Since it takes me forever to update, and you're stuck looking at the blog for 2 1/2 hours, included this time some is some lovely elevator music. Don't even pretend like you don't know the 80's tunes you hear, you love them and you know it.

Let me just start off by saying we had the fear struck in us. We were headed off to Sea World a couple weeks ago, and that morning we received the dreaded phone call. You know the one, it's the one where they call and want the two of you to meet with the Stake President. Uuuttt ooohhh, that sounded like trouble to us, and a little scary, down right frightening in fact, a cloud began to form over us. We had to let them know that unfortunately we were leaving to go out of town (and we were never coming back now that they called), and we would not be able to meet with him. They promptly tried for the next week, and again, unfortunately, we were not going to be around. They said they would catch us when we got back, so, we spent the whole next week and a half in fear.
Naturally, we were totally speculating what it would be. It was a shame, crying our eyes out, thinking we were almost able to enjoy our calling in the library. Holden's 1st week in nursery was the very Sunday he was to start the new calling, if we would have been there. I couldn't understand it...I have talked with each bishopric member on several occasions, boldly reminding them that the library is a 5 year calling. We wondered who the fink was that turned us in. After all, the library is sooo very difficult, and we are still just learning the ropes after 1 1/2 years. See, we simply needed more time in there to learn to love it, and to catch on to how they reference things, where the chalk and erasers go, how to work a copy machine, etc., etc. Clearly you can see how distressed we were, thinking of what was to come.
Somehow we managed to have a great time, despite the fact that our vacation was nearly ruined because of the dreaded call. So, we get back and Sunday night we get a phone call from probably one of the most unpopular guys around (due to his calling). We say to ourselves, "crap they haven't forgotten or changed their minds", I guess we can't run any longer. We ended up meeting with the Stake President Tues. night, biting our nails and trembling with fear. Don't let the secret out, but we've had it good for the last while and we did not want to give that up. Pres. Wilcox began to visit with us, then he went on to talk about all the shake up in the high council that has happened since we left. He then went on to say he told us all this info about the High Council, so that we would be relieved to find out that that wasn't it. He was dead on, couldn't have been more right! Bri then got called to the Stake YM Presidency. AAHHHHH the angels in heaven began to sing, I did a cartwheel, Bri sat on Pres. Wilcox's lap and kissed him. The best part is who the President is. Drum roll please.......
When the Jordan Meadows Ward was created, Bri was called to be Ward Clerk. He absolutely loved the men he served with. I quite liked all of them myself, he could not say enough good things about them. That has been one of his favorite callings he has ever had (nothing tops library mind you, or that sweet little thing he serves with), but he really enjoyed the calling itself and the men he served with. It has been quite a few years since then, and it still stands out as one of the favs for him.
Anyway, the President is good old Dave Peterson (he was in the bishopric when Bri was ward clerk). We are totally thrilled about this, and so excited we get to have close contact with Dave and his family again. He really is so awesome. We got to meet one other in the presidency that night also. His name is Scott and he has some weird last name I'm not going to even try to remember. He was really cool too, seemed like a real goofball. We like goofballs for sure. I think Bri will have a great time with these guys, and if Bri is happy that makes me totally happy. When he serves with people I feel like I serve with them too. When we got out to the car Bri says, "I love Dave!" So this is a shout out to Dave, everyone say we love you Dave..."WE LOVE YOU DAVE!" Good, I'm glad that is taken care of and we can move on. By the way, I still need to stay in the library for about 4 more years, I'm a slow learner.

Our trip to San Diego for Spring Break

The day before we left for our trip, I spent hours in the kitchen. Most of you know I love to cook, I like eating it even better! I prefer homemade over store bought any day, so I went to work making caramel popcorn, chocolate treats, trail mix, granola, rice crispy treats, the list goes on and on. You also all know that I workout hard 5-6 days a week, and we monitor what we eat closely. (I wish I was naturally thin and fit, that would be so very nice...) Anyway, when we go on a vacation, we go hog wild I tell ya, HOG WILD! In fact, Bri might be bordering on hog wild in this picture, he sure looks hungry.

Well, we set off for a fun road trip. It was all going okay until we hit the snow storm somewhere before Beaver. I was on the edge of my seat, not wanting to find myself off the side of the road where so many others were. Two thumbs down on that part of the trip, it was scary. We survived, and I only aged about 3 years.

We made it to St. George and got ourselves some pizza. Holden enjoyed it, he was even celebrating like it was Carnival in Brazil with those beads on.

The kids being served pizza in bed. It should have been the other way around I am just noticing. I should be the one in bed with them waiting on me hand and foot.

Bri horsing around and me being all reserved and stuff.


Well, we made it to Sea World in one piece. It was chilly there. My parents accompanied us there of course. We have so much fun traveling together. Everyone is really laid back and easy going, it makes it so nice.


We went to look at some animals and a worker grabbed us for a "behind the scenes" adventure. We were able to hand feed what they called one of the largest rodents in the world. Ooohh, Brian's dream come true---giant rodents!

I bet Bri felt all warm and fuzzy inside, coming across a kindred spirit like that.

Holden threw many fits on the trip. This is one of them. Real cute.

They have this little place at Sea World for the little kids to play. They cage them in and it is very, very nice.

Those two are something, aren't they?

Kyah at the Shamu Show.



Holden gives many dirty looks, this is just one of them. I'm willing to get a dirty look anytime from anyone if they look as cute as he does. I'll even let you know, "hey your dirty look was actually totally cute, give me another one".


Another one of Holden's glorious moments. He was head banging the concrete. The result of his head pounding is in the next photo.
It is kind of hard to see in this picture, but he has a big purple goose egg on his forehead.
There were these great mirrors there. We seriously loved them, this one in particular. It made us look like thick midgets. We are posing in this picture, but if you have FB you can catch a video of us enjoying ourselves. It was hilarious, I could not stop laughing. We did so many fun things in front of it, dancing and carrying on. I wish we had one at home! Most people wanted to stand in front of the one that made you look tall and skinny. But the McCuistions, oh no, not us. We prefer to look like short fat weirdos.

Speaking of weirdos, you're wondering how a big nerd like that (Tami) end up with a hottie like Bri? I frequently wonder that myself.
Somehow it just happened....and together we have
4 little nerds
but only 2 posed in these pictures

We took a break from Sea World, to visit the $0.99 store. We then proceed to try on every pair of stupid looking sunglasses we could find. And wha la, you get a family full of geeks-that would be us.


After the store, we headed for the beach. I had purchased many fun beachy things to play with at the 99 cent store, and I did actually buy the kids some cute sunglasses.


After building sandcastles, we headed to see the seals. We not only saw them, but boy did we smell them. We were in the down draft for sure.
The smell could be classified as horrendous, but those seals sure can bark!!!

We went to Cabrillo National Monument, this is Porter and Grandpa there. They look so cute.

Kyah and Porter won these little Elmo's.




Holden came up with a new trick, that being balancing his bottle on his foot. He was awfully proud of himself.

Our seating arrangements were as follows.....back row.
Middle section


I'll have you know, the McCuistions are snugglers. Oh boy do we like to snuggle. If you ever need a little snuggle, just let one of us know.

This night these two were bed buddies.
These two also snoozing so cozily.
They were all knocked out because of our bad luck. We finally pulled into the hotel after 11 hours of driving. I go to check us in, and they have us scheduled for the wrong day. Every hotel is booked in St. Geroge, and I spent almost an hour in there while they called around. Everyone in the car was going crazy of course. We end up having to drive to Cedar City to find a place. So they were totally worn out.
We get to Cedar, and I go to check into the next hotel and a guy follows me in. It is just me, the guy, and the lady checking me in. This guy immediately strikes up a one sided, X-rated conversation. Oh great, just what I needed. You all know I am about the most naive person on the face of the earth, anyway he is jabbering away. It's alarming, but I recently found out what one of the words he repeatedly used means, because I looked it up in the dictionary. I only knew that because they use it on the news all the time with criminals, so one day I finally looked it up to see what it meant. Anyway, my poor little ears were on fire and I was desperate to escape. Mr. Creepy Guy is standing right next to me, and in the mean time she asks for my ID and credit card. I'm feeling extra safe and secure now, this guy is going to know where I live, etc. Then she gives me my room key and proceeds to draw a little map on how to get there. Nothing like making things easy on a pervert, directions on how to find me and everything. Now I'm really freaked out, all the while this guy is going on and on and on with his dirty talk.
By now it is about 10:30 pm and we have made it to the room and unloaded. The phone rings and it is the front desk, she called to apologize for this guy bothering me, and then she said he got thrown out of the hotel lobby yesterday, but he left all his pornographic magazines behind. It just so happens he had come back that night, and I happened to be the lucky person to cross his path. Everyone is on edge now, because I had told them about him. Well, at about 12:00 am there is pounding on the door. I jump out of bed and try to look out the peep hole and the window. I could not see anyone. I called the front desk and a new person was working. Anyway they said they would check it out, and that was the last of it. I slept (if you want to call it that) with one eye open, and the other one half open. The good news is we all made it back in one piece! I just need to wash my ears out with soap now.


I don't think people always believe what I say, because when I say it I say it with feeling. So, don't look at the big bird nest on top of my head but look at all those other loose hairs.
When I say my hair falls out in big clumps after I have a baby, I am not exaggerating. Every hair you see that is down was a big bald patch. I had a terrible receding hairline. It is getting so much better now that the strands are getting longer, but now they curl up. It was so annoying when they were like an inch long. This is my proof to all you disbelievers, I know I have tons of hair, but I was also bald at the same time.


Naughty boys!! The day before these pictures were taken, I took a picture of them having unloaded all the silverware drawers. (Picture down below.) They did this like a million times a day, finally I put some child proof locks on the drawers. It took forever and I was getting so ticked. When I went to put the tools away, Brevan tried to open a drawer and couldn't. He started crying, I started cheering--it was all worth it. I was so happy, I just laughed when he couldn't get in there.....this is what happened the next day.

They opened the lazy susan thing, opened my container of rice, and had a party with rice as the confetti. I have it so easily accessible with a measuring cup and everything, they thoroughly enjoyed throwing rice all over the kitchen. So convenient to have a tool right there at their fingertips to help spread the rice. Then they proceeded to pull out my other containers and use them as a stepping stool to get to my purse and the cookies on the counter.

You can't really see the rice in the picture, but it is there, believe me. Notice the cookies, they ate who knows how many and took bites out of the rest. So there they sit, in heaven. Everything in my purse strewn about, cookies at their fingertips, and rice dotting the whole area.

Here is a picture of a few of the cookies.

This was the day before when I thought I was so smart, before I locked them out.


Porter had a book report and dressed up as the Red Baron.

They never get much of the yogurt in their mouths do they? On top of his head, plenty.

The boys love to lick the beaters when I get done mixing stuff up.

If this is not the cutest thing you have ever seen, there is something seriously wrong with you.

We went to Classic Skating for the Families Supporting Adoption activity. The kids all love it.


Brevan=clean look

Holden=dirty look


Kyah and I are the little sweethearts born in Feb. We are celebrating at the family birthday party for those born in that month. It's just us though!!

Kyah turned 6!!!!
Kyah wanted a ballet party, so that is what we had. I was the ballet instructor, so it was like the blind leading the blind basically.




This was on Feb. 24, her actual birthday!

Porter after his basketball season.


We went to Spaghetti Factory to celebrate Kyah's birthday.


We like to celebrate our bithdays over and over and over, they only come once a year so you better make the most of it...right?

Now that it is 2 am I think I might hit the sack, time for this McCuistion to meet up with the other snugglers. This thing is ridiculously long, hopefully there was enough music to last you to the end of this novel.