Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Spooky Halloween Night

Halloween is here in full blast! This year we started our day off with our neighbor friend's birthday. Shelby had her 8th birthday party on Halloween. The kids dressed up in costume and we had some party fun! THen as the night wore on we went on a hayride to trick or treat! Every year here in our neighborhood the tricker-treaters come out in full blown costumes! I wish I could have taken pictures of some of the people we ran into! Sometimes it was literally running into them! Some streets we went down were packed full of kids and adults hanging off of trailers being pulled by trucks with more people packed in on the bed of the trucks too! We had an awesome time! We went with some friends from church; The Coleman's, The Love's, and our neighobrs The Killough's. Matt pulled us around the neighborhood on a trailer with hay (our own hayride) Thank you to the Meinen's for loaning it to us! We had an absolute blast. The one house I thought was creative thinking was the one in the pictures of the "alien" hanging from the tree and the camo man sitting in the tree with a chain saw! Sophia and little Taylor LOVED IT! Here are some pics from our trick or treating!

School Daze!

So it has been a crazy busy summer! We have enjoyed swim team, pool days, waterslides and a wonderful vacation! So much to do in a short summer! The girls are back in school, and doing great! Sophia came home SUPER excited because she made a 100 on her six weeks math test. Way to start second grade! And believe me she was super proud ~ as her mom was. She went on to tell me that she was the ONLY one in the class who made 100. I seriously could not stop her gloating because I was too.! Sorry guys yes I encouraged it in the car. I was extremely happy and a bit surprised! Sophia is doing good in the rest of the class. The way the district does it out here is that you can actually write a letter and some teachers name and they try to put you with that teacher. Well, we did that and so did our good friend and neighbor Brandi. SO needless to say Sophia and Shelby are in the same class this year. They have Mrs. Romero and she is the best! Michaela is doing great! I got a phone call about a week into school from the principal. They had a spot open in the GT class and wanted to put Michaela in it. So we did! Come to find out that she had great scores and was place #4 on the waiting list! MOST awesome! Her first progress report of the school year and she has high A's throughout! This week we are celebrating Matt's birthday. His birthday was Tuesday and turned 39! His favorite cake is German Chocolate I put 39 candals on the cake and it was flaming! So that is about all for us right now. Halloween craziness is starting up soon so I will post more soon! ~:-)

Our Fab Summer Vacation and happenings!

Okay so it seems like ages since I have posted on the blog! Thanks to Crazy Cam she helped out with the posting while on vacation by dedicating a song to our family! That was very sweet and cute! (See below in the last posting for the song)! Well June and July was a rocking busy summer time for us! We have absolutely had a blast this summer! My brother came down to visit before he headed to South Korea for work( military assignment) and brought my two beautiful neices with him! We went to the Woodlands aquatic center and for $10 had a day full of watersliding and mini lazy river! We had a family BBQ and THEN was suprised because my cousin Karl came from South Korea (stationed with ARMY) and he actually got leave to come down to Texas so we had a grand time!

Then my family (minus Matt due to work) and my brother, nieces, mom and dad all headed for a day at the beach! LOVE THE BEACH! (see second slide show).

WE had about 2 weeks to recoup and then pack up to go on VACATION!! Every 2 years we head up to Utah/Wyoming to visit Matt's family during pioneer week. We first went to visit some long time friends (Sophia's second mama!!!) the Ericksons - they used to be in our Church ward before moving back to St. George, UTah (Totally under protest from me) We hung out with Amy and Renvic with their kids/Ryke,Rakelle,GJ,Ridge. We got to see a championship little league baseball game and they smoked their competition (BIG rivals with Cedar City) went swimming some more(that seems to be the theme with our family every summer!) Then we headed to Kaysville, UTah to stay with Matt's brother and our sister in law Nathan and LIz! The best ever! We had a house full of girls! They have 4 we have 2~ Then to Matt's parents in Freedom,Wyoming (Star Valley)I used to always tease Matt because accross the street is Idaho they live on State LIne Road! So I would always call him Wydaho! Every year Matt's family gets together during this time in Wyoming to go to the ball park in their ward and have a dutch oven cook/potluck dinner then they do a candy drop with a small airplane for the kids where they load it up and zoom by and drop candy out of the airplane the kids run around and grab it all up..Later that night they do fireworks. This is all done in celebration of the Mormon pioneers coming into the valley (Utah) and settling in and making it possible for us to be there~! Well everyyear some familys can not attend but this year we did however, we are missing Matt's younger brother and wife and 3 kids (his wife just had a baby!!), then Matt's sister Christine and her 4 kids where not able to be there. SOO lets count the numbers shall we!! In Matt's parents house (some of us in cabins up the road)Matt is the oldest of 8 children so in attendance that weekend (minus the ones above we had: 14 adults, 19 children running around at one time!! AND that is not all the family in attendance!! YIKES. What a legacy! That was going on Saturday 25th, On Monday me and Matt went on a white water rafting trip on Snake River! We had a blast! Of course that was AFTER I got slightly nervous and puked my guts up in the bathroom from sheer nerves! But we did have a blast after I saw that we were going to have another family athat had 7 and 9 year boys I knew I would be okay! After spending time in Star Valley we head back to Kaysville and by that time we had the original 6 girls plus Matt's sister kids 2 boys and 1 extra girl.. We had the GRAND opportuniity to take the girls to the temple!! They had an open house and the girls got to walk and tour the whole temple !! AWESOME experience for the children!! Need less to say we all had a great time and we hardly EVER saw our own 2 kids even though we were all in the same house! THANK GOODNESS FOR BASEMENTS!!! AWESOME! Thank YOU SOO much to Nathan and Liz and girls for housing us on our vacation and eating all your food! AND too all the other familys Ericksons and Reane and Melvin for letting us hang out and get to catch up on old times!