The Julander Family

Thursday, January 28, 2010

New Moon

I couldn't fail to mention our yearly "twighlight" girl's night. I know we're big dorks with our matching t-shirts, but it sure is fun! We went to new moon in a specially rented theatre for opening night. The movie started at 8pm but we were there at 4pm. Needless to say we were first in line. We even had time for dinner before starting the line. They wouldn't put us in an official line until 6pm so we made our own! Sign and all. Then we waited and waited...and waited. It was worth the wait. Before the movie started the group that rented the theatre, I think it was a hospital or something, had raffle. I won a gift certificate to a restaraunt in bountiful! We had a lot of fun. All girls nights are fun, especially with these girls!

More Catch Up!

Ragan discovered a love for oranges...or maybe just orange smiles! She cracks herself up!

Let's play catch up!

First (I know pathetic I have to go this far back) fall cleanup! I love this beautiful tree...I hate it's leaves in the fall! We have an even larger tree in the back yard! Ughh. (the bags in the picture are the front yard only, and there are still alot of leaves on the tree!) But even if I hate the cleanup, the cute pictures of my kiddos are worth it. They look forward to leaf cleanup.

This one's for you Dad!

I promised my dad this post a month or two ago! Sorry Dad, blogging and pregnancy haven't mixed so well lately! But as promised here are your beautiful shelves put to good use.

Pete and my Daddy build these shelves for my garage so I could be sane, organized and finally put my car in the garage and not have to scrape windows in my hurry to get James to school every morning! Yeah!

They took pictures every step of the way, and I finally took the "put to good use" pictures ... so ... drum roll please!

I just have to say...organization feels so good! Thanks Daddy and Pete.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Just thought I'd share this page, because I love it and Ragan is such a cutie!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Daddy Craft!

Ragan asked me the other day to help her make a Christmas craft. I wasn't feeling too creative, so I was looking online for some ideas. Pete was home and said, "Why don't you just make a Christmas Tree?" he proceeded to tell me an easy way to do it. It went right over my head because I saw an opportunity to give Daddy a chance to be crafty! So he took over the craft for the day and helped Ragan make this! Purely designed by Pete ornaments and all! I am so proud of my crafty hubby! I must have rubbed off! :) Ragan was thrilled and ended up making them again with her friend Reese when she came to play yesterday!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

We had a lot of fun this year for Halloween. It's my favorite Holiday! Sadly I didn't get any pics of my costume. I wore it for the Young Women Halloween Party. I was a whoopie cushion! So funny! Anyway here are some pics of pumpkin carving and trick or treating.

I promised James that we would make a pumpkin pie from real pumpkin. Ragan got a sugar pumpkin from our friend Maria and I convinced her to use it for the pie. We got her a bigger pumpkin to carve, so she was happy! So we made from scratch homemade pumpkin pie! Here's the process! The kids loved it.

Funnies from my kiddos

1/11 Ragan looking into James' mouth, " I can see your utensils!"
4/ 20/10 You know you need to watch what you say when your two year old (Dal) says, "Open the dang door mom!"
4/19/10 After eating a whole bowl of strawberries when I wasn't looking..."Ragan did you eat all of those strawberries?" "Yep cause I wanted lots of muscles...wanna see my guns!?...that's what we call muscles mom!"
4/18/10 Ragan "Last night was the bird's church night because I heard them singing!"
We were at Macey's our usual weekly grocery trip. The clerks always like to give the kids smarties when we check out. They hadn't eaten their lunch very well so I told them no thankyou. A minute or so went by and Ragan longingly looked up at me and said, "Mom smarties make everything better!"
A humbling yet proud mother moment: James witnessed some unkind words from me to Pete. He said to me "mommy, that wasn't very nice...you better repent or you will have black marks on your white clothes in heaven."
Ragan is obsessed with Scooby Doo lately and she says "Like wow!" preceeding everything that comes out of her mouth.
2/4/10 We were at Costco today and of course because of superbowl weekend they had endless samples. So we had ourselves a nice little "lunch." Well, when we got to the sample table with avacados, I asked Ragan if she wanted some (she loves abadacados!) And she said very pointedly, "No mom, that's not junk." Apparently we go to costco to sample "junk." I don't know where she got this idea, but it made me giggle! I love my sassy princess!
10/30/09 James " I have piece of my popcorn ball stuck in the back of my mouth" Mom "go take a drink, maybe it will help" James "Okay...(gets a drink)...it didn't work" Mom "I guess you'll just have to stick your finger back there and get it" " Okay but I don't want to have to go to the doctor and get stitches!"
10/22/09 Dallin's latest things to say are bless you after he sneezes and thankyou when we give him a kiss.
10/22/09 Ragan "I just love abadacados!" (avacados)
9/1/09 Ragan "I just bless-you'd!"
8/31/09 We have a new rule that we can only have treats and desserts on Monday nights for family nights. We've been doing it for a little over a month now, and the kids are getting used to it. James just said to me, (when we were talking about family night treat) "We only can rotten our teeth this day, right?"
8/31/09 James was asking why this and why that etc. until I was getting a little annoyed! So I said "Why do you ask so many questions!" James "Well...because I like to talk to you mom." (my heart melted :( )
8/25/09 James " Hey mom, did you know that when we drink lots of milk it makes our bones white?" Ragan "ya and when we eat strawberries our blood is red and when we eat blueberries our blood is blue!"
8/25/09 Ragan "Mom, your beautiful" Mom "you are too Ragan. You know what makes you beautiful, your fun personality etc... Ragan "ya and not my bad-alities and mean-alities...you know mean-alities is when I hit!
8/13/09 When we were putting the kids to bed tonight, I realized I had forgotten to wash Ragan's quilt, so I asked Pete to get her a blanket. He brought her her tinkerbell blanket and said how about this one? Ragan said, no that one's dirty too. Pete said no, we just washed it. Ragan's reply was, "well I wiped my boogers on it last year!"
Dallin's favorite words: dip-ips = chips, hos=horse, tose=toast, mine (everything is "mine")
6/26/09 Pete was asked to go on splits with the missionaries. James asked Pete, "What does splits mean?" After a long, very informative explanation from Pete, James said, "Oh okay...what does all than mean?!"
Ragan 6/21/09 We were at Pete's parents' house. Ragan was playing with their dog, when all of a sudden she said, "Sampson lick-ed my flip off finger!" After giggling a little I replied, "And who told you about your flip off finger!?"
Pete was teasing James the other day pretending that he was pushing him down the stairs with the laundry basket. James escaped and then said, "Dad! You scared the crap out of me!" (Pete and I must say crap a lot! It sounds so much worse coming out of our kids' mouths.)
Ragan (a few months ago) Pete took the kids to shopko. They were waiting in line when Ragan saw a lady with a whole bunch of rubbermade tubs. Ragan pointed and said, "Holy..Moly..Crap! She's got a lot of boxes!"