Christmas!

Christmas this year was fun! It was full of adventures and apparently thats all we like to have! It started at my aunts for Christmas Eve! The kids loved having Santa come except my baby! He would have nothing to do with Santa it was actually funny! The older two were happy! Dallyn loves stairs and actually climbed up them somehow got past Daddy and I and fell down them. Least he was ok.

Dallyn won't let go of me

Christmas PJ's

Then we went home and Bryson started complaining of his stomach hurting. We thought oh maybe it was some chicken that we stopped to get him. He ended up throwing up at 10, then at 2, then at 9 in the morning right after we opened presents. The poor kid wasn't really excited for anything, but could you blame. I felt horrible. He had been asking for months and I mean like 6 months for the Green Machine and Hulk Hands! All day he just layed around and that was about his holiday!

Lilly had been asking for a Doll crib and a new doll and Santa was good to her! She was so excited. She loved all of her presents and loves to play bowling on the WII.

Lilly with her doll crib and poor Bryson in the back

Dallyn oh Dallyn loves to climb so Santa brought him a Climbing gym. Hopefully he will stop climbing all over everything but probably not!

This was one of the best parts of Christmas for me! I suprised Daddy with a new ring. His ring has been too small for the last 6 years and so I got him a new one! He had no idea and I kept it a secret for about 2 weeks!

As we were headed up to my parents not even a half a mile from our house we got the Durango stuck! Yea, daddy told me this beast will never get stuck. FUNNY well it was! We stopped to help a chevy cobolt that couldn't even go on the road cause of all the snow! Well he didn't leave any room in case the car started to go. I knew that car would spin and hit us. So I moved the durnago up just a little and umm we were stuck. We dug out and it was very snowy! The last time we had this much snow they canceled church! It was horrible. I still don't know what is worse the roads up here or a blizzard!

On Saturday we took the kids sledding over at the park. They had so much fun then right after Bryson was saying his poor tummy hurt. We thought he was over it but all that sledding made it hurt again. But it was short lived and is all better!

Bryson Happy............... Dallyn Helping put

Sledding. .......................his Rocket together

All and all we had a good christmas and I am so thankful for everything that we have an the little extras. We feel very blessed to have the family's we have!

Snow Snow and more SNOW

As some of you have known we went to St. George for Daddy's birthday! We had a excellent time until we were coming home! We did a little hike and even got a family picture by putting the camera on a rock, went to see Santa, and TONS of swimming!

We also found this park in Coral Canyon that was totally Unbelievable, everything that a kid could ever want to play with. I wish we had parks like that! All the kids just loved it!

But Saturday when were were suppose to just drive home would have been 4 hour drive right, wrong! Daddy decided "oh lets go over to Glen Canyon Dam" (lake powell) show the kids. I said "no its suppose to snow and we will get stuck in a blizzard," but he won. Well in Hurricane he took a wrong turn, we ended up at Colorado City! We finally made it to the Damm and looked at it. Seeing that they no longer let you walk out on it and the last tour was at 3 (seeing it was 4), Daddy was disappointed that we drove that far!

As we left, we made it to Knab then on Highway 89 there was no warning at all, it was white out! BLIZZARD! All we could do is pray it was Scary! So half the way to Bryce we followed a semi truck and wow were we thankful. We were so scared and he ended up passing us so we could follow him! He pulled off and another semi took the lead, then a mini van, then us. Well the semi and the van were GONE in 5 seconds. We were left in the dust! We made it about 5 miles to the boys ranch by ourselves and there was a car in a ditch. Daddy pulled off to make sure they were ok and they were. But after praying there was MR. SEMI our friend again! We were able to follow him to Panguitch!

We thought about staying in Panguitch but I have something about little motels. One we went too was on top of the gas station. I said no my kids aren't sleeping there. THe other was the guys house and their kids running all over! So we ate dinner and it stopped snowing and we thought we could make it home! Off we were to head into the canyon again. One guy said take 89 all the way. HAHA yea right. Daddy decided to take Highway 20. It is a little road that is 8500 feet elevation! We were the only ones on it. 8% decline going down the hill. I kept looking at the miles and counting down. Ok we did 18 so 2 more. We made it out. Made it to Beaver and thought "ok we can stay in a bigger hotel there. Well the roads were ok so lets keep going". 3 miles out of Beaver I-15 was HORRIBLE with ice! So we made it to fillmore and thought "we should stay but the roads were clear and wasn't snowing". Funny again! BLIZZARD 2 came our way! Couldn't see a thing luckly it wasn't as bad as the first blizzard. We made it through the first one we can make it through anything and we did! We made it home finally after 13 HOURS IN THE CAR which was supposed to be 4 hours RIGHT.. Well it was for daddy's birthdya and he wanted an andventure and we sure got one!

Now, after that adventure I am better about driving in the snow but I have to admit, The roads up here are nasty! That little tiny road I-20 that was covered was so much better then the roads up here! We haven't figured out why but maybe cuase it as fresh snow and now all slush with a zillion cars. Don't know but its weird! We just know that we can make it through anything!

Next the snow this week. My kids have been out all week loving it and having fun with our hill in the backyard. Today we went bowling with daddy's parents the kids were so excited and of course my camera died I was so made! It was alot of fun and the kids loved it! Bryson wants to do a bowling clinic for the kids that go off track in jan. We will have to do somethign seeing he is off for 6 weeks hopefully I can make it :)

Thats has what has been going on at our house. Just playing, a little girl doing her hair, little Boy playing in tupperware and walking all over the place, and building snowmen. What else are we suppose to do with all this snow. Now the kids are all excited for christmas. Bryson keeps asking Santa for green bike that has steering AKA The Green Machine, Lilly wants a Doll and Doll crib, and Bryson and Lilly say Dallyn wants Diapers. How fun for the poor baby!

*** We will be going private eventually. I am trying out the tracking before we go private. I still have all your emails :)

Going Private!

Sorry guys I have been trying to keep this open but after soemthing happened to facebook, I don't want our pictures on the web or weirdo's looking at my little family. So if you want to keep looking let me know with your email address. This will happen within a week!

Dallyn!

Well I didn't have my camera to take video of my baby! My dad has it though of my little baby WALKING! Yes, walking! Bryson and Lilly didn't walk till they were 16 months old and Dallyn is almost 13 months! He is so funny and crazy! Of course he walked on Thanksgiving with my sister there! He did awesome!

Also update on Bryson, He got into Scottish Rite. That is free speech, and from what I heard it is intense! yes he has made a TON of progress this year but hey its free and we will do it! We have been on the waiting list since first of August and they told us 6-9 months so we lucked out!

That is all that is really new! Haven't taken any pictures lately either. I just need to get the video from my dad!

Twilight!

SO I was one of the crazy people that went to the 11:59 showing of the movie Twilight. I thought it was good and I am going to see it on wednesday again with my mom and sister! It was crazy seeing all the people there and people dressed up in prom dresses and etc. Also leaving the theatre holy cow! Talk about people, you seriously couldn't like move. I decided too before the movie started I wanted a frozen icee thing in the cup. Well the line was so long every line was it was crazy I didnt' get one. Oh well. I was just amazed at all the people and it just made me laugh!
But go see the movie I thought it was good!

My Dog

WHALLY

7-7-03 to 11-6-08

Our favorite and furry friend was put down last Thursday! It was an AWFUL day is all I can say! I am still having the hardest time then anyone in my family!

*He was my dog (Daddy bought him for me as soon as we moved to our 1st house)
*One of my best friend
*The nicest dog in the world
*Loved my kids
*Let my kids jump all over him

*He chased his own tail in circles
*He loved the snow. He was a total snow dog

*I loved his growl that scared everyone when he wanted them to play!
*I loved everything about my dog and there will NEVER be another dog that could ever replace him.
*He had 2 girlfriends :) (Emily and Colleen!)
*I even loved that when he would get up and walk to the other side of my bed it, he would lay down and it would creak.
*He would barf in my house
*He would Poop on a walk
*He would lay in front of my door into the house and I wouldn't be able to get in (this was the last month)
Didn't matter what it was I still loved Everything about my dog.
Daddy decided it was time after the storm last week when Whally couldn't even walk! Couldn't get up cause of the cold. He tore his ACL on his right leg and they would have to do a 2K surgery to replace it and plate his knee. Before that he tore his left ACL and we did do the surgery. Daddy said no way are we doing it again because on top of that he had Hip Dyphasia and so in a year his hips could have gone out! I miss him and cry daily for my dog! I am glad though that he isn't hurting now even being on strong pain medication.

As for the kids they are understanding and I really don't understand how we got the sweet little spirituals spirits in our house! Last Friday Bryson said
"Mommy are you said"
"yes Bryson mommy is very sad"
"It ok Mommy, When I get bigger I buy you a new doggie"
He is my most caring little guy that always gives me hugs when I am sad!

Lilly now says
"Whally all better mom, He is with Jesus and playing with Great Grandpa"!

I am trying to figure out why I am having a 100 times harder time then they are with not having my dog and they just make me smile and understand that when we die we will see Jesus!

Primary Program!

All I can say is that I was one Proud Mommy! The kids were so excited for their Program and Lilly has been signing all of the songs that they sang. Since she is a Sun Beam she got to sing "I am a Child of God" and they did a great job at it. Then later in the program Bryson had like a 4 sentence phrase to say. I didn't tell anyone about their program cause I knew and thought they would do absolutely nothing!

Well did my 5 year old prove me wrong and make me just about to start crying! He went up to the microphone and said his part something along the lines "Today the president of the church is Thomas S. Monson. He hold all keys to the priesthood. He leads and directs our church today." That is not word for word. I was just so proud of him for doing what he did. After he said his part ,(we were sitting with our neighbor Paul) Paul looked at Daddy and said "Wow he is really coming out of his shell"!

Just wanted to share a Proud moment of what my son did and for the people that really know him will know what a big thing that is!

To top the Sunday off after Sacrament we got stopped by the secretary of our ward asking us if we could meet with someone in the Bishopric. So we did and we both got our 1st calling in basically 7 years that we have been married! Can tell more on Sunday!

Tubes Build Halloween and Birthday

I know I haven't posted for awhile it sure feels like forever, but life gets busy! Dallyn ended up getting tubes in his ears on Tuesday and we learned he likes apple juice only warm (YUCK) but hey it’s something new. Also, at the hospital as we were waiting to go back he took his FIRST step and then fell to his bum! He was a trooper through it. He didn't have his surgery till 8:30 so he didn’t' get anything till around 9:30 he was starving! He did like his Tylenol with the Versed that he took! But he did great through the surgery and is still doing good. He has just made a habit of pulling his ears when he eats now. Dallyn Holding the bottle for the
1st time is he not SPOILED or what! Dallyn after his Versed and Tylenol Later in the week this is how I found my kids playing all together! They do love each other!

Then on Thursday we carved pumpkins. That was fun but gross YUCK! Bryson helped gut his but Lilly wouldn't even touch it. Bryson had to pick the biggest pumpkin! Just smiled for the camera! It was a lot of fun though! We took the kids trick or treating and Bryson was so cute! He made me take Dallyn up to ever Door and if he didn't get a piece of candy he would tell the people "my BABY" it was sure cute watching him look out for him, but really I didn't want the candy. Just walked up with my kids to make sure they were safe and show off their penguins, he is part of my flock, Right!

On Saturday's we go to Home Depot or Lowes to their little build clinic for the kids. They love it every time. They are always asking what are we making today and we never know.

Yesterday we had Dallyn's birthday party. Still can't believe he is 1! How weird is that. He got a lot of fun toys and clothes that he desperately needed. Seeing Bryson wore 18-24 months at this age none of his close fit. Dallyn is just barely getting into 12 month stuff! He had lots of fun though with his cake; wow does he know how to make a mess that is all I can say! His stats for a one year old at Weight 22 lbs (43%) Height 29 inches (19%) and his head was 17.5 inches (5%). His head has always been that size and he has always been all over the chart. But he is growing just slower then the other two and that’s ok! We sure do love him! Happy Birthday Dallyn!

Ok so this post I finally got around to doing it. Blogger would not let me move pictures after I added them. But it finally got done!

The Witches

With My nieghbor and her girls we took the kids to Gardner Village to go see the witches. My kids now want to show Daddy the witches! But we had fun and the kids loved looking for them all over! But here are some pictures and I love the ones I just snapped of Dallyn!

A week of Fun

Well since Bryson goes back to school next week (YEAH) we decided we would do something fun. Last friday we went to the pumpkin patch while it was warm and of course Bryson picked out on of the BIGGEST pumpkins! They had tractors there for the kids to play on and then a little tiny corn maze.

Big Brother walking sister out!

After their little corn maze the kids really wanted to go walk through corn as they would say! We went when it was 40 degrees and was it cold at first then it warmed up cause the wind died. That morning the kids had watched Curious George and George was the winner of a corn maze race. They were so excited for Family Night. Of course they corn maze place gave a map so we had to use the map just like George but it was really fun and cute!

On Thursday we went to the zoo with the kids best friend Cadence. We fit 5 kids and 2 strollers in the Durango and still had a little room to spare! I love my car! We had so much fun at the zoo and the kids loved it! They really liked seeing the elephants and then one of the monkeys had a baby. I think their favorite part was the carasole. We tried to get pictures of the 4 of us for Daddy but almost everyone Dallyn was screaming. Don't know what it was but he sure did HATE those figurines.

Dallyn the whole time in

stroller laying down with

his Blanket Grammy made him

***Just though I would also say how terrified my precious Dallyn is of stairs since we fell. I think it was tuesday and I was about to go down to get the kids and I was up at the top and Dallyn was facing out and he was seriously SHAKING and trembling. So I turned him around and he did a death grip on me! I sure hope he won't be terrified forever about stairs but I feel horrible but just glad that I was somehow able to pull him into me cause as I remember more about it he could have seriously gotten hurt or broken a bone himself!