family pics

preschool trick or treat

This is brocks cute preschool class with the exception of Easton. He loves all of his friends here!! He has so much fun with them! He comes home from preschool and tells me the funniest stories! I am so glad that we decided to keep him in his same class this year especially since we live in a new neighborhood! He gets to see all of his same friends! This year for halloween the only thing he wanted to be was Jimmie Johnson! No superheros or monsters for him!! I honestly can't believe how grown up he is becoming!! He is getting too big too fast!! Love you Brocky!

First Day!!

Brock was so excited to start another year of preschool!! Especially this year because all of his friends are in his class!! There are 8 kids from our one street that are in his same class!! His teacher is amazing and totally gets him! I'm glad he's going to be with all his friends especially while we move, stability!! He is totally ready for 3 days a week, he gets so bored at home with me and jaxon! I can't believe my baby is getting so big! He keeps asking when he can ride the bus with the big kids. i tell him he can't cause i never want him to grow up!! It is so strange to me that one day he will be bigger and stronger than me, he'll probably be like 6'3"!! I hope he'll still need me to hold him when he's scared and kiss his bruises! Wait!!! I gotta slow down, i want him to stay little for as long as he can!!

In this second picture he and Andy were being superheros doing some sort of karate chop!! They are hillarious together!! I didn't think that i would know how to handle two little boys but i was given the 2 most amazing ones ever!! If i can keep them fed and clothed i'm doin pretty good. Just like all little boys they love to be rough and dirty. They are so content with trucks, dinosaurs and bugs!! It has taken me a long time to get use to this, but now that i have i wouldn't have it any other way!! Now i don't think i would know how to handle a little girl or even what to do with one! Granted i think i would pick up on it pretty quick!! Brock keeps telling me to get him a sister. Not quite sure what to say to that!! He is getting so smart, the questions he asks sometimes blow me away and take me a while to figure out the right way to answer them! His little mind is putting 2 and 2 together and he is so curious about everything!! But i guess thats the only way he can learn, to ask questions!! He has so much fun with Andy! It is going to be so hard to move away from him{ i know i'll have withdrawls from alyson} We love waking up in the mornings and going outside and checking up on all our friends and watching all {20} kids get on the bus right in front of our house, it's going to be so different when we can't do that! No matter where we go we'll be happy, because we'll always have eachother!!

Game night with the Murdocks

brock and wesley {yay-yay} playing a game. they have so much fun with eachother. They just go crazy whenever they're together. I love it.

don't worry, i'm not about to hit THAT ball, i just hit. I do know which ball i'm suppose to hit.

We had such a blast hangin out with our most awesome neighbors last night!! {the fave neighbs}The Murdocks are crazy fun! Sammy is a doll.They came over after dinner and we made a campfire in our backyard and roasted marshmellows!! When our 5 bars of chocolate were gone, we moved inside to play pool.

This looks like a really intense game, ry was really into it! He was so excited to finally have someone to play pool with! i'm so horrible at it that its not even a game to him!

Don't even ask me whats going on with my crazy hair here. In my defense the wind was blowing! plus i'm pretty sure i'm talking. i hate pictures of myself, thats why i'm always the one with the camera.

Shayne is so hillarious, i'm sure he was telling some sort of story here while he's trying to eat his smore. Its so funny to watch ryan and shayne talk because they talk their own special lingo. sports lingo. all they talk about it football, nascar, work and who knows what else, after some point me and meg just stop listening.

Look how gorgeous these two are!! Mother-Daughter. They are so much fun to be with!

aaaaahhhhh! Snake!

On our march to the field with the snake Olivia found this huge moth!!!

So last friday i was trying to be a good house wife and mow the lawn! {so proud of myself} Our mower is tricky and it takes a lot of work to get it going! I put jaxon down for a nap and headed outside to make ryan proud! I finally got the mower started and we were goin to town on our grass, suddenly i stopped cause i saw a big stick in front of the mower. I went to go throw it into the neighbors lawn{jk}, went to grab it and saw that it was a ginormous, i mean ginormous snake!! I was freakin! So i ran into the house to grab the camera, { i love that my first reaction is to document} I had to get a picture of this momma snake, no one would ever believe me! Then i run to my neighbors house! Thank goodness i have strong manly neighbors that are home during the day!! {thank you eric, you're my hero} It was hillarious to see us all out there 'watching' eric capture our snake, there was about 15 of us!! It took forever, cause that momma snake was angry and she wasn't goin without a fight! It was a huge 3 1/2 - 4 foot blow snake!! Finally after more neighbors joined us with a box we got her in. If you were to drive by and see us you'd think the entire neighborhood was goofy. we looked like a parade of crazies! we had our hoes and pitchforks and buckets and we were following eric and marching straight out to the field to set her free. She's just gonna find the canal and float her way back, we should have just let eric kill it! Now i don't dare mow anymore, yes, thats my excuse and i'm sticking to it!!!

travelin by train

My mom got Nicole and I tickets to ride the train for free! I'd never been on a train. So we decided to take the kids to show them how awesome the train is! We had to drive over to dayton, which neither one of us knew where we were going, at all! The wind was blowing at hurricane speeds so we just wanted to hurry as fast as we could to jump on that train! The train took us from dayton to tremonton. We loaded at 4:30 and it was only suppose to be an hour, but we had to pull off on a side track to let another train pass and we ended up being on the train for 2 hours!! It was so much fun! We just reclined the seats lifted the foot rests and chilled, the kids ran wild, but it was still fun! I think cole and i are going to take a girls weekend, on a train! Could be fun.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

This was such an awesome day! I rode to slc with Meg, Sammy, Carter, Wesley{yay-yay}, Brock and Jaxon! We had quite the load! The kids were so good the whole way there! They just watched movies and played!We left around 12:00 and it was a miracle that we got there without any hiccups! Meg and i talked about anything and everything we could think of, it was so much fun! We met Shayne there and waited in line for what seemed like forever but i think it was only about a 1/2 an hour. The ushers said that 1,500 people were going through those doors a day!!! Wow, that blew my mind!! It felt like all 1,500 were there when we were! It was so crowded! But as we started walking through, room after room, stair case after stair case you didn't notice everyone else! It was so peaceful to just be there with your family and friends!

All the artwork was amazing! The chandeliers were crazy huge! I mean what a pain it would be to have to clean those puppies! But the rooms were so beautifully painted and decorated! It was such a spiritual experience to be able to hold my two boys in my arms and walk through the celestial room! We stared through the mirrors into eternity and i never wanted to leave!!! Brock kept telling me that he could feel Jesus and was watching for him {meg told him that Jesus roams the halls}! Now he keeps asking when we can go back! He doesn't get that mommy and daddy can go anytime they want but he has to wait til he's 19. Not fair. I am so grateful that Meg brought me along with her and her awesome family!! we love you guys!

obviously... we love to play in the water

he's still a little nervous to be in the water alone so we double him up. life jacket and tube. he had a blast swimming with luke! we love you mason and luke!
The boat totally relaxes jax! his favorite thing is to lay on grandmas lap and take a nap while daddy skis.

Mason was awesome. he helped brock catch fish after fish! I think there were about 30 fish in the tank, too bad all we caught was blue gill. oh well, he was perfectly content with that!

DOCK PARTY!!!! Us girls had so much fun playin on the dock with the kiddos while the dads {bobbed} on logs! I can remember when jessie, cole and i would come out here when we were younger, its so different to be out here with all our kids. I am so glad that we are all still friends, its such a comfort to talk with them and know we're all in the same place and we love sharing it with eachother!

Here's most of us: jax, me, cole,{baby}, shae, jessie, rusty, carter and trisha. playing in the water was daxton, brock, justin, kody and reagon was taking our picture{she's so dang cute}

a family that plays together... stays together

Brock is actually driving the boat {safe, right?} He thought he was a big shot!! Now every time we get in the boat he thinks he is driving. Now what do we do?
He can't get enough of this!! I'm jealous, i cannot ski! He can even do little tricks, i definately need to learn! Until then i am perfectly fine with laying out on the boat!!

Jax had a blast swimming with us!! It made him a little nervous, but he still enjoyed splashing and kicking his legs! We all slept extremely well that night!

He's reaching for grandma like 'save me'!!

We have so much fun together! Now that the weather is actually warm! Every weekend we look forward to all of the great memories we get to create!!

Four Wheelin'

These boys had the best time today!! {i hate to say it, but i think i'm raisin a couple of motor heads}

This is looking from the mantua{north ogden} mountains down onto the pineview and eden valley. The storm thats blastin its way through was a huge one and you can even see the front wall of the rain!

He loves his helmet!! He says it makes him a "racer man" just like daddy!!

We had a blast today! We borrowed one of dan and deb's four-wheelers and rode up through the mountains in mantuawith my parents! It was so gorgeous! Our boys absolutely love the four-wheelers! The more rugged the better. We stuffed our packs full of treats and shoved our faces full all the way to the top!{well, not quite the top} Look in these pics your can see a huge thunder storm rollin in behind us! we had to book it as fast as we could out of the mountains! Even ridin in the rain didn't bother us! We raced and laughed the whole way down!

Four Wheelin

Camping!!!

Nothin better than a perfectly roasted marshmellow!!! It doesn't even bother him when its full of ashes and burnt. he's so cute!

mmmmmmmmmmmm! bacon for breakfast!! our family loves bacon! all of us!! We go through quite a bit in the summer!

the angel is waiting quietly for the fish to come back. he loves playing on teh dock! This year we are finally getting a new one. no more falling through the broken ones into the water. whew!

Jax had so much fun rollin around in the dirt! and he loved digging in the sand! He's gonna be so much fun to camp with this year!

I think brocks favorite part about camping is grandpa! He love to copy everything he does, if grandpa is building a fire then brock has to too! they loved watching the flames and roasting mallows! I don't think it even bothered him that it was so cold!

we love our camp outs! we are so excited to camp this summer!

Fishin, now thats something brock loves to do. the cabin is in the most perfect fishin spot! It's in a little culdesac. The fish just love it there, its just swarming with blue gil and other little ones! It's their camping thing to catch the fish and fillet and grill them for dinner. Brock thinks this is just the ultimate man thing to do. its so funny

Uncle bob hooked up this swing. Its so fun to swing on. we need to figure out how to put a seat on it. It builds major muscle when you have to hold yourself up to swing.