Can't touch this!!

Christmas of course!

We got this tree at the local grocery store for $30, (after looking at tree lots and not seeing anything under $60) so we didn't think it was going to be that great, but after it started warming up, it really plumped up!! I loved it!!

Mia even got in the action of decorating, but it didn't take long for her to just take them right back off!!
The final product!!!! It was so pretty!! And smelled really good too!!

Christmas morning, they came in my room about 7:00 and we made them lay down for another hour, then I made them wait until I could get the camera ready so I could get this great shot of their faces!!

Lots of Wii games, movies and a few new dolls, and this cute little quad that we can't get Mia off of!! Over all it was a great Christmas, not a lot, but it was so nice to have Christmas in our own home!!

Merry Christmas!!

We wish everyone a wonderful Christmas, and very best wishes for the new year!!!!

Special Days

Going back a couple months again, Ariana had her 8th Birthday. I can't believe my little girl is 8!!!!

The day of her birthday, we went to Mr. Biggs and did a little bowling, eating and playing around.
Then we made a quick weekend trip to Utah where she was baptized by Sal. She was very excited but kept telling me beforehand that she was nervous!

Her cousin K.J. was getting baptized as well.

After she was confirmed by Sal (who gave her an amazing blessing) she started crying a little and told me that she knew it was the Holy Ghost telling her that what she was doing was right!! What a special experience for a Mother!!!! Or it could have been because I was crying so much, Either way is was very special!!

After we got back, we FINALLY closed on our house!!!! So that night we got a bunch of blankets and slept on our family room floor!! We didn't actually move in until a couple of weeks later, so I could paint the girls rooms while it was still empty (I will have to post pics on that later!). This is us the next morning eating cereal on the floor!!

Then for Halloween, Ariana wanted to be something scary this year, not just another princess again, so she decided on a witch (a little to cute to be scary though!) and so Tycee didn't want to do the norm either, so decided on a cowgirl, I had to make sure I said cowGIRL if I said cowboy I got in big trouble!!

and Mia was just a cute little Minnie Mouse who never wanted to keep her ears on or get her picture taken. I had to bribe her for these with candy!

Then Sal had is 32nd birthday, where we went to his favorite, Joe's Crab Shack, and they made him run around the restaurant knuckle bumping everyone while they all sang to him. It was pretty funny! Then we went home for cake and presents, where the spoiled boy got a MyTouch phone!!!! Anyway, that is a quick (kindof) update on the things going on with us, and hopefully I will keep a little better updated. We hope everyone is well and wish everyone a wonderful Holiday Season!!

Merry Christmas!!

Mia's One Year Photos (a couple months late!!)

Here are the latest pics of our cute little one. No words are needed, the pictures speak for themselves!!

Isn't she just the cutest?!?! We did have a hard time trying to get her to smile.

That's a First!!

We finally went camping again after two years, and this was the first time we went as just our little family, usually we go with someone else, but this time it was just us, and it was also Mia's very first time, and she loved it!! (except for a few tumbles) We started out going on a hike up a waterfall, this first picture below is the very bottom of the falls. (You can see all the pictures on my facebook page)

Then we took another hike that had this amazing view of seven falls at the end, this picture does not do it justice at all, but you get the idea!
Then we went to our camp site at a place called 11 mile lake. It was really fun there. The rangers did lots of fun stuff for the kids so they could become Jr. Rangers.
Mia loved being outside, but had a hard time walking on the uneven ground, so she took a few tumbles, usually on her face! This pic was right after she tumbled into a prickley bush and got half of her face all scratched up!
Tycee took a tumble too, but just happened to hit a rock, other wise she would have been fine

Mia loved it though she was always smiling and having fun!!

(I guess who wouldn't be happy with a donut and bottle in your hands!!)

One night the rangers took us crawdad fishing, and the girls had fun for the first five minutes, then started to get a little bored, but then Ariana got a bite, so we had fun trying to catch the thing, it was to smart, as soon as we pulled it out of the water, it would let go, so we had to wait for it to grab on again, I finally got a box right under it so as soon as we pulled it out it fell in the box.

The big one is the one Ariana caught, then another girl gave us the little one. We kept them over night, then we let them go in the morning.

Our last day we went to a rock park called Garden of the Gods. It was really cool there, it has all these crazy rock formations, and lots of places to hike and rock climb. This next picture is of the two kissing camels.

This is just another wierd rock formation.

We had lots of fun, to bad summer is over, I can't wait to go camping again!!

Realization!!!!

So, after thinking about it for a little while, there really are other things going on in our lives, I am just consumed with getting my own house!!!! (does that make me a terrible mother?) Anyway, the girls started school the end of July. It is year round school where they are going now, so the school year actually started the beginning of July, they just happened to get on a track that didn't start till the end. So Ariana started the 28th, and Tycee just had a meet and greet the first two days, then she started kindergarten on the 30th, I can't believe my little Tycee is in school!!!! She was so excited, she has been wanting to go to school ever since Ariana started two years ago!!

Then we had our trip to Utah. This is what 8 hours of trying to keep a baby happy in the car looks like!! You can't really see it well, but she was covered in chocolate from eating Oreo's


And of course, she got another birthday party so the family could celebrate her 1st birthday!!

She loved this Elmo and didn't want to put it down!

She loved this crown too, she would walk around with it on just smiling, If it came off, she would put it on again!!

The main reason we went to Utah, Sal's brother Nefi and his family were sealed!! We are so happy for them!!

This is all of the grandkids on Sal's side (except Mia who we couldn't get there in time) This is a very rare moment!!

I'm really sorry about this, but I can't help adding more about the house, because now it is finished!!!! All the appliances, carpet and everything else is in now, all that is left is touch up work!! EEEEEEEEEEEE I CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE IN!!!!!! So anyway here are some pics of the last few things that went in this week.

Can't wait to use my flat top stove!!!!

Maybe now I can post more of everything else that is going on and not just a log of the house progress, although it has been lots of fun for me, I am sure it got old for everyone else. So I apologize, and hopefully my posts will be more interesting now!!