A Christmas to remember

Merry Christmas 2018!

This has been our craziest Christmas break ever.  We got hit with croup, major chest colds and the flu...for the last two weeks it's been non stop sick for us over here ending with kaylin on Christmas day...and then on top of that we had Landon and his family stay with us for a week....the day they left parker and steph came into town to stay through Christmas (they leave in two days)
It's been go go go go for a solid week.

It was so busy on Christmas eve doing a party lunch at my moms and then a dinner at Nick's parents...we didnt even have time to make santa cookies this year..I sorta felt guilty but we literally had no time..so we stopped at kneaders bakery and grabbed some cute cookies...plus santa didnt complain so they must have been so delicious!!!

They boys got so spoiled of course
The boys got stuff like .22 guns and hoverboard, games, mini projector, electric scooter, spider man bike, giant dinosaurs, Amazon echo dots for each....santa didnt disappoint this year!
They came screaming in our room at 6:59 am flipped on our lights qnd scared nick and I half to death...all while yelling "wake up its christmas" and little karby had the cutest little voice saying "santa came"!! They all had big smiles on their faces, which melted my mommy heart!

We have made it a point to stay home on Christmas day and just enjoy the day while the kids play...if grandparents want to come by they can but we decided it was our Christmas and we weren't going to try to load up kids and hit houses all day.

Our house is a mess and our boys are happy...life is good and also going by WAY to quickly, this mommy misses the boys being so little. {Sad face}

Merry Christmas to all my sweet boys, may you always remember why we celebrate Christmas, our saviors birth..
For the gift he has given us to be a family FOREVER...no greater gift can one give.  Keep that in your hearts always and forever.

Love mom, xoxoxo

Sad Goodbye...

We sadly and so brokenheartedly had to say goodbye to our sweet jaida girl. She was in kidney and liver failure and we didnt want her to be in pain or suffering.  We are incredibly sad, she was such a good dog to all these boys of ours.
Kiptin and kaylin took it just as bad as daddy and I. The two littles are still little enough they dont quit understand, which I'm thankful for at the moment.
We just dug her a nice grave in the back yard and then the boys put all their "special" rocks around her.
She will be so missed and we hope and pray that she is in heaven running around with sampson dog, pain free.
We love you sweet girl❤
Love, your family!

Hunting season..is our favorite season

It's time again for the most beautiful season of the year! #huntingtime
Nick, me, grandpa H, and Shane all have dedicated hunter tags. You get tags for now, black powder, and rifle for 3 years but can only harvest two deer each in those 3 years. This was our last year on the tags and we hadnt gotten a thing yet.
We took the two big boys up the mountin for the last day of bow hunt...kip and I saw a small buck, I shot and missed by maybe a foot..bummer.
Then this past week was muzzle loaded. Nick got a 4 point opening morning, the first shot of the day within 30 min of light out.
Grandpa for a 3 point the 2nd morning....
Mom missed a very large 2 point with TALL antlers..because dad distracted me...then i passed up two others to try for a bigger deer. The boys all said I was just too scared to pull the trigger.
Days went by and nothing.
Finally, on Oct 1..nick, me and shane were driving back down the mountain to head home and we happen to see a few right off the road... two had horns. I jumped out of the truck and the little guy just stayed there staring at me. I aimed and shot...booom! First shot. Got em. My FIRST deer... Followed his awesome blood trail til we found him. In the dark. Nick wouldn't even gut him for me..how rude. But shane came to the rescue and bailed his little sis out and did it for me
..he hadnt done it and he wanted to learn how so it was a win win!
Hes WAY smaller then I wanted but decided getting one with a muzzle loader would be awesome and didnt want to chance not seeing another with only a few days left.
Kip has been the most excited boy with all 3 of us getting deer this trip. Shane just needs his. He shot at a small one today..but we think he missed.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the mountains at fall...so INCREDIBLE...the COLORS, the SMELL...wow, just amazing!!!
It's for sure one of my happy places!

Our little khailo starts KINDERGARTEN

Today my #3 starts kindergarten, khailo boy officially begins his school career! I've been honored to be home with him for 5 beautiful years.  Today I snuggled with him on the floor and couldn't believe that this sweet special time we have had together is, in a way over.  My heart is so full of love and happiness for this boy!
My mommy heart loves his little boy heart more then he will ever know..I'm praying he will grow into an amazing, smart, loving, kind hearted boy who cares so much about others and puts others needs before his own. He has always been my most "chill" kid, who loves to make others happy, he ALWAYS brings his mommy fresh picked flowers and always makes sure to say goodnight and "I love you"...all these little times mean so much to me and dad...we will cherish these special memories for a lifetime!

Kiptin gets baptized

Today was the day..rain or shine you were getting baptized! 8-22-18

Since your birthday is in December, and you REALLY wanted to get baptized outside at one of your favorite fishing ponds.... we had to wait til it got warm enough to venture up the mountain. Well every time we had a date in mind it just seemed to not work out... at first we had planned to take you to Hawaii for your baptism but just  couldn't make it work out...and when we decided that we just needed to get it done for you, that's when you said you wanted to do it at your fishing spot... "Aspen Mirror Lake" up cedar mountain by duck creek village.

We finally set a date and told everyone about it. Well that morning came and it was sooo stormy and so cold. I was so worried and knew that it just wasnt going to be good for everyone traveling... my heart was soo sad seeing you so sad.  You were quite. I was trying to talk with dad and see what he wanted to do.
I was standing in our kitchen and you were sitting on the side of the couch looking out our big giant window, just staring so quietly.

I said, kip I dont know if we will be able to make this happen for you today. We may have to wait until next week.

You sat without looking at me or saying a word for a minute. And then you said..
Mom, I prayed this morning to heavenly father and asked him if it could just be sunny long enough for me to be able to get baptized.  I really think he will answer my prayer, I just want to try.

My heart sank and tears filled my mommy eyes. I knew how much kip wanted this and how long we had already made him wait. 
He had more faith then I did and it really hit hard that he was willing to have the faith even though it was so dark outside and so stormy. 

I sent out a text to everyone and told them that kiptin still wanted to go up and that we understood if anyone didnt want to travel in the storm but my little boy still wanted this to be his date and had faith in his prayer that heavenly father would make it happen.

We drove up the mountain, it was raining and dark most all the way up, in was so scared that in just a few minutes my little boy was going to get his heart broken.

Just a few miles from the turn off to the pond...it became sunny and bright.  My heart just thanked my heavenly father and prayed it was like this at his spot.
His eyes were so big and bright, his face was so happy and my heart was so full.

As we pulled in most everyone we invited was already there..my heart was happy yet again that no matter what, they weren't missing it.

We walked down the path to his little pond and the sun was shining so bright on us...the warmth was like a big hug from heavenly father just saying, this is your day and I love you.

The next cool thing that happened was there was NO ONE at the pond... we have never been to that pond and have no one there before.  He got to have his perfect spot, perfect day, and all because he had so much faith.  His daddy walked into the freezing water with him, hand in hand and gave him his day!

We are so proud of him and his sweet spirit...he is a light of hope in this world and will do great things!

First day of school!

Kaylin started hisn7th grade year!
Kiptin started his 3rd grade year!

Number 3, our little khailo will be starting his school adventure as well this year, going into kindergarten next week!

Three down one to go!!!

Honestly I'll pretty dang heart broken when all my boys are off to school and I'm a lone mama at home. 

We look at kaylin and cant believe he is already in his 2nd year of middle school! We feel OLD. So OLD.
We aren't even old enough to have a kid that's 12!!!

I hope and pray that our boys will love learning and try their very best to become something so great in life so they can enjoy all the fun things this crazy world has to offer! A good education makes all the difference!

Happy new school year adventure boys..we love you more then you'll ever know!

8.8.18 happy 15th anniversary to us today!

15 years down...eternity to go!
8.8.18 another cool year!

Happy 34th birthday to my soulmate!

18 birthdays I've spent with you. Today you turned 34....how is that possible? From 16 to 34?!?!?!?!

Kaylin recieved the aaronic preistood today

My sweet first little boy gets blessed by his amazing daddy to get his aaronic preistood today!

Kaylin is 12!!!!

Today, another mile stone was hit...ots so sad and so awesome at the same time...this is a big one since kaylin turned 12 today and he will soon get the priesthood and can also get a temple recommend as well!
Hes such a good sweet kid, we couldn't ask for a better boy!

Happy 4th of july!

Happy 4th 2018

Happy fathers day

Happy fathers day 2018 to our amazing daddy! We are the luckiest of the lucky to have you in our lives!

Happy mothers day!

Mothers day 2018! My boys have grown so much since last year....I love being their mom so dang much...my heart literally couldn't love them more than I do..my whole heart belongs to these four boys..any their daddy!

Khailo graduates preschool

Preschool CHECK!

Karbon turns 3...

My last night with my two year old...

Tonight Mark's a bitter sweet mile stone...this is the very last night I'll have with a two year old of my own. Karbon turns 3 tomorrow, so tonight while I look at his sweet face and as he is all snuggled up with me in bed, I'll cherish this sweet memorie. With the three older boys I always had one to follow then but this is a very last, there are no others to follow karbon, he is all my "last" which breaks my mommy heart into pieces...it does actually HURT my heart, I cant truly feel the ache it has for all the "last" I have to go through.  But I'm proud and happy for my boys and how amazing they are, I love watching the new steps and stages in their lives.

Halloween 2017...

(another late post)
Here are some fun pictures from out Halloween (last year 2017)
Dad and mom were the Energizer Bunny
kaylin was a Grim reaper?
Kiptin was Cheif from the game HALO
Khailo was a dragon
Karbon was a lion

Khailo Goes to PreShool...

We signed khai up for a really good preschool at SUU college, they have had a blast this year and he has really learned so much!


Here are a few from his THANKSGIVING FEAST with us: