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.