Happy Valentines Day

This year, Valentine's day was a Sunday and also stake conference.... so we had a little visitor from Wyoming stay with us over night. It was fun to have Ellie with us.
Taylee...... I love her love for life and everything in it. She is a very nice person (most of the time) She loves to dance and I love how she tries very hard to get better at it. She practices all the time. I love her dearly and want her to know how much I love her.

Brinley...... I love her spunkyness (even though sometimes it is too much) I love how she is my buddy and still wants me to hold her. I love her hair, it is so easy to comb, the no bang thing is awesome! I love her sooo much!

Austin....... I love how grown up he is getting (even though I don't want him to grow up) I love how he is trying hard to do well in school. I love his love for sports. It is fun to see him play. I love him so much!

Thanks for staying with us Ellie. Love you too!

6th grades World Fair

This year, Austin got to participate in the worlds fait at his school. He choose the country of New Zealand. My brother Lance went on a mission there. He learned a lot and so did Chris and I about this country and how to write reports. Sometimes I feel like I am back in school.

He did a great job with his display.

He had to explain things to people as they walked by.

We painted his face like a Mouri warrior. He thought he was pretty awesome!!

Jack Rabbit Hill

Winter is not winter, unless you go sledding at jack rabbit hill. The kids had a blast! and Brinley went down all by her self, but needed help carrying the sled back up the hill.

Temple Square

Yesterday, we headed down to Salt Lake to take the kids to Temple Square. We had not ever taking the kids during christmas time. We got there around 5 pm just as it got dark. The lights were not turned on yet, so we took some pictures before it got dark.

Taylee, Brinley and Austin sitting by a water fountain, that they were so surprised it was running. They took bets on if it was cold water or warm water, it was cold, but I think it started out warm.

As we walked through the square the lights started to turn on. So we went out to the street and took a picture of the temple. It was a little foggy, so it turned out really cool! It was neat to see all the people and feel the spirit of Christmas there.

Here is my other picture of the temple. Amazingly Beautiful!!!

We took the kids around in the visitor buildings to look around and to warm up. It was pretty cold! This is one of my favorite things to see, besides the temple. This room was so crowded. People were just sitting and standing around just trying to take it all in. I am so grateful that we live close to this special place. We are going to make this a tradition every year.

After looking at the lights, we went to the Gateway and went to see the new movie Avitar! It was on of the best movies I have ever seen. I was leary to go see it, all I knew is that it had blue people in it, but WOW, I loved it! This is a definate keeper of a movie, all I can say is wow!

This morning, we had pictures in our christmas clothes before church. I guessthe color for the year was gray. We had a great day at church learning about Jesus. It helped us get in the christmas spirit even more.

My Girls and Me!

Our newest family member, Oreo

We have a dog! I know, I know, we were never going to get a dog again after the last one, but I couldn't resist!! He was free!!!

This is Oreo, (his real paper name is Scoby, but we did not like it). He is a 6 month old Shih Tzu dog. Isn't he cute?

A girl that I work with gave it to me. They were having a hard time with him, (actually she does not like dogs and her huspand just brought him home one day!) So I decided to take him home to my kids. They were so excited! We always said, that if we got another dog, this would be the kind of dog we would want. My mom has a dog like this and she is a good welll mannered dog and so is he!

Brin has a new "baby" to play with. She loves to put him in the stroller and just go. He doesn't seem to mind one bit!

New Moon

Yes, we are fans! Actually, we must be pretty crazy fans! We saw the movie the night before it even came out!!! My sister got us tickets and we all jumped at the chance to go. Austin invited his friend, Isabel. Her mom came with us too. My mom, Taylee, Robyn, Jaycee and the Whole BRHS Color Guard and their moms came! How fun is that?


We all went and ate at a pizza place before the movie. It was fun!

I bought Tay a tee shirt. It has edward and bella on it. After seeing the movie, she should of got a Jacob shirt!

Me and my mom! Thanks for coming with me mom! Love ya

Aggie Game

Taylee went to a USU Cheer/Dance camp Saturday. She loves to go to these things. While she was there, I did a little christmas shopping by myself! It was wonderful & fun! Anyways, she got to perform at the halftime basketball game that night at USU. So we all went to watch.

This is Taylee and her Cheerleading teacher Morgan. She has known her since she was 3. She loves her. This year, Morgan is an Aggiette dancer instead of a cheerleader, but they did the clinic together. It is always fun to know one of those cute popular ladies.

Taylee did great! She was front and center and actually in her own line!! I asked her about that and she said that there wasn't room to do her toe touch, so she had to move up. So there ya go.

This was her ending pose. She was one of the few that stayed there and soaked it in! How fun!

The whole game, Brinley was hunting down Big Blue. She really wanted him to come say hi to her. He never came and never came, then all of a sudden Chris said, Brin there is Big Blue! She ran with him and they got her picture with him. She was so excited! It made her day!

It was fun to go to the game and be aggie fans! Until next time