SNOW

Ali loves the snow! I'm so glad I got her that snow suit last winter.

She woke up and I told her that it had snowed and she asked if she could build a snowman, tall, tall, tall.

I helped her make this snowman, she picked out the rocks and the sticks. She didn't want to leave him.

Then he melted within a few hours. She was ok with that. . . thanks to the song!

"in the sun he melteed small, small, small!"

Baking with my Helper

Ali's idea of helping me make brownies is sticking her finger in when I'm not looking. the other day I moved the batter for a cake so that she wouldn't pick at it or dump it on the ground . . . but my luck. . . I opened a cupboard and in fell the garlic salt. It's just a good thing I get cake mixes for cheap or free with coupons. . .

Ali got all dolled up to go to a dance recital for my little sister. She was really excited to go. She even held still while I did her hair! She posed for a few pictures. . . And then she didn't even make it to the "ball" . . .

She fell asleep before we could even get out the door.

Ali falls asleep anywhere but her bed. She is never tired!

Trip to Logan

This is Alionna and Lilly. Ali's new best friend! She lives in Logan Utah.

Ali is always asking for her "friend."

This was taken at Jon Shields house(a missionary comp of camrons that we stay in touch with) in Utah. She enjoied looking at the christmas lights from his back porch. . .

. . . and decorating their mini Christmas Tree.

Thanks guys for letting us crash at your place! Oh! And Thank you Jordan for cleaning up after us and staying up late to play that last game of Crazy Trains! Man that's a good game!!

THANKSGIVING

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year! It was a blast! I'm very greatful to married into such a wonderful family!

Here are the three little terrible twosters. They couldn't have had more fun playing all day. The moms were so busy in the kitchen that they could do whatever they wanted because we all know where the dads were.The guys got a "Turkey Bowl" together and went out and played football at the school. They all came back complaining about their aches and pains. . . probably just to get out of helping out. Or maybe I should face it Camron is getting old! Some of the State CHAMP highschool boys went and played with them and these boys got worked over!

We took some Family pics while everyone was there. This is all of the grandkids with papa and grammy.

Waiting to eat. . .

Test tasting the dessert. I had to make sure it was ok to eat.

Who's that handsome man carving the turkey?

Cathy and I went down to the valley and shopped day after Thanksgiving sales. The boys ate leftovers all day were sick of them, and I was not really feeling up to cooking again so we ordered a pizza.

BLOG SLACKER

OK I know I'm a loser! I didn't blog for two WHOLE months!! I'm sorry to all of you who blog stock me and would like updates. :) Well life has been crazy I'm sure for all of you as well! We are hardly ever home and when are both home we fight over the computer since we both do a lot via e-mail! Mostly I just had Christmas shopping to do everytime I got on so I didn't even look at anyones blog obviously including my own! I have A LOT of updating to do! Here it goes! ! !

In October Taya came over to play with Ali and they had a blast! They played together so well and Ali will randomly ask for her! This is them going to the park with their babies for a picnic. . . I got the hint and fed them lunch!!

Jessica an I have a lot of pics together growing up I just hope these two are as good of friends as Jessica and I always were!

A Very Merry UnBirthday

Ali thinks everytime there are cupcakes it is someones birthday. So we put a candle on it and sang her a very merry unbirthday. . . from alice in wonderland.

My First Haircut

This was not Ali's first haircut it was the first one I had ever given. I guess it turned out ok. But I really didn't do much, just gave her a trim in the back and made it layered w/ her face in the front.

Here's Nike AKA Cooper in a beanie I had to take a pic cuz it was the first time he left it on! and was happy about it:)

A little too late!

I don't think I will be putting Halloween pictures up because I lost my SD card that goes into my camera. I took it out to print off some pictures for my Brother Jared and then misplaced it! So today (sunday) I was looking for the keys and I found it! Problem is Halloween was two days ago!! So many things happened that I would have normaly taken pictures of! Camron came home for a week and we went to the park with Ali a few times. Friday was senior night for my baby brother Nolan and was a good game!! Hallooween! ETC! So I used my 35 mm camera so no pictures for now. . . and I probably won't develop them for a year!:) But we'll see!

BRINDI

Just wanted to give a shout out to Brindi before she left on her mission and also before her Birthday but obviously that didn't happenbut I tried! Love you Brindi! I will miss you tons! You will be an amazing missionary and friend tho the people of Chile!!! Good luck!"Bird" you are not only my sister but you are also my friend, my best friend.
This is something I made for Brindi one year for her birthday. We didn't always get along so well, and that's why I made the goal in Young Womens to become better friends with my sister no matter what it took. Come to find out it didn't take a whole lot. I found out she was a pretty cool girl! Now I just want to put a few pictures on here to reflect back on our good times! They are in no particular order. I love you and look up to you so much! You truly are amazing! Happy Belated Bithday Brin! I know we didn't get to play "together" a whole lot but you were an awesome athlete and a great sport. I sure am glad I taught you everything I know!

Or maybe you just got an early start . . .

Just waiting for Santa to arrive. . . This is actually the year I made the goal to make you my friend! Aren't we hot mamas?

Just thought you were hot in this picture. Rawwwrr! you didn't smell your armpit after the picture did you?This is (left to right) Brindi, Jesse Tenney Pease, Jared, and Me. Hey! I thought I matched!

Thanks for letting me hand out with you and your friends when I was a senior! You have always inspired me to love people like you do! You really are an awesome friend to everyone! Thanks girls for coming to Brindi's "farewell" it meant a lot to her.

Just an old pic of Brindi's friends in Jr high. Most of these are still her really good friends!

No wonder you were so musically talented. I never tried OSMOSIS!!! You musicall talent astounds me! Use it so you don't lose it!!

Never liked the animals quite like you did!

The one who made us who we are today! Thanks mom!

I'm so glad that you and Jared became such good friends too!

Now just some random pictures of us! We sure did get easier to look at as time went on:)

I Named my first daughter after you because I know how wonderful you are. Thank you for your example to me! I look up to you a ton! Thanks for always being there for me and for being my "big" (as in I look up to you big) little sister!

Cooper James Connolly

It's official his name is Cooper. . .

I was a little worried, Camron kept teasing me that in his baby blessing he was going to name him Nike James Connolly. So I got nervous when he paused during the blessing! Cooper's suit wa a little snug, because he is 5 months old already, but I wanted to do it in Heber with my family. He still made quite a cute little man.My handsome boys before church!Quick family Photo before the big shin-dig! Brindi's farewell talk was Sunday also so we did a dinner with family and friends! I try to avoid talking about that though! I get sad every time I think that she is leaving! less thatn two weeks its nuts! Thank You so much mom for hosting that! I hope you know how much I truley appreciate you!! You are the best mom ever! The lord truley blessed me with goodly parents! We all love so much!Cooper fell asleep during pictures. . . he had had a long day! I think the funniest thing about all of the pictures we took we never once saw his bowtie. His double chin took care of that!!

Payson Jr. RODEO

This was Ali's first time ever being at a rodeo and more impotantly around a bunch of horses, but she loved it! She was brave enough to get on one and she loved it! This is Ali and Hannah on their first ever horse ride!

Hannah wanted off, so Ali rode by herself for a while. She really liked that horse! She asked Camron "can we take him home dad?" and he said, "you want a horse?" and she said "yep, you need to buy me one?" She's two and already asking for a horse!! So since we give Ali everything she wants . . . we bought her a horse!!! We really don't know where we are going to put it though:) It's kind of a wild horse, she already got bucked off him a few times hence the black eye.

Cooper(AKA nike) didn't really enjoy the horses but he sure had fun hangin out with his papa!