"One Crazy Morning" Video

I am one who does not scrapbook. BUT the way I manage the guilt caused by this is that I VIDEO scrapbook. I love to make short movies of events and pictures.

One summer morning the whole family was hanging out in pajamas (for so long we actually went well in to the PM portion of the day), when Ashlin and her friend Vanessa started taking silly pictures... a video was made to remember that silly day.
It's a couple minutes long.

Sit back and enjoy a Vernon Studios production:

A glance at 2008...

Since I am new to the blogger world, I am going back a little

and documenting some highlights of 2008.

Here we are "powering up" at Disneyland. We went in Feb with our dear friends from Veterinary school, The Statens. We made matching Mickey Mouse shirts. Before any scary rides we had to get our brave on by powering up. I am sure you will recognize this pose (ha ha) as taught to us by good ol' 5 year old Loge... anyone, anyone?? Yes, we are indeed doing what Transformers do as soon as they transform from vehicle, to standing robot position.

The Reynolds cabin with my sister Carrie's kids for Spring Break.

As you can see the jackets are all a crazy variety of not the perfect sizes, as we don't need to keep, in sunny AZ, a current snow jacket for each child. The warmest clothes we have are zipper sweatshirts. Those aren't so great in the snow, as we learned last year the cold and wet way. So this year we scrounged it up for another snow trip!

Can you see the snow falling??

Ok, get ready for some Rockband...

So, the husband comes home with Rockband one day, trying to convince me it is a great "family activity", not just another video game gadget. Well, he turned out to be... right! Notice even little Lily gets involved, watching carefully her part on the screen as she plays on her upside down Tinkertoys box.

Another night, another party, this time the best kind of

party there is,

what is that, A cousins party! Oh ya.

Just in case there's some old highschool friends scoutin the blog... Here was a get together at Olive Garden with some Highschool friends for Karen's baby shower. I left thinking, wow, I really had/have such nice friends, just great people! How thankful am I!? Missing some of my favorites here though....

Introducing the Fam...

Ashlin (Smashlin)

Dallin (D-Chuck)

Dallin is the lizard man and can catch them like no other.

Record: 17 in one evening.

Emma (M&M)

Logan (Loge)

Trying to jump over the bean bag from the top of his dresser and clearing it = ouch.

Little Lily (Silly Lily)

My cousin Emily set me up a blog...

Being that Bruce and I both still have a our original T-Mobile cell phones we got 7 years ago... it becomes obvious we don't generally keep up with latest things! But my cousin Emily set me up a blog AND added it to her friends list before I did anything with it. Because people have been accessing it through her, but for a few months it contained a BIG NOTHING, people have been asking me, "What's up with your blog?". Pretty lame nothing blog. Feeling thus pressured... here I go diving in to modern life! A bit shocking, I know.