Just having fun!!

I found some pictures of our Spring Break Staycation. Thought I would share them.

Aren't these some cute kids?:)
We went to the Vegas zoo and saw the lions get fed.

The older boys got to ride the New York New York roller coaster which is there in the background.

I just thought this was a fun picture. If only I had one of these cages at my house.:)

Christmas CD Giveaway

Chocolate on my cranium is giving away a wonderful CD go and check it out. I love her giveaways. The music is beautiful on this CD. You have to hurry though the giveaway ends tomorrow, Wednesday, December 9th.

Go here to listen to a few of these songs. I really like the song the Christmas Dream, but all of them are beautiful.

October in a nutshell

October has come and gone so I will give you a few highlights. At the beginning of the month my sister and her family came to visit. It was alot of fun I wish I had pictures to post of that but of course I don't. She helped to transfer kids to different rooms to give our angel #4 her own room due to the fact that she is our only girl. It was alot of work and I appreciate my sister for all her help. I wish I lived closer to her.

Angel #4 got an award for her citizenship at her school we were very proud of her. The sun was right in their eyes that is why they were squinting.:)

My mom came for my birthday later in the month. How lucky am I!!! A visit from my sister at the beginning of the month and a visit from my mother in the middle of the month. While my mom was there we made this pumpkin cake. Doesn't it look cool? We had alot of fun shopping. The weekend was gone before we knew it though and then she had to go home. It would be great to live closer to family.

To end the month we went to visit the town we moved from to see our old friends. It was a great visit and I am really glad we were able to see everyone there. There was only a few we missed seeing. We are so grateful for the friendships that we have from there. The people there are the best. We miss them.

It was a great month and on to November.

Happy Birthday Angel #2

Happy Birthday Angel #2. We love having you in our family. This is him hanging out on a rock at scout camp. I just thought it was a cute picture. He will tell you that this is the first year we let him have a birthday party. He invited a few friends over for a swimming party and to play video games. What else does a twelve year old like to do right!?:)

I wanted to show this picture because it shows what a good kid he is(most of the time):). He is playing with his cousins while at our family reunion.

This is another picture showing how helpful he can be, pushing his cousin while we were on a hike at the family reunion. He can be so helpful.


This picture is at Hoover Dam. He is helping us with Angel #5. I just really liked this picture of the two of them.

Happy Birthday Angel #2!!! You are a great part of our family and we love you very much.

In Memory Of..

Over the summer our beloved grandma -great passed away. She was the maker of bread, the best cook you knew. She was great at teaching everyone around her how to make her famous bread. She taught many how to make great christmas candy and it became a tradition every year. She was a great skip-bo player and fun to play games with. And she also shared her birthday with our Angel #3. He loved that he could proclaim this and will miss celebrating his birthday with her. It was sad but she lived a long and great life and we were grateful to have her here for so long.

This picture was one that we got in the spring before she passed away.

Because of the funeral we got a great family picture with everyone in it. What a great group of people.

Happy Birthday Angel #4

Happy Birthday Angel #4!!! As you can see she is surrounded by shirtless boys on her birthday. I don't know why they don't have shirts on but all the rest of the pictures with her and her cake were blurry so this is what you get.

This is a picture of her and one of her presents on her birthday. It is also one of the only pictures that is not blurry. She had a great birthday. All girl stuff including a pink scooter. She wanted it pink so that her brothers would not ride on it.:)

It is a barbie movie so that the boys wouldn't want to watch it either, but you will catch them watching it with her every once in a while.:)


About a week before her birthday by brother came into town and we went to see the Hoover Dam with them. This is a family photo right in front of the bridge they are building over the hoover dam. Angel #4 is right in the middle there. We are so glad that she is part of our family.

Summer Vacation Continued...

While in Idaho for our family reunion on my side we were able to go golfing. Not just the adults all of the kids were able to go with us. It was alot of fun to be together.

This is part of the crew watching someone hit their ball.

It took us all of these carts to haul the family from hole to hole, and we were crowded on to each cart.

Here is a family picture of all of us!

I was so glad that we were all able to be together with no one missing it doesn't happen very often.

Scout Camp

After we went to Idaho and Utah we came home and a week later Angel #1, and Angel #2 and their dad went to Scout Camp. It was called camp chawanakee in California. They had to drive like 6 hours to go to scout camp. They had a lot of fun, even their dad even though he didn't really want to go in the first place. Enjoy the pictures of their week there.

Happy Birthday Angel #1

Happy Birthday Angel #1!!! I can't believe that we officially have a teenager in our house. This is a picture of him at scout camp, I will post some pictures from that too. We went to Blanchard ID, to visit family and went to Silverwood Park on Angel #1's birthday. We had alot of fun here are a few photos from the trip.


Nana on a ride with 2 grandaughters!

Cousins hugging Odie. Oh so cute!!!

He was a little bit scared of Odie.


These two cousins riding a ride. Their expressions didn't change the whole ride. You can go here to see a few more fun pictures from our adventure at Silverwood.

Catching Up!!!

Sorry I am so behind on posts. I am going to try and add them and get caught up. To start off we went on vacation over the summer to Utah and then on to Idaho. To start our summer vacation all three of the older boys went to basketball camp at USU. They were able to stay at their grandparents house in Newton for almost 3 weeks, thanks grandma and grandpa again.


This is Angel #1 and Angel #3 with grandma in front of the bishop's storehouse where they were able to volunteer with them. The service that they were taught is great. I am so glad that they were able to do that.

Our budding actor:)

Here is the requested video of our angel #2 in his play at school. This is only a piece of the play but it gives you a tiny glimpse. It was alot of fun to watch him. He did a great job. We are really proud of him for trying new things like this.

Decorating 101

My mother came and helped me to decorate my home so that it felt more lived in. Here are a few photos of the great work that she did. Isn't she talented?

I didn't quite know how to decorate above the cabinets but she did.:)

By adding a few knick knacks my mantel looks so good.


This is a vinyl saying that I just added to my wall that I got from a friend of mine that has started a little business. I love it.

I also purchased this kit from her. I actually made it with her help, don't you just love it. She has a website you should all check out, it is http://thewholekitnkaboodle.blogspot.com/

This picture is for my mom. Thanks for all your help.

TOP 8's Tag

Restaurants:
~P.F. Changs
~Scotty's
~Cafe Rio
~Cheesecake Factory
~Panda Express
~Olive Garden
~In and Out Burger
~Hong Kong

TV Shows:
~Biggest Loser
~Clean House
~ER (Now it's over)
~One Tree Hill(Just started watching it)
~Oprah (sometimes)
~HGTV (don't have right now)
~Amazing Race (haven't watched in a long time though)
~Extreme Makeover Home Edition (If I get a chance to watch it)

8 of my Quirks:
~When I am nervous apparently I laugh after every sentence. (According to Troy)
~I talk to my sister almost daily, not just 5 minute conversations:).
~I clean when I get mad.
~I require at least one piece of chocolate a day.:)
~I always sleep on the left side of the bed.
~I am terrified to drive in large cities traffic. (i.e. Salt Lake and Las Vegas)
~I don't listen to the radio in the car like most people
~Can't go to bed in an unmade bed, have to make it first.

8 Random things I did yesterday
~Went walking in the wind and rain.
~Had extra keys made for our Suburban
~Made breakfast for dinner (kind of --It was pork chops with hash browns and eggs)
~Watched Biggest Loser
~Took the kids to school in my p.j.'s
~Mailed off a tax return
~Checked my e-mail
~Checked everyone's blog

8 things on my Wish List
~New couches
~A bigger house
~a King Size bed
~More time with dad and husband
~Lots of $$$$$ to give to people who need help...
~An eliptical
~Healthy kids
~A talent to be proud of

8 things I look forward to everyday
~Husband coming home from work
~loves from my sleepy children just waking up
~talking to my sister
~Nap time
~taking a shower
~checking my e-mail/blogs
~happy attitudes from my children
~bedtime

8 people I tag
~You...if you're reading this
~Cocoa
~Lords of the Manor
~Wild Murdocks
~Backus Bunch
~I don't know
~who else
~to tag.:)

Friends Forever

Just over a week ago some friends of ours from Winnemucca were in Las Vegas and we were able to visit with them. This is our Angel #4's best friend that was able to come visit with her. This is at the hotel our friends stayed at. Don't they look so cute!!

My friend from Winnemucca is such an amazing person. We love this family to death. Sorry, I don't have any pictures of her to post. She motivates me so much. She helped me pick out some material to re-upholster my kitchen chairs and then showed me how to do it. Me and the head angel have been working on them and we only have one chair left.

Here is the last chair we have left. Doesn't it look gross?

Here is the new re-upholstered chair. We decided to also put the plastic covering over the material this time to protect them from those angels of ours. I think it looks alot better, and they are so easy to clean off now.

Here's the two next to each other. I love the new chair. Thanks to my good friend from Winnemucca. We love you guys. She also helped me to get some pictures hung on the wall and start to feel like a home. Thanks!!

Happy Birthday to Angel #3 and Grandma Great!!

Our angel #3 shares a birthday with his grandma great. She turned 98 this year so we headed to Utah for a birthday party. Here are a few photos of the two birthday angels.

Here's the crew with their grandma-great!

Here's Angel #3 after opening his presents. We had sort of a 3-day birthday. His birthday fell on a Sunday, so on Monday we went to breakfast and the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay. It was alot of fun. Happy Birthday Angel #3, and Grandma-Great!!

Happy Birthday Angel #5!

This is a few days late but better late than never, right. :) Angel #5 turned two this month. We think he hit the terrible two's early though. He's been into everything for a long time. Wow, how fast they grow. We love our angel #5. Happy Birthday!!

Angel #5 the day he was born.

Angel #5 digging into his cake on his birthday.

This is just a picture to show how big he is getting.

Happy Birthday!!!

How cute are these guys?

After Christmas we went to Corey's for Zachary's baby blessing. What a cute family!!

Papa loving on the baby of the day. It was fun to spend time with everyone, and the babies are so cute.

Here is Nana holding the newest member of the Wilhelmsen Clan, Michael (moose as they call him). What a cutie!

Rachelle and Spencer just loving that I wanted a picture of them but aren't they just so cute!!!

Here's Kaysha on Christmas day with that oh so loveable little smile, or is that a smile of mischief:)

Kaylee and K.K. hugging right before we left for home. They had alot of fun together, aren't cousins fun?

And here is Kenzi grinning as she always does. She is one of the happiest babies I have ever met.

How could we have not had fun with all these cute people?