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Monday, April 15, 2013

Favorite Picture Ever!

This picture is from Christmas and I just love it! It cracks me up how the girls are both looking up at Will and he is totally oblivious. We took a bunch of pics that morning and when I went back and looked through them and saw this one it totally surprised me, it was really random that both girls would be looking up at Will like that. I thought about how we all have older siblings we look up to in someway. I grew up with no sisters but I did have two older brothers and remember looking up to them in many ways, and not just because they were taller:) Now that we are adults and I see what wonderful fathers and husbands they are I look up to them even more. This picture reminds me that we all need someone to look up to and that we may just be that SOMEONE to another person.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Tyler and I went on our first cruise with the rest of the Hanks family in February! We were so excited as we counted down the weeks. Dad Hanks was paying and sending all the Hanks kids and spouses to Cozumel on the amazing Triumph. (that didn't end up being so amazing in the end) The picture above is before all the mayhem started. As you know there was a fire in the engine room which wasn't far from where we were staying. Our rooms were smoke filled and we ended up sleeping in a lounge. We encountered pee dripping from the ceiling, urine soaked carpets, onion and cucumber sandwiches along with many other interesting food combinations and a whole lot of unsavory things! We stood in line for 4 hours for hamburgers one day and they tasted sooo good! We drifted around the Gulf of Mexico for a few days and they were finally tugged back into Mobile Alabama. Our 3 day cruise turned into a 7 day cruise. We missed our kids so much and spoke to them only once with the limited communication. We had wonderful family and friends that took care of our kids and we felt so blessed that they were in such good hands. We missed Maggie Mae's bday on Valentines Day and that was sad:( I just kept thinking I hope someone remembers its her birthday and tells her HAPPY BIRTHDAY and of course wonderful neighbors and friends went above and beyond to make sure she had a great day! Lessons learned from the carnival triumph: Watch where you step/ Travel in groups/ When you find a working toilet use it/ Family=safety/ Always have someone guard home base/ The power of the priesthood works on a carnival ship even in the middle of the gulf of Mexico/ We can survive without electronic devices (who knew)/ You can live off of mini cereal boxes/ Coast guard ships carry large weapons/ Texan people are AWESOME/ My brothers are really killer at music trivia/ My mom looks great in a bathrobe/ My husband is a survivor/ My sister in laws look spectacular without make-up/ I love my FAMILY (those I was with and those little kiddos left behind)/ Day to day normal life...although it sometimes feels like groundhogs day is so so good! Below is the pic after the mayhem:) Yes we kept those robes!!!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Life in Feb and March..

Our sweet little Maggie Mae turned 4 with a CUPCAKE PARTY! She talked about it for months and now that it is over she is talking about the next one. We love the optimism this one brings into the house...we call her our little cheerleader because she cheers everyone on and her cup is always half FULL!

Gwen and her little friend Abby had the opportunity to learn the HULA and dance with The TONGAN BRANCH in our stake..they did a FANTABULOUS JOB..those cute little HULA GIRLS!

What could be more FUN then an Easter Egg HUNT with the HANKS cousins? Will played the Easter Bunny and hid all the eggs in Grandma's back yard. He was a really good EASTER BUNNY apparently too good because Grandma Sue found some eggs in the back a few days later...we hope you enjoyed those JELLY BEANS MOM!!! We enjoyed a few days with Grandma and Grandpa Hanks and a few days with Grandma and Grandpa Endsley. The girls were a little worried that the EASTER BUNNY wouldn't find us at Grandma and Grandpa Endsley's, but he surely did and we ate and ate and ate some more...THANKS for the FABULOUS dinner...even though two hours later Will threw it all up all over the girls in the back seat! We LOVE all our family in SOUTHERN UTAH!!!