A Very Happy Holiday

Happy Holidays Everyone!!! It seems to be very cheery around here compared to the weeks past. We had a wonderful Christmas with friends and family and it was a blast!! Life is getting put back together from our last mishaps and I found an old camera to catch a glimpse of some of our fun!

We took the kids sledding along with our neighbors
the Taylor's.


Daddy and Brayden sledding...Brayden wasn't
too sure about the whole thing...he hates wearing
the gazillions of layers!


Our little fam in a cow sled! It was FAST!


Kaydree giving me her ONE catch it or miss
it pose!


Christmas morning... what is going on??? I must
be dreaming still?


Santa brought Kaydree some high heels! She's
already wanting to grow up!


She was sooo thankful of everything from
everyone. She would say, "Oh wow, Thank you"
and then give a little giggle after every gift.


We lost all attention from Brayden when Santa
gave him cars and a train!


And our favorite little friend (cousin), baby
Kamryn and our sister Amber! What a cutie!!

A Not So Jolly Weekend

This weekend Austin and I headed off to Utah for his cousin's wedding. We were able to leave the kids with his family for the entire weekend and I was excited!! His cousin's wedding was in Salt Lake. While we were attending his wedding, Austin's truck had been broken into. Actually, his whole window of his truck was bashed in by some sort of crow bar. We noticed it when we went outside to grab the wedding gift. We saw the theives and their truck take off....the police didn't catch them but I was mad! They stole all of MY stuff! My new purse, my makeup bag, my new camera with very important pics on it, all of our Christmas gift money on gift cards, credit and debit cards, my car keys (I have NO spare), and my cell phone!! It pretty much stinks too. We spent the whole first night trying to cancel everything and cleaning up glass. Did I mention it was a Blizzard!! His uncle had to loan us money just to be able to eat and get gas.
The second day we spent looking for a place to fix our window (we had to borrow money again) and we got to hang out with my sister and her husband at Temple Square. We spent the night at their apartment.
And the third day Austin's relatives got us tickets for the Sounds of Sunday and the Christmas concert. President Monson and Uchtdorf were there! That was THE Highlight of our weekend! After that we drove home 4 hours through another blizzard. SAD DAY!!! I am still a little bit bitter and having difficulty coping but at least no one was hurt.

If anyone does have an old cell phone they'd like to get rid of I will see if my provider will accept it. Thanks for letting me vent. I will try to figure out a way to take and post pics SOON!

Sister, Sister!

This Friday my older sister Katie flew into SLC from CA to come visit me for the week. We haven't hung out together as sisters since who knows when. We even got to hang out with my twin sister Traci last Friday for the day! Katie had a baby this past Sept. and brought him along too. It has been a lot of fun! We've decorated some more of my downstairs, watched movies, did some speed cleaning (since yes, my new house is still on the market.. always the story), gave her a fun makeover (and showed her what eye makeup is for JK!), went shopping and I bought some cute clothes, played games, used her height to get to the top of our tree to finish some decorating and well, just hung out! But it was fun! I do think I convinced her that ONE child is enough though! Everyone tells me..."oh, their just in that stage"..but how long does that stage last?? Brayden's mellow, sensitive, and caring while you know who is a little miss sassy ALL the time! What can ya do? I love her with all my heart, I really do! But this week has flown by and I hope that we can continue to grow closer as sisters.

Here's some picture's of some of our random, sometimes pointless, FUN!

Katie and I

New haircut....(The whole thing was MY idea 1st :) )

Katie and Ryan (3 months)

Daddy's idea of a BIG girl!

Aunt Katie in a quiet slumber with Brayden

Baby Ryan....I just had to do a mini photo shoot

Christmas Tree Hunting

It's an annual tradition the day after Thanksgiving to head to the mountains in search of the PERFECT Christmas Tree. This year we braved it and took the kids too! We all had so much fun! There wasn't that much snow until that night..but the kids had fun snowmobiling and playing in the snow! We love our tree and even though we cut only 2/3 of it down it stands 13 ft. tall. I don't have any pics yet because I ran out of light strands!! Here are just a few pics of the adventure.

Their first time snowmobiling!

Brayden taught Kaydree the ropes of a good

snowball fight!

And Kaydree showed Brayden how to eat snow!

A little piece of Heaven....we are always the

only ones out here for miles and miles!

This is IT before being chopped down...I think

this picture shows only half of it!!