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My cute little snuggle bugs! Rian loves to annoy her bro often with unwanted hugs!

Brock and his fake cheesy smile! but i just had to show you the new color we put in his hair.

My little princess is getting so so big! when will she stop growing

And my handsome little prince! He is turning two in march! can you believe it!

Falling asleep in the car... pretty much every time we get in.

His shirt says it all!

Maddox is standing next to the jaguar cage and the jaguar is thinking this little boy looks like a tasty lunch! look at that cat stalking my unsuspecting son! glad there was a cage in the way!

Daddy went out with the scouts and rian and I played dress up! this was all her idea!

HA ha ha love to play with pics! brock zoning out... what could he be thinking about? oh! video games!? ha ha ha

Holloween through christmas! MASS PICS!

Now I realize I have not been up to date with all my blogging but i have just been so so so busy! so i hope you all can forgive me! But here it is! Holloween through christmas! for holloween we went to a birthday party for rian's lil boyfriend khalil and ry and mad were pirates. then we flew home to az ( the kids and i) and went trick or treating there and were able to be there when little riley was born! Then we flew back and waited three or four weeks for brocks christmas break to start. At that time we flew back down to AZ for a three week christmas break! During that break we got to go up and play in the snow in payson, Rian had her 3rd Bday, We got sealed in the Mesa Temple, my little bro got married in the mesa temple, We celebrated Christmas and New years! Then jan 4th we flew back home so so sad to leave our desert paradise behind for our smoggy 30 degree town we now live in! And just when i was feeling a bit depressed two weeks later it was time for me to get on another airplane and fly to sunny california to go to a convention at disneyland! While there I was inspired lifted up and met a really amazing new friend named Amber and have now decided that she is adopted into my family as one of my sisters! We had so much fun playing and laughing and staying up till 4 am talking like we were in high school again. We even got to run around disneyland for a few hrs! We just had way way to much fun and two and a half days was just not enough! on the way to the airport i found my self hoping i would miss my plane so i could say and play with her for at least a few more hours. But i made the plan e and here I am finally recovered from all our traveling and have decided that maybe i should get a credit card with frequent flier miles!

sneak peak

here is a sneak peak of all the pics from our trip way way more to come!

Surprise!!

Well It has been a while but we have just been so very busy! We had Halloween in Arizona and also stayed to be there when Riley my niece was born. Then we came back to Texas and spent thanksgiving with Brock's grandparents up in cypress TX. Then after that we started working hard! Brock was studying for his finals this past few weeks and also we have been working trying to get all the paper work in order for something extra special. Can you guess what that would be???? WE ARE GETTING SEALED THIS MONTH!!!!!! Finally after 3 1/2 yrs of be being "pushy" its paid off ha ha ha. we are so so so excited. So next week we will be in Arizona! we are staying for 3 weeks. Rian will turn three this month too! crazy! And Maddox will be two in 3 months my babies are growing up too fast!. so my plan is to be pregnant by February... but i have the whole convincing brock to have more babies obstacle to figure out first. What to do what to do.... well here are some pictures of Halloween for ya'll! sorry they are a bit late!

crafts I have been working on

This is one of the many many Tutu's i Have made for Rian

And another tutu for the princess

This quilt I made for rian because she loooves pirates and I thought it was girly and kinds like pirates right?!

This quilt was made for my new niece expected this week!! yay! I am soo excited!

And this is a skirt I made out of the left over fabric of rian's quilt

Ok really these pics are backwards the one below is the before and the one above is after. This dress up wedding dress was made by my mom for me when i was five. i loved it so naturally i wanted to give it to rian but problem was it was ripped, stained, the lace was falling off, it was way out of fashion, and like 5 sizes too big! So i set to revive my favorite play dress of my youth and it came out pretty good! rian refuses to take it off! I had to take the picture when she was taking a nap cause no one is allowed to touch her "pwetty mawied dwess" (pretty married dress for those who don't speak baby lol)
All of these pics were taken with my cell phone cause our digital camera is broken so sorry they are a but out of focus!

could not agree more!

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."-Marjorie Hinckley


I saw this on a friends blog and i could not agree more with sister Hinckley

Pirate Rian

This is Rian's Halloween costume's head dress. I had to modify it a bit just special for her because, of course, my kid have the biggest head ever so no normal kids hat would possible even come close to fitting on her head. So I took the original pirate hat and snipped it in a few places. then to hide the altering and make the hat larger I added elastic. Then to hid the elastic I used a hot glue gun and added yarn to make her have pirate dred locks. then after all that the hat was still just a bit too small so i have to clip it in to her hair cause i have come to realize that if i snip that hat any more it will fall apart her head is just too big! maybe i should go try to find an adult size hat.... but doesn't my little pirate princess look adorable! she really wants brock or I to be snow man for halloween ( i have no idea why) but any time the subject of Halloween comes up she says "you gonna be a snow man mommy/daddy?". She is just so much fun!