HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE & COLE

Jake turned 9 and Cole turned 5. Their birthdays are within 4 days of each others. They both wanted their party at Bounce U. I told them I was't doing two seperate party's at the same place, so they agreed to have their parties together. It turned out great. I am just glad to have it over with.

Cole turned 5, and all he wanted was a pair of heely's. So guess what he got.

I have never seen a kid so good at Guitar hero! Heston can play expert and hardly miss a note. Sam thinks he is playing. We don't tell him it's not on, he would throw a fit.

This is pretty much the only way I can get a picture of all my boys together, and have them all happy. What a bunch of cute boys if I say so myself!

I like to take close up pictures of my boys, enlarge them & frame them. Most of my boys can take a good picture. I was dying when I was trying to take these pictures of Sam. I would tell him to say "cheese" and smile. He was trying a little too hard.

Becky, Bettina, and I ran in the two sisters-one heart 10k in Queen Creek today. It is a fundraiser for two conjoined sisters that share a heart and liver. We had a good time, and saw a lot of people we knew. I think I did okay, my time was 1hr 2min.

Sam had some stickers he was playing with. Our friend Joe Farnsworth Jr was over and offered to help Sam. This is what he looked like after help from a 20yr old.

My baby is so easy to to entertain. I just set this talking Elmo in front of him and he listens to it tell a story. It is pretty funny, he doesn't take his eyes off for anything.

Just wanted to say sorry for being such a slacker. I kind of forgot about the blog for a while. I will try to be better. I just have to visit other blogs and that gets me motivated.

Jake recieved his wolf badge and also his gold arrow tonight. Congratulations buddy! It was kind of weird doing the thing where they pin the pin on mom. I remember watching my brothers do that with my mom. It really made me feel old. I guess I better get use to that since I have 5 boys.

Brian and Brig. We had such a good time with our little traveling buddy. It was fun just to be able to spend some time with him.

These jelly fish were so cool to watch. Kind of scary to think they are in the ocean that we swim in. This king crab was HUGE! I did not know this kid, but I asked him to stand by it so I could take the picture. He is 7 yrs old. Look at the size of that crab!

This past week Brian and I got away for a few days. We went to Oregon to visit people from his mission. It has been 18 years. We had so much fun. We flew into Eugene and then over to the Coast. We drove up the coast. It is absolutly beautiful. We saw some amazing things. There is nothing like waking up to the sound of the ocean. I did not want to leave. It was really neet to visit with those who Brian had baptized. Now Brian talks about moving there. (I don't think so!)

ASU Sun Devils! If you don't already know, my family are all big ASU fans. My mom got all the grandkids ASU shirts for Christmas. She wanted to get all the kids together for a picture. We didn't have to go too far for the back drop. My brother Jonh has a detatched garage that has a b-ball court with all the sun devil garb. If you look close to the picture where all the kids are lying on the floor, you can see sparkys head in the middle.

Sweet Sweet Brig! How time flys. He is almost 4 months already. He is such an angel. Brian and I like to say that we deserve him after having to deal with Sam! They are like night and day.

Sam! This is our child that gives us a run for our money. You know those days when you are trying to get out the door and there is always one thing after another. Sam thought he needed to do his hair after watching his brothers. I couldn't even be mad, I just had to take a picture. It took some good scrubbing to get all that gel out. I had these pictures as proof as to why we were late for our get together.