Me doing Yoga???

So if you are ever feeling down or just need a GOOD laugh, come over to my mom's house while I am doing yoga on the wii yoga fit. :) That is right everyone I do NOT do the "tree" position very good at all! I don't have any type of balance on one foot. I really liked using the wii fit board though. You are deceived in thinking it will be an easy workout. This thing calculates your "fit age" by asking you some questions and running some test on you while you stand on the board. Here is a hint on how I did, it asks you if you would like to have a password to block anyone else from seeing all your info (weight, fit age, etc). There was no pause for question there, I automatically put "YES" lock that baby up!! By the time this fit club is done in 10 weeks, I have a goal of being much more healthy and fit!!! Then I will continue what I have been doing! Thanks so much Julia for starting this up! My body thanks you! :) Wii fit board until we meet again! hee, hee

Mattison the Rocker!!

So Mattie got a Hannah Montana electric guitar toy for Christmas. She loves it! I am actually happy we got it for her because EVERY time she plays it I am laughing. Apparently when you play an electric guitar you automatically become a rocker. I finally had to take a short video of Mattie playing her electric guitar! Enjoy! I especially love her facial expressions and body movement! Don't forget to pause my music at the bottom of the blog before you watch this! Have a great day and have a great time at the concert! :)

Kylee=Mommy

So this morning I took the girls over to see Nana and Papa. Kylee was obviously VERY excited to see HER Nana. My mom was watching Ava Bean for my sister Tara who has the flu. Let's just say Kylee does not like sharing her Nana. At one point my mom HAD to hold Ava because I was making her a bottle. So Kylee was throwing a fit and Nana gave in and picked Kylee up too. So I come back into the room and my mom is holding Ava and Kylee. Let's just say that it is a good thing Ava is small! :) I tried to take Kylee off my mom's lap and she threw a HUGE fit! It was officially time to go. Kylee had already thrown a huge fit because Nana took the phone away from her. Kylee is obsessed with the phone! My mom told me she is exactly like her mommy was at this age. I said no, not little old me! :) She even got my crazy hair syndrome. She wakes up and her hair is all over the place. Yesterday she woke up and she had hair that just look just like Chicken Little. The picture doesn't do it just but they are still cute pics! Sorry baby girl, not everything is bad :) Mommy loves you!!

Choices?!?!

I was reading a friends blog and heard that her cousin had passed away at the age of 25. I was very sad. I continued to read and she spoke of where he had served his mission and it was the same place I had served. We served a mission for our church at the same time. I knew him. I was so shocked to hear he had left this earth. I spoke to Scottee (his cousin) and she and I had a nice talk. We spoke of our loving Heavenly Father and how he is mindful of everything that was going on in Ty's life. Ty had made the choice to end his own life because of all the pain he was suffering. He had challenges in his life that many of us don't understand. He obviously felt this was all he could do at this point. He has a loving family and many loving friends who will miss him until we meet again. I know that our Heavenly Father is caring for him now. I still hadn't made any final decisions on my new year's resolutions but thanks to Ty and all he has gone through I have. My #1 resolution is LIVING EACH DAY AS IF IT WERE MY LAST!
To some of you that might sound strange or wrong but it is in NO way a disrespect to Ty. It is a way for me to honor Ty. I have had loss this past year but I will take everything that I have learned from each of those loved ones to make me a better person. #2 resolution is to show my husband I love him EVERYDAY! #3 resolution is to be a better mother, by spending more one on one time with each of my girls! #4 resolution be pregnant with twins sometime in 2009 deliver in 2010 :)
So to Ty's family I am so sorry for your loss and pray that you know there are many people praying for you and love you! Thank you Ty for helping me prioritize my life in the order that it should be! God be with you until we meet again!

Recording of Christmas Eve Duet with Tausha

This is the recording of Tausha and I singing a duet of "Christmastime" by Hillary Weeks. We sang it for our annual Townsend Christmas Eve party. This isn't the best recording but it will have to do since it is the only recording we have :). The last part of the song was broken up into a second recording so watch the first video and then you can watch the end of the song by clicking on the secondvideo. Also you will need to pause my music at the very bottom of my blog before you start watching. Enjoy! Thanks again Tausha for singing with me, you are so amazingly talented!!

Singing with Tausha on Christmas Eve

So I know it is late but these are a few pictures of our annual Christmas party at the Townsend's. I look forward to this party every year. We always have a big white elephant gift exchange (a.k.a. white elephant gift swap). There is always one gift that everyone is going to be the best and they switch it so many times they rub the wrapping paper down! :) Anyways my dad won a beautiful scarf! Also Dana asked people to put together some musical numbers to share. So Tausha and I decided we would do a duet. Thanks Tausha for singing with me you are so awesome!! I tried to put the recording up but I was having problems I will try again later. Have a nice day!!

No Christmas pictures!

So Billy had to work Christmas Eve and so he got home at about 3:30 am. At around 4 am he runs into out bathroom and throws up. He was VERY sick! About 4 hours later I joined him in this adventure. So as I the girls are opening there Christmas presents Billy and I are taking turns throwing up in the bathroom. So needless to say we didn't get any pictures of the great day! Although it was nice that the girls had new toys to play with to keep them entertained while Billy and I were sick. Mattison and Kylee had this same flu many days before hand so Billy and I had thought we had escaped it! Apparently not! Oh well. So we obviously didn't go anywhere or do anything. The next morning we were feeling a lot better so we went over to my parents and let the girls open their gifts from Nana and Papa! Kylee loves her little bike and here horse! Mattison loves her Hannah Montana barbie set. Santa was very nice this year. Mattie got a beautiful doll house and Kylee got an activity table! The girls were so good for us! I am especially grateful to Billy, he took care of the girls for a big part of the day since he was a little ahead of me in the game of throwing up! Trust me you don't want picture of this day :) I am so excited for the new year and all the great things I have planned to achieve! I look forward to the growth and the joys that are waiting for me and my family. Happy New Year to all of you!!