Birthday Camping

Brady was bugging me for months to take him camping for his birthday so we decided to go to Moab with Mammie and Papa. Brady was very excited the not only were we going camping with Mamamie and Papa, but we got to take Keegan with us too! We had a lot of fun camping, swimming (Mammie's idea of camping is staying at a hotel near the camp site we were at so we had access to a pool), and going to Arches national park. It was a very fun family camping trip!

The kids loved playing in the dirt! This picture makes me laugh what a cute little bunch of rednecks!! :)

We decided to have the kids hike up to Delicate Arch. I was very proud of them thy all did such a great job! The hike was a little hard for Zoey so Mammie stayed with her at the half way point and let us finish the hike. It was hard work for the kids, but they did an awesome job! No whining or fighting just enjoying a wonderful hike!

Papa and Hope under the arch


Papa and the boys under the arch

Chris and the kids under the arch

Chris taking a break!
Papa and the boys heading back down

Chris and the girls after we made it back to Zoey



Zoey's cat Figaro made the journey with us.
and HAD to have a picture of everywhere we went

Keegan and Brady trying to catch a lizard

Having fun by the pool

It was such a fun camping trip! I am glad we decided to go!

Happy 8th Birthday Brady

I no longer have (for a while now) a baby boy in my life and this makes me sad, but I am blessed with a grown up 8 year old who is one of the nicest, funniest, kindhearted, smartest boys I have ever met in my entire life, and this makes me happy!! I am going to take a mom moment to say my Bubba is the best son anyone could ever ask for! Now don't get me wrong I am not sitting here saying he never torments his sisters, never throws fits, never does anything wrong, nope I am just saying Bubba is perfect to me and I am blessed to have him as my son!!! I am so proud of Bubba he works so hard to do his best in everything he does! He LOVES school and is doing amazing!! Brady is in the 3rd grade this year, but is in 4th grade math and spelling. He is at the high end of a 4th grade reading level and just loves to read and share his knowledge with everyone he knows! He tells me all the time that one day he is going to be as smart as Papa and Google!! :) Brady loves science and it is his dream to be a scientist when he is older, and I know if he works as hard then as he does now this dream will become a reality for him! He loves to play football, golf, and basketball. Brady has also found a love for theater! I am proud of Brady for trying everything and being such an amazing person in life! I know one day Brady will change the world for the better just like he has our home!! :)

Papa and Mammie gave Brady a basketball hoop for his birthday and he LOVES it!!

FOUR!!!

I have always loved playing golf!! I remember as a kid my dad taking me out, and I worked really hard to be on my high school team and letter. I got Chris into the game when we first started dating, I have tried for a few years to get the kids to play and now they are really showing a true interest in it! Both of the kids are taking lessons this summer so we decided to get them a head start and take them to hit some golf balls.


Hope is a natural.. Sure she has a Happy Gillmore shot, but when she hits it correctly man can that ball fly!She thinks she is hot stuff because a guy at the golf course told her she was hitting the ball really well!


Brady was hard on himself at first because Brady thinks he has to be perfect at everything the first time he tries. By the end he was dong very well and had a lot of fun. He told me he can not wait to start lessons this summer!!

Zoey thought it was fun for about 2.5 minuets. After that she just walked around like this



It was a great family day and I know we will have many more like it!

Happy Birthday Ashton and Park City fun!

For Ashton's birthday we went up to Park City to celebrate and Nan and Oompas condo. It was a fun night of pizza, brownies (Ashton's favorite) and just hanging out with family! Happy Birthday buddy! I can't believe how big you are getting!! We Love you!

The girls loved playing on the beds!

Hope Brady and Ashton had fun playing bubble gum bubble gum! This is one of the only pictures of the boys because they were running around like chickens with their heads cut off!

Brice just being Brice!! I love this little sassy girl so much!

The little girls got Hope to come see how cool the beds were :) Hope is so cute with them!
We decided that we were going to stay the night, and Brice was very sad because she wanted to sleep over at the condo with us, but her family was heading back to sandy!

Like I sad it was snowing really hard, and the kids were just amazed!!

We had a lot of fun just playing and watching movies at the condo that night! Brady thought the bed in the wall was the funniest thing ever! The next day we were going to go swimming but the pool was closed so we decided to head over to Heber and play instead!

We saw this church on our way out of Park City and I just thought that the cross with the snow all around it was just beautiful!

A trip to Heber would not be complete without
getting an orange ice cream from the train restaurant!
The kids (and I) just LOVE it!!

Brady's Special Day

Brady made his First Holy Communion in the Catholic Church and it was such a beautiful day and service! He was so excited for this special step in our Faith. He looked so handsome and grown up. I am very proud of Brady and how important religion and our church is to him.


Brady with part of his group that shared this special day with him. There were so many kids this year that it took 4 different services to allow all of the children to take this wonderful step in our faith.

I love these two pictures of my kidos!!

Brady was very excited to have some of his cousins there on his day!

The day after Mammie and Papa took us to Little America for breakfast to celebrate with Brady. The kids loved it! It was such a nice meal! Thank you Mammie and Papa!

Bubba and Papa

He was very nervous that he would get his suite dirty!

Zoey was very sick with strep, but we did not want Brady to miss out so we took her anyway! She was such a trooper!!

Hope had a thing for this really cute server!! :)After breakfast we went over to Nana and Oompa's for a lunch they had for Brady to help celebrate his day! Thank you for the awesome lunch guys!

Brady was very excited to have Kamy there! It is so cute how much they love each other!

This is what Zoey did the entire time!! She really did not feel well at all!!

Leah Olivia and their little sidekick Hopeachino!! Hope loves her older cousins so much!!

Thank you to everyone that helped make this weekend a very special time for Brady! We love you all!

Easter 2011

We has a fun Easter! Mammie decided to do dinner and a big Easter egg hunt at her house with toys, candy, and money filled eggs! The kids had a blast! It was a lot of fun to watch the cousins play and get so excited together!

One of the toys from the hunt was a sling shot! After Brady doing this to me about 10 times the next day or so the sling shot is now lost :)


All The kids waiting to open their baskets!




Keegan was excited about one of the little candies in his bag!
Wendi helping sweet Annika open her gifts.

If you look close on all the kids hair there is confetti. I bought trick eggs that looked like normal colored egg, but when cracked open confetti came out! Brady LOVED these and thought it was so funny to crack eggs on everyone!

Keegan searching for his eggs

Before the real hunt Brady Keegan and Zoey hid some eggs for each other. Zoey is telling the boys to go find the eggs she hid!

Next Brady hid the eggs! Here is Keegan and Zoey looking for them! Keegan wanted to look on his own, but Princess Zoey would not let him out of her reach! :)
Having so much fun!!

When we got home we opened all of the Easter Bunny gifts, and looked for all the hidden eggs!
The Bunny hid an egg on the frame, and it took the kids about 20 minuets to find it. I don't think the bunny thought it was that hard of a spot :)


All Zoey wanted was Tangled, and she was so excited she got it! Her whole basket Tangled themed...The movie, a dress, a doll, a book etc. She was so excited!!
Hope's basket was filled with things all pre teens love like nail polish, jewelry, a DS game, an outfit and of coarse a Justin Bieber trading card magazine. She loved reading all about her heart throb :)


For Lent this year Brady gave up video games! He did such a good job and took it very seriously! The Bunny was so proud of him and gave him a couple new games!!


The kids were all smiles at the end of our eventful Easter! It was a fun family day!