2013 Update

Remember that time that me and my sisters started a blog, and then we wrote on it a few times, and then nobody wrote on it for-freaking-ever?

Well, guess what?

We were busy, a lot has happened since october 2012!

Abby wrapped up her senior season of soccer at Dixie State University. She is awesome. I will sure miss sitting in the stands cheering for her.

We had a great Christmas! It's always the best when we get together for holidays.

Then, in January, our sister Arica had a baby boy. His name is Taj, he was born on his cousin, Licoln's first birthday. We are all so happy for Arica. If you want to read her birth story and see a few pictures, head on over to her blog!

In March, Taj's blessing gave us sisters another chance to all get together. Oh, and for us to meet our new nephew! FaceTime is great, but not as great as holding a little baby in real life. :)

This was such an awesome trip. Taj is such a sweetheart, and so adorable. 

About a week after we got home from our spring break trip, I received my mission call!!!!!

I'll be serving in Des Moines, Iowa. I enter the MTC on July 3rd. I'm so very excited.

This weekend Abby graduates from college, with honors. Seriously, how cool is she? Our parents are in town for her graduation, and when they leave, I'll be moving back home with them until my mission. I will sure miss St. George. It's been such a great place to live! 

2013 has been an incredible year so far, I can't wait to see what else will happen in our family this year.

2 for 1!

As of a few weeks ago, me (Alex) and Abby live together!

This has been the plan for a while, and I got so anxious and excited, that I moved early. 

Just kidding. The real story is that I was nannying, 

and planned to stay with that family until November, and then move here.

Well, I quit my job early.

Why, you ask?

Not because I'm flaky, not because I just wanted to.

I quit because they were crazy demanding, and stingy to boot.

I was working 12 hour days Mon-Fri, 6:30am-6:30pm!

I took the world's most disobedient three-year-old to and from swim lessons, 

speech therapy, preschool, etc. All this with a clingy one-year-old in tow.

They also expected me to single-handedly perfect his motor skills and potty train him.

They tried to seriously stiff me on gas money, so I got the heck out of there.

It was a long six months.

Anyway, I just needed to let that out. 

Sorry, back to the exciting stuff!

The point of this post is to let everyone know that I LOVE it here!

Saint George is great, and Abby and Jesse have been so nice and fun to live with.

Abby and I haven't lived together since she was a senior in high school and I was a freshman.

Needless to say, we didn't get along all that well that year,

now we're both older and closer, and it makes a huge difference!

I just love love love it here. 

No more long distance skyping for us! 

surprise

I will have a surprise for each of you sometime soon-ish. Involving...

this:

this:

and this:

You will never guess! Ba-haHA! Okay..maybe you will.

-Abby

What's with the infrequent posting?

I don't like it.

Anyway, I don't have a whole lot to share. 

I just wanted to post a couple pictures from Abby's last California visit. My squiss came down from Utah just for my graduation! Ashley was there too, which made it really nice. Thanks for coming to support me, you guys! :)

The embrace. Haha.

Hooray for never having to go to high school again!!!

Me + The Others

I miss you guys. Like, lots. Texting. It's JUST NOT ENOUGH.
Love,
Air

Groupon epic fail

Just thought I'd share this funny story that happened recently while AB and Jess were in town last. Dad (forgetting I'm not a lover of cake/cupcakes) bought me a groupon for my birthday for a dozen cupcakes from the Coronado Cupcakery. He planned for all of us to spend the afternoon in Coronado to hang out and pick out the cupcakes. We got to the Coronado Cupcakery only to find that dad didn't read the fine print on his groupon that said you have to call and place an order for your dozen cupcakes the day before you come pick them up. The girl working there would not make an exception for us despite them having a full display of dozens of cupcakes. Dad was furious and promised never to give the shop his business again. We had cold stone that day instead.

About a week later, not being one to waste money, dad put in an order at the shop with his coupon, and picked the cupcakes up the next day. Good times.

Because we're that cool

We swam with sharks this one time.  No big deal.

I just can't hide it!

I am one VERY excited aunt these days.

As many of you may already know,

our Ashley sister is having her baby this week!

I'm sure I can speak for all of us squisties when I say that

we couldn't be happier for her.

I think it is crazy how fast the time has gone by.

I feel like Beckett was just born.

I can't imagine how awesome it will be to

have two adorable nephews!

It will be so fun to have a new little baby around.

I just needed to let some of this out.

:)

too long...

...between posts on here, so I will share a lovely little video from summer 2006.  This was the first summer our parents had their Mexico house, and we had some good times in the evenings cooped up in our room dancing to everything from Hillary Duff to Mario.  I made this video a while back of that summer, but youtube took the music off.  They have since put it back on, and it just makes the video!  Enjoy!  Miss you sis!

Phrases by Squisties

This is a special Christmas edition of Phrases by Squisties.

One thing I will never forget is something Alex said when she was really young. One of Alex's better friends at the time was named Chelsea. We were singing Angels We Have Heard on High in church, and after the first two verses, someone noticed that Alex was not singing "..in excelsis Deo" but rather, she was singing "..in a Chelsea's stable." I mean, it kind of makes sense..she must have connected the stable with the one Christ was born in, and Chelsea was just what fit in in her head.

Whenever we sing this song I think of those lyrics..and might slip them into a verse or two ;)

Love you Al!


-Abby

the word

Alex wanted me to clarify where "squistie" came from because she didn't invent it.  I actually say a lot of words where I add "...ie" to the end.  Many of these are even used by my two year old and other family members today.  For example: diap-ies, eye boog-ies, shoog-ie (instead of sugar), etc.  But alas, this is not where it comes from either.

Our husbands have a group dislike of ANY instance in which we feel the need to bring up old boyfriends, but I'm afraid the credit for this term goes to one of mine.  He had two sisters which he lovingly referred to, and addressed (on the phone at least), as squisties.  Like in any relationship, I began to adopt certain phrase-ology and other characteristics from this significant other.  I called my sisters that a few times after that, they liked it, and it stuck.  And there you have it...the birth of Squisties.

Brothers

I love that us older three are married and we have brothers of our very own..since we grew up sans brothers. Alex..I can't wait to see what character you bring into our family :)

Anyway..Jeremy is just a trickster. He loves to kid, and he really likes to get our goats. He likes to do things like...stick his foot in front of you when you're trying to take a picture with Sheeb.

But..Jeremy is one of the coolest brothers I could ask for. I love that he loves soccer and that he is the father of Beckett. We get along really well and he's...........pretty cool.

Andrew is the biggest goofball there ever was on this entire planet. My favorite thing is that he says one funny thing, everyone laughs at the joke, and then he continues to say that thing forever. For example, Andrew saw the following video.. imitated it, got a laugh, and then proceeded to repeat the following action the ENTIRE day. (Mind you, it was Christmas day, so every time someone opened a gift he would say..."Ohhhh myyy goooooshhh")

[Uh..I don't know how to put the video on here so here's the link :)]

Surprise Party

Proof:

Oh brothers.

-Abby

Gotcha.

This is quite possibly the ONLY

"paparazzi"-type photo I have of anyone.

If you can't read the post-its they say:

"Maybe Daddy (AKA Leremy),"

"Maybe Mommy (AKA Schmeee),"

and "Maybe baby."

This is from before Beckett was born.

Ashley didn't know if she was pregnant,

but I guessed she was.

We figured out about a week later that I was right.

:)

Halloween 2005.

Air & Abby = concert buddies.

Halloween has been changed forever thanks to the year 2005. As the cool older sister, even after graduating high school mind you, I took Abby to a concert Halloween night in Irvine, CA. The line-up was Panic! At the Disco, The Starting Line, Motion City Soundtrack, and Fall Out Boy.

That night went down in history as my all time favorite Halloween to date. They put on one heck of a show. Now every year to the day, I listen to the same playlist of artists, and reminisce with so much fondness. Pulling into that In N' Out afterword listening to The Starting Line is a cherished memory for me, Nerr. CHERISHED. I'll keep it, and pretend to relive it for years to come.

And these are some of my favorite songs...

Love you all! Happy Halloween!

Tears for Fears

So, when you're parents rocked their 20 somethings in the 80's... you know that era will be a part of your life. Movies, culture, music... but not the clothing. The clothing should not be relived. And with that said, my sisters and I have grown to share an appreciation for 80's music, mostly thanks to our father. Yes, I know many of you think it's attrocious (including our husbands!) but we just love it! It is so much more than a silly song with somewhat irrelevant lyrics. This is in part due to the fact that when said father wanted to go to concerts (which is still an activity of the present)... he's been known to take a daughter or two with him.

Thank you father for sharing this thing we enjoy with you individually, and together as sisters...

Lately I've been using actual CD's rather than my iPod, and it has been quite enjoyable to commit to an album, and listen to it twice over. yesterday's CD was the best of Tears for Fears... and that was probably my best decision for the day.

There was a song that reminded me of each sister, and I loved it.


1. Everybody Wants to Rule the World- Shmee (Ash)
This reminds me of her because of her love for the movie Real Genius. Great film. And I believe it's frequented a few playlists of hers over the years. Mostly reminiscent of the years spent with her driving me every where during her junior/senior year. Those were literally good times.
2. Break it Down Again- Me (muahaha)
Ok, I'm not MY sister, but I am A sister... and this song is just my very favorite. Gets me so pumped.
3. Sewing the Seeds of Love- Nerr (Abby)
Dad took Abby to the Tears for Fears concert, and ever since this song has just reminded me of her. I think she tends to sing this one the most.
4. Shout- Al
Now this song doesn't remind me of her because she loves it, but the first line says "shout, shout, let it all out" and THAT reminded me of her because we used to tell Alex to "cry louder" when she would get upset. Rude, I know, but we thought it was funny that she would actually do it and we found it quite entertaining. Glad she's all grown up now, ha. That and this song reminds me of a more vintage "Shout" song, that she used to love. My dad would turn it on and we would run around the downstairs throwing our hands in the air while the song was playing. A hoot and a half.

Love you guys.

Have a listen.
-Air

Joining in.

Well here I am! I was in Hawaii with the soccer team when all of this fun stuff started. So looks like I need to catch up :)

Here are some photographic gems for your viewing pleasure. P.S. I know you guys have many photos that are WAY worse of me..and I'm worried for when those manifest themselves.

Bwahahaha!

-Abby

Burritos & Pools

What can we say...
We like pool time, and we LOVE burritos.
Sometimes a little too much.
As witnessed this summer day in 2009.

Hahaha. GOTCHA.
-Air

Payback (the good kind)

Growing up, Ashley was like my second mother.

She helped take care of me, changed my diapers.

You know, big sister stuff.

This is something I didn't fully appreciate until Beckett came along.

I've since had the opportunity to repay her for all of that,

and I am so grateful.

I can now appreciate the amount of time she spent

with me when I was young.

I'm also pretty sure that this gave us a special bond.

Even with our 10 year age difference, we get along really well.

Most of the time, anyway. :)

Thanks a ton Ashley. I love you.

Born & Raised

...on Disney.
Like BIG TIME.
We grew up eating, sleeping, and literally breathing the magical air. Still do (well crap, it's been a few years for me, but that hasn't stopped the rest of my sisters from owning their annual passes).

Anyway, these reminded me of you guys..

Nerr (Abby)

Shmee (Ashley)



Al (Alex)

Love.
Air

via disneybound, pinterest, & weheartit

Fabulous Faces

Awkward moments of the four of us caught on film for your viewing pleasure, that will hereafter be called "paparazzi" posts...as suggested by Arica.  I figured that since she thought of it, I would be so kind as to scour my external hard drive for one or two of her to start us off.  Here you go!

These little beauties come from our family vacation in Christmas 2007 (best vacation ever by the way) while we waited at the airport for our red-eye flight to Orlando.

-Ashley