Stucki Living!!

Macey turns 14 and I am a Crafty Lady

2012-01-26T07:40:00.001-08:00

Well I thought that I would take advantage of this extra energy and motivation I have been blessed with lately before it disapears!! I don't have any Valentines decorations so I thought I would make some! I love doing crafts and even though they might not be perfect, I love that I made them!!

I made this sign with some salvaged wood, a little spray paint and some vinyl! It's about 3 1/2 ft long! I love it!! I didn't notice that the line where I erased the pencil mark showed up so well!! Better fix that!! Russ is so good to spray paint most of my projects for me and Macey is a great helper!!

This isn't for Valentines day- it's for Macey's newly painted- and in progress of being decorated - room! I have been having fun with Pinterest!! I found this cute idea, it's just scrapbook paper mod podged onto canvases! So cute!

Another Pinterest find- this is a wreath made out of-wait for it- toilet paper rolls!! My family probably thought I was crazy yelling in the bathroom every so often "Save the cardboard!!" I am not really fond of the way it turned out but everyone else thinks it's cute.

Believe it or not this teeny, tiny, little project was a BIG pain in the butt!! I took a wire hanger and bent it into the word "love", which took forever and lots of mistakes and then wrapped red yarn around it!! I love it though!!

I love playing around with my Cricut and found some really sparkly paper so I threw this together! I found the cute foam hearts at the Dollar Tree!!

I love making wreaths!! This one cost all of $7 so that made it even better!!

Well Macey turned 14 this month!! It kinda bothered me a bit that she is getting older! I didn't take it too hard when Haley grew older but I guess since Mace is my baby it's a little tougher!! Usually I am better at Birthday cakes trying to do them myself or finding cute ones but I took the easy way and bought a (not so cute) ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins this year.

Cassie is trying to sneak out of the picture! Caught ya anyway Sis!!

Isn't she a beautiful lady!! Love this girl!!!

Christmas and Cruising!!

2011-12-28T09:15:00.000-08:00

Well we decided for Christmas this year we would try a cruise! We have never been before so it was a new experience for us! We want our girls to have memories and we thought we better start doing some adventurous things!
Here is the first picture of all of us on the first night aboard the ship!

Macey is a Chinese food junkie so this was one of the first buffetts she visited- she liked it but not enough to go back again there were so many other choices!!

I love this picture!! It's so cute! The girls got along so well during the whole week and it was fun to see them laugh and have fun together! We are still at the Long Beach port in this picture so it's still early in the cruise!

Macey's favorite movie is Titanic- when I told her we were going on a cruise she said, "Um mom, I have seen Titanic ALOT!!" She got over it! They had to at least try the famous pose from the movie though!

Our stateroom was very small- the wall you can't see is only a few feet away from the bed- in fact Haley has her feet resting on it from the bed!! That is a bunk bed above the king bed and then another one is on the other wall. We are used to our toy hauler/camp trailer so it wasn't to big of a problem!

The first night while we were still right outside of Long Beach it was pretty chilly, Haley was cold so Russ was trying to keep her warm!! So sweet!!

This was the coolest building to me!! It's the biggest thing you see of the coast of Catalina. It's actually a casino- I just thought it was pretty. Catalina reminds me of pictures I have seen of Greece! I think we will be regular visitors!!

A few pictures of us on the beach in Catalina-

Macey thought this pelican was pretty cool even though she was scared it was going to peck her eyes out!! She was sneaking up on it to see how close it would let her get!

This is one of my favorite pictures!! I may just frame it for my house! They were holding hands and everything!!! LOVE IT!!

Catalina has a pretty cool history. It was first owned by the Wrigley family. As in Wrigley's gum, Wrigley's field, owners of the Chicago Cubs!! This is the house that the family still owns on the island.

We took a glass bottom boat tour which was pretty cool even though we didn't see any WAY cool fish, we still saw some neat stuff. This is in the boat- Macey is such a cutie!!!

I absolutley LOVE Catalina- did I say that already?? I am so in love with the way the houses are built on the hills. Our tour guide on our bus ride around the city told us that when the lots were first for sale they were going for about $250, now they are anywhere from $600,000 to $900,000 in the flat of the city and $1.6 to $2.0 million on the hillsides and they are very small lots! They don't get new builds alot because the price to ship all the building materials over is so high!

Back on the ship, Russ was dominating at Mini golf!! We played a few times and then Russ entered a putting tournament so that was a fun feature to have on the ship!

This is just a random street in Ensanada, I just thought it was kinda cool. They also build up into the hill sides because of space.

We went on a tour of the Civic center in downtown Ensanada and I loved it! My kids were kinda bored but I thought it was amazing history! This ceiling was painted similar to the Sistine Chapel that Michael Angelo painted- by a famous Mexican artist all he wanted as payment was room and board. There are about 4 different ceilings painted by him and they are huge ceilings!! It was seriously amazing!!!

This is the famous Seven Deadly Sins bar!! The Margarita was actually invented in this Civic center, not in this bar but in another one in the same building, they were giving free margarita's out but I settled for the bottled water I brought along! The girls and Russ had a Coke though!

In the courtyard of this building they had a few little flea market stands. We visited some in downtown Ensanada as well and I was amazed at how persistant the vendors are!!! We even had a 3 yr old girl and a boy not much older chase us down almost 2 blocks trying to get us to buy their gum!! Sad! Anyway here are a few pictures in that courtyard

This is the La Boufadora blow hole. It is the 2nd largest blow hole in the world. We thought it was pretty cool, it blew really high for us but Irma our tour guide said on a scale of 1-10 it was a 6 kinda day!! Irma was an absolutely amazing tour guide, she was so cute and funny! And she knew a ton of stuff! She really earned her money! The only bad part was that the air conditioner on the bus was not working very well so we were hot and sweaty by the time we were done!

A cute picture of us girls at the blow hole!

This is Irma or as she taught us to pronounce us Eeerrrma! I never could get the rolling r's quite right!! Russ was most excited about us crossing the bridge where the Baja 1000 starts! He thought that was pretty cool.

So you all know that they do these towels in your room every night on the ship, they were really cute! This one was my favorite!

Mini Golf again!!

They had this really cool ice sculpture demonstration. The sculptor did this in about 20 minutes!! Pretty cool!

I snapped this shot myself while Russ and I were waiting for "The Liars Game" to start! I think it's pretty cute! The gameshow type games they played on the ship were hilarious!! They had a great family comedian that we loved as well!

The service that you get while on the ship is amazing!! We were shocked at how everyone remembers your name and is so nice! These guys were our waiters in the dining room. The tall ones name was something confusing like Boutelinaey or something so he told us to call him Booty. The older guy was named Odalong, he told us to remember 'all day long' to remember his name- so we had Booty All Day Long!! So funny!! We sat by the most amazing family at dinner every night and we are all going to stay in touch- they ride ATV's and motorcycles and they want to come up and have Russ take them around here. They had a son whose hair was cut like Justin Beiber so that is what the waiters called him the whole time- everytime they they would walk by our table they would sing a Beiber song! It was hilarious! Russ will probably never call that kid by his real name!

So that was our cruise in a nutshell! We had so much fun and will definately go again!!

I only got a few pictures of Christmas since my girls hate taking pictures. My daddy dresses up as Santa Claus every Christmas Eve to visit all the grandkids and other kids in our ward. Most of my nieces and nephews recognize him so he is Papa Claus for us!!

Stockings on Christmas morning.

We had a fun night dancing with the Kinect Christmas night! I danced once but it kicked my chubby butt so I didn't try it again!

Well I hope you enjoyed my HUGE post! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!!

Family Pictures and Some Other Stuff!!

2011-11-20T16:09:00.001-08:00

Well we haven't updated our family pictures for almost three years so I decided that even though I am hating the weight I have gained, I need to love me and my family enough to have the memories and the pictures! Cassie, my baby sis, took them for us and she did amazing!! The ones we took at the opera House here in St George were my favorite!!

This is one of the many of all of us that I love!!

This was Macey's idea for one of her poses and it turned out amazing!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Haley doesn't like pictures taken of her so it was like pulling teeth to get her to even pose by herself but when she finally did she pulled out her winning GORGEOUS smile and dazzled me!!

Haley probably gets that little attitude about pictures from me cause I REALLY REALLY don't like them!!! But I toughed it out for my kids and Russ! This one is okay! :/

This one was kinda funny cause I had told Cassie I wanted to have us all sitting on the stairs, we were stainding there deciding where to sit and she just said, "Stay right where you are, that looks good" So we did!! I love this one!!!

This one was Macey's idea! I figured we better do this now while someone is still shorter than me!!! She won't be for much longer!!

So here comes the silly!! Haley has a hard time not laughing during pictures! We had MANY of these where she is making me laugh and Russ and Macey are just waiting to get a serious picture!!

And here is Macey being Macey!! The Queen of the world!!!

So besides family pictures we've been busy! I LOVE the fall weather and looking out seeing the different colors on the trees! This Halloween was the first time that neither of my girls dressed up! I hated it! It's hard to have older kids sometimes.. most of the time it's awesome but sometimes it's tough! I miss the little kid stuff! Russ and Haley went on their few hunts but didn't bring anything home. Russ is still enjoying his job and I love my job even though it keeps me jumping all over the county and over working me!! We have just converted our documention systems to fully electronic and it is awesome!! We are looking forward to our cruise in December and a very wonderful Christmas!!!

Pioneer Papa!

2011-10-18T12:42:00.000-07:00

My dad had the opportunity to participate with a big group of people in a wagon train and trail ride last week. They traveled 100 miles from Parowan to St George on horseback, in wagons and pulling handcarts to commemorate the arrival of the first settlers in St George- some of which are our ancestors. The ride was a great success and I think every single person who participated loved every minute of it! I know my daddy did! I think he might have been born in the wrong century!!

I am very thankful to the people that make sure we remember our ancestors. Who celebrate and acknowledge the extreme trials and tribulations that were endured to settle St George and other areas in Utah. I am grateful for the sacrifices of those pioneers so that I could live in a wonderful place and belong to a thriving church that enriches my life.

This is a picture The Spectrum took and published in the paper along with the story about the wagon train. I love it!! He looks like what he is- a weathered cowboy!!

My sister-in-law Rita and her kids got to see the wagon train as it passed by Diamond Valley so they took this picture of him! Rita said her kids were telling anyone who would listen that that was their "Papa"!!

The last little bit of the trail was a parade through town. Although the first settlers had a far humbler welcome to the sunny desert we call home, I think these travelers appreciated the community coming to cheer for them!!! Here is daddy making his way down Tabernacle street.

This is a picture that our friends the Gublers (Teresa) took just before the parade started. They were also with the wagon train and had a great time as well rain, dust and all!!

My mom and I were waiting at the park and got this picture towards the end of the parade.

They had big signs made and displayed in the park displaying all the names of the first settlers that made the great journey to settle St George. There are the names of our ancestors at the very bottom! Because of the work of some of my great family members I have actually seen pictures and pedigree sheets on the three listed here. It brings it close to the heart when you can see the names and dates of birth and death, the names of children and follow the lines down to my daddy and I. How very thankful I am for my wonderful heritage and the pioneer stock that I come from!!!

I LOVE Halloween!!!

2011-10-04T17:46:00.000-07:00

I love the fall weather and the cool air. I love coming home and having nice hot soup and warm bread. But the very best thing about Autumn is HALLOWEEN!! I love it! I love the decorations, the kids in costumes, the trick or treaters, the halloween carnivals! Everything about it makes me smile!

Here is a wreath I made this year to add to my Halloween decoration collection!

I got a cute new sign from a good friend in Delta, she makes the cutest stuff. And then Macey made that cute halloween tree for us!!

I have to make my front porch scary, right!!! This is a scary skeleton that greets our trick or treaters!

And my VERY favorite thing! My BIG, HAIRY spider!! Oh and I always have alot of fun with the cobwebs!!

Bring on the trick or treaters!!!

Macey and Gran visit the Ministry!

2011-09-20T14:08:00.000-07:00

Dial 62442 for the visitors entrance into the Minsistry of Magic!

If you have ever visited Ancestor Square in St George then you have probably seen this red phone booth outside of The Pizza Factory. Macey and Gran decided to see if it would take them to the Minstry of Magic! Too bad though, this one didn't have a phone in it at all!! Sorry Macey!!

The "BOYS"

2011-09-14T08:42:00.000-07:00

So you all know how Russ is crazy about riding his 4 wheeler and hunting! Well here is his other passion! The Cowboys!! He gets pretty rowdy when we watch the game. I use the term "we" loosely because my idea of watching a game is sitting in the same room reading a book and looking up when he starts yelling! He is lucky that his brother and his wife love "the boys" too so he has someone to yell with plus they have a HUGE TV so we always watch the games with them!! Tammy-his brothers wife- grew up in Texas so she is a huge fan!! She yells just as loud as Russ does! I am a bit leary of letting him watch the games at home since he has a history of breaking furniture when he gets excited about a play!!

Here is his Miles Austin jersey. Haley loves it cause Miles Austin is HOT!!! And I agree!!! He's a Cutie patootie!

Here is Russ and his brother just before the game! You can't see their drinks but they have HUGE mugs full of Coke! I think they are 64 ounces or something! Don't ya love the turkey on the wall!! I don't know if the real turkeys are Russ and Ron or the stuffed one!

As of late....

2011-08-31T14:19:00.001-07:00

Well let's see, what's up with us lately........ nothing very exciting!!

The biggest upset this summer was that Cassie moved away and took her kids with her!!! I love those kids so much and it broke my heart to see them go!! A few days before she left I stole them from her and spent a little time with them. We had to get an ice cream cone first, and I spent probably $5 in the stupid machines that give out the toys/tattoos that last about a day!! Then we went to the dollar store and they picked out a few toys. Rylee changed her mind about 200 times and Tanner couldn't make a decision at all!!! I got to be the aunt that buys play doo and a blow gun for someone else's kids!!! Cassie didn't think that was very fair since she never did that to me!!!

I know this Ice Cream cone is as big as her head but I am the favorite aunt so I have to make them happy!!! She ate most of it too!!!

I have never seen a kid that needs to pose for every picture!! He ate most of his ice cream cone too!! Cassie has been gone for about 3 weeks, the morning she left I cried for an hour straight, and then again all day long if I thought about it!! I saw them for the first time since they moved yesterday and I about broke down when in a very excited voice Rylee said "Look, it's Kendra!!!" Then ran and jumped up on me!! I love that girl!!

In case you can't see Russ in his camo, I am here to tell you he is really there!! He has been gone bow hunting elk for two weekends in a row so far this fall. He hasn't got one yet but they have seen a few. This is what he does when he isn't riding his 4 wheeler!

Russ has been complaining about my Harry Potter obsession alot lately, so it surprised me to get this picture on my phone today! They have a Harry Potter club at the school he works at- he is clearly taunting me!!

Earlier in the year I posted that Haley took her hunters safety class, put in for and drew out for a few hunts. I also mentioned how excited Russ is about his new hunting buddy but I don't think I skimmed the surface about just how excited he is!! He ordered this gun for her and when it came in both he and Haley were like two 5 year olds on Christmas morning!! Russ paid for the gun but since then Haley has been talking about buying all sorts of hunting stuff when she gets her paychecks. He is creating a monster!!

Haley FINALLY got her drivers license and I can't tell you how nice it is to be able to have her run my errands for me!! This is her first trip as a licensed driver in her car Barbara the Sexy Beast!!!

So pretty much we are boring BUT I keep telling you all about it cause it makes me feel important!! So keep reading!!

My strange daughter!

2011-08-11T08:32:00.001-07:00

Haley is a very interesting, unique child! She doesn't care what other people think and she is going to do wahtever she feels like makes her happy! I love that about her!!
She went to a clothes swap at the church and came hoem with these three horrible, awful things!!

Firstly the really bad nylon jacket with huge shoulder pads and what she calls "questionable stains"

Second this really bad 80's relic that she actually really likes it's not something to be silly about! She wore it to play basketball last night! Just after I took this picture I said "I just wish..." and she jumps right in, ran her hands over her T-shirt and said "you wish that they would make more T-shirts like this?" Ummm no....!!

And last, and worst, this really really ugly fringe/native american sweetshirt. She told me that she was going to wear it to school and I told her that she would need to transfer cause too many

people knew she was my daughter!! She kept walking around shaking her shoulders and I wanted to vomit!! EEWWWW!! My lovely, strange, hilarious daughter!!

Summer closing!

2011-08-10T13:22:00.001-07:00

We are indeed coming to a close of our summer vacation- well the girls summer vacation- all it is for me is endless phone calls and texts saying "Macey is being a brat" or "Haley won't help clean!" Geez!!! Go back to school already!! Well besides California for Macey and a car for Haley we had, a severely sprained ankle on the first day of a $400 basketball camp, an article written in a ATV magazine about Russ, a emotional farewell to our very favorite soldier, a new job for Haley and a contract for a full time job for Russ, a fun filled 4th of July in Delta, the only place to spend it, and lastly the horribly bad news that my little sis Cassie is moving her family away from me!! I am very sad that I won't be able to see her and her little family as often as I do now!
So now things to look forward to! The incredibly awesome Sheilds family reunion!! Always so freakin much fun mainly cause my family is freakin crazy!! Also we are looking forward to re-decorating the girls' bedrooms for their Christmas presents! I hate to shop and the older they get the harder it gets to buy for them so this is a great solution for me! They are getting older and turning into their own people so it's nice that they can make most of the decisions themselves! Looking forward to turning 36 in December, NOT! Looking forward to having some fun road trips so that Cassie's kids don't forget their favorite aunt! Looking forward to no car pool for school since Haley has her license now as well as no running kids to young womens, the library, the store or anywhere else! I am taking advantage of the fact that she WANTS to run everywhere for me right now-pretty soon it won't be as fun!!! Looking forward to Haleys very first hunt!! Russ has waited 16 years for one of his girls to be interested in hunting with him and his patience has finally paid off! She has an elk tag and is excited to go hunting with her dad! A guy in the sporting goods department at her work has been trying to sell her a gun (actually I think it's flirting with the girl that will actually talk about guns with him but....) LOL!!!
Well I can't think of anything else we are looking forward to right now so I guess life is good and we are just here enjoying it!!!

BYU and (Not So Much) Basketball

2011-06-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

MONDAY- Drop Haley off at BYU- Haley started her basketball camp on Monday morning at 10:00. I had a hard time dropping her off, I mean what if something happened and I was 250 miles away! Besides crying a little, not being a city girl and losing my way a few times on the campus, I did okay.
TUESDAY- Phone call from Haley- "Hey Mom, I need your permission for them to take me to the hospital!" REALLY!!! Just as I had feared the poor girl had done something to her ankle. She hurt it Monday afternoon, yes on the first day of a camp that I had, at that point, $500 invested in!!! She played through it but got up Tuesday morning and said it hurt too bad. The trainers and counselers thought it might be broken. I said that was fine to take her in. Feeling really horrible that I couldn't be there with her, I texted her to see if she needed any family members that live up there to come and be with her. She said she was fine (mom needs to get used to letting go a little!!) The doctor called me about 2 hours later to tell me it was not broken but it was a 'High Ankle Sprain' She said it was pretty bad and after talking to the Physical Therapist and the Foot and Ankle doctor I work with, it sounded worse than a break. It's going to be a while (6 months) before she can play basketball. So they gave her the option of staying on at the camp to try to learn from listening instead of playing. She thought that was fine, until she started trying to get around on her crutches. She called me pretty upset Tuesday evening saying that the counselers had forgotten to pick her up to take her back to her dorms, after about 6 phone calls we finally got her picked up an hour later. So that was when she decided to come home. I thought that she wanted to leave right then so I called my awesome cousin Lacey who was going to let her stay at her house until I could come for her. After calling Lacey, calling Haley, calling Lacey again and calling Haley again, she said that she didn't want to leave until first thing in the morning.
WEDNESDAY-Waiting.....-So Lacey is expecting a call from Haley at around 9-9:30 to come and pick her up. I know they have to call me to authorize Lacey to take her so at about 10:30 when I haven't had a phone call I call Haley. She says that she wants to stay and cheer her team on at least for the rest of the day. So I told her I am tired of playing go between for her and Lacey and for her to call Lacey. Poor Lacey I will never be able to re pay her!! So at 11:30 Haley calls me and says she has decided to leave right away afterall. Oh yeah have I mentioned Haley is the most indecisive person EVER!! Takes the chick 5 minutes to decide what to order at the drive thru at Wendy's- she sits there saying Ummmm... Hmmm... that poor underpaid person taking her order doesn't deserve that!! Anyway I finally get a call making sure Lacey can take her home and then get another call from a different part of the campus about 45 minutes later which means they had to trek to two different places to actually get her out of there!
THURSDAY- Drive to Provo, again- So Russ and I ended up going on Thursday to pick her up so that she didn't have to impose on Lacey anymore! Thakfully this day was without incident! No drama!!!
I am glad to have Haley back with me!! She has a bunch of physical therapy and fun stuff like that ahead for her but she has a pretty good attitude so I think it will go well. I had to chuckle when I heard her crutching around last night and groaning, I have experience with the delight of crutches!! Fun summer for her!!!

God Bless the USA and God Bless our Soldiers!!

2011-06-06T10:13:00.000-07:00

The flags my girls made to remind us of Casidy until we see him again!

We spent some time with our favorite soldier this last week and weekend. My cousin Casidy is part of the 222nd Guard unit. They are in Indiana now and will ship out to Iraq as soon as they decide they are ready, probably a month or so. His deployment is supposed to be about 14 months. We haven't had to send him right into a war zone yet and it was a hard thing to do. Saturday at the airport was an eye opening experience. So so many people came out to support their family members and the unit as a whole. I didn't think I would be as emotional as I was but he is pretty special to me and my family. On Thursday we went to the Burns arena to attend a special program for the unit, it's amazing to me the support that we as a community conitnue to pour out for our troops and I am very thankful for that. Friday we had a "birthday BBQ" for Cas, since he will not be here for his birthday and then it was time for some fun, we went to Anti Gravity arena, where they have trampolines on the floors and on the walls. My family is pretty crazy so we had a blast! Saturday we had lunch at my moms house and then went to Laser Mania and it was fun. I will say that Cas is a pretty mean competitor. Maybe playing Laser tag with a soldier trained in field artillary isn't the best idea!! Then it was time to head to the airport, say our last goodbyes watch the plane take of for Indiana. We are so proud of you Casidy and you will have prayers and support from more people than you know!! Love you!!

Disney Land and Barbara the Sexy Beast

2011-06-01T08:45:00.000-07:00

Well our summer is off to a banging start! Macey took off for Disney Land the day after school let out last week, she wasn't waiting around to get her summer on! She went with Russ's brother and his wife and little girl. Haley started Drivers Ed yesterday and we bought a car for her to use, although Russ says it's the perfect hunting car- so there may be issues there! In a few weeks Haley will be taking off for BYU for a youth Basketball camp and then next month both girls have girls camp. And we are going to try to fit in a few camping trips in between all this madness!!! I don't do much just follow the three of them around and "make it happen"!! Russ is working hard and looking forward to the prospect of having the full time job he has been doing permanently! We have been blessed that he has not been out of work as long as some people and we have been making ends meet pretty well!! He will be leaving Friday morning for his 5th annual "just call me crazy ride"- oh wait that's just what I call it! He and his friends ride from St George to Richfield in 2 1/2 days! ON THE FOUR WHEELERS ALL THE WAY! See why I call them crazy! It's

800-1000 miles depending on the which pass they can get through that isn't blocked with snow! He only has one friend that has gone with him every time and I am thankful that he is just as whacked out about riding as Russ is! I think Russ would go whether any one was with him or not! The only thing I have to look forward to this summer is the Harry Potter premiere in July(YAY!!!) and moving my office into the future! We are going to go paperless for our documentation and billling so I get to learn a whole new way to do things!!

Besides that we are all just fat and sassy! Oh yeah that's just me!!!

This was Macey's first trip to Disney Land and I think she had fun. Here she is with her cousin Megan and Mickey Mouse!!

I guess Macey, Ron and Megan fancy themselves as Action Figures!! I love Russ's

brother he is a good sport and such a neat guy! His wife is pretty awesome too!!

The girls with Minnie Mouse- Macey hates pictures almost as much as I do so it's sometimes hard to get her to smile! I don't know why- she is so gorgeous!!

So here she is- Barbara the Sexy Beast! She is a 1993 Buick LeSabre. The people we bought her from named her Barbara and we decided she was a sexy beast for sure so we added that!

She is pretty good car for a new driver, I think! We got a REALLY good deal and we couldn't pass it up! Haley is excited to have something to drive even if it's older than she is. I am equally excited to have her here to help me run her and Macey around.

No more car pool for School either!!

I had to stick this picture of my Beautiful girls in cause they never let me take pictures of

them so I get them when I can!!

2011-04-06T15:02:00.000-07:00

Well here I am again what 4 months since my last post?! Well at least I am consistent- consistent at being inconsistent! I have lots to report this time, Macey won first place for her category in the Southern Region History fair so we will be heading to northern Utah in a few weeks to compete at the State Fair. She worked really hard and made an excellent website on the "Debate and Diplomacy of the Death Penalty"! I am so so proud of her! We are quite opinionated in our house so it was a little difficult to get both the advocates and opponents views on this, but she did very very well, especially with her uncle Jake in her ear. Then shortly after the History Fair she competed in the Southern Utah Regional Science fair and took third place there!! I am amazed at her sometimes she is an amazing 13 year old!! And now Haleys life- she is learning to drive and will get her license in June and I cannot wait! She is a very good driver and I hate to drive so she will get plenty of chances to test her skills. She did get pulled over for the first time the other day on the way to Delta. We were heading down the freeway and there was a highway patrolman just finishing a stop and she still had her lights on, I wasn't paying attention and didn't tell her to change lanes so pretty soon we see lights in the rearview and Haley says "Uh-oh, go around me, please go around me" but the patrol lady was very very nice when she saw her learners permit and just explained to her that you have to change lanes when you see a patrol car on the freeway. That was a fun adventure for her! Otherwise she is as boring as me! She keeps up her grades and does very well in school, she is hilarious though! She makes me laugh everyday, she can quote every movie she has ever seen but some of her favorites are "Hot Rod", "Nacho Libre" and the TV show "Adventure Time". Another new thing for Haley is that she has decided to take hunters safety and get a license to hunt with her dad! They are having a lot of fun going to the classes together and target shooting whenever they get the chance!! I am so blessed to have wonderful kids!! Russ is excited that I finally let him hang his mounts back in our house. He has 2 Mule deer and an antelope wall mounts and a turkey that we just got back from the taxidermist. They aren't too bad and it gives me a great excuse to redecorate our bedroom!! He is busy riding his four wheeler and taking Hunters Safety with Haley! He is so excited to finally have one of his kids interested in hunting with him! And I am too! I have always felt really bad that he didn't have a hunting buddy! As for me I am just getting good at getting by. The kids keep me pretty busy and I enjoy it for the most part! I am loving my new office and working for so many different doctors! Life is good!

2011-01-04T13:55:00.000-08:00

Well the Stucki family has been living it up this winter!!! We had a really nice Christmas and New Year! I took some much needed time off of work between Christmas and New Years Day and because of the weather we ended up staying home and finding a few things to keep us occupied. We went to Vegas one day and would have really done a lot of fun stuff if it hadn't of been so cold!! We really just went to Hoover Dam and saw a few attractions on the strip and then came home! On New Years eve we took the girls sledding- Russ pulled us on the sleds behind the four wheeler just like my daddy used to!! It was actually the first time the girls have ever been!! I guess we are truly warm weather folk! Anyway here are a few pictures

Haley had to stop and trade gloves, she was the only one who stayed on the sleds the whole time

Macey and I traded off riding on the four wheeler with Russ. He was the only one that stayed dry and probably could've kept going for the rest of the day. Plus she lost her phone on one of her tumbles off of the sled- she had only had it for 2 weeks!! We found it but her dad wasn't too happy that she decided it was a good idea to bring it with her!!
This was at the end of the adventure and Macey was cold and cranky! She was ready to go home!!

Haley was trying to warm her hands up behind Russ's exhaust! It was really cold especially for a couple of St George girls!! I think it was only like 18 degrees or something! Don't all you northerners laugh at that!!!

Poor Macey ended up blazing the trail most of the day and therefore had about 20 pounds of snow in her lap on the trips through the fresh snow!

This was the very last ride of the day and I guess Macey decided that she was tired of snow in her lap. I rode on the sleds as well but I sure wasn't going to let any one take pictures of that!!!!

Halloween 2010

2010-11-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

As my Girls get older I miss getting to have an opinion about their costumes- but I think they did pretty good this year!!
Haley played this part perfectly!! There isn't much difference between a cranky teenager and a cranky old lady, right? Actually it took forever to get this picture cause she couldn't stop laughing long enough!!

Macey was a cute little cowgirl while Haley was an ugly old lady!!

She gets more beautiful all the time!!

She found everything at the DI- When we got home and she tried everything on we found out that the shoe had a lift in it- it was about an inch taller than the other one!! So funny!!

Macey and her cute friend Ashley!!

My cute Macey

2010-06-28T13:57:00.000-07:00

2010-06-16T14:46:00.001-07:00

Well the girls are out of school for summer and I haven't heard how bored they are yet but I am sure that it's coming. They have called me at work a few times to tell me how mean the other one is but I totally expected that! We have a fun thing coming up, Haley gets to get her Drivers Training Permit. She will be 15 on June 20th. She is determined to pass the test too, she has read the book through about 6 times and has 4 pages of notes!! She says she learns it better when she can write it down. She is READY!! She even has been correcting my driving a little bit- which I am sure needs a little bit of help! Macey is getting to go to girls camp this year so that should be fun for her- they have assured me that they only fight at home and should be getting along just fine at girls camp- We'll see, I can remember fighting with my sisters even at girls camp! Then later in the summer Macey will be an only child for a bit as Haley spends some time in "her other home" Ambers house!! She really would rather live there but I have to be mean and make her actuallly live here with her family!! How horrible am I! Macey has been having a lot of fun hanging out with friends- she sure has alot of them! It's a good thing most of her friends have stay at home moms so she can get rides back and forth- both her and Haley told me that they are going to stay home with their kids so that they won't have to stay home all of the time. We'll see how that works out for them!
This last weekend I got to go to The Phantom of the Opera in Vegas- It was amazing!!! Cassie and I went down and stayed over night on the strip so we got to look down from our hotel room at all the crazies walking up and down Las Vegas Blvd till all hours of the morning! We window shopped at the Venetian and when I say window shop I really mean it- $170 for a pair of jeans for a 2 year old!!! Also this Italian guy tried to talk Cassie into a $1300 pair of shoes. I am still amazed that people can spend that kind of money.
Russ has already been on his annual 4 wheeler ride to Richfield and back, this year they had like 12 people go I think. Russ was actually the only one that went the whole way on his 4 wheeler- some of them had their wives waiting in Richfield with trailers to haul them back home! Well that's our lives in a nutshell!! If my kids would ever let me take pictures of them I would have some to post, maybe I will sneak a few at the family reunion next weekend!!!

2010-03-22T09:41:00.001-07:00

Well since I haven't posted since November I figured I should write somthing about our lives! We have been busy folks lately! Haley just had her tonsils out and stayed down in bed (on the couch) for almost two weeks that was how she spent her spring break and unfortunatley since I was home with her, Macey didn't get to do anything fun either! Haley just went back to school today and she is so excited to get back so that really tells you how bored she was at home! Macey has been working like crazy on an awesome book report and an even more awesome science project. I am very proud of the way she handles everything so well she is such a good student and that makes things a little easier for me. She just turned 12 in January and is now in young womens, she is enjoying that. Haley is also doing well in school and has just been called to be the Mia Maid president in young womens. Both of girls are so sweet and they are really good girls they don't give us much trouble. Well maybe a little, they do enjoy fighting with each other!!! They recentley went to Orem with my sister and had fun shopping with her, they also just went with her on Saturday shopping again, it's a good thing aunt Cassie will take them shopping because I hate it!!!! I will take her kids on trade any day if she will take mine shopping. They had fun playing with their younger cousins this weekend as well. Russ has just been riding his four wheeler like crazy like he aways does, to Mesquite and back and all over. He can't wait for it to get warmer so he can go to Richfield and back! We will be taking our first camping trip of the year this weekend and I am looking forward to that, it should be fun. Maybe I will actually take some pictures to post!!! I am not very good at pictures, but it doesn't help that my kids hide from me when I try, it was so much easier when they were little. Oh I do have to tell on Haley a little bit, she was so funny coming out of her anesthesia after her surgery- She told me that they put a whole in her arm (the IV) because she was black! I laughed so hard. She was quite angry that someone was squeezing her arm every few minutes, I told her that it was the blood pressure cuff and the doctors needed to take her blood pressure, she proceeded to tell me that the doctors were liars and I was stupid because I believed them, later she told me that she could have taken her own tonsils out in less time and with less pain if I would have just given her a knife and that the doctors were liars (again). She thought I had stolen a car when she got in to go home, she is quite a paranoid little person when she's drugged. She said alot of funny things and kept us laughing for about 2 hours after her surgery. Oh she also said that all the liars lived in Cedar City, so now we know why people live there!

2009-11-03T17:14:00.000-08:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
We had a great Halloween- Macey made a really cute 50's girl, Haley went out of town with my mom so I didn't even get to see her dressed up.
I thought Macey had the cutest costume!!!

Well since I didn't get to take a picture of Haley in her costume I grabbed on of the millions of self portraits that she loves to do! She is so funny!

2009-09-16T11:27:00.000-07:00

Labor Day

I am really not very good at this, my sister gets her pictures on her blog really fast. Here it is a week after Labor Day and I am just now posting!! We had a family reunion over the Labor Day weekend and it was alot of fun. I have a huge family and alot of them were there.

Here is one of my favorite cousins Casidy, we were playing a game and you had to do a certain thing while trying to change chairs with someone else, he is a pretty great ballerina!!

The place we camped had this wonderful creek that all the kids couldn't stay away from, it was pretty.

Sophie enjoyed the creek,too.

Here is Haley getting mad at me for taking her picture. I can't seem to get her to be serious and smile!

At least Macey smiled for me!

Here they are just playing in the creek. I couldn't get them to turn around. That's the bad thing about older kids they get tired of mom taking pictures.

Well, we had a blast on the campout!! Thanks to all who made it great, can't wait until next year!

2009-08-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

I guess I think that I can't make a post if there isn't pictures, the problem is my family has been everywhere this last month and I haven't taken any pictures.

Haley has been staying in Delta at my sister Ambers house for the last two weeks and before that she stayed for another two weeks and was home for about 2 weeks before she went back up. My grandpa let her drive one of his tractors in the parade for the 24th of July and she was really nervous about it but she did a good job. She would live up there if I would let her but I won't!!! For the 2 weeks that she was home she had bronchitis so she missed girls camp. : ( Then Macey got bronchitis so we have had a sick house. Macey is excited to start at a new school this year although she is a little nervous. She has been hanging out with her friend all summer long and having fun going to movies and all sorts of things. She couldn't wait to see the new Harry Potter movie and then she was so disappointed, poor girl! Russ has been riding his 4 wheeler, camping, shooting guns and just having fun doing everything he loves to do. I am just working and trying to keep up with everyone else, it's a hard job but I don't really have a choice now do I!!!! I am of course very ready for school to start!
Hopefully I will take some pictures this weekend while we are camping and have a good post next time.

2009-07-15T07:40:00.000-07:00

Lagoon and 4th of July
We spent the 3rd and 4th of July with Russ's sister in Harriman- we went to Lagoon on Friday and had a fun 4th of July on Saturday.

Here is Macey with her sparkler.

The family relaxing watching the fireworks. I guess dad makes a good pillow. : )

Haley was coming down with what turned out to be bronchitis so she didn't have very much fun on the 4th.

Here is Haley and Macey on the Sky Ride at Lagoon, this also proves that I went on what to me is the scariest ride in the whole park, I can do the Rocket or Wicked or any other ride but this one gets my heart pounding every time. I am so afraid of heights and I hate it!!!

On the scrambler. I think they went on this one 6-7 times through out the day. Enough to make Macey a little queasy!

Posing for mom so she will leave them alone and quit buggin them to smile for pictures.

Russ hanging out in the shade waiting for the girls to get off of a ride.

2009-06-29T07:17:00.000-07:00

Camping June 27th 2009
I know it seems like all we do is go camping but really that's not true, we do go alot but that is just the only time I remember to bring my camera!

Russ isn't serious very often!

Russ and Kim Thacker around the campfire- These two could be brothers I swear, they act just a like!

One thing we really like to do while camping is shoot our guns. We had fun!

Even Haley likes to shoot, she just couldn't stop laughing long enough to get a shot off.

The girls like to play "Fluffy Bunny", if you are not familiar with this game this is how it goes. You shove marshmallows into your mouth and try to say fluffy bunny after each one. They forgot to keep count but they all had ALOT in their mouths and it was funny!
Here is Rudi showing off her batch of marshmallows.

Macey was actually pretty good at the game. She could say it clear up until the end.

The is MaKail. Her and Haley are pros at the game.

Haley always has to pull a funny face when I take her picture but she doesn't have to try to very hard with her mouth overflowing with marshmallows.

Well since I never update I thought I would catch up on what our family has been doing. It seems to be a pretty busy summer for us. Well for Haley and Russ anyway, Macey and I are pretty boring. Russ went on an 801 mile ride, he and his friends like to ride from here (St. George) to Richfield and back ON THEIR 4- WHEELERS!!! They go from here to there on a Friday, ride around the mountians there all day Saturday and then come home again on Sunday. They are crazy in my book but they love it. He says that next time they will do an even 1,000 miles!!! CRAZY! Haley has been to youth conference this month, then she went to stay at my sister Ambers house in Delta, while there she went to their Girls Camp and in two weeks she has our wards Girls Camp, even though she thinks she doesn't need to go because she already went to Ambers. By the way Amber is way funner than I am apparently. And Delta is way cooler than St. George. Haley also had a birthday and turned 14, I know, that means I am way old and I am not sure I like it. Macey has been up helping my mom clean house and helping my sister Cassie with her two kids so that she can clean her house, too. She earns money and saves it so she can shop, shop, shop. She also likes to hang out with her best friend Ashley who lives just down the street, those two are connected at the hip. Me, I have just been busy working. Hmmm I am boring! This weekend we are going to Salt Lake to stay with Russ's sister for the 4th of July. We will go to Lagoon on Friday and possibly the 4th too! Then hang out and have fireworks and stuff. I will bring my camera and post some fun pictures next week!

2009-05-28T07:05:00.005-07:00

Memorial Day!

Around the Campfire

Our friends the Thackers

Haley can't be serious... ever!

Allie, Thain and Tess in the tree. They had fun with the trees, we couldn't get them out! Tess was enjoying the dirt!
The Girls!!!

The girls like to play games in the trailer.

2009-05-28T07:05:00.003-07:00

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2009-05-15T12:38:00.001-07:00

Our Sophie!
This is the other member of our family- Sophie

She is our sweet golden retriever, she is the sweetest thing and is so friendly. Haley thinks she is air headed because she chases butterflies and Russ's bullets when he is shooting. She does chase the bullets but it's because she is a bird dog. Besides Haley shouldn't be pointing fingers in the airhead department.

2009-05-05T11:01:00.000-07:00

We went to the Supercross in Las Vegas on May 2nd. We go every year and this year proved to be just as exciting as ever We had a lot of good friends that went with us and we did quite a bit of shopping too!!
Fighter jets flew right over the stadium and it was awesome!!

Fire works at the race

Roger and Nicole Thomas, Kim Thacker Russ and Tori Thacker in the pits at the race!

2009-04-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

Macey's school has an awesome Music program, here they are at Tuacahn playin the conga drums. She is the last one on the far right on the top row. She is so musical and very, very talented.

Here is Russ just hanging out at the lake with the Family.

Macey is very good at self portraits. This was taken when we were camping.

We love to camp as a family, here's Haley posing for me even though she hates it when I ask her to smile!

2009-04-14T10:23:00.000-07:00

Every once in a while we get Haleys hair braided, it is much easier on both of us!!! Except that this time it took 8 hours to finish it. But it looks great!

2009-04-13T14:39:00.000-07:00

This is the girls being silly and, yes, getting along. I have this one framed at home so I know that it really can happen!!

2009-04-13T14:33:00.001-07:00

Well I really did it, Cassie has been bugging me forever to get a blog going so here it is.