Connor's Sweet Song

So I totally have always loved to hear this song, but it is so much the sweeter when it is sung by one of your own children!! Enjoy!

They're not heavy, they're my brothers!!!

So I so wish I could turn these pics the right way. Jared took the boys to the moutain to find some snow igloos the scouts had made a few weeks ago. He wanted to let them explore and play in some real (non-slushy) snow. When they got there the road was so covered they could not make it in the truck. Jared loaded Brigs and Jakers into the sled and him and Connor decided to pull them to the igloos. Jared said the snow was half way up his own leg and was really tough to walk in. However, I looked at these pics and Connor seems to be really happy to be pulling his brothers. It just reminded me of the saying " He is not heavy, he is my brother." I love my boys and they are just awesome friends and kids! They truly love each other and love being together. They finally got to the igloos and they were collapsed but they had a blast anyway!!

GIRLZ WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!

So this Pres. Day weekend just the girlz got to go to Las Vegas (compliments of JoJo) partially to watch some seriously awesome volleyball and partially just to have some bonding time! It was so much fun! Shawnee's club team played in a tournament there were over 700 teams. It is the biggest recruiting tourney of the year. She was absolutely amazing!! She had BYU, ASU, USC, Gonzaga, Uof A, Texas A&M, Boise State, UVSC, Snow College, San Angelo University, Georgia University, Montana University, and on and on there checking her out. She was on fire!! While we were there she had 3 full ride offers. She has since got 4 more. She is holding out for another couple of weeks and then she will make a verbal committment. I think she really wants ASU and they say they are trying to scrape together a full ride for her so we will see!! So here are some pics of our weekend!! So much fun!! Enjoy!

Here is all of us at the Venetian waiting for the gondolla rides!!

Shawnee the Stud!! Brooklyn says she would almost trade her kids to have Shawnee's legs!!

Here we are watching the games and this is my cutie-patootie niece Addy Mae!

So what would a Las Vegas trip be without at trip to the FAO Swartz store!! Kaitlynn could not believe all the toys and had a hard time not wanting to pick something out for everyone in the family!

Kaitlynn found the cutest hat in Vegas and we can hardly keep it off her head now!! Keyera wanted to copy her every move and usually did!

Here is me, my mom, and the bug on our ride!! It was fun mostly just to watch Kaitlynn!
This is a pic taken from Brook, Jojo, and the girlz gondolla.

Shawnee had so much fun with the girls they sure love their Aunt Shawnee!!

So we ate at the Grand Luxe Cafe which is basically a Cheesecake Factory! It was scrumptious! Kaitlynn snarfed down her food in hopes of a great desert and she found one!! Strawberry Shortcake was her choice and it was huge!! She loved it!

Here she is being so Kaitlynn, never a serious moment!! She made those glasses out of Wikki Stix! They are pretty cool way better than crayons and a paper to entertain while you wait for food!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Late Valentine's Day to all I hope you had a great one!! Just thought I would show you one of my valentine creations! I do not know what happened to me this year, usually I am not that into V-day, but it was fun this year. I am so mad I did not take more pics though. We started off the morning with hot pink heart shaped pancakes and had heart shaped pizza for dinner. I did the games at Kaitlynn's Valentines party at school. Such cute games I found so if anyone needs any for next year let me know!! (Way easy, way fun). I made 41 heartshaped pink ricecrispy treats sprinkled with sugar and wrapped in red cellophane with a tag on them for each member of Connor and Kaitlynn's class. Once again so mad did not take pics so someday I can prove to my kids I was a good mom somedays. Jared was Mr. Romance on V-day and took me to a way nice resturant the Center Cafe. It is like one of those 8 course meals and the food looks like it is from Iron Chef! Yummy!! He surprised me with a huge vase of red roses on the table of the resturant. They were there waiting when we got there and Ms. Observent me did not even notice them til the waitress pointed them out!! What a sweet heart! It was a great day (not to brag) and the kids had fun too!!

A Few Nice Dayz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we finally had a few nice days here in Moab! It has been an abnormally cold, snowy, and windy winter. We usually have a really mild winter and not too much snow. Well in these pics it is the first we have seen the ground in months!! I am serious the kids have been going crazy. We told them they could go outside and play for a little while and the following MUDDY pics are the result!!!

Connor first lost his shoes and then lost his pants!! It was quite the shoe, good thing our backyard is fenced in!!
Connor and Kaitlynn decided maybe mudbogging was not the funnest activity!! I was not about to go out there and get them!
Finally he made it out!

So on Saturday after the Worldwide Training meeting Jared and I decided to take the kids to the Old City Park!! It was so nice and beautiful!! It was still cold enough for coats but at least we saw the sun!! I actually got a sunburn....how sad!! Kaitlynn lost her other front tooth this month and we think it is hilarious to hear her talk!!
Connor has quite the baseball stance.....not!
For those of you who know Jake, this is so Jake!!!!!He was sitting on first base waiting for his brother the hit the ball, he finally got irritated enough he just sat down!

Totally love Brig, he has the same face in amost every picture we take of him, but what a precious face!!

All in all it was a pretty good week and a great weekend!! I love being the mom to these kidz!! (I might have to come back and read this in a few days to remind myself!! hahaha)

IT"S A .........

Well for those of you who have not heard the news...................it is a BOY..................again!! In all seriousness we are so excited!! Kaitlynn was way bummed as you can imagine. She sure had her heart set on taking care of a baby sister. She has since been promised a girl horse, a girl dog of her chosing, and a real sister (even if we have to buy one Jared says). She seemed to be happy with that. I tried to convince her that she would just get to be the Princess of the family, but you know Kaitlynn, that did not do much for her. We are all finally recovering from a rough month in January. I was sick with respirtory and sinus infections, the kids got yucky colds, Jared has had a bad chest cold and Jacob was seen in the emergency room twice. Jacob first pulled a table down on his head and had it pinned between the tile floor and the table. He had a concussion, two black eyes, a double bloody nose, and a really bad headache!! They said nothing was broken it just looked really bad for a week or so. Then just as the bruise was fading, Connor slammed Jacobs thumb in a door and took the end or his thumb half way off. You could see the bone and the nail had to be ripped out to try and re-attach the thumb. It is healing finally and he is lucky he still has his thumb. That boy has many more than 9 lives!! Everything else is going good. I would love to put some pics on but our camera has been down for a while but hope to have some soon!