AWE.....FAMILY!!!!

Our fun, family dinner. We try to get together once a month for a family dinner, but, life gets soooo crazy sometime. With my brother, Fred coming into town, it was perfect excuse to make it happen!!

Were we able to Facetime Dad and Mom, that was so amazing to see them and to have them at the party!! WE LOVE YOU TWO!!!!!

Thanks, Julia for a YUMMY dinner!!!!

This was the priceless picture of the night..Jade getting gorgeous for the picture..Britt and I look so intrigued :0)

And, yes that is a dead hand under the Missionaries...they were all over the house, a little creepy!!!

Which, Pumpkin???

My friend, Brooke was taking her kids to J.J. Nursery's to go on a hayride and to pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. We were so excited to go with them. As we stood in line they were handing out fresh pumpkin cookies....SO YUMMY!!! we were able to take a fun tractor hayride around his property to a HUGE pumpkin patch. As we got off the trailer, the kids went crazy trying to find the PERFECT pumpkin. It was so fun to see what they choose. Rylee of course choose the BIGGEST pumpkin. I think Coop one the award for the coolest pumpkin, look how cool the vines are on his. SOOO LOVED IT!!!

Fun with Friends!!!

We had such a fun afternoon with our friends, THE TOONE'S (Ryan, Brooke, Jake, Coop, Mae and Garrett) . We watched the 2nd session of conference together and then went up to walk along the wetlands. It was such a fun, relaxing day hanging out with them. We love you guys!!!!

The kids are such good buddies, I love the pictures of their sweet friendship.

OH MY HEAVENS...THE COLORS!!!

We have lived away from Utah, WAY TO LONG!! Living in California, I missed the colors that fall would bring....I was soo excited when the colors started changing on the mountains. I took the kids up through the canyon to Snow Basin to experience the beautiful colors of fall. It did not disappoint, so BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Here are some fun pictures of our day....

This is Snow Basin

Don't you love the shot Morgan took of me trying to get through the fence..thanks for the graceful shot, sweetie!!!

This was in the Ogden Canyon...SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!

SERIOUSLY..STAY CLEAN!!!

So, if I say.."We are leaving in 10 minutes, you can go outside and play, BUT DON'T GET DIRTY".....you would automatically think, "oh let's play in the mud"!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!

With church clothes on....REALLY?!?!?!

Happy Birthday, Sweetie!!!

Morgan's HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY....We had a fun day relaxing and opening presents. Later that day we went to Grandpa and Grandma Smith's to go swimming. 

Her cakes says, "I HAVE THE ONE DIRECTION INFECTION"..for those who are not familiar with these AMAZINGLY CUTE BOYS (Morgan's terms) I added a picture of the cute boy band. They are plastered all over her room....for her birthday, I took her to get her ears PIERCED!! YAY!!! She was soooo excited!! She didn't even cry, such a brave girl...hahahaha. It was a fun day, just me and her, shopping and laughing all day!!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Is She Really 13!!!!

I was so excited to pull it off...I got some of Morgan's good friends together, some she hadn't seen since we moved to New Mexico. I used her Grandma Smith has bait..we were going to meet her to go bowling just with the family...we had all of her friends meet us there...MORGAN WAS SO SURPRISED!!! WOOHOO!! She had so much fun bowling and laughing with her friends. Such a fun day!!!

This is Casey (friend), Morgan and Brooklyn (cousin)

Grandma Smith got attacked, she got Morgan a ONE DIRECTION CD an iTunes cards...she was so excited!! The picture tells it all!!!

Thanks everyone for coming and celebrating a fun day with Morgan!!!

Founder's Day!!!

The kids were so excited to be living in Utah to celebrate Pleasant View's Founders Day!!! We had such a fun day watching the parade and playing with cousins. Aimee and Josh came up and went to the parade with us and then came back to the house to play in the water. The kids wanted to walk down so, they took off with Aimee to walk down the hill to the parade, so much fun!!!

Take Me Out To The Ball Game!!!

The kids were so excited we got to go to The Raptors baseball game....we had so much fun!! Their favorite part was singing in the seventh inning......."Take Me Out To The Ball Game". We sing that song all the time and to see why, was very exciting!!!

The BEST visit EVER!!!!

After 2 weeks of trying to get unpacked and moved in, we found out that Dad and Mom were coming home for the weekend for a family funeral. My Dad's Aunt Jean died, such an incredible lady..an inspiration to many. 

Dad was asked to speak at the funeral, after many prayers and conversation with their mission President, they decided to come home to the funeral. Fred, now living in California was able to meet them in Barstow and come up as well.....

After getting through the emotions of them coming home to THEIR home that we had torn apart moving in...we got everything ready. It really helped me unpack and organize FAST!!!

They arrived on Thursday evening and left at 4 in the morning on Sunday!!! Friday was a fun, relaxing day. After lunch with Mike.  Mom, Britt and I went to get some flowers. All Mom wanted to do was get dirty. She needed to PLANT..after 3 flats of flowers that were picked out....we headed home to garden. Mom was seriously like a little girl on Christmas morning..all giggles and smiles. She made the gardens beautiful for me....:0)

Saturday was a fun day with family and celebrating Aunt Jean. Dad did an amazing job speaking. We had a fun lunch after and headed home. That night we got together as a family, played cards and enjoyed every minute with our missionaries.

Dad, Mom and Fred got up early Sunday morning and headed home. Such an AMAZING weekend full of FAMILY, my favorite!!!

With the amount of family coming to see them..we had people sleeping on the tramp, Michelle, Chuy and Fred were sleeping under the stars on the ground..it was so fun!!!!

A fun family walk....

Flag Day!!!

Soon after we moved to Utah it was Flag Day. When we woke  up there was a flag in our yard...Joslyn was soooooooooo excited, she went flying out the door in her pajamas to see it. She spent most the morning out there watching it blow in the breeze....

Here are my 2 kids that are joined at the hip...they love playing with each other and are complete goof balls....

She Needs To BMX!!!!

After we had move to Utah, Rylee needed to check out the BMX tracks. We took off and went to South Jordan to see there track. It was REALLY nice track. She had a blast and made some fun new BMX friends.

Our New Adventure!!!

Our time in Albuquerque has come to an end, its time to say goodbye to our new found friends and to an AMAZING city. We have had such a great time here. So, here is to new adventures in Utah ahead....

My cute cleaning crew...

This is what my hallway looked like for a month. I would make a wall of boxes, then Boomer would put them in the trailer and then I would start stacking again.....

Truck and trailer....

Getting ready to say goodbye to 

Boomer's truck and trailer with Callaway!!!

waiting to load the trailer...

finding any form of entertainment...

messes AND

MORE messes

Down to the last of it...we keep a golfing thing out to entertain Luke, well and Boomer too!!!

Poor kid, we had packed his bed....

Joslyn keeping herself entertained, dressing up like Dad and Mom!!

The trip up...domino sleeping...

We are sad to say goodbye, but so EXCITED to move back to Utah and be with family.

Our Last Trip To Our FAVORITE Zoo!!!

The kids and I went one last time to OUR FAVORITE zoo!! We will defiantly miss it. Here are pictures of our last FUN day with the sweet animals of Albuquerque!!

I loved these OLD KNEE's on the Giraffe. He is the oldest one at the zoo!!!

I LOVE ZEBRA's..I could take pictures all day of them...

can you tell :0)

The Rhinos were splashing in the mud.

 Luke got splashed with mud on his face!!

Rylee playing on the splash pad...

It was so cool, the diver was feeding the turtle his food!!

Joslyn LOVES animals of all kinds. She made "FRIENDS" with a small Sting Ray. She loved that it moved like it was dancing. We had to go EVER time we went to the zoo to say, Hi!! This time we had to go say GOODBYE. Joslyn went and sat at the tank on the ledge like she did everytime. The Sting Ray was in the back of the tank...as soon as Joslyn sat down the string ray swam up and stopped right in front of her. I can't even tell you how amazing it was..Joslyn continued to tell the Ray that she was moving to Utah and couldn't come see him anymore and how much she was going to miss him. She said, so I have to say goodbye..right has Joslyn said goodbye the Sting Ray started doing his dance...so Joslyn danced with him and said, goodbye and skipped off. It was so crazy how it all happened..this little girl as a connection :0)