My claim to fame. My 10 seconds in the spotlight. Thursday my sister-in-law ans I took our little ones to the Phoenix childrens museum. It is really fun if you have never been. While we were there channel 12 was there doing a story on the swine flu. My sister-in-law and I were asked if they could interview us and follow us around for some video footage. This all took about an hour. After we were finished we felt we had a little taste of what if feels like to have the paparazzi following us around. After all that, this is what was on the news.http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/News/H1N1+flu+vaccine+controversy/40280768001/35150280001/45985708001

A few weeks ago we had our Family pictures taken for the first time by a real photographer. Over the years we have gone to studios to have our pictures taken and they never seem to turn out. We take last minute snap shots for our Christmas cards every year. I really wanted a good family picture to frame and hang on my wall, and be able to get my Christmas cards sent out before New Years. Needless to say, we were so extremely happy with our pictures. We had nearly 200 pictures turn out. So many to choose from! Our photographers name is Troy Brinkerhoff and he is so GOOD! We are customers for life. My kids had the best time, he made it so fun for all of us. So, if you are looking for a GREAT photographer for anything (he does it all) I highly recomend him. Check out his work @ http://www.troybrinkerhoff.com/ I put together this slideshow to try and show as many of my pictures as I could. I finally got tired and called it quits. My 3yr old is alseep on the floor at my feet.

Happy Birthday Max!

Wow how time flys. Our sweet, quiet, loving Max is now another year older. Happy birthday buddy! We all love you so much. Lets party!

Better late than never! Max, Jake, and Cole on the first day of school.

First day of school

school is back is session!

I am so excited that the boys are back in school. Jake is in 4th grade, Max is in 3rd, and Cole is in all day kindergarden. I think I was the only mom that wasn't crying out front of the kindergarden classrooms. I finally feel like I am getting my house back in order after the summer. I have almost organized every room since they started a week ago. By the end of the day, blogging is the last thing that I want to do. I have so many pictures to post and update, it feels like so much work. My goal is to get them all posted next week. So to all those who look at my blog and see that I haven't touched it in over a month, take a look next week(Friday or Saturday).

Happy 4th Of July! We drove a few minutes to watch the fireworks in Heber. They are some of the best that we have seen. When they are shooting them off, it feels like they are going to fall down on you. The sound is so loud car alarms are going off all around, and it echos off the mountians. Definatly recommend them to all.

This past week we headed up north to get out of the heat. We went up to Christopher Creek with some friends and had a blast. We were taken to "the spot". It was absolutly beautiful! We had quite the adventure. It is a place that very few people know about, and is not easy to get to. With the family all buckled into the t-rex. We did some major 4x4 mountian climbing. It was well worth it when we saw "the spot". We relaxed and had fun swimming until two clouds above us murged into one and started a major down pour. With 3 creeks to go through we were a little concerned about a flash flood. We quickly gathered out things and made our way back to the vehicles and trailers. We were soaking wet by the time we reached the cars. That is our idea of fun!

We are ready for summer to start. Sam has finished his swim lessons and can now save his own life if he ever fell into the pool. We love ISR!

I had a lot of fun dressing my boys all the same. I have to take advantage of it now, because I know they won't let me do it much longer.

We had a great Easter Sunday. We were spiritually fed, physically fed, then had a Easter egg hunt, colored eggs, and had a good nap. We love Easter!

It's baseball season

Jake and Max have started baseball and they are loving it. We have games at least 3 times a week it can get a bit crazy. I can only imagine how it will be when all 5 of my boys are playing at the same time. Fun!

It's Official! Uncle Sticky is a Police officer

Congratulations Jared!

After attending the academy graduation,
Cole has decided he wants to be a Police officer just like Uncle Sticky.

(I would'nt speed in Chandler if I were you)

A couple of Thurday's ago, I made a deal with my boys. I told them if they could keep their rooms and bathroom clean for the whole weekend , I would come get them out of school on Monday and take them to lunch. I had secretly been planning a trip with my friend Shantelle to Disneyland. I picked up the boys and we all went to lunch. After we ate I told them I had a gift for them. I told them to try to guess where we were going. My friend had made them all their own autograph books for the Disney characters. They all opened them at the same time, and Jake said were going to Disneyland. I said yep. Lets go get in the car we're leaving. They didn't believe us. They kept asking if we were serious. We finally convinced them we were really going and we got in the car and started our exciting trip to Disneyland. We stayed two days and two nights. We had so much fun! Thank you Mom, Dalene (My mother-in-law), and my sweet husband Brian for watching the two little boys so I could really enjoy the time away with my 3 older boys.

Cole was a good sport. We had an odd number of people so he rode with a girl we met in line. Her name was Riley. Now we know 4 Riley's. Jake and Max think they can drive a real car now! I don't think so.

My good friend Brooke that I have known for 30 years lives just minutes from Disneyland. She met us there and played with us for 5 hours. My boys loved hanging out with Porter and thought it was so funny when we told them they had met before when they were about 2 years old.

Jake and Cole got picked out of the audiance to participate in the Jedi training. The instructor was so funny and had everyone cracking up. It was very entertaining, especially when Darth Vader and Darth Mal came out. The kids had to use their new skills to fight the dark side. Darth Varer was huge. I can't belive none of the kids cried. Darth mal was very scary looking. I think this was probably their favorite thing we did.