Best Buddies

I thought these pictures were just too cute.

Turo loves his daddy so much that he just couldn't resist climbing on his lap and snuggling.

Doesn't that just melt your heart?

This post is just proof that K-9 dogs can be family dogs too.

Turo is the biggest teddy bear and the world's best police dog in my book.

We love you Turo and are so glad you are part of our family.



Temple Lights

Every year we go see the Christmas lights at Temple Square.

Last year we didn't make it so this year it was my goal to go.

We met up with Kael and Holly and their three boys at the Trax Station and rode that downtown.

This was our first time riding so the boys were very excited to ride it.

They call it the "Bullet Train" because it speeds past very fast.

We went on a Tuesday night so it wasn't really busy.

It was neat to ride the front runner and the Trax train.

The boys were so excited just to hang out with each other.

The Salt Lake Temple is my favorite temple.

Although I've had some really spiritual experiences in the D.C. Temple...

Those two would be my favorite so far.

My handsome little men.

Our wonderful little family

Justin and Taggert being silly



Fall Leaves

This year I have a love/hate relationship with fall leaves.

I really do love fall and I love everything about how the trees look so pretty with all the different colored leaves and the crunch of the leaves underneath your feet. 

I think it's so fun to rake the leaves in a big pile and then jump in them.

Well this year since we've been at my mom's I've bagged at least 10 huge bags of leaves. And they aren't the leaves from her front or back trees.  They are the neighbors leaves.

They have about 5 full grown poplar trees and they don't rake their leaves.

They let the wind blow them to everyone elses yard and let them rake them up.

Now don't get me wrong, I used this experience to get some exercise and let the boys help out. 

(They did a pretty good job helping me hold the bags and rake the leaves up.)

The best part was how BIG our pile of leaves were.

The boys had a blast running and jumping through them.

I had a blast watching them and of course I had to take pictures.

So, here are just a few of my favorites...

Finally SOLD!!!

Our house SOLD!!
October 26,2011
For a whopping: $163,500.

We had some great memorize in this house.

Two of our four boys were brought home from the hospital here, we had many birthday parties and gatherings. 

 It was the second house we owned and we made some great friends in the ward and neighborhood here.

We finally finished the 3rd bathroom and got new carpet throughout the house that we were able to enjoy before we moved.

It did take us a very long 8 months to sell our house and we didn't really make profit.

We did get money from escrow but I don't know if you could consider that a profit...

it's greatly appreciated though!

Now onto greater and better things (hopefully) in the future.

Jeromy still hasn't been hired by YOU KNOW WHO, because the government hasn't passed a budget.

So, we are now living in my mom's basement trying to decide what to do.

YOU KNOW WHO is on a hiring freeze and it'll be 2 years this upcoming May that Jeromy has applied.

It'll be a year since those cool, awesome dudes in the cool sunglasses came to interview our family.

What to you do when it's taken so long?

Do you keep your life on hold and hope next year things will change?

Do you buy a really cheap house since the market is great and interest rates are so stinking low and hope you can either sell or rent it out?

We have no clue on what to do right now, so all we can do is look at both options and see what fits best for our family.

A great home teacher told me:

Anything great is worth waiting for, or however the saying goes.

So, till then we are hanging out and waiting till the new year.

Life is an adventure and we are hanging on and enjoying the ride.



Clark Planetarium

The 1st grade was learning about the solar system and thought that it would be a fun learning experience to take the whole 1st grade on a field trip to the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake.

I have always wanted to go to the Planetarium so I jumped at the chance to volunteer.

Both Justin and I were so excited to go.

And of course he was way excited to be with his friends and ride on a school bus.

He didn't mind that mom was there either.

This was the group I was in charge of...

Justin, Lucy, Malcolm, Billy, Annie

Lucy became my favorite of the girls because she told me I was pretty.

I know that sounds vain but she was obsessed with me for some reason.

It was flattering.

Anywho, we first got to see a movie in the dome theater. 

I think the movie was called, adventure of the cardboard spaceship.

Two brothers made a spaceship out of a cardboard refrigerator box and set out to visit all the planets in our solar system.  It was cute.

Next we had to fill out a worksheet about the planets and all the fun stuff they had at the planetarium.

One of the fun places to see was a model of what the moon is like.

The kids got to play on the rocks and follow astronaut footsteps.

Justin running on Mars.

This was a pretty neat contraption.

They had marbles and small balls that looked like planets and you could move and turn certain levers to make the planets bounce and go all over.

Justin was testing out how strong he was by seeing how heavy a rock would feel like on the moon.

By the looks of it, it didn't seem to hard for Justin.

Downstairs at the planetarium was the pendulum.

It was swinging pretty good. 

It was showing how the earth moves. 

The earth must have been moving really fast because the pendulum almost hit the glass barrier and the wall.

It was amazing!

Our magnificent planets!

Isn't it amazing how we live on the only planet that can sustain life?

Makes you believe even more that there is a God and an eternal plan for us.

After we got back to the school they had a fun activity for the kids.

They made and decorated planets out of sugar cookies.

Too bad I couldn't be there for that activity.

Hence the missing pictures of that activity.

I'm so grateful for Justin's school.

I LOVE OMCS!!!

Treehouse Museum

We went on another great field trip with the boys preschool to the Tree house museum in Ogden.

It only cost us 3.75 each kid to get in and adults were free. 

I think we can handle that, and we got a bounce back pass for the boys to get in for free.  Yippee!!

This lady had some kids come up and act out the story, The Little Red Hen, with cute costumes.

The first thing the boys wanted to do was use the stamps and make arts and crafts.

Jaden tried on a pirate hat.

Then he tried on the fireman costume and thought that fit much better.

He's going to walk in Uncle Shea's footsteps, I guess.

Firetrucks and boys go hand in hand.

They got a chance to milk a cow.

Ride'em Koda!!

The boys loved the music room.

They had several different xylophones to play and a drum set to bang on. 

Who wouldn't love to make a ton of noise in a museum?

My boys are pretty computer literate and love to play games.

They're making a picture with the mouse on the computer.

When it was almost time to go our group was called back for another story and acting out the parts.

This time Koda was picked to play one of the goats in Billy Goats Gruff.

He was pretty happy he got to participate.

It was a pretty fun time at the museum.

What a month!

Boy!  What a month October turned out to be.

I'm still trying to recuperate from everything that went on.

Here are some highlights for the month of October...

The boys got to go on another great field trip for preschool.

They went to the Syracuse Library and the Syracuse Fire Dept.

I took pictures of the boys at the library and left my purse in the excursion when we went to the fire dept.  I was so mad at myself for doing that... Dang it!!!  Boys and fire trucks just go well together.

They at least got these cute fireman hats...

Clayton and Kourtney were married October 5th, 2011.

Right before the wedding those that could go were invited to a session at the bountiful temple before the wedding ceremony to symbolize their eternal marriage next year when she can finalize her temple divorce from her ex husband.  They were both so upset that it will take till January for it to happen. 

There are so many temple divorces going on it's taking almost forever for the church to go over them and agree to it. Ugh! 

What a cute couple they are though and she fits in the family oh so well.

Last minutes of being single.

Isn't he so handsome?

Justin and Kourtney's little sister

The happy couple and their daughter dog Si Si.

The boys were so excited to see them cut the cake and feed (shove) each other cake.

What a pretty cake huh

We are so excited to have Kourtney in our family and the best part of all is she is perfect for Clayton.

I thought this was such an adorable picture of Bailey and Brekyn. 

She just loves her boys.

Gingers ward is so awesome, they had a ward Halloween party and did a trunk-or-treat for the kids after the ward dinner.  They had a Chili cook off and then a costume contest for the kids and adults and then the big event... Trunk or treat!!

The boys got a ton of candy. 

Mommy got to eat some too, yummy!

This year sense we moved a week before Halloween I wasn't thinking about how cool their costumes were going to be.  In fact I all about forgot about that important day.  So, having little to no money left after the move I got my craft on and came up with the Superman shirt costume idea.

Jaden and Brekyn had jammie tops that were already Superman so I went to walmart and got Justin and Koda a superman T-shirt and had them wear that to match.  Justin hated his costume this year but after reminding him what was more important... candy, he came around. 

I love it when all my boys can match.

Every year we carve pumpkins and we usually do it at Jeromy's parents or with my mom.

Well, since we now live with my mom we thought we would stay home and carve our pumpkins.

We always have a great time.

Brekyn this year was able to get in on the action more and tell me what shapes for the eyes, nose, and mouth he wanted.  He talks so well now.

This is a rare sight.  Justin hates getting pumpkin guts on his hands and even hates the smell.

He did really good this year for carving his pumpkin.

Jaden on the other hand LOVES getting pumpkin guts on his hands.

He loved scooping out the seeds and making his pumpkin do funny sounds when he would put the guts in a bowl.

Koda just loves spending time with family doing fun things. 

They all couldn't wait till Halloween day.

Happy Halloween!

From our family to yours!

Halloween day was very fun.  Koda and Jaden had a preschool Halloween party and got lots of goodies and Justin got to hand out candy to the kindergartners that did the costume parade at his school.

After eating dinner we headed out to get our loot of goodies and treats.

I think we hit the jack pot this year.  With all 4 boys trick or treating we had the bottom of our stroller over flowing and a walmart bag full of candy.  I would say we hit Justin's goal of getting a lot of candy this year.

This day is one of the many reasons I had kids.  No really I didn't but that day instead of getting paid in cash I got paid in chocolate candy bars that Justin couldn't eat.  Yumm!!!!!