Decorating for the Holidays!

Snowy Days

The kids love to go outside and play in the snow. I am the Grinch though, it is so much work to get them all ready to play for only 10 minutes because it is so cold. When I grew up we lived outside in the winter.

Brian's shovel works better than our big one.

Cold Times!

Andrew's Birthday at Wheeler Farm

November 7, we celebrated Andrew's Birthday. He had never been to Wheeler Farm, so we thought we would take advantage of the beautiful day and get some fun pictures and let the kids see all the fun animals there.

The kids fed the ducks, saw the cows, pigs, ponies and stayed away from the crazy chickens.

Of course the girl's found the PArTy HouSe!

YiPeE!@ Despite the horrible shot, we really did have a great time!

My Best Friend, Happy Birthday!

Cowboy Up!

The End to a great day, was the Tractor Ride... such a peaceful time.

Things I love about Halloween!

5 Things I LOVE about Halloween:

1- I love to go trick or treating. Even as old as I am, I still get a kick out of it!

2- All the free candy. We were the last ones out on our street this year! as Alyssa would say. "WE ROCK!"

3- The kids have so much fun at school with their parties and the parade.

4- We go trick- or - treating at Andrew's office and it is a fun memory the kids will never forget.

5- We love to recycle old costumes! I hate paying for costumes, so we reuse and reuse!

The Witches at Gardner Village

The kids are off track so we went to Gardner Village with Grandma. The witches were a lot of fun to see and find. There were a ton of people there. After seeing all the fun things and going through the stores we went and had lunch at Mc Donalds.

The Big News!

Well it's official we are expecting Baby #6! I can't believe that 12 years ago Andrew and I started dating and now we have our caboose on the way. The baby is due June 7th and the kids have already started thinking of names and debating on whether it is a boy or a girl. So far I am feeling really good, just the usual stuff, so tired you can't even think by the end of the day and if I smell something that isn't pleasant you will know how I feel about it. We are very grateful Heavenly Father has blessed us with our wonderful children and are way excited about our new little one!

Temple Square

Last week we decided to take advantage of the wonderful fall weather and get our family pictures taken. We had some friends go with us and they did a great job. We love to go and do fun things together as a family.

White Pine Trail

The last two weeks we have gone up Little Cottonwood Canyon and hiked the White Pine Trail. It is 1.4 miles to the junction of Red Pine Lake / White Pine Lake. It is 4 miles to white pine. We had no idea how far we could go. The first trip we were not prepared and didn't take any water with us, we left it in the truck because we didn't think the kids could go that far. We were very grateful they all did really well.

We packed a lunch and decided to go a little farther this time. We were so glad we did. There was an awesome stream running right by the path that we could take some great pictures.

Brian and the girls were a little curious and ventured up the path a little farther and found another fun picture spot!


Hailey was even a trooper and walked some of the path. She is very independent and likes to do things just like the big kids.

Next time we go, we are going to see if we can make it to White Pine Lake. 4 miles up and 4 miles down!

Brian's First Day of Preschool

September 16th, Today was a big day for Brian.
It was his first day of preschool. Mrs. Sarah is his teacher, she taught Aimee 1st grade in elementary and Alyssa went to her preschool also. Brian and his friend Benjamin are in the class together. We can hardly wait for Wednesdays and Thursdays!

Wedding Reception

Temple Square