Most Magical Place on Earth

We went to Disneyland and California Adventure in November with my brother Ryan's family, and my parents. The boys loved the parks, and we had a great time as a family! Been meaning to post this earlier, but with the slacking thing going on.. haven't had time!

I am a SLACKER

I had to post this picture of Jared. This is his ANNOYED, what the heck are we doing here at this crazy insane place with a million people? We went to the Magical Forest before Christmas and it was insane.. this is the look I got as we were waiting in line for the Merry-go-round.

See, got the face again at Disneyland...

Zach, Kale, and Matt at the Magical Forest. Waiting for the train ride.

Aiden on Christmas morning, riding his new fire truck..

Matt and Zach on Christmas Eve!

I have been a big time slacker on the blog. Its been a crazy last month with the holidays, sick kids, new church calling, death in the family, (Jared's grandpa) work, and all my daily mother duties. We are all doing well.. back to the grind of daily life. Trying to keep up on the clutter in the house (it's not dirty, just cluttery, promise) And I just started a new online Math class. Not sure if I am going to continue with nursing school.. I did finish my biology class, and got an A, but I am starting to feel like, I already have a degree, and I don't want to miss my kids growing up.

Hope everyone had a safe, and happy holiday, and wish everyone, although I am 3 weeks late, a Happy New Year!!!

THANKS Brittney!!

My cousin Brittney Dye met us at Bonnie Springs a week ago and took some amazing pictures of the family. She is so talented and did an amazing job!! Thank you so much!!

Happy 6th Birthday Matthew

Novemeber is a busy birthday month for our family. Aiden is the 7th, Matthew's the 24th, mine the 25th, and my mom's the 27th.
Happy sixth birthday today to Matthew. He was so excited today to be turning six. He helped me yesterday bake cupcakes to take to his class today. We made 30 cupcakes each with a frog and grass decorations.
Matthew is a sweet little boy. He loves his brothers and loves being in charge of them. He has his moments where he thinks he is 16 and talks back and gets sassy... But its part of him learning his independence and growing up. WE LOVE YOU and hope you have a great birthday!

Happy First Birthday little baby

Tonight we celebrated Aiden's FIRST Birthday. I can't believe how fast the year has gone by. I can remember the day he was born so vividly, like it was yesterday. It seems like as I get older the time goes by much quicker.. maybe because it makes me terribly sad that my boys are growing older. I have felt very sad the last few days knowing that this is it... no more FIRST birthday parties. But, I have to keep perspective, there will be lots more firsts for my kids. It's been hard knowing that I am not going to have any more kids. I have been trying to talk Jared into getting his vasectomy reversed, but he's not going for it.
We had some family over tonight for pizza and cake. I feel bad, the last two kids we had big parties for their first birthday, poor Aiden. Oh well, I am sure he won't be deprived of anything. He loved eating his birthday cake. He actually threw a fit when I took it away from him finally. I think he would have eaten the entire piece, but I actually wanted him to sleep tonight. We are going to California in the morning and taking the kids to Disneyland and California Adventure.
Aiden is such a sweet little boy. He has the most amazing little smile. I don't capture it on camera very much because he smiles for me, but then when the red flash light on my camera goes on, he stops smiling and just glares at the camera. He has started to show his personality traits more. He actually has started throwing fits too. He gets very angry at his brothers or parents when we take something away from him. He throws himself down on the ground or arches his back and screams. Its kind of cute though.
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY AIDEN. We love you!

Aiden wasn't remotely intersted in his presents. As you can see, he is actually holding my bottle of water. That is ALL he wanted to play with.

Grandma Kathy and Auntie Dani holding Aiden.

MMM Cake...

He devoured the birthday cake.

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday!

This picture was actually taken in our trailer last week, but this is the glare he gives me most of the time when I try to take his picture.

At the Halloween party last week. He sat in his bouncy chair for over an hour just watching all the kids.

Happy Late Halloween

Its been a crazy few weeks at our house... I've been working a lot, and we went out of town last weekend camping in Zion. I will post those pictures later. I wanted to post a few Halloween time pictures. Better late than never!


Aiden as a scary dinosaur..

Halloween night, our friends that we went trick-or-treating with.

Matt and his new girlfriend Camryn. She lives in our neighborhood and is in his kindergarten class.

Some of our friends that came to our house for our kiddy Halloween party! We sure had fun, thanks to everyone that came over.

Matt and Zach dressed up for Matt's school harvest festival!

Zach touching a scary pirate something...

Matt riding a pony at the Pumpkin patch.

To be so CAREFREE

As you may have gathered from my prior posts, I have my hands full with three boys! Wonderful boys they are, but still there are three. They keep me BUSY, but also keep me laughing at the constantly funny things they do. Last week Matt and Zach were out in the back yard playing. It was a warm day so they decided to turn on the hose and spray each other down. Just a quick spray turned into them both being soaking wet. I had to go out and turn the hose off and told them to take their wet clothes off. As they were taking their clothes off I went to get them a towel. When I got back I found them swinging naked on the swingset. Of course I couldn't resist grabbing the camera and taking a few discreet shots of them. Oh to be young and carefree!