Hailey at 17 months!

I can't believe Hailey is almost in nursery, wow, how the time goes by! Here are some of her latest happenings!


Where did Hailey go? HAiley loves climbing into her toy box!

She LOVES talking on her tinkerbell phone, I don't know where she learned that from?


She loves the bean museum! And especially the lions because she loves to say "Rarrr"

Michael Jackson Memories for a Lifetime

Wow, what shocking news we got yesterday. I thought the news interruption would be for Farrah Fawcett and I was completely blindsided. Michael Jackson's music was a cleaning staple at my house growing up. My mom would turn it up real loud while we vacuumed, washed walls, whatever. My oldest brother Trevor who heavily influenced the music all of my siblings listen too, always had Michael's Billie JEan playing, and he even does a pretty good inpersonation, for a chubby white guy! I have a lot of great childhood memories inbedded in his music. I mean, who hasn't danced to "Thriller"? Or watched the video at least 20 times. I remember watching his music videos on Saturday mornings, I actually had a huge crush on him! lol I love jogging to Michael, I have a special 5K mix thats exactly the length of my time, and "Billie JEan" and "Don't Stop Till you get enough" grace that mix. It just goes to show how timeless his music is. Obviously we will never know what he really did with whom, but I wish the MEdia would just focus on why we will miss him, for his unforgettable imprint on pop culture. Please enjoy this video of his infamous performance at Motown!

what the Costner Clan has been up to....

Well, where have the Costner's been you say? here is a breakdown of the random happenings of late

-Ryan and I did our first 5K since high school on Saturday!! Freedom Festival is next!!

-No we have not heard back from USC yet, but, we feel really positive about getting in!!

-one day we went out to our jogging stroller to find an iguana sun bathing on it....he has found a good home.

-we are switching our phone service to a land line through magicJack, $50 for 5 years of service!! Can't beat that!! So I will be calling ya'll soon with our new number. Reason for switch? I'm sick of paying a $90 phone bill for two cell phones, thats a lot of money!!

-Hailey is up to a lot now, she can talk and talk and talk, in jibberish mind you, but she does say a few words i.e. Jeje (jesus) yes, no, step, ut-oh, duck, quack, cracker, cookie,mom, jump, dad, baby, whats that, and she tries to say "sit" but it comes out sounding a lot more like a similar word that isn't one you want your child to say out loud in church. She is walking up and down stairs now, she LOVES to go to the pool, playing with her ball, going on walks, slides, and CHOCOLATE!! By the way, any ideas on how to get a 16 month old to eat food? She is just not interested!

-I have been up to a lot of sewing lately, which is fun, but can also be frustrating especially when I tried to save a few bucks and bought the cheapy .99 thread.....DON"T FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE!!! Just buy the nice thread....it will save you a TON of headaches!!

- We have a TOpsy Turvy, it is way awesome, we already have a few tomatoes growing, and lots more to come!! We also have some herbs growing, it has been both tasty and fun!

-This basketball series totally blows this year, I REALLY wanted Cleveland to get in, but hey, atleast those Kobe/ Lebron commercials are HILARIOUS!!

anyways, thats us!!

Numero Uno Hubby

Today I'm thankful for a hubby who understands my need for new music in my life!! He surprised me with downloading the new DMB CD on ITunes!! What a wonderful surprise this morning!! Thank you babe! So far I really like the CD, It's definitely different from their other CD's, very bluesy, with a rock n roll twist! Dave actually designed the Album cover, interesting huh? Anyways, thanks sweetie!

Sacramento!!!

Well I think I have the chest part down.....need to work on the thighs though...oh and I think the T-shirt needs some stretch marks too....
Hailey chillin' in the stroller while we went through Old Sac for the Jazz festival

Babies playin', isn't Railey so cute?

I love that you can see her Blue eyes so well in this pic

Babies in awe of Ellen's attention grabbing skills

Me trying to pose with Hailey, but obviously the penguins were more entertaining

Hailey crackin' out of the HUGE penguin shell toy thingy..

Hailey playing at the BAby water stationg

Hailey playing on the water bed that was supposed to simulate how waves feel

Hailey lovin the fish!

Hailey and Ryan looking at the Kelp garden

Hailey and I infront of the Monterey Bay

In front of the Jelly Belly Store at the Factory....I was in HEAVEN!!!

I LOVE Jelly Belly's!

So Ryan and I decided we needed a vacay and my brother and his family offered to let us stay with them, so off to Sacramento we went!!

Yogurt bargain!!!

So I have been really getting into couponing lately, and today, I just thought I would share this great deal for all you yogurt lovers out there!! So I LOVE Dannon Light n Fit yogurt! About a month ago there was a coupon in the Sunday paper for .60 off 6 yogurts. I have been waiting and waiting for a good time to use this, well this week is the week people! So at Albertsons they are having a deal where you get 20 yogurts for $10 which really isn't that good of a price right? .50 a piece is still pretty pricey, well when you spend $10 on any Dannon products you get $2 off right there at the check out!! Yay, so that brings the price down to .40 a cup, getting better! Well if you have your coupon that knocks off another .60 off of a purchase of 6, so if you have multiples of these coupons, you can use up to 3 (6x3=18 cups) than thats an additional $1.80 off!! So now your at $6.20 for 20 cups of yogurt making it .31 a cup WOW A STEAL!! THEN to top it all off, in front of the Dannon stand there is a blinkie (blinks out coupons) thats buy 6 cups of yogurt get one free!! So now you get 3 more cups of yogurt for free bringing your grand total price to .26 a cup!! Wow, you can't get Wal-Mart yogurt for that price!!! Anyways, and even if you don't have the coupons, that is still a pretty good deal on Dannon yogurt!!

Rich people.....

So Hailey and I went to the park yesterday seeing as how it was so beautiful outside!! We decided to go to the park down by the Riverwoods. Now I expect that the wealthier side of Orem would be playing there, but I wasn't expecting the conversation I heard by the swingset by two middle aged mothers. (Who were unbelievably skinny and they each had 4 kids.....odd) Oh also, one of the moms was wearing one of those headbands like Blair on Gossip Girl wears...you know the ribbon ones that are ubber preppy.

Mother 1: So the most annoying thing happened to me the other day.
Mother 2: Yeah?
Mother1: Yes, I was in J. Crew looking at a shirt, they didn't have my size, and a girl came up to me and told me that I could find a shirt very similar at THE GAP! Can you believe that? Like I would shop at the Gap!
Mother 2: Omigosh, I hate when that happens, yeah I was at Banana Republic looking at a $150 sweater, and a girl came up to me and told me that she saw a similar sweater at that dirty store Rue 21. Like I would ever shop there.


Yeah......I was definitely not in poor provo anymore...And here I was with my Old NAvy $15 jeans, my Old NAvy $5 dollar shirt, and my Old Navy $2 flip flops thinking I had some style....lol