Yup...you guessed it...June 9, 2009!

He's FIVE!

My Christmas present is now FIVE! I can't believe it! He has gotten so big this past year in size and in the way he talks and acts! He is a strong willed character he is always saying something to make me laugh or make me think. He has such a funny personality! He can be very SWEET or very SOUR within a matter of seconds! He keeps me on my toes and is SO excited to start school this year! We love you buddy have a GREAT birthday!
BTW We did get lots of snow and played in it a lot I will post those pictures later!

Gingerbread Houses 2008

Here is our tradition of making gingerbread houses! The kids LOVED it! Raylie and Logan each got a side of the roof to put M & M's on....Logan did a great job! Raylie only put the RED ones on because she loves RED. She would put one on and then swipe the frosting off with a little fast finger! We had a fun time but were missing dad because he was home study for finals!
Raylie had a little too much SUGAR! Well I guess Raylie and Sharise had a little TOO MUCH sugar!!

BOYS!!!

What does a 15 POUND bag of potatoes and two four year old boys = TROUBLE!
I just bought a new bag of potatoes yesterday. Logan and his friend were outside playing for a little while and come inside and say, "Hey mom we ate all the potatoes, but two!" I didn't think much, thought they were pretending to eat potatoes...but they said it again even more excited. So I went to the garage and find my potato bag EMPTY...but the two! I said, "What did you do with the potatoes?!" Nothing...so I repeat myself about three times and they take me to the back yard and nothing. I don't see any potatoes. So I ask again, "What did you guys do with the potatoes?!" Finally they point to the brick wall. I climb up and look over the wall into our neighbors yard and there is my 15 pounds of POTATOES all over there yard! So I get the boys and we walk to our neighbors and ask permission to pick up the potatoes from their yard! I made the boys pick them up by themselves!
Luckily I had already taken some out for dinner or the friend would have been sent home and Logan would have been in big trouble!!! Boys, Boys, Boys!!!!!

Thanksgiving

We went to Salt Lake for Thanksgiving this year! It was great! We were able to spend time with the whole family, except of course our Elder. We ate at Grandma H's house, this was her last year to cook and I am going to miss it! We then went to my aunt and uncles house and had more pie! It was great to spend time with family!



Before eating turkey Josh and the kids went outside to look at Grandpas greenhouse. We were able to bring home some cabbage and sweet potatoes! Grandpa has a great green thumb. The middle picture proves that Logan and Raylie really do LOVE each other! I just have to look at that picture to remind me!
After eating a great turkey dinner we had a little time to work off all of those calories by arm wrestling! I found out that right handed Danette and I are equally STRONG! We all found out that our mom can kill all of us in arm wrestling...and not to mess with Aunt Kathy (moms sister) who whomped mom! I hope I can be that strong when I grow up!!!
Just some random faces relaxing after eating turkey and the arm wrestling mania!
On our way home we stopped at the Apple Farm and saw this tractor. The kids wanted to climb on it so we took a picture!

Little bit of everything!

Since it has been a little while since I last updated I thought I would put some random pictures of what we have been doing. Logan was so excited to get play dough from his Sunday teachers. Raylie just being cute! Logan had hat day in preschool...so I got out my chicken hat the night before and he just had to wear it to bed! Logan and Raylie love to help us cook/bake everything!

Finally Halloween!!!

So here is Indiana Jones and the Princess! We were able to spend Halloween in Las Vegas this year with lots of family! I was going to put up our pumpkin pictures but picasa isn't on the laptop anymore...and I don't feel like downloading it right now...so maybe later. But here are the cute kids! Raylies hair was curled a little bit more but her hair DOESN'T hold curl. I'm not quite sure what she is doing in the picture..I think I snapped right before she ran off! I hope everyone had a great Halloween! I CAN'T wait for Thanksgiving!!

Raylies pictures

These are Raylies TWO year pictures! I think they turned out great! She did such a good job smiling! The girl was just making her laugh which was good because then it is a natural smile!
The picture on our header was taken the same day. We needed a new family picture!

Raylies TWO!

I can't believe my cute little girl is TWO! She is so fun! Her personality is so great! She is my favorite little girl! I love her smile, her big green/brown eyes, her cute little voice, the way she says in the morning when she is ready to get out of bed, "Mommy I'm DONE!" I can't wait to see what this next year has in store for us! Happy Birthday Raylie! WE LOVE YOU!





Raylie got a lot of fun toys for her birthday. She was so excited everytime she opened a new one!













Raylie wasn't quite sure how to blow out the candles to I had to help her a little. If you can't tell it is a Cinderella cake!

Discover Museum at the Gateway

This weekend we went to Salt Lake because my older sis Mrs D teaches preschool and she was able to get into the museum for $3.25 per child and adults were FREE, we couldn't pass the deal up! Then on Saturday we went and watch little J play football in the rain and wind! I wouldn't just do that for anyone! He is great player! Thanks to Chantel for watching all the kiddos. Then this morning the two little girls were having fun playing. Beauty school starts at a young age now a days! It was a great little trip! Thanks for letting us stay at your house!

Cute kids

Raylie gathered her shopping cart, stroller and baby and decided to make a little home in front of the kitchen sink! We took and picture of her and so Logan said he wanted a picture of him so he ran to the couch and struck a pose! In the last picture Logan was wiping the fog off of the mirrors after his shower! Ofcourse he had already wrote him name right in the middle!

Time for a trim!

Raylie needed her bangs trimmed so when they fall out of her piggy they don't hang in her face. She held still pretty good! The first picture is her NEW look that she likes to give everybody! What a cutie!

I am a child of God

For family home evening last week we talked about being children of God. These are the pictures Logan and Raylie colored. Logan colored his eyes blue so Raylie wanted to color her eyes green. If you enlarge the picture you will be able to see the great artwork!

Pretty Raylie

Raylie's friend Holdyn must have told her how FUN it is to put mascara on by themselves because Raylie tried it on her own tonight! She is such a silly girl! Her vocabulary has grown so much in the past couple weeks. The bigger picture is what she did after I showed her how to smile! What a cute little girl! We love you Pretty Raylie!

They made it through....

Well for those of you that don't know, my lil sister and her family made it through IKE without any major structural damage! Danette has put a post on her blog about the night that IKE hit Houston. She lives just outside of Houston so they got hit pretty good. Her in-laws had more than four trees get up rooted and one landed on their barn, luckily their horse trailer wasn't inside! At Chad's office they wet- vacced 20 gallons of water from the carpet and had to pull it out.
We are so grateful that they are all safe . Now they can say they made it through IKE...and in a way we have made it through too. It is tough having family that close to disater! We love you guys! Now, hopefully their power will be on before 4 weeks like the officials are saying. Pray for power! You can read her post by clicking on the McLane link!

SpiderLogan

I asked Logan to get dressed this morning and I guess I should have said take Spiderman off first! He is such a goofball! He said he wants his hair combed like Peter Parker!




Check out Natasha's jewelry blog, she does a GREAT job! http://www.jewelrymakingideas.blogspot.com/

Clean Fish

Well unfortunately I didn't get a picture of this, but on Monday Raylie decided the fish needed a bath, I guess! She took a bar of Ivory soap and put it in the fish tank! I don't know how long it was in there, but when I walked past and noticed the fish tank was all CLOUDY and WHITE CHUNKS floating around! I looked further and saw the BAR OF SOAP floating on top. I immediately ran and told Josh so that we could HURRAY and get all four fish out of the soapy tank. It took about 45 minutes to get fish out, wash the rocks and tank out! It has been two days since their soapy bath and all seems to be well. All four still alive! But now if my WHITE goldfish dies I won't know what it was from. She spoiled my controlled experiment :)
She is such a cutie I couldn't be mad. And this isn't the first thing she has stuck in the tank. I caught here a couple months ago shoving her blanket in there! What a handful!

Gold to White

Our goldfish has turned white over the past few weeks. Do fish turn white like we go gray? Does anybody know? Is there a fish expert out there? This isn't a very good picture, but he is indeed white. It is so weird.

First Day of the Second Year of Preschool

Well it's official...Logan is back in school again. We both have been waiting. He is so excited to go see Mrs Roxanne and his friends. He is a very good student. I can't wait to see and hear about all the fun stuff he is learning this year.

Raylies Water Fountain

The other day after a huge rain storm Raylie and I went outside and she found a new way to quench her thirst! She has been imitating dogs lately so I guess this is why she did this. (The water was pouring out on the rain gutter).

My oh my!

So what happens when you put bread dough in your warm...HOT garage at 7:oo p.m. to rise quickly, so you can make bread and then forget about it until 3:00 p.m. the next day?! Well lets just say it is no longer able to be used to make a delicious loaf of fresh white bread! My oh my where was my mind?

Ode to Sam!

Ode to the handsome little man Sam! We are so glad we got to meet you! It was great spending time with you! We all fell in love with those big blue eyes and your little squeaky voice!! Miss you already! Thanksgiving better hurry up and get here!

Finally!!!

So I am finally getting around to posting pictures from our 24th of July vacation! We went up to SLC to spend time with family. Here is pictures of our BBQ at Grandma and Grandpa Great! There were about 50 of us there! It was so nice to see family that we haven't seen for awhile!
Then on the 25th we went to see President and Sister Hinckleys gravesites, tour the Conference Center and then rode the trax to the Gateway Shopping center. What a fun time! The Conference Center is so beautiful! The view from the top is breathtaking! At The Gateway the kids (except Raylie and Ellie) loved playing on the splash pad!




























Then on Saturday before we left Grandpa H (who has an amazing nack for growing ANYTHING) had some potatoes that needed picking. So we got our little man to go out and pick them! He loved it! What a fun memory for him to have! Logan was so proud of the ones he picked!

I miss my boy!

Josh and Logan went to Las Vegas yesterday to spend time with Josh's family and pick up Danette, Sharise and the kids up from the airport. Friday morning before they left I heard Logan in his room talking, so I went into see who he was talking to. I heard him say, "it's okay alligator, me and monkey are only going to be gone one night, you'll be okay. sleep good." Then later that afternoon I went to his room to put toys away and found his alligator like this! He is so funny! I miss him and can't wait to see him tonight!

Rainy days...

The other day it down poured! It took the kids awhile before they were comfortable to just run around outside and get drenched! Raylie was the first to lay in the gutter!

Little Tomboy!

Raylie decided the other night that she wanted to wear Logans hat and jacket! She put them on all by herself and Logan helped her zip up the jacket! She also put her one shoe on. She is getting to be so big! When did my little baby grow up?

What a big girl!

The last two months Raylie has been insisting that she dress herself! She does a pretty good job except her little arms aren't quite long enough to pull the back up, so I have to be sneaky to pull them up or she gets very MAD!! But she is a little cutie!

Logan and Raylie

Here is a video of last night. The kids were having fun playing. One of the times where they want to play instead of fight...a very rare moment :)! Just ignore me and my messy house! Hope you enjoy!

Trip up north!

So this past week the kids and my mom went to Murray to visit my sister and grandparents. It was a lot of fun. On Wednesday we went to Heritage park, This is the Place Monument. We rode the train around the little village, Logan rode a pony and we visited the little petting zoo. Friday we went to my cousins swimming pool (which I only got video not pictures) then we went to a fun park in West Jordan. It has a lot of little houses and building that the kids can play in. Again, I only got video tape! That's what I get for not bringing Josh! He had to stay home for school :(.
My mom's blog and Desirae's will have more pictures so check them out.





















Here is a cute video of Raylie at the petting zoo.
She was saying, "Here sheep, sheep, sheep
and hi doat (goat)!"

Main St. Water Park

Today we went to the Main Street Water Park in St.George. There was Lauren and Nelyana, Alyshia and Gracie and me and my squirts. Lauren, Alyshia, and I grew up together in good ol' Leeds! So it is always fun getting together with our kiddos! All the kids loved it! I noticed I didn't get a picture of Logan because he was all over the place. But these little girls loved each others company! We were missing Shannon and LJ!
In about 15 years look out boys here come a bunch of HEARTBREAKERS!!