all your favorite parts of the book in the movie, it's nearly impossible. The night was great though, good friends, good laughs, and Edward on the big screen. It's a winning combination if you ask me.






Saturday I took the boys to the Holiday Festival, they got to see my favorite round, jolly man. JJ was seriously so excited. He couldn't wait to tell Santa he wanted a kitchen (which sadly he probably won't get) And then after we had to go back and tell Santa that he didn't want the kitchen, he actually wants Zurg (the villan of toy story) Should I be conerned that the only characters he wants lately are the "bad guys"

And Saturday night me and Josh got invited to go to the CSI men's bball tournament game. We took the boys with us and plenty of licorice to keep them entertained. After the game some of our friends who were hosting invited us to come have some pizza and cheesecake. Nothing like a meal at 9:30 at night! It was so fun though and we all had a good time, even the boys.

Ocho Tag but I changed it to Quatro Tag (just to make it easier)

4 Favorite TV Shows
1. The Office
2. Lost
3. American Idol
4. Project Runway

4 Favorite Restraunts
1. Olive Garden
2. Jonny Carinos
3. Outback
4. Chilli's

4 Things that happened yesterday
1. Played outside with the kids in 60 degree weather
2. Learned some tips on how to be a better parent
3. My husband gave me $20
4. Worked out

4 thinkgs that I am looking forward to
1. Thanksgiving (lots of family, Whitney's baby shower...... yummy food!)
2. Putting up Christmas decorations
3. A weekend in Park City with Josh and the kids
4. Seeing the Twilight movie on Friday

4 things on my wish list
1. A clean and organized house
2. New winter friendly shoes
3. JJ to actually listen to me when I'm talking to him
4. a four hour nap for JJ and Carter at the same time

Edward and Bella

So this last month I have spent every free second with my pals Edward, Bella and Jacob. Yes, I finally did it. I read the Twiglight series! And loved every minute of it, except in the second book when I balled my eyes out. I have to admit, I am not one to jump on the bandwagon, if everyone is doing it sometimes that makes me not want to. But my neighbor finally got me started on the first book and after that there was no turning back.
I have just purchased my ticket for the movie that comes out next friday. If you have been debating on reading the series you have just got to do it. You won't get anything done for a while but it's worth it

I never thought I would be so obsessed!

Where did October go!

We went to the pumpkin patch with some friends. Grandma had already taken the boys there but we had to go back because it was so fun. They had a hay tower, a little train you could ride on, a maze and tons of fun little things to do for the kids. They had so much fun!


We had Josh's family over for a halloween dinner, I wish I would have taken more pictures. I made soup with spider breadsticks and monster eclairs for dessert. His family surprised us by dressing up, so we had to put the boys in their costumes to get a quick picture.


Halloween was so fun! JJ was Buzz lightyear and Carter was Donald Duck. Carter couldn't believe trick or treating, he kept stopping and looking in his bucket at all the yummy candies.


The boys had fun with Josh's mullet wig, I think they look pretty good don't you?


Me and Josh were invited to a halloween costume party that night. It was such a blast, we went as...... well.... we're not sure. Just 80's trash I guess, Josh did win the funniest prize costume. Notice his awesome Eric Clapton concert shirt, and I was sporting guess jeans and la gears.
The hostess had made tons of fun halloween foods, and the decorations were so amazing. It was so fun. Than we went home and ate tons of candy, what could be better than that! I love halloween

Modbe Mystery Hostess Party

Some of you know, I sell modbe, and I just wanted to let you know about a little party I am going to be doing.

If you spend $40 on my modbe website from now until the end of october your name will be put in a drawing to win $30-$100 in FREE product and you'll get a sweet discount. It will be like YOU hosted the party, that's why it's called "mystery" hostess party.
I am just doing an online party so enter party #350 when it asks you after you put in your credit card info.
go to my modbe blog for more detail.

First Snow Day

So I went to bed in october and woke up yesterday in January! It was crazy to see all the snow on the ground. JJ has just gotten some new snow boots from his grandma so we had to put them to use.
This was JJ AND Carter's first time playing in the snow. JJ loved it! I made a snow man with him and then Josh had to come out and show me up with his BIG snow man. In the end it made mine look like a snow girl.
Carter wasn't sure what he thought about the snow. He actually tipped right over and fell on his back and couldn't move, he just layed there for a minute not knowing what to do. He was so bundled up he had a hard time walking.
Than we came in and had some hot chocolate. It was pretty fun..... BUT I'm not ready for this weather!

3 Years Old

Weighing in at an astouding 42.6 pounds and standing 41 inches tall,
It's a bird.... It's a plane......




It's Buzz Light Year ( also know as J.J. the birthday boy)

We had JJ's birthday party this week celebrating turning 3 years old. I still can't believe it!
My mom and dad and brother came up to party with us, as well as Josh's mom and sister and my grandparents. JJ loved opening his presents, ofcourse he had his favorites; all the toys and the Buzz lightyear costume.
He also got a lot of great clothes, I appreciated them alot more than he did.

He was so terrified of the Buzz costume at first, but we finally got him into it. When we took it off it was because he was getting so hot, we discovered pleather doesn't breath well.


Even Carter got in on the cupcake action.




The day before JJ's party Grandma Funk took him out on a special date. He got to eat pizza and go to the toy store and pick out a special toy. He chose a recorder and a Handy Manny tool box.
What a fun Birthday! I love my little 3 year old!