Random Reason Why Colby Rocks!

In no particular order:
1. He decided that our silverware looked tarnished and polished the whole lot of them with vinegar.
2. He got up at 5 to scrape off my car and to clean a pathway to the car in freezing nasty-not- niceness-weather!
3. He will wear my giant Winne the Pooh nightie from when I was a teenager (that was when we were dating).
4. He will hunt down heavy rocks for my mother's rock garden (and also not get mad when we get into a mud fight).

5. He has a personal mission to get our porcelain sink spotless before we move (there was a mysterious mildew that grew on it before we moved in).

6. He test out a maybe-not-hot hot tub in freezing cold weather. Just think, if that hot tub wasn't warm, he'd be a Colbiscle.
7. Since I started work, Colby has made dinner for me almost every night when I get home. I can count on one hand how many times I have cooked dinner and I would have a lot of fingers to spare.

8. For how patient he is and how well he listens. There isn't anybody better for me!

Love ya hons!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Hope that it's a good one! Thanks Megan and Jared for snapping these shots (and for babysitting, of course)!

Viva la Viva Pinata Vida

Well, perseverance really pays off- I guess. Anyway...after months of toiling in my virtual garden, I finally attracted and tamed a Sour Macaracoon from Viva Pinata. Just explaining the game sounds so lame, but it is so addicting. Just ask Richard Lape. You are given a garden that you have to take care of and plant certain things and then certain pinatas are attracted to your garden. If they like it, they stay. There are bad pinatas and good ones and it's very addicting. I had some time to waste while Jackson was in bed, Colby was working on ebay and I had about 20 minutes before the baking was done. Perfect time! Colby says that the Macaracoon is the cutest pinata. Myself, I prefer the Cluckles. I think of Gretchen and Richard first explaining this game and thinking--what?!

God bless us, everyone!

Go see it! We loved it- also saw Pres. Uchtdorf. We had a friend so we had to go (ok, twist my arm). Again, we just loved it!

The Good, the Bad, and The Lucky

What a loving Heavenly Father to look out for us!

A Minor Miracle

Well, I always will remember my old roomie Tiona saying, "Reebs, it'll be a small miracle if I get out of Provo without being in an accident." That was when we were living in King Henry where the parking spaces were compact size, extra-compact. Today, while driving Jackson to his 6 mos shot appointment, Colby and Jack Jack got rear-ended by a 26 foot Penske rental truck (it's the behemoth on the bottom). You know that people run red lights like they were born to, here in Utah county. Well, Colby decided to stop, but the truck didn't. Colby would have been running it and so you know there would be at least 2 other cars behind him. Instead, it was a big yellow cheese bus. It totally rammed into him pushing him into the middle of the intersection by R.C. Willey. There was glass everywhere! Our four-seater car is now a two-seater and it's totaled! Jackson was scared, then started to cry. Thankfully, he just bonked his head (still going to check on him in the middle of the night). Colby said that Jackson actually cries harder when we try and put him to bed at night. Go figure. Jackson got to ride in his first ambulance and was babbling and giggling as per usual. The doctors at the hospital just loved him. Colby called me as I was on my way home from work. The call started something like, "Don't get mad and don't worry when I tell you this: we're fine, but we're in the hospital". Not mad, but "don't worry, we're fine" is code for "accident." I stopped by Angie's to pick up a car seat because ours was wedged in the middle of the front seat. She was so nice (thanks, Angie!) and Quin is such a big boy that they had an old one that he doesn't use anymore. So, load everybody up in our neighbor's car, our friend's seat and head home. A detour to Del Taco and we're back home! What a day, what a week!

Dental School!!!!

I just got a call from Western University College of Dental Medicine in Pomona, CA and got offered a position in their inaugural class! 2 years of applications, letters of recommendations, transcripts, secondary essays, tests and $$ here we are!! Thanks to all who gave me confidence that this day would come! This is a picture of the building that we will be in (its currently being built) I'm so excited and I know Becca was thrilled to get that phone call while she was at work! Jackson is also happy, although I am not sure it is about dental school. Thanks to everyone again!