The Ahh Bra!

About 9 months ago, Madison and I were watching tv together with the younger 3 kids. As she turned the channel to watch something else, I told her to "go back". It was an infomercial for the glorious Ahh Bra. They were showcasing these bras on many different sizes of women. I thought this was quite humorous, so we watched it for about 5 more minutes before changing the channel. The next day Brett says "hey mom, where's your ahh bra?". He then races to my closet to find the prettiest ahh bra (my red one) and tells me to put it on. 9 months later, he still goes and gets my red "ahh bra" from my closet and insists that I wear it for the day.
Here's a picture of the ahh bra, that I stumbled upon while I was at Walgreen s the other day. Too funny, maybe I should get me one :)

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Sarah, through Anamarie's Eyes :0

For the past 6 months, I have debated whether or not I should post this.  Anamarie has been known to never hold back on anything, even with her creative drawings. As she showed me her newest creation, I couldn't help but to laugh out loud in disbelief as I saw the provocative image of me. Pretty funny girl!!

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Halloween Party 2011

Our family attended the Thresher's Halloween party on October 29th. The kids had a blast carving pumpkins, playing games, and winning candy. Anamarie has my luck when it comes to numbers, because she kept on rolling doubles, which won her lots of candy. Taylor, Maddy, Anamarie & Brett all carved cute pumpkins. It was Brett's first year carving, and he had no problem getting his hands dirty. Brady and I dressed up as Cleopatra & Julius Caesar and our love child Caesarion (William). A few people questioned our costumes because of the union of Cleopatra & Julius Caesar, thinking it was Mark Antony.  But, she was in fact Julius Caesars mistress and had a "love child" with him before she married Mark Antony. Taylor was a cool shark (Thanks Janise), Maddy was a red M&M (Thanks Janise), Anamarie was Spider Girl, Brett was Frankenstein (for the second year in a row), and William was Caesarion. Kim & Janise dressed up as Bedford, Wyoming Hippies ;)

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9th Grade Band Bash!!

Taylor has mastered the Bass Clarinet!! For 3 years now, he has rented the same bass clarinet from his school for $70 a year. In 7th grade, His teacher told him about a bass clarinet that the school had for rent, we jumped on this opportunity because the same instrument at Bert Murdock Music was $25 a month to rent. This instrument must be 50 years old, or so it looks. When Taylor brought the instrument home for the first time, the case was so worn that the wood showed through in most places. So with a little time and a lot of black duck tape, we had that case looking like new in no time.

2011 American Fork Band Bash!

Once a year all the band classes from American Fork Junior High  & American Fork High combine for one big band bash. The highlight was watching Taylor's 9th Symphonic Band play and of course the American Fork Marching Band Grand Finale at the end, (Utah State Champs for many years). It was really cool, but my cell phone died during Taylor's performance, but I did manage to get a short video of him playing. In this video, he is right in the middle of the group.

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