Macie's Dance Moves

Sorry about the back and forth of the camera. I am still learning.

Valentine's Day Fun !!

I was in charge of one of the stations for Rett's Valentine's Day class party. I thought this little monster was pretty cute, so I was in charge of helping the kids make this. This one was the one I made as an example. My hat goes off to Kindergarten teachers. They have a really tough job. That many kids at one time is kinda crazy !!

There are 23 kids in his class. So we made 23 Valentine monsters. It was a ton of fun and work.


This is Rett's cute friend, Zuzu.


Here he is wearing his crown.

I went to help in Rett's kindergarten class for their Valentine's party.
Here's Rett making his crown.


Here's what Rett's Valentine's finished look like. They looked really cute !

Here is Rett finishing up his cards for all of his class.

My girl

It is so much fun having a baby for the fourth time. She is such a happy little girl and just goes along with everybody else. She makes me smile all of the time. I think she is going to be quite the little clown. I just love her and all of the love she gives to everyone in our family. I am not alone in feeling adoration and love for her. Everybody in our house is so in love with her. She has everybody around here just loving that she is in our family.

Macie's hairdo is from the applesauce that she mashed into her hair when she had lunch just before her art project.


Here is Macie making a picture to send to Braylyn and Kambria. I was surprised how much she liked doing this. She went nuts scribbling all over the cards. It was pretty cute.


I'm glad he loves his sister !

Sunday Sunday

My gorgeous sister, with my gorgeous baby girl !


Julie hung out with us Sunday morning. Her flight left about noon, so we dropped her off at the airport on our way to church.

Hiking and Sushi with Julie

Me and My Man

Me and Jules

Julie still had reception on our hike :)

Here's Julie giving Chrissy some attention.



When Birtley and the boys were looking over a ledge Macie took off her glove and dropped it. Birtley and Julie climbed down to get it. This was Birtley looking up at the boys.




On Saturday after Julie got her beauty sleep we went for a hike up to Tablerock. It is pretty close to where we live. Only a 15 minute drive and you're ready to hike. I thought it would be fun to go to the zoo, but all of the boys wanted to go for a hike. They just love hiking and we haven't been for a while because it has been winter. The weather was just nice enough that with coats it wasn't too bad. It got a little muddy, but we still had a great time.

Julie comes to visit

My sister Julie came to visit me and it was so much fun having her visit. She flew in on Friday afternoon and then had to leave Sunday afternoon, so it seemed very fast, but was really fun. I was so glad that she wanted to come and see us. She is awesome with all of the kids and I just loved having her around. It was the week before Valentine's Day and she helped me help the boys make their Valentine's. We went old school and did homemade cards. It was fun ! I was so glad to have two extra hands to help. Thanks Julie!!!!

Christmas Morning

Becca and Jorgan Peterson gave us this for Christmas. It is a window from an old house with vinyl letters on it. The saying is really cool and thoughful and it looks great hanging in my living room. Thank you guys !!

Birtley gave me this awesome pictures for Christmas. He loves to surprise me and I really love that he does. It's the Salt Lake Temple. It is even prettier when you're standing right in front of it. He hung it up for me in the dining room and I can see it from the kitchen and the living room, so it's pretty perfect. I get to look at it a lot during the day. It is just gorgeous!!! Thanks honey !! You are the very best.

Rett playing his new DS game, Lego Star Wars. He really really likes it, can't you tell?

This is my present that Rett is wearing.

Merry Christmas !!!!

Did you notice the chocolate on her face at 6 in the morning? It was definitely Christmas!!!

Macie with her thumbelina Barbie. When she opened it she got all excited and said "Ooooooh", it was so cute !!

Rett and Carter got a new game for their Nintendo DS, that was one of the first things they wanted to play with. Here they are, playing so intensely that they didn't even look up or notice me taking a picture of them.

Cole with his remote control Jeep, it was his favorite present.

Cole opening his favorite present, with the help of his brothers.

I had to show Macie what to do with her presents. Once she saw what fun it was she really liked it !

Carter and Rett were sooooo excited to get a Wii for Christmas, they have had a great time playing with it. I am very surprised and impressed with Cole's guitar hero skills !!

All of the goodies !! Santa was very good to us this year. We had such a wonderful and perfect Christmas ! The day was full of fun and just enjoying all of the kids stuff and relaxing. We had really yummy sticky buns for breakfast, had a mid morning nap. Some boys were very excited for Santa and got up at 5:00 am. We all needed a rest after all of the opening presents and some good food. Our good friends, Petersons came over for Christmas dinner and we enjoyed wonderful food and friends that night. It was one of my very best Christmas' so far. It was just so much fun !!!

This is the cheesecake that was for Santa after he came, Carter had the great idea to leave carrots for the reindeer, he left a note for Santa so he wouldn't eat them. I thought it was really cute of him to think of that !!