• Look at it we got tons of snow. It rained all day on sunday and then around 5:00 p.m. it started to snow. It snowed till around 8:00 ish. The news says we got 1-2 inches but we think it was more like 3. Our snow from a few days ago had not melted yet. I got the girls semi dressed to go out and take pictures. We didn't last long because it was so cold.
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• Lexi is our little copier now. Kerry and I were doing a puzzle yesterday and she was hanging out with us when I messed up the spot I was working on and I said Dangit. She immedietly repeats me. I am sure you can just imagine a little 2 year old saying that. Kerry and I just laughed.
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• Those of you that are interested the new swimsuits they are here. I have a whole bunch at my house to try on. I am also going to have an open house were I will have even more to try on. If you want one let me know and I will tell you when the open house is. Better yet call me and you can come for a private fitting:)
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• As you can tell my Blog is being taken over by my cute family. Megan has loved people leaving comments for her and is ready to take pictures of her school for you. And if you didn't know already my husband is addicted to motorcycles.
• But to his credit I am addicted to Samari 21. We go there for every date night and two weeks ago we went for date night on friday and then I was craving it so bad we took the kids on saturday. (NO I AM NOT PREGNANT)

i love you stacie (this is meant for stacie)

hey i am doing hacker trail right now i have two girls and a boy i am a farmer and of course i have a husband.i know how to type, 20 words a minute .i have very good grade scores (better than mckenzie muahhaahhhhhhha)on my report card and love science.in science we are learning about rocks .we have art by mr.hansen .lots of loves hugs and kisses love megan

megan posting

hey its the first time a girl gets a chance to write and if id never got to do this id be dead(by the way lexie what is your email ?)(who ever knows post!)

1/26/08 there is a better before and after picture now, and you can click on them, im not sure why the others dont work.

this is my little project motorcycle, it was what my dad use to ride, ive started fixing it up a little here is some painting i did on it, mostly as a practice for some painting i want to do on the other bikes
sanded down

primered

side painted black and the area the stripes will go masked off

painted orange


masking for stripes removed and parts clear coated

back on the bike

here's a before and after, its not really that impressive of a bike but the painting turned our real good, i'll be recovering the seat in black and tuning it up a little more, just thougt i'd share it at this stage.

obstical course

two posts in one day AGAIN!!!

my brother brecken and i built this obstical course when i was 17, we had to get creative living in the desert.

kids dancing

heres a little video of the kids dancing skills

2007 in review

1.what did you do in 2007that you'd never done before? went on 2 cruises to mexico. Bought a sewing machine and quilted a quilt
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I never make new yeares resolutions,because I know that I will not keep them.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My sister in law and my sister. one boy and one girl
4. Did anyone close to you die? My dear Grandmother Goodwin. I was privledged to be there when she left this world
5. What countries did you visit? Mexico
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? #1 more patience. And More organization. I hate having my house be so disorganized.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory and why? My Grandmother's death.
8. What was your biggest personal achievement of the year? I lost 20 pounds
9. What was your biggest failure? Losing my patience with my girls.I love them alot but I have not been as patient with them as I should
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? I had a syst taken out of my wrist.
11. What was the best thing you bought? My sewing machine.I am learning to make awesome things with them
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?Kerry My husband for being such a giving, caring understanding person
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? That one is hard to put on here just in case they look but I would have to say #######. OOPs I am being sensored.J.K.
14. Where did most of your money go? My house, Motorcycles,stuff vacations.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?Going on vacation with my parents and my family . Seeing my little sister get married in the temple,
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? Any from high school musical
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a)happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer? Happy as ever! Alot thinner and definatley richer
18. What do you wish you'd done less of? Complain and eat
19. Did you fall in love in 2007? Of course. My husband and kids
20. What was your favorite TV program? Dora my kids watch it all the time. so of course I have to too
21. Do you hate anyhone now that you didn't hate this time last year? There's nobody that I hate.
22. What was the best book you read? topaz by jennie hansen
23. What was your greatest musical discovery? suround sound in our theater, and movie credit songs (Kerry you will understand that)
24. What did you want and not get?A pool
25. What was your favorite film of this year? anything with my husband in our theater
26. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you? went excersing and I turned 30
27. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Nothing I had a great year
28. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? I learned alot about fashion from being a fashion conusltant for Modbe.
29. What kept you sane? Reading and excercising
30. When you think about 2007 what sticks out in your mind? My kids are growing up!
31. Best moment of 2007? quiet time in the evening when the kids are asleep

Gordon B. Hinckley

I found this on someones blog that I don't know, and thought it was cute and wanted to share it.

Gordon B. Hinckley was returning to Salt Lake City after a church assignment and when his plane arrived there was a limousine there to transport him to his home. As he prepared to get into the limo, he stopped and spoke to the driver.'You know' he said, 'I am 97 years old and I have never driven a limousine. Would you mind if I drove it for a while?'The driver said, 'No problem. Have at it.'President Hinckley gets into the driver's seat, the chauffeur gets in the back and they head off down the highway. A short distance away sat a Rookie State Trooper operating his first speed trap. The long black limo went by him doing 70 in a 55 mph zone. The trooper pulled out and easily caught the limo and he got out of his patrol car to begin the procedure. The young trooper walked up to the driver's door and when the glass was rolled down, he was surprised to see who was driving. He immediately excused himself and went back to his car and called his supervisor. He told the supervisor, 'I know we are supposed to enforce the law... But I also know that important people are given certain courtesies. I need to know what I should do because I have stopped a very important person.'The supervisor asked, 'Is it the governor?'The young trooper said, 'No, he's more important than that.'The supervisor said, 'Oh, so it's the President.'The young trooper said, 'No, he's even more important than that.'The supervisor finally asked, 'Well then, who is it?'The young trooper said, 'I think its Jesus, because he's got Gordon B. Hinckley for a chauffeur!'
Now you know why I had to post that. Hope you have a good day.

trackday 748

this is my first video creation, and my first video on you tube, im the one on the red bike.

Swimsuits

Just a quick update. I am going up to Orem on the 26th to go and see the new swim suits that Modbe is coming out with. I am so excited. I have heard rumor that there will be 20 different swimsuits. (for those of you who have never heard of Modbe, I sell modest swimsuits from modbe. )As Mckensi already stated she is just as excited as me. I am hoping to come home with a bunch for everyone to try on.Woo hoo.

Sleep Walkers

I have a set of sleep walkers in our house. Last night around 9:30 Megan came walking in our room with starry eyes and saying " can I call, can I call, call ,call. " sometimes it takes me a minute to realize there sleep walking ,it took her saying call over and over to realize that she was sleep walking. We told her to go back to bed which she immedietly did. About 15-20 minutes later Ashley came walking in,also with starry eyes, and sat down on our chair in there and just stared at us. We asked her what she was doing and she continued to just stare at us. That is when we realized that she was sleep walking to.We told her to go back to bed and she got up and walked straight to her room and proceded in her sleep.
If any of you have ideas on how to prevent sleep walking. Megan does it about every night and can sometimes do it up to 4 times a night. I am losing sleep because of all the interuptions and she is losing sleep just from sleep walking. Ashley does not do it very often. Kerry and i just laugh when they come in. I am determined to get a video of them next time. I think you would get a kick out them.

ok i'll post too

just a few pictures to get to know me better

this is when i was little

this is at work

this is the car i let the kids run around in

did you say you were just waiting for a sign, here it is!

the house after the addition was finished

a few words of wisdom

my new motorcycle helmet

the new bike to go with the helmet

ok, so they're not ALL mine, ok--so these pictures were just sized small enough that they were easy to upload.

hey at least I'm posting! ( Kerry)

i havnt seen two posts on the warners today!

Challenge

So I think that we got a challenge from Tyler on posting more. I have a really good excuse for not posting but I am no going to write it because it would be way to exciting for everyone.
We finally made it through the Holidays. I think in all we had about 9 parties at our house between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We had so much fun entertaining and having everyone over to visit.
Tyler I am a little nervous to post because you call it boring. I am sorry that I am not the author/writer like everyone else. I was lucky just to pass English.
We had an amazing Christmas. We were very blessed this season. Our kids had a wonderful present experience and were very happy with Santa. Megan and Ashley got American girl dolls and Maddie got a Emma doll , a new bike and a kitchen that she shares with Lexi. Lexi got a Dora car and dishes and the kitchen. Our whole family got a new Wii. We love it and have enjoyed playing it on our 150" movie screen.
We were able to go and get Kerry a new/used Truck yesterday. It is a ford F1-50 4 door truck. I really like it . It is really clean and looks good to.
I have gained 10 pounds back since our cruises and the holiday season and I am planning on working extra hard to work it off again. I have been back to the gym now for 2 weeks and hope to have the extra wait gone in 2 months. Hope it works. I really like being skinny.
Maddi starts sunbeams on Sunday so if you talk to her ask her how it went.

Sledding is fun

we made it up to salt lake to see the christmas lights at temple square, they were cool, and we were up there to join in the festivities of tylers graduation, and do some sledding in tyler and bree's yard

I love the Christmas season. But each year I get more and more kids that I need to get Christmas for. I usually can get the bigger gifts just fine, its the little gifts that make it look like we had a big Christmas that are hard for me. Kerry and I went shopping for gifts last night and we split up so we could get more done. Kerry went to the toy store and I went to a clothing store. I was pumped we were going to get alot done. I quickly found outfits for family pictures ( and no they do not get wrapped) and then Kerry came and we went to the toy store to look over his selections. He had found a train set to run under our tree and a toy for his brother Tysen(who we do not have for Christmas). We walked out with a toy for Tysen and a gift for Lexi. By that time it was late and time to go home. The question is? what did we accmplish? Not much! 22 days and counting.

our cruise

Here are a few pictures of us on our cruise to the Mexican Riviera November 10-17. We went with Mom and Dad.

This picture here is Dad with the Hat that he was coveting. Kerry got it but Mom and I knew that Dad wanted one just like it.Now I know what everyone is thinking, You want one too, right .

This is the infamous Iguana that our driver insisted we stop and get a picture with. (we also had to pay just to take the picture) It was actually pretty cool.

We had so much fun. We went sight seeing in Peurto Vallarta and Mazatlan and then in cabo san lucas we went to the beach and went snorkeling were we all ,but Mom, got stung by tiny jelly fish. Kerry and Dad played in some pretty big waves and had sand coming from there ears for a few days.

I am sure that we all gained a few pounds from eating way to much. I for one loved dessert, and Dad and Kerry just loved the food in general. I am sure glad to be back in America and I feel very blessed for all that we have. Including the gospel. I think that my eyes were opened . We enjoyed the time to just relax.

cruise

This is our lovely Family on our Cruise to Mexico. We took aunt Mckensi with us and drove down to L.A. and got on the Royal Carribean boat. We had a adventure even before we got to L.A. We had stopped to see Stacie and her girls and then headed down through the pass were the traffic quickly stopped and we were stuck in the pass for at least 1 hour.Stacie informed us that there was a fire less then a mile ahead crossing the freeway. What should of only taken us 1 1/2 hours took us 4 and we barely made in time for the cruise. Every where we turned there were freeways closed. This picture here is in San Deigo if you look in the back ground there is a lot of smoke. There was 300 thousand people evacuated in this city alone because of the fires. When we first started our trip ther had been 5 homes lost to the fire. By the time we got back 4 days later there had been 1500.

Kensi was such a lifesaver. She stayed in one room with Megan, Ashley and Madison. She was so much fun. We dragged her along everywhere we went and she did such w wonderful job pretending like she was having fun. We would have never been able to do this trip without her. She also has alot of the cute pictures with her. I think that the girls loved spending time with her. It was like a party every time it was bedtime.

Here we are waiting for dinner time up on the top of the boat in Catalina Island. We decided to go up her to watch the boat leave. It is pretty cool.

Kerry loves the rock climbing on the boat but it is sometimes just hard to get a turn. He got to go once this time and he did really good.I will have to get more pictures from kensi and post more.

three more things

three funny things about janae

1- she always has to know what is going on with everything as it is happening, not wait until it has happened and ask how it went. ive seen her call jessica on a date and ask her how its going and if the guy is cute, im surprised she hasnt called her on her honeymoon (maby she has and i just dont know about it yet) or she can be going somewhere and she will call when she is about four blocks away from home to let me know that she is four blocks away.

2-she is really afraid of bugs if there is a spider or roach on the floor half dead she will have to have me come get it before she can do anything else(if it is in the doorway of a room she cant get into the room until its gone) some times madison will help me out with my fatherly responsibilities and go get a tissue and pick up the bug and throw it in the toilet.

3-when i was looking at buying my first new motorcycle (a ducati) it was alot more than the used bikes i had bought before so i wasnt sure if it was a real good idea to spend that much , so i went to janae in hopes that she would just tell me to wait or that it was too much to spend so that i could stop thinking about it, so she said "you should get it, lets go to vegas tomorrow"--when i found another motorcycle that i really wanted(but didnt really need) ok so i probably did really need it, but i allready had a couple, so i was trying to talk myself out of getting it, so i asked janae if i should wait to get it since it was kind of expensive she said" you should get it"(in my mind i was thinking "you were suppose to tell me we should wait")

No sleep

It is finally 7:00 a.m. I have been up since 6 and I am so tired but I can't sleep. But I am having to be very quiet because every one else is still asleep. So I thought I would write a quick blog.
Kerry and I are trying to go on a cruise in November. We have been looking at one that goes to jamaica but it is not the cheapest and we have been trying to decide if it was worth it. Well when I got on the computer this morning it went up another $100. ugh. So now what do we do. I am ready to just call it off.
Last night we had another pizza party in Kerrys Brothers back yard. It was so fun we had a niece and a nephew who have the same birthday. It was one big party. Afterward some of them went over to breckens to play on there volleyball court. Megan was able to go and babysit for Tyson and Lori while they went. She loved every minute of it. I still cannot believe how old she is getting.

One more for Maddison

I remembered one more funny thing about Madison.
Whenever she has a cough she tells us that she has bad voices. So last night around 3 a.m. Lexi was coughing and Madison in her sleep in the room across the hall says, something along the line of she has bad voices. It was so funny to hear her say it in her sleep.

Three Things

I read Breeann's post I am going to copy it for our family. Here is a list of three funny/strange things about each individual in our family unit.
Lexi: 1- Lexi out of the blue will lean her head over and start say "ah ah ah ah choo" and make the motion of sneazing. We all love her high pitched little voice saying the choo part
2-She loves Dora and is always asking to see it. But she doesn't just say dora she say's dowha. repeated 10 times. Along with this she say's Wori for aunt Lori , Nani for Annie and papa for Grandma and Grandpa.
3-If you ask her something she doesn't know she says I o know. Which means I don't know
Madison:1-She loves to pick her own clothing. Including her underwear. I have just come to the conclusion that if it something that Kerry or I pick out it is for sure not what she is going to wear. She usually comes in with a broken hanger every day that is from her pulling her shirt down. When she does not break it she shows it to us because she is so proud.
2- 3 means 2. If she is yelling "I want 3 I want 3 " you could give her 2 and she is great.
3-If you are on her bad side you are " not invited to my birthday party" BUT if you do something good " You can come to my birthday party." and you know you are on her good side

Ashley:1-She would take five baths a day if we let her. But if you want to do her hair good luck. Oh and that does not mean five new outfits. It usually means the same outfit for a few days.
2-She is definitly related to Nick
3-She loves favorite cassorole(shepards pie) and could eat it for every meal (except Breakfast she only wants cream of wheat.with toast)
Megan: 1-If you don't watch out she will come and visit you at night. (she sleep walks)
2-much to our dismay she loves animals and has already informed us that when she gets married she is getting "a half Lab and half golden retriver that loves ball and is playful" yes she is standing over my shoulder telling me what to say.( oh wait that should be # 3)
3-she is always doing her hair or getting ready. When the whole family is in the car she is still in the house looking for just the right thing to top off her outfit.
Kerry:1-He still has these plaid (blue and green) pants from his mission that he will not throw out and he still wears them. He wore them to the Temple just last week
2-He is a perfectionist in his own way. The 3 motorcycles in the garage are perfectly buffed and polished almost every week. But if you get in his truck you would not believe it was the same man.
3-the first thing he does when he wakes up and the last thing that he does before he goes to bed is to make sure his hair is wetted down or gelled. And he always has socks on.

new update

I wish that I had time to post everyday.
Kerry and I took a little trip to Bryce Canyon this weekend on his motorcycle. It was so much fun. We had Kerrys sister Miranda come on friday morning and we were off. we headed through Gunlock and went up through Enterprise and up through Cedar and over freezing Cedar Mountain. We finally made it and checked into a cute little cabin in Tropic. We had a blast just being the two of us. We toured Bryce and ate out and slept in. Then came back through Zion Park, Jessica came and stayed the night with our kids. We are so greatful for family.

In three weeks we are taking the kids on a cruise out of L.A.. Mckensi agreed to come with us. We are so excited to take all the kids and show them some amazing sights.They are so excited about never ending food and all the pools.
Jessica is getting married on Friday yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am sure I will probably not post anymore this week because I shall be prepping for the wedding. see yall

Cute addicted husband

I just love my cute addicted husband. Anyone else in the same predicament? I know of a few. (Bree) If you noticed that I have new coloring on our blog that would be the addicted. He spent all Saturday traveling to Vegas with 3 if our youngest girls picking up a motorcycle that is not for him . Then when he got home he proceeded to take pictures, talk on the phone and look on the Internet, all about this new motorcycle. Then Sunday morning when he was home from church with a sick Ashley, he BLOGS about it. Not how cute his girls were on the trip, not that he forgot to get krispy kremes for his wife and not about the hot date he went on with his hot wife, but about the new member of our garage. And he even included pictures. Now if you do not call that addicted, what is? Oh the joy!
Now back to the family life. We have all been sick with the flu and cold. UGH! To top that off the night I was coming down with it I was driving home and got a ticket. And no it was not for speeding. If you want to know more I will tell later

Kerry here

i guess i got tagged, not like the roadkill that tyler tagged, but the other kind.

Jobs I've had:

Laub's farm-moved sprinkelers in hayfields

Barn's dairy-worked at a dairy feeding and milking cows

Laubs farm-drove farm trucks hauling hay in from fields

color country concrete- forming & pouring concrete floors, driveways, sidewalks, walls, etc.

mission to jamaica

Moaks Bicycle warehouse-bicycle repair and sales

Les Olson Cao.-fixed copiers and fax machines

Bang concrete- started buisness with 2 other brothers in '99, still moving along.

Movies I watch over and over:

life is too short to watch most movies more than once, but i'd watch a few again

National treasure

Blown Away (edited for tv)

Places I've lived:

born in Mesa, AZ

Beryl, UT

Jamaica

St. George, UT

Favorite TV shows:

Blacksheep Squadron

McGuiver

Good Eats

Man Vs Wild

Places we'd rather be:

on a cruise any where.

visiting---The (Other) Holy Land --for any of you that are not familiar with the other holy land it is where they make Ferrari's and Ducati's--Italy.

any where in Eruope

on a motorcycle ride somewhere- preferably in Europe -possibly somewhere near the other holy land.

on the Autobaughn on a Ducat Desmosedici (abot 210hp and should be able to hit about 220mph)

People I tagged: anyone that posts a comment

tyler wanted me to post the pic of his latest addition to his family with its little red cousins.

Mud Day

So we had a huge rain storm on Monday and it flooded 11-12 homes here in our little city. the rain started around 6 a.m. and ended around 7:30 it poured and the thunder and lightning was terrible yet amazing.

As you can tell the kids loved the aftermath. This is two hours after it stopped. Maddie and Emma started in with spoons as soon as they woke up. (as you can see emma is still in her pajamas, and maddie I think slept in her swimsuit) They had so much fun and played hard. Maddie fell asleep after she took a bath around 11.
Megan stayed home from school and had to get in on the picture action. Here she is again in another outfit from Lexi Glauser.
All in All the kids had a blast and Lori and I just let them play until they wanted to come in.

Cedar Breaks

So I figure with all my kids I have to put at least one picture of each, and since I did not have time to put all of them up yesterday, I am finishing today. Here is Lexi. She had so much fun running free and would pose any time I asked for the camera. Isn't she cute!

And last but no least is Ashley. She is miss adventure. She was the one that did not want to go to cedar breaks but she was also the one that loved it the most.

Over all are weekend was great. The kids got to spend much needed time with all there cousins and we all got to get away for awhile.

Cedar Breaks

Yeah I am actually posting again.
Our Family went up to Brian Head this weekend for a Bang Family get together.

While we were up there we made a quick trip over to Cedar breaks National Park. Here are a few pictures of us.

Here is Megan at the first overlook. Megan got a big bag of clothes from my cousin Lexi ,and was so excited to have a whole new selection. here is one of the new line of clothes. She looked amazing.

Here is Kerry. He had a hard time convincing all of us that we wanted to go to Cedar Breaks but once we got there we all loved it.

Madison was our little accident proned child I swear she fell down at least 10 times the whole 2 days we were in Brian head. We will post more later were off to Grandmas
Ta ta for now

Just an accident

Megan came in the other day while I was on the computer and said "Mom Madison got into the flour you should come and see" Well this is what I saw. I thought it was so funny yet then again it wasn't. So here are all the pictures of everybody "helping" clean up.

Here is Lexi. She was so excited to see all the flour. we had a hard time pulling her away to clean up. Madison said It was all an accident. Oh how we love the innocence of children

Here is Megan In front of her new class. She had a great 1st day of school. Her teacher had her room all done up with dragons and castles them and had a stool that she had them come up and sit on in order and put a hat on them and sorted them into groups.(like harry potter)She had her son do all this cool stuff before hand were they prerecorded it so it told them what group they were in once the hat was on and they were sitting down.She came home totally impressed and excited about her new teacher.

Madison and Lexi have loved having them at school because they get more Mom time. We went shopping and went to see dad at the shop.

1st day of school

Here is Ashley in front of her new class. Ashley was so excited that she has the same teacher that megan had in 2nd grade. She pulled out Mckensi and Jessica fake diamond necklace to top off her outfit. doesn't she look great?

More to come later I am headed off to take them to school