Random silly pictures

Here are the girls getting busy one night. They wanted to make crafts. If you look closely at Maddy's feather (which is taped to her head) she has a big red jewel underneath (also taped to her head). Maddy's smile is so funny! When she saw this picture she was really happy because she told me that she tries to smile like this. When I asked her why she told me that she just likes it. ????
Lilly had to get in the picture of course!
As Lilly is getting older the girls are having more and more fun playing together. Dustin caught them playing together quietly with the teeniest tiniest pet shop. Lilly loves these and plays with them all the time.

Lilly was going crazy one night rolling around on the floor. It was quite entertaining. She was just laughing hysterically rolling around and around.

This is like the only picture I have of Lilly in her crib. It seems that I have tons of the other two sleeping and in their cribs but for whatever reason I have never taken a picture of Lilly. This was actually Maddy's idea and she brought the camera up otherwise there would probably be NO pictures of Lilly in her bed.
Lilly loves loves loves to dress up. She begs to put on a dress every morning and most days she is running around in one of grandma's famous home made dresses. But she brought Daddy's basketball shorts to me the other night saying, "dwess! dwess!" So I had to try and put it on her so it would stay. They were still a little wet from the laundry but she didn't care and even said, "nice and warm" when I put it on her! I thought that was pretty funny.
And here is the symbol for tofu that is flavored and texturized to simulate human flesh, or Hufu. I kid you not it is out there in case anyone wanted to know what cannibalism was like.

well well well?

So Dustin sent this link to me today.( He says it doesn't mean anything for us but I think that the fact he noticed this article says SOMETHING.) I added this link in just to let you all know. They are just two reasons to try and convince all our friends and family to move to Portland!

Her First Prayer

This is the cutest little prayer. Mom you are going to have to go and listen to it at Kinko because it it SO cute!

Ward Choir

I had a member of the bishopric visit me yesterday and I got handed some VERY bad news! I figured they wanted to give me a new calling but I wasn't sure what it was. I know they got it right because all I said to Dustin is please anything but ward choir! He came in and asked me to be the new ward choir director! I think he could feel the air leave the room as Dustin and I both couldn't breath. I of course said I would do it but I was about on the verge of tears for the rest of the day and completely depressed. I have sang in many choirs but A) this was over ten years ago and B) singing in a choir and directing a choir are two very different things. I have NEVER directed a choir. I think that Heavenly Father is teaching me a lesson though (as many callings do) because I have never been a consistent member of any ward choir......ever. I never go. And people always are trying to get me to go and I never show up. So now I am the one that is going to look stupid with no one singing in the choir! It only serves me right. I had our first practice today though and shockingly it went a lot better than I thought it was going to to go. I actually did a better job than I thought I would do. I guess after all those years of hearing a choir director it all came back to me. And I enjoyed it more that I thought I would. I was mourning the fact that I wasn't going to get to go home and take a nap like Dustin and I always do but it was really okay because I kinda enjoyed myself. I have this weird thing about ward choirs as well because one of the reasons I had never gone was because I never thought we sounded very good and it would drive me nuts. I think maybe as the director Heavenly Father has given me a different ear because I thought we even sounded pretty good! Anyway I am still upset that I have to stand backwards to the entire congregation once a month, so everyone can see my booty, and lead the choir.

We love you grandpa!

We got a call early this morning from Dustin's sister to tell us that Dustin's dad had a mild heart attack and was in the hospital. He is okay as far as we have heard and had to undergo a surgical procedure to unblock an artery but that he will be fine and that he seems to be doing okay. In fact he wants to go snowmobiling when he is let out of the hospital! We just wanted him to know that we are thinking about him and that we all love him. We know you are going to be just fine and home soon! Love you grandpa!

Arizona

Well let me start this post with saying I am a TOTAL loser. This weekend my sisters Rebekah and Alli ran the Phoenix marathon. I was supposed to be doing it with them and that is why I am a loser. I could go on about my excuses and stuff of why it didn't work out for me but really what is the point. Anyway let me just get out of the way that I still want to do it and it is still a goal for me to do it one of these days.
ANYWAY my mom surprised me with a ticket to come and join them down in Arizona and help cheer on my sisters. No one knew I was coming so it was really fun to surprise everyone at the airport and at the hotel. It was a really busy weekend and a fast one but we had lots of fun. Beck's husband surprised her by driving down from Sacramento with all the kids to support her. So I got to see all my little nephews and nieces and that was fun. I hadn't even seen my brothers baby yet and he is four months old! My brother now works for a company called Ragnar. They run relay type marathons all over the country and it is a really fun company. We are trying to put together an all girls team this summer in June to run the Wasatch Back, their biggest race they do. So I think that will be my first accomplished running thing and I am going to start training for that soon. It isn't nearly as rigorous as a marathon and I think it will be a good starting point for me. Anyway he had to work at the expo they had going on so we spent the first day there looking at all the running booths. It was pretty fun.
Beck and Alli wanted matching running outfits so they got these really cute tank tops and jackets. This is obviously Alli practicing what she is going to look like at the race the next morning! I am sure that she will love that I posted this picture.

The next day I drove them to the drop of point to start the race. This is the funniest story though. So at like 10:00 the night before the race I ask them where they need to go in the morning and neither of them have any clue! I asked them who was taking them and they said they weren't sure yet. So we spent the next half hour going through all their pamphlets and stuff figuring out where they needed to go and it was just funny to me that they didn't know. So we get up super early to get them where they need to go and Alli realizes that she had left her chip that goes on their shoe to track her start and finish and her number back at her house that is like a half hour away from the hotel. So needless to say she was getting fairly upset and she calls her husband who has to come and rush it up to her at the race. So we sat in a parking lot for about forty-five minutes just trying to give Tanner directions to where we were so that they could get going. We finally meet up and they head over to where everyone had been walking but by this time it was 7:40 which was the time the race was supposed to begin and they weren't even at the start line. So we found out later that they stood around with some people for about ten minutes before they realized they were the half marathoners that weren't starting until later. All the full marathon runners had already left and started the race! SO the were THEE LAST people to start the marathon! How funny is that? Maybe it wasn't the best idea to let Alli and Becky run this together? jk

We finally made it over to mile 19 to catch up with them in the race and cheer them on. We waited there for quite a while and it was very fun and inspiring to watch all the different people running the race and to cheer them on. I had to take a picture of this man as he ran by BAREFOOT! I secretly hoped he stepped on a piece of glass or something because I just thought that was really stupid to run on streets through Phoenix with no shoes on! But whatever! Maybe his shoe broke or something and he was just really tough I don't know.
They finally came around the corner and we were so excited! They looked pretty good I think for going almost twenty miles!They were cracking me up before the race because in true Reber fashion they weren't going anywhere without their makeup on. So the night before they were getting self tanner on because heaven forbid they looked white while they were running! And then in the morning my sister asked me if she needed more makeup. She already had a full face on! I laughed and said, "You are running a marathon!" But they wanted to make sure they were the cutest girls out there and they succeeded! They looked hot even running 26 miles!

And then they were off to see Becky's husband a few miles down and my brother and his wife a few miles past that.Now you are probably wondering where the pictures are of them actually finishing the race. I am happy to report that they finished the race! BUT WE MISSED IT! We weren't there for the finish line! Isn't that the saddest thing you ever heard? There were something like 35000 people running the race and everyones car was on the road to the finish line. So we got stuck in traffic! I called Becky and she said they were on their last mile and I quickly hung up the phone because I didn't want her to know we weren't there yet! We were still trying to make it there. Finally Missy came and drove Ryan's car and Ryan, me and all the kids jumped out and started running to the finish line that was like a mile away still! I was carrying Georgia who is almost three and I had flip flops on so you can imagine how fast I was going. So I my phone rings and Becky is like, "WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?" I felt so bad. So they went back and reenacted their finish line stances and faces but I didn't have my camera there I only had hers. So they did get pictures of it but it wasn't in real time! Anyway it was a fun weekend and I started crying when I left because it was too short and too fast and I HATE living so far away from my sisters and my mom. But I am so proud of my sisters and they are my inspiration and my aspiration! I love you guys and already miss you!

just for laughs......

Okay I know this is completely random and my post about why I am a nerd is SO last week! But I had to add one more story that I was thinking about last night and I couldn't stop laughing. I think maybe you will get a chuckle out of it as well. When I was in college I once went out to dinner with a friend and when we went in the restaurant I realized that I had forgot my wallet out in the car. (For those of you that have ever lived in Provo it was the Olive Garden there, jsut so you can visualize better). Anyway it was raining outside and so I quickly darted out into the parking lot. As I was nearing the first row of cars I slipped on the wet asphalt and I started to trip. I was trying to save myself from falling completely flat on my face and I ended up head butting the bumper of the car in front of me! I slammed into the car with my head and then was propelled backward, flat on my back in the parking lot, with the rain coming down in my face. The funniest part of the story though is that a couple had walked out of the restaurant right behind me and saw the whole thing. They came walking towards me and I thought that they were going to ask me if I was okay and it turned out that it was THEIR car! They first checked their car for any damage and then asked if I was okay! I wish that someone had videotaped the human car crash because I think I could have won a Funniest Home Video's episode.

Okay also when I was looking for a funny picture to put with this post (I couldn't find one) I found a car for me. For those of you that don't know I have a weakness for red heels. I don't know what it is but I am always drawn to some sort of variation in a red heel in a shoe store. I don't know what that says about my personality but I just love them. Anyway here is my future car.......

Big Girl Lilly

Lilly is so funny lately, she just has to be involved with whatever her sisters are doing. She follows them around when they are home and just thinks that she should be included in their games. So the other night Maddy and Josey were playing littlest pet shop at the table and Lilly came to me just crying and crying about a "big girl chair". She kept telling me she wanted to "pay" (play). So I brought her over and tried to just give her a few of the girls toys and hoped that that would appease her but of course she had to be up at the table with the girls. So I finally brought a chair over and she was so ecstatic that she got to stand there with the girls and play. Maddy and Josey were very good to include her as well. Another year or two and she will be right there imagining things with them. If you look at Josey in this picture you will see that she still hasn't grown out of her "making really wierd faces "phase. Whenever she is pretending or excited she makes odd faces. She is doing it here in this picture. We sure hope she grows out of that before she hits college or she may be living with us for a lot longer than we would like.

I'm it!

Okay so I was tagged by my sister-in-law, Liz, to tell six interesting things about myself. I was having a hard time thinking of interesting things about myself but I could think of a lot of things that proved that I was the nerdiest person alive! I thought I would let you know how nerdy I have been in my life. Here is a list of 20 things, in no particular order, that I like or have done, that will convince you that I am the nerdiest person ever (Alli might be able to give me run for my money though).....if you didn't already know that! (Honestly it wasn't very hard for me to think of 20 things. This is pretty much off the top of my head.)

1. I like science fiction......A LOT. I would pick a science fiction movie over a romance or comedy any day. There was a time in my life that I might have actually been characterized as a trekky.
2. The only crushes I can remember having as a kid were on Will Wheaton (I know many of you probably don't even know who that is. He was on Star Trek.) and........Bill Murry. Apparently I have always been attracted to thin, balding, funny men (Dustin).
2. I like video games. I like to play them. I have been known to play computer games as well.
3. I played the clarinet and I was actually pretty good.
4. I once had a leadership campaign that said "Catch the fever, vote for Reber".
5. I asked for a barbie doll for a birthday.....but it was my fourteenth birthday!
6. I once cried to my photography teacher to change my grade from a B to an A because, as I so eloquently screamed at him through my tears, "I would NEVER get into college with a B in photography".
7. I once on the spur of the moment made up a gymnastics floor routine that I had to perform in front of many people.
8. I drank someone elses urine in my Biology class at BYU just because I was curious about how you would detect if someone had diabetes.
9. I didn't get my first kiss until I was 16 (that is a story in and of itself. Let's just say it involves a graveyard and Kenny G.) Now it wasn't that I didn't have opportunities, I was just to nervous to actually do it. I honestly have about five REALLY REALLY awkward stories of boys trying to kiss me and I just couldn't do it.
10. In high school I drove a gold Toyota minivan, circa 1985. It would overheat about every ten miles so I constantly had to pull over and add stuff to the engine so that I could actually drive from one place to another.
11. In college my car wouldn't go in reverse (it is a long story). So I had to strategically park so that I never had to go in reverse. If this wasn't possible I would actually have to get out of the car and push it out of the parking stall.
12. I once got caught in my apartment, by myself, in college trying to mimic a dance move I saw on MTV.
13. I clogged in a talent show.
14. Once on a first date I was carrying a tray of food back to my table following my date and I tripped and ketchup flew off my tray and landed on the couple eating at the table in front of me.
15. Once someone asked me "Who's your daddy?" and I seriously told her that his name was Jeff Reber. I didn't know that statement.
16. When I was a kid I used to pretend that I was deaf when I would go to the mall with my mom, and I would only talk in sign language. Then sometimes I would practice doing interviews with different accents in front of the mirror. I do a MEAN deaf French woman.
17. In junior high a friend and I performed a song in the talent show. That isn't so bad except that it was a show tune called "I Enjoy Being a Girl". Wow....bad decisions.
18. In high school I was in the Jazz Ensemble (nerdy). We had to perform all the time in very "flattering" dresses. But once we had to perform in a rally and our teacher made us do a show choir routine entitled "Keepers of the Groove" (that says it all). But if you don't know what that is, think Napoleon Dynamite and his sign language song except there was dancing involved, cheesy singing, lame poses and hundreds of my peers watching.
19. Once my sister actually let me tag along with some of her older friends when I was like 13 or 14. We were at a park and I sat in DOG POO!
AND if those didn't convince you here is the best reason,
20. When I wear my glasses they are ALWAYS crooked on my face.....always.


So there you go TWENTY things to show that I might be the nerdiest person out there! I am not going to tag anyone because I don't know who else out there wants to share how nerdy they are. But I would love to hear it if you are!

Zoo Lights

I know this is really late considering I am putting Christmas lights but I never got around to getting them up here. But this is what we did on New Years Eve. It was the last day of the Portland Zoo lights and they were free! We had wanted to take the kids to see them before Christmas but with the size of our family now it was just going to be too much. So I was excited when I saw it was free. So we met Dustin at work and headed over to the zoo at about 6:30. However it was BITTER cold! Oh my goodness it was SOOOOO cold! But we had a good time.

Josey with her favorite color light, blue. I told them to find where they wanted their picture taken with their favorite lights and these were Joseys.

This is where Maddy wanted her picture taken . She looks so old in this picture it kinda freaks me out.
Dustin was trying to warm up with the lights. I don't think he got very warm.
I love Lilly's face in this picture. She loved Rudolph.

Maddy wanted to pose like this. It kinda cracks me up.

Honestly the light were amazing and they really do a good job. The girls loved it and Dustin and I tried to stay warm!