Whoaa, blog post overload. I may have to take a vacation after all of these updates:)

Addi wanted to make reindeer cup cakes. They turned out very cute.

I was in charge of eyeballs.

All wrapped up in the cute blankets Laurie made for them.

Our good friend Irma brought a Christmas treat over, yum! Addi shared her reindeer cup cakes with her too.

The finished product, all lined up and ready to hook to Santa's sleigh. (I tried to get Addi to put their antlers on right side up but she said she wanted to put some of them on upside down.)

I'm so excited, new pants and they look just like the ones I tried on at the store, yipee!

Apparently Brian was good too!

Santa was good to us or were we good to the kids?
Celebrating wears you out.

Addi loooooooves bandaids. (Funny sideline, a few days ago Brian was taking a nap on the couch. He woke up to find two bandaids stuck to his hairy legs, can you say ouch. Addi was proud of her nurse work, and I volunteered to let her rip them off, ha ha I'm a good wife.)

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa greats house.

Playing the penny in the flour game. I think if you have flour on your face it means you lost.

Happy birthday dear Andy, Happy birthday to you. Is Parker laughing or squealing because he thinks he might end up in the cake?

Look at the multi-taskers, holding a kid with one hand and cutting the cake with the other.
A new shirt from Cody and Robyn. I am going to be so hot in this shirt because Robyn has great taste, thinks Andy.

Thinking "inside" the box

Austin likes to march to the beat of a different drummer. Anyone can think outside the box.

An update... I know you're all excited!

Ok it has been a while since we have posted so here is an update from May until just this last week. In May Whitney and Jacee were performing in Orem for dance.

They invited us to go down with them to watch. We got a hotel room, we took Brian for his senior citizen discount and had a fun and relaxing weekend.

Boy, are these kids a load of laughs.

On Memorial day we headed off to the cemeteries to visit my parents graves and Brian's twin Brother Bruce's grave.

We sure do miss them all but are so grateful for the knowledge that we have of being together with them again.

Usually Robyn's family goes to visit the graves with us but since the weather was so rainy they decided it was to cold to take the girls. Addi loves bowling so she invited Brian and I, Brittany and Andy, and the Burrows to go Bowling.

It was so busy that some of the guys couldn't find bowling balls that their fingers fit in until the end but it turned out to be a fun day.

After bowling we headed to Olive Garden to celebrate Cody getting his associates degree. We are so proud of him for all of the hard work he puts into school. Sorry no pictures we were to busy eating. Go right a head and enjoy a few more pictures of us bowling.

In June it was off to girls camp for me. We went to Lava and had a great time.

I tell you what, you never know what to expect from this group. We laughed a lot and had a great time spending time together as a ward.

At the end of June we enjoyed West Haven Days. We went to breakfast with Robyn and Oakley. Since Cody was a part of the Youth City Counsel Addi and him got to ride on the float. This years theme was past, present, and future. Whitney was also in the parade because she is an officer at Rocky Mountain and Jacee was in it with her dance company.

Who can resist sparklers? Not Grandpa Brian, he bought a whole case when he went to Sam's Club with the girls. Addi is such a good sharer and invited Laurie, Patty, Andy, and Brittany over to do sparklers with her.

The Children's parade has become a tradition with our family it is something Brian and Addi look forward to each year. This year Brian walked with Addi and Cody walked with Oakley. Can I just tell you I have two of the cutest grandkids in the world.

Since the girls got free tickets to the rodeo we went on Wednesday which was family night. It was so fun to spend time with the girls. Brittany couldn't go because her and Andy had scouts but they should know that we missed them.

Addi really wanted a snow cone but once we got it she refused to eat it because she just wanted a bottle of water. Have no fear Oakley had no problem eating the whole thing.

When we first got there Addi was asleep just like last year. She sleep through most of the pre-rodeo events but woke up in time to see the sky divers. She also told me she was going to mutton bust just like her dad. I told her Granny said no.

Our favorite part of the whole rodeo is the bull riding here are just a couple of the pictures that Robyn took.

A little out of order but the other day we walked out our front door to see the neighbors out on their front lawn. Not so odd you say??? Well they were out on their front lawn on the couch. A little redneck, you think? No, they were just laying new flooring so the front lawn was a good place to store the furniture for a couple of hours.

A message in the sky!

On Memorial Day we went to the cemetary. They had balloons and markers and you could write a message to a loved one and then all at the same time we let them go. It was very neat and touching.

Holding the balloons until the man said, "let them go."
We love you mom and dad.

It was a little windy, but that just made for better balloon flying when we let them go.

It looked very cool.

Beautiful with the flags surrounding the headstone