What's New with the Newts

Our little Marlee is growing up. She's been taking gymnastics, which is so awesome for her. They have a huge complex that she can play in, and she's actually doing really well. It's been good for her to follow directions and be with other kids. She also started preschool today at the high school. It's so nice that she has some things to keep her busy during the freakin cold winter. We went down to Utah this weekend and there was no snow and it was 50 degrees! It makes me wonder why are we living in Idaho. Seriously.

We also have a new addition to our family. Cory's brother, Troy, moved down here two weeks ago. He's had a rough time back home and we wanted to give him a fresh start and get him graduated. Plus Cory is so excited to get him into football. That's all they talk about. So far it's been good. Troy's such a good kid, and he's been fun to have around.

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.

Slacker Steph

So I'm so sorry that my blog is boring and I'm really bad at updating. One of the reasons is that my camera is broken, and I really like to put pictures with a post so it's not so dull. The word on the street is I'm getting a camera for Christmas from Santa, so that will be awesome. Anyway, If you want to know some of the stuff that's going on in my life you can go to my sister's blog. It's Jon and Corny on my friend's list. She's been really good at posting stuff we do, like the Twilight Premier, which was freakin fun. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We were able to go see my brother Matt and his wife Nikki and her family in California. It was a lot of fun, and I wish I had pictures. Anyway, please forgive me, and I hope to talk to you all soon.

Stinky Fish

So this is how bad of a mom I am. We recorded the kids on Halloween, but I didn't take any pictures, so today I made them put their costumes on so I could get some shots of them. I'm sure the neighbors driving by thought I was nuts. Marlee even had her trick or treat bag.









This is my little stinker, Brody.

Marlee was a Mermaid, or in her words, I'm and Ermaid mom, an Ermaid. Whatever she is, she is so cute. She really loves her candy if you can't tell. I swear we never got this much candy when we were little. I remember going all over the neighborhood and coming home with half a sack. Now a days, you just have to go down a couple streets and they're loaded.

Oh, and her Halloween song she sang to everyone was, "Trick or Treat, smell my bum, give me something good to eat." I don't know where she got that, but it was hilarious.

Halloween Party

We had our annual adult Halloween party on Wednesday, and it was so much fun. We went to the straw maze, and I was pretty impressed. Corny, Jon, and Teegan were vampires. I took the pictures off Corianne's page, so sorry if you have already seen them.



My super sexy husband, Cory, was an extention of his model picture I took a few blogs ago. Let's just say he took his role seriously.

Check out those tight buns.