Celebrate!!

The kiddies played the day away and then sat down to a glorious feast for dinner. Afterwards playing a little Wii before bed. Then all the kids snuggled deep down in their beds. While Mom and Dad watched a few tv shows or two.. until midnight or two. To all a Good Night! or Good Morning! Have a wonderful New Year !!

Brandon Christmas Sing

I went this morning to watch the boys Christmas Sing. They did a good job!!

Chase Christmas Sing

It's beginning to look like Christmas Part 1

Just a few snapshots of our Christmas trees

2 cute kids

Cayden smiling for mommy!



















Callie taking a nap

Being Thankful

I have many things to be truly grateful for in my life. Here are some of the reasons why.......


For those crazy moments in life when all you can do is smile and say everything will be alright.


The sweet and tender moments in my life....






























The silly and squishy moments in life ....




















And of course those moments when all you can do
is laugh and remember why life is truly a great thing
and how blessed you are to share those moments with
the ones you love..

Happy Thanksgiving!

Chase's Thanksgiving Comic

Chase did a Thanksgiving Comic at school. I thought it was very cute!!

The picture didn't turn out very clear.
So I decided to type out the words and captions
for those of us who have to squint to see the pictures.

Chase's Thanksgiving Comic

1st pic Pilgrim lady picking berries

caption reads
La! La! na! na!

2nd pic Pilgram lady making pie crust

caption reads
I Love pumpkin Pie

3rd pic Pilgrim lady brings out pie to eager pilgrim man sitting caption reads that's big!!

4th pic Pilgrim man bewildered at his broken fork caption reads My fork broke

5 pic Pilgrim man kicks the pie out the door caption reads I hate this pie!

6th pic Pilgrim man laughs at where the pie lands caption reads Look What it did!

I thought the comic was a perfect way to help celebrate Thanksgiving!!
Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Let it snow!

Yesterday there was a lot of hype about a huge blizzard that was supposed to hit. Luckily, we were not part of the blizzard we... waited anxiously for the snow to fall... around 6pm it started to snow... the boys were happy...
Here is what our backyard looks like today!

Thanksgiving Art

My creative boys....


Chase's pilgrim












Brandon's thanksgiving turkey
















Brandon's colorful scarecrow

My little Darling!

Callie just woke up from her nap! She's not so thrilled for the camera.













Callie and her new carseat!! She is such a big girl now!!

Dinner with the cousins

Callie eating yummy chocolate cake...














Brandon and Troy















Elise eating a cookie

Dinner with the cousins

Halloween Costumes

My little ghost

Spider, Dragon, Spiderman and Ghost


The night of Halloween it rained... the kids were sad .. but the rain stopped long enough for them to trick or treat around Grandma & Grandpa Stiles house... of course.. with the excitement of trick or treating and candy.
Pictures came last.. they had a fun evening!

Brandon's Halloween Song

After the Halloween Parade the 1st graders sang to the parents. This is a short clip of Brandon singing.

Halloween Song

Halloween Song

Halloween Parade

Callie stuffing her face full of cheerios waiting for the parade to start.

Chase after the parade waiting to go back to class.

Brandon waiting to go sing with his class.

What we've been doing....

A short while ago we went to Neilson's Grove Park... It was fun!!

Brandon and Chase are ready for their crazy hair day at school.

Continue in Patience

After watching this video I was amazed at how profound Elder Uchtdorf's message was about the ability to wait... even it is as simple as getting an extra marshmallow.
I was noticing how we could then internalize this as we look at our own lives and use the marshmallow experiment and apply it to different situations in our lives.
One quote that stuck out to me was " God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly or in the way we might hope."
I think sometimes we are too eager to wait as most children did and eat the marshmallow right away. I think in time if we are to wait for the second marshmallow or
have patience during those difficult times that we can then receive the answers we are in need of.

Continue in Patience

Pictures from the Cayden's hospital stay!

Cayden waiting in pre-op room trying to make a fish face.

Cayden got to wear cool orange socks while he took his nap/surgery.

Last pic Cayden sleeping he's in recovery and we are waiting for him to wake up.