Holiday Favs......

Here are a few of my favorites from the holidays. Of course we did the nativity on Christmas Eve with cousins and grandparents, fun times or should I say funny times. This is my distressed angel and well i'm just not really sure what to say Davis is, you guess!! Seriously who wouldn't want a beautifully handmade costume from your mother like that! Luckily he's handsome enough to pull it off. As you can see incredible hulk terrified Kate, but we've gotten over it.

I added a couple more pictures in of the girls. As most of you know Makenna has not had hair this short since she was about 2. This was a huge step for her to chop it off! Will took the older girls and Davis for haircuts. i love all of their new do's and luckily so does Makenna!

Merry Christmas..........

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas! The kids and I drove around tonight looked at lights and watched "The Grinch." They are in hyper Christmas mode, but it is fun it makes me feel little again! I sent my last minute cards out a few days ago and have lost my list in my merry mess of Christmas of who I have sent them too and who is left. So instead all who never got there card and picture here is the picture!!! We love you all. Have a fun, crazy, and hopefully relaxing next couple of days.

My little sis....

Just wanted to say Congrats to the college grad! Seriously I could write a book on Alysons accomplishments in life so far. Not only is she graduating from college today (finished in 3 years what?....)but she is a concert pianist and scored a great job. Sorry I am going to brag about you ALY! She loves her nieces and nephews like they are her own kids and she is just great all around. On top of it all she is humble about everything which makes it even more fun to brag about her!! I thought these pictures were the perfect description of Alyson and her favorite place to be. Asleep in chaos!

I just can't stand it.....

Somedays I just can't stand the fact that they are growing. I looked at my old blog banner today and it made me think they don't even look like that anymore. So I had to make a new one. Where did the last 6 months go? Sometimes I go to get Kate out of her crib and it makes me teary eyed because she is growing, talking, running. Now that I am on the fourth one I realize how fast the time goes. I swear I was just pregnant with Makenna living on a foreign ranch, scooping frogs out of the sink in the bathroom, and having my husband slaughter rattle snakes outside my front door! I love it...it makes me crack up just typing it. It really wasn't as crazy as it sounds but it goes for good story telling. Then again maybe it was kind of crazy!!
Back to the subject. I love Elder Wirthlins talk "Come What May and Love it." We all have our hardships in life there is just no getting around it. I just love the fact that we can try to just love it for what it is. There is some kind of comfort in those words. What a dedicated soul an apostle has to be and Elder Wirthlin was.
I hope I can embrace his words and try a little harder to "love it" just a little more each day.

This picture of Davis is just too funny to not post. We were out taking pictures and Davis kept blinking so I told him to try to keep his eyes open and this is what I got.

A good laugh......I need it!

OK I was thumbing back through my pictures from Virginia and came across these. Do you see anything in common with them? I soooo needed to see this cute and crazy boys face today. I have had a few tears because I am a computer genius and somehow have deleted my whole year of 2005 pictures and some others also. Pictures are like gold to me and yep I screwed up and deleted them. I got an external hard drive and it said everything was backed up. I have been ordering prints of all my past pictures to put them in my binders and finish up all the kids scrapbooks from when they were babies so I do have some of the pictures on random websites like snapfish,winkflash the list goes on. Anyways I was deleting my larger folders to make room on my computer since it was busting at the seams with pictures and started with the older ones from 2005 which is the year Davis was born ahhhhh I can't even think about it! They may be hidden in some special computer cove who knows but for now I have had it with my computer not-genius brain. I don't get these external hard drives don't believe what they tell you!!!

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Sista stuff..........

I was so lucky to be able to go back east and see my sista (thats just what we call each other i really didn't spell it wrong). It has been so hard for me to go and see her over the years, i guess i will just blame it on my kids. It seems like either i am pregnant or she is pregnant and we end up always meeting in Utah. We had fun times. I definately know we come from the same gene pool due to our obsession with cute short hair and chocolate after every meal. We did a downtown tour of D.C., well pretty much from the car. You got to give me some credit on this White House picture taking it from a moving car. Thanks for letting me campout in the basement sis, actually i am missing my late nights up watching all of your recorded shows due to my body not wanting to make the 3 hour time change. Her boys are the cutest ever, and i am not just saying that. She's got three of them.....how in the world!!! She is one awesome mom. Lots of pictures:)