Fun Times With The Currys!

Daddy and Stanton went on another one of what Stanton calls a "boys only, no girls allowed (except my best friend Hannah) camping trip." They always have so much fun, and this time Stanton saw snow for the first time in his life!
He and Hannah and Josh had fun shooting things with sticks. Stanton also brought home for me a Dr. Pepper can that he annhilated with the BB Gun. Thankfully he didn't shoot himself, or anyone else, but he did cut his finger on my sharp souvenier can.

We have been getting really lucky getting the free culture passes from the library. We got one to The Science Center, and I layed on a bed of nails. It didn't hurt at all! (This isn't me. I forgot to bring my camera.)
Then we got another culture pass to The Dinosaur Museum, and I am happy to say that my kids are no longer scared of the dinosaur bones! We had a great time!
We saw this huge scorpion, and Stanton kept saying really loudly to anyone who walked by, "My Daddy ate a scorpion for $20!" Yes, it's true, and Stanton is very impressed by that. (It was dead and covered in chocolate if that makes it a little less gross. Paul, the weather guy from Channel 5 dared him to.)
Noelle's favorite thing about the museum was the magnent exhibit. She also loves practicing her goofy new smile in every picture! I think it's adorable, and I think she gets it from me cause that's how I got in my third car accident. I rear-ended some people because I was practicing my smiles in the rear view mirror. Don't worry. That was a long time ago. I've grown up a lot since then.
Every time we go to the dinosaur museum, we have to get a picture on the baby sea turtle because that's Noelle's favorite animal.
Noelle has worn mismatched socks during the day and Stanton's football pajamas to bed at night all week because I keep forgetting to do laundry. Luckily, she thinks it's a funny new game we're playing.
We had a fun time partying with our good friend Lissa at Peter Piper Pizza for her birthday! Happy Birthday Lissa! We love you!
And last, but certainly not least, I've done some research. I've found out that right now our new baby is either the size of a peach or the size of an egg. I hope it's the egg cause I ate the peach shortly after this picture was taken.

Our Life's Most Recent Happenings!

This is from a few weeks back, but it is so cute I have to put it up. This was Stanton with his Sunbeam class, during his first primary activity. His class dressed up as dogs and barked and danced around to "Who Let The Dogs Out." Stanton, who is not a performer like his mother is, just stood there, completely frozen. I had helped to plan the activity, so I had practiced his dance moves with him for a couple of weeks. He had all kinds of tricks up his sleeve, but in front of everyone, he got stage fright. I think he was just as cute to watch being the only one to stand completely still up there(:
This is just a super cute picture! I couldn't be happier to have two kids 15 months apart cause they are totally best friends, and they play together perfectly!
So, let me begin by saying, Robert has always says that I have "inviting diarhea", which means I invite tons of people to everything.If he says let's have a few couples over for dinner, he means six people, (which is a generous number on his part, considering our small house and the fact that we don't have a table.) But I get carried away and invite 6 couples, who then all have to eat dinner on our floor or in their laps. He says he thinks it's cute, but whenever I do it, he still says "inviting diahrea" and makes gross bathroom noises.
Well, I got another case of inviting diahrea when I got an e-mail from the Mesa Children's Museum, saying they were having a member appreciation day and that I could invite anyone to I wanted to get in free with me. So I invited everyone in my ward who had a child who could walk. I was so excited to go with all of my friends, but then I got super nervous that the museum wouldn't think my inviting-ness was as cute as Robert does and that they would turn us away at the door cause there would be 18 of us girls plus all of our kids. But I couldn't help inviting cause I really wanted ALL of my friends to come cause I love them all, and I knew they would like it there!
Well, it turns out the museum DID think I am as cute as Robert thinks I am. Not only did they let us in, but they gave us goody bags and face painting and card making and refreshments. And Footz the creepy clown who talked in a baby voice made inappropriate looking snake swords out of balloons for us! It was SOOO fun!
Not all of the girls could make it, but we had a great time with those who did! Brittney, Mandie, Melissa, Brooke, Stacy, Yumi, Lynnae and Jacki are tons of fun and so are their kids!
My friends have cute kiddos!
A few of us went to Chick-fil-A afterwards, which brings me to my next story. Let me start by saying, I am usually soooo nice! And I don't mind if kids hurt my kids, as long as the parents are on top of it and make them stop. However, there was an incident in the playplace that got me a wee bit riled up! These 7 year old boys were in there being super rough, actually punching little kids in the face. Kids came out crying, and the moms of the naughty boys weren't doing anything. So after it happened to both Noelle and Stanton, I went in there and and yelled something like, "You are being wrotten little boys and you need to get out of here right now and tell your moms how rough you are being!!!" I don't know, it was something along those lines. Anyhow, tables whose kids had previously been beaten by the bullies cheered me on, saying "You go Mama!" I was pretty much like a hometown hero! Ask Lynnae. She was there. Stanton told me I was cool, and thanked me for the next three days for yelling at the mean boys. I am back to being nice now though. That was just a phase.
We went to the zoo this weekend with Daddy! The kids were more interested in the fake animals than the real ones.
Noelle rode the cow and Stanton rode Noelle. Yee-haw!
We played at the zoo playground for a loooong time.
And our adventures ended at the doctor's office, where they got their swine flu vaccines. (Stanton is in the middle of begging not to get the "piggy flu shot.") Noelle also got her two year check up. The doctor asked me how many words she knows, and I said around five hundred, which any of you could easily back me up on. However, she did not say one word, not one. I bragged about her to him for ten minutes, trying to get her to tell him the groundhog's name or a synonym for human being or how old mommy is, or what's in my belly. She looked at me like I was crazy, and so did he. Then, as soon as he left the room, she said, "Why does that man doctor wash his hands in the sink and stick the stick in my mouth and look at my ears and push on my belly?" That's like 28 words right there!

Our Zillion Valentines Party!

We checked out a book from the library called "One Zillion Valentines" about two guys named Marvin and Melvin who made a zillion valentines and passed them out to everyone in their city. Then their whole city felt happy and loved!
We really liked the book, and the idea of making valentines for everyone in our city, so we invited all the moms in our ward over with their kiddos to make one zillion valentines! It was SO much fun!
Between the 22 moms and 35 kids that came to work in our valentines sweat shop, we managed to make 75 valentines, which is pretty close to a zillion. (We would've made more, but I provided a lunch break, and our productivity declined after that. We moms got to talking while all the kids ran in circles in the grass.) Still, 75 is a pretty impressive number of Valentines!

Here are a few of the ones we still have left. The rest have been passed out to sweet little ladies from the ward and random people in our neighborhood. I think Marvin and Melvin would be proud!

Stanton and Noelle's Groundhog Day Re-Enactment!

Daddy came home from work and told us that Groundhog Day is one of the most annoying days for a news producer because you have to wait around for a bunch of weird guys in stupid hats to speak to a groundhog named Punxtuhaney Phil in a made-up language to find out whether or not winter is over.
Well, Robert may not be a fan of Punxtuhaney Phil, but Stanton and Noelle loved hearing about him, so we re-enacted it for anyone who missed it this morning so you too can find out whether or not winter will be extended!
HAPPY GROUNDHOG'S DAY!

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Stanton is folowing in my hilarious joke-making footsteps!

A couple weeks ago Stanton said, "Hey mommy, if you go poo in the bathtub, you should clean it up with shamPOO! (He emphasized the "poo" in shampoo, and then cracked up laughing!)
That's as good, if not better, than my jokes! I couldn't be more proud! Give Noelle a month or two, and I am confident that she too will become a jokemaster! She has already followed in my chatter-box footsteps, so joke-making is just a matter of time!

Curry/Ahsby/Webb/Johnson Cruise!!!!!!

A few months ago, we were sitting around with the Ashbys, the Webbs and the Johnsons, and we said "hey wouldn't it be fun to go on a cruise." So we did!
All 8 of us piled into the Webbs Honda Pilot, and drove to San Diego to our ship, the Carnival Elation!
Here we are!
Robert got voted handsomest stud on the cruise ship, by me. However, if an official vote was taken, I am confident he would've won!
We did a lot of dancing with the waitors at dinner. We were kinda famous for it too. A lady ran up to me and said, I loved you and your friend's dancing!" I wasn't as gracious as I should've been cause I had just thrown up all over the bathroom. I don't get morning sickness, but I have terrible motion sickness, and I hadn't quite gotten my sea legs yet. In fact, I hadn't quite gotten my car legs either cause I threw up on the side of the highway on the drive there.
Mari closed out the show with this little leap/kick move that was a definite crowd pleaser.
We participated in a trivia game show. Melissa rocked the history question, but Amy struck out when asked, "What was the artist Rembrandt's first name?" She said "Joe."
Robert took the big win and brought home the trophy with his correct answer of "Seattle" to the final question, "What city gave us the band Pearl Jam?" What luck, that is his all time favorite band!
Amy and I also mowed down a crowd of people to make our way up on stage to play Family Feud with some random people that were not part of our family. I tackled a girl for the last seat and won, which was played over and over on t.v's in every room of the ship. The highlight of that game was Amy's answer to the question, "Name something that you only use once." To which Amy answered, "a tampon" Good answer, right? Apparently they were looking for answers such as band-aid or cutip. We still took home the trophys.
That night we had our formal dinner with lobster, where we each orderred 2 appetizers, 2 entrees and 2 desserts. I tried prime rib for the first time, which is NASTY!
Then we all went to karaoke. Mari sang, "These Boots Are Made For Walking." I sang a little Reba. Marcus and Amy did a duet to "Summer Nights" from Grease and Melissa sang a little Neil Diamond. We probably would've sung more, but we excused ourselves after old man Fred sang song #6. Robert mentioned it wouldn't have been so bad if Fred had sung a song that was written before Vietnam.
So we made our way to the piano that was left unattended in the lounge, and we played some duets. I tried to do a sexy pose with the rose petals on top of the piano, but I couldn't completely hoist my pregnant self up there.
Every night there was another cute little towel animal waiting for us on our beds. Melissa didn't get to see this one though cause Tim drop kicked it across the room for fun when he walked through the door.
The next day we stopped in Ensanada, Mexico.
We spoke mucho Spanish, and did a lot of bargaining. I wanted to buy a water bottle holder made out of a cow's hoove, but when I found out it was $28, I said, "Yo puedo comprar una vaca para $28." (That means, "I could buy a cow for $28.) He thought I was funny, but still wouldn't lower the price.
We saw a lot of funny shirts and signs.
When we got back that night, after dinner we had an arm wrestling contest, and we had to dance our way up to the competition. Right after this picture was taken, some random girl came up to dance with me. I felt threatened so I dropped to the ground and pulled out my best move, "The Worm." Then I realized I was pregnant and wearing a skirt, and I stopped. (Melissa took an impromptu poll at the end of the cruise. She said, "Raise your hand if you have not accidentally seen Kimberly's under-garments on this trip." No hands were raised, which brings me to my New Year's resolution. Sit more lady like, or stop wearing skirts.)
Amy beat me in a close match.
Then Mari annihalated everyone! Mike was right, She is freakishly strong. Out of the boys match, Marcus creamed everyone.

And last, but certainly not least, one of the true highlights of the trip. We don't know her name (although we did make one up for her), and we don't know where she's from or what she does, but our last night there, she came into our lives, never to be forgotten. She danced SO dirty to so many songs, but during "Baby Got Back" she got so low and danced so hard, that her hip got stuck on verse two, but after a momentary pause, she popped it right back into place and kept getting jiggy with it. Ahhhh, memories!

Our Baby Noelle's 2nd Birthday Party!!!

Princess Noelle is turning tu-tu, and she wants to celebrate with you-you!
(That is what her invitation looked like.)
For Noelle's 2nd birthday party, we rented a bounce house and had a birthday bash at Grandpa and Grandma Curry's house. Noelle loves bounce houses, and she wouldn't get out of it, even when all of the other kids deserted her. "I want to stay jumping!" And she did!
All of her two year old buddies came to her party with their brothers and sisters, and we had a grand time!
She was happy to see her best baby Callie there too!
Grandpa Dan dressed up as a clown and managed to pull off cute without being scary.
All of the kids loved him! He didn't make a single child cry. That's more than I can say for Santa Clause.
Baby Max couldn't take his eyes off him, until he held him. Then he couldn't take his eyes off of his mommy and daddy.
Tim took the princess theme very seriously. I think he is the only one who kept his crown on for the entire party!
Noelle loves "baby sea turtles", so we had a turtle pinata, which Robert and Tim bravely held. Tim got injured.
Stanton reminded me after the party that "we should never hit real baby sea turtles with sticks until their guts fall out." He is a future member of PETA.
Noelle tried hard to blow out her candle, and then devoured her cupcake. So cute and so messy!
It was such a fun party! I can't believe our baby girl is 2! She is so sweet and smart and pretty and funny too! I love my little family so much I think I'm gonna explode with happiness! Happy Birthday Noelle my Belle!

Holiday Visitors!

First, Tara and Adam came into town for Thanksgiving, which we don't have any pics of cause we were just way too busy having fun together!
Then, Adrienne was in Az for a whole week for Christmas, playing with our kids non-stop!
Then, one of Robert's very best friends from growing up was in town from the Air Force, so we got to have fun with him and his family and some other old friends for one night. The best part is, Mike has always been SUPER competetive, and Robert is So laid back and NOT competetive (We don't even keep score when we play games, to which Mike says, "What's the point of even playing?") Any how, our two boys, Stanton and Porter showed some similarities in their new friendship!
On one occassion Stanton grabbed his sword, and said, "I'm a knight." Then Porter said, "I'm a better knight and my sword is bigger!" Stanton said, "Okay."
They were so adorable playing together, just like their Daddies!
And here are some babies of our old single's ward buddies! (Not pictured, Alexa's little guy cause he had to go to sleep before the picture, and Billy and Kati's twins, because they're still in her belly!)
And our last visitor of the season is my sister Tiffany. (Again, not many pictures cause were too busy having fun!) She got to come stay with us for 8 days, including New Years partying! The kids follow her around everywhere and love sharing their bedroom with her!
There's been lots of good times for The Currys this holiday season!