The Campbells

Halloween 2009

2009-11-01T21:55:00.003-07:00

MIA!

2009-07-10T11:26:00.002-06:00

as many of you may have noticed..The Campbells have been missing in action. It's been a long hard year for us but we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel...and it's really BRIGHT! Thank you to all our family and friends for such incredile support! We are here and ready to tackle the world! Watch out world...here we come!

This one's for my code!

2009-07-10T11:20:00.002-06:00

Here's to 8 AMAZING years! I loVe you baby!

(this was the song we danced to at our wedding 8 years ago)

50 years is proof ......

2008-11-26T21:34:00.014-07:00

We just celebrated my mom and dads 50th wedding anniversary last weekend. we've been planning this for months and it finally all came together....and i mean CAME TOGETHER! All of my brothers and sisters and i had an assignment and it's unbelievable how everything just worked out so perfectly! Mom and dad really had no idea. We just told them we wanted to take them to dinner and do family pictures (we had to give them a reason to get dressed up of course) After dinner we blindfolded them and told them we had one more surprise for them. Then we walked them over across the parking lot to the event center, pulled off the blindfolds and had 20 grandkids, 2 great grand kids and several guests that had already arrived scream SURPRISE! holy crap it was so fun to see the looks on their faces. We probably had close to 200 guests throughout the night. I am so grateful for my mom and dad. They have always been such an incredible example of how to love. can you believe these little guys are 68 and 71? jeez, they're so cute!

Halloween

2008-11-12T12:48:00.008-07:00

It was so fun spending Halloween with all the cousins this year!

Just so you know this was not a dress up party. Cody and I just decided to show up to the Halloween pumpkin carving in these retarded outfits we pulled out of the costume box....We're so retarted! Doesn't Cody remind you of COUSIN EDDIE in Christmas Vacation??? and me? I don't know what the heck i am...LOL!

Rylee and the terrible, horrible no good very bad day!

2008-11-11T08:54:00.004-07:00

Rylee had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, yucky, icky, bad day yesterday! After lots of snuggles, cartoons, peppermint tea, bananas, sprite and soda crackers i think we're all on the up. crossing my fingers! i had to go to the grocery store and the post office yesterday and she soooo bad wanted to go (i think she wanted to get out of the house just as bad as i did) so i bundled her up for the ride. Coat, boots, gloves and all. She was being pretty whiney and wanting me to hold her while i was trying to get ready so i set her on the chair and told her to wait for just a minute while i ran downstairs to grab all my stuff. But when i came back up...she was OUT! So i un-bundled her, laid her on the couch and left her with grandpa while i ran my errands. She woke up 3 hours later just in time for a banana-cracker dinner!...and back to bed!

made it!

2008-10-16T23:59:00.007-06:00

WE MADE IT. Thanks to everyone who helped us get here. It's a little harder getting your whole life packed up in a big truck and moving to another state than the 15 to 20 minute moves across town that we're used to. It's taken me a good two weeks to feel functional again! Thus, the blogging sabbatical! I haven't even had my camera out for any of it, so sorry no pictures on this one.

** We celebrated Coles birthday on the Sunday after we got here. The poor kid, i felt like a neglectful parent, his birthday got a little overlooked this year because it was in the middle of the whole moving mess. Thanks to Ryan and Jocelyn, he actually got to open a present ON his birthday. Mom and dads presents came later.

** Cole loves hanging out with all his cousins. I watched Cole and Ethan walking back and forth between Grandpa's house and the Tomlinson's today and making a fort in Ethan's backyard and just hanging out playing silly video games and I love it!

** I love that everybody just looks out for each other here! Now i know what the term "it takes a town to raise a child" really means. I really feel it here!

** I asked Rylee tonight if she likes living here, she giggled and mumbled yes as she ran off with Peyton. She is quite happy being Allie Bell and Peyton's little shadow. Allie and Peyt are her cute little 8 year old cousins. She loves following them around doing all the girly things they do!

** I'm loving my new job. it's been really fun and entertaining working with Christy and Ben. It's inspiring me to pick up scrap booking again just seeing all the cute supplies pass through my hands everyday! Here's a link to check out all the cute kits at Scarlet Lime. Christy is an incredibly talented girl!

** I decided it was time for a new look so I went short and DARK. Had to find a new hair stylist, the joys of moving! Kinda scary cause ya never know what your gonna get the first time. I think i like her though. It's actually been fun to be short again, the big messy bun was getting old.

** TOTALLY sucks that BYU lost to TCU tonight! Losing after a 16 game winning streak really stinks! blah!

** Thank you mom and dad Campbell for letting us hang out in your basement for awhile!

** We're all getting really fat cause Grandma Campbell likes to cook really good food!

** Really missing all my Utah friends and family! xoxoxo

Here is my rapid attempt to catch up!

2008-09-24T00:46:00.004-06:00

i just downloaded 872 pictures off my card!!! granted, A LOT of them were pictures taken by Cole and Rylee (they like to get a hold of the camera and take pictures of their feet, the ceiling fan, their toys, their mom when she's not looking her best...etc. etc. you know!) but still...872 PICTURES. It's been a really long time since i have taken the time to sit down and take care of picture/blogging business. Here is a rapid attempt. The sad thing is, there is still so much i feel like i have left out! I have been terrible at remembering to pull out the camera for all those kodak moments! I am re-committing!

Thank you Jocelyn...

2008-09-24T00:35:00.004-06:00

...for taking me out on my birthday while my dear husband was out of town!

Cole's first day of Kindergarten

2008-09-24T00:20:00.002-06:00

I only had to hold back the tears TWICE!

We visited Grandma and Grandpa on their mission

2008-09-23T23:54:00.006-06:00

We made a trip by train to visit Grandma and Grandpa Hoggan on their mission to temple square. We kept telling them we were going to take the train but as soon as we got on and got settled Cole informed us that it wasn't REALLY a train. I think the words he used was "this is just a fake train". Oh well, it was entertaining anyways!

Rylee doesn't go anywhere without her purse!

how precious.. i love it when they hold hands! Doesn't Cole look thrilled! I don't even remember making them do this either!

neighborhood beauty parlor

2008-09-23T23:40:00.002-06:00

We've got the cutest little group of kids in our neighborhood. The older girls set up a beauty parlor and invited everyone in the neighborhood. It was quite successful! They had it all, everything from manicures, pedicures, and facials, Cole even got a great massage!

Perry family campout

2008-09-23T23:02:00.009-06:00

cute little (ok not so little anymore) nephew Coltyn

aunt becky got a hold of Cody's LONG hair! all the little girls thought it was so funny! especially when the braids came out!

even in the woods, Rylee is still a princess!

tough boys!

the community shower was very popular

this is my brother Dalan and sister JoNae

don't even ask....it's a funny little game of how dubT we can be! it gets worse every year!

family BBQ / birthday party that turned into a water fight

2008-09-23T22:37:00.006-06:00

(July 2008) i know i'm just a little behind!

Love this look!!! Looks like Rylee has a personal problem with the spoon!

the night turned into a raging game of kick the can! this is an after shot!

It's Golden!

2008-07-07T16:24:00.004-06:00

On this 7th day of the 7th month and 7 years ago, Cody and i were married! I guess that makes it golden...right?! This picture was taken just seconds after Cody got down on one knee and proposed to me on the top of a mountain in Salt Lake City 7 years and 2 months ago. A couple happened to be running by and offered to take this picture for us (and we thought we were the only ones up there) The picture is a little rough, this is a scan of a scan, i have no idea where the original is, which makes me so sad.

It has been an incredible 7 years! I am still (and more so) so madly in love with this man. HE IS IT FOR ME! A friend of mine asked me the other day why our marriage works because we just seem to still be so in love. Honestly, Cody and I have our good days and our bad days, but there are definatly more of the good. I think when it comes down to it, we just have a mutual respect for eachother. We never raise our voices at eachother and never call eachother names. Here are just 10 of a million little reasons why I love him!

1. His LOYALTY to me, and everyone and everything that matters to him!

2. He is an incredible father to our little rugrats. He's the funnest dad on the block, so young at heart, fun and playful. Yet he keeps them disciplined in love and still has their total respect. They love their daddy!

3. He's so GENEROUS and would give anyone, anything! (we debate this topic frequently) Cody empties his pockets anytime we pass a begger on the street. It drives me crazy... I say "how do you know who really needs it" he says, "it doesn't matter, it's not up to me to say whether they NEED it or not" Although we may argue this topic I am so proud to stand next to him when he does things like this. I love his unconditional generosity!

4. His CONFIDENCE!

5. His crazy SENSE OF HUMOR. He always gets me to the point of the squeaky laugh (those who know it, know what i'm talking about). Life would be boring without him.

6. He knows how to get me to laugh or smile even if i don't want to!

7. He has the ability to make a game out of anything and involve everyone! He is a LEADER!

8. His awesome hair! (i'll post pictures tomorrow) it's been a good 4 months since the last haircut. But i love it!

9. He is always concerned about me and my well-being!

10.His HONESTY! I know that he would never lie to me. And he's always totally honest when i need an opinion about what outfit makes me look skinnier!

He is my soulmate for eternity and i can't.....imagine my life without him!

Cody's home!

2008-06-21T00:26:00.002-06:00

After a VERY long 4 weeks of being a single mother and missing the heck out of my dear sweet husband....he decided to come home! I think he missed us too! He was doing a job in San Fancisco with my 2 brothers Jason and Dalan. Besides missing their families and working I think they all had a lot of fun. They spent the weekends on the beach and tried lots of new restaurants. Kari, Michelle and I were able to fly out and spend Memorial Weekend with them so it did help break up the time...a little! They surprised us and drove through the night after work on Friday and got home early early Saturday morning. (they weren't expected to be home until late Saturday night) Cody called my cell phone at 4am to tell me they were just getting ready to leave and then asked me if i could do him a really big favor ...weird, i know. Then he asked me to open the front door! I practically tackled him on the porch before he finished his sentence! The best part is that i had him all to myself for 4 hours before the kids woke up! It was a really good surprise for a Saturday morning!

Cole couldn't find his shoes!

2008-06-21T00:16:00.003-06:00

Look how i found Cole out riding his bike the other day. I'm sure he was the talk of the neighborhood! As you can see he's really good at dressing himself these days! Long sleeve shirt, swimming shorts, and SNOWboots!

Rylee gets her ears pierced!

2008-06-20T23:48:00.008-06:00

Cute right? Cody was still out of town and my sister Julie came and stayed a week with me so we decided to make a little girl party out of it! (sorry Cole) Rylee was really excited until about the time they pierced the first ear. She was a little leary of letting the girl get close to her for the other side...but she did it! I couldn't believe it. There is something about a cute little earring on a girls ear that is sooooo cute!

watch how the excitement of getting her ears pierced slowly disappears. I had to have the motherly heart to heart talk about paying the price for beauty and blah blah blah and....beauty hurts! ...you know! lol...poor thing!

"a little leary, but this is gonna be fun!"

"really excited now"

"ok...not so fun!"

"totally worth it!" she got a sucker and a little purse with some lip gloss to help ease the pain

A typical summer day at our house

2008-05-31T11:19:00.005-06:00

Today we played in the backyard all day. Neighborhood kids streaming in and out playing in the water and asking for popsicles . The sprinkler is going under the trampoline and the kiddie pool is full and all the kids seem to take a turn swinging the hose around making everybody around them angry because their getting them wet (isn't that what were all here for anyway!) I'm sitting at the patio table with my glass of lemonade and my camera breaking up the occasional fights here and there. Around 5:30 pm just as I tell my kids its time to come inside and get some clothes on and get ready for dinner we hear the ice cream truck come strolling into the neighborhood. Awesome, just in time for dinner! :o) The kids go running up the street before I can even dispute the action. So i dig out some change from Mr. Piggy and walk up the street behind them. How can i turn them down now? They realize once they get up there, and before they realize that I'm walking behind them, that they might need some money. So they turn around and come running back and find me with a handful of change. Popsicles for everyone to spoil all their dinners. Then, I get talking with all the moms, the kids keep playing with all their friends and then we don't make it back into the house until 8:30pm. just in time for dinner, baths and FINALLY BEDTIME! aaahh!

2008-05-29T22:19:00.006-06:00

Happy Birthday to ONE AMAZING MAN!

So when we found out that Cody was going to be leaving town to work on a job in San Francisco for a month we were sad to realize that it was going to fall over his 30th birthday! We were talking about it with the kids and they were especially devastated because this meant no cake and ice cream for them. So... Cody made them promise that they would celebrate his birthday without him. The cake, the ice cream, the party...ALL OF IT! So guess what we did tonight? We even got the reminder text from Cody today to make sure we were going to keep our promise! hello.... OF COURSE!

The kids had a lot of fun for you! Happy Birthday Daddio!

2008-04-28T11:04:00.002-06:00

It was a pretty LAZY sunday morning at our house. We were at some friends house until late the night before so everybody was sleeping in. Cole was the first to wake up and he came in and climbed into bed with us. Layed there for a few minutes and said the inevitable "I'm starving" Cody replies with "Cole go in and pick out your cereal and we'll be there in a minute". I soon hear some serious rattling going on in the kitchen and then Cole comes in and asks us what kind of cereal we want. He was fixing breakfast for all of us. He's so freaking CUTE. I told him I wanted the box with the big red K on it. (Special K with fruit and yogurt clusters) Cole comes in and tells us breakfast is ready. So we all drag ourselves into the kitchen. We are all quietly eating our breakfast when i notice i haven't had any fruit OR yogurt clusters. I look over into Ry's bowl who had the same kind and noticed she didn't have any either. "Cole, did you pick out the fruit and yogurt clusters from Ry and I's cereal?" I look over to see a very sheepish look on my little man's face. That little stinker picked all the good stuff out of our cereal. I guess i get what i get and i don't throw a fit....RIGHT? Thanks for breakfast Cole!

Happy Birthday to our PRINCESS RY RY

2008-04-24T10:21:00.009-06:00

It's all we've heard about from our little princess for the last 3 months "my buthday's comin up....it's Apwil 21st" "my buthday's comin up it's Apwil 21st" So when the day finally came we had to make it a big one! I had the feeling the expectations were high.

So the first thing we did is invite 3 special little princess friends.

and then we got everything ready. I had lots of help in the kitchen. Ry and Cole frosted the mini cupcakes. Rylee's favorite part was licking the frosting off her fingers.

and then the princesses arrived.

and a princess tea party it was.

I think our little princess had a pretty good day!

To top it all off we had a little family party that night. Rylee requested tacos for dinner and Uncle Dal came over. We had dinner, opened presents and had cupcakes and strawberry ice cream cones. (she got to blow candles out again, she really likes that part) Ry got a new cradle for her baby, a shopping cart, polly pockets, and makeup (her favorite)

Happy birthday my little Princess!

The effects of raising kids with DVR

2008-04-09T22:37:00.004-06:00

My kids have become pretty good about knowing what button pauses the cartoon they are watching when they need to go potty or knowing which button fast forwards the commercials so they can get to the good stuff. Something we didn't have back when we were watching little house on the prairie and the brady bunch.

So we were watching General Conference on tv this weekend. Sunday morning we really made a point to try and have the kids sit with us as long as their little bodies could handle it. I printed off some little conference related activities to keep them busy as we did. Cole was working on this coloring sheet that had pictures of those men speaking with a tie next to it. He was supposed find the picture of the speaker and color his tie the way it looked on tv. So the first speaker came on and he was pretty excited. He colored it the way it was, took him all of 2 minutes and then he says "k, i got this guy now can we fast forward it to the next one" Cody and I fell on the floor laughing. hmmm...this kinda defeated our point. We both agreed that that's what we get for having a DVR, our kids don't know any different! Wow how things change!

cause i'm so cute?

2008-03-11T05:17:00.004-06:00

On several occasions when i look at Rylee she will get this cute little grin on her face, giggle and ask "WHAT? Why you lookin at me?" and I will always say "cause your just so dang cute". So on this particular evening with my little girl being sick we were sitting on the couch watching Herbie Fully Loaded and eating popcorn when our conversation went EXACTLY like this!

RYLEE: MOM!
MOM: ya?
RYLEE: Mom, look at me.
MOM: ya Ry...whats up? (as i turn to look at her)
RYLEE: Why you looking at me?
MOM: cause you told me to
RYLEE: is it cause I so cute?

I am so in love with this little girl!

I think she likes to cook!

2008-02-09T16:36:00.003-07:00

I can't keep up with this girl. It is literally MESS after MESS in the kitchen! I was in the office on the phone with my little friend Becky when Cole came running in telling me I had to come see what Rylee was doing. By the time i got in there i found this. I was freaking out but Becky reminded me in my panic mode to grab the camera and take a picture! Thank you Becky! After all was said and done..cleaned up out of the way...i was so glad i did. It's worth a good laugh.....now!

Here's just a few of the latest kitchen experiments!

This is Rylee helping mom make the noodles for chicken noodle soup. She got a little carried away with the flour.

This was popcorn, stirred with lots of parmasean and a little lime juice! A RyRy special!

And we must not foget the tea parties that we have at our house EVERY SINGLE DAY!

The specialty this day was whipped cream.....sprayed IN EVERY DISH!

WAAAAAAY overdue!

2008-02-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

wow...took a little sebatical from the world of blogging. So sad...i have so much to catch up on. So here is my best attempt to review the last 3 months in a flash!

For the sake of journaling (bear with me)
Thanksgiving was spent with the Campbell side and mom and dad hoggan at Tia's house in Idaho Falls.

Heres Cody, Brady and VJ. Do they even look like brothers?

Oh and ps...let's not forget the BYU vs. Utah game Thanksgiving weekend that we had to rush back home for. What a great game! BYU 17 - Utah 10. We had an extra ticket and invited Cody's friend Travis (who by the way was wearing red) to sit with us.

We had an early Christmas party with the Perry's the first weekend in December. We rented a cabin up by the City of Rocks in Idaho. It snowed the entire time we were there...it was so fun to have our Perry Christmas so early in Decemeber...really got us in the Christmas spirit and we were able to cross so many things off our Christmas list so early. We had so much fun tubing down this big hill by the cabin and then behind Calvin and JoNae's truck (until Hawk and I flipped our sled behind the truck and Hawk lost a tooth). How sad no pictures. The camera got left at home! :o( My sister Julie had this fabulous idea to re-create "THE CITY" for each of our siblings and their families for Christmas. So Julie, my mom and I got together just after Thanksgiving and threw these together. LOL! These little things took so much longer than we had anticipated but it so worth it. We had so much fun making them! "THE CITY" is something that my mom made for my brother Scott for Christmas one year when he was younger. Scott was later killed in a car accident but this little city entertained all of us growing up. We all have so many fun memories playing "city" together. Which is why we were all fighting over the original.

We spent Christmas at Mom and Dad Campbells house in Shelley. So fun to just hang out and play games. We seriously got snowed in and came home 2 days later than we planned to. I unfortunately didn't get enough pictures of this one! Oh and we need a new camera so bad. We really just got one so either its just a really crappy one or we haven't figured out how to use it right or something. All of my pictures turn on blurry or pixely!

Rylee got pretty much EVERYTHING pink! She got the pink barbie phone that she's been dying to have. She got pink lip gloss, a pink balarina outfit, pink candy, pink legwarmer, pink pajamas, pink slippers, pink headband....you get it right?

Cole asked for one thing! A POCKET KNIFE! Santa must have thought he was big enought to handle it because thats what he got. After all the knife safety lessons he got from his dad he's only sliced his arm open ONCE already...not too bad! Other than that dang pocket knife he got legos, guess who game, race car track and lots of things that i can't remember now.

Then it was back to the January drag! It seems like after the holidays are all over it's just so hard to get back to normal life. After Christmas is over I'm just so ready for SPRING!!! January and February seem to be the longest months of the year!

Halloween '07

2007-11-04T22:27:00.000-07:00

Dad took the kids shopping for Halloween costumes this year while mom was in Vegas a few weeks ago. They all did a pretty dang good job. Ry was a PRINCESS (of course...its all she talks about...princesses, purses, and makeup) and Cole was a NINJA. They were definatly the cutest kids on the block (sorry if your kids are on our block :o)

MOM was the TOOTH FAIRY. It was something i threw together last minute with what we had at home. I wasn't planning on dressing up until i woke up that morning but it sure was fun. DAD was....THE DAD! I had him convinced to wear Cole's Superman cape for about 2 minutes...but it didn't last.

This is my kids on drugs....i mean..Halloween candy! after all the trick or treating they could handle...or should I say..we could handle!

HELP!

2007-11-03T22:08:00.001-06:00

Has anyone else ever had trouble keeping their pictures on their blog. Nothing about the way i take or upload pictures has changed but i can't seem to keep the last few posts in one piece. They are there when i first post and then the next day they're gone. Buggin! Is it just me? And ps. I can't seem to upload a camera video, what am i doing wrong, does anyone have any suggestions?

SK8in FOOL!

2007-11-01T12:50:00.000-06:00

Cole...(ps. and dad)are learning how to skate. Its their new favorite thing and their getting pretty serious about it. If you know anything about my boys their both die hards. Cody's been teaching Cole that you never quite, even when ya fall off ya get back up and do it again. They've both been taking some serious hits. Some more than others...lol! dads been limping around here for the last two days now cause he rolled his ankle pretty good when he tried dropping in the first day he got his new skateboard. Our neighbor built a skate ramp up by his house. Thats usually where i can find them if their missing. In fact Cody helped him put in a flood light on the side of his house so they can go out there and do it when it gets dark now. I have to admit...it's pretty cute! Rylee's even getting in on the fun!

Poor little Brett!

2007-11-01T12:16:00.000-06:00

Ok...so he's not so little anymore but my 16 year old nephew Brett broke his leg lastweek in a motor bike accident. We had just returned from spending a few days at Grandpa Campbells house in Shelly and then the very next day my sister Julie called to tell us Brett was in the Blackfoot hospital. (just 15 minutes or so from Shelly) So Friday morning the kids and I turned back around to drive 3 and half hours back to Idaho. It was so worth it! We've really been missin Brett and Colt since they went to live with their dad in Blackfoot. Cole had school that day so i asked him if he wanted to stay home and go to school or drive with me to see Brett. He really really likes his cousins Brett and Colt so of course he wanted to go see them. Geez mom what kind of a question was that?

First Annual Jones/Kessler/Campbell Reunion

2007-10-31T22:42:00.001-06:00

Ouray Colorado - October 11-16

Went on a fun family trip to Colorado with the Kessler's to visit the Jones's. Brandy and Coby moved to Grand Junction about a year ago. This was our first trip out there to see them. We drove as far as Grand Jct. to their house on Thursday stayed the night and then got up and drove with them to their friends vacation home in Ouray. Oh my gosh beautiful! Lets just say it was such a fun, relaxing way to spend the weekend! Did a little fishing on the most beautiful private lake, TOTALLY MY KIND OF FISHING!!! You could pretty much catch a fish everytime you threw your line in. The kids LOVED it...ok and so did mom.

Had a serious fish fry for breakfast/lunch. I couldn't bring myself to touch the fish head but Brandy came pretty close to having Ry kissin it!

this is where i sat a read a book....ahhhhh!

We even had the boys singing and doing dishes together.

Here are the kids warming up by the fire after playing outside in the rain with their dads. For the sake of this being a family site I won't post the pictures of the boys playing basketball in the rain. Their shirts got a little heavy being so wet and all...so clothes started comin off.....i know..iknow...if your really dying to see them, i can email them to you :o) let me know!

Sunday we drove into the town of Ouray to check out some cool sites and scenery.

We ate like royalty for every meal. This kitchen had like 20 sets of different dishes, we ate with a different color every day.

2007-10-31T22:01:00.001-06:00

So ya know when you get so behind on something that it becomes too overwhelming... so you just continue to put it off. That would be the story of my life but right now i'm talking about this little blog i've started and PROMISED myself to keep up with. So were gonna do a quick October overview...

October 4-7 I went on a little girls weekend to Lava Hot Springs with 8 other little ladies (what a bonding experience!). We rented this cute little house where we just hung out, played lots of games, and ate lots of junk food by day and soaked in the private hot pools by night. Left the little ones home to spend the weekend with dad. That meant lots of cold cereal, McDonalds happy meals, and matinee movies. They love it when dads in charge. (ps. I forgot my dang camera...unbelievable, i know, so i'm still working on getting some pictures from the other girls)

Cole's Birthday at the Circus

2007-10-02T13:16:00.000-06:00

Coles birthday was a little different this year than the previous 4. we've always had a big birthday party with friends and lots of presents, cake and ice cream. this year i decided to go a little smaller. I told him he could pick one very special friend to go the circus with. He picked Natalie...of course! If you ever ask Cole who his best friend is or who he is going to marry...he would say NATALIE! They've been best friends since birth and have always had a special little bond. (its so cute) So we met Natalie's mom, dad and little brother Brady and went to the circus! It was a bello bello bello bello BRATION! If you know anything about the barnum and bailey's circus you would know what i'm talkin about! whew...lets just say it was a crazy good time!

Ry was mesmerized by the clowns! She just didn't know what to do when they tried to give her five. She had front row seats for the pre-show and LOVED it!

Go Cougars

2007-09-24T01:38:00.000-06:00

wet...cold....and windy.. Was the theme of Saturdays BYU game at home against Air Force. This was the first game this year that we have been able to attend. It was a little surprise for my dear Cody...well kinda. It went a little something like this. I found tickets on ksl classifieds and decided not to tell him. I made arrangements to meet the seller on thursday afternoon while cody was at work. Cody decided to surprise us and came home early and said "lets have a fun family day" hmmm...what was i to do? We decided to take the kids to lunch and a matinee so i told him that i needed to meet someone off the draper exit which was already in the proximity of our afternoon fun day anyway. He questioned me...a lot! but i just didn't answer...i just told him that it was something i really needed. He made the assumptions that it had something to do with my classified addiction and couldn't believe i was spending X amount of money on something i bought off the DANG classifieds. I heard all about how ridiculous it was for our 15 minute drive. So there we were sitting in the parking lot waiting for the seller and Cole blurts out from the backseat "DAD, MOM BOUGHT YOU BYU TICKETS!" (i never let Cole in on the secret because...well thats obvious) i turned around and said "cole what are you talking about?" He said "Mom, i heard you talking to uncle jason on the phone, you told him and he's going to babysit us" I was busted...needless to say i think my husband felt a little sheepish for assuming that my classified shopping addiction had gotten so out of hand that i would have to go around him to buy some furniture or home decor for X amount of money. I'm really not going to share how much i really spent on tickets to a football game...its embarrasing, but so worth a fun afternoon with my husband.

Cody's Marathon

2007-09-16T21:57:00.000-06:00

HE DID IT!!! He had a little trouble with his knee about 5 miles into it but he toughed it out and finished. More than I can ever even imagine doing. So proud of him!

Cole ran the last little distance and crossed the finish line with his dad. It was pretty cute!

I think he's falling asleep here. It was 26.2 miles...i'd be falling asleep too!

Grandma Hoggan came to support Cody AND snuggle with Rylee :o)

After the race we went to lunch with some of Cody's Colorado friends. Rachel also ran the race so her family and friends Heather and Suzanna came to cheer her on. He went to high school with these cute girls. (There were too many cameras going off at once, nobody could focus on just one)

AND PS...GO COUGARS! Not a good week for the team but my kids sure look cute in blue!

Back to PRE-SCHOOL...for the 3rd time

2007-09-16T21:16:00.000-06:00

Does this look like a boy ready for pre-school AGAIN or what? Cole has a September birthday so he misses the deadline to move on to kindergarten this year by a few days. So this will be his 3rd year of pre-school. He's been excited to go to school since his first birthday so we started him young. He loves to learn and I think with his "preschool resume" he will be leaps and bounds ahead of his classmates when he finally makes it to kindergarten...but i'm kind of a bias mom.

ok...did i mention it was my birthday? oh right.. i did

2007-09-06T23:15:00.000-06:00

I just had to share about what an incredible husband i have! I mean seriously, he pulled off the biggest surprise in our 6 year marriage history. not only did he spoil me rotton on the saturday before my birthday but he managed to pull off a little surprise party on sunday as well! It was all part of the plan to make me think saturday was it. So...Sunday he tells me were going for a drive (might i add that he told me i didn't need to dress up...we weren't going to be seeing anyone..what a jerk..right?) so woke up from my sunday nap and jumped in the car...blindfolded. drove around playing some "guess where we are game" for about an hour and a half until we reached our final destination. I was sure we were somewhere in bountiful. He pulls off the blind fold and i'm standing in my backyard with just about everyone i know. What a surprise that was. Sure do love him...he's a tricky one! I'm not even going to share the pictures from this one. There were like 5 snap shots of me coming around the corner with a look of complete dumb-founded..ness! (is that a word?) Seriously looked like a DUMB 30 year old...so use your imagination if you weren't there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME...wait...and my kids?

2007-09-06T19:08:00.000-06:00

My sister JULIE is freaking incredible. The girl goes above and beyond the call of sisterhood. She sent me "a little birthday package" as she would say....but there was nothing little about it. The box was bigger than i was, i really could probably have sat inside it. So we open it up and found all sorts of fun boxes...a little something for all of us. the cutest art box for cole filled with all sorts of preschool workbooks, crayons, glue, scissors, totally customized just for cole, with his name on everything. ps...for those preschooler moms here is a website she customized the "dot to dot learning how to write worksheet" thingys. He seriously hasn't stopped coloring, drawing, cutting and glueing since he got it.

For Rylee she sent this cute box full of everything for my little potty girl. Panties, a little potty doll with all the accessories, potty treats, a makeup bag full of lipgloss, fingernail polish and lotion. LOVE IT!

oh ya and for me. all sorts of little fun stuff!

We sure do LOVE our AUNT JULIE!

My addiction!

2007-09-06T18:29:00.000-06:00

ok..so something you may not know about me....i have this addiction of continually recycling my furniture via ksl.com classifieds and craigslist.com. Lets just say....i get bored lookin at the same stuff everyday. Gotta change the scenery every now and then, ya know what i mean? Here are a few of my most recent finds. The kid's bedroom was driving me crazy (yes, cole and rylee share a room) cole had this ginormous twin bed that took up the entire bedroom and rylee had a little toddler bed and they didn't match :o( so we needed to free up some space. I found these CUTE and i mean so cute toddler bunk beds. No, this isn't something you can buy at the stores but somebody had the same problem i had (two kids and ONE small room) so they made them. I found this at an incredible steal at $70. I then came home and posted cole's bed on ksl and someone came and picked it up within the hour for $100. talk about a deal. i now have the cute little mini me room i've always wanted for my kids, now i just need to work on coordinated bedding.

My second find: a new entertainment center for my living room. sold my old one for $300 bought this for $280. So after all is said and done i made money on my home makeover!

Is it Monday already?

2007-08-21T00:23:00.000-06:00

Is it Monday already? ok, i just looked at the time..i guess its technically tuesday. the weekends never last long enough. We had so much fun this weekend. Our friends, brandy and coby were in town from grand junction colorado. We met The Jones's about 41/2 years ago. Cole was just a baby and they had just gotten married. We met through friends of friends of friends...you know one of those stories. Anyways LOVE them. Hate that they had to move so far away now but love when they come to visit. We got dinner Saturday night and took it to the park to let the kids run like monkeys. We then came home put them to bed and played some wild games like pirates of the carribean and ticket to ride. It was pretty intense!! Sunday we met up with our other friends Mike and Brittany went to Sugar house park bbq'd and yada yada. So without ALL the details i will just say we had a dang good weekend and Monday came around all too fast. PS..they have the cutest kids! Little Keedon (ooh hope i spelled that right, sorry brandy) and Quinton.

me and brandy...color of the picture turned out all funky, so sepia it is!

mike, cody & coby (who all have birthdays within 4 days of eachother)

POTTY TRAINING

2007-08-15T14:09:00.000-06:00

POTTY TRAINING Need i say more? So...we've been a little busy over here at our house...this potty training deal is A LOT of work!!! Ry's been wanting to go potty for the last several months now but WE (as in Cody and I) just really weren't ready! So after driving us crazy for several weeks stripping down to nothing at any given point to "Go Potty" we just decided we better just take the plunge and get it over with. SO....today is the day...we're committed! Ry and i went shopping this morning and bought all the necessary equipment, like princess panties (as you can see, she's pretty excited about those!), and lots of drinks and potty treats. So far no accidents. It's just sitting in the bathroom all day when theres a million other things to do thats killin me. Hmmm...we really could be done with diapers....for awhile anyway :o)

2007-08-06T22:25:00.000-06:00

So...after a day full of run arounds and blah blah blahs, the kids and i had a good night together. (dad was still sick in bed) We had a 6 o'clock dinner tonight so around 8:30 cole kept asking when dinner was going to be ready (It obviously wasn't that memorable) so we had to have a little bed time snack. I made popcorn and we read bedtime stories...lots of em' Each time i finished a book Cole would say "but mom...were not done with our popcorn yet" so i'd have to read another. After all the popcorn it was time to brush our "teef" as Rylee would say. Rylee loves brushing her "teef". After 20 minutes of "brushing" I have to pry that little barbie brush from her pudgy little fingers just so we can all go to bed.

2007-08-06T00:01:00.000-06:00

OK..so i have been very leary about joining the blogging world. For one....i'm NOT a writer or a journaler (you have no idea how long its just taken me to write the first sentence, and I'm sure I'll be back to edit it before i hit the post button down there anyway) But I have decided to give it a try for the sake of attempting to keep in better touch with our family and friends. My problem is that when i journal i usually end up hating what a write. Like the time when in was 18/19 something i kept a journal, several months later i went back and read it and ended up ripping everything out and shredding it in the garbage. SAD huh? So you'll probably find more pictures than journaling on the campbell's site.

So...here we go...my very first post!

Just got back from the campbell/hoggan reunion yesterday. a little earlier than planned. We had planned to stay saturday night and come home today but a huge storm blew in and changed our plans. SOAKED everything. We still have a truck full of wet camping gear sitting in the driveway. We got in to town lastnight and headed straight over to the perry's to see little Sienna, the new addition to the family. She is adorable!

Made it to church today on time....or might i say early! Its something i'm really trying to work on...being on time... or better yet early for EVERYTHING.

My poor little husbands under the weather tonight. I was deathly ill this last week just before the reunion but i made it through and am feeling human again. Cody on the other hand got hit hard tonight. I think he's got everything i had. Makes ya feel worse when you know you gave it to em'

Here's a little piece of our summer.....so far! Love to all!

Rylee LOVES wearing her oot...aka SUIT or swimming suit and swimming in it of course!
Cole is a fan of the swimming pool as well. He is the fearless dare devil he's always been..found here racing down a hill on a sk8 board.
Cody and I celebrated our 6th anniversary on July 7th this year. We took an incredible bike ride through Jackson Hole and Yellowstone.