Thanksgiving

WHEN I COUNT MY BLESSINGS I COUNT THEM TWICE!!!

I am so grateful this Thanksgiving for a wonderful husband and kids my Heavenly Father has blessed me with. It was such a wonderful day - we spent the whole day with my family, so fun to have such a big family. I am so blessed.

The end of Football Season

I love these moments!

I love when you catch a moment like this. I looked out the window and saw these two jumping together holding onto each other. They were having such a great time and getting along (which doesn't always happen). I hope my girls are as good of friends when they are grown up as I am with my sisters. They are truly my best friends.

Raking Leaves

While the kids were off track in Oct/Nov, we went to visit my parents for a couple of days. Its so much fun to visit with, them play games, relax, go shopping etc. Well one day we were in Logan doing some shopping and Brinley and Ashlyn started arguing and fighting I gave them a warning and they continued so I told them they owed me a extra job/chore when we got back to Grandma & Grandpa's house.

Well when we got back I got distracted and had forgotten. They went in the garage and got the rakes and started raking for their job. It made me so proud that I didn't have to enforce - they knew they had to do it and did it.

My parents have a very large yard with ALOT of trees and ALOT of leaves. They were out there for probably 45 minutes - so I went out and helped for a little bit and told them that was enough. They said we want to keep going we want to have a big pile to jump in. So then Jackson went out and Payton and they all started raking and making a big pile. So the punishment turned into a really fun time and a great time for me to get some fun pictures too.

It got dark so we went out the next day and finished bagging the leaves, it ended up being 20 bags of leaves. Ashlyn said to me - Mom, we did service today huh? I said, yes we helped Grandma and Grandpa alot, my dad gave all the kids a dollar and they were soooo excited about that. I was so proud of them for all their hard work and for having such a good attitude.

hALLOWEEN

HERRIMAN FOOTBALL

This year Jackson wanted to play football. He has always played fall baseball, but he wanted to try football so we decided to let him try it. He really liked it and he ended up being real good too!! On the first game of the pre-season he got hit real hard by 3 linemen and got a concussion. So he missed 3 games and 3 weeks of practices. We all made some really great friends and had a blast. His number was 23 he played mostly D-line on defense and running back on offense.

Ashlyn's Baptism

Ashlyn was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on September 4th, 2010. It was a beautiful day we had a luncheon after at our house. On the evening before Ashlyn jumped out of a swing and landed on her face as you can see in the first picture she scraped up her face pretty good. She is such an active child I should have wrapped her in bubble wrap!!!

Happy Birthday Payton!

July 12, 2010 (Monday)

For Payton's birthday we went to Build a Bear and she made a puppy. She named her Abby. It was funny because she was actually pretty scared through the whole process. The machine they fill the animals is kind of loud and she cried the whole time. When we finally got her calmed down she didn't want anything to do with the puppy for quite a while. She finally liked it and we were off to McDonalds (her favorite) anytime we pass 1 she says " I hungry"! It was a fun night!

Ashlyn - Stadium of Fire

This year Ashlyn had the opportunity to dance at the Stadium of Fire in Provo. It was such a neat fun opportunity for her. It was a lot of work - alot of practices and alot of time but she loved every minute of it. I am so proud of her for how hard she worked and what a great job she did. It was truly amazing experience to see how well the dancers did.