Reynolds Wraps

Sadie Lost Her First Tooth!!!

2010-04-13T13:15:00.000-07:00

Two days ago Sadie came to me so excited cause her bottom tooth was loose. She, of course, watched her big sister losing her teeth over the past three years and Sadie could hardly wait until she lost one too. This morning Sadie ran upstairs to find me and was jumping up and down and had the biggest smile on her face. She lost her first tooth!! When she woke up this morning she went and looked in the mirror and saw that her tooth was kindof crooked and so she twisted and pulled it out. Normally she freaks out at the sight of blood anywhere on her body, but that was completely ignored as she ran upstairs to tell me about her tooth. When Scott and I asked her what she thought the tooth fairy was going to bring her she promptly said, $70. WHOA. I had no idea the tooth fairy has raised her rates that high!! HA HA. Guess we'll have to see what the tooth fairy brings....

Grade School Love

2010-03-08T14:51:00.000-08:00

You have probably all heard this story, but I wanted to record it here. Last week was Parent/Teacher Conferences. Scott and I both decided to go and it ended up being a good thing since the teachers were running late and I had to see Sadie's teacher while Scott went to see Avalee's teacher.

When Scott was talking to Avalee's teacher he called to Avalee and a woman nearby kindof perked up and asked if Avalee was Scott's daughter and wanted to see who she was. She told Scott that her son was in the same class with Avalee last year and apparently he has a big crush on her. He even named his snake after her. Wow. If that isn't a compliment from a 3rd grade boy, I am not sure what is!

Later we asked Avalee if she knew the boy and she said she did, but that he was really strange. Every time she said hello to him he would run away! Does that remind anyone else of grade school days? Classic.

It's almost been a year.....

2010-03-08T12:22:00.000-08:00

This is about typical for me. It has almost been a year since we put anything on our blog. Life gets crazy sometimes. I don't scrapbook or anything quite like that, but I am finding that I am missing out on recording family memories or funny stories and a bunch of other things. The best place for me to record some of the fun things my kids do or say or what we do as a family or even just important events in our life would be right here on our blog since I can't remember where I put my cute book that I am supposed to write down the funny things my kids say and do. (How is that for a run on sentence.) I would like to have a goal to post something to our blog at least once a month. I figured if I posted that goal here for everyone to see I might be more conscious of it. :) So, here is to 2010's blog....Hope I make it!!!

2009-03-21T09:04:00.001-07:00

I was an obedient husband and bought Twilight for my wife...SCOTT OBEY...Must be like Edward...Sparkle...

2009-03-19T13:17:00.001-07:00

Why wasn't I shocked that BYU lost in the first round? So far I'm 2 for 3 on my brackets...

2009-03-18T17:19:00.001-07:00

So FannieMae can bonus their big wigs but AIG can't? Aren't both wrong?

2009-03-16T17:10:00.001-07:00

Everyone in Utah! Join the 912 Project Group! Lets Unite as a nation not be divided and lets do what is right for us not the people we vote for!

2009-03-13T14:16:00.001-07:00

Welcome to www.THE912PROJECT.com

2009-03-13T13:23:00.001-07:00

I'm at the We Surround Them event righ now! The count down begins!

2009-03-13T10:01:00.000-07:00

I'm headed to the We Surround Them event to see Glenn Beck in his full glory!

2009-03-06T18:17:00.001-08:00

I'm on a hot date with my wife without my kids, YeeeHaaaa!

2009-03-05T14:01:00.001-08:00

On my way to Streamline my mortgage with BJ

2009-02-26T21:57:00.001-08:00

After a week of sun, sand, water; seeing whales and dolphins and doing it all with my kids and wife it was a great week!

2009-02-24T21:32:00.001-08:00

Yep! Change is here! Socialism is here! Help Mommy!

Scott

2009-02-24T15:11:00.001-08:00

We are suffering through another day in Maui :-)

Scott

2009-02-20T21:27:00.001-08:00

After one day in Hawaii it's still nice :-)

2009-02-19T21:48:00.001-08:00

Ahhhh Maui is oh so nice!

2009-02-13T18:27:00.001-08:00

It's Friday and I'm working on the rest of everyone's www.BabyBoomerBlunders.com Sites!

2009-02-13T11:27:00.001-08:00

Anyone have any extra hours in the day today

2009-02-12T16:02:00.001-08:00

hates boarding airplanes!

2009-02-11T15:46:00.001-08:00

Just checking to see if this updates my Facebook from my cellphone?

Scott

Happy Birthday Avalee!!!

2008-12-13T21:41:00.000-08:00

Avalee turned 8 today!!! We had a great birthday celebration with over 20 friends from both our old and new neighborhood! Thanks to Wild Things who come to our home and brought an African Grey Parrot who talked (said bless you when someone sneezed), a Cockatoo who danced, a Rainbow Lorikeet, 2 sugargliders, a ferret (the kids favorite), a Green Iguana named Don Juan, a baby African Bullfrog, a Mexican Black King Snake, and finally an Emperor Scorpion...CONGRATS AVALEE!!!

New Family Pictures! -Thanks Emilie!!!!!!

2008-11-29T09:36:00.000-08:00

WOW! 5 months later...! Geez we stink at this, and need to get better!

Well we have new Family Pictures Coming Soon! We are so excited! We went to a quaint little cabin up by Brighton Ski Resort and picked an awesome day! It was a perfect day, but the kids...not true...Boede not so perfect! He had a hard time posing, smiling and being good! Probably cuz we all had snow in our shoes, wet butts, and icicle fingers! But as you can see the picts, so far, have turned out great!

Thanks to Emilie for doing such a fine job! Check out more images over at http://www.photobyemilie.blogspot.com/ and like I said...More to come!

2008-06-27T14:33:00.003-07:00

So, a while back I was tagged by Mindy to do the 10 things people might not know about me. At least I think that was what it was. So here goes:

10. I forget...alot. Just call me Forgetful Jones.

9. I have crooked fingers and toes. My toes drive Scott nuts. He is always trying to straighten them. And I have even had the nail technicians snicker at my fingers when they are doing my nails.

8. I have a phobia of sweat. I hate other people's sweat, I hate my sweat. It is just gross.

7. Music is a thing of joy for me. I love to listen to the radio, I love to listen to people play, I love to play and it can seriously make my day to hear a great song that I haven't heard in a while.

6. I love to read. I mean LOVE it. Recently I read a 383 page book in one day. Yeah, I kindof have a reading addiction problem. In fact, I have a spreadsheet where I list the books I read and the author and how many pages and a description and how well I liked it....no just kidding. I don't do that. I am not THAT big of a geek.

5. I am defective on a few girl genes. I didn't get any of those decorating genes that girls are supposed to have. Not any. Ask Scott. And I didn't get the shopping gene either. I hate to shop. Most especially grocery shop....with kids....who always have to go potty...and don't make it in time....and babies screaming....and well, you get the picture.

4. Did I mention I forget? I can't remember. ha ha.

3. I have to have my toe nails polished. I can't stand having my toes have no color on them. They don't necessarily have to be looking perfect, but they have to have at least some color on them (so they can be chipped and such) weird. I know. It should be all or nothing, but well, I forget....ha ha.

2. I love cookbooks, but I don't really like to cook. I love to look at the recipes and even daydream about making some wonderful dishes. But when it comes down to it and I have to cook it, I get all flustered and end up making a mess. I even love the food network channel. It's my favorite channel....along with HGTV even though I can't decorate....hmmm....I am beginning to see a pattern here.

1. All that said, I am the Queen of Everything. I even have a mug that says so.

So, now with that done hopefully you now know what makes me...me. And I tag Heather and Kelsey. But remember, I am the Queen of Everything, you cannot beat me. ha ha ha.

We are a Happy Family...

2008-05-29T17:18:00.001-07:00

Always fun just to post some pictures...ENJOY!!!

Brrr! Who would have thought that Southern Utah could be sooo cold!!!

2008-05-29T16:51:00.001-07:00

I had the opportunity to go on a Motorcycle trip with Doug, Sharee, Aaron, Heater and Ashley and WOW! A nice toasty warm motorcycle ride turned into a freeeezing cold, snowy trip! It was still fun and beautiful but very cold! Fresh snow in the mountain passes and on us!

I'm not sure why Adrea likes this...

2008-04-22T22:13:00.000-07:00

My Cat Story

2008-04-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

So, scott has been out of town in california this week and I have been soloing it which hasn't been bad until tonight. I had just gotten the kids in bed and I was checking emails and such and I hear my cat growl, hiss and spit. Basically freaking out. She comes tearing into my room, but I can hear a huge commotion still going on in my sunroom. So, I am trying not to freak out and I go check out my sunroom and find another cat that has come in through our doggie door and it's totally freaking out trying to get back outside. The cat keeps throwing itself into the glass door and then climbs the chairs and tries to get out through the windows too. So, I try to open the sunroom door to let it out and not get attacked either (cause this cat was seriously freaked) and it tears out of my sunroom and runs down to my basement trying to find a way out. So I leave the back door open and I run and open the front door and then I have to go and find this stupid cat to shoo it out of my house. Avalee hears me freaking out about this cat and jumps out of bed trying to find out what has happened. So I tell her to help me find this stupid cat and so we go running around trying to call this cat out of the house. Just as I think it has snuck out of my house I go back to the girls room to make sure Sadie is okay and I see the cat streak across their room. I try to shoo it out of the room and to the front door, but the dumb cat is so scared and freaked it claws it's way up sadie's clothes in the closet trying to find a way out that way. It nearly got up to the top shelf and I had no idea how I was going to get the cat down without it attacking me. But at the last minute it jumped down and ran out of that room and into my family room. It jumps up on my new couch and it slams itself into our Harry Potter poster. That poster is dark and I guess it thought it was a door or window or something. So it slams itself into that a couple of times and finally falls between the couch and TV console and hurries and hides under our couch. There is not much room under the couch between the floor and the couch, but somehow that cat is under there. Avalee ran upstairs and grabs me a broom (smart kid) and so I try to shoo the cat out with the broom while hoping and praying this cat doesn't come out and attack my face cause I have to crouch down to floor level to get the broom to reach. So, I am freaked, Avalee is freaked and suggesting we get Scott (I wish) or call 911. (can you just imagine that phone call?) and this cat is freaked. So finally I get the cat to come out from under the couch and I am shouting at avalee to not let it go down to her room and she is turning tail and running to make sure she isn't going to be attacked and the stupid cat runs into my laundry room instead of going up the stairs and outside. So I start to cautiously direct the cat the right way, but it runs back out and under my couch again. So, I hurry and get out our child safety gates and set it up in the hall so the cat can't go to the girls room again and I shut all the doors so it should go upstairs. So, I try to get this dumb cat back out from under the couch again and finally after probably about 7 minutes, it streaks out and runs upstairs and out the door. At least I think it went out the door, but I wasn't fast enough to see it happen for sure and avalee had already run away to make sure she wasn't getting bit, so no one really saw it leave. This happened from 10:00pm to 10:20pm. So hopefully I won't have anything to add on to this in the morning. Anyway, after I had calmed down slightly and convinced avalee she wasn't going to be attacked in her bed, I told scott the story and he was laughing so hard he was crying. So I thought I would share it with you guys and hope that you get some enjoyment out of my night of terror.

I think I am going to count this as my workout for the day cause it was at least 20 minutes, my heart rate was way up there and I was totally sweating by the end of it.

No, I have not been beating my family!!!

2008-03-16T21:06:00.000-07:00

Ok, after all the funny looks I get from everyone I guess it is time for me to post what REALLY has happened to Adrea and Avalee over the past few weeks.

First Adrea:

This is what it started out like. A cluster of blood vessels under her eye. The doctor described it as just like a blackberry.

So Adrea had surgery and then she looked like this:

The blue string that goes above her eye and down was a stitch that helped to keep her eye closed and she had to have that for four days. Then she got that stitched removed and she could finally really open her eye and she looked like this:

About 10 days after the surgery she was able to have the rest of the stitches removed and she looked like this:

She still has a bit of a black eye. I have gotten plenty of questioning looks and all sorts of teasing from our neighbors. But she is doing well. Unfortunately when it rains it pours and so on Thursday, March 6, Avalee added to the idea that I was beating my family.

Next Avalee:

Avalee had gone over to our neighbors house and wanted to see their dogs that were out in the front yard. She was petting one of the dogs and turned to leave and the dog got excited and jumped up and got avalee right on the lip . So Adrea had to run Avalee to the hospital for stitches and I met her there from work. We had a wonderful plastic surgeon help put Avalee's lip back together for us, but he gave instructions that she was to be on a liquid diet for 7 days and that she was to talk like a ventriloquist for 3 weeks and to not have any big activity like jumping around and such. Needless to say, it's been very hard for Avalee to do.

Her lip is looking much better and she is SOOO happy to be able to eat solid foods again. To celebrate we took her out to her favorite restaurant Tepanyaki!

So I am not beating my family, I promise. It's just the Reynolds luck!

Guitar Hero Aerosmith!!!!!!!!!

2008-02-15T21:01:00.000-08:00

That is right baby!!! The next GH will be Aerosmith based!!!! Rock On!!!

Here is some more info!!!

http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/993147/pid/302766

Arrival of cousin Ethan Andrew!!!

2008-02-05T22:25:00.000-08:00

Cousin Ethan Andrew (Emron and Harmony's new son) was born yesterday at 2:10am!!! Enjoy the pics.

Farewell President Hinckley

2008-02-02T14:27:00.000-08:00

This week we lost our dear prophet Gordon B. Hinckley. What a sad yet happy day. Sad for the worlds loss of this great man who impacted so many! Sad because we will no longer see him as the icon of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sad because we will no longer hear his jokes or the cracking of his voice as he became emotional. But happy because he is now with his wonderful wife and in the arms of our Savior! Continuing this great work! We will miss him but look forward to our next great living Prophet!!!

Also enjoy this incredible tribute but radio and TV host CNN's Glenn Beck!

Boede Laughs but then eats green beans!!!

2008-01-27T20:58:00.000-08:00

Well what a fun time watching Boede eat green beans...

Also enjoy Boede laughing, little did he know that he would be eating those green beans shortly...

Happr Birthday Sadie, big number 4!!!

2008-01-22T19:48:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SADIE!!!

Hey Everyone! Sadies 4th birthday is this Monday Jan. 28th!!! We want to invite everyone to our house to celebrate her special day that evening at 7pm. We will of course have cake, ice cream, carrots and celery sticks as well as open presents! So come one come all!!!

Sadie, Wiping Attitude and More!

2007-12-24T00:24:00.000-08:00

Everyone knows how kids are the day after a sleepover. Well our kids are not immune. After a sleep over with cousin Aspen, let's just say Avalee's attitude was on overdrive! So Adrea got sick of it and told Avalee to "Wipe that attitude off your face!" Suddenly Adrea hears a little voice coming from the bathroom as Sadie says, "I have attitude on my face," all while she is sitting on the toilet pooping. Adrea then says "Well then you better wipe it off your face, too." To which Sadie says, "I already did." Let's just hope she didn't use the same piece of toilet paper...Oh yeah and Adrea wasn't upset any more either!

Adrea's Eye Surgery Has Been Approved!

2007-12-24T00:19:00.000-08:00

We just wanted to inform everyone that Adrea's eye surgery that was previously rejected has now been approved. But we will not be able to do it until early 2008. But good news regardless!

Sadie Inherited Grandma's Computer Skills!!

2007-12-18T14:09:00.000-08:00

So, today when I picked up Sadie from preschool she had a note taped to her shirt about her Christmas program that was coming up. She was so excited to show me and told me it was for dad's and mom's and grandma's and grandpa's and pinkie's and boo's and (I think she would have named everyone if I didn't stop her at that point). So I told Sadie we would go home and email everyone to let them know about her program and to invite them to come.

I called Sadie into my room when I was ready to start the email and I asked her what she wanted to say to everyone about her program. She proceeded to shout at the computer screen to tell everyone about her program. I thought it was hilarious. She has her Grandma Andrew's computer skills it looks like! Ha Ha. (sorry mom). Posted by Adrea

Happy 7th Birthday Avalee!!!

2007-12-13T22:33:00.001-08:00

Today Avalee celebrated her 7th birthday. Wow do Mom and Dad feel old! She started off the day getting right out of bed for her first present, a brand new coat (Pink and Brown and Warm!). Then she went to school, her favorite part of the day. :-p

At school she mom brought cupcakes and eye glass prisms for all of the kids in Avalee's class and you should have seen her, she was so proud of her mom, for a moment she actually thought her mom was cool. All of the kids kept telling Avalee "thank you," and "this is awsome."

Avalee then was able to go to dinner with dad for work. Every month people fly into SLC to be taught by Grandpa Andrew, Uncle Emron, Uncle Aaron (Onit), and Dad. Well part of the training is a nice dinner at Tuscany's. And Avalee got to go. All of the business men were happy to have her around. She liked the food, especially the Calamari which she later found out was Squid!

Finally she came home and read stories to Ashley and then opened presents. Sister Sadie gave her a Pet Shop Electronic Diary. And then for her other give Avalee got a brand new iPod Nano!!! Spoiled Kid!!!

Thanks to everyone who called Avalee and wished her a Happy Birthday!

2007-12-09T22:31:00.000-08:00

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OK fine we gave in, we've got a blog

But let me warn you not to look for anything indepth, thought provoking, because I stink as a writer. Maybe Adrea can fill in for me there

We look forward in sharing our family experiences with you

(BTW dad thanks for inserting your finger in the picture shown ;-)