Memorial Day Fun

For Memorial Day we had lots of fun and got away! We went to Meg's grandparents cabin in Strawberry with Meg's Family. It was such a blast, and the weather....PERFECT!!! It was cool, it rainied, and it is in the pinetree's, who can ask for better than that? We always have a great time with Meg's Family and Jaxon especially loves everyone's attention. Now, Emersyn does too. It was a great time, and we hope to go back again with everyone. Sorry we didn't get any pictures of papa and gram Elliott? How on earth did that happen?

We also stopped by Russell's granparents cabin in Pine and were able to visit with lots of family over there, but it was especially fun to See Grandma and Papa Clement and Great Grandma Clement. Jaxon's favorite part was riding the tractor with his Grandpa Clement there.


Meg's Familia at the cabin:

Ton and Meg Talkin

Lloyd and Shandy playin B Ball

Cute Joni and Myka

Ton Ton and Emers

Thayne tired and sleeping


Jaxon having the most fun playing and wandering around the cabin!







Meg's Dinner she was in charge of: Making French Toast Casserole, delish!


This was so cute. Jaxon went outside and we thought he was playing, when we went to find him he was loungin in the chair with Gram Elliott's reading glasses on reading her book! Adorable




At Russell grandma's Cabin:

Papa and Jax

Gram and Papa Clement with Jax

Jax pushing old Lawn Mower

Papa and Emers

More Tractor

Emersyn's Baby Blessing

Last Sunday May 3rd, Russell blessed Emersyn in church. He did such a great job, but was nervous as all get out. He is so great, I love him! :) Emersyn looked adorable in her blessing dress. Jaxon looked so handsome too! Thanks to family for getting up so early to make it to our stinkin early 8am church. Meg's family had to go after sacrament meeting but Russell's family stayed through churchand enjoyed a great lunch with us afterwards. Here are some pictures of Meg's Family, and then our family. We didn't get any of Russell's family that came...bummer.



Our little Family:







Here's one with Russell's grandma Clement, Emersyn is her 120th great-grandchild.

Celebrating Grandma and Papa Clement's Birthday

We got together with Russells family to celebrate his parents birthday's in April. Once again, it was so much fun hangin with his family and enjoying each others company. It is very rare that everyone is together, and this time almost everyone was there except his brother David and his family because they live in Okinawa. (But they are moving the states in July so we are excited! We wish they were living a little closer, but hey we'll take somewhere in the states rather than another country :))

We were also getting together to tell his brother, Dwayne goodbye as he left the next morning bright and early going to the Navy bootcamp. We will miss him and his family and they will now be living further away.


Some more of the highlights...

Cute Emersyn and Aunt Nancy Lovin her


Jaxon and Grandma Clement. He was so excited to open his present from Uncle David, Aunt Cilia, Joe and Celeste. They gave him the cutest Horse Flashlight, he loves that thing. He carries it everywhere and it always turning off lights and closing doors in the house to use it. Thanks guys! He also opened Emersyn's present and we love the ADORABLE bows aunt Cilia made and cute clothes and shoes she got too.

Fun at Zoo with Cousins...

Russ has every Friday off which is FABULOUS! We love it! Especially that I have been off from school. It will be great in the summer too! Anyhow his brother and sister and their family were down from Flagstaff and got a Zoo Trip together on a Friday for whoever could go! We went and it was a blast! We enjoyed being with a few of his brothers and sisters and their kids. The kids had so much fun together as you can see...

4 New baby's all within 6 months!

Russell is the eighth child out of 9. It is always so fun to get together with his family. There is always so much excitement and love, and plenty of older girl cousins and boy cousins who lllooooove to play with the little kids and hold the new babies. Well within the last 6 months there have been 4 new babies born. Russell's sister Susanne had their baby boy Ammon in September, Following was Russell's sister Roxanne who had her baby boy Giddeon in January, then Camille's Russell's sister-in-law had their baby boy Dallin in March, and then was us having the only girl out of the four preggo's having out little Emersyn about 2 weeks after Dallin was born. We all (well at least the 4 families who just had children and others too) got together at Roxanne's and were able to Celebrate their older little girl Alayna's 2nd birthday. So we lined them up on her couch in the order they were born from left to right! They are all so precious. I can't tell you enough how much the older cousins are in heaven with so many babies around, and the aunties. Its fun because basically the first half of his brothers and sisters and finished having their kiddo's and now the second half are having their's. So there are lots of fun cousins to play with. We love them and love having them babysit for us too! I think the aunts and uncles that have the older kid's are enjoying it the most though. They love holding them and cuddling them, then giving them back :) But, at times, I think they'd like to trade for some of their teenagers....not quite ready for that yet :) Enjoy the pictures.





This Cute picture is of all the 2-3 year olds eating Alayna's cake. They had a shirtless cake party and loved it! As did the parents cause we didn't have chocolate cake smeared on their shirts! Thanks Roxanne for sharing your house and Alayna's birthday with us we had a blast!

Meg Turned 25!

I had a great birthday this year! It was so much fun to be with my little family! Russ made me a delicious German chocolate Cake with the coconut-pecan frosting. Jaxon helped him! It was a great day. We went and met Russ at his work and went to eat lunch together. Russ took me on a date the weekend before to eat dinner and see the movie "State of Play" which was really good! I always love to drag my birthday's on for a week and call it my Birthday week, and that basically my excuse for getting what I want.... :) I love it, and Russell's good to play along. Love you Russ!

Birthday Cake Time!! It was delicous

The candles blown out with the help of Jaxon

Easter Fun (April 09)

Easter was a lot of fun this year! We had a great time going to the Clement Family Picnic in Peoria. Russell's dads extended family does this every year. There is a church that has an awesome huge ramada and great big green field for the kids to play in. Everyone brings eggs with candy in it to hide and all the little kids have a blast finding them. We always do a potluck and there is sooo much yummy food. This year not as many turned out and it was drizzling on and off which made it really cold! But it was so great, it was like we were camping. We loved it!
We also went to Megs family's on Easter this year to eat dinner and hang out with them. It was a blast. Jaxon dyed eggs with his lovely Aunt Shandy and then went on an Easter Egg hunt which Aunt Ton Ton set up for him! We had so much fun!

Collecting an egg off Uncle Thayne's head...

Jax searching for eggs at Gram and Papa Elliott's

Aunty Shandy helping Jax dye Easter Eggs

Adorable Big Brother and Little Sister Picture

Jaxon in his handsome Easter outfit from Gram Elliott smiling with Candy :)

Emersyn in Cute Easter Outfit.

Did I catch a cute smile?

The Easter Bunny Came to our Couch!

Jax bustin his candy out of his eggs with cousins, Nolan and Adelynn

Emersyn with Aunty Elizabeth

Meg Bundling Emersyn, it was cooooolllddd......

Jaxon with his Easter basket ("Cars Lightning McQueen" his all-time favorite!)

Jaxon looking for eggs