Grandma Snell's

Everytime we go to my parent's house, my mom always has something fun planned for the girls to do. Over the holiday's they make mummy cookies out of gingerbread men, and she also dipped strawberries in chocholate. YUMMY!!! The kids always make a mess and she never cares, Thanks mom for being so fun and patient with the 4 girls!!!! My mom's work sent the strawberries home with her, so they were freshly picked from Cook's Farm and Greenhouse, and they were oh so good!!!!

Grandma gave each of the girls their own plate with chocholate on it and a couple strawberries to dip in it. Of course Teya's picture says it all:

Tai took special care to get hers done before tasting:


My parents are so good to us!!! Thank you for all you guys do for our family! And for all the fun times we have had over the last couple months while we have been down about Jake being out of town!!! You guys are always there with open arms!!!

Twlight girls

A group of us girls got together to go see the Second Twilight movie. We had so much fun. The crowd was into it and it was a killer movie!!!Thanks girls for a fun night out!!! And Thank you Edward & Jacob!!!

Just for laughs:

One day when Mal was up, we came across our boys' letterman jackets from high school, so what did we do, we modeled them!!!! We hired the best photographer we could find (AKA Tanner) and got to work! We were laughing so hard!!!

And I can't believe that I have been in the Quarnberg family for 9 years and never thought to take a picture like this behind the festive yule log!!! We laughed pretty hard about this one too!

Birthday gift

Tai has been wanting her ears pierced ever since last winter when she went to work with daddy and he was ear tagging some calves and he told Tai that he was piercing their ears. From then on, she has wanted to get hers done. So for her 5th birthday, Jake and I decided that she could get them done. He just happened to be out of town (lucky dog) for the event. But my mom filled in as my support. Anyone who knows me, knows how well I love shots or needles. So I needed someone to help me through this. (How funny that Tai was just calm as could be, I was the one that was a mess). Here she is getting ready. She got to pick what earing she wanted and she picked the cutest one in my opinion. Here the lady was talking to us, I love how I am not really focused, but Tai is all ears!!! (no pun intended, ha ha) Ok, this is where things got bad, Like seriously, look at my face, I saw the needles coming and freaked!!! But once again, Tai was cool, calm, and collected!

It all went well for Tai!! She only jumped a little bit, didn't cry or anything, just was like, "what just happened!!!!" Me on the otherhand, had to sit there on the chair and put my head down, I was starting to hyperventilate, and my world was getting dizzy. The lady that helped us and all the spectators (there was like 4 or 5) were laughing at me, including my mom!!!!! The worst thing was, this didn't even happen to me, Tai was fine and I was the one about to pass out!!!

Good job Tai, for being so brave!!!!
And thanks mom for being there to help me through this rough time. :)

Another one of our gifts to Tai for her birthday was to go riding with daddy! Tai has always loved doing this and they just happened to need to move cattle around the time of her big day:

My little Cowgirl!!!

Tai's 5th Birthday

I just can't believe that my baby girl turned 5! We decided to go bowling for her celebration. We invited the Shaw's to go with us since our kids love eachother (most of the time) and are such good friends. She also said that she wanted to see the Manti Temple, se we took her to see it. Tai got a lot of calls from family and friends wishing her happy birthday. This phone call happened to be from my mom, but Tai was so into bowling that she couldn't focus to talk to grandma to good.
Happy Birthday-you got to be "thumb up" this year!!! Ha ha ha (Last year when she turned 4 she kept saying that she wanted to be "thumb up" for her birthday, because you know when you hold up 4 fingers, your thumb is down, so she kept saying that she wanted to be thumb up.)
All the kids had so much fun. Teya didn't really care about bowling, she was just infactuated with the ball return machine (whatever that is called). But all the other girls had fun taking turns rolling the ball down the alley. Several occasions, we were wondering if the ball was EVER going to reach the pins, and a couple times, we had to walk down the isle and get the ball because it stopped. Fun was had by all!

Watch out Bowling Leagues!!! These girls are on the rise!
After bowling, we took the girls for a ride around the temple. Both of them kept wanting to get out and go in the temple. In fact, when we were driving away, Teya kept crying for about 10-15 minutes, saying that she wanted to go in the temple, please mommy!!!! It was cute, I turned to her and said, "honey, I hope you still feel that way in about 20 years!"

I might be a little partial, but the Manti Temple is one the coolest looking temples EVER!!!!

My gorgeous family: Can't get enough of them!!!!

New Snell Family Pictures

This holiday season, all my siblings were in town for Christmas. So we seized the opportunity to have family pictures, it has been about 4 years since we last had any and you know, when you start having kids, they are never updated and current. My cousin Heather and her husband Scott were the fabulous team to get these all put together for us!!! Thanks guys, they turned out great! It got so cold outside, that we ended up going to my parents house for some indoor shots!
This is totally us, this is one of my very fav's. We were all laughing and goofing with Lacey that she was so short compared to the rest of us, so this is what happened: I love it!!!!!

On facebook, I had a cousin comment that we look like we are a band, and that she couldn't wait to hear the cd! I had to laugh, we sort of look like that. But just love these:

(L to R) Dustin, Tiffany, Lacey, and Shad

So cute

On the way down to Karter's Birthday party, Teya wanted to hold my hand, but this is how it had to be done! What a sweetheart!

Happy Birthday Karter

The girls and I rode down to Hurricane to celebrate karter's 2nd Birthday. I was in the mode to take goofy pictures of us all, so here are some of my fav's.
Tanner and I: He is Westside Lost Creek, I am Eastside Lost Creek. Kipp, Mal, Me, and Tanner: Two people missed the memo to be hard core: :)

Mal, Paula, and I- the Quarnberg girls: Stylin' hats, we know!!!

My girls loved playing with all of Karter's toys. Even when he was opening up his presents, my girls were right in the way!

Happy Birthday Karter- we Love you so much and are so glad that you are doing so good!

The show must go on:

When the Daddy's are away- we have some serious Shaw time (play time at the Shaw's house). This particular day, while Misty and I were upstairs learning how to sell Bohemian Cowgirl jewelry for our upcoming INFR (Indian National Finals Rodeo). The girls were so good, they just played downstairs and prepared a show for us to see. The choreographed everything and each one had a turn. It was so funny. For these girls, nothing gets in the way of preforming.

Watch out Spice Girls, there's a new group on the rise:

Halloween 2009

We made the voyage up to my parents house for Halloween this year. My mom and dad have never got to be around my girls for this holiday, and Jake was in Vegas, so we went up there. I was really worried that Teya wasn't going to wear anything, because everytime I tried to put something on her, she FREAKED OUT!!!! She kept telling everyone that she wanted to be a "Dumbo" (elephant), so I called my mom and had her try to find an outfit. I honestly think that she thought Halloween was something she got and she was going to get a toy Dumbo. But luckily, I got her in one of Tai's old dance costumes (cheapest was to go).

I still can not believe how pretty Tai looks in this picture! She and I had been going rounds about this costume too. It was a costume that I had worn when I was a little girl. It is a genie. Well it has a tube top, and I told her she had to wear something under it or she wasn't wearing it. Knock down-drag out after knock down-drag out, she finally decided that wearing something under it was ok!!

For trick or treating, we went down to my sister Lacey's neighborhood. They have tons of houses right there together. That meant we got to go with the cousins.

Hillarious

I know that I have other things that I should be blogging, but my friend Suz sent me this and I though I would share it with the world!!!! Go Cougars!!!

Waking up

This is what I was woke up to at 6:00 am this morning. How cute is that? My body must have known that I was missing a photo opportunity and it knew to get up!!! LOL

I have been pretty amazed with how smart Tai has gotten the last little while. Here's why:
1-My brother Dustin gave her a DVD called Letter Factory for Christmas last year. She has watched it a couple times over the year, nothing serious. We got it out a while back and she watched it a couple times on a trip to Vegas. Well now she can tell you what sound each letter makes. I am in awe! If that wasn't cool enough that she picked that up all on her own thanks to that DVD (go get it everyone!), but now when she says words, she is starting to figure out what letters are in that word, due to the sounds that word makes. She tries to figure out what letter that word starts or ends with, and also what other letters she can hear in the middle. She has been doing this for a couple months, which means she was doing this when she was 4. What???? I don't think I even knew what a letter was at 4, let alone what sound each letter makes. Kids just keep getting smarter and smarter at earlier ages!!! You go TAI!!!!

2-She has become a walking encyclopedia on Dinosaurs. The other night we were out to grandpa and Grandma Quarnbergs and she was telling them all about dinosaurs. They couldn't belive it. Not only can she tell you the names of the dinosaurs (even I can't do that, those are hard to say and remember), but she can tell you if they are omnivores, herbivores, or carnivores (huge words), and how to tell the difference between those three, how big each dinosaur is, what their preditors or prey are (huge words again), how fast they can run, if they migrate, how they protect themselves from other dinosaurs, how their bones got to be fossils and on, and on, and on. It is actually pretty cool. She is now telling us that she wants to be a Paleontologist and dig up a “whole dinosaur” with a hammer, chizzel and a brush. I just love it!! Keep dreaming big sweetheart and someday we will see you out on a dig site, digging up your very first WHOLE DINOSAUR!!!!

Tai at a BYU game

Tai has been asking Jake and I to take her to a BYU game, so we bought one of Aaron & Suz's extra tickets and we took Tai. She LOVED it and has been asking to go back. I even got her a BYU shirt to wear. The guys and the girls had to split up because we only have 4 seats right by eachother. I sent Tai to sit with Jake, and here is what I kept looking over to see: He would hold her high up in the air and she would dance.

My little BYU girl:

Sitting with daddy:

Suz and her kids, Payton & Addie:

When we were walking back to the car, Jake kept right on holding her high in the air, and she just kept on dancing and shaking it:

BYU Quarnberg Girls

Jake ended up having to work for one of our home BYU Football games!! I know it was like against all we stand for, but hey, it happened. So at the last minute I needed to find someone to go with me, so I asked Mal. She said "Yes" and away we went. We had so much fun together. I kept grabbing her arm and throwing it in the air to help me cheer for the BYU Cougars, she even bought herself a cougar shirt, there is no turning back now!! She and I had a great time together!!! Thanks for going with me Mal and having a fun girls day!!! I am so glad that you are my sister!!!! Now I have someone to help me put up with all these Quarnberg boys!!!