January- birthday celebration

January we got to celebrate Tyler's b-day...

The kids frosted and poured sprinkles on the cake. They were so proud to show Tyler with he got home. Even with a full bottle of sprinkles it was still a great cake!!

Here is the family before opening the gifts. The kids wrapped the presents in a little box then in a bigger box then in another box. So it was all in one big box. They thought that was pretty fun!
We are always glad for a reason to have cake and ice cream together!! Happy B-day to a wonderful dad and husband who we love so much!

Christmas part 2

After we spent time with Ty's family we went to Driggs for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

It has been a long time since we were all home together for Christmas.

We loaded so many things into our Christmas Eve...

We rode the sleigh, played secret santa, acted out the nativity scene, opened presents, gave presents and enjoyed all 38 of us!! We had a great great time together, Like always!

Here are the girls with their matching pjs. these girls have way to much fun together. They played barbies, had fashion shows, dance shows, did crafts and just played!!! I wish they all lived closer together so we could have playdates and parties.... That is why when we go home they are together non stop!!

Here is all of us on Christmas Eve. At least half of us are looking at the camera!!! We must take a family picture every time we are together and its always out dated by the time we get together again!!!

We had a week full of lots and lots of snow. The kids couldn't get enough of it. These girls were on the sleds one day for about 2 hours. Luckily their dads were there so they were kind enough to drive the snowmobile and pull them on the sleds!

All the kids wanted to do was ride with Tyler. A couple of days buddy did take a little nap while riding through the snow! When I came to get him off he wouldn't get off so I had to drive and pull the other kids to give Tyler a break.

Here is some of the clan. We all loved the snow. Luckily we have lots of area to play in the snow and lots of fun things to do while we are outside! We had a couple of days of nice weather so we could go out and play!

This is the view we got as we sat on the sleigh with the horses. The great ruts that the horses made were great for the sleds unless you were an adult and then you couldn't hold on tight enough. We had some great laughs as we watched everyone eat it while getting pulled!

We had lots of friends and family come over to ride the sleigh with us. It is always a hit when we go home. We are so glad that Dad has some good horses and a great new sleigh that we can use. It is always a great memory we have from growing up. We used the horses to feed the cattle when we were younger. We would have to open the gates and then we would hold onto the back of the sleigh and get pulled while they fed the cows, then we would shut the gate when done! It was a good time to be with Grandpa and Dad.


It was a fun 2 week vacation and I was tired and really in need of sleep by the time we got home. It was fun to see both our families and it was a Christmas we won't forget!!!

Thanks family for another fun vacation and we are looking forward to another fun reunion this summer!!

Christmas

I'm finally updating!!! We had a great Christmas, we were able to go home for 2 weeks and see both our families.

The first week we spent with Tyler's family. His 2 brothers were able to be there with us too. The cousins had lots of fun together!!!

Here are some of the highlights of our fun week.

Since we weren't going to be there Christmas Day we opened up presents early. The kids all got cute Pj's from G&G.

Luckily we got to take some fun pictures with G&G Overall. Here is our family with them on the night we celebrated Christmas!

For our present to Grandma we surprised her with tickets to "The Rockettes" We had a girls afternoon out. It was a fun outing with us girls. It was a neat show. It was fun for both kids and us. I was nervous the girls would get a little bored but they loved it!!! They had to dress fancy for the show and Grandma supplied them with perfume, necklaces, and lip stick. Everything a girl needs to get fancy!!! Thanks to our husbands for watching the other kids so we could go out as girls!!

We made gingerbread houses together one night and the kids LOVED it!! We had each of the them make their own and they spent so much time on them and kept adding more and more candy!!! It was the first year that we didn't make one big one as a family. I think next year we will each make our own little house! It seemed to work perfect for us.

Here is Tay's finished product.

This is before he put any candy on his. His was covered with candy and he was one of the last ones to leave the table. The 2 boys that are 3 and 2 loved this project!!! It was fun to see how long they both sat there and kept adding more and more candy to their house.

We were lucky to get into Boise since it snowed the night we drove there. We hit the storm about an hour before we got into Boise. The next day the kids loved playing out in the snow. Grandpa went out with them and had a snowball fight which was the highlight of their day!!!

We also had a great White elephant gift party, went to McDonalds and played some fun games!! Thanks Overalls for a great time together!

Chocolate Making

Every year the Overalls carry on their tradition of making chocolates. We got to go and help this year. We were lucky to have a couple of days off of school so we went for a couple of days.

We got some great pictures of everyone helping, we were tired from the 2 days of dipping but it was well worth it. It was another great memory of chocolate making.

Tyler cut lots and lots of carmel so we could dip it!!

My two sister in laws are great! They dipped and dipped. It was fun to see them and spend time with them.

The kids at first loved helping then they were done and loved playing outside with each other.

The kids loved dressing up just like us, apron and hankies!

We had to make sure that we got time to play a little.

The kids love sitting on the motorbike and riding the 4-wheelers

It was a fun weekend and we are excited to share our yummy chocolates. It always fun getting together and building another memory! Thanks Overall's for the fun weekend.

Halloween

I'm a little slow getting it up but we had a great Halloween

The girls were fairies. They made their tulle skirts. Little J was batman. Although he said he was just a bat!

We had a great time at our ward trunk or treat. Like always it was a hit and the kids loved it. Its a great way to have a carnival and get candy!!

Happy Birthday!!!

This week was our buddies birthday!!! We had a fun full couple of days. Luckily his wishes weren't to demanding...

Here is the great candle that got sent to him by G&G Kunz. It was a flower that sang Happy Birthday!!! and had lots of candles that made a lot of smoke and made the fire alarms go off. It was a hit the kids loved it and even the adults were dying laughing!!!

He wanted a 4-wheeler cake that was stuck in mud and he just wanted his toy 4-wheeler stuck on the cake. He loves 4-wheelers its his favorite thing to do at both grandparents!

Because we live in the city and can't have a real 4-wheeler we had to get a remote control one to make him happy!! It was the only present he asked for!! Luckily it was a cheap present and we've already had to change the batteries in it. I think I should have bought 2 so I had a back up one when this one breaks!!

When I asked him what he wanted to do on his b-day he brought me money and said,

"Go to the Froggy Playground" Which I had no idea what he was talking about. Then he said he wanted to ride the rides with money. Then I knew he wanted to go the mall and ride on the quarter rides!! So that was our afternoon outing... We went to the mall for an hour.

The morning of his birthday we went to a fun pumpkin patch and they got to play in the hay maze.

Here we are out in the pumpkin patch trying to pick out our fun big pumpkins!!!

Sorry these pictures our out of order. But... his favorite thing we did was....

Ride the tractor at the farm. He LOVES the tractor at Grandpa's house. He could ride in it all day long. So we had to find the closest thing to Grandpas tractor and luckily we have pumpkin patches!!! he was in Heaven....

We had a great couple of days.. I can't believe that he is 3 years old. Happy Birthday Buddy!!

Update!!! Its been forever!

School started and we have both girls going to school. They are loving but their brother is not so much!!!

Our big Kindergartener loved her first day and was so happy to finally go to school just like her sister!!

The girls started on different days so here is Tay's first day of school. We were excited to start school but also sad summer was ending with all the fun we had!

I just had to throw this picture in for me! I love it. Little brother gets babied so much and he loves his sisters and has missed them so much since school has started.