Our life in a Nutshell

I appologize for such a long post. We (as are all of you) are so busy, and I can't hardly keep up with everything. I can't tell if I'm getting lazy or just don't want to take the time to post. As you can see this has been a brief look into our life for the last few months.
Hanging out with friends, Camping , Coaching, Ashlyn playing softball, Birthdays, Halloween, Awards Assemblies, More Softball, Getting dirty, Shucking corn and bottling, Concerts, Coles deer hunt in Colorado, Life with Easton and Cooper, Parades, Getting Wood, Family time roasting Marshmellows, and so on. This is just a few of our fun times. Maybe I can try to keep up a little better now. Love you all.

Still alive and Kickin

We really are still alive. Things have just been so busy, I have not taken the time to update my blog. I will try to post a little something about our lives for the past 2 months in a day or so. In the mean time, I hope all is well with everyone.

What do you get ???

What do you get when you add-----

An Lds Stake Center.(I know this is not the Snowflake one but you'll get the point)


A couple of flying BATS! Yes Real live bats. (In the cultural hall)


And a couple of Girls???



Two really freaked out, bout to pee our pants, scared to death, uncordinated, running around, falling all over, hands flying,hidding behind doors, falling on the floor,hitting walls, screaming,hillariously looking adult ladies trying to get these boogers out of the stake center so we could have a fun friendly game of Volleyball. Who knew that these tiny little ugly creatures could be so scary. I have to admit I have never been that freaked out in a long time. It was so crazy. If we would of had a video camera going we might have been able to win some mad money. We did have some help from a couple of other ladies or we would of never been able to get them out. Thanks for the memories and the fun laughs Heather. But I have to say, lets not do this again for awhile.

Happy Birthday Ashlyn :)

Thursday was Ashlyns "real" birthday. I hope you had a good day. Your dad and I are very proud of you and are glad that you are ours. What a sweet girl you are. I can hardly believe that I have a teenager. I hope you stay just the way you are and keep reaching for your goals. Strive to always be a better person and be a good example to those around you. We love you very much. Happy Birthday yesterday.

Ashlyn's SURPRISE Party!!

Tuesday Aug 18,2009, I decided to have a surprise party for Ashlyn for her birthday. Her birthday really was'nt until Thursday so she had no clue what so ever. I had to have it early because she is on the 7th grade softball team and they had a game in Round Valley that day and I wasn't going to beable to make it work. I told her that her grandma vicki could only take her to do her birthday shopping that day, and she was going to have to leave practice early.(Like I would really let her leave early for something like that.)I invited the whole team to come along with some other friends that were already at the house waiting for us to get there. So as soon as she left, we loaded everything up and off we went. My mom told Ashlyn that she had forgotten a list of things that I needed for her to get for me so they had to go back really fast. She sent Ashlyn in to get the paper and SURPRISE!!! There we all were. She was so scared and freaking out. It was so funny. I wish that I would have caught the real face that she made but I snapped the picture to soon, so I made her recreate the look for me. I know a couple of my pictures are really blurry but my battery died in the camera so I had to use my phone. Anyways, we had a really good time and I appreciate everyone for coming and helping me make this so successful.

Back to School

I know I am a little late with this, but things have been crazy and I finally have a few minutes to post a few things that have happened in the last few weeks. I actually miss the kids being home but I love getting back on track and having a more organized day. Pretty sad that it takes school to put me back on a schedule. The kids are all loving it so far and seem to really like their teachers and all their friends. It will be an exciting adventure for all of them.

Madison, Ashlyn and Jordyn all together.

Gotta show off those backpacks.

Ashlyn, McKenna, Bailey, Logann and Madi. Lets hope Ashlyn and McKenna can always get along like this. Love you Kenna.

Mason,Ryan Peterson, Garret and Jordyn. Getting ready to head off for the big day.

WARNING--- Not for the Faint!!!

I hope these pictures do not gross anyone out. Last Friday Cole had a game in Taylor. They were in the top of the 7th inning down by two when Cole out of the blue makes this amazing catch, but in the mean time does not realize the fence is right there to stop him. He hits the fence full force, hitting his head , arm, and lip against the fence and toe into the cement wall on the bottom of the fence, and on his way down caught the top of the wall with his chin. I knew he was hurt because he was not getting up as fast as he usually does, but waited for a few seconds to see if he would stand up. Well when he did he realized that his pant leg was full of blood and when he pulled his pants up he discover this huge cut in his leg. Amazingly enough he actually caught the ball and that was the third out. Unfortunately we had to hurry Cole to the ER for some stitches. It was bleeding really bad and we could not get it to stop so Brian Merrill kindly jumped in with us and held a shirt over the cut to stop the bleeding. The other team we were playing ended up winning by one run. They were a little bit rude about the whole thing and were not very nice. With Cole and Brian leaving it left them with only 7 players. That catch was one expensive catch, and I can guarantee you Cole will NOT be doing this again until they fix that fence in Taylor. We were very grateful it did not get his knee. He would of for sure broke it. Thank you Brian for helping us out. I really appreciate your kindness, and thanks to everyone who called and came by to check up on Cole and for your thoughts. And most of all to Heather who without a blink of an eye took my kids and got them all situated and had them taken care of before I could say Boo. What an awesome friend she is to me. You will never know how much that meant to me. What would we do with out good friends. Love you all. Sorry they are not very good, I only had my phone with me and I did'nt get to take them after he was all cleaned up because my battery died. (BEWARE -- these are gross and yes it is clear to the bone.)

BEFORE THE STITCHES

AFTER!!!