{Life is Sweet}

My friend got tickets to the Regis and Kelly Show in Las Vegas and she couldn't use them! so she gave them to me!!! yay.... i immediately called my mom to see if she and my dad could meet us in vegas for a quick and spontaneous trip :) they were all for it! So my mom and i got to go see the show at the Wynn in Las Vegas and we had a blast. These are the only pictures i got from my mom because in mesquite we realized i had forgotten our camera!!!! aaarrgghh... i was so mad! but here are a few from my mama...


Tubby time at the Rio (where we stayed... the rooms were awesome, soooo big!!)


Me with the Love of my life ! Like his "christmas beard" ?


Me and my mom waiting in line to get into the theater at Regis and Kelly :)


The boys....and maddie :)

We had a blast!! Thanks anna for the tickets... and thanks mom and dad for coming to meet us!! we loved every minute of it :)

My friend Aubrey invited me to do a joy school with her and 3 other little girls and we have had so much fun with it!! Four Sweet, smart, and cute little girlies :)


Maddie, Addie, Avery, and Talise


Snack time!

We went to Paige az last weekend with some friends for the hot air balloon festival and to just get out of town :) we loved just being able to focus on each other as a family with no other distractions around. we had alot of fun!



Can you find Maddie? .... she was super excited to go on a ride with her friend Sione :)





Mommy and Mia looking over Glenn Dam...


All the Balloons were lit up in the street that night.. it looked awewome!


Free ride :)

Maddie and i were playing with her bows and i started just putting a bunch in her hair and then i thought it might be fun to put every single bow in her hair :) She was loving it!! i thought it would look super funny ... but i think it actually looks kinda cute :) ... photo shoot below.

we had such a fun halloween season this year... here are a few fun things we did :)



thursday we carved pumpkins with a few neighborhood friends... the kids had fun running around and the adults had fun carving the pumpkins :)


friday we went to another pumpkin carving party and brought some fun treats :) i was pretty excited about my "candy corn" cupcakes. i thought they turned out cute :)


addie and maddie..... (shout out- please don't leave us jensens!!)


My little lady ...xoxoxo


The fam... shawn was the bug catcher... i was a butterfly, maddie a bumblebee, and mia a ladybug. i love a themed halloween :)




i had too much fun getting them ready.... i decided to try crimping maddie's hair and then thought hmmm... mia has enough hair to crimp too... why not?!


the end of the day photo shoot :) at least addie smiled! (shout out- maddie is going to miss her BFF!!!)


The car wanted to dress up too :)


the most handsome bug catcher in st. george! and yes the mustache is drawn on.



he did some good work that night catching two of the cutest bugs ever!


We went to our friends house who carved over 50 pumpkins!!! it was super cool!

We love to go to california to visit family and just have a good ol' time :) we always go in august... but who says that our annual girls trip can only be once a year?!! we decided to get in the car (warner girls) and head on down for some fun in the sun :) As we drove down maddie got sick and threw up in the car! uuugghh, yuck!! luckily grandma nursed her back to health in a couple of days so we could play!! As usual we ate out, shopped (but not sooo much:), sewed, relaxed little, and to top it off we went through my mom's entire craft closet and had a garage sale! we made some pretty good bucks too!! here are some fun pix from the trip...


Grandma and the girls!


Emily and Maddie playing dress up... cute cousins!


Driving the car by herself at the pumpkin patch... what a maniac!


Waiting patiently in line :)



Riding horses!! what a thrill! Maddie gets such a kick out of this!!!


My little pumpkin princess in the baby pumpkin patch!


feeding the animals :)



maddie getting her haircut.... and grandma and mia watching. Maddie looks forward to sitting in the car and watching Dora :)

Okay, so all of you who know Shawn well need no explanation ... for those of you who are a little less familiar with my husband should know that he is a man of many trades, is always working on something, LOVES to work :), is the worlds best networker, loves to provide for his family, and Loves a bargain.... hmmm let me rephrase that... loves to get something for FREE!! We were hanging out in the garage the other day and we got to talking about all the fun things that we have literally pulled out of the trash :) WOW we're classy! anyway, we thought it would make for a fun blog! here are a few we could think of.... ( side note: we have thouroughly cleaned all of these items.... with soap:)



here is Maddie's new "barbie" bike ... she feels so big riding it and Loves it!! This was a spectacular find... almost brand new and was in the trash because of two flat tires and a bent training wheel.... we gave it a good home and fixed it up... love it!


I don't love this chair but shawn insisted i blog it... just an ugly camping chair, but needless to say it was FREE!


i saw this rocking chair hanging out by the garbage and thought maybe shawn could fix it (one of the legs was broken) and then we could sell it on craigslist for $5 (thats 5 diet cokes)... but i love to sit in it while shawn hangs out in the garage... guess were keeping it for now !


ugly trike that i desperately want to throw back in the trash!!! but maddie loves it and all the neighborhood kids love it too... it's a hit! I still HATE it!


The window behind the wreath we got off a house shawn was demolishing.. i got a bunch of them and ended up selling quite a few :) This is a great example of how to make money off of trash :) Cute huh?


we were walking in Yorba Linda CA (where i'm from) when we saw this beauty sticking out of a trash can.. i was sooo embarrassed as shawn knocked on these strangers door and asked if we could take a looksie in their garbage .... they were way nice about it and let us take this play piece and the next beauty too..

our bath buddy! This was honestly never used... yay for free baby gear!


I spied this one... it was missing the swing part but shawn was able to make one.... we figure if maddie gets a little fun out of it , it was worth it :)


Lastly... my sweet girlies!! they love each other!!!

Shawn decided to run the St. George marathon!!! i was so impressed how he just decided he was going to do it and then he just started running :) he worked up to 17 miles and then a 20 mile race, and then the 26.2 mile (marathon) race!! Here are some fun pix from the day :)


Each year there is a mayor's walk at 7:00 am and you walk the last mile of the marathon.... this was my second time doing it :) Here was the crew we walked along with :)


Maddie is a Ham!! this is what she does on command if i ask her to pose :) Love this little girl!


BFF for life! These two have WAY too much fun together :) they were running around in the street... clapping for the runners... and dancing to the band :)


Shawn at the finish line... (sorry it's not a better picture) he sprinted the last little bit! he's a mad man! and then i called him over to take a picture.. but he ran for the misters... a drink... a popsicle... and i didn't get my post race kiss 'till a few minutes later :( oh well i guess he was the man of the hour so he can do whatever he pleased :)


Mia sharing daddy's post race ice cream treat! i don't know if she liked it... :)


Finally a picture of the runner!!! he finished in 5 hours. then we had to walk a mile back the place the mayor's walk started... (for the record i told him that i would run back and pick up the car so he didn't have to walk another mile but he wanted to go with me.) That night you would think that he would take a load off right?... no way.. not Shawn Harris Warner :) he went to the ladies night expo an hour after getting home to help a friend out with his booth... he got home from that around 9 and then gave ME a massage! What a Man! we are so proud of your accomplishment shawnie :)