Fun With a Cell Phone Camera

Here's another post full of random cell phone pictures for your viewing enjoyment.  Cohen is becoming a pro at rock climbing...

And glow-in-the-dark bowling...

And eating ice cream...

Burgers, fries, onion rings and shakes with my besties...

Thank goodness for sweet kids that take care of themselves when their mama gets sick.  I got really sick with the flu (despite having received a flu shot) for 4 days back in January.  I wasn't the most attentive parent that week because I felt so horrible.  One afternoon, I went into Vivvie's room to find that she had put herself down for a nap.  Now, granted, it was on the floor.  But, when Mama feels like death warmed over, sometimes this is as good as it gets...

My sweet friend, Serene, brought me a jacked Diet Coke and a sugar cookie when I was sick.  I love her!  She is always so thoughtful!!  And, I'm pretty sure it helped me kick that flu to the curb.  Diet Coke is the cure all for everything, right?  Especially when it's jacked...

One night, we went to eat dinner at Vivint.  They feed their employees lunch everyday.  How sweet is that?  Well, Mike had a few extra meals saved up, so we took the whole family--plus Poppy--and went to eat and hang out one night.  The only cups with lids they have there are coffee cups, so we put Viv's sprite inside one.  But, she looked so funny drinking out of a cup that said "Seattle's Best Coffee" that we had to take a picture.  The other families that were there that night probably thought, "Wow!  They start them young in the Storrs family..."

After dinner, we played a little pool...

And then played some board games.  How do the employees get anything done with all these fun distractions everywhere???

 My co-workers and I decided to have a potluck for the Superbowl, since we all had to be at work.  Here's the random assortment we ended up with.  And, with how boring the game was this year, the food was definitely the best part of the night...

Vivvie seriously has no idea how lucky she is to have such sweet brothers.  One day, the kiddos were watching a TV show and I looked over to find Cohen scratching her back.  I really think she thinks all brothers do nice things like this for their sisters all the time...

This is a picture we found while going through some old files.  It's Mike when he was eight-years-old.  Look at that lovely olive skin tone!  Why, I ask you, couldn't just one of our children have gotten this dark skin?  You'd think at least one of them would, right?  But, nooooooooooooooooooo, the albino gene lives on to curse another generation!  Sorry kids...

My random breakfast at work.  Sugar cookies, chocolate-dipped strawberries and a fried oyster topped with an avocado salsa...

We decided last month to start potty training Viv.  It didn't go over so well, and we've put the training on hold for a few months, but that's another post for another day.  Connor came with me to Target to get all the supplies to help with the potty training process.  I had to take a picture when I realized my 11-year-old son was proudly walking through the store carrying a princess potty seat and princess panties.  Anyone seen a man card lying around anywhere?  Connor seems to have lost his...

After Target, I took Con to get some ice cream, as reward for turning in his man card...

Mike and I went to La Jolla Groves for dinner on Valentines Day.  It was yummy...

Mike finally installed the crown molding in our dining room.  This was a project that was started last May, but then immediately had to be put on hold because of his shoulder injury.  The room is almost finished.  I just need some curtains and a little more greenery and then I should be done.  I'll post pictures when it's finally complete, but I love the way it's turning out...

Vivvie has a princess app on my phone that she loves to play with.  One of the things you can do is take pictures of people as princesses.  You have to position the person really carefully in order to get the crown, necklace and dress in the right place--which doesn't happen much, especially when Viv is the one taking the picture...

I have hundreds of pictures on my phone just like those pictured above.

A few weeks ago, I ran out of gas.  Yep, I ran out of gas--like the boss that I am.  Haven't done something like that since I was 16-years-old.  I had meant to fill up before leaving downtown, but then I started talking to Mike on the phone and totally forgot about it.  Well, I ran out of gas at Point of Mountain.  Super...

Luckily, my knight in shining armor came to rescue me.  Love him...

Where do you hold your tea parties?  Vivienne prefers to hold hers in the bathtub.  Yep, the bathtub--of all places...

Another night out with my little golfing buddy...

And we had to climb the rock wall again too...

Amy and I taking funny pictures for Facebook.  Yes, I get paid to do crazy stuff like this...

I also get paid to celebrate Mardi Gras.  Here we are hanging out with Chef Johnny from Harmons while he preps our jambalaya for the show...

Speaking of Mardi Gras, we celebrated at our house as well with a pot of gumbo and a king cake...

Who knew you could find King Cake in Utah?!?  Harmons is the place, if you're looking for one next year.  And, I laugh every time at the warning on the side of the box...

Cohen found the baby inside his piece of cake...

We always miss Louisiana around Mardi Gras time.  Glad we can still have a little taste of it here in Utah.

Connor's class went on a field trip to "Junior Achievement City" at Discovery Gateway.  In the weeks leading up to the field trip, they applied for different "jobs" they could do while there and then went through mock job interviews in order to get them.  Connor's career for the day ended up being CFO of KSL.  Yep, he went to work for my competition.  I told him not to make too much money for them, but it sounds like he didn't listen to me very well...

I went out to dinner a few nights ago with a few of Mike's cousins and/or cousin's wives.  We went to Saffron Valley, a local Indian restaurant, and had a great time.  I really love spending time with these girls.  Many of us are very similar and we all get along really well.  I have adopted them as sister-in-laws...

So, there you go.  A few more random moments from my life over the past few months, captured with the help of my cell phone camera.  --Lindsay

Aiden's Jr. Jazz Season

Aiden just finished basketball season a couple weeks ago.  He had a lot of fun this year, and improved quite a bit.  Here's his official pictures for the season...

His coaches were some of our neighbors and a lot of the kids on his team were from our neighborhood, so that made the season a lot of fun as well.

I wasn't the best about taking pictures this season.  His games were early on Saturday morning, which meant that I was only able to make it to about half of them because of my morning show.  When I was there, I was busy watching the games, and didn't think much about taking pictures.  Here's a few (unfortunately blurry) shots of one of Aiden's games...

Aiden was a pretty good defender...

His dribbling improved a lot over the season...

Here he is going for the basket.  Yes, he's that big blurry thing on the left hand side...

Trying to back in a little closer...

Taking his shot...

Up and...

In...

I was pretty proud of that picture sequence, even though some were kind of blurry.

So, as you can probably tell, it was a fun season!  Aiden enjoyed it quite a bit.  Next sport for Aiden is Machine Pitch later in the spring.  Connor will be doing spring soccer.  And, Cohen will be doing spring soccer and t-ball.  We're going to be busy the next few months!  I'm enjoying my quick sports break during the month of March, while it lasts.  --Lindsay

Vivvie Turns Three!

Vivvie turned three-year-old this past Friday.  How is she three already?!?  I know I say it all the time, but the years are flying by way too quickly!  It seems like she was just born about a year ago--maybe two years ago at the very most.  I have to keep reminding myself that she's a little girl now, and not my baby.  Sad!!

For her birthday, we went out to dinner at Wingers.  Viv isn't much of an eater.  It doesn't matter what food or what restaurant, she's just not going to eat much.  She doesn't even seem to like eating a whole lot.  I don't know how someone can not like eating, but Viv just seems to do it purely to survive.  There is no pleasure with it at all for her--at least not as far as I can tell.  So, we decided just to go eat somewhere that sounded good to the rest of us, and Wingers was the winner.  Nana and Poppy came along with us for the celebration.  Viv was even sung to by the servers.  This is the best picture I got of that.  She clearly didn't realize what was going on...

She got her own asphalt pie out of the deal...

But, once she realized this big hulabaloo was all focused on her, this shy little girl was not a happy camper...

After dinner, the plan was to go up to the Discovery Gateway Museum again, like we had last year for her birthday.  She had so much fun there last year, and we've been wanting to take her back.  But, we realized the museum closed at 8:00 pm, and since it was after 7:00 already, we decided that idea wasn't going to work.  So, the next best thing--as far as Vivvie was concerned--was to go see "Frozen" again.  Her brothers weren't so excited about seeing it another time, but they were good sports and went along for their sister...

Nana and Poppy came along with us to the movie too.  Viv spent the movie cuddled up on Poppy and Nana's laps, and loved every second of it.  And, for a bunch of boys that we're very excited about seeing the movie, they sure were into it...

Viv loved it once again.  It was the perfect way to end her birthday.

Then, this past Sunday, we held her actual birthday party with the family.  We started with dinner--chicken cordon bleu, since that seems to be one of the few things she enjoys eating.  Then, we opened presents.  Something we know Vivvie enjoys...

She looks like an orphan child in all these pictures.  This is what she looks each day after her nap.  I don't know why I even bother going to all the trouble of doing her hair and making her look so cute each morning...

She was spoiled by everyone...

And loved every second of it...

Landon just enjoyed eating the wrapping paper after Viv had ripped it off the presents.  Yummy.  A little fiber, anyone?

Most of Vivvie's presents were "Frozen-themed."  She got Elsa and Anna dolls, with dress up clothes to match.  Here's Viv in the Anna dress...

Work it, girlie...

She loves Anna...

Since Viv had the Anna dress on, we told Ella to put on the Elsa dress, so we could see them together.  We thought that was appropriate since Ella's hair is extremely blonde--almost white--like Elsa's, and Vivvie has strawberry blonde hair, similar to Anna's.  We tried to get a picture of them together, but this is the best we got.  And, nice photobomb, Aiden...

Lastly, it was time for cake.  Here's Viv with her princess cake...

Mr. Smith's Marketplace told me they could make a princess cake, but said they didn't have a picture of what the finished product would look like.  They said it would have an assortment of princesses and other girly things.  And, they weren't lying.  This was the most random cake ever!  There was a princess Sophia doll, and then a bunch of rings that had random princess pictures on them.  In addition to that, there was a variety of random clip on jewelry too.  So weird!  But, Viv thought it was the coolest thing she'd seen in her entire three years of life, so I guess it was still a winner.  Here she is showing the camera that she is three-years-old, even though she's holding up four fingers.  A minor technicality, really...

Blowing out the candles.  Or actually, right after blowing out the candles.  My camera was being slow...

We also celebrated Dan and Greg's birthdays, since they are two and three days after Vivienne's.  They got their own cake...

Which the kids took turns blowing the candles out on...

I guess that's how you know you're old--when the kids start blowing out your candles for you.

It was a fun couple days!  I can't believe my baby girl is already three-years-old!  I'm worried that if I blink a little too long, I'll open my eyes and she'll be 18.  Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!  Thanks for being the sweet, spunky, sassy diva that you are.  You have truly completed our family.  We are so happy we have you.  Love you to the moon and back, or as Cohen would say, "We love you more and most!!!!"  --Mama