Happy Thanksgiving!

It's the time of the year to make an apple pie. 

See I had help.  

By the way, this is the best invention ever.

Mmm.... tasty.....

I know it has been a llloooooooooooooonnngggg time since I have posted here. 

But to be completely honest nothing too exciting has happened. 

Our ward got a new Bishopric, which means,

in a small town, everyone in the ward gets a new calling.

Quinn is still in the Elders Quorum Presidency, but now he is the 1st Counselor. 

I finally left the primary, and joined the Young Women, as the 2nd Counselor. 

We have been in our new callings for about 3 months, 

and are loving it. 

Kelsey is almost 3!! It has gone by so fast, I have no idea were the time went!

My younger brother Kory is leaving on his mission to Colorado Springs, on Dec 15th. 

I am excited for him, but sad that I won't see him for a while.

And well.....

that has been our life in a couple paragraphs. 

What has been going in your life?  

Look what Quinn made!!

Look what Quinn made! I am super excited about this!! 

He did such a great job on it. 

He first made it in Google Sketch-Up, 

then whipped it out in a couple weekends.

I love it!  

(Apparently I can't keep the camera strait)

What is really cool is each piece is separate.

So there is 2 sides and a middle.

So when we move to a new place, if there is not space for all 3 piece we can talk them apart. 

There are still a couple of things that need to be done like,

get little screw cover things, 

connect the 3 pieces so they don't fall over for some reason, and of course...

decorate! 

(I'm super excited about that part)

I have already started a little, but have changed it about 5 times since yesterday.

Well and I guess the reason Quinn made this was for a new TV, 

because we know how pathetic our little 20" looks on there. 

But again we shall see. 

There are more important things than a TV......

Ellis Family Reunion

We spent a week in Idaho with Quinn's family. 

We had tons of fun with things from feeding the roosters to going down the slide. 

Thanks so much Ron and Lynne, for letting us come and destroy your house for a week!

Such a sweet innocent look, 

for someone who is so spoiled.

All of the Ron and Lynne's grandkids! Holy Cow!

I know what Kelsey is getting for Christmas! She jumped on that trampoline

all day long. Good naps and even better nights, oh thank Heaven.

Quinn's favorite part of the drive, there and back. 

Although he wasn't going 80, 

he was going more like 85.

Which I sure hope they don't raise the speed limit, everyone already drives WAY too fast.

4th of July

We decided to go down to Havasu and spend sometime with my parents and my sister, who came also. 

This is baby Alex, my sister Emily's baby. He is a massive 6 month old, weighing in a whopping 20 lbs. 

He is almost as big as Kelsey!! 

He is so cute!

Grandma made this SUPER yummy cake, Kelsey really enjoyed it.

My parents ward put on  this great July 4th breakfast, they had a parade. 

(Organized by a great Activities Head, my Mom)

This is Kelsey and Grandma decorating the hats that kids all wore.

Very serious work.

We went out on the boat, she loved it so much. 

Quinn had fun on the wakeboard, he did pretty well for not doing it for 2 years.

He did the airchair as well, He got up a few times, 

and did tons better than me, that's for sure!

This is my awesome Dad! Look at him go!! 

We had such a great time and we are paying for it today. 

We are SO sore.

I think laundry might have to wait another day... 

I realize there is no pictures of me posted, but I did bumper tub and attempt the airchair.

Although all the evidence is videos. 

What we do

It's summer, and it's hot. Therefore, we can't go outside as often as I want, so we are stuck inside, and boy is Kelsey driving me crazy!! So I have started to do things so keep her little hands working. 

All the time.

We built a tower.

and played with sand.

I need some other ideas, help?

humm

What are these...?

Hum...

Nice stretchy band....

Pictures of Minnie Mouse...

Yep, that's what they are for.

Mission accomplished.

Snow Canyon State Park

So we went up to Snow Canyon State Park this weekend with my sister, Jasmene and her family and our friend Sarah and her family. We had so much fun playing in the sand dunes and going on little hikes.

Kelsey posing for a picture

Quinn and Kelsey on the way to the dunes. The weather was SO nice. It was 70 with cloud cover. Kelsey got goosebumps! What made it even better is that, it had rained the day before so everything was very compacted so no dust!!

This is Ethan, Sarah's youngest.

I told her to smile, this is what she gave me.

Burying the children.

The sand was cool. So she fell asleep, no not really.

So pretty.

I had fun climbing, I didn't get very high, but it was still fun!

Lemon Juice

Many of you might see this simple phrase and cringe.... But I laugh because this...


Not only did I get her to drink it once, I got her to drink it a second time! Go me!

Relay Races

At Virgin Valley Elementary School, VVES, the have relay races, to see who has the fastest class in each grade. Kelsey thought it was pretty awesome. I think Mesquite shut down for a few hours to watch these.....

Random video

I found this video of Kelsey dancing, and I thought it was rather entertaining. I realize her diaper is a little saggy and full. I am AWARE! :) Enjoy.

Easter

We looked for eggs.....








Some might have missed just a little

Dayna, Ben, and Davis got chairs for Easter, Jaymie and Kelsey enjoyed them more.



The coolest Easter present ever. Although you do get rather dizzy. This is spoken from experience.



Friend Sadie enjoying the giant inflatable ball.



Did I mention that Ben got attacked by a cactus, in his bum. tee hee hee