February 2011

FEBRUARY PICTURES

Blue and Gold Boy Scout Banquet

Pre-school Fire Station Field trip



Happy Valentines Picture to the grandparents



January 2011

Here's a whole bunch of pictures of Kyle, he seems to be the only one I take pictures of. He is a cute kid and says the cutest things. We went outside the other night just as the sun was setting and he waved his arm kind of pointing to the sky and said "it's beautiful mommy", it was cute. So now I ask him like 20 times a day to say "your beautiful mommy", he does and I LOVE IT!



My little power ranger, he wore this mask to Wal-Mart, we got a lot of stares, it was funny!




Kyle turns 2!




He loves trains





the kids





Trent and his Snowman book report



Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas.  Hope you did too!  This is my 7th blog post today, so check out what we have been doing all month long in the other posts. ( I really need to just stay up on things weekly)




Kyle got the Basket Ball Hoop that he had been wanting.



Oldest to Youngest annual photo, just like when I was growing up



Me and my big belly, as Trent said " I guess Santa really does have a big fat belly this year", Yes, Trent you are right!


Happy New year to you all!

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we had Mike, Ashlee & Jensen, Tennille, Whit and kids, and Randy, Keri & girls over for dinner.  We had Navajo tacos, then played games and ate snacks.  It was fun and the kids always love playing with their cousins.



Whit & baby Bryn (Randy & Keri's newborn) slept most of the time.



The boys playing the Wii

Jensen loved the trains



Playing "Ticket to Ride"




The girls with baby Bryn

 After everyone went home, the kids opened "one" present, P.J.s and I think they were disappointed thinking it would be toys, you would think that they remembered getting the same thing last year, and me telling them about the tradition I had growing up, we always got p.j.s  on Christmas Eve.

Snow Day (December 2010)

A couple of days before Christmas we woke up to a ton of newly fallen snow. 

Ray decided to stay home and play with the boys.  They built a snowman in the front yard, then went to the church to build a snow cave.  Several of the neighborhood boys joined them.  They played outside until about 3 p.m. that day.  I am glad that Ray takes the time to play with his kids.

Grand Canyon Trip - December 22nd and 23rd, 2010

In a previous post I talked about the family that Ray baptized in Brazil and how they are here.  Well, the parents were going to be returning to Brazil a few days after Christmas, and they wanted to see the Grand Canyon, so Ray took them , along with Trent and Tyler on a whirlwind, 1100 mile road trip to the Grand Canyon and other stops.

It snowed the night they got to the Grand Canyon, and sadly in the morning it was really foggy.  If you have every been there, you can see forever on a clear day, it did clear out a little, but not like what it looked like for us back in 2007.  (I know we were there in June, but I feel a little bad, they couldn't see it so great).

Grand Canyon Fog

Cleared up a little

2007 clear day in June



Goose Necks, on the trip back home.



Crazy road they went up



Goblin Valley - I love the way this one turned out!



 The boys really were excited to go to Goblin Valley.  They got there just at dusk, so they didn't get to spend as much time as they wanted there before it got dark.  They got home around 9:30 p.m. that night.  I think they had a great time.

While they were gone I had a neighbor friend call me and ask if she could tend Kara and Kyle while I went Christmas shopping.  I got so much done in 2 hours.  I love my neighbors!

Preschool Gingerbread house (December 2010)

Kara made her first preschool gingerbread house and got to bring it home to share.  Kyle eyed that candy.  He wouldn't even look at me for the pictures.  It only lasted maybe a 1/2 hour at home, before Kara started giving candy out to everyone.  By the end of the day , it was completely dismantled and all the candy was put in a bag to eat later.

Nerf gun bandits (December 2010)

Trent and Tyler's friends, Ethan & Tyson, showed up dressed like this, so then Trent and Tyler had to get dressed up too. I especially love Tyler's safety goggles!

New Mexico Trip - November 27 - 29th, 2010

We went to Farmington for a quick trip.  Ray's brother , Brad, and his wife , Reta, blessed (in the LDS church) and baptized (in the Catholic Church) my newest (and super cute) nephew, Zoilo.  It was a super quick trip.  When we got there in the afternoon, it was sunny and so nice, quite the change from the freezing weather we left here.  The kids had fun playing outside on skateboards and with cousins.

Sunday we went to church at 9 am and the Zoilo was blessed.  Then we came back to Ray's parents and had a little brunch with all of Reta's family.

Then we went to Mass at noon, followed by the baptism at 1 p.m.  Luckily, Louise and Jenny planned a head and realized it would be a lot of "church" = sitting still and being quiet for the grand kids, so we got several young women to come tend all the kids while we went to Mass and baptism.

After the baptism we went back to Ray's parents and ate lunch, yummy soups from the Olive Garden, and to many desserts from the Olive Garden (they were super yummy though).  It was fun to see all of Reta's family again.  We got to spend some time with them when Brad and Reta got married.



Grandma's Christmas Village

 We stayed at a hotel, and we didn't get to swim Saturday or Sunday, so first thing Monday (when it opened at 9 am) we went swimming and had the pool to our selves.  The kids had fun, and it just  might have been their highlight of the trip.  It snowed Sunday night, so it was good to let the roads melt a little before we left.  Then we headed home.  We didn't really run into snow until Cortez and it was pretty snow packed, but we made it home safe.