Marlee and Me

Okay, so we went to the movie Marlee and Me over Christmas, and it inspired me to tell our crazy stories of Marlee Newton. If you haven't seen the movie, it's about a columnist who writes stories about his dog that gets into all kinds of trouble. I started to write some examples of what Marlee is capable in the last post, but there's more. Lots more. Friday nights we usually rent movies. One for us and one for Marlee. Usually Marlee stays in here room and is glued to the show. Well, after our movie we went to go check on her, and I joked about her getting into some kind of trouble. We opened Marlee's door and found all my make-up in a huge mess with mascara on the walls and her face, blush and powder rubbed into the carpet, and all my eyeshadow picked out and rubbed on her pajamas. I was ready to kill her. Thanks goodness for Cory, because I just might have. I don't know how many times we have told her not to play with my stuff. About this time last year I had just bought brand new mineral make-up, and Marlee decided to dump it all out in the bathtub. After we tried to clean everything up, I went to Walgreen's to get some more make-up, even though it was already really late, I didn't care because I was still mad at the little stinker. Of course on my way I get pulled over by a cop for the 2nd time in two weeks because we can't get our old license plate off to put the new one on, so our plates say they are expired by a year. I just started laughing out loud, and the cop probably thought I was drunk or something. Luckily he let me go, because he felt sorry for me. So now you can see how much fun we have at our house with Marlee. I can't wait to see what other things she's going to do next. Somebody save me.

Don't let the cute thing fool you

So everyone always tells me my kids are cute, so I thought I'd show a little bit of their true colors. We're in the stage right now where we can't turn our back on either one of them or they'll get into some kind of trouble. Some examples are marker written all over the walls, toys, and even Brody. Marlee taking out all of her clothes in her closet, putting them down the heat vent, and then peeing on them. Brody climbing on everything and taking out all my bowl, dishes, and anything else in his reach and Marlee taking every wipe in the house and putting it in the bathtub with water in it. Those are just some examples of what goes on in our happy house. Love you Marlee and Brody. Life would be dull without you.

Happy Holidays

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! So, Santa did bring me a camera, but it took me about two years to upload a few pictures on blogger.


Jilene came up from Arizona for the holidays, so a few of us got together and wore the ugliest sweaters we could find. Carp won the contest hands down. Hers is the one with the little sailor girl. It was hilarious.

We have started a tradition cutting down our own Christmas tree up in Island Park. This year we got a huge one. Sometimes I wonder why we go to all the work to set up the tree and take it down. I guess it's the memories.

Here's my little angel, Brody. He's such a tender hearted guy. He was nice enough at Christmas to let Marlee take over and open everybody's presents.

Marlee was definetly spoiled this Christmas. She loves animals so much. Everytime we went to see Santa she asked for a rooster and a goat. It was so random. I don't know where she got that from, and it was kind of embarrassing. Santa brought her a little people farm with all those animals, and my mom found her a stuffed rooster. This is her baby panda that she loves so much.

We went to Utah this Christmas to be with all of Cory's family. Grandma Debbie loves family parties and goes way out. She bought all the grandkids matching pajamas, and the boys got Wii's and the girls got nintendo ds's. Here's all of the girl cousins: Zowie, Harlie, Marlee, Katelynn, and Morgan. We just found out Kasey is preggo again, hurray. They have three girls, so we're routing for a boy.