Birthday, Concert, Recital

My big boy turned 6, first of all I can't believe it has flown by so fast. He is pictured with some of his friends (Riley Perry) had to leave after the Bounz House. He got to invite a few of his friends to a bounce house and then home for cupcakes and presents. I love this little guy. He has such a sweet spirit and is becoming a good young boy. Happy Birthday William.
My little Annie does what she likes, her ballet concert was really funny.

I really enjoyed watching her twirl and dance. My Annie is strong headed and if she wants to do something different from the bunch she does. But oh how I love this little girl. I was so proud of her.
Annie before her ballet recital, she is so pretty and did such a wonderful job.

William had a Christmas Concert and did really well. He likes to sing and once he found his family in the crowd he turned on the sparkle. Mimi, Boompa, Uncle Freddy and Annie were amazed.

I am so blessed to have both William and Annie in my life. They are my prized possesions. They bring me joy along with many other emotions. My life is so full to have all my family.

October Break

We took a couple days off and went to San Diego for Fall Break. The kids were thrilled and we got a smoking deal and flew. The kids were so funny when we took off. Since it was their first time they giggled and screamed and laughed. We went to Sea World and the San Diego Zoo. We also went to Ocean Beach for a day. We had such a good time and the kids were really well behaved since the trip their and back on the airplane was only a little over an hour compared to 6-8hr.

My greatest joy is seeing them happy. It was a wonderful family trip and I can't wait to go again.

My Babies 1st Day's

Yesterday and Today have been our first's (preschool, Kindergarten)

Annie began at her preschool with a lady in our ward, she is so thrilled to be going to school and learning and I am hoping that this will help with her attention and attitude. Mornings with Annie are rough she is a night owl and loves to sleep in. Preschool I hope is going to get her on a better morning schedule. I look forward to watching her grow. She is also starting Ballet and Soccer soon so we are keeping her busy

William's first day really isn't his first day of Kindergarten. William went to Kindergarten last year at the district school near our home. This year I signed him up at the Charter school (Ben Franklin) and I am so excited with their curriculum and teaching. He goes with one of his best friends and I am so excited for him. William will start up with his Karate class and playing soccer again soon, so I am keeping him active.

Happy Birthday Annie

Today my little giant is 3. We love our Annie, even though everyday is an adventure. She loves to be the Boss Lady and does a fantastic job. I love this girl so much, she makes me laugh everyday and somedays I want to pull my hair out!

Happy Anniversary

Little Grand Canyon-Kawai

Polonesian Cultural Center-Oahu

LDS Temple- Oahu

View from our Balcony

Pearl Harbor Tour-Oahu

We along with Steve's Mom,Dad, Sister Janice and daughter Devan went to Hawaii for our 11th anniversary. Steve's Parents were celebrating their 50th. We wouldn't have been able to go without Janice. I don't know that it was what I would have imagined but I did have a good time, the last part of our vacation. I had a lot of mixed feelings leaving my children for a week. I struggled with this, they are my life! So here are a few pictures from our vacation.

We spent 3 days in Oahu and 4 days in Kawai. We snorkeled and took some wonderful tours in both places. It was a good time. I don't know if we will ever make it back but it was fun. We got to experience the sirens for a Tsunami warning and spent the night in our vehicle which wasn't so fun but we made it back safe and sound.

Happy 11th anniversary Steve, my love.

We spent 3 days in Ohau, we went to the Pearl Harbo

Football

Pictures of my little lady, Soon she will be three, who can say no to this?

We signed our William up for Football with a subdivision down the road. He was so excited to play. They only had 5 games but he really enjoyed it. I think it's going to take him some time to catch on but it was really funny to watch the little boys run around with the ball. My cousin Scott Gandy's little boy was also on the team with William so it was nice to catch up with him and his family.

Happy New Year

Arizona has now legalized some fireworks, that's all my husband had to hear. A family in our ward set up a Black Cat Tent and Steve was there!. The kids had a great time New Year's Eve setting off the fireworks and loved to hold the sparklers. I am sure the New Year holds lots in store for me and my family and I am so excited to see what 2011 brings.

Christmas Fun

William is always so happy to get new toy's!

This is what we set up till almost midnight, what fun we had.

This was the Kids running into the Living room to see what Santa brought them. Look at his face!

The kids Christmas Sunday dress clothes.

Mimi and Bumpa joined us to open gifts, what a wonderful day it was. I remember when I was little bugging my parents to open presents and how excited me and my siblings were. What a great gift it is to watch my children open their gifts. Later that day we went to my Mom and Dad's for lunch with my siblings and we laughed and talked and had such a great time. We missed having my sister Audra and brother Heath and their families here but I hope next year they will join us. I love being with my family on the holidays, they are my greatest gift!

Birthday

I am so late but I didn't forget. We had a special Birthday in December. My big Baby turned 5. He is so special to me and his dad. We love this big guy. Some things he enjoys are: Lego's, blocks, Searching for Dino's )(loves the show Dino Dan), loves to read books with me and really enjoys kindergarten. No big celebration but I made a cake and took cupcakes to school. Steve and I took him to dinner and to see the new Narnia movie.

We also had our Ward Christmas Party at our Bishops family farm. It wasn't as cold as past years and William absolutely loves it. Santa came and William was elated. Steve and Annie stayed home cause she had a double ear infection and wasn't in a good mood. I took Carly and her mom with us and we had a wonderful time. Merry Christmas all my friends and family!

We visited the dentist today for a filling (William)and he did really great. We have a awesome dentist! He is so caring and sweet with the kids. Dr. Tyler saw both William and Annie today. I only got pics of William. Hopefully my friend (K.D.S.) will see the picture and recognize who our dentist is. He is awesome if anyone wants a referral to him. It's Kids First.

Last Saturday we caught a lizard in our backyard, so funny it was just climbing all over William and I like it was okay to be there. I had to get a picture for William and then all day after that all he talked about was getting a lizard for Christmas.

A busy LIFE!

Arizona had an awesome storm this last week, and my kids and daycare kids got in on the fun. We splashed and played for over an hour in the rain. It was really great entertainment!

Friday was the start of Fall break and we went to the school for the awards ceremony. William had perfect attendance, with the winter coming I know that probably won't happen again so we got in on it now.

William has two loose teeth, tonight while watching a movie with him I told him to wiggle them. He said mom, this one is really loose, so I felt and voila it came out. He was so excited he called Bumpa and told him the good news.

D-Backs

Steve wanted to take the family to a D-backs game, so he got tickets through work and we headed out around 3pm so that we could get some Bobblehead?????????. I didn't think Annie was quite ready for a baseball game but thought we could try. She really did a good job as long as the music was playing or people were getting excited about homerun, out's and all that other baseball stuff. William really enjoys that baseball games and really takes an interest in it. We really had a nice time and the kids had fun seeing the Big Bobblehead's (Grace, Williams,Johnson) race.

Before Steve and I had W/A we went to the games all the time. I really enjoy baseball because I can understand it unlike Football. We really had a good time as a family.

First day of School

Today was William's first day of school, I was nervous but he was so excited. I went over all kinds of info, I am sure was overwhelming but he did so great. I can't believe how grown up he is getting. I love my boy and I know he will do great this year in school. He saw one of his Primary buddies Tayson when we got to the playground and was so excited. He gave me a kiss and said see ya later MOM!

Birtday Celebration!

We started my birthday celebration on Friday night. Steve and I went to Black Angus for dinner. I got a free steak dinner and my sister in law gave me 3 gift cards so our dinner with appitizer/desert was only $12. Awesome.

Saturday we dropped the kids off at Mimi and Bumpa house and went to lunch at Ruby Tuesday (free burger) then saw Iron Man 2 at the $2 movies. Went upstairs to the food court and had my free Orange Julius, then over to Krispy Kreme for my free dozen doughnuts. We were ready to get home by then so we decided to pick up the kids and off to Joe's BBQ for my free meal. I had all these awesome pictures to show but they wouldn't load? It was a great birthday celebration. My mom got to a gift cert and some under clothing. Steve bought me a new camera since my sweet little angel threw mine at me when we were camping. My sister in law gave me the gift cards, and I got so many well wishes from so many people that love me. Even at church people were telling me Happy Birthday, it was an awesome day!

Look at these two hot girls, getting some sun and getting wet!

William's fish that he thought he caught, this was a priceless day.

After a little rain.

We got a fire started and had some marshmallows.

It's always a great time with Bumpa around.

This past weekend was our family campout, my parents have been doing this for 41yrs. They have been to the same camp ground all but 3yrs due to the Rodeo/Chetisky Fire. Camping with kids is not easy, I really don't know how my parents did it for a week with 6 kids. We were changing William and Annie's clothes at least twice a day. The weather was beautiful till it would rain so much you wanted to pack up and leave. I enjoyed watching the kids play in the creek and in the forest. William and his dad tried fishing, with some luck from Uncle Kyle William thought he got a fish and was happy as a clam!

4th of July

Went to Mimi's house for 4th of July celebration. Since it was on Sunday we just watched fireworks from our ward building and some from our backyard. Took a swim and ate some yummy mexican food with my brother and his family along with Mimi and Bumpa.

I remember growing up and our family along with the two other families would go to a 4th of July celebration. I can't remember where it was but we always had such a great time. I hope that in the future my family can celebrate 4th of July in a way that my children would remember, when they look back on their life.

What a Weekend!

We went to Eagar this past weekend to visit with Steve's parents and sisters. Some relatives from Tennesse were also coming to visit and Steve hadn't seen them for over 20yrs. Just after we arrived we heard a loud explosion: A plane had crashed into the High School and Steve with William drove to the high school. Steve's grandma's house is only a couple blocks away so we were really close.

The weather was windy and cold while we were there but we did enjoy visiting with Grandma and Grandpa. We took a couple drives to some of the lakes and other places so that the kids could get away but William's favorite place to be was in the backyard where there is a horse pasture. He spent hours back there talking and feeding the horses.

William also likes to ride the Quad with his dad and Aunt Jeri, while out on the quad they got stopped by a police because William didn't have a helmet. The policeman said that if someone came and picked up William they wouldn't give Aunt Jeri a ticket. Steve went and got William and I was hoping it would scare him, but he thought it was awesome.

I am so glad that we have an opportunity to get out of the heat once and awhile, even though it wasn't that hot in the valley we had a nice time.