my first thought

my first thought was to be mad, i mean i was put out but then i saw her face. peyton covered in my brand new tube of mascara, wearing it proud. she had thought she had done such a good job, you can tell by the, "i'm a big girl, and did this all by my self" smile that covered her face. i couldn't help but laugh. that little face even looks smaller covered in black eye make up, and those little white crooked teeth almost look as white as ross's on friends when he whitened them to much and they glowed. i had to take a picture!



(i feel the need to explain that i was upstairs working on clips thinking ian was watching the girls but peyte well she disappeared, into our bathroom i guess.)

not once but twice...

the abney's have been out to visit us since we've been here. not twice in the past 12 months, not twice in the past six months, twice in 3 months! can you believe it? we couldn't! we loved having them both times. they are so fun to have and we miss them so much; we were thrilled when we got the news they were coming for a second time!

we love these guys. it's so nice to have a couple that we both get along with so well. now that they have Blake it's so nice that the kids all play together so well.

it's funny to think now that we were such good friends with keri before we got married and then we moved and didn't meet spencer until we came back from texas and were married, so it had been more than 3 years hearing about this guy but not ever meeting him. ian and i were nervous the first time we went to hang out with keri and spencer wondering if we would like him or if it would be weird because we had a kid. as soon as we meet him and saw keri again it's like we didn't skip a beat. spencer was just like us. we've been laughing, laughing, and laughing some more together and then letting the boys talk sports while keri and i sneak off to do girl things (pedi's, shopping, gabbing) ever since.

to sum up the abney's first trip i will say that we: laughed, toured the BIG D,laughed, shopped, laughed, watched the olympic trials, laughed, and ate way to much.



found this boy LOVING the water fountains when we went to the harbor, nice.

our dirty rotten kids after a FULL day of shopping. i'm talking 8 hours.

enjoying food.


spencer was so hungry at the arboretum he opted to share ri's fruit snacks.


the abney's had never had a kolache before. they say their pigs in a blanket but they're so not. it's cheese filled sausage wrapped in dough that is served for breakfast. yummy!


yeah that's right we got matching shirts!
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visit #2 went like this. eating, laughing, sports, eating, walking. why all of the walking? why the state fair of course!


not that we don't love our kids but... so nice to go out without them. the sad b.y.u.game


at the fair we first started at the AMAZING petting zoo! there were giraffes, baby kangaroos, goats with 4 horns, zebras. if it was cool it was there!



yum, yum! nothing like a 1200 lbs. pig to get you going on your eating adventure for the day! i thought its ear was a growth at first, oops!



our first eating stop was the chicken fried bacon. yup this is what it looks like, there is bacon under there. it was gross even when dipped in ranch or honey mustard sauce.



next on the list for all you cowboy fans... why meetting the cheerleaders of course! i think they know some really good surgeons.


riley's favorite part!


ian and spencer's favorite part, the fried goodness. this was the fried snickers. they also ate corn dogs, red beans and rice, ice cream, fried smores, soda, hot dogs, aligator kabob things, cotton candy...


the smith's took a break from all of the fried tasties for an apple, the abney's enjoyed some healthy corn.

next there were dog shows, pig races, a night light parade, laser show and then last but not LEAST we stayed all day to see....

i know you can't see and we only stayed for about 5 seconds but what would a texas state fair be without first seeing tony romo followed by his girl jessica simpson...so all i could get were the people in front but i'm telling you she was there. and she didn't sound good.


to make the trip complete we went to on of our favorite dining places, texas road house. we miss going every other weekend with these guys. not only did we like it but peyteon and blake entertained everyone around us, fun for all!

happy belated halloween

to any one who may still look at my lame blog. i saw the 2 cutest ballerina's and had to sneak in a picture, or two.

i don't meant to brag about it being warm outside on halloween night i'm talking 75 degrees warm. the joy's of texas!

it made us think about our last halloween. it was cold, it was fun and it was our last night in our condo. we pulled out of utah a year ago today. wow 1 year, i don't know where the time has gone but at the same time it seems like forever ago we where there.

thinking and missing all of our pals we left, we miss you!

just a few

here are a few things i've been working on for 2littlemammas lately.... i'm really into the wool felt hair accessories, i love them on the girls and sometimes can't resist wearing them myself. and guess what? we are in a boutique in the dallas area, our first one! so excited for the growth and hoping for more.








okay so i know that the button headband is a really bad picture but i sent the button band off to atlanta to be with another little mamma. i loved it so much though i couldn't help but post it.

you know you live in texas when...

you go to sonic for family night to indulge yourselves in the 99 cent shakes and you come home with these....




a million ant bites all over ri's feet. she's hasn't looked at the sonic the same since.

the other woman

so i stood there puzzled, frazzled not comprehending what was going on. i saw her face it was familiar but not registering in my mind who it belonged to, she was blond, cute, fabulous hair, and so familiar then it hit me. i was staring at my friend sarah, my friend sarah from utah. my friend sarah from utah who i was just thinking about, who i was just a couple days before getting sad about. i hadn't talked to her in a while and it seemed as though she was becoming more and more busy, i had just thought about how it was sad for me to possibly be loosing this friendship. then she was here in texas, sarah who did i mention doesn't travel, and certainly doesn't travel without her husband as far as i knew, sarah one of my sarah's was actually in my drive way in my car with my husband!

ian, what an amazing husband i have. so many times misunderstood. my ian who would do anything for me. my ian who's always trying to make me happy. my ian who believed me when i said that i needed a friend, that i missed the friends i had left behind, my ian who listens. my ian, my sneaky ian! ian had gotten in touch with sarah and was first thinking that he would fly her out to be a support to me in march for peyton's surgery ended up flying her out for my birthday. best birthday present ever by the way is to have a friend you honestly don't know when/if you'll ever see again show up at your door. have i ever mentioned that i love my main man? if not i love love love my little ian!

the next few days of summer were not our typical routine and i loved it! the next few days were spent driving around the city, getting caught in a tornado while trying to get gas,eating as much blue bell ice cream as possible, making gourmet pizza at home, getting our toes done, looking at blogs, felting, laughing, and talking talking talking. it was like we hadn't been apart for a day. i love those friendships.

the worst thing about sarah coming was having her leave. isn't that always how it happens? what a cool friend i have to take a few days out of her busy life and spend time away from her boys to come and spend time with me and my family,i couldn't dream up a better friend, thank you sarah!

here are some of our highlights, sarah surprise me anytime.

i know i know

it's way past time for another blog. i don't know what's happened but i've let my life get out of control busy this summer and am trying to get back in my routine and let you guys know that i really am safe and still breathing. i am going to try to redeem myself starting today fallowed by tomorrow before some of us in the fam head out for a quick minute. so the next few blogs will be my the highlights of my summer, i know it's almost cold outside for some of you but school didn't start that long ago for us and it's still hot enough to be summer so i'm a little behind.

so my summer days were going along like this. wake up eat, take the girls running, time for petyon's first nap. after peyton woke up it would be a quick bite to eat at straight to the pool, pool time, lunch time, nap time for the girls. i'm telling i'm telling all of you that i showered 5 times a week at about 2:00 in the afternoon, gross but worth it. so by the time i got ready for the day and the house picked up and my make up on the girls would wake up and it would be time just enough time to start dinner before ian walked in the door.

this was some of our pool time with friends. sorry if you didn't want your picture posted but i'm doing it anyway.




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everything was going along just like this until one day Ian and i were emailing back and forth while he was at work and then all of a sudden he stopped responding...i didn't think about it to much until i was taking out the trash and saw him pull up into the drive way with another women in the car, i couldn't believe that my husband had another women with him, WHAT WAS HE DOING? WHAT WAS GOING ON?



to be continued.