Christmas Dance Recital

Kelli started to take dance this year at good ole' Luv 2 Dance. My nieces have been taking here for like 13 years and i finally joined in.. Miss Shaundee is her teacher... (yes her Aunt Shaundee) and she looks forward to going to class every week. Her cousin Brooklyn is in her class, and cousins Abby and Halle. Its so fun to get together every week and get to talk to my cousins and catch up on things that are going on.. The girls did such a great job and they all looked SO CUTE in their lil' tutu's. Their song was to "Jingle Bells" and it was OH so cute!





As you can tell, she's a little diva in some of her posing pictures, but she LOVES TO DANCE and practices daily, and even taught her 2 year old sister the entire "Jingle Bell" dance. I can't wait for the many more recitals we'll be attending.

ps: it was pretty awesome to go to the Christmas Recital since all of my cousins were basically there.. cause my other niece Samantha danced right after, and my cousins lil' girl is in that class as well.. so we had lots and lots of support there.

6 years

Where the heck has the time gone?!?! I can't believe tomorrow on December 17 I will be celebrating my 6 year anniversay!!! I feel like I should be in my 30's.. not even at my mid twenties! Its gone by so fast. It hasn't been the easiest, but we've gotten through so many things that have brought us closer together.. not only as a couple but as friends. That will be the "sappy-ist" thing I'm going to say cause I hate it when people go on and on about how wonderful and blissful life is.. because we all know.. thats just not true! Life is hard.. marriage is hard... raising children is hard... finding a job is hard... but all those hard things, are the things that make you stronger as a person, couple, and family.


Although this man can drives me NUTS on a regular basis.. I gotta love him! (But dont fret, I'm perfect and nothing I EVER do bothers him, haha) He's so determined, hard working, funny, honest, 'take no crap from no one kind of guy' and although at times, some of those qualities drives me up the wall..... 2 seconds later they are on the long list of reasons why we get along so well.
I'm so proud of him and all that he's done in his life and is striving to do. We dont know whats next, but we are excited, hopeful, learning patience, and always striving to be better people to each other, our children, our family, and our friends.

not to forget of coarse... over the 6 years of marriage we've brought into this world 2 beautiful little girls who we love so much, and we keep us laughing, exhausted, running, dancing, driving all over, cooking, CLEANING, learning patience, not getting any sleep, cleaning, and at the end of every day.. SMILING.

So, here's to our family of 4.. who started out with a crazy 18 year old, and a cradle robbin' 22 year old who tied the knot 6 years ago... lets keep keepin' it real babe! xoxo

Turkey Leg/Stuffing/and Eat what will run...

Or something like that... Thanksgiving morning, Danny decided that it would be a good idea to run like 17 miles.. but dont worry.. I talked him down to do a smaller one so Wes and Eric wouldn't die.. :) Instead they ran like 8 miles or something like that. I decided to take a cute little picture of these handsome boys before they were off on their trek.


Upon returning, they were still as handsome.. just stinky! haha. Happy Turkey Day run!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

This year we had two extra people staying at our place for the weekend.. Dannys brother Eric and his cousin Wes.(they were going to go home to northern Cali, but do to the weather, they had to stay put with us!) Poor guys had to put up with my two little girls and Kelli who clearly had a huge crush on Wes would not leave the poor guy alone! Every morning she could hardly wait for them to wake up.. and when they dont wake up til 11.... its quite a long time for her 4 year old lil' heart to wait! He was so nice to her though, and gave her all the attention she needed! It was a lot of fun to have them around though, and hopefully they had fun. It was kind of chill since Danny had to work, we just kind of hung around.. but oh well. Next time they come up we'll go do something more fun than just being here! Thanksgiving dinner was at my parents house.. we finally had Serge and Michelle with us this year.. but we were missing Scott and Larissa. I forgot to take any pictures til we were pulling the desserts out and everyone was passing out due to the Turkey intake! So here are just a few random shots of everyone at the end of Thanksgiving.

Decorating the Tree

Our family tradition in the past has been going to a Tree Farm, in the freezing cold, and picking out a tree.. but this year, my mom bought us our own "Charlie Brown" fake tree. Its so small compared to the ones we've had in the past.. but its cute, and we love it. The kids had so much fun decorating it, and we've never lost so many bulbs in all our years of marriage. :)



Not gonna lie, after they went to bed, I had to move things around.. it was a little 'Bulb heavy' on the one side.. the tree was gonna tip! They are my best little helpers though. I love this time of year... snow. sales. shopping. window shopping.... then going in to buy the things in the window.... more snow.. fake blizzards outside. Christmas lights. Decorations all over. baking.. lots and lots of bakig.. and snow.. Oh and of coarse the ability to use Santa not coming as a threat to my children to get them to help out a bit around the house.. is that so bad?! Yeah for Christmas time!

Last Park Day

Who knew that on November 18, in Utah, we could still do a quick park day?!? It was breezy but the temp wasn't that cold... so we decided to go to the park real quick. The kids had so much fun playing, plus, I was able to take some cute pictures of them being crazy!





I have to say, that I'm jealous of what these two crazy girls have... they have a sister close in age, someone who play with all the time, and will grow up and continue to be best friends... I love in the mornings when I go in to get the kids, I notice that they slept together in the same bed.... they love sleeping together now, and not being in their seperate beds. I never had that with my sister... I dont know, something about her being in High School when I was a toddler didn't make for good heart to heart and pretend play time... Now, we are best friends, but it took a long time and growing up to do before we could relate to each other. I'm excited to see these two grow up and go through things together, be in school together, and be each others best friends.

How Thoughtful

So the other day, I was organizing the kids room, and Kelli came running up to me, and in the sweetest voice said, "mom, i just made Josie a bed, isn't that so nice of me? She was feeling tired, so I wanted to help her." They were in my room watching TV on my bed, so I thought she just kind of tucked her in and got her all cozy..... After awhile, the room was too quiet for comfort, so I went in there, and this is what I found...




I thought it was so funny. This is a tiny doll port-a-crib and she was sleeping on top of her pillow, with her huge blanket.... she was so crammed in there.

After about 30 minutes I went in to wake her up, and she couldn't straighen her legs. She just kept saying, "owww mom, my legs... oww."