Bless their hearts, the little angels

I think that someone needs to invent a super pill to take on family picture day!It is so great to have a picture of everyone that you love together, but it sure is a headache to get it done. We have the most amazing family!! To quote my dad " without family, you got nothin" He is so right! It was so fun to hang out with them for thanksgiving! We don't get to see eachother very often, but when we do it is usually eventful! My two awesome brothers married the two most awesomest girls!! I couldn't have hand picked them any better. Brock is always talking about how much fun he has with his cousins!! It was so cold when we took these pictures and the kids really were good sports! After all the rushing and yelling it was so nice to load back up in the cars and drive back home to get warm! And thank goodness for Vanessa! She did such an amazing job. She was so patient. I think that maybe we scared her a little bit, she kinda realized what kind of family she was marrying into. We're crazy and chaotic but we love eachother!!! Ryan has so much fun hangin out with dad, chad, and jas! He always tells me how nice it is to just sit back, relax and watch the crazy kids with my bros. bless their hearts, the little angels. Anyway, we are so thankful for all of you guys!! Can't wait to see you again!!

Weston Family Thanksgiving

We are so blessed to be a part of such an amazing family!! It is so fun to see all of you. We had a blast at the thanksgiving party! Brock gets such a kick from hanging out with all the older boy cousins! they are so sweet to him and let him play the games too! thank you so much boys! He can never have enough Kenzie time!! He is constantly asking when he can play with her. They are so cute together. I am actually a little nervous for when they all get a little older!! Especially Jaxon, Ridge, and Charleigh! They are going to have so much fun together! Ryan turns into such a little social butterfly when he is around his cousins! He loves them so much and loves hearing how they are doing! And i couldn't have asked for a better family to be married into!It wasn't quite the same without papa ivy, but we couldn't definately tell his spirit was watching over us. You are all so fun and sweet! Hopefully we'll see you for Christmas!

finally, ground breaking!

It seems like it has taken forever to get my uncle shane's house started! But last weekend it finally happened, they broke ground! I'm so excited that Ry is building it, he and shane get along so well, and i love vanessa! Plus it's gonna be so much fun to have an excuse to go play with all of our friends in preston. I think that Ry is really excited to be building it for shane and make it amazing for them!

I'm workin on it

okay, i swear i'm not just slackin in the posting department!! Something is wrong with my computer. It won't let me post any pics. i have so many to add. I can't stand this slow computer! it takes me so long to get anything accomplished! When i finally get it working right i'm going to be so far behind!! Sorry!

The family picture that almost was

It is so difficult to get a good family picture!! On sunday Debbie tried to get a good picture of all of us together. Almost impossible, we did manage to get one! It was on her camera so i couldn't get it on here. It takes some major skill and patience to get everyone looking and smiling in the same direction! We haven't had our family pictures taken ever!! I'm not sure why. I was so excited that Deb got one of us. Love ya so much deb!!

so photogenic

I could take pictures of brock all day long and he would never, ever get sick of it! He'll even pose for them. I tried taking some of just jax but brock couldn't take it. He loves being in front of that camera! I'll keep trying to get a good one of jax. I love to develope pitures of my boys, it makes my day! And I usually can't wait to scrapbook them, but mostly that has to wait until they're sleeping because they are both so helpful!! Every day when i drive over these train tracks i've wanted to stop and take pictures there, but it's so scary. If a train were to come we'd have to jump and roll. just like in the old movies when they roll down the hill as the train races by. Scary scary.

party on!

I look forward to our family halloween party every year! It is so fun to see everyone dressed up! We have such an amazing family! We have so much fun together and love being together! I wish i could have gotten a picture of everyone dressed up. The outfits were great this year! I'm already excited for next year!

Best Friends

Brock and Jaxon have the cutest best friends ever!! Brock goes to preschool with Andy Decker, and they get along so well! He has learned so much from andy. they were the cutest woody and buzz for halloween! We carpool with andy for preschool and they love to talk about all the fun things they do at school, and the silly girls there. Andy's little brother is only 2 weeks older than jaxon and his name is jack. They are so cute together too. when we went to the park they were so good to just sit on their blankets and watch the big boys! We love being friends with the Deckers!

halloween

This halloween was so much fun!! jaxon was the cutest cow, and brock couldn't have been more excited to be buzz lightyear! We have to thank bobbie jo for the buzz costume! He loved it so much that we wore it the every day the whole week before halloween! And Vanessa thank you so much for the cow costume!! We gathered so much candy that we didn't know what to do with it! Brock went trick or treating at pre-school, our ward had a trunk or treat, and we trick or treated around our block! They were tired boys by the time we got home! At our family halloween party we had such a fun time dressing up. Ryan was brock's sherrif woody. It was so cute! We have the best family!! We are so blessed.

qUiRkS

I've been tagged...Quirks!

Here are the rules: list 6 quirks about yourself. Tag 6 more people, tell who tagged you!! Jessie Golightly tagged me! So, here are my quirks...

1) I hate it when my food touches! i can't even stand it if the juices mix!! It makes me gag! I'd rather starve than eat it. Like the gravy mixing with anything other than the potatos, i can't handle it. I know it makes me such a waster but i just can't do it. I love those elementary school lunch trays that separate everything, i use them more for myself than my 3 year old!

2)I don't like folding laundry, or ironing it. Well, the ironing thing is just a matter of skill. It's hard. Every time i iron something it ends up looking worse than it did when i started. Folding laundry takes me so long to do because i fold it like department stores. When ryan folds he just kinda rolls things into neat little balls, that drives me nuts!! But at least he tries to help me.

3) My towels have to be folded a certain way. And placed facing a certain way in the closet. If Ryan has helped me fold the laundry i have to go behind him and refold the towels. I know thats anal but i just can't help it. When we lived with my parents i use to pull all of their towels out of the closet and refold them. My mom finally started to just leave the clean towels in the laundry basket and wait for me to fold them.

4) Candy! (sugar) i am always eating candy! Growing up I use to sneak into the pantry and eat spoonfuls of powdered sugar! My mom couldn't figure out why i was always bouncing off the walls, or why her powdered sugar was always gone. When i was pregnant and so sick, candy was the only thing that made me feel better. With brock i think he was grown with skittles. After i eat a meal i have to have something sweet or i can't digest. As soon as i taste something sweet it makes me feel so much better!

5) I'm easily excited! I'm like a little kid! If i'm doing something fun the next day i won't be able to sleep the night before. ya know kinda like christmas eve when you were like 5. I swear i don't have ADD, but if you get me excited about something, look out! It doesn't even have to be anything too great either. Like when i get a new toe nail polish or if i take a good pic of the boys, even when random little kids do good at muttin bustin! ( Don't laugh jess and kod) Little things make me so excited!!

6) Last, i love to fill out paperwork. Weird, i know. I love to do insurance forms, questionaires,even writing the address on envelopes when we pay our bills, and i love to do Ryan's employees W2's. I get so excited everytime tax season comes around. I should have some sort of job doing this, i should get paid for this weird quirk shouldn't I?

I tagg... Heidi, Jayna, Tina, Becky, Missy and Steph.

My Anchors

"Sons are the anchors of a mother's life!" -Sophocles-

This is so true! Right now there is so much chaos going on around us and its hard to keep your focus! It feels like there is always something pulling and pushing us from tough to tougher, but these two angels keep me anchored where i need to be. They make me realize what is really important in life! Them! All the chaos around me doesn't matter. I just need to focus on strengthening them to stand up to all this crap. " the greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground "

Smiles

Tree Huggers

It is so awesome to have such great friends! We love hanging out with Nicole and Shae! Today we went 'park hopping'. We started at our now favorite park in fruit heights and ended up at willow park eating lunch! The kids had so much fun climbing all over this tree! Brock and Shae play so well together (most of the time). It's such a big event when shae and cole come over! It is going to be so fun to watch our kids get older together. Plus it is so nice to have someone to go through it with. Only a mother knows all the tears and smiles of her little ones!I'm so lucky to have such an awesome best friend!
" Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, as motherhood! "