Birthdays,FieldTrips, and Silly Babies

This kid always keeps me laughing!! He is a 5 year old inside a 15 year olds body -I can only imagine what I am in for when he becomes a teenager!! But I can wait - I love him so much and it breaks my heart that he is getting to big and too cool to slow dance with his Grandma:)


This little thing is the definition of stubborn - she refused to fall asleep in her bed because she didn't want to - she kept saying "no elley wont mom " so in protest she fell asleep in the chair :)


For my brothers birthday we went to Chilli's - our families favorite!!
This picture is so sweet - they love kissing each other!!



The Birthday Boy!! This is so cheesy - but I still remember when he was little and he would carry my moms purse around everywhere - he would dump everything out and put all his cars in it!! And I remember him stealing my eggs out of my basket on Easter and when I caught him he would smile and say Sorry Windsee, but when I set them down he was at it again! I remember sneaking into his room at night and sleeping on his floor when I was scared because I knew he would protect me!! And staying up until 3 in the morning listening to Enter Sandman by Metallica over and over and pretending to like the song because I loved spending time with him! And I love him very much!!!

Easy Christmas Craft

What you need :
2X3 cut to desired length - 2.00 at home depot or lowes
1X4 cut three at varying lengths - 5.00 at lowes or home depot
A wooden base - I used old wood I had in the garage(free :))
$1 store decorations- bulbs, garland, lights,bells ..everything looks cute on this thing!!

I painted the 2X3 and base black and sanded, then painted the 1X4 pieces white and hand painted the letters- you can use vinyl too , we made some more tonight and they were so much easier with vinyl!!
Stained everything .. and had the husband nail them all in place!! The star came from the wood connection in Sandy but the $1 store also has some super cute stars we used one tonight and it looked really cute!! Then just attach all your fun Christmas stuff -you really can't mess it up!!! It was so easy and so fun- and we all had a blast making them!!

We love the Hess's :)

We have been dying to see new baby Mayci!! Elley has been sick and we wanted to make sure whatever yuckiness she had was all gone before we malled there baby!! She is so sweet- and she fits in perfectly with there little family. I think she looks just like her big brother!



Look at these goobers - they are so silly together!! They copy each other and eventually ended up in just there diapers - Lincoln loves her so much he even wears her pants lol!! He is such a good big brother - Mayci is lucky to have him :) And could he be any more of a stud- look at that hair!!


I hope they will always be good friends!!


We hope we get to see more of these guys!

Happy Halloween!!

Are we lucky or what? I can't believe how cute these two are!!



To say that my Dad and Lisa are very much into Halloween would be an understatement!! My Dad sets up his haunted hay bail ride every year and takes the kids around to go trick or treating!! The babies loved going for rides!!


I made my Mom dress up with me- I thought it might help get her mind of stuff and help put her in a halloween mood!! We had such a fun day together!!

Kenna is so cute... she is so fun to spend time with. She helps so much with the girls... don't know what we would do without her!!

Parkeroni with his Dad and Jessica, Parker was supposed to be Wolverine we already had his costume and thought we were good to go!! But he has a deep obsession with Transformers - and when he saw this Optimus Prime costume it was all over with!!

I love you more then you could ever know!!

One tough Mama.....

So my mom is truly amazing!! When I say truly I mean TRULY!!!! I am so proud of her - this run was so much more then just that - it was proof that she can do anything!!
Parker and Mckenna were little cheer leaders and Parker could not believe how strong his Grandma was!


It was one of the coolest things to watch her cross that finish line!!

Thanks mom for making this run about him!! It meant so much to Chance's family - they have been through so much lately and it was such a huge gift for her to love him so much to think about him while she ran !! Always thinking about everyone else!!
Thanks so much to everyone that came to support her - it meant a lot to all of us!!!

Our Family...

On memorial day we planned to go hike Tipanogas Cave .. well when we got there they were sold out of tours for the day .. so we went to Heber and planned to ride the train but we missed it by an hour :( But it was a fun day anyways!!