Quench the Thirst

Come on....now who doesn't love a little watered down Diet Coke?

MAYBE

Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Me: "No."
Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Me: "No."
Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Me: "No."
Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Me: "No."
(This dialog occurs at least 100 more times during the day)

Ted arrives home from work......

Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Ted: "No."

Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Ted: "No."

Jack: "Can I play x-box?"
Ted: "No."
(this dialog occurs at least 50 more times)

Jack: "How 'bout you just say MAYBE?"


(side note: we aren't completely cruel you know...he has a few chores he has to do before he can play and somehow he couldn't put away the very toys he took out, so...the answer was NO all day!)

America's Next Top Model

Yesterday I had such a blast shooting my first ever FASHION GIG for a high end Granite Company. I'm excited for the concept to roll out (stay tuned for that). Utah County isn't going to know what hit them ;) You want to guess how old these girls are???? Try 17!! Anyway, I'm usually ANTI studio but it was so fun to play with the lighting and get some cool effects. I thought I would share a few favorites.






You know modeling would really be such a fun life if you didn't have to STARVE yourself!!! Although I asked these girls if they have to be super careful with food and both said they eat junk all the time. WHAT! Just wait until your 30 girls!!! Just you wait!

Deep Thoughts by Ted Turcsanski

While watching American Idol last night...........

"It amazes me that Heavenly Father loves ALL of his children."

"What can we do so our kids don't turn out like that?"

Sleigh Riding

Grandma & Grandpa Turk had their Annual Sledding Party in Park City. We had a great time with tons of snow and the blue sky made for a perfect day. Jack the "No Fear" kid hit the jump as well as his crazy aunts, uncles and of course his dad. Can't wait for next year!

This is my favorite picture of Ted catching some sweet air

Fraidy Cat Paint-baller

One of our New Years Resolution is for Date Night to be more than just dinner, a movie and some shopping. So thank you to Nate and Lacey for helping us start the New year off right, with a little hard core paint-balling. Only I wasn't really all that Hard CORE. I was just hard core freaked out of my mind! I probably asked the paint-ball workers a dozen times...so how bad is it gonna hurt?" "How big of a bruise will it leave?" "On a scale of 1-10...what is the pain like?" "What happens if I swallow some of the paint?" "Has anyone had to go to the ER after playing?" For someone who prides herself in having a decent amount of "toughness" I was sounding like an absolute PANSY! So with my 20 layers of clothing, ski hat and ski gloves on I decided to go for it. Anyway, we ended up having a great time. Happy Birthday NATE!

Christmas Fun

If you've taken down your Christmas decorations and having with-drawls....feel free to stop on by for a little Christmas cheer!! I promise it is all coming down. I thought maybe Ted would surprise me while I was in California last week and I would come home to a Christmas Free house. No such luck. I think the boys kept him pretty busy :) I've been meaning to post some of these pictures for awhile now but I've been SUPER busy taking my Christmas decorations down (HAH! yeah right).

The video (Thanks Lisa & Ace) is my NUTZO mom leading us in her favorite holiday jig.

This shot of Jack is him embracing his long lost Monkey. He thought it was gone forever when he left it at the movie theater. Luckily Santa has connections and brought it to the Turk party the next day in his Big Red bag!

Drew & Carla doing a little Grecian dance for our Christmas around the world theme. That was the best entertainment we've had in awhile!
What would Christmas be with out my cute mom sitting at the piano in her Santa Apron.
The two hot preggers. Now it's only one hot pregger momma! Congrats Lydia and hang in their Jackie ;)

Sidney & Maggie singing their hearts out.
Here comes Santa Clause, here comes Santa Clause...right down....the hall!

This is a classic shot of Kaitlyn. Sometimes I wish if I cover MY eyes things will just go away! (Like maybe my Christmas decorations)
A visit to the Rest Home so Santa could do his Home Teaching. This was actually one of my favorite parts of the night.

ShazZZam Max in his big brothers cape.

Diva Sidney checking herself out on screen.
The girls loved grandma's new addition to the toy closet...PRINCESS DRESS UPS!
Maggie having a PRINCESS crisis....she can't decide which princess she want to be.
Meet our new Kitchen table CENTER PIECE. The thing is still on the table, we eat around it, do homework around it and in between................of course, RACE!
We also got to spend a few days of our holiday hanging out with Ted's "favorite" cousin Dave & his fun wife Alicia.

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas morning. We sure had fun and now I'm off to take a nap with Max. Seriously....if I never put a race car track together again I will be TOTALLY fine with that. Can't they just come assembled instead of in a gagillion parts?? Oh well, still worth every minute for the the expressions Christmas morning :)

(p.s. I'm also not very fond of those twisty ties anymore ...why do they put 10 of them on a toy?...one would do just fine, thank you. )Here are a few more photos from our picture day that didn't make the Christmas card cut.

The "Other" side of the lens

Today I had the thrilling experience to be on the other side of the camera lens. We had your typical crazy morning because, of course we were taking pictures. Max has been sick. I'd already rescheduled once before in hopes he would feel better so I was bound and determined to make this work with a sick baby and the current temp at 2 degrees! (well not really 2 degrees but it felt like it). We raced out the door and were on our way to pick Ted up from work when I had a little "mother prompting" to turn around and get some spare clothes for Max and take the shirt off he was going to wear for pictures. About 5 minutes later...disaster! You know what EVERYWHERE. So I pulled off the side of the road and began clean-up using the only thing I had on hand. An entire package of baby wipes. En route I realized I left Ted's jeans at home, so I made the embarassing call to our photographer..."Uhh Tiff, sorry we're going to be a little late (I HATE WHEN PEOPLE ARE LATE TO PHOTOSHOOTS! Don't they know were dealing with a limited time frame on light! gesh!) so yeah, Tiff we're going to be a little late, we gotta stop at the Mall and pick Ted up some jeans....please say you'll still be my friend." Fortunately, she agreed that our friendship would not be over. PHEW. I'm not sure how long we were out in the cold but I'm pretty sure Max will be either crying, looking away or lying his head down in every picture. I'm such a crappy mom for dragging him out in the cold (please don't report me to CSS). Jack did great as my seasoned model making sure he NEVER said "Cheese" with that crazy face and eyes closed look. Ted was a good sport and tolerated it all. In the end it wasn't so bad, but I did make a solemn pledge to TED and the gang that we will never be last on my list again and next year we will be taking pictures in the summer or at the beach with a minimum temperature of 70 degrees. Thanks Tiff you rule!

My Gingerbread MEN

Well it's starting to feel like Christmas around here. Snow on the ground, Christmas lights up and of course GINGERBREAD houses! We decided to build Gingerbread houses the old fashion way........you know buy the $8 kit from Costco. It was still fun and the boys had a blast.

Max did a great job cleaning out the frosting tube for us.Hard at work

Max got bored so he decided to go have fun at his usual hangout...The tree.

Building houses is a lot of work. Jack is pooped! Time for bed.