So these pictures are out of order, I hate when I haven't posted in forever and then my brain gives out and by that time I have put all the pictures in the wrong order. Oh well. It really has been busy at our house with no dull moments. We have had basketball tryouts, scouts, activity days, kids i watch during the day, primary, grocery shopping, dinner and everything else that come with having a family, and Christmas approaching, it will be hard one with out mom around. I know it will pass but not having her here at this time is difficult. I think of all the silly things that she used to do and we would laugh...the toys she picked sometimes were pretty hilarious, she picked a doll for Leah and thought it was the cutest thing until leah started playing with it and it started singing in Spanish, or when we got our gifts we were lucky if they were wrapped. That was just her and she did it for years. We love her and miss her so much.

Okay so this picture of Dylan's head really does nothing. Randy took the kids to school like normal and as soon as he got home my phone rang...I looked and Randy and said uh oh, it's the school! So the lady on the other end proceeds to tell me that Dylan fell and face planted the cement and that I should probably come down and look at it because the nurse was not in yet. So I go down and it was pretty ugly. With an enormous goose egg on his head I took him home for the day, he kept holding the ice pack under his eye though, I really couldn't figure it out. So I would move the ice pack to the bump that you see above. well 2 days later he had a black and blue eye...needless to say it was Sunday of course! He is doing better and all is well but man it was a bad one...I don't think that he learned his lesson though because every time we drop him off at school he takes off running.
Brian and Reece chillin. Reece loves the bean bag chair.
Kaeltynn trying to stay away from the boys.

OOPS! So these pictures are out of order, I guess the most important thing is that I am finally getting these posted. SO we had a snow storm come through and school was canceled the kids were so excited to go and play in the snow that I thought they were never coming in. Lacy...yes the dumb dog is still kicking she moves pretty slow now and has quite a lot of grey hair and Bear decided to have a little fun of their own.

Thanksgiving we headed to my in- laws for some good fun and company. Then that weekend I cooked our turkey and we enjoyed some left overs. Dylan who is the comical one of the family decided he wanted the leg of the turkey so here he is chowin down:) This kid cracks me up.
Reece enjoyed his Thanksgiving as well.
Leah and Ashley playing princess's. This is all new for me and kinda fun as Kaeltynn never really did girly things, she played with cars with Brian when she was little.

Okay so it's totally been forever since I posted pictures! We had Brian's birthday, he has now turned 11! Yikes! where has the time gone. He had a birthday party with some friends and we went to bounce and came back for some pizza and dessert. Then we had our own little family celebration..He wanted a double layer chocolate cake, it was a really good cake if I might add.
So I have been running a little daycare out of our house and it actually has been quite enjoyable. I have 5 extra kids on some days and 2 of my own. My little nieces are so stinking cute...Leah and the girls have a blast. In this picture we decided to have popcorn and watch a movie while the other kiddo's were sleeping, they had a really great time. Randy and I had to laugh because my whole life revolves around kids right now...Primary President, running a little daycare and having my own kids keeps me busy. I really actually enjoy it and wouldn't change it for anything.
NO this would not be my baby:) Leah loves little babies and is so cute with little Emily.
Brian got his Arrow of Light award in scouts!! It was a lot of hard work from his leader and I would like to say me but have to hand this one to Randy. Good Job boys! He was so excited. There is an actual arrow on it.
This was part of the ceremony that they had at the Pack meeting in cubscouts it was Brian and one other boy who got their Arrow of Light. Now he moves on to 11 year old Scouts holy cow own more year and he will be in Young Men's!!

October is such a busy month for us with 3 birthdays...a family baptism and just kid stuff so.. Okay so this was a little out of our comfort zone but we both decided to dress up at the last minute...Pippy longstocking(with out red hair) and fred from scooby doo! We had fun! I know we look silly but why not:0
The kids really had a great time, we ended up going trunk or treating at our ward party. Leah was a princess, Kaetlynn was going to a masquarde party, brian was...something mom doesn't like, Dylan is Hulk and Reece was Sully!
Dylan just being the Ham that he is.

Reece's Birthday!! I so can't believe that he is one! Time really flies. I remember when I was first pregnant with this little man. I thought that the timing was so wrong when in fact Heavenly Father sent him to us for so many reasons.....He is really a mama's boy, he was three months old when my mom became very ill he was a little trooper spending day in and day out at the doctor's office with mom and I or at her house spending as much time with her as we could, Randy was so awesome...he was there for the other kids and had a really great handle on the kids and the house work that needed to be done and reassured me that we could stay with my mom as long as we needed to(we meaning Reece was attached) if it wasn't for Reece it would have been a lot harder going through what we did with my mom, I had something else that kept me going day in and day out after mom passed away, it would have been so easy to just close the door and sleep. Two really great things that I remember as mom was getting sicker was we were in the car and I was driving her to have a blood transfusion and she said to me....."I was out on the back porch drinking coffee and I could feel God," she said. "I talk with him all the time and it is like he is right next to me." Of course at the time I just thought that she was starting to build a relationship with him but little did I know she really was that close. One other memory that little Reece and I had was when we were sitting out on the couch with mom and my Auntie Willow and papa and Greg and mom was dozing in and out of consciousness and she looked at Reece and said...aren't you cute Reece, she smiled at him put her finger on his chin and back she went to sleep. I love you Little Reece and you have a special place in my heart:_




Holy Moly! It was Kaeltynn's birthday and she turned 9 this year, we took some of her friends to bounce and came back to the house for pizza, presents and fun! I just love girly time!

School pictures are my favorite and seeing them change from year to year. Brian got glasses and braces all in the same year.

School pictures are my favorite and it is so fun to see how much the kids change. Brian has gotten glasses and braces all in one year.
Kaeltynn is growing up to be such a cute young girl.
You can tell that Dyan had a good time playing at recess before he had his picture taken. He as well has grown up just since last year. I love how the picture shows how they really are instead of fake and perfect.

So I really have to explain this picture of Reece to you....So ever since he was just a little baby and had gotten RSV...he has been attached to yes....my under-roo's, if any of you have seen him he has an old part of one of my tops that he carries around and it has a well....once upon a time green border on it, he carries it around and sleeps with it, especially when i am not around, he loves to hang on to the silkiness, so one day....we couldn't figure out where he had gone and Randy went to look in our room and he had pulled out all my under-roo's (as I will call them) and was i guess sorting them out to find the best one, it was pretty funny. He had this look like what...??? needless to say if he can't find his "silky" he knows where to find one:)
Leah is pretty comical..she is always finding some way to amuse all of us.
AND SHE IS OFF!!>......not sure where but she is having a good time
Reece just being his cute self

The weather is turning colder and leaves are starting to fall...as we catch what is possibly the last semi-warm day my kids each have what they like to do on their own....Miss Leah is just hanging out lookin cute:)
Kaeltynn tried to play basketball with her brother but found out really quickly that basketball just isn't her sport...
Dylan is kinda the lazy one of the bunch and you can always find him sitting around somewhere unless he is with friends...well then...it's a different story.

Like I said, always just sitting around chillin......
Brian on the other hand when ever he has the opportunity he loves to play basketball