More Pictures

all the metcalfe cousins
white trash brandon pulling steve and ty in a canoe behind our four-wheeler

payt running up the sidewalk when the rain flooded our street this summer 2009

Uncle justin taking Mikey on the wakeboard

Payton body boarding behind our boat

sorry that's it for now my computer won't let me add any more pics right now, i'll add more another time!

quick update...

Payton riding his bike for the 1st time without training wheels

Briggs and Gami @ Payton's birthday June 10 2009

Brandon, Lexi, Brigss, and Payton swimming (briggs 1st pool time)

Auntie Madi in California May 2009

lexi and payt in Idaho @ anutie micah's house

Hey ya'll okay so here I am making a quick update.
besides my new "other" blog (marenand1100calories.blogspot.com) here's what's new with us:
*we moved from Bountiful to West Kaysville
*Briggs is now 7 months old, Super happy and healthy
*Payton is starting preschool in about a week or so. He's 4 now. He rides a 2-wheeler by himself
*Lexi starts tumbling and dance in sept. she's 3 on aug. 23rd
*Brandon works for his good friend doing bankruptcy cases and taxes (Carr & Pew Law)
*I start working for Davis school district being a teachers aid on fridays for a few hours on fridays @ farmington elemantry
*We spent 8 amazing days at our cabin in Island Park Idaho in June
*We are about to celebrate our 5th ann. in Sept.
*We're all alive, happy, and super blessed!

Well that's the update, sorry not much detail. I added a few picts to show how our summers been. busy and full of adventure! love you all and i'll try and do better posting.
(please don't forget to check out my "other" blog marenand1100calories.blogspot.com)

my new blog

hey ya'll it's been way to long sense i last updated this blog, but I do have a new one to share.
It's called marenand1100calories.blogspot.com
now it's not one that will be updated with family info and what not, but it's one i'm sharing with the world so check it out and pass it along to all you know. I encourage you to post and comment and use it to your liking. it's not to make you feel bad for me or anything i'm just being real! please add it to one you check regularly. i'll post on it everyday. and i'll try to update this one more often i promise. okay really check it out, come on right now


marenand1100calories.blogspot.com

It's been way too long I'll update soon

backyard adventures...

just happy to be outside in the nice sun

baby swing in front of our apricot tree (I just liked the bright colors and pretty flowers)

draggin' her blankie around the yard

loves climbing fences and dog runs...

she dragged out the carseat herself and got her blankie and chilled

cute hands

better view of how big the hat is

too big of a hat on a cute little face!

we love to play ball

say cheese!

PB&J face mixed with dirt!

today was such a beautiful hot sunny day! we decided to go in our awesome backyard and pull devil weeds. The kids loved being out in the sun for hours. while I pricked and cut myself with super giant thorny trees the kids ran, played on the swing, and played in the dirt! They had so much fun getting stinky. I worked extra hard on trying to get our poor overgrown backyard ready for this spring and summer BBQs and just plain backyard adventureous fun! We spend hours sometimes all day back there swimming and running around. I brought Briggs out there for his first time. He loved just sittin' in his swing and laying in the warmth of the sun. I tried putting a hat on him, but his poor little head was too small to even fit a 0-3 month hat. (He didn't get the Metcalfe head like my other 2 kiddies) It was still super cute though. I couldn't help but take tons of pictures of him! I also got a few others of payt and lexi. we were so happy to have a beautiful spring day to take advantage of!

new blog...

hey ya'll i created a new blog for myself. i am of course gonna use this one still, but i have created my own mini company and so to get it out there i have made a blog for it. it is cuteasabutton13.blogspot.com please add it to your buddy list and check it out! super cute stuff! so tell all your friends and family to check it out too! thanks love you guys tons.

my big 25

Brandon and Me in archibalds resturant

my favorite kind of gorgious flowers from brandon!

my cute pedicure ( you want flower?)

just one of the piggies at gardner village petting zoo

Gami helping the kids walk across the street at gardner village

lexi and payton helping me blow out the candles

Lexi, Me, Mom, and Megan

megan, aiden, liam, and tyson

the five of us briggs, payton, lexi, brandon, and me

aiden and liam eating their dinner

me just finished fan-tab-u-lous dinner

my yummy fudge chocolate cake made by mom

for my birthday most of my family was out of town so we were able to celebrate it on thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. we had pizza with chris, cassie, and conner thursday, friday we went to iggy's sports grill with brandon's parents and Madi, and saturday my mom came to my step class with me, then took me to get a nice relaxing pedicure, later we went to a delicous place called archibalds for dinner at gardner village! we shopped and looked at giant pigs and cute little animals. my mom, sister-in-law (megan), brother (tyson) and 2 nephews came with us. we had so much fun (thanks guys for coming) then on sunday my mom made me a super fabulous dinner and delightful birthday cake. it was just me, mom, payton, lexi, and briggs.(dad in hawaii and brandon in detroit). my two kids sang all by themselves for me! it was so sweet. and then today (monday (my actual birthday))my BFF Sigrid came over with yummy lunch and I went and got a 2 hour massage and went swimming with lexi and patyon and my other BFF Beth, her 3 kids and her husband ken. Brandon sent me my favorite flowers for my birthday morning suprise. they are so beautiful!!! thanks babe. i can't thank everyone enough for a fabulous birthday! thanks guys my big 25 couldn't be any better! love ya'll.

gReEn with EnVy...

Beth, Maren, Siggy, and Briggs

playing skipbo siggy, beth, mikey, and elliecousin Jakey

Maren and Ellie

Sadie

Brandon and Briggs (poor sport, the only one not in green brandon!)

Maren and Briggs

Siggy and Briggs

Siggy, Beth, Sadie, Mikey, and Ellie

Beth and Sadie

Ken resting up for his late night shift at work

Ken, Beth, and Sadie

Lexi, Maeli, Kenny, and Payton

yes a bit late but here are some pics of our fun GREEN day! Yes my favorite holiday is st. patty's day so we really take it to the extreme. Green food all day long, and if it's not green we put food coloring in it. so green poopies for the next few days. ((TMI)too much information?) we really have had fun keeping up the green tradition sense we've been married. I know it was a weird adjustment for Brandon, but seriously who doesn't love the 17th of March!? We had our best friends over for dinner and then we had siggy come over too!& you can't come over to our house without playing games!!! we later had 2 of our nephews and one niece come over to play. thanks guys for eating green just for me!

my soap box...

JUST WANTED ADD SOME BEAUTY TO MY STRUGGLE

okay so not to be totally depressing right now, i just needed to vent for a sec on bodies. well this last week i really worked hard at exercising and did great totally lost 1\2 inch on each of my arms, and almost a whole inch on my thighs. so ya that is totally rockin' dope, but then it comes down to the eating. blah!!! really that stinks i have such a bad strength when it comes to making good eating choices. oh man why does food have to be so fabulously delicous?! oh stink, it is super hard for me. i just wish that everything was bland and yucky, but NO it has to be scrumpcious and sugary. okay so really like i have said before "in my world everyone will eat rainbows and poop butterflies" then we won't stuggle with the food dilema. super!!! really i'm super in love with my step class and I LOVE TO EXERCISE but man it doesn't pay off when i eat like an elephant who loves food. so that comes back to body image. who's the one to decide what we should look like? i mean i'm all for being healthy. well darn it all, i'm stumped with my struggle. any ideas? now i'll step off my soap box and go back to being good ole happy me! holla ya'll!!!

super girls to the rescue

super chick and wonder flower
wonder flower hiding her true identity

super chick trying on wonder flowers mask

super chick in her true setting

auntie sigrid gave the kids some dorky but cute hats from IKEA for valentines, well my little flower girl was so upset that I didn't have a hat and mask on, so to please her I put on the chick hat and she loved it. We decided to be super girls. we were cracking up and had fun taking pictures. brandon came home from work and i greeted him with a big smile in my secret identity
da ta ta da! off to save the world!!!