We have been Love You LongTime

An era is coming to an end. Don't be sad it's over, be glad it happened, right? Well, we're trying our best not to be sad but we couldn't be more stoked that it happened. Seriously.

When Shane and I won Wipeout we knew we had a responsibility to be smart with our winnings. At the time, we had been following the successful career of a close friend (Sarah Hull's husband, Bryant), who bought a property management franchise in Orange County about a year ago. When we were suddenly in the position to buy one ourselves, we had an important decision to make. We researched and prayed lots and decided to make ourselves business owners. With the extreme time and energy commitments Love You Long Time requires, we had to make the super difficult decision to retire.

Our extremely awesome and devoted fans deserved a proper goodbye. So last weekend we gave it to them. We played 3 last shows in Provo, St. George and Rexburg.

We LOVE you PROVO!!! I will really miss this.

Brother and sister. Husband and wife.

We want our family to know how much it has meant to us to see you at our shows. You guys have been SOOOOOO incredibly supportive and amazing.
Thank you Alex, Morgan, Claire, Annie, Grandma Juanita, Kellie, Josh, Owen, Gavin, Whitney, Alee - who were ALL there to support in Provo. It felt so good to see all your faces out there and it meant a whole lot to us.

Thank you Alex for coming to EVERY SINGLE show, always promoting for us, letting us sleep at your apartments, sharing your friends with us, feeding us, hanging out with us, being excited about our band, and being our #1 cheerleader. You are the best brother we could ever ask for and we love you.

My awesome grandma came down from Odgen, took us and ALL our friends out to dinner, came to our show, stayed up late and had a slumber party with us!! Do you know any grandmas who would do that? Nope. Just ours.
It was SO fun to hang out with my cousins Claire (who is an RM and just got engaged!) and Annie (who is so cute and gave the band yummy rolls for the road!)
On to St. George!

Thanks again, Morgan, for lending us your husband for the night. It was SO fun having him to entertain us in the tour van!

Back to where it all started...Rexburg, Idaho. Here we are right before our last show...

I think these photos will give you a little taste of what the experience was like...

MC Oz rockin the crazy awesome crowd. The crowd sang every word. We did not even use our mics for several verses and choruses. It felt so good and so right! It was a perfect experience for our last show.
We are way way lucky.

Blelow you can see me crowd surfing during Showstopper, our final song.
I just laid back and took in the moment with a smile.
I'm getting emotional writting this. Oyi.In the moments right after coming off stage. A final band photo! I love it.

After the show we had to keep the traditions alive one last time: loading our equipment in the snow and showing up at Ramierez (local 24 hr. Mexican place) at about midnight.
Liam so stoked on his burrito, Brian and his Rexburg posse freestyle rapping.

Continuing with traditions, we made a stop at Papa and Grandma Osborne's on the way home! Papa made us a feast and we chowed down with great company! Thank you Papa and Grandma for always being so welcoming to us and all the random hooligans we've brought to your place! You guys are FAMOUS now in the band world and we love you guys tons!!

Just like when we were kids, we got out the bb guns to shoot our pop cans...

And then each other. Can you tell Morgan enjoyed that part?

Brotherly snow fight.

Lastly, we were able to spend some time with the Harris side of the family! They have always been so awesome when we come to town and we love it when we get to be at home with them. We especially loved playing with this cutie! Our little niece Molly.

Below you'll see me on the night we arrived home.
I had to get out of those tight pants, out of my braids, and out of the van!

Shane and I feel extremely blessed to have been a part of Love You Long Time. We were lucky enough to have been invited to join more than 3 years ago by my extremely talented brother. Thank you Brian, for providing us with countless incredible experiences and letting us be a part of your creation! I am excited to show all our kids this band! How rad is it that we were able to travel the country riding bikes, meeting awesome people, making tons of friends, having crazy fun on stage, having the most random/scary/insane/weird/funny/fun experiences and making the most radical memories!?!?

I could go on and on. I feel so blessed to have been able to be in this band. So thank you to every one of you who made it possible and supported us. I love you all.

Thank you, Liam, for being like a brother but never picking on me! Thank you, Shane, for taking such good care of me. Thank you, Kirsti, for being the most supportive wife I've ever heard of.
May the love, energy and positivity of Love You Long Time live on forever!!!

Billie Jean is not my lover...Shane is.

On our way to see...

This is It!If you haven't experienced it yet - go now.
We LOVED it.
MJ forever!

Halloween Sunshine

Along with these 3 excited cute girls...
Shane, Sarah, Carter and I headed out on
Halloween day for some pumpkin patch excitement!

Below you can see our attempt at a group picture -Carter and Ella have both run off and Katie can't handle the smell of the rotten pumpkin at our feet.
Classic.

We could NOT get over how nice it was on Halloween day.
We spent the last 3 Halloweens playing USU's Howl (which was awesome). And every Halloween before that freezing in Idaho and Utah! This is a nice change to say the least!
Shorts and t-shirts!!
Uncle Shane.
He should get an award for this day.

Below you'll see Katie giving me her very animated version of what just happened to her: She flew down a dirt hill, thinking Sarah had her while Sarah was looking the other way thinking Katie's brakes were on! Sarah freaked and Katie wanted to do it again! Funny.

Before we left, Navy just HAD to stop by the petting zoo.

I could NOT stop giggling.

Cute? Yeeeeees!

That evening we were lucky enough to be invited to the Smith family tradition: Dinner in a pumpkin!

After dinner we went to some other friends house to watch a scary moive: 80's classic "Lady in White." Not so scary. More like cheesy and hilarious! But fun.
Thanks for a great Halloween, friends!

Weekend Warriors

Shane and I would like to share our
weekend with you all!

I enjoyed another "Mom's Morning Off." I particularly love when this little girl comes to play! Isn't she a doll?!
Here she's saying "Ohhhh, wook how cute dis wittle wady bug is!"

The kids loved playing tag and Carter cracks me up.

On Friday night we were lucky to have Navy Beans as our 5th wheel! We went with our good pals Daniel and Kiffy to a college soccer game - way fun!
The boys had fun teasing Navy and you can be sure she loved the attention:)

Saturday we did something I can honestly say I never thought I'd willingly be spending my
Saturday afternoon doing....
ARCHERY! Yes, you read it right.

There's a huge park in Long Beach and Shane spotted some archery targets while driving by last week. He found out it's free every Saturday. There was no question in his mind where he'd be Saturday.
I agreed to go with him to be a
good wife and have an open mind.
I'm glad I went becuase it was like I was inside an episode of The Office. No joke!

This guy above was our favorite. (Like the Dwight of the episode.) That Robin Hood leather holster is a novelty he brought from home.
Shane had to show his respects.

These are our archery friends. The type who choose to spend their free time at the achery range out in what our volunteer instructor called "God's country."

We mean business.

And then came the ward Halloween Party where we were
excited to attend as MR. & MRS. MOOSE!!!
Shane found these hats on Ebay and we had to have them :)

We were so glad to have Tinker Bell and her cute parents join the party!

We were asked to do a game for the kids at the party. This is what our car looked like on the way from Sarah and Bryant's house to the church...

And it was all for WIPEOUT!
We made a mini obstacle course for the kids to run. We were jazzed to see the kids get that little competetive spark in their eye and get their blood flowing!

3 cheers for a fun weekend!

Mom's Morning Off!

....brought to Long Beach mom's by ME!
Mom's need a break, am I right ladies?!
Well, yesterday a few mom's got just that.

I decided to provide a weekly Mom's Morning Off for the awesome local mom's in the area.
Yesterday was our first try, and as the Target lady would say, "SUCCESS!"

7 cute kids = one big, exciting play date.

We had a kid-friendly lunch of PB+J's with a side of bananas.
Then it was time for a little backyard story time in the
beautiful Southern California October weather.

Below you'll see our card making activity and our rousing "basketball" game :)

Our day wouldn't be a complete without a little Mr. + Mrs. Moose!
(I thought it wouldn't hurt to show them I won a crazy TV game show, because now they think I'm some kind of famous person and they may behave that much better. Hey, I'm working with what I've got!)
The voice bubble for the picture below should read
"GO SHANE! GO SHANE! GO SHANE!"

Ella and Navy mimicking our goofy Wipeout moves.

You can't forget these two cuties, who were happy just following the big kids around!

A HUGE thanks to all you Mom's for diving into this new adventure with me!
I think it's going to be a great thing for all of us :)

Until next week!

Dancing Queens

So last weekend some girlfriends invited me to a girls night out!
One of them got free tickets to a show from her husband's work
(thanks Becca and Ryan!)

The group we saw was called
Bjorn Again:
an ABBA cover band!
And they are legit.

I'm no ABBA expert, but apparently these girls are right on the money.
They were way fun to watch - a bit corny but super good at what they do.
Some of those ABBA songs are great girlie classics.
By the end of the night all 4 of us were out of our
seats dancing and singing along:)

Oh, and did I mention we were in the very front row of this fancy performing arts theater and that we were younger than everyone there by about 2 decades?
Yeah, that's right.
I think we ended up being part of the show for the rest of the audience!

This is what we came home to:

It's IBC Rootbeer and "Just for fun" poker.
Hilarious.

Needless to say it was a good night for everybody!
Thanks friends!

Birthdays and Cowboys

So, by now you should be familiar with my pal

Sarah Hull.
Thanks to her in the last few weeks we've had some major fun.
Here are two events that deserve to be highlighted:

She threw an AWESOME Wild Wild West party.

Don't worry, it's not real:)

Cowboys + Cowgirls

Boot scootin' boogie...

The party was a serious hit! So much fun!!
If you ever have the chance to attend one of Sarah's famous parties,
don't you dare miss out!

The other fun-filled event: Sarah's Birthday!
We celebrated with gusto!
Bridge jumping across the bay from us in Naples Island...
What you don't know is that I'm screaming
"Haaaaappyy Biiiirrrthdaaay Saaaarraaahh!!"

Then out for a tasty Mexican meal!

We continued the celebration into the weekend
with a relaxing Sunday BBQ in the backyard.

The fun never ends with this lady!
Thanks girlfriend. You're the bomb.com.