I think we both really needed to drop a dukie....

what do you think?

Starting out 2009!

So I feel like I have been cheating on my blog with facebook.  It is so much more fun!  Sorry!  I will try to do better.  January and February were both great.  Here are some of our adventures...  

The Phoenix Children's Museum.  

This was so much fun!  I wish it wasn't so expensive!  This is Boston and Paris being the checkers at the grocery store.  The other kids aren't far behind with their carts full of food!

They had thousands of these noodles hanging from the ceiling!  The kids were having races through them.  I was afraid for the safety of the little one...  lucky everyone was safe!  I even ran through a couple times.  Good times.

Suz and Ron came down one weekend, and we HAD to take them to the chocolate factory.  Maddy had been telling my Mom about it for over a year.  She finally got to experience it!  

Maddy lost her first tooth!  And as you can tell by the look on her face it wasn't the happiest moment for her.  I thought she was going to pass out when she saw all the blood, but then we reminded her about the tooth fairy and she wasn't so sad anymore.

And Ryan got 4 new teeth!  He looks like a little hillbilly now.  So friggin' cute!  

And last but not least... Maddy passed out getting her blood drawn!  She is going to be just like her mommy!  Such a proud moment!  I'm kidding!!  I really hope she doesn't ever have to pass out again... it is horrible!

Talan was telling everyone at Christmas who Peter Parker was. Sunny caught this little nugget on tape. Enjoy.

It was an amazing day!

Spencer should win husband of the year.  He planned the best birthday for me ever!  I love going to breakfast, so when I woke up he took me to Cracker Barrel with the whole Beck fam.  When we arrived Kisten and Kaci happened to be waiting in there, pleasant surprise!  Then the girls took me to fix my pasty whiteness and we did a little spray tan.  As if you couldn't tell!  Then just us girls went on down to Mesquite and did some gambling.  It was really weird being there in the middle of the day.  Only the crazy addicted people gamble during the day... but it was still good.  I made them play Roulette with me for awhile, but they are both slots girls so after a half hour I let them go play their silly little games!  I was quite happy i won $40 and then found out that Kisten had won $150 on Wheel of Fortune!  So you'd think she'd spring for lunch or maybe a coke... nope, nothing!  Ha, Ha!  I still love you Kisten!   Then we took the kids to Jumpin' Jacks.  It was so fun for the kids as well as the adults!

Then Spence surprised me and  got an amazing room in Zion's.  We took the Virg and Lana and Clint and his kids and stayed the night there.  Spencer and I got the king size bed (I need one of those) and then there were 2 queen beds for the others.  So we put the kids (and Virg & Lana) to bed at 10:30 and then went to see Erik the Red play at the Bit & Spur.  It was such a fun night!  

The next morning we got up went to breakfast and drove in through Zion's Canyon.  It was fun to spend the day with the fam!  Thanks for an amazing birthday everyone!!!

The Arm Wrestle...

It's strange... my Mom and Kim are freakishly strong and I am not.  There have been times through out my life when I have felt like I could take one of them down and of course I have always been wrong.  But I was really feeling it this day, so I challenged my Mom to an arm wrestle.  I must admit, it took awhile, but I did prevail!  Never-mind that she is 59, I am finally stronger than her.  

We lost some info...

so if you don't see your name listed on the right... please let me know because I didn't save everyone's blog address'.  Thanks!

I must confess...

  Our neighbors rent out these big bouncy castles. Our back yards are too small for them so everyone puts them in their driveway.  I wouldn't ever let my kids get one because, yes, I do like to make fun of those people who have parties in their driveway. Sorry, but it's weird.

So... over the Thanksgiving weekend we wanted to do something really fun for the kids... I broke down... and we rented a bouncy.  I do think the adults who tried it out had just as much fun as the kids.  

So on to my confession... 

I want to do it again.