16 years!!! I'm so lucky!!!!

So, yes I am going to brag for a minute! I don't usually like do to this, but hey how many couples these days make it to 16 happy, wonderful, amazing years together? February 6th, 1993! I can honestly say I am truly blessed with an amazing husband and BEST friend!

I LOVE YOU MICHAEL!

My family 1981

Can you guess which one is me?????

Look who's 7

So Morgan turned 7 years old this week. He was so excited to be 7. We play this game in the car that when you get your seat belt on you say double 0 + your age. For example, Cameron would say 0012 and Garrett 0010 and Dallin 004. This way I know we are all in the car and buckled in. Well Morgan thought it would be cool that he was close to being able to say 007, like the movie. Now he officially can. Every other year I plan birthday parties with the kids friends and go somewhere fun that they would like to go. This is the off year! YEAH, for mom! So we went as a family to dinner where the kids love to spin the birthday wheel, pictured below. Morgan won one of the coolest things a soda. The soda isn't your regular soda, you have to open with this special cap, it has a really cool shape and the best part is it has a marble in it. Morgan received the Nerf gun he wanted really bad and a few other things from grandparents and mom and dad. We came back home for ice cream that he requested with magic shell on it. He was thrilled with the way his birthday turned out.

Scout Christmas tree pickup

When you have a scoutmaster, committee chairman, and 4 boys in the family, there is no way of getting out of scouting events. We had a great time yesterday and a great support from our ward. We collected something like $500 dollars in donations, and we were even given a coupon and some enormous lemons(I think they are called something else) as a donation. I think the highlight of the day was the GINORMOUS lemons. I haven't even seen anything like them before either.
Taking a little donut break, while we regroup and start a different area for picking up trees.

Careful Patrick! Daniel telling patrick and Jacob where and how to put the trees on the trailer.
Bishop, YM pres, Scoutmaster and Cameron. Where's the scout shirt Mike?

The area coordinators for picking up the trees, Cindy and myself.


These are the GINORMOUS lemons!!!!

Idaho

Since we were all together in more then 3 or 4 years we thought we would get some photo oppurtunity. Not easy getting 27 people all in one photo to cooperate.
How my parents raised 5 girls, I will never know! My poor dad!!!

Kim, Jennifer, Shelly, me, Jaime not in order of age.

Right to left in order of age Shelly, Jennifer, me, Kim, Jaime. And yes I am the only brunette!! And no I am not adopted, as my sister use to tease me that I was because of my dark hair and tanning ability in the summer when I was young.

All because 2 people fell in love. 5 girls, 5 son-in-laws, 15 grandchildren and 43 years together! Awesome!

Oldest to youngest. Makenzie, Tanner, Cameron, Caden, Garrett, Hannah, Jace, Taylor, Morgan, Kaylee, Dallin, Maecie, Davis, Averee, Olivia.

The boys were very excited to see and play in the snow. They could hardly wait until the next morning after we got there. I realized that Dallin hadn't seen snow before until our trip to Idaho. The other boys have been snow skiing, but Dallin has always been to little to go with us. He was very excited to make a snow angel.

Grandpa didn't have any sleds to go sledding with so they used garbage can lids to go down some hills around the corner here.

Idaho here we come

So Sunday we returned from a wonderful trip to Idaho to visit all my family. We left Tuesday last week and drove straight there, 14 hours. The kids and the weather were great. We saw my parents home they moved into over 3 years ago, my sister Jennifer's new home they built and Kim's home they have done nice remodeling to. One of my favorite things about the trip was seeing all my nieces and nephews and watching them play together with my boys. My oldest niece is almost 16 yrs old and my youngest is also a niece is 7 months old out of 15 grandchildren, and my youngest sister isn't done having kids yet. Of course I also enjoyed having all my sisters there with my parents and just sitting around visiting and playing games. Idaho was a little cold for us California people, it was -13 degrees when we left Sunday morning, OUCH! I felt like I came back to summer weather when I read 50 degrees outside. While we were there we went snowmobiling, thanks to Uncle Dave, bowling, eating, TSR(go-carts), eating, and more games. We really had a great time. It was a great trip I was glad that Michael had made the family decision to take this trip.