My best friend Amber, from high school, was sealed to her family in the Timpanogos Temple. I am so proud of her, and her accomplishments.

COLBY'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I'm still playing catch up but I really wanted to post these of my nephew. He is such a great kid, him and his brother are a good help to their mom. We had a combined Super Bowl and Birthday since they were right next together. I hope you had a great Birthday Colby. we love you!

JAZZ GAME!!!! AND KARATE!!!! So I know this was a while ago, but it's taking me this long to fix all the pictures and get them posted. I really wanted to post them because I'm so proud of Kaden. I love to watch all he has learned "slowly but surly" and hope he continues to learn more. They got the chance to preform at the Jazz half time show. So these are some fun pictures me and Kaden both took. He actually does a good job. I took a few of Boozer, my sister Laura thinks he looks like Manny. I think Manny is better looking :)

Papa and Grandma Jay were able come. I'm glad they got to see Kaden perform.

On top is the OMEGA Payson team, the ones who participated, the bottom is all of them together.

They did such a good job. It was awesome to see them.

Waiting to go out on the floor at half time.

Where's Kaden!!!

The team went up the night before to practice, and this is video of that. One of Kaden's friend's mom took him and recorded this. I was very grateful, since I only got a couple of pictures. It is a little long, but I edited down. The things they do are so cool!

One of the great parts of Christmas morning is laying in bed listening to the kids ooh! and aah! over what they got in there stockings. There innocent comments about what Santa brought them. Of course then you have to get out of bed because they want to open more! I hope all of you had a great Christmas!

Making Christmas cookies for Santa! The kids love to help, some times a little to much.

This is our Party with my Mom and Dave. We played Christmas Pictionary, then opened gifts. My Mom got each family a Glow Dome, which turned out pretty cool. The kids like to turn it on like a night light.

Since things are so busy before Christmas, we had my Dad and Jay's Party after this year. It's great to have gifts to open after Christmas. 2 big hits,(it seems to becoming a tradition) long sleeve 2 Jack shirts, and McDonald gift certificates. Now the kids can buy their own Happy Meals

Kaden's 3rd grade Christmas Program! Of course this is weeks ago, but I can't seem to catch up. Hopefully soon I can get my Christmas pictures up, and not get to far behind. Kaden did such a great job, and was so excited about singing Christmas songs. He's growing up fast, and is such a cutie. The boy next to him is his friend. He was so excited to finally be in the same class with him this year. This top picture, Kaden is in the back of the sled "What a shorty"

With all the snow we had to get a picture to send back with Manny's parents. I think they were ready to leave the snow.

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Yeah!!! It finally snowed. The boys were able to put there snow gear on, and head out side for some fun. Kaden came up with this idea to rig the snow shovel to his Escalade. Then he drove his SNOWPLOW up and down the drive way.

This year my kids were so excited to help decorate the tree. Of course Kaden hangs only 2 or 3, then he's done. Eli usually sticks with me to the end. I love looking at my tree, but I swear it seems like a pain in the butt to put up. Trevin's been pretty good with not touching, no broken ornaments so far. I can't believe only 2 weeks till Christmas. I am not ready!

Celebrating Thanksgiving Twice!

Manny's mom and dad came up this year in time, so my sister and brother in law came to our house to have Thanksgiving. First me and the kids went to my dad and Jay's house (Manny stayed home to sleep) and ate with them. Jay had the table set up so cute, and her house as well. The kids played outside since the weather was really nice. I didn't get to stay long, since I needed to get home to start cooking my dinner.

So this was are first time frying a turkey, and doing Thanksgiving at our house. We used my mom's and Dave's Fryer, and it turned out great. The night before, I stuck the turkey in a 5 gallon salt water cooler to soak. Our Turkey was so moist. Well the breast part. I usually like the dark meat but not this time. When you fry it, it gets to well done.

My sister in law is awesome. As soon as she showed up things

seemed to run smoother. She just kinda gets things done faster, and if things aren't perfect, Oh Well! With her and my mother in law we had the kitchen cleaned up in know time. Muchos gracias Elsa por todos.

NEW MOON! This picture speaks for it's self. I've been a Jacob fan from the beginning, and not just because he's so hot! This book was one of my favorites, and I'm so glad they did it better than Twilight. I can't wait till the next one. It's pretty fun to go with all the girls, and act a little "not my age".

(Sorry about some of the faces that got cut off)

1st Haircut Wow! We finally did it. His hair was so long, and it still kind of is. I told the lady to trim it. I guess I thought she would cut a little more on top. He looks like he has a bowl cut. I took him to Cookie Cutters, which was really cute. He loved sitting in the car and watching a movie.

OCTOBER has come and GONE! I can't believe we are already in November. October was filled with fun Halloween activities, and I'm so far behind on posting anything. I thought I would post only a couple of my favorite pictures. That turned out to be a lot. CORNBELLY's This was my first year going but my sisters go every year. My kids loved it! We went on opening day, which is only $4. I thought it was going to be crazy busy, but it wasn't. It took some time in the corn maze, but we eventually made it out. And they had this awesome 3D spook ally that wasn't to scary for the kids. I think that was my favorite part. Looks like we'll be going next year. My Grandmas 80th birthday was on the 17th. We got together for a home cooked breakfast, and cake, hee hee. She was really happy to have her grand, and great grand-kids around to help her celebrate. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Grandma Harri!

Putting up Halloween is always fun, taking it down sucks! Kids like to help decorate, but they hate to help put it away. Oh well! They had a blast putting up these window stickers. And Trevin had a blast ripping them off! Finally, with some of them ruined, we got them up.

Usually are tradition is to go to the pumpkin patch in Springville and scour the fields for the right pumpkin. This year since that road is closed we went to the RED BARN for a Hay Ride, and different shaped pumpkins. It was really fun, and the kids thought it was cool riding behind a tractor. As we got on, the wind picked up and it started to get dark, so not so many great pictures.

HALLOWEEN COOKIES! I love making, and decorating these. They are fun and you can do many different things. But I swear, every time, you can't wait to be done. And wonder why you began in the first place. But they are yummy and fun, so that's why we keep doing them.

We grew are pumpkin patch again this year, and just like last year we come out with a bunch of small pumpkins. Daddy gutted all of them, and Mommy carved most of them. The kids did their 1 or 2, and so did Manny. It's sad that they don't last for very long.

My mom's FAMOUS Halloween party! This year we didn't go all out with the SPOOK BARN, but it was still really fun. She had a treasure hunt, and a swinging doughnut thing, where you try to eat the doughnut without touching it with your hands. It was so funny watching the kids, and some adults, going round and round trying to catch the doughnut between their teeth. I wish I got pictures of everyone, but there's some it missed.

HALLOWEEN night was awesome. We went up to my sisters house for trick or treating, and the kids had a blast. Gavin was running from one house to the next, and we were barley able to keep up. Of course that didn't last for long. About an hour later they were all pooped out, and ready to head back home. Her neighborhood is great. A lot of them really haunt up their houses, or dress up for the kids. I wasn't planning on it, but when I got to my sisters house and she was, I decided to throw on some things she had.