Giddy Up!

Junior in High school.
8th Grade.
6th Grade.
Kindergarten.

Here we go!

{Humor}

I recently was laid off my job... surprised by my own emotions, I haven't felt that great, a little shocked and defeated!

(and that is so not like me at all)

I went on a long walk today, thought exercise and sunshine would make me feel better

(and it did!)

I decided to have a talk with the big man upstairs and let him know we could use a little help down here...

this was his response.....

a candy wrapper.

You get what you ask for right?

My dad and his Balls...

My dad loves balls...

no seriously, as long as I can remember he has had a plethura of balls...

Footballs

Tennis balls

Golf Balls

Marbles

Check out his new favorite ball he got for Easter!

{Tangled Birthday Party}

Emmie turned 5 years old..... aaagh, my baby!

She reminds me all the time that she gets to go to Jakes school now, she says..
"Mom? tomorrow I can go to Jakes school?"..... everyday.

She really wanted a friend party.... I gave in. I've tried the friend party before and it completely stresses me out, I don't know why? Having a million hungry, hyper kids all at once, in my little homethat is very loud because of the wood floors is a little crazy, so I called in the calvary to help...

Thank you Kathy and Lynds for helping me!!!

Taylor drew a big tower for the girls to color and she requested a tower for a cake. I thought it turned out perfect!

Party favors and slap the pan on Flynn Rider... of course!

{Missing... Fynley, Em's BFF}

She wanted everyone to make their own crowns...

They are all so cute!!

A little Rubberband!

We had a great time at the "Jam at the Riverbottems"

{Our Lil' Miss}

feelin' it

Seriously.

Sometimes I think I am 16 again.

And then I wake up the next morning feeling like I'm 90.

MUAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.....

Come on body

keep up!

My mind can.

{Family Vaca part 3}

I So Love This Picture!

{Family Vacation Part 2}

I have never seen these boys have so much fun playing pinball.




After a magical day at Disneyland these boys would find more energy to have pinball competitions.

The rest of the kids would play POOL ..

or just hanging out... we loved it!

The time share we stayed in was super nice and very family friendly...

Thanks Tracy!

tay tay

Yes this is going to be a post to let everyone in my blogging world know that TAYLOR is AWESOME!!

Seriously, just look at this picture!

I am so grateful for Taylor and for the example he is to our family.

He is humble, he never expects anything, he never asks for anything, he is grateful for everything.

He is funny and witty. He has the best smile and it is very contagious!

Tay is a hard worker and very smart (Like Mikey) He can figure things out, good thing cause his dad and I know nothing :)

He is just a good boy! (Did that sound funny? Becuase its true!)

and.........I love him more then he will ever know!!

[Family Vacation Part One]

This year we really needed a break from grades, work and the lack of sun! So we headed to sunny California for the beach, family fun and of course Disneyland!

[Edible]

it.....

I gave a YW lesson last Sunday. In my lesson I brought up the motto President Kimball had....

"Just Do It"

I like it alot! So much that this year I'm going to focus on it, whatever it will be.

One of my it's for today is to BLOG more......

***drumroll............ please***

Tornado... I think so!

So it was 2:30 am in the morning in December when I was woke up by this strange all to familiar sound...... (Brie and Maddie, you know the sound)

Whoooshaaaawhooshhhhhh

My window swung open and I jumped up on my bed to see what the heck was going on out side.

I saw my trampoline horizontal flying through the air and all I can remember was very bad words coming out of my mouth.... it freaked me out!

Long story short....

Mini tornado through our yard

Caused trampoline to take flight

Trampoline caught power line

Powerline was connected to meter which was connected to house

Meter ripped off of house

Power line swung through our window... breaking it!

Emergency call to Rocky Mountain Power

Emergency call to our "favorite" electrician

Breakfast and getting ready for school by candle light

15 hours later we had power

{my lil' helper}

There is nothing like fresh bottled peaches at our house (ask Austin). They don't last long (it's like Christmas morning... you prepare and prepare and then it's over in 2 seconds) Thanks to my hubby (he thinks I have alot of time on my hands) for bringing home 5 cases of peaches PLUS 2 cases from our tree and we can't forget the other 4 from a neighbor (hubby wasn't sure we had enough), needless to say I was swimming in peaches. Good thing I recruited a helper!

It might have took my lil' princess all day to fill this jar but Em did it all by herself. She peeled the peach, diced the peach and filled the jar....

She was so proud and couldn't wait to show dad! Love her :)

Halloween 2010

{This is Halloween}

I can always count on my FAMILY!!!!

the costumes........

get better every year!