Regan just recieved some very exciting news...
He is the #1 District Manager for American Family Insurance
Not just Utah...The whole Country!
He is so good at whatever he does, so when he took this new position, I knew he would do a great job! He cares about his agents in his district, and he motivates them to want to do better! I am so proud of him!
Way to Go Regan!
These are our official Summer 2010 Family pictures! It took some major coordinating with outfits and husbands :), but we were able to all get together and get some great family pictures in front of my parents house!
Pink & Grey are the colors my mom chose for the family pictures this year! My brother Robby is leaving on a mission this month, so we needed to get some updated pics of our fam since Elle wasn't in the last ones! Well, I guess she was in my stomach...
Anyway, the kids were SO CUTE!!!
Here are some pictures of our Toy Room. It is a child and mom's dream because it is big and open, plenty of room for running around. Plenty of room for toy storage. I have a little area we call the book nook where we can read all of our books, then we have an area where all of the toys are stored. The kids are able to watch movies with lots of pillows and blankets down here, and the best thing is, I don't feel bad when it is messy. We can just shut the door, and clean it up another day.
The picture with the couch is an open invitation. We got this couch because it converts into a bed so now we can have guests anytime at the Fackrell home!
*This is the room that can relieve any stress.
*This is the room that I wanted to paint a color that I wouldn't have painted anywhere else in my house.
*This is a room that I did whatever I wanted {hence the zebra print and aqua color}
*This is a room that can also be used as a guest room.
*This is a room that I LOVE!
Oh how I LOVE Twinner dresses/outfits! My mom had all of the kids go to my dad's office last Saturday and sort through all of the clothes she has kept throughout the years! We found TONS and TONS of Angie and Chrissy's old twinner outfits and I was in Heaven!!! I took 2 boxes full of small twinner clothes for my girls and not it is SO dejavu all over! I was in high school when Angie and Chrissy were my girls' age, so I remember dressing them and doing their hair in the same outfits my girls are wearing now! I am just so glad that A.} My mom has great taste in clothes and B.} she kept all of these adorable clothes. Sunny is getting a kick out of the fact that Angie and Chrissy wore the same clothes she is wearing. Today, she actually wore a dress that I wore {the wierd thing is I actually remember wearing this dress too!}
Thanks mom for sharing these fabulous twinner outfits!!!
{My sisters better have 2 girls!}
My cousin Jenny was over at our house yesterday and she was just laughing at Elle holding our kitten Blackie. She told me that I had to take a picture because it looked so funny...well, I am glad she told me that because I guess watching her hold that poor cat was just old, and I didn't think much of it. Now looking at these pictures, I truly feel so bad for Blackie! She looks like she is miserable! Elle LOVES to hold whatever cat she can grab first, but Blackie is not catching on that she can just run away whenever she sees that cute little baby coming her way. Our other kitten on the other hand is a little smarter...she has figured this out and so that is why elle can never quite catch her!
If I didn't have a friend named Amanda Wells, there is NO way I would have done most of the things I have done the last 5 years! She introduced me to:
* Roller Hockey and RollerBlading {good and bad things came out of this}
* Running
* Basketball
* Dodgeball
* Wake Boarding
* The Molecule {Best time of my life was had on a ball flying around in the water}
* Lake Powell
* Boating Trips
* Enjoying the outdoors
* and now, the Flow Rider!
It is a wave of water gushing out from the bottom and coming full force up a ramp. The idea is that you are supposed to stay on your board while it swishes you up! Well, I am the MOST uncoordinated person ever and instead of staying on the board, my swimming suit fell off!!! Next thing you know, Regan is motioning for me to pull up my swim suit! How embarrasing!
Anyway, Happy Birthday to my great friend Amanda! She is old now...30 and I am still 29! I love that you make me do things that I otherwise would never do!
We had a fun day at Boondocks with Regan's family! His brother, Jordan just got home from his mission so it was fun to spend some time with him and hear all about his experiences! I was so glad that I didn't go on the Boats because everyone that did got so wet!!! My favorite was earning 350 tickets on one arcade game, mini golf, laser tag and bowling!!!
Regan's whole family was in town over Memorial Day weekend, so we took advantage of it and got updated family pictures! They turned out really good and we used a tripod!
My Papa always wore boots! When I saw this boot pot I knew I had to get it for his grave in Brigham City. It totally reminded me of him, so we had a great night going to the cemetary, putting the boot on his grave and thinking of my wonderful Papa!
My Grandpa Anderson was an amazing Grandpa as well. I put a sand bucked with flowers in it since he always played with the grandkids.
Happy Memorial day!
Sunny is the girliest, cutest girl ever!! She loves anything girly!! That is why we got her ears pierced on her birthday; I got mine pierced when I was 12, but I thought she would love it since she is so girly and loves to wear jewlery! She had a wonderful birthday, riding her new bike, eating pancakes, going to the mall and eating dinner at Maddox {so she could see the buffalo}
Happy Birthday to our Sunny Bunny!
Riley has only been in his new kindergarten class for 2 months, but at his Hawaiian Kindergarten program this week, I found out that he is the 'funny guy' in the class. He knew all of the words to all of the song on the program {the class has been learning them all year, and he learned them just in this short time} and he was singing them so loud!!!! He is our little character!!! We love our Ry Guy Funny Guy!
Riley has no Fear! He played a fiddle song on his violin in front of the WHOLE elementary school this week like it was the easiest thing! He started out yelling, "
1, 2, 3 ready go--played his awesome fiddle song while moving his body to the beat, and ending by putting his violin up in the air and saying "yippeeee!"
He is a natural! He love performing in front of people!! It makes me so proud to see him love to play his violin in front of people!
Oh yes, you read the title right! I have started sticker charts for Riley and oh has it helped my mothering skills! A simple good deed or task earns the kids a sticker, a simple bad behavior or complain makes them take a sticker off--pretty simple! Riley has 75 squares and Sunny has 40 squares to fill up on the charts! Riley worked SO hard for his 75 stickers and in return, got Lego Indiana Jones Video Game. Sunny equally worked hard and earned a dumb stuffed bear holding vanilla perfume that she accidentaly dumped out the first hour she was home with her treasure! All I know, is that the sticker chart will be a permanent fixture in our home now!!!
For the past year, I have used my friends new business in getting good deals on groceries and collecting Wonderful recipes!!! She is one of those gifted people who can come up with any recipe after tasting it; really wish I had that gift!
Go to www.dealstomeals.com to check it out!
My next door neighbor Viki is the coolest!! I told her a while ago that I was trying to find a surf board for Riley's cool beach room. Well, she came to our door today with a surf board that she had found for his room! Riley was So excited and immediatly wanted me to take a picture of him with his newest room accessory! At this rate, he is going to really become a surfer dude!
My little brother Robby is getting ready to go on his mission the end of June, so he went through the Draper Temple last week for the first time. It was so neat to just look at all of my family together in the temple. I am so proud of all of my siblings for making right choices to be able to go to the temple, and it was a neat thing to be there with everyone!!!
All these years, I have absolutly LOVED scrapbooking. I have my own style, and it works for me, but I never really knew if anybody liked my style. Well, in February I went to a 24 hour scrapbooking crop, and some of my friends looked through my 100 plus pages and thought they were pretty good.
So, last week my friend asked if I wanted to be apart of her scrapbooking page exchange club. Basically, you make 12 of the same layouts and get 11 different layouts back. This sounds so silly, but I honestly feel like I have arrived in the scrapbooking world by doing this scrapbook exchange. There are strict rules on what your pages should look like, and you do it every 3 months, so I am super excited. Here is a picture of my first page!!!
We met up in Salt Lake with my friend Manon to go to the Hogle Zoo with her!!! I usually do not like the zoo {the smells mostly}, but it was perfect weather, all of the animals were out, and the kids were so good!!! I can always plan on having a fun time when I am with my friend Manon! She is the coolest person and I am so lucky to have her as my friend! I love this idea of meeting friends 1/2 way to do fun things! I guess living so far away can be a good thing sometimes!
During the playoffs, we were able to go to 2 Jazz Games!!! It honestly did not matter where you sat during the playoffs because the energy and excitement was felt all over!!! The first game, we sat way high, and it was so much fun to scream like a crazy person with Angie and Chrissy. The second game, we split up: 1/2 of us sat in unbelievable seats by the court, and then we switched and sat high up. I got a Jazz Jersey and everything because I was so into it! My sister Angie is SO obsessed with Kyle Korver and it was so funny to see her scream her guts out everytime he did something good!! Hopefully for her sake, and all of the other single girls in Utah, he stays with the Utah Jazz next year! Thanks dad for some unbelievable Jazz Memories!
