{Jake turned 9....Last year}

{B is for Birthday, Brooke, and bulldog}

January 17th Brooke turned 4!!

{these pics are out of order and that's just really sad}

She wanted cupcakes and who am I to deny my favorite girl??

Whenever I ask her to smile, she gives me this "bulldog" grin...
the dentist said she might grow out of it ;)

There was also brownies and ice cream, and sweet pork tacos....

mmmmmm so yummy!
My mouth is watering just thinking about them again :)

modeling a hairclip bday present....
she hasn't worn it since....

Happy Birthday to our beautiful girl!!!

{Sam is 7}

Sam turned 7 in January!

It was a Sunday bday and we had just driven home from California the day before so it was a little less planned than usual, but he didn't seem to mind the "Backyardigans" cupcakes :)

We had a party for him and all the other January bdays at Grandma's house the day before we left cali too so it was A-OK

Happy Birthday Buddy!

{Year End wrap-up ..OR.. I'm tired of playing catch-up!..OR..Totally Random stuff}

She say's she wants to be a wrestler when she's a big girl!

*another way I justify taking my iphone to church*
I am the assistant ward organist at church now and I haven't really played the organ for about 20 years so I take pictures of the settings I think sound right cuz I don't know how the memory buttons work and I don't play every week and I forget :)


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No Pictures, but we had a fun family Thanksgiving with Jim's brother-in-law's family.
We had way too much Thanksgiving dinner though!
I think we will have a different meat this year....I'm still kind of sick of turkey.

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For my birthday I got fancy cupcakes, which I LOVE, which seem to be the trend right now.
Cupcake/Bake shops popping up all along the Wasatch Front.

These were from the Sweet Tooth Fairy in Provo. YUMMY!

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No pictures from Christmas but let's just say, the kids got everything they wanted and more and at this moment they are all basically grounded from all their gifts or could care less about stuff that was the most important thing a month ago. We spent just a little more than we had budgeted so that is progress, but I always feel the desire to return everything around the middle of January :) *Note to self!!! Less IS More!!!!!

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The day after Christmas I drove the kids out to Cali to visit the farm and the fam. It was cooold out there! but no snow!! That's important :) It was a fun trip but I think I've had my fill of California for a little while again.

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Finally!!! Happy NEW Year!!!

Next up! 2010!

Max turned 2!!

July 5th Max turned 2!!

It was a Sunday and I didn't know we were out of bday candles...

luckily I had a taper that I could break in half...

There was lots of practicing...

Someone may have even tried eating the candles...

The boy LOVES fire!!

When it actually came down to it, he wouldn't blow them out!

He wanted to get away from them.....

there isn't a pic, but somehow the candles got blown out

Then it was time for gifts

He got a diego bike....that he hated.......

until the other kids went away.........then he loved it~

Happy Birthday Mommy's Favorite Baby Boy!!

{Jake is 8!}

Jake turned 8 last monday so we had a little par-tay!!
He was VERY excited to get Star Wars Monopoly as a present from his friend Peyton!


CAKE!!

Got 'em!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE!!

He is so excited to be baptized this saturday

and we are all so happy with what a great kid he is!

Pink Birthday Cake

She was sooo excited for her cake, probably because it was pink, pink and more pink

before

after

and when you ask her how old she is, she now says 17!!

We just love this girl so much!

Pink Birthday Fun

Most of the week up until Saturday, Brooke would say it was not her birthday.

and she was not going to be 3 she was going to be 8!

Presents!

Birthday lunch at Applebees, even though she insisted it wasn't her birthday.

She was very excited for her cake though...

Pink Birthday Breakfast

Pink POP Tarts on Pink Plates
I just want to eat in peace Mom! No Pictures!

Tasty!

Survey Says Please Help!

Our internet connection is at" limited connectivity" at best.

I am driving around looking for a WI-FI connection at worst.

I need to know who has the best internet deal-io!

I need reasonably priced, always on, all or some of the perks, details, etc...

Do tell! Please Help!

PS before I lose the connection-

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REX!

PPS I have a very cute photo of Brookie's party last weekend to post as soon as I can get re-connected.

Winter Treats

Since the snow is never going away, Sam and Brooke decided to go out and tromp around in it...

and eat snow,

and try snow angels...

and eat snow...

this girl's BIRTHDAY is tomorrow,

so get ready for PINK overload!

PS- did you know that the STEPHEN'S French Vanilla hot chocolate is WHITE?

It was news to me!

Sam is 6!

Today Sam turned 6!

He had his 1st real friend party, with 6 friends...

and

9 cousins and 2 brothers and 1 sister.

Our house was full of food, friends, family and fun!

We had a great day and find it hard to believe that he is already so big!

We love you Sam!

December Recap

A lot happened in December and I need to catch up with the NEW year... here's a recap with

A LOT of exclamation points:

the 1st part of the month we were all sickies and there was pretty much no Christmas Spirit to be found.

Then Sam was Santa's helper in the Jingle Jam at school.

Jim's brother Nathan came to visit on his way home from Rexburg

We made an INSANE trip to INDIANA for Christmas!!

3 days in the car, 4 days to visit, 3 days in the car.

Trip of a lifetime!

Never going to happen again!

Way too much family togetherness!

We found out Kansas is 1 of the worst drives ever!

Who knew that orange muppet was so good??

The midpoint in Kansas is a small town with a BIG name!


and in Abilene Kansas, they like our name and make some pretty good chocolate!


We drove right under this in St Louis

On Christmas Eve I turned 36 and took a pretty bad picture with Max



Max really enjoyed himself with the cupcakes

Our Christmas was pretty good but no pictures were taken to prove it.

We had good weather during the whole trip and no snow which made the drive a little more bearable. We spent a small fortune on new videos for the kids to watch in the car, but totally worth it! I am really glad we have that thing!

We got home to a couple feet of snow in the driveway but were so happy to be out of the car it didn't matter.



Our New Year's Eve was quiet except for the ROCK!

We had to try out the new Guitar Hero we got for Christmas.

Tomorrow is Sam's Birthday.

I am having a lot of trouble with Blogger.

I am CAUGHT UP!

Happy New Year!