Lots of Fun

We have been busy lately. Brylei has been loving basketball again this year and it's fun to watch her improve each game. Gavin is in cub scouts now and is loving passing off things in his scout book! Treagan and Razden keep me busy all day while the other kids are in school, they are so much fun! Here are a few random photos for some reason they won't upload in the order I want them to so it doesn't make much sense but here they are! They were also taken with my cell phone camera so they are not that great of quality.Chris had a late wrestling match one night so when he got home I surprised him with these yummy treats!

I also made these chocolate covered cinnamon bears they are one of my favorite candies!

I made these chocolate covered strawberries for Chris one night. These were so good I decided to make some for the ladies I go visiting teaching to,but I used white and red chocolate instead!

We have had the spring cleaning bug around here like crazy, even Razden has joined in the fun. We have scrubbed our house from top to bottom,blinds,vents ,walls, doors ,shelves, and repainted all the trim. I love knowing even all the nooks and crannys are clean!

Gavin has gone through his scout book and just keeps asking to pass things off. This is another project he had to do for a merit badge. He made coconut chicken for dinner with seasoned red potatoes I helped a little.

Gavin made this volcano for pack meeting they got to make it erupt when they got there.

Bryhtons cupcakes this year!

Wow I can't believe I have a teenager already it seems like the time has flown by! Bryhton turned 13 . We are so lucky to have him in our family he is such a fun kid to have around always happy and laughing and entertaining us with his vast knowledge of random facts! He is really enjoying school this year, he is on the student council and he was just transferred to advanced math. We love him o much and are so thankful for the great choices he has made in his life so far!

Catching Up!

I love these kids so much! I don't know how I got so lucky to have the most amazing kids ever!

They are such good examples to me.

I have been having way to much fun with my camera. Here are the kids fall pics.

Chris took Bryhton hunting for the first time. They didn't get anything but they had a good time!

We went back to the patch a few days later and picked out our family pumpkins! Which we never got around to carving.

I was able to go On Declans field trip to the pumpkin patch it was a cold windy day but the kids loved it anyway!

Wow I am super behind on my blogging, so here goes starting back in October. Gavin turned 8 and was baptized. He is such a help around the house especially when Chris is working on the road he becomes my right hand man!

First day of School fall 2011

The kids were so excited to start school today, Looks like Declan was a little too excited! HA HA!

The View From Up Here

Chris was finishing up a job in Teton so Tuesday the kids and I tagged along. The view from the back yard of this home is just amazing! The kids were so excited at how far they could see I snuck up on them and snapped a photo!

Rexburg Rapids

We decided to take a break from our weekend cleaning and head up to Rexburg to the water park. It was such a beautiful day and the kids had so much fun I had a hard time dragging them out of the water after 3 hours! Poor Chris is out of town again so once more he missed all of the fun!

More Missouri fun

We have never taken the kids to Nauvoo as many times as we have been to Missouri so we took a small detour on the way home from my parents and headed there! The night we arrived was the first night of the pageant it was worth seeing!

Random picture of Raz at the carthage jail.

At the Carthage Jail.

The Nauvoo temple.

We got to go on a covered wagon ride.

We all got to dress like pioneers it was around 97 degrees when we were there and the clothes got hot really fast.

The kids had fun playing old time games.


We tried to walk on stilts.



We are so glad we don't have to haul water like this.

We had so much fun dressing up but I was so glad to take off that dang hot dress!



We stopped by the ARCH in St Louis pretty amazing.

We went to the zoo while we were in St Louis (best zoo ever) and the best part is it's FREE admission. The parking is $8.00 if you want to park by the gate but being the cheap suckers we are we parked 1/2 mile away and walked.We were there for 3 hours and didn't see the whole thing it was so hot the kids were begging us to leave. Definately recommend if you are out that way!

Treagans b-day and 4thof July fun

Declan was being a bully so the older kids swung him out on the rope swing and just held him there until mom came to save the day.

Gavin "Mom someone pushed me in the creek now can I go swim?" It was funny because we hadn't washed the tie dye shirts yet and Gavins skin turned green for a few days!

Brylei in her tie dye shirt all the cousins did at Grandmas it was so fun. I don't know where
my camera was for that!

Treagan all hopped up on soft serve ice cream!

Razden and his cousin Kaylie have a love hate relationship. She would try to hug him and he would shove her. She actually was trying to hug him here but caught him off balance and down he went.

4th of July we had a big shindig just like old times at the trout farm my Uncle John brought his
soft serve ice cream machine and Chris and everyone else was in heaven.(All you can eat twist ice cream cones!

Our sweet little girl Brylei ,oh what would our world be like without her to make us laugh and add a little bit of femininity to this house full of rough little boys!

The rope swing down at the creek, (Nice boots Bryhton).The water was so cold but the kids and Chris had so much fun swinging in!

The snapping turtle that showed up for Treagans birthday he was sooo excited!

We were in Missouri when Treagan turned 4 Grandma made him a turtle cake. Treagan came running in and said a real turtle came for my birthday and sure enough there was a snapping turtle out the back door he wanted to go play with it