AZ Thomas Family

Seiter Family Pictures Jan/Feb 2011

2011-03-08T13:16:00.020-07:00

The girls

Elder Kyle Seiter

Megan, Wes and Zoe

Daddy and his girls!

Annie

Emma

Nicole, Preston, Chloe, Lucy and Sophie

mom and dad

Kyle and mom

Kyle and dad

Emma's 3rd Birthday

2010-08-13T09:18:00.004-07:00

Yee Haw!

Hollywoods, we call her Holly for short!

1st Day of School 2010

2010-08-13T09:03:00.006-07:00

Homework: Find things around the house that describe you. Emma's: Mac-n-Cheese (she's a mac monster), Disney Princesses are her favorite, The Wiggle's cause she LOVES to sing and dance along with them and the "Pit Shop" (Pet Shop) cause she loves to play with them.

Homework: Find things around the house that describes you. Annie's: crayons cause she likes to color, suckers are her favorite, iPod cause she loves to listen to my iPod any chance she gets, goggles cause she loves to swim and the camera cause she loves to take pictures of anything and everything.

Someone likes to model...
Emma and her HUGE hair. Just to get her to let me comb it is a fight.

Summer 2010

2010-08-13T08:30:00.013-07:00

Emma got busted for coloring on Grandma Jen's walls at the condo... she had to scrub it off.

Steve-O and bff Gibb

Grandma Jen's Brithday Party at the park

Flight to Utah

Swim lessons

Edge left for his mission!

Family Pictures November 2009

2009-11-07T22:44:00.010-07:00

Emma Has Caught the Madness

2009-11-07T22:40:00.004-07:00

Her daddy will be so proud

Halloween 2009

2009-11-07T22:28:00.007-07:00

Cousins
I made these ghosts and put them in the front yard. Everyone throught they were Emma and Annie.
Annie and her best buddy Kaden
The girls with Grandma Jen and Grandpa Bob.
Annie's school party.
Annie was a witch and Emma's still in her jammie's.

I just love these cute faces

2009-11-07T22:26:00.002-07:00

Annie's Field Trip to the Fire Station

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Goof Balls!

2009-11-07T22:09:00.005-07:00

Band-Aids are like stickers at out house.
Buddies!
Zoe sportin' the off road look.
I do have to say, she keeps us laughing, ALL THE TIME!

Labor Day Camping 2009

2009-11-07T21:57:00.009-07:00

Summer Pictures

2009-11-07T21:44:00.005-07:00

Annie's First Day of Preschool

2009-08-12T16:25:00.004-07:00

Meet the teacher Monday!

We had a minor set back about 5 minutes before school started... SOMEONE got into the sunblock...

Scrubbed clean and ready to go!

Annie and her best buddy Kaden

Emma had a hard time letting Annie go to school. She was so sad... but boy is she cute!

Annie had to bring in a few things that were her 'favorites'. She decided on, a microphone because she likes to sing, goggles because she likes to swim, Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba, Chuck E Cheese, and McDonalds. After school was over, her teacher informed me that Annie is NOT shy at all...?!?

1st art project from school

Utah July 2009

2009-08-12T16:01:00.006-07:00

Grandma Jen, Grandpa Bob and the girls
What a good lookin family!
Buddies... Emma, Annie and Zoe
We went and visited Pres. Hinckleys grave. Very cool!
Some kids are never too old to play at Chuck E Cheese
We met up with Jel and her kids, Kate and Clark at the aquarium.
Grandma Jen and Emma
Fishing With Dad

The LONG car ride to Utah…

Joe and Tracy's Wedding July 2009

2009-08-12T09:01:00.008-07:00

Don't we look good!

My date for the day... Jon!

I felt so lucky that Tracy picked me to be a part of her wedding.

We LOVE Joe and Tracy and are so grateful to have them as neighbors and most of all friends!

Thomas Family Pictures

2009-06-26T13:33:00.008-07:00

A Little Bit Of Chicken Fry

2009-04-15T16:15:00.004-07:00

Just to clear things up... I didn't forget the "a" on Emma...

Suns Game

2009-04-15T15:12:00.015-07:00

Game #1... 4 rows off the court!

Game #2... ON THE FLOOR!!!!!!!

Kristi's Dream... to be on the Suns Dance Team! Shake it girlfriend!

Heather's Dream... to be the sweat sweeper! Shows how different we are! I still love her though!

I think we might of had some air time... anyone see us? ; )

Random Pictures

2009-04-15T14:48:00.012-07:00

The typical mountain of laundry waiting to be folded (and you cant even see the pile on the floor). The kids think its a jungle gym?!?

The Hunt!

Easter Morning

Easter Bunny Surprises

These blasted gumballs are going to be the death of me. I find them EVERYWHERE... chewed and unchewed.

I told her to not lean over the edge of the tub. She didn't listen...

She gets her style from her dad...

Material Things

2009-03-23T22:56:00.003-07:00

I had the opportunity to go to lunch today with a friend/work colleague. He is not a member of the church, but it was nice to really be able to sit and enjoy this conversation with him. You may be thinking to yourself now. Work. Scott. Wow this must have been a boring lunch, but the subject that we were talking about that has really hit home lately.

Material things.

Both myself and my friend do well and we are both sole providers for our families. With the economy being the way it is and both him and I work in the construction industry we really never no how long our jobs may last. And no matter how much you want to prepare for that rainy day, you're never really prepared.

Never the less at the end of the day as my friend George said "at least we will have our families." And oh is that so so true. Take away my house, my cars, my TV, and what really matters to me is what I enjoy coming home to every day. My beautiful loving wife and two great daughters.

Well we aren't the best blogger's, but we sure love each other.

A Day At The Park

2009-01-22T15:39:00.012-07:00

Isnt he such a good dad!
These guys are obsessed with the swings.

Twins...

Annie giving dad some lovin's

Buddies!

Show us your muscles baby!

Notice the big boy bike on top of the car... why he has to ride the kids' bike beats me?!?

Just Some Random Pictures

2009-01-22T15:02:00.013-07:00

Here's To You Dad!

2009-01-09T23:14:00.002-07:00

My dad will be going in for open heart surgery on Sunday and I'm asking for everyone's thoughts and prayers at this time. I love my dad so much and pray that he will be safe... besides he's too young for all of this, he's still got to see his grandkids grow-up! WE LOVE YOU DAD/GRANDPA BOB!!!

Christmas 2008

2008-12-31T23:57:00.007-07:00

These pictures are kind of backwards, I was too lazy to rearrange.

Long morning...

Annie and Emma Christmas morning waiting to see what Santa brought.

Santa left lots of fun toys!

Santa LOVED his cookies!

Annie and her note to Santa along with some cookies.

Annie's Got Talent

2008-12-28T20:28:00.004-07:00

Go Team Madness!

2008-12-22T16:49:00.006-07:00

Scott's Teammate, Sterling

Scott's brother Jon and teammate, Motor Mike

No, he did not cut his hair into a mohawk... he's just going bald!

Scott's team along with his brother's team recently completed an Adventure Race by Saguaro Lake. The race lasted about 9 hours. Jon's team came in 1st and Scott's team came in 2nd. Go Team!!!

Picture Perfect!!

2008-12-22T16:36:00.002-07:00

There has got to be a way I can make money off of this cute mug! Look at her, she must get her good looks from her mom!!!!

BUSTED!

2008-11-19T20:32:00.008-07:00

Someone (I'm not going to name names) got into my 'hair wax' yesterday. Check out the chunks!

Happy Birthday To Cole!

2008-11-19T18:51:00.004-07:00

Happy Birthday Nicole! We love you and miss you so much.

It Just Comes Natural!

2008-11-18T07:50:00.003-07:00

Annie is above the 'curve' when it comes to sarcasm (she must get that from her mom)!! I wish I could remember half the things she says but I'll do my best to try to capture her personality.

-We were driving on the freeway, past the dairy, and of course you can smell the cows and Annie goes, Dad, do you have gas?

-Yesterday I asked her to go play in the backyard, she stops, looks at me, and says, let me think about it, ummmmmm, no!

-Annie kept saying, Dad, Dad. Scott answers her with a 'yes', she says, 'No, you are supposed to say, 'Yes ma'am'!

-Last night, Scott said, 'Why is dad such a dummy?' Annie said, 'You thus are!'

-I asked her to pick up her toys, she said, Mom, I can't, I've had a hard day at work!

-If she's into something that she's not supposed to be in, I'll say, Annie, what are you doing? She responds with, Mom, don't worry about it.

-She kept asking me a ton of questions one day and I was getting annoyed so I kept telling her, 'stop asking'. We got home from running places and she was in to something and wouldn't answer me. Finally she answered with, 'mom, stop asking'.

-When something is cool to her, she'll say, 'Shut Up, are you kidding me'!

-My mom asked her about finding fireworks at Target when we were in Utah over the summer and Annie said, 'we couldn't find any, damn it!'

-Scott is known as 'Old Man'. Often times we are 'ditching our old man'. Other nicknames she's given us are: Old Women, Pork Chop, Nacho...

-The other day Emma was throwing a fit and wouldn't stop crying, Annie comes to me and says, Mom, she is driving me nuts!

-She often times has conversations on her play phone with people. The other day she 'talked' to Michael Jackson, Lucy (her cousin), and all of Scott's teammates from his Adventure Race team (Donny, Brent, Mike, Sterling, Jon). The conversation consisted of; 'Hey, Mitool Jackson, give me a call back, I have a question for you.'

-When we go to any place with a drive-thru and we are asked if they can take our order, she'll yell, Yeah, I want chicken nuggets, french fries, a Dr. Pepper and a toy!

-After taking the spinning class at the gym last week, I was drenched in sweat. Annie says, Mom, you reek!

-She's also got her own language for things which I now just know what she's talking about. For example:
Jindle Bell Jims = Jungle Jims Playland
Warm Up = Wal-Mart
Target = Target (that was one of her first words!!!)
Tiggle = Tigger
Merman = Mermaid
Q Stick = Q Tip
Dip It = BBQ Sauce from McDonalds
Zoe Dog = Zoe (her cousin's name)
Thanks To Giving = Thanksgiving
Einer = Ernie
Opal'em = Open Them
Crunchy Noodles = Roman Noodles
Pizzie = Pizza
Thus = Just
Puter = Computer

We've got a firecracker on our hands. I'm sure there are lots more. I'll try to keep the list updated!

Sing It Baby!

2008-11-13T07:48:00.004-07:00

Annie Ba-nannie

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Emma Jean

2008-11-12T15:23:00.000-07:00

Here is a collection of pictures of Emma. My mom called her Emma Jean one day and ever since then, she's been known as Emma Jean!

(The pictures with Emma and I together... Annie took them!!)

Remember to Vote

2008-10-29T00:46:00.000-07:00

Vote Yes on Prop 102 in AZ.

Protect our family and our childrens Families.

Ugly Betty

2008-09-12T16:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a little story about a boat we call "Ugly Betty".

One day, my dad and Scott were driving down the road and saw an old "fixer-upper" on the side of the road with a "For Sale" sign on it. Without thinking twice, they pulled over and bought it right then and there. After a little TLC and several hours, days, and even weeks at the shop (it needed quite the tune-up), the S.S. Minnow was ready to hit the open water. They took it out fishing a few times last year and according to them it's a "sweet ride".

A few weeks ago, Skipper (my dad) and his faithful side kick, Gilligan (Scott) decided to take "Ugly Betty" out. The girls and I thought it would be fun to go for a ride on Bob's boat (as Annie calls it) too. We packed up the kids, some snacks, lots of water and my dad... sorry, Skipper, stopped and got a little KFC to eat out on the lake.

After getting car sick on the way up, I was glad when we finally got there. We loaded the boat with all the necessities; chicken, water and kids, and the Skipper backed the boat into the water. We get the motor roaring, my dad gets ready to pull forward to park the truck, and I notice Scott is yanking on the stirring wheel to turn so we don’t run into other boats. When I say yanking, I mean his whole 125lb. body was trying to get the wheel to move. I kept saying, don’t break it.” “Did you guys unhook everything” (they were quite excited to get "Ugly Betty" into the water)? Needless to say, he was quite stressed. He kept saying, “it's stuck, what do you want me to do”? My dad is out of the truck looking at us like 'what the heck are they doing'. Keep in mind; we are at the lake on a Saturday afternoon with tons of people all around. Scott, not knowing, had kept the boat in reverse so we are kind of coasting backwards in a huge circle. My dad yells at him to take it out of reverse. Needless to say we had quite a bit of looks.

My dad goes and parks the truck while Scott continues to yanking on the wheel and I'm trying to handle both kids cause I'm freaked that Annie, not being the best listener that she is, will jump off the edge of the boat. I've got Emma in one arm, while directing traffic with the other boats, explaining why we almost hit them. Several times other boats had to push us away from them. This, my friends, was quite embarrassing. My dad was waiting for us to pick him up at the dock, with his water socks on and a 44oz. in hand. He kept yelling, "get your butt over here". At this point I was laughing while Scott was beyond stressed. We were all drenched with sweat. Scott had to gauge his reverse and forward motion along with the constant giant circle we were going in as well as taking into consideration the wake from the other boats and wind factors in order to get us safely (meaning, without hitting other boats) to the dock to pick my dad up.

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, I noticed we were taking on quite a bit of water. I yell to Scott, "hey captain, we are taking on water". Out of the corner of my eye I see the bucket of chicken floating towards the back of the boat. I couldn’t hold it in any longer, I was dying laughing, the girls were both red faced with sweat filled hair, Scott was pissed and my dad kept throwing his arms in the air. I yelled to my dad, "just a minute pa, we're a comin'". We couldn’t quite possibly get more redneck then we already were. Finally after the proper wind and coasting technique, Scott was able to get us over to the dock (it only took about 45 minutes or so).

Needless to say, we never got "Ugly Betty" out on the open water that day, but we were able to enjoy a whole lot of laughs and some soggy chicken in the parking lot of the lake. Like the Skipper said, if it weren’t disastrous we wouldn’t have remembered it. I do have to say that we did have a good time despite all that took place. The Skipper and Gilligan are so funny together, they just feed off of each other. I’m glad that they are such good friends.
I know you are dying to hear what happened with "Ugly Betty". She has since been in the shop for more work. Hopefully she'll be ready to ride again soon. The next fishing trip is planned for October at Lake Powell. May the legend of "Ugly Betty" live on!

Here are a few pictures from our adventure.

Annie thought a 'life jacket' meant her normal jacket (sweat shirt).

Notice the red face and sweaty hair

Chug-a-lug!

Again... notice the red face

Do I really need to say anything?

I said a beef hot link!

Pick Your Battles...

2008-09-12T16:03:00.000-07:00

As you can tell, I've learned that it's not worth the drama to get Annie to wear 'normal' outfits. As long as we go to places where they don't mind if we look a little redneck then I just let her pick out whatever she wants to wear.

McCain 2008

2008-09-11T10:15:00.000-07:00

With the up coming election I am pushing all my support toward McCain / Palin. With that being said the link attached is a great support video.

YouTube - Dear Mr. Obama

Emma's 1st Birthday!

2008-08-29T22:26:00.000-07:00

Emma survived her 1st year in the nut house (aka; the Thomas' residence)! Woo hoo for Emma! She got LOTS of Yo Gabba Gabba toys. She LOVES Gabba!

Emma has such a cute personality. She loves to follow her big sister around. Most of the time she is happy but boy oh boy she can sure be a drama queen. She is our scaredy cat. She is nothing like her fearless sister. She still isn't walking because she is scared to let go... (insert an eye roll here). Just one of the many things she is scared of. We love our little Emma!

I swore I'd never 'blog' but here I am... bloggin' away.

2008-08-14T16:16:00.000-07:00

The girls and I decided to let dad have a vacation from us so we went to Utah for two weeks. My parents have a 'second home' up there and decided to take the everyday chaos I experience at home and move it somewhere else!! It was far from a vacation, it was more like a 'trip'. We had a lot of fun not really doing much. Here are a few pictures of our 'trip'.