Merry Christmas 2014

Book Club Christmas Gifts

Christmas Decorating Complete!

Christmas Tree Assembly and Happy 18th Birthday Tanner!

2014 Family Photos

Thanksgiving Eve

The night before Thanksgiving we went to pick Kevin up from the airport and after we got him we went to Waffle House.  It was 11:30 p.m. but it's never too late for Waffle House!!  We loved having Brenden with us!

Bahama Bucks Selfie

JOY

I'm a Capricorn, NOT Scorpion

We lived in our home for 8 years without seeing ONE SINGLE scorpion...

We move into this rental for 6 months and have seen more of these dang things than I would ever hope to see in my lifetime!  This little bugger was in our shower. 

Happy Halloween 2014

For Halloween this year, Tate insisted on being Rex from Napoleon Dynamite.  I made the pants twice, and still didn't get them quite right.  Oh well, he wore them anyway and ALMOST made it the entire night before the crotch ripped out!!  Treyson just threw on the easiest costume he could find.  We went to our old neighborhood and had a BBQ and a lot of fun!  Tanner and Ty had plans with friends, and Treyson ended up going to a party...so, it was Kevin, Tate, and I...well, until Tate wanted to go trick-or-treating with his friends.  Man, we're getting old!!  

Fall Break

Unfortunately, our Fall Break was horrible this year.  Besides the fact that I had to tend the whole time, I also had a hideous cold.  By Friday, the kids were ready to go crazy, so I threw on my sweatshirt, ignored my chills, and took them to get some lunch at Chili's.  This is the only picture I have...good grief!

HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY TREYSON!!!

Uh oh!  We have another teenager in the house!!

DRHS HOMECOMING

DRHS HOMECOMING COURT

This handsome boy was nominated for Homecoming Court!  He didn't win, but he should have!!    (Of course his momma would think so!)

Even More Rain...

Spaghetti Sauce

My mom and dad are always so great to bring me tomatoes and help me make spaghetti sauce.  It always tastes so good, and I love that they are willing to do it with me.  

Swiss Days Girls Weekend!!

My Days

So Much Rain!!

We have had so much rain that the park has turned into a lake!  The boys have loved it though!

Family Day

We made the trek into downtown Phoenix to experience the one-and-only LOLO'S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES!  We had delicious fried chicken, biscuits the size of our heads, cornbread, and drank...not drink...DRANK.  I ordered the shrimp mac-n-cheese and it was amazing!  It was such a fun day and so nice to be together!

Rain

3 Days of Rain + Dirt Backyard= A Muddy Mess!!

Will You??

Tanner asked Jacie to Homecoming...she almost threw the bag away thinking it was trash!

She said YES!

First Day of School!!

Sunday Treats

After years of trying to perfect the elusive cinnamon roll, I FINALLY got it!  They were delicious!

Back to School Haircuts

Boy, oh boy!  Was it ever time!!

July Condensed

Goodness, I have been horrible at blogging lately.  It must be this little house, and the generally uninspired feelings it produces.  I am just going to smash all of my July photos together and hope to make some sort of order of them.  

We had a Newton family reunion and a Hawkins family reunion, watched and set off some fireworks, went to Seven Peaks, visited with good friends, played with some kittens, tried to talk G & G Hawkins into getting a kitten, played some baseball for Pleasant Grove, spent countless hours with the Kirby's, sent Tanner home on a plane ALONE, had some BBQ, Tate lost 4 teeth in 2 days, and had an amazingly great summer!  This is about as good as it's gonna get for this post.  

July 4th!!

I don't know what my problem is, but I am having a really hard time remembering to take photos!!  Dumb!  Anyway, the 4th was full of fun activities.  It was the only day that all of Kevin's siblings were going to be in one place, so we all headed up to Park City to spend the day watching baseball, swimming, having lunch, and catching up!  On the way up to P.C. we stopped at Daylight Donuts and indulged in some sugary delight!!  Yummy!!

We all went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant in town.  It wasn't great, but we're super spoiled in AZ to always have good Mexican food!  It was fun to be together though, and all of the kids sat at one table and had a great time talking to each other.

Rebecca and Rob had rented a room in Park City because Ryker was playing there over the weekend, so after watching him play we went to their hotel to let the kids swim. I think they all had a good time.  After swimming the found some open grass and had a wiffle ball game.  That's always fun!

Later in the afternoon we headed back to American Fork to have cake and ice cream for Corban's birthday, and then headed over to Pleasant Grove to watch the fireworks.  It was a great day!

Utah or Bust!!

Treyson's All-Star team lost the championship game, so on the 2nd he and I finally headed up to Utah!!  We rented a little Toyota Rav4 and we had some fun mom and son time on our drive. 

 

Desert Ridge Little League 11/12 All Stars!!

 

We got to enjoy a beautiful sunset as we waited for Treyson's game to start