Seeley's Graduation

Farish Family

Seeley and Connor

Seeley and Hope getting sprayed with silly string

My sister, Seeley, graduated from MATC (Mountainland Applied Technology College) and got her cosmetology license back in June 2011. She works at a salon and unfortunately for her, she has earned the privilege of doing my hair for as long as she lives in Utah. :) I have been majorly slacking on this blog, so I wanted to put these few pictures up now. James was at the graduation too, he just took all these pictures. Good work Seeley!

Side Job

Can you find James?

I went to byucougars.com one day and saw James (holding his red flag) on the homepage.

My dad has been a volleyball referee for years and years. I used to go to college games with him and sit in the stands by myself and just watch. My dad liked me to come with him so he could drive in the carpool lane in CA and I loved to go and watch awesome players like Misty May at Long Beach State. Anyway...since my parents moved up to Utah, my dad has coached (or coaxed??) James into becoming a line judge. So James has been lining some BYU and University of Utah games these past few seasons. Although I hate that most of the games are on Friday and Saturday nights, I do like to spend the extra moola! Thanks for working so hard James (and Dad)!

P.S. - See told you I'd post! More to come. I promise. After posts like this, I know you're excited.

P.P.S - Do you like the new look of the blog? I couldn't go back to sleep after Jimmer woke up at 3am asking for soda. What the heck? Are the new fonts showing up?

I will post.

Come on Michelle. You can do it!

Jimmer is 2!

I thought I'd try to at least get a few pictures up of Jimmer's 2nd birthday. I made him a small basketball cake (half of which collapsed) on his actual birthday and let him open his big present that day (a basketball hoop). Then when my sister and her family returned from their vacation, we had Jimmer's "party". Streamers from the dollar store make it a party, right?

Yay! I'm two!

Why do you keep taking pictures of me, Mom?

The birthday boy
Jimmer could tell it was a basketball...that's all that counts.

Jimmer loved blowing out his candle. He kept saying "Do it again! Do it again!" And Grandpa would let him :)

Awesome decorations for the party

How old are you?

Loving all his presents!

Fun work bench from Grandma and Grandpa!

Blowing out his 2 candle again! (and again and again)

Showing me the basketball ring from his "puh-cake"

Swimming with Dad and Papa (and Will)

A look back to his 1st birthday :)

And he's growing up right before our eyes!

So long Camry...

I have a few more pictures , but I'm not sure how to upload them from my iPod without using Facebook. So I don't want to keep uploading pictures to Facebook just to get them on here. Anyway, you get the idea.
Almost two weeks ago James, Jimmer and I were on our way to my parents' house for dinner (like most nights :)) and we were stopped at a red light when a guy in a truck slammed into the back of our car and pushed us into the SUV in front of us. The driver of the truck must have been distracted because he did not even slow down before hitting us. It was a really scary experience. As it happened, time seemed to slow down, and I felt helpless as we're just being crunched back and forth between the two cars. James couldn't hardly pull the car over to the side of the road before I was trying to get my door open and get to Jimmer. We were all fine and only had some soreness in our necks for a little while. Thank goodness!!
We are now looking to replace our car since our insurance let us know this week that the Camry was totaled. We're actually happy about that, in a way, because we didn't really want to drive around in a car that was damaged so much. However, we are finding it very difficult to find a used car that is in good condition like ours was. We had low milage, a nice interior, and just a few door dings. As we've looked at some newer Camrys than ours, all we have found so far is ones that smell like hotel rooms, have beat-up interiors, and have lots of miles. We may end up buying a new car, but we don't necessarily want to pay thousands more to have it new again. James wants to buy a Corolla to replace the Camry just because we can pay for the entire thing. I don't really want to lose my roomy Camry! Oh well, I guess that's why they call it an accident! A lesson learned though, not to text or get distracted while you're driving or you could cause someone else this headache!!

Oh my goodness...a post!!

I know you can hardly believe your eyes. Let's face it...I haven't wanted to blog lately, ok? Don't get too excited, but here are some pictures from our Easter festivities.

For some reason, Jimmer and Will did not want to wear the awesome trash-bag aprons I made them. Whatever. :)


Some of our best eggs (I'm especially proud of the "James" egg with the yellow hair. There is a face on the other side of it. James didn't find it very amusing...but I did!)

Jimmer and Will being crazy (as usual!)

Checkin' out the basket

Jimmer's egg hunt was short-lived because he found the red ball that he'd much rather play with.

Jimmer and Dad

This was the only way to get Jimmer to take a picture with us.

I can't think of one thing...

to blog about...blah!