Yeah Maddison!

This is Maddison in her cute uniforms for her new school! I just wish she would let me take a cute picture of her face! She came home Yesterday from school (her first day) and she was so excited! I think she talked more about what she did then she has in the few weeks she was at Oakcrest. The best was when she said My teacher didn't even say anything mean to me! That made me happy but it also made me feel bad because obviously her teacher at Oakcrest wasn't very nice. Aww. I am so happy she likes Navigator Pointe though. Hopefully I will be able to get Kylie and Josh in there soon to!

Bear Lake Baby!

Every year we go to Bear Lake and spend a few days with the Crawford family! They are such a fun bunch of people! We are fortunate enough to be able to stay at the USU Aquatic house right off the Beach! This year the weather wasnt the greatest so we spent a lot of time inside! We played Bingo, which my Mom brought a ton of prizes for... we had fresh baked cookies and milk! (thanks Uncle Todd) and we played Ipod Idol. I thought I was going to wet myself laughing at my brother Chad and my Brother in law Zac! The whole Idea is you pick a song and put your earphones in and turn it way up so you cant hear yourself sing and then you get blind folded and you have to sing and dance! It was the funniest thing ever! If I can figure it out I will post Video of it! We ate lots of yummy food and played lots of games! Finally the day we were going home the weather decided to be nice so we headed for the lake and the sun that morning to get in as much time as we could! I love Bear Lake!

4th of July!

This is just some funny pictures of my kids at the West Jordan fireworks at the park. We walked over to the carnival for a few minutes while we were waiting for it to get dark.

St George!

Every year we try to go with my side of the family for a weekend in St George. This year we were able to go and we had a blast! The weather was perfect not 113 degrees like last time we went and having a room right by the pool was awesome! My family is a lot of fun! The kids had a great time and that made it all worth it for Rob and I! The ride there was quite the adventure....we hadent even made it to Provo before we got the "are we almost there?" It was a long ride! We stopped at the Temple on our way home and tok some cute pictures of our kids with my sisters little boys Bradley and Sam

Josh's Baptism

So to start off in June Josh got baptised! We are so proud of him and he is doing a good job at trying to keep the covenants he made with his Heavenlt Father that day! He is such a sweet boy and we love him very much!

Here We Go Again!

So I guess now that summer is over and things are getting back to normal,( yeah Right) I should start getting caught up on my blog! So here I go again!

Best date ever!

Last Saturday night Rob and I got a chance to go to the Conference Center and watch the youth from our ward, my cousins kids and Robs niece perform in the Temple celebration. It was Awesome! They all did such a great job , and to be in the same room as the Prophet gave me a feeling tht you had to have been there for me to explain! Its amazing when your in a room with 21,000 other people and you can feel his spirit like he was standing next to you. I was brought to tears! Before the performance Rob took me to the Roof to have dinner. Good food and a great view! I have the best husband ever!

What a weekend!

This last weekend Rob and I were the host of a BBQ extravaganza! On Thursday night we had my cousin Aubrie and her family over. They had 6 people because they were missing 2 and my cousin Marnie was here from Oregan with her familt so 5 more people and our 5 on top of that made 16 people. We had a really good time! I love all the kids around and having my famliy here. I havent see Marnie in like 7 years so it was so good to see her! Then on Friday night we had Aubrie and her family over again plus the other 2 for a total of 8 and 5 of us and then our friends Chris and Lacey with there 6 , that made 19. And we had a ton of food! You never know when you feed a bunch of Tongans if you will run out of food or not so you plan for alot! I planned pretty good. Lacey just had a baby last month so I got to hold little Kingston, I am so baby hungry(for other peoples babies). We had a great weekend, full of family and friends and I loved it!

50"s day

Just some cute pics of Kylie and Josh. This week is Teacher Appreciation week and they had to dress 50"s today. I think they look so cute!

Got Windex?

We had my brother Chad and his wife Cindy and thier 3 girls and my sister Allie and her husband Zac and their two boys over to play games and pizza last night and while the adults played games the kids did this! Gotta love window markers! I had to take a picyure because I thought it was so cute! It kept them entertained for like an hour! Thats along time with so many kids! Eight to be exact!

OOPS!

This is Maddi's bloody lip! We went to the Clark Planitarium last night to see the Under The Sea in 3-D with Joy and after it was over we stopped at Artic Circle for Ice Cream. Well Maddi (so much like her mother) Was standing on their chairs, you know the ones that twist and she went to jump to come get her Ice cream and she fell and put her tooth through her lip. Wow was it a long night after that! I have never met a little girl who played it up as much as she did! She leaned on me walking up our stairs to bed. You would have thought she broke her leg! SHe had to sleep in our bed and that was not fun! hopefully she will grow out of it someday! I finally did!

Josh's first game!

This is Josh's first baseball game. It was sooo cold but we finally got to play after already having 2 games cancelled. He got a really good hit on his first time up and then struck out on his second up. He also played 2nd base and out field. I was so proud of him and as you can see he looked so dang cute in his uniform! Hopefully we will win the next game!

What color do you want?

After we did the Easter Egg hunt we came inside and got going on our coloring of the hard boiled eggs... or as Maddi calls them the rotten eggs. Its truley amazing the colors that kids can come up with when they dip the eggs into all the different colors! Kindof makes me nervous to eat them!

Easter Egg Time!

Last night I did our Easter Egg hunt for all the kids on the Crawford side, with the help of my fabulous sister! We are the coolest Aunts! It was alot of fun! I love watching their faces when they see all the eggs and I love to see how much fun they are having finding their eggs. We got a little carried away this year and ran out of places to put them so we just threw them all over the lawn. It was so pretty!

And I wonder why im so tired!

Do you ever wonder why I am so tired all of the time? Well maybe because this is what my nights are like! And Robbie didnt get the almost Five year old wedged up against my back!

Oh I guess you can see the top of her hair.

Family Home Evening

Thanks Grandma Whitworth for bringing this to our kids for Robbie and I to do! Last night for family home evening we made a gingerbread bunny house! What a mess! the icing was to thin and none of the candy would stick so we spent forever blowing on it to try and dry it out a little so the candy would stay in place! I really hate doing things that take so much work but we had fun spending time with the kids and I think they had fun. Next year we will make Grandma do it with them if she decides to give them another one.

Oh what a night

Robbie and I always try to get away every few months for a night just the two of us. Well this time we decided to go to the Alaskan Inn up Ogden canyon. We have been there several times and just love it there. It is up in the mountains, quiet, beautiful! This time was no exception. We dropped the kiddo's off at Robbies parents at around 4 and headed up. We got there at around 6:00 and checked in then went to eat some dinner at the Grey Cliffs Lodge. If you havent ever eaten there you should at least once in your lifetime. It is a charming little house that they have converted into a restraunt. We had Prime rib! The best I have ever had! And they have this oatmeal pie that is sooo good! We ate so much I thought I would be sick! We went back to our cabin and relaxed the rest of the night. Soaked in the oversized jetted tub, watched some tv and just did nothing. SOOOO nice! We started getting the munchies and we were going to go down the cayon and get some snacks but it was sonowing so bad we didnt dare try it so we went to the lodge and got a soda instead since they were cleaned out of all their snacks. I slept great and had a great breakfast from the wonderful cooks at the inn. then we checked out and headed home. It was such a good get away... I needed it with my kids going off track and the busy week I have this week so it was so nice to go! Thanks Rob for always knowing when I really need to get away!

Look at what I can do!

Just a quick brag for myself! We had our ward auction a few weeks ago and I donated cakes. I figured I have taken all these classes I may as well do something with them. So Jason Melton bought them and asked me to make a cake for his wife Sherry that following week. I was excited because I love to do it and I don't really get the chance very often. So this was the result! I think it turned out pretty good!

Thank you Jason for giving me something to do and getting my mind off everything else going on around that time!

Its about time!

Josh has finally lost his tooth! It took forever but it actually happened! It was funny... Kylie actually pulled it out! I can't do the pulling teeth thing! The feeling of the skin tearing and the sound just grosses me out! My mom on the other hand loves doing things like that and was very sad that she didn't get to do it! She has pulled all the rest of them on Kylie to. Maddi has yet to lose any so her time will be coming I am sure!

The morning after he lost it he woke up and was crying because the Tooth Fairy took his tooth but didn't leave him anything, I mean how do you explain that to a kid who had their heart set on waking up to something under his pillow... so I had to call the Tooth Fairy and she(He) told me she couldn't find his tooth and that she would have to come back that night so we searched and found that the tooth had fallen on the floor under his bed that night because he is such a crazy sleeper so we put it on his dresser that night and low and behold the Tooth Fairy came through for him! Lets hope he can lose the other Three up front on top or he will be getting them pulled! Then the tooth Fairy will be broke from paying to get them pulled and then forking out the cash to please Josh! One at a time would be so much better!

AWW how cute!

I just wanted to introduce the newest member of our family to everyone! Her name is Gracie and she is 8 weeks old yesterday! She is a polmranian(?)on the spelling. She has been such a good puppy! No accidents and she sleeps good and hardley barks at all! Such a drastic change from Storm! I know everybody will think I am crazy because I am very vocal about how much I don't like Storm but I decided I am filling a void with Gracie and she does it perfectly! Oh and best of all she does not shed! Yeah!

Just let me cry

Has anybody heard this new song by Hillary Weeks? It is the best! I have to thank my cousin Aubrie for bringing it to me. I mean the day she made me listen to it I wasn't so happy about it because I bawled through the whole thing but it is the exact song to explain exactly how I feel right now in my life! With everything that has happened in the last year, I just have to say sometimes you just need to let me cry! Don't ask when I am going to stop and don't ask why just let me cry! It talks about how to believe everything happens for a reason and I truley believe that it does, even if we don't understand it right now. More than ever in my life I know that the Lord is in charge and he has our best interests in the things he does, and everything does happen for a reason. I am so thankful for the knowledge I have of forever families, if I didn't I don't know if I could make it through losing my uncle and everything else going on in my life right now. I am also so thankful for the Gospel in my life and to have the priesthood readily available to me when it seems like I just can't make it through one more day! I have much to be thankful for!

Seriously!?

Okay I have to just say.... SERIOUSLY!!! Today has been such a bad day! To start things off I woke up late and couldn't remember if Robbie had kissed me goodbye, we flew out of bed and of course the kids took forever to get going! I got downstairs and discovered Robbie had not kissed me goodbye this morning because he was still home! He had fallen asleep in front of the TV! I guess I should start at yesterday afternoon, our furnace has been making really weird noises and so we finally turned it off last night for fear it was going to blow up the house... So I was really cold this morning. Robbie got up about 4:00 am to go turn on the fireplace to get some heat in here, thats where the Robbie was still home thing starts. So the kids finally got out the door and I made a phone call to my brother in law who works for a heating and air company and told him I needed someone to come look at my furnace, well someone came and informed me we needed to buy a new furnace! NOT CHEAP! Then I went to have my car inspected(which was overdue but because of everything that has been going on it was the last thing on my mind) and found out that I needed a new tire! But it did pass after getting that! I told the lady that that was the best news I had had all day and she told me I need to get more good news! SHE WAS RIGHT! To top it all off I think my brakes are going out! I swear we just replaced them! HOPEFULLY TOMORROW IS BETTER!

Yeah Josh!

Josh has been doing Star reading at school for a long time now and Rob and I couldn't understand why because at home he reads so well. We have had arguments with his teacher about it and she keeps getting him tested and is adament that he is not on grade level... Well last week in the midst of planning my uncle Johns funeral I got a phone call from Rob saying the school had called and said that Josh graduated from Star Reading! Yeah! I guess josh finally got sick of doing it and showed the people at the school what Rob and I see at home! I knew You could do it! Love you Joshie!

In Memory

I wanted to post this tribute to my uncle John. He was such a great man! A second father to me. I grew up across the street from them and spent all my free time at their house. They were on every family vacation, at every dance recital, every chior concert, everything! He was a huge part of my life and still is! My kids called him Grandpa John. He was killed in a at his work in a fire on Friday February 20, 2009. From talking with his co workers we came to find out that John was really the hero in all this. The story is he was the first one to see the fire and yelled at everyone else to get out of the building they ran and thought that he was right behind them but John was having some health problems and his legs wouldnt move fast, He has been having a hard time walking for a few months, when his co workers realized he wasnt out one of them ran back in to get him, he said he could see where John was but some insulation fell on him and started him on fire, he got disoriented and went out of the building to put the fire on himself out and turned to go back in and was held back from doing so. They couldnt get to John because the fire was burning so hot and so fast. The detective that we spoke to Friday night said that in 16 years of being on the job he had never seen anything like this. The part of the building that was burning started about 12:10 and was totally burned in 15 min. We have been together as a family for a few days and we have had many prayers and blessings and we are very much at peace with what has happened, we know John has very important work to do with his Heavenly Father, and we know there are people on the other side who want their turn to be in his presence but it doesnt make it hurt less or make us not want him here with us. Maddison asked "who is going to play Candy Land with me now?" we told her we would and she said "but you wont let me win". You always won the games with John, He always let you! I will forever miss him and I wish I could have told him I loved him one more time and I wish I could have had one more night to talk to him! He loved his Heavenly Father and you could always feel how much his Heavenly Father loved him back! I honestly can't ever think of a time I heard John complain about anything except the neighbors Dogs pooping in his flowerbeds. He was the Best! He left a huge hole in a lot of lives by his passing away but I know his life filled a lot of empty holes while he was here! I LOVE YOU JOHN!

I am Thankful for...

I know alot of people have their Thankful Thursday which I think I so great but I decided to just be thankful whenever I have anything to be thankful for. Today Its Robbie. We have been through a lot this last year and I thought about it today and this Valentines Day for us is like a new begining even though we have been good for several months its our first Valentines Day of our fresh start. I hope he knows how much he means to me and how much I love him.

Where did my kids come from?

have you ever wondered if your kids really came from a barn? I mean really! But then again I have seen barns alot cleaner than my girls room! I don't know what to do! I can go through de-junk, clean and wash everything and the next day it looks like this! I am to the point where I don't even try anymore! I just close the door. I have tried everything, we moved all the toys downstairs and they only have a small tub of toys they got for christmas in their rooms but this is pathetic! If anybody has any suggestions please let me know!

Principle Pride

I just had to say that I was so proud of Kylie yesterday. She got Principle pride at her school for always being willing to help others and never giving up. She is so sweet that the reason she got it didnt surprise me.

I am just getting started!

Okay so everybody is telling me I need to get a blog so here it is! Its basic right now until I have time to out some brains to it. Just wanted to let everybody know that I took your advice!