Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Can you believe I am posting?!?!!

 I know I am such a slacker!! But how many people really care about my blog or read it?! :) So much has happened since I last posted! so this will be a super long post! I will start with the most recent....

Braxton celebrated his 13th birthday in July....13!!! Holy cow I can't believe he is that old!! He is such an great kid and so fun to be around! We love you bud and are so proud to call you ours!

    Here he is showing off all his money...he wracked in a grand total of 225 smackeroos!!
 His favorite cake....Strawberry Cake! YUM!
 We went to Yuba Lake a couple weeks ago with Jason and Lori Mitchell and had a BLAST!! The kids had so much fun!! Thanks for taking us with you!










 My baby girl celebrated her 5th Birthday in May! She was so excited to be turning 5 because that means she gets to go to Kindergarten! yay for her....boo for me! I cant believe she is growing up so fast!!


 For her birthday cake this year she wanted a Candy Land cake...and boy was it ever!! Totally loaded with all kinds of candy! I think everyone was on a sugar high after eating this cake! But she couldn't have been any happier with it!
 Brynlee had her year end recital in May and she did UH-MAZING!! she is such a little dancer and loves to perform and shake that booty of hers! LOL One of her dances was to a...are you ready?....a JUSTIN BEIBER song!! she LOVES him and was so excited to be dancing to his song!




 Porter went down to Panguich to play in a baseball tournament and they won it! Great job Porter!! He is such a good little player and has gotten even better throughout the season! He was on the 9U all-star team this year and played so good! we were playing state in Richfield and were down to two games left when we had to take him in to get his foot checked because it had been bothering him now for 2 weeks! so come to find out it had been FRACTURED!!! the poor thing had been playing ball with a broken foot for 2 whole weeks!! what a tough cookie!! so he was so upset he couldnt finish off the season, but he played awesome!!



 Brynlee's graduation program from preschool! she went to Mrs. Bradshaw and LOVED her!!  Happy Graduation baby girl!



 One day it started raining really hard and then turned to HAIL!! they were coming down HARD!!


 Looks like the Easter Bunny made his visit this year! Braxton would NOT let me take a pic of him this early in the morning! LOL

On another note....Josh and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary! I can't believe we have been married for that long! It seems like just yesterday we were on our way to get married! Time sure does fly! I love him more and more everyday! My heart still pitter patters when I see him! (yes mushy, but its the truth LOL) I cant wait to see what the next 13 years has to offer!! I think thats about it for now! I do have some pics from camping and the 24th I need to blog about but this will have to do for now!!

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Christmas 2010

We had a GREAT Christmas this year!! The kids all got what they wanted and then some!! I think they got SPOILED! Anyways, we woke up around 7:30 and started the chaos! Then it was time to go hit all the parties throughout the day! It was great to spend time with all the families and enjoy eating TONS of food and enjoying everybodys company! Now that Christmas is over, it can stop being cold and get me WARM weather! LOL

showing off their Christmas jammies!


                                        of course there HAS to be a silly one! They make me laugh!
                                       Brynlee was SOOO excited that she got an American  Doll....which  she                                                          named Kailey. :)


                                              All dressed up in their new church clothes!



HOPE EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! WE SURE DID!!.....now seriously bring on the warm weather!!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

My Birthday!

This is the surprise I got while at work today!!! LILLIES! They are GORGEOUS! Thanks to my hubs! he is the BEST! I seriously was so shocked that they were mine! I also got a new outfit, that I LOVE!(sorry no pic) and we ended the night on a date to Steves Steakhouse which was absolutely DELISH!! The steak ends were to DIE for! perfect way to end a birthday!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Gingerbread houses and SANTA!

 This past Sunday was the Payne's annual Gingerbread house making and a special visit from the big jolly guy! my mom made wonderful soups again this year! clam chowder and chicken tortilla soup! they were sooo yummy!! I went down on Friday to put all these darn gingerbread houses together.....10 of these suckers!!!



 This is what happens when you let a 3 year old get ahold of the red frosting! LOL
                                    Brynlee and her finished gingerbread house!
                                                   Porter and his finished house! Braxton wasnt done with his yet and then santa came and I totally forgot to get a pic of it later!
                                  here is Elder Harlan sitting on santas lap telling him what he wants for Christmas!!
                                            Brynlee telling santa what she wants!
                                                     Braxton telling Santa what he wants!
                                                    and Porte telling him what he wants!
                             Brynlee was SO excited that she got not only a Barbie, but a BELLE one!!

Pumpkin Days and Halloween!

Once again we had our annual Pumpkin Days with the Utleys. we had great food, and great laughs! we always have a good time carving and painting our pumpkins!  But I didn't get any pics of the after looks.
                                        Braxton and Eli (what a good babysitter!)

                                             Porter picking out his pumpkin!
                                                                      Best Friends!
                                                                  Brynlee and Scarlet
                                                   painting their pumpkins!
                              of course we went apple bobbing!! always a good laugh! Porters turn!
                                                                Brynlee's turn!
                                                                  and......she got one! :)
I was TERRIBLE about taking pictures on Halloween! Terrible I say! But here is Brax all decked out!
   Porter....not quite sure what he is suppose to be...I guess some wierd baseball player! LOL he changed his costume about 3 different times!
                                                cute little witch!!!

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Josh decided it would be a great idea to go and scare people (family members) by just walking in their homes and not saying a word. just walk around and then walk out of the house! he said it was the FUNNIEST thing EVER!! LOL! he said he has never seen some of the people so scared before! Nobody ever thought it was Josh because he normally would not do anything like that! He sure looked scary though! we had a good laugh!!

Gooseberry!

At the first of the school year, Porter got to go on the anual Gooseberry Field Trip where all the 3rd grade get to go to a little camp and stay overnight and learn about many different things! I got the opportunity to go along with him! (and I got paid to go too...BONUS! thats the perks of working at a school!) anyways we enjoyed being up there and Porter got to learn about Fire Safety, Mapping, ATV Safety, Wildlife, and of course we can't forget about seeing Annie Bangs that night! she was the talk of the whole grade!



                                              This was a live BAT! eewww! sick!

                                                          Ellie the Elephant was even there!
                                           Smokey the Bear stopped by for a visit and we got a group picture!
                                              making the tree cookie! (yep the still do that)


 Then, after a couple of weeks after we got home, the 3rd graders had a program where they sang lots and lots of songs about Gooseberry for the entire school and Smokey the Bear even made a special appearance!!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

postings....

new posts coming soon! I promise!!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

HELP!!!

K. I need help!!! I am trying to go private and I have no clue what to do, I can't figure out where you go to do this.....can anybody help me?!?!