Snow Fun,Basketball and Etiquette

Raz and Treagan were mezmerized by the snowfall they sat in the window and watched it for at least 20 min. I think they wanted to go out and play.

Brylei (in the pink shorts)played basketball again this year and really loved it. She finally got the hang of how it's supposed to be played. Last year she struggled but this year she was a real star on her team!

Sorry Chris I think we are going to have to put up a basketball hoop!

Bryhton went to an etiquette dinner at church here he is in a strange pose. He is such a goofball!

They had to dress up nice and Bryhton even did his hair in a frohawk. Now at dinner he tries to teach his siblings great etiquette!

We havent gotten alot of snow this year so when we did the kids were out playing in it! One night Chris and I came home late and there was a snowman in the yard the kids had made in the dark!

Love these guys so much they are so full of energy!

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!