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!

We are ALIVE!!!

Well to all you who have worried and fretted about our exsistence here in Moab....we are alive and doing so so so so so so much better. That was a rough couple months for me and the rest of the family as you can imagine. We are so glad to be in the 2nd trimester of this pregnancy. I was seriously beginning to worry that it was going to be twins but they assured me there is only one baby in there. You never know how bad you have really felt until you start feeling better. I am so glad that I have Jared!! He pretty much took over there for a while! But the kids and Jared are all so patient and awesome. Jacob would rub my tummy all the time and "make it better" . Kaitlynn said she was sorry that the baby had to make me so sick!! But anyway, glad to have that behind me. We had a great Halloween and Thanksgiving! I was great to get to spend time with family. We are also so excited to get to go to Arizona for Christmas!! We will be leaving on the 20th (or if Jared has his way the 16th). We will get to be there until the 4th of January!! Hopefully I will be able to get some current photos on before we leave. I have been trying to play catch up for the last few weeks.. I missed out on a lot of house work and christmas prep time! So hopefully I will catch up before we leave. It is certainly great to be back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the due date is.......

So I went to the doc today for my first official visit!! I always hate the first visit-all the joys of a papersmear (i don't know how to spell it). But it was mostly painless and not so bad. My doc is kinda funny while he is doing his thing he just carries on a regular conversation as if we were in the hall at church. I guess he thinks that makes it easier. Anyway, my due date according to the calendar is June 20 which is right between Kailtynn and Brigs bday, but if you ask me it will be at least a week after that so probably right around Brigs bday. June is a good month though right before it gets too hot here. The kids get more and more excited everyday which makes me think it is going to be a long 9 months. But all is well with us and just wanted to share the latest news!!

A Cold Day in .......... PROVO!!

BYU vs Eastern Washington

So isn't this just the most beautiful picture!! The game was on Saturday afternoon. Jared, me, Grandma, Cassie, and Tiera decided to support our team even though we knew that it was supposed to be a little cold. There was a slight chance of snow so we came prepared for cold!! Th first quarter of the game was great BYU was doing great. Hall struggled a little but we were still kicking trash and then......

All heck broke loose with the weather as seen below. The game started out with full attendance and ended with only those die hard BYU lovers!! I am proud to say that I was found among the "TRUE-BLUE" fans!! It was freaking cold!!!

Jared was such a trooper letting me steal all of his body warmth and letting my rain poncho drain onto him. It was actually more fun once it started snowing because the players were all over the field. They would try to tackle one another and they would slide 20 yards!! Oh yeah, did I tell you it was COLD!!!

So the picture below is us getting ready to leave. We won by 40 points!! It was a blow out and we stayed anyway!! As you can see the crowd around us has kinda cleared out (like after the 5th touchdown). That cut down on our wind breakers greatly!!
We are all smiling so big because we know we are on our way to a warm car!!
Here is the girls before it got too cold!! Their cheeks and noses are not red enough for it to be snowing yet!! Don't you all love Cassie's beanie! She said it was the only beanie that was cute enough to look "manish" for!!