I wanted to post these beautiful pictures my cousin Emily took of me and my beautiful granddaughters! Sophie is almost 6, Rubie is almost 2! Love em!!
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
MY GIRLS!!
No! I am not talking about my boobs! Yes... I too see in these pictures, they are not up where they used to be! Anyway!
I wanted to post these beautiful pictures my cousin Emily took of me and my beautiful granddaughters! Sophie is almost 6, Rubie is almost 2! Love em!!
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I wanted to post these beautiful pictures my cousin Emily took of me and my beautiful granddaughters! Sophie is almost 6, Rubie is almost 2! Love em!!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
IT WAS A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING!
Sophie loves entertaining with her Karaoke!
Lots and lots of games!! Cards, board games, pool, video, Bust a move! :) etc.! (Even a little golf)
Dylan and Austen
Nothin better than a bottle and snuggling with uncle Ryan.
It was a celebration of Carl's 47th, which was on yes... "Black Friday"!
We also celebrated Amanda's 21st birthday which was on Saturday!
Ashlii and Cole... the gracious hosts of this event!
Lots of yummy food! :)
Andrew (Christophers son), Austen, Maddie and Mckay
Marni and Lexi
Lots and lots of games!! Cards, board games, pool, video, Bust a move! :) etc.! (Even a little golf)
Dylan and Austen
Nothin better than a bottle and snuggling with uncle Ryan.
It was a celebration of Carl's 47th, which was on yes... "Black Friday"!
We also celebrated Amanda's 21st birthday which was on Saturday!
Ashlii and Cole... the gracious hosts of this event!
Lots of yummy food! :)
Andrew (Christophers son), Austen, Maddie and Mckay
Marni and Lexi
Monday, September 7, 2009
#30...GETTIN BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS... JAMAL WILLIS AND CREW!!
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Austen's Football Season has begun... They had there first game on Saturday, they beat the Bingham Miners 8 to 6! These are some pictures from a pre-season practice when his team had the privilege of getting some instruction from Jamal Willis and his crew! Jamal played for BYU and the 49ers! It was great fun!
GO ALTA MIDGET WHITE!!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
FUN ON THE 4TH!!
Austen
Pretty girls!
Sweet Rubie
Cole and Sophie
Amanda and Ry
Ashlii and Lexi having fun at the pool!
Sophie and her 2nd Fudgesicle!
The crazy cooks!
Happy 14th Morgan! (what a sweet picture of her and her daddy)
Pretty girls!
Sweet Rubie
Cole and Sophie
Amanda and Ry
Ashlii and Lexi having fun at the pool!
Sophie and her 2nd Fudgesicle!
The crazy cooks!
Happy 14th Morgan! (what a sweet picture of her and her daddy)
Monday, June 15, 2009
LITTLE RUBIE HAS A BOOBOO!! :(
Sweet little Rubie was playing with her mommy... she tripped and started to fall forward, Ashlii quickly grabbed her arm trying to stop her from falling on her face... it gave her "Nursemaids Elbow" I don't know who I feel worse for, Ashlii or Rubie. Ash feels sooo badly about it! Rubie looked so cute with her little sling I had to post a picture!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
JUST BECAUSE... SHE MAKES US SMILE!!
Rubie Grace Madsen
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Not happy about getting washed up after birthday cake!
She loves, loves, loves her swing!
Nothin like a sweet baby girl with a runny nose and a slurpee!
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Not happy about getting washed up after birthday cake!
She loves, loves, loves her swing!
Nothin like a sweet baby girl with a runny nose and a slurpee!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
UNTIL NEXT YEAR #57!!
Alta Hawks Thunder!
Sophie and Rubie trying hard to be good!
Myself, Rubie, Amanda, Sophie Ashlii and Ryan
Austen decided not to play baseball this year, he played Lacrosse instead. Never played it before, we really knew NOTHING about it at all! Carl is from Syracuse N.Y. too, a city well known for Lacrosse. In fact they were National Champions this year! It was a riot watching these boys play, I liked it as well if not better than football! (That is saying alot!) He and his team did really well... Alta Thunder ended their season with a loss, which is why Austen looks so bummed in these pictures. They had a wonderful season, they were 7 and 1, Austen played Attack and scored 7 goals during his season! We were so proud of him!
Sophie and Rubie trying hard to be good!
Myself, Rubie, Amanda, Sophie Ashlii and Ryan
Austen decided not to play baseball this year, he played Lacrosse instead. Never played it before, we really knew NOTHING about it at all! Carl is from Syracuse N.Y. too, a city well known for Lacrosse. In fact they were National Champions this year! It was a riot watching these boys play, I liked it as well if not better than football! (That is saying alot!) He and his team did really well... Alta Thunder ended their season with a loss, which is why Austen looks so bummed in these pictures. They had a wonderful season, they were 7 and 1, Austen played Attack and scored 7 goals during his season! We were so proud of him!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
BRILLIANT!
A MAYONNAISE JAR & TWO PEPSI'S.....
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
when 24 hours in a day are not enough,
remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Pepsi's.....
A professor stood before his Philosophy 201 class and
had some items in front of him.
When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a
very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and
poured them into the jar, he shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'
The professor then produced two Pepsi's from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else---the small stuff.
'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or
golf balls.
The same goes for life..
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Spend time with your children.
Spend time with your parents.
Visit with grandparents.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your spouse out to dinner.
There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
Set your priorities..
The rest is just sand.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Pepsi represented.
The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.'
The Pepsi just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Pepsi's with a friend.
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
when 24 hours in a day are not enough,
remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Pepsi's.....
A professor stood before his Philosophy 201 class and
had some items in front of him.
When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a
very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and
poured them into the jar, he shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'
The professor then produced two Pepsi's from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else---the small stuff.
'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or
golf balls.
The same goes for life..
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Spend time with your children.
Spend time with your parents.
Visit with grandparents.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your spouse out to dinner.
There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
Set your priorities..
The rest is just sand.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Pepsi represented.
The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.'
The Pepsi just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Pepsi's with a friend.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I LOVED THIS! (There is a message for us all!)
If you haven't seen her, visit this video... I think this is really cool!
It's worth going to youtube to see the long version of it as well. (Obviously, I wasn't smart enough to get that version on here... sorry)
It's worth going to youtube to see the long version of it as well. (Obviously, I wasn't smart enough to get that version on here... sorry)
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
TAKE CARE WOMEN!
When my daughter was two weeks old, I was standing at the top of some steps and, for a minute, I held her tighter because I was truly afraid that the wind would blow her out of my arms. It sounds crazy now, but the urge to protect your child is hardwired and sometimes irrational. Indeed, for the first few years of their lives, it seems like our main occupation is to keep them from certain death. You scoop tiny chokeable bits of things out of their mouths; you grab them by the pants just before they fall off a chair, the stairs, the top of the slide; you stop them from prying old gum off the sidewalk.
And of course sometimes kids do fall, and there you are in the emergency room, freighted with guilt or panic or both. Most of the time, they are fine, and you get used to a certain level of parental worry. But there's another opposite and almost equally terrifying thought that we don't talk about as much: what if something happened to us before our kids were old enough to take care of themselves?
We're usually so preoccupied with our children's well-being that our own safety is an afterthought. But the deaths of two notable mothers over the past week, both with young children, have made those thoughts hard to avoid. Last Wednesday, actress Natasha Richardson died in New York from a brain injury after a skiing accident. She and her husband, actor Liam Neeson, had two sons—just 12 and 13 years old. Then, over the weekend, 27-year-old British reality-TV star, Jade Goody, succumbed after a long and public struggle with cervical cancer. She left behind two little boys, ages 4 and 5.
Neither woman was superstar famous, but the stories of their deaths were chilling to the mothers I know. Some of us could barely remember a movie we'd seen Richardson in, we just knew that she was gracious and well loved and just 45 years old. Her passing from something as capricious and random as a minor fall on the gentlest of ski slopes was so jarring that we couldn't stop talking about the how and the why. We hoped that an autopsy would show that something else, a pre-existing condition maybe, caused her death. But no. These things happen. It could have been any of us.
And when we learned that she waved away an initial offer of medical care after her fall, we understood. I'm sure that if one of Richardson's children had bumped his head she would gone to an emergency room immediately, and stayed for as long as it took to be absolutely sure that the boy was fine. But how many parents, if we'd taken a small tumble, would have looked at the day's plans and said, "No, I don't want to ruin everyone's vacation only to spend hours at the hospital over a minor bump. We don't have time. I'll be fine."
We find it easy to postpone our own doctor's appointments, but not the ones for the kids. We helmet them, but not ourselves. This is why airlines still have to remind parents to put their own oxygen masks on before they take care of the kids.
The passing of Britain's Goody inspired another trail of questions for parents. She was known as a kind of over-the-top "wrong side of the tracks Lady Diana," and had become famous after a controversial stint on the reality show "Big Brother." When she learned that she had an aggressive form of cervical cancer, this young woman who had not much else to offer, decided to sell the rights to televise her last days so that her two sons would be provided for.
Her decision caused an uproar in England. But it made me think twice about what I'd do for my two daughters if I knew I wasn't going to be around. So many of us haven't properly sorted out a living will, or even a regular will with provisions for guardianship should our kids be left without either parent. And as for less concrete types of preparation, I'm not sure what I'd do if I were given the terrible luxury of time to prepare my two daughters for my own passing. Goody told her sons that they could look to the sky and find her there, a star to watch over them. Hearing that, it was impossible not to think about what I'd say to my girls. It's like the unexplainable urge to put your finger right into the blue center of a candle flame. Horrible and irresistible.
But another week of work, school projects and laundry is already upon us; it won't be long before we forget Richardson and Goody. That's perhaps one blessing of having young children. The struggle to simply keep up with the everyday doesn't leave much time for fretting over hypotheticals. Still, I am going to finally make an appointment for a long overdue checkup. I'll do it for my kids. And I'll be thinking about Richardson's and Goody's children as I do it.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff | Newsweek Web Exclusive
And of course sometimes kids do fall, and there you are in the emergency room, freighted with guilt or panic or both. Most of the time, they are fine, and you get used to a certain level of parental worry. But there's another opposite and almost equally terrifying thought that we don't talk about as much: what if something happened to us before our kids were old enough to take care of themselves?
We're usually so preoccupied with our children's well-being that our own safety is an afterthought. But the deaths of two notable mothers over the past week, both with young children, have made those thoughts hard to avoid. Last Wednesday, actress Natasha Richardson died in New York from a brain injury after a skiing accident. She and her husband, actor Liam Neeson, had two sons—just 12 and 13 years old. Then, over the weekend, 27-year-old British reality-TV star, Jade Goody, succumbed after a long and public struggle with cervical cancer. She left behind two little boys, ages 4 and 5.
Neither woman was superstar famous, but the stories of their deaths were chilling to the mothers I know. Some of us could barely remember a movie we'd seen Richardson in, we just knew that she was gracious and well loved and just 45 years old. Her passing from something as capricious and random as a minor fall on the gentlest of ski slopes was so jarring that we couldn't stop talking about the how and the why. We hoped that an autopsy would show that something else, a pre-existing condition maybe, caused her death. But no. These things happen. It could have been any of us.
And when we learned that she waved away an initial offer of medical care after her fall, we understood. I'm sure that if one of Richardson's children had bumped his head she would gone to an emergency room immediately, and stayed for as long as it took to be absolutely sure that the boy was fine. But how many parents, if we'd taken a small tumble, would have looked at the day's plans and said, "No, I don't want to ruin everyone's vacation only to spend hours at the hospital over a minor bump. We don't have time. I'll be fine."
We find it easy to postpone our own doctor's appointments, but not the ones for the kids. We helmet them, but not ourselves. This is why airlines still have to remind parents to put their own oxygen masks on before they take care of the kids.
The passing of Britain's Goody inspired another trail of questions for parents. She was known as a kind of over-the-top "wrong side of the tracks Lady Diana," and had become famous after a controversial stint on the reality show "Big Brother." When she learned that she had an aggressive form of cervical cancer, this young woman who had not much else to offer, decided to sell the rights to televise her last days so that her two sons would be provided for.
Her decision caused an uproar in England. But it made me think twice about what I'd do for my two daughters if I knew I wasn't going to be around. So many of us haven't properly sorted out a living will, or even a regular will with provisions for guardianship should our kids be left without either parent. And as for less concrete types of preparation, I'm not sure what I'd do if I were given the terrible luxury of time to prepare my two daughters for my own passing. Goody told her sons that they could look to the sky and find her there, a star to watch over them. Hearing that, it was impossible not to think about what I'd say to my girls. It's like the unexplainable urge to put your finger right into the blue center of a candle flame. Horrible and irresistible.
But another week of work, school projects and laundry is already upon us; it won't be long before we forget Richardson and Goody. That's perhaps one blessing of having young children. The struggle to simply keep up with the everyday doesn't leave much time for fretting over hypotheticals. Still, I am going to finally make an appointment for a long overdue checkup. I'll do it for my kids. And I'll be thinking about Richardson's and Goody's children as I do it.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
"25 Kicks and Giggles Tag"
I honestly don't know if this is a good thing or not? It has made me think about my own self, but just like the only other 'tags' I've done... it is a reminder of just how boring I really am!!
Here goes...
#1
I still love watching General Hospital each afternoon. (that I can) I've been watching it since I was 15 years old! I am 43... that means I've watched
General for almost 30 years! Wow, I am old!!
#2
I love to color in coloring books! There is nothing like a brand new box of crayons!
#3
As I said, I am 43 years old... I just got my first cell phone in December! No I did not say "a new cell phone" I said "MY FIRST CELL PHONE"! Crazy huh!
#4
I have a facebook page... I know, so does the whole rest of the world! I just think it's funny because when I got it and told my girls... my daughter Ashlii said "Ah... old people are so cute". I do love it!
#5
I can't stop chewing ice!! It think it is a problem! I drive my daughter Amanda CRAZY!! I just love it! I go through cups and cups of it each day... I've chipped my teeth doing it too... it's just terrible. I like it best when it has been in my drink just about 20 minutes... just perfect! I can't stop!
#6
I love shopping at Walmart! ... sorry girls!
#7
I use a lot of hand sanitizer, bleach and Lysol! Enough said!
#8
I've always wanted to live like the people on "Little House on the Prairie" or in "The Walton" home! (Do you guys even know who "The Waltons" are?) I wouldn't last long in either of those times... I know!
#9
I am a tiny bit scared of old people! Not my own relatives! Just old people I don't know.
#10
My re-occurring dream... being chased by an old lady in a wheelchair, I can't run fast enough and I try to scream but nothing comes out!(Hence my fear of old people)
#11
I do not like DLS time!!! I am not excited about losing an hour of sleep! I do love when it starts to stay light longer in the evenings though!
#12
I worry about my children, the husbands of my daughters and my grandaughters! I think maybe too much! Worry, worry, worry! I drive myself crazy!
#13
I love having a "To Do List" LOVE IT!! Most of the things never get done, but I do love listing things for myself. Maybe it makes me feel like I have a life... when I really don't?
#14
I LOVE MONDAYS!! I do! There is something to be said for working hard, staying busy and being on a schedule, that is what my work week does for me. I love that feeling of getting ready on Sunday nights for work the next day?? Go figure... maybe if I tackled my "To Do" list on the weekends more often, I would feel busier? I do enjoy my weekends, just love Monday's as well!
#15
I love a beautiful yard! I do not love what it takes to have that! I can feel it in the air... mowing and weeding are just around the corner!
#16
I am on my 4th load of laundry tonight and so I was just thinking about how much I love the smell of April Fresh Downy! Some of the other smells I just love... freshly bathed little kiddies, rain, sunscreen, campfires, oranges... I could go on!
#17
Well Katie I don't think I can make it to 25, I am too tired tonight. If I save this as a draft and say "I'll get back to it" ... well, I already told you about my "To Do lists" ... you get the point!
Here goes...
#1
I still love watching General Hospital each afternoon. (that I can) I've been watching it since I was 15 years old! I am 43... that means I've watched
General for almost 30 years! Wow, I am old!!
#2
I love to color in coloring books! There is nothing like a brand new box of crayons!
#3
As I said, I am 43 years old... I just got my first cell phone in December! No I did not say "a new cell phone" I said "MY FIRST CELL PHONE"! Crazy huh!
#4
I have a facebook page... I know, so does the whole rest of the world! I just think it's funny because when I got it and told my girls... my daughter Ashlii said "Ah... old people are so cute". I do love it!
#5
I can't stop chewing ice!! It think it is a problem! I drive my daughter Amanda CRAZY!! I just love it! I go through cups and cups of it each day... I've chipped my teeth doing it too... it's just terrible. I like it best when it has been in my drink just about 20 minutes... just perfect! I can't stop!
#6
I love shopping at Walmart! ... sorry girls!
#7
I use a lot of hand sanitizer, bleach and Lysol! Enough said!
#8
I've always wanted to live like the people on "Little House on the Prairie" or in "The Walton" home! (Do you guys even know who "The Waltons" are?) I wouldn't last long in either of those times... I know!
#9
I am a tiny bit scared of old people! Not my own relatives! Just old people I don't know.
#10
My re-occurring dream... being chased by an old lady in a wheelchair, I can't run fast enough and I try to scream but nothing comes out!(Hence my fear of old people)
#11
I do not like DLS time!!! I am not excited about losing an hour of sleep! I do love when it starts to stay light longer in the evenings though!
#12
I worry about my children, the husbands of my daughters and my grandaughters! I think maybe too much! Worry, worry, worry! I drive myself crazy!
#13
I love having a "To Do List" LOVE IT!! Most of the things never get done, but I do love listing things for myself. Maybe it makes me feel like I have a life... when I really don't?
#14
I LOVE MONDAYS!! I do! There is something to be said for working hard, staying busy and being on a schedule, that is what my work week does for me. I love that feeling of getting ready on Sunday nights for work the next day?? Go figure... maybe if I tackled my "To Do" list on the weekends more often, I would feel busier? I do enjoy my weekends, just love Monday's as well!
#15
I love a beautiful yard! I do not love what it takes to have that! I can feel it in the air... mowing and weeding are just around the corner!
#16
I am on my 4th load of laundry tonight and so I was just thinking about how much I love the smell of April Fresh Downy! Some of the other smells I just love... freshly bathed little kiddies, rain, sunscreen, campfires, oranges... I could go on!
#17
Well Katie I don't think I can make it to 25, I am too tired tonight. If I save this as a draft and say "I'll get back to it" ... well, I already told you about my "To Do lists" ... you get the point!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
ARIZONA... what a wonderful place to visit THIS TIME OF YEAR!!
Family, Fun, 72 and sunny in January makes EVERYBODY smile!!
A little bit of the FBR OPEN "The Greatest Show on Grass" doesn't hurt either!!
What a treat it was to spend a few days with Ty, Tiff, Jake, Jash, Hayden and Holli! Wow... how we wish you lived a little closer!
A little bit of the FBR OPEN "The Greatest Show on Grass" doesn't hurt either!!
What a treat it was to spend a few days with Ty, Tiff, Jake, Jash, Hayden and Holli! Wow... how we wish you lived a little closer!
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