Family Togetherness

In June we all got together in Rexburg to celebrate birthdays

(Weston, Triston and Jenny)

and to say bye bye to Jami and Dave before they

moved to D.C. for a while.

Our family is getting bigger bigger bigger!!!

Grandpa and Grandma with eight happy boys...
Sisters...

Brothers...

Siblings... Jack, Julie, Judd, Jenny, Juston, Jami

A few of us went on a hike up Cress Creek Trail.

We rounded up the little ones for a quick picture:

Titan, Jackson, Porter, Benjamin, Triston

The boys had fun playing in the sandbox.

This is just one picture of my boy scoopin' in the dirt.

California calls again!

Titan and I made another trip to Sunny CA

to spend two weeks with cousins

and to see Auntie Jami...

Two bellies, four girls, seven weeks apart.

...another belly shot...


We hitched a ride from our house at 5:30 a.m. with Grammy to Pocatello....
Where we met up with Uncle Judd and Jack in the pig truck headed West....
And met Auntie Jami in Sacramento at the pig farm...


...21 hours after getting in the car, truck, then van we got in our little beds in San Jose.



We spent our 'mom days' having fun in the sun and
visiting all sorts of places.
The favorite pass time was finding snails in the courtyard.
The boys would find dozens at a time...

We went out everyday.
Sometimes to a park to play in the sand....


Or to the beach in Santa Cruz to catch a wave
and build 'birthday present' sandcastles.


We visited the train park, bought a ticket and waved to everyone.

Took a turn on the carosel... Titan's first pony ride!


But most of all spent time quality time with cousins.

Thanks Ben and Tom Tom!

Good news!

We'd like to take this opportunity to share our good news!

...A new addition is coming to our family...

...and she's as pink as pink can be!!!

We're THRILLED to have her join our family early September.

Welcome Baby Sister!!

Happy Anniversary!

Four years ago today Jason and I were married

in the Salt Lake Temple...

...in the midst of the twinkling lights on
Temple Square...

...and still having the time of our lives!
xoxoXOXOxoxo

just beeee yourself!

Halloween was fun this year as we all dressed to match.
We were a sensation!

Titan was such a cute bumble.

He loves showing off his tricks for treats.

Looks like he's not too impressed with the King of the Hive.
Perhaps he should use his stinger.

"Like this" usually gets him to give the camera an extra big cheeser.

We went trick or treating to our old chums in Farmington, then
went out for a holiday dinner at Village Inn.
Good times.

a day at Jackson Hole

My Mom took me and Moo out for a day at Jackson Hole. It was a beautiful drive seeing all the leaves changing color in the canyons. We had lunch with our friend Leesa to oh-so-deliciouso chinese. Then Mom and I wandered the streets and shops and art galleries of downtown. Moo was a good boy and only screamed the whole time for some kind of "treat", people! He only threw his sippy once at a few people walking by a very large window, so our time was somewhat cut short at that store. Thanks Moo. We got our pictures by the infamous antler arch, nearly getting sqwashed in the process.

My Mom looked so pretty that day (every day, really) and I kept telling her so. I made her hold still a minute so I could take her photo. She'll kill me, but I put it on here too.
We were driving home and saw a car stopped on the side of the road, an old man standing to the back of his car. 'Oh, please, no... don't let us see what he's doing,' we thought. But, thankfully, he was only stopped and out to take a p.... icture of the beautiful rising full moon. So we stopped and got one too. Thanks for a great day My Mom!

Off to see the pigs!

All morning long I got Titan to do things and get ready 'cause we're off to see the pigs!! What can I say, I'm a good momma and came through on my bribing. He was such a great boy all day long. We walked through all the art exhibits, animal pens, and carnival rides and he didn't get out once. (Ok, once, but that's later.) I thought these little piglets must be getting a little big for mother's milk, but they've got to show off something at the fair, right? What a good mother pig.

Yes, real live sea lions. Doing the Conga line no less. Good thing I went all the way to California two weeks ago to show Titan real live sea lions... who knew they'd come to us?

I thought the big cows were cool, but what do you say Titan's thinking?

Not impressed with the animals one bit. Nor his momma. UNTIL....

UNTIL...
What could it be?

a WHOOO WHOOO!

Titan loves, Loves, LOVES trains.

When we finally found the train depot, the conductor was napping under a tree. I asked if he was still taking rides so he jumped up and took just me and Moo on our very own train ride. He turned out to be a very pleasant fellow. After our train ride Titan took he mama to get her favorite caramel apple that she waits for all year. We had a really great time at the Utah State Fair, thanks for the memories Moo!