Introducing Claire Jane Fluckey

My baby sister Kim had her girl Claire Jane Fluckey.
November 3, 2011 weighing 6 lbs 9oz and 19 inches long.

She had a heck of a time finding a name that worked with Fluckey (pronounced lucky with an f) but I think Claire works perfectly. She is such a doll. Each time I visit Jonny is staring at her in amazement.

Our cute little scrunched face Barbie doll.

Like always Caleb couldn't get enough of his newest niece. 

Jonny was pretty proud of himself for picking such a cute bow. =) 

Me and my favorite Seestas.

I'm not sure what's going on with the lighting here but you can already tell Claire is going to be so loved.

She is absolutely perfect.

My awesome dad cuddling Boston and Hollie with Claire.

I used to think that Boston was so small. Now he's a monster compared to his cousin. 

 I nearly died laughing when I saw this picture. Jed is such a nerd.

Hollie told me the cutest thing Brooke said, they were trying to figure out what to bring for show and tell that started with the letter "R" and Brooke said, "Too bad it's not "A" cause then I could bring Aunt Becky"

She's just so little....

and flexible. She's going to be a gymnast.

Kim paid an arm and a leg for these pictures from the hospital but they are pretty cute.

I can't believe how beautiful she is. Another blonde (bald) baby to add to the family.

Bonus Picture.

This popped up on my screen saver. I love these weirdos.



Thriller, Funeral and Staples

Saturday morning my 9-months prego seester and I went to the Bountiful Temple. It was so nice. I’m embarrassed to admit I haven’t been since I was released as a volunteer when the Ogden temple closed back in April.

Later Caleb took me to Thriller!!! I LOVE it so much.

I was glad we accidentally got a creepy photobomber in our Thriller pictures.

My sweet Grandma Smith passed away this week. You can read her obituary here.

Grandma loved when I would bring her egg plants from my in-laws garden.

Last month when she had to get her finger pricked before her dialysis the nurse asked, "do you have a preference of which finger to use?" My smart alec grandma replied with "Yeah, yours"

My dad told a story my grandma's sister had wrote about when they were younger. My great grandpa told her and my grandma to spit out their gum and go to bed. As they got into their bedroom she asked how she still had gum, my grandma's response was, "don't you wish you would've bit yours in half." Haha

Here's my sweet mom with her mom.

I love you grandma. Who am I going to take shopping now? I miss you.

  

At the funeral Caleb put Brooke and Ash up in a tree so they wouldn't be in the way. =)

Kim took two pictures of Caleb and I at the gravesite up in Eden. Neither of us were ready for either so this is the better option. Thanks Kim, you're a peach.

The whole family at the gravesite, it was such a nice service everything including the weather was perfect. But it is nice to have it all over with so now we can move on and heal.

Now onto the staples… Thursday during work I got a call from Caleb saying Indee had fell at school and needed stitches. (Mike and Kathy had just left that morning on a two-week cruise to Istanbul, Turkey, and Greece) When I got to the school Indee was bawling in the nurses office holding an icepack on her head. I nearly lost it right then. But knew I had to be strong for her in this scary situation. With a little help from Feliz we learned the insurance card was taped to the fridge with authorization to treat all of the kids. So we went to the instacare. This next picture was of us hanging out in the waiting room. (Clearly we pulled our selves together)

Here is a picture of the battle wound. She was going to sit back in her chair but thought it was closer so she fell to the ground and bumped the back of her head on her chair.

  The battle wound. Three staples. Poor Indee was so scared she asked if she could wait until her parents got back, but the doctor said no. So once we got to the surgical room she asked the doctor and nurse if she could “have a moment with her sister” =) I told her we better get this done and that it is just three little staples. (3 staples not being put in my own head) Anyway, she asked if we could say a prayer. Seriously, is she the sweetest little thing ever? So we did, and it turned out to be a really quick process. She said cleaning the wound out was worse than the actual staples.

 

Now onto the funny part… When we pulled into the driveway we decided to play a joke on Feliz and Gavin. I told them that Indee had lost her memory but that the doctors said it should come back soon. Feliz just stared at her a little unsure what to think. But Gavin was so freaked out. He wouldn’t come near her. Then Indee and I started laughing and told them we were teasing.

My week... (in pictures)

Alison and I helped with the pig racing at the corn maze for Young Women's on Tuesday and won these awesome rings.

 Here are some of the other leaders. I didn't meant to cut you out Holly. =)

Thursday we had delish fajitas with our friends the Pavlovich's. Sweet Makenna let me hold her and Caleb feed her. We are definitely wearing her out.

Friday night we had AMAZING ribs and played some awesome games with these two friends.

What happens at game night stays at game night. Right guys? ;) 

I had a work party on Saturday.

 

I freakin' love these crazy ladies.

My dad and Caleb changed my thermostat. I was in the kitchen making parfaits when Caleb groans, "Babe, help" I run to the door and he's just chillin' on the creeper (the thing you roll under cars with). So I said, "are you kidding me?" and he replied, "that is the sweetest thing ever" then says to my dad "after almost 5 years of marriage we're still in love"

Saturday morning while the boys were working on the car I made 80 shot glass parfaits for Boston's baby blessing.

I think they turned out so cute. Plus they were super easy. This I would recommend.

I cannot believe what a perfect little boy Boston is, Brooke and Ashton smother him and he doesn't even seem to notice.

Sad/Hilarious Story
Last week I was over at Hollie's and Brooklyn was showing me this song/dance she learned in kindergarten. Then Brooke swung her little purse around and accidentally smacked Boston up side the head while he was seated in his Bumbo. He also tipped over! He looked around like "what the heck was that about" then went on playing with his fingers. Seriously he is the such an angel.

Yet again...

Homemade Hostess Cupcake Cake Balls

So I found the greatest recipe blog on Pinterest. It is called Sugar Derby. She has lots of recipes and pictures to go along with them. These darn cake balls took me about 5 hours to make, there are about a million steps. Ugh, I don't think I'll make them again but they were super cute.

 My frosting bag. I must have been squeezing too hard because the bag broke open and I got frosting all over my hand.

 I dipped the cake balls in the melted chocolate. Delish

 This picture is from Sugar Derby of what the finished project should look like.

Here are my lumpy cake balls. After my frosting explosion I decided to do my own designs.

Some people call me Betty Crocker. Haha 

Here is the link to recipe for Homemade Hostess Cupcake Cake Balls.

http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/3/11/homemade-hostess-cupcake-cake-balls.html 

Florida **picture overload**

Caleb and I were in need of a vacation, so we took a week off and used the exchange program from Vacation Internationale and went to Florida. Still the best purchase ever!

We stayed at Vacation Village in Weston. Weston has the highest median income in Florida, at a whooping $83,000. Crazy huh? It is a very nice city and a great location.

This resort was one of the nicer places we've stayed. We might go back again next year. 

Dining/living room.

Amazing pool.

Full kitchen

Bathroom

Caleb pretending to cook.

We are big fans of vacationing. =)

This is for my friend Tiff. Our little ode to Cokes. ;)

In our restaurant guide there was this delicious place called the Ice Cream Club of Weston. It said that you get a free scoop on your birthday so that was the first place we went after we arrived at the resort so Caleb could get his free scoop. 

Here we are at the beach in Ft Lauderdale.

Adam and Cara let us take their GPS and every time we were going towards Ft. Lauderdale it would say "Feet Lauderdale"

This looks like one of those Corona ads.

I love Florida.

I told Caleb to go play in the water so I could take a picture...

Me chillin' on the beach.

I wrote this...

then my cute husband ....

wrote this

We went home, got cleaned up, and went to a comedy club.

The comedians were hilarious. Caleb cried a few times.

Later Caleb asked if I knew where his phone was... while it was in his hand. hahaha

They were giving away free snow cones at the pool. I had a red and Caleb had a blue one,

then he said, "let's go upstairs and make a purple baby." We both laughed so hard we cried.

We spent most of the day at our own pool it was that awesome.

Then we headed over to the golf course.

Clearly neither of us actually golf...

So we just took lots of pictures.

Happy Gilmore style

My idea...

Caleb's idea...

The Everglades were right across the freeway from us. We took an airboat ride to see some alligators.

thumb wrestled

then went down to the pool again.

We had to stop by Ron Jon Surf Shop to pick up the perfect gift for Leecy.

Try and imagine that you’re from Atlanta and you have to fly to Utah for a business trip. While on the trip, you go to the opening day of “Singles Ward” the movie in Provo. Well, that’s pretty much what happened to us in Florida. Caleb and I went to “The Help” on opening day in Fort Lauderdale. There were 5 other white people there and we weren’t quite sure if could/should laugh at all the parts that everyone else was.

I have not seen a crowd get so involved in a movie with some "uh huh," "oh girl," and stampede of feet stomping. Awkward yet hilarious.  Bonus, Caleb bought us some Cotton Candy, it was delish.

We spent most of the time at Miami south beach even though it was further away but the water was crystal clear.

The first picture didn't show how clear it was so I asked Caleb to sit so I could take a picture of him. =)

Then on our last day in Florida we went to the Miami Zoo.

I was trying to help keep her modest. Just like I tell my Young Women, "Modest is the Hottest!"

Pettting the goats.

Caleb said "try not to act so scared"

Clearly he must have forgotten this experience in San Antonio.

We were too cheap to pay for a camel ride so we took a picture of these guys and are going to pretend it's us.

 The fences at the zoo were about up to your thigh, and had a tiny ditch between. So scary.

Here is a tiger.

And here is a picture of a tiger jumping way further than the ditch at the zoo.

We had to buy two packages of granola bars because we never like the same kind. I pulled them out of the backpack for Caleb to grab his and he thought I was giving him the option and picked mine.

Best Buds.

Caleb getting fresh with the elephant.

My turn....

Then Caleb tipped it over.

They had a rhino petting exhibit.

It's a little too close for my liking.

You can't tell but I'm walking really slow.

We were seeing how much longer we had to walk.

For some reason these are the types of pictures we like to take at the zoo.

That donkey deserved an uppercut.

Then I kissed it better

We used these misters every chance we got.

Emborracharse- learned that from Professor Rigby's class up at U of O.

Caleb and the Hot Llamas. hahaha

Caleb wasn’t really interested in this exhibit but he couldn’t pass on getting a picture with these tourist.

Hee hee

Caleb jumped over a palm tree... no biggie.

Stay classy, Miami

Another relaxing dream vacation.