Fon-tucky

This was just going to be all one long enormous ridiculous post about everything we've done since last summer but I decided instead to break it up a bit because I know myself and I'll get burnt out halfway through or something and just never post anything ever again...so, here it comes...in stages...as I feel like it.

Ahhh...home sweet home for all of you that have never or will never get to visit. Fon-tucky never looked so good...right? Well that's nice of you to say but that's only because you chose to overlook our attempts at fitting in with our white trash neighborhood...jk, especially to any neighbors reading this, our neighborhood is MOSTLY not white trash...with the exception of the bright blue (newly re-painted...why the heck didn't I get a pic? It SO would have completed this post) bright yellow and bright pink houses right next door to one another that gave off the essence of Tijuana...The house with the scary drive-by looking fence that completely encompasses the perimeter of their home with wrought iron that has spiky points on the tips and looks like it would fall over if you leaned too hard...(that one's still up...maybe I should include a pic...it is the ONLY house in the neighborhood with a fence period in the front yard...not to mention one that even blocks the driveway)...or maybe the house where the wife got drunk and bashed in all the windows of their car...anyways, I'll give you one last chance to play a little "I spy" before I ruin it all for you and point out the obvious. To be fair one of the items is not visible so I'll give you one freebie. How many can you spot? Don't be too critical now, lets keep in mind this was a bank repo.

Number one...and probably one of the most obvious: Enormous hole in our not so enormous yard...It's been there for several months now...it's not going anywhere anytime soon...how did we manage to get so lucky as to have an unplumbed hot tub in our front yard? (now that really WOULD be white trash) Enter pic number two...the stump...the stump that is STILL there after several months...I need to back track and tell you that we pulled out a couple white birches from our front yard that just needed to go...and this is what's left of 'em...Actually I wasn't going to but I'll go ahead and upload a few more pics to better explain this story and get ourselves into some real redneck jokes...
This is how people in Fontana pull a tree...if they know my nephew Brent that is...

And this is what a tractor will do to your neighbor's driveway if you don't secure the little legs the right way....

I'm sorry maybe this pic isn't really the best angle...here, this one will really let you see how massively we ruined their driveway...while they watched...while we had the missionaries there to help...which leads me to another pic I wasn't planning on using but hey, that is really just another piece to the puzzle. And that piece to the puzzle is the elder (who will remain nameless) who makes Brianna wish she wasn't a member yet so he could convert her....Anyways...back to our little game...perhaps you were too distracted by the hole to notice our fence-less side yard. It didn't used to be but thanks to the tractor it became and still is an open door to all who wish to visit our backyard oasis.
Finally the best part...to me anyway...and even tho this pic only lasted a few hours...it added just the right effect to my blog. Yes, our car is up on cinder blocks with no tires or hub caps or rims or whatever...my brakes were out and my extremely good at everything husband fixed them and had me up and runnin' in no time...thanks hon!!
So anyways...thanks for tuning in and playing. We've really worked hard on this place, well Rick has anyway and it's certainly come a long way. I'll post interior pics as soon as we're done. It's amazing how much of a transformation has occurred. Rick really is unbelievable.

P.S. Yes the wind IS always blowing out here...really hard...and a quick disclaimer, we really are not in the ghetto, I tend to be overdramatic when telling stories...so what it makes them more fun. We live within a two minute drive to Victoria Gardens...above baseline...no worries people, my children are safe and so are you if you choose to visit.

Okay now time for a few cute and random pics because Adri requested some of my children...It doesn't matter how red neck we looked, Dylan was in HEAVEN when a tractor showed up in our front yard. Brent was really good about letting him climb on up and pull some of the levers. It was funny to watch though because Dylan has always had a weird love for trees, he like talks to them and everything and when he realized what the tractor was doing to our two birches he was horrified and kept yelling "look out tractor...oh no, the trees...look out!" Like he refused to believe that his lovable tractor would ever do such a thing on purpose.

Here is my son's amazing morning bed head...I got a few angles to give you the full effect. P.S. I usually have more in my fridge then a bunch of orange juice and butter. Don't judge me.

Had to get a shot of the back.
Eating the breakfast of champions...or at least the breakfast of our house...everyday...gotta love go-gurt!
These pics are all so random...oh well, here's Dylan who found Bumpa's glasses and ran around the house in them bumping into walls or just getting dizzy and falling down where he stood because he couldn't judge distance or gravity too well with them on. Okay, I know, ENOUGH ALREADY...this is turning into the ridiculously long post I swore I wouldn't do...but don't worry my friends, we still have quite a bit of fun left to post...like the trip to the Bahamas when I was seven months pregnant with Marley...or the cruise for Thanksgiving...or Braydee's engagements and bridals...our latest trip to Utah...plus just other fun random photo shoots with my kids...stay tuned and I swear I'll post something soon again, if I can get all my pics off my new camera to convert small enough to post...figuring out all the technical stuff makes posting take too long and no fun so that's why I've been putting it off...but I will promise to try to do better. There...now have a great day.

Okay P.P.S. I know I said I would post a few of my CHILDREN and not CHILD...jeez, gimmie a break, I don't have anything new on my computer so I could post some of Marley a couple months old or you can just wait and I promise I'll make it worth your while. Besides Marley just had that blessing post so it's not like I'm playing favorites...okay, done for real. Over and out.

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Blessing Day

Marley's blessing dress was the most beautiful dress I've ever seen, thanks to my extremely talented mother-in-law who made it especially for her with very little input from me. All I told her was that I wanted it off white with a vintage, 1800's look to it. She is amazing! If you look closely you can see all the little flowers on the chest area that she did by hand and the adorable bonnet that had matching flowers on the ends of it. I know this was a big task and that she worked really really hard on it and I hope she knows how much I loved it and how special this dress will always be to Marley. Here's my happy baby telling Grandma how much she loves her dress.

Here we wanted to get a full length shot to show the entire dress, Rick's going to be photo-shopped out eventually but for now, there he is.

In this shot the lighting is a little weird and makes the dress look kinda yellow but we only took a few of her sitting up (well, propped up anyway.)

Then Dyl got his chance to hold her...she wasn't so sure about that and neither was I so we only got the one shot. At least Dyl's looking, right? Cheesy smile and screaming Marley but at least his eyes are open and he's facing the right direction. I'm not picky.

This was my favorite shot of her, I had it blown up really big and I just love it because she's smiling but managed to finally keep her eyes open while doing so, plus you can really see all the detail in the dress when it's blown up big enough.

We took Marley out and took a few shots of Dyl, I must say
I was pretty pleasantly surprised. He smiled for the most part and tried to hold still so Grandpa could get a decent shot.
His favorite of course was when Grandpa took a photo shoot of him as Bam Bam.Good job once again King!

Lil Sis

Here's my sister Braydee and her boyfriend Jeff stealing my idea for Halloween but doing a really good job at it. Don't they make a cute Bam Bam and Pebbles? Almost as cute as Dyl and Ais.

Tricks and Treats

We had a pretty crazy busy Halloween, it was so much fun. It all started about a week before with the good ol' Fontucky ward party...where we were pretty much the only ones dressed up, and we went pretty all out too so we felt real lame when we showed up as the only adults in costume. Here we are, Captain Hook, Peter pan and two side kick pirates... Lucky for us Bran and Megan decided to come with their crew to complete the ensemble. Here we have Ais as Tinkerbell, Elly as Wendy, Meg as Tiger Lilly and Bran as the Indian Chief. I think we had more fun dressing up then anything else. Here's a cute pic that Megan shot of our little Peter Pan, Dyl's favorite movie of all time.




Bri and her friend Logan came as a random witch and king (Logan's last name is king)







Aisley and Dylan both really got into the whole "Trick or Treat" thing.
They were so proud of all the candy they got. Dyl would have like, five dum dums in his mouth at a time...gotta watch that kid.





Wendy, Tink and Peter, best buds...sometimes


The next night Rick and I went to an adult costume party...yea no kids! jk, it was kinda fun though to dress up and go to a party like we used to when we were single. We altered the costumes a bit and had a blast, dancing and eating yummy mexican food for our friends bday.

Then the night before Halloween when we went with Val and Ed and Catherine and Scott and Sharon and King and Val's friend Michelle to Magic Castle for Ed's birthday. It was a lot of fun and gave me an excuse to get a new dress! Gotta love that, and you really gotta love the great deal I got it for!
Magic castle is this huge magic place where you have to either be a member or know a member to get in, guys can't get in without a suit coat and girls have to have semi formal attire. There's a restaurant inside with amazing food and you just spend your evening walking around to get into different magic shows and stuff. It was pretty crazy since it was Halloween eve, they did a lot of stuff that I'm pretty sure only happens once a year.

Then, Halloween night we went to my parents Trunk or Treat. I decided Peter Pan was boring, it was just pants and a shirt! So...I decided to run to Joann's fabric and make a quick bam bam costume...which ended up being a big hit. He won an award for "funniest costume." Everyone thought it was hilarious, he ran around all night with his club saying "bam bam!" Just like the cartoon.

I had bought some extra fabric so i made that into his trick or treat bag...which of course my dad insisted on calling his "man purse" all night and wouldn't let him carry it around.

Later that night we stopped by Anise's halloween party (for some reason I didn't get any pics there...i was a really cool party though) followed by Bri's. Here's Bri (spiderman) with her buds...totally takes me back, especially since they have "G.T's" too...sigh, back in the day, right guys?Bri was a good sport and lots of fun and played games and had a good time, while a lot of her lame friends were "too cool" or something. Logan and Summer each get a shout out because they at least tried bobbing for apples...Bri was the only one that really got in there though.

Marley just hung out with Dad while Mom chased Dyl around. Lets just say he was NOT too cool for bobbing for apples...or anything else that would make a mess. Notice in this pic she's at least semi dressed up...I spent so much time working on Dyl's outfit, I didn't really think about hers until it was too late. She spent the evening in her seat sleeping for heaven's sake, why try?








Needless to say it was a long night and Rick crashed on the couch until I told him we could leave. Marley, on the other hand, is ready to party...just like her Mama.
The next night was Trunk or Treat in Pasadena for my Nana's ward. Now Pasadena's got it goin' on, first of all how cool is it to have Trunk or Treat the night AFTER halloween? I think all wards should do that, and second, they had an Inn and Out truck that handed out free Double Double's all night. Yum. I found out Aisley was coming at the last minute so I quickly turned Dyl's man purse into a Pebbles costume that actually ended up working out better then I thought it would. Megan and I were the only really good parents that allowed their toddlers to run around half naked and barefoot in the rain. We sure got a lot of looks and a lot of totally buggin' comments like "whoa, looks like Pebbles and Bam Bam must be freezing!" In that annoying voice that means, "I hope their mothers hear and pick up on what I'm saying" In our defense, it was warm despite the rain and the ground was warm too, I took off my flops and felt it myself. Besides, my son prefers to be naked and barefoot and it was halloween so I decided to let him run wild.









Megan went as a nurse. Jk, she just got off work and had to run. Dyl sure loves his Aunt "Meg-an" It's the funniest to hear him say her name, I love it.

It was a really fun night and we had a great time. The next day was Marleys blessing...her dress was unbelievable...stay tuned for pics of the big day...and that will pretty much wrap up our extremely busy, but fun halloween.