Christmas

Man I cannot believe how fast this year has passed. Especially how fast Christmas came and went. Christmas is by far my favorite holiday but with all of the exhaustion I must say that I am glad we have a year before its here again.

We had a wonderful day together, we were waken up just before 7 by footsteps galore coming from upstairs. With my sister and her hubby and their 2 kids plus my 3 kids and grandma and grandpa there was no way to ignore the footsteps no matter how tired we were from staying up so late.

It all started out with the exciting tradition of opening their 1 present on Christmas Eve from Grammy and papa....What could it be?? Pj's of course....All of the grandkids always get matching Jammies.

Here is Caitlin and Abbie so proud of theirs...

And Here are Bryson, Kaleb, and Cameron sportin' theirs...

And this year we got a surprise too...

Every year my Hilarious parents get us something from their dog max. So this is our Max gift...Notice the dogs on the jammies.

Jr. Jazz

So Saturday was Brysons last Jr. Jazz basketball game. He loves playing, and was on a fairly good team. Mike and my dad were the Coach/Asst. Coaches and they would always come home so proud that their team was undefeatable. It was really cute to see how all 3 of them were always excited for saturdays to come so that they could have their "male bonding" time. Here are a few shots from the game.

building...Week 3

Okay so it has been almost 3 weeks since they started building our house and I must say it is taking shape now. I will take pictures weekly and post them. It is so exciting they started Framing the house. It has been fun to see it start from being an empty lot to having a big hole on the lot, then getting cement, to now getting lumber. I drive by everyday now that there is something to look at.
I am going to go snap some pictures of it when I pick the kiddos up from school then I will post them.

Caitlin's Christmas Dance Performance

So tonight was Caitlins adorable dance performance. My heck it was a cute one, let me just say the girl really knows how to shake it. She has been so stoked about this dance that she insisted that she get all dressed up for it right when she walked in the door from school. Isn't her outfit so darling.. They always have the cutest, most stylish ones!!

IT'S OFFICIAL

So I just got home from the long awaited Doctors Appt, and It is definately official...We know what we are having...HERE IS HOW WE FEEL...

1) We are smiling from ear to ear
2) I am definately going shopping TONIGHT
3) We couldnt even wait until we got out to the car to start calling everyone
4) All of those clothes I already bought ARE going to work
5) We feel so blessed to have our 2 boys and our 2 girls!!!!!

Thats right, it is 100% girl... I cant wait till the kids get home from school so I can tell them...They are going to be so, so excited...I guarantee they will want to go shopping with me to pick some stuff out!!!

DIG DAY

Yay how exciting, I drove by our lot last Tuesday and I was so excited to see that the whole crew was out there in the cold digging our hole. I didnt take any pictures that day because all you could really see was mounds and mounds of dirt. I was still extatic...So after the holiday, and the shopping, then the dreadful stomach flu I was finally able to drive by again today. We now have a basement and it is all CEMENTED, here are the pictures i snapped. Not very many seeing how the dirt is still a mile high. I will keep posting new pictures of our house as the progress continues!!!

HOLY DAY OF SHOPPING

So you might call it crazy, but we cant live without our "Holy day of shopping" also known as Black Friday. After our wonderful Thanksgiving dinner My mom, sister and I all sat our tired butts down to start mapping out our "route", after 2 hours of looking at all of the ads we had our plan together, our lists written by each store in order of the time they opened. We did so GOOD on our planning and got EVERYTHING we intended on getting....and more!!! We ROCKED so good that we were finished with our shopping for the day at 12:45...which was really, really good seeing how in past years we were out shopping till dinner time, and once even getting started at Midnight. This year we were much too tired for the midnight madness so we decided we would get our much needed "beauty sleep" until 3:55 a.m.

Here is a picture of us as we were getting ready to leave for our LADIES day out...

I've been tagged

Well I have been Tagged by my friend Kaycee. The point of this is to go to your 4th picture in your 4th folder and this is what I found...(on my mothers computer...since mine sucks)

Yay, its our family trip to Lake Powell.

This trip was awesome...We had about 25 people there. This picture was taken from our boat (thats why Im not in it)

Wow looking at this picture brings so many fun memories and I really would love to do this again...Hopefully Soon...

I suck...

I know I am totally sucking at this blogging, I know I havent been doing very many posts and the ones I do have no pictures... I do however have good intentions and have been trying to log on to update but for some reason I can not go to any websites I like to visit...that includes signing into my blog on my laptop. I dont know what the reason is, I think my laptop is on the fritz. Anyways so I am borrowing my moms when I want to add posts, but all of the pictures are on MY computer!!! I will try to catch up!!!

Happy Birthday Caitlin

November 13th was Caitlin's 7th birthday!! What a wonderful day she had. She woke up to birthday Hello's, birthday kisses, and those early birthday phone calls. She was so excited to open a few presents before school which was just what she wanted...yep clothes!!! All she wanted for her birthday was barbies and clothes!! She also was very excited that it was her turn to show her whole class her birthday poster and hand out her special treats. (I thought it was pretty cute when her teacher told me that a little boy in her class with the same birthday always asks if they are twins)
Caitlin was so excited to have her birthday party at Chuck E Cheese where she was very pleased to get some new barbies and some more cute clothes.

WIPE OUT!!!

We went to St. George over the UEA weekend for a wedding. On friday we all went over to my uncles house where we were able to ride horses, and 4-wheeleers. Bryson was so excited when they brought out the 4 wheelers that were "just his size". He begged, and begged for me to let him go on them, so I gave in. I had the "experienced" guy show him the basics and let him ride. I only had a few RULES: Must wear a helmet, Must have an adult following him on a different 4 wheeler, and to stay on the Dirt road on the side of the house. About an hour after I let him start riding the 4wheeler Bryson walks up to me. His face was beat red and his eyes were all swelled up with tears. I asked him what was wrong....He sobbingly told me how he crashed the motorcycle. I started checking out all of his war wounds on his arms, and slowly made it down to his legs....thats when I asked "where are your shoes?" He bravely replied "Oh I lost those in the accident!" I must say that was pretty funny and I wasnt the only one laughing about that. Once I knew he was okay I started questioning him about what had happened and started going over the rules with him again. He spoke up and told me he followed the rules HE HEARD: Well he wore his helmet, he also had adults ride IN FRONT of him (so they didnt see that he crashed), and he did stay on the dirt road (the WHOLE neighborhood was a dirt road, in the middle of nowhere, so he made sure he stayed on that)
I never thought there was any way that he would have mis-understood my direct instructions, but now looking back I can see that if you say you have to "stay on the dirt road" and there is miles and miles of dirt roads, that you might think heck a dirt road is a dirt road!!
He is okay and thats all that matters, all of his welts from landing in the sticker bush were gone by the next morning, his EGO was better in about 15 minutes (as soon as he was WANTING to go ride a different 4wheeler) and his shoes were found near the big sticker bush!

First Snow....

So it is only October 12th and we already had the first snow of the year. Kaleb was so darling he walked outside to see his brother and sister already playing and he said "IT'S A MIRACLE" it snowed. You would have thought it was the first time he had ever been around the snow. The kids spent a good hour and a half of the morning building a Fort. Then of course finished off the cold morning with some Hot Chocolate.

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!

Okay so it FINALLY worked...We're Pregnant!!!! We found out a little over a week ago and have been holding back the information because of some complications. Two days after we found out I found myself doubled over in pain at the E.R. The docs didnt know what was wrong and were concerned it was a Tubal pregnancy....ultrasound after ultrasound and blood work after blood work they finally came to the diagnosis of a folicular cyst. After trying for almost 2 years I was put on clomid and guess that is why I have the cyst. Anyways I am feeling better, my doc says I am good and pregnant and the sac is in the right spot and not in my tube so now I can Tell everyone!!! We are so excited!!! We cant Wait to find out what it is....A BOY or A GIRL is fine with us, but I would love to hear everyones PREDICTIONS!!!!

9th Anniversary

Mike and I just celebrated our 9th Anniversary on September 18th. That went by so fast!! We celebrated by CLOSING ON OUR LEHI HOUSE & house hunting for our next house. We didnt plan it that way, it all just ended up happening like that. We were suppose to close on our house a week prior to our anniversary...But there was some issues that took forever. We were getting ready to go out to lunch when we got the call to come close. We did however get to go out to dinner. We went to one of our favorite resteraunts Teppanyaki..YUM YUM

Caitlin

Here is Caitlin so proud to show off another outfit she couldnt wait to wear....Oh and her new haircut she is so proud of and lets not forget that she is sportin' her black eye that she got from jumping on the trampoline with her 4 year old cousin!!!

Back to School

Well Bryson and Caitlin are back to school already!! That break went by way too fast. Bryson is now in 3rd grade and Caitlin is in 1st. They were excited to get back into the school Groove again and see all of their school friends. Caitlin was mostly excited to try on all of her new school clothes the night before, and was so excited to be able to start wearing all of the clothes that she has been yearning to wear.

Pups Update

The little pups are now 4 1/2 weeks old and they have tripled in size. They are each weighing almost 2 pounds (which is A LOT considering they weighed 1/2 LB at birth) They are learning how to walk, and have both gotten a few teeth. The kids have named the pups PIP and GUS. Gus is for the fat mouse on Cinderella because this puppy is Clearly fatter than the other. They also call the other one Pip because its off Enchanted. Dont ask me why they have to name them after movies.....These little pups are so darn ADORABLE. We will be sad when its time to sell them.

SOLD!!!

ITS A MIRACLE..WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!! Okay so maybe it is not a miracle...but it feels like one. We have been trying to sell our house for a long time now, and really were having no success (THANKS TO THE FORECLOSURES IN THE AREA up 600%) It was a very popular house on the market, so we did get 7 offers on the home....the only problem was they were all low ball offers. Seeing how we were not desperate to sell we decided to hold off on the offers...for a better one of course. We were very pleased with the offer of FULL PRICE, and now we are able to start house hunting here in layton.

Family Campout at ROCKPORT

This year we were able to go to Rockport Dam with Mikes Family for a family get-together. This was GREAT for us because it was the only time this year we have gotten out our BOAT.... We had a campground big enough for all 13 families that attended. We went up on friday....making the much needed stop in park city to do a little shopping at the outlets. Then we headed off to find rockport. Friday was a little windy so we didnt get the boat in the water...Saturday was even more Windy, but it was our only day to do some boating....So we had to put up with all of the wind. Pretty much the tube was the only sport everyone was able to do...thanks to the huge waves. Saturday evening we were able to take the kids to do a little fishing and bryson caught a Craw Fish. I was totally grossed out...It looked like a CRAB, nobody wants to swim with crabs, let alone fish that look like crabs. Sunday we drove home, and enjoyed our much needed bubble baths.

Our Little Pups

One week ago today my little toy poodle Sadie gave birth to these two little pups. They are both little boys weighing just 1/2 LB each. Sadie is a very cute mommy, and she is very protective of her babies. We love having these babies here and it is going to be so hard when we have to sell them. Right now I am not sure if I will be able to let them go.

Our Amazing trip to HAWAI'I

We started out our summer by going to HAWAI'I. It was a real treat for us because we never have really gone on a family vacation (besides disneyland) but especially nothing exotic like this. We started out the vacation with the 6 hour flight from Salt Lake City to Honolulu. We were taken back with the scenery, and the beauty. We stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, which was so beautiful with all of the peacocks, penguins and all of the other animals that just walked around the grounds with us. If we had to choose 1 place to live forever...it would be the Hilton Hawaiian Village....talk about paradise!!!! Some of the highlights of the trip were swimming with dolphins, going snorkeling at Hunama Bay, walking on the beach, lots and lots of shopping, going to see the humungous sea turtles at turtle beach, going to a luau, walking everywhere because it was next to impossible to find a parking spot, of course the POC minivan that my dad thought was a race car and all of the peeling out that car did, and I have to add the gorgeous HOTTIE at one of the resteraunts. My mom and I were practically drooling!!!:) It was so sad when we had to leave, and I can NOT wait to go back!!!