Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Summer Vacation Part One.

We had so much fun on our family vacation this summer. We spent 1 week in Utah and then 1 week in South Dakota.

Grandma and Grandpa Moody took us all to see the new Wall-E movie. It was very cute and the kids were glued to it.

Bloved her time with Grandma Moody and boy did she get spoiled with lot's of love.

We had a very nice visit with Ryan’s mom and Grandparents. (I forgot to take the camera darn-it) The boys got these fun portable desks along with new crayons, a coloring book and stickers. It’s the perfect gift for them. They LOVE crafts and are excited to use them for homework this coming year. R’s mom also treated us to Red Robin (the kids’ favorite restaurant) for dinner. It was a lot of fun.


B got a darling little baby doll from R’s Mom. She loves to sleep with it and has to give it lots of kisses every night before going to bed.

We all had a lot of fun playing Rock Band. They actually started to sound pretty good after a while.


Silly uncle Alex changed into some pretty grovin clothes to help him feel his part. He’s such a crack up.


R tried to get some brotherly bonding in while taking a cruise on the motorcycles. Instead he got guff about being an irresponsible cop. ??? We’re still scratching our heads on this one. I was curious what he had to say about it and his response was “while you really shouldn’t be driving with out a motorcycle endorsement , if I pulled someone over with out it depending on why I stopped him, as long as the bike had the proper insurance I would just tell him he really shouldn’t be riding with out the endorsement and then let him go. You have to common sense with this job, and not be soooo uptight. You don't always write a ticket just because you can. I personally don't write a lot of tickets in general anyway unless it’s an obvious dangerous reason like DUI. There are just so many other things out there that I’d rather be taking care of. Like DV, gangs, drugs ect..."
I love some of the discussions we have about his work. He really is an amazing clear thinking cop and he’s got the accommodations to prove it. Ha ha. I’m very proud of him. I'm very proud of him for trying to reach out and include everyone, but oh well...it’s all good. He had fun non-the-less.

Uncle Alex dressed up in his storm trooper costume for the boys. WOW, what a treat. They thought it was awesome.

Tyson and Danielle had us over to their darling little home for a yummy dinner. It is decorated so cute and it was so good to get to see where they are living. I am so bummed I forgot to take my camera and get some pictures of it.

We got to go to Uncle Seans mission homecoming. He did a great job. We really enjoyed looking at all his pictures and hearing all about the mission. He’s a super great uncle. Here he is playing with J.


Again I forgot to take the camera, but we got to go see the new finished basement in Mandy’s home. It is Beautiful. Dave did all of the tile work and he did a really nice job. Mandy and I also had fun making hair bows for the girls, and I got some great tips.

Kennedy is rather shy but her and Jaden got a long great Here they are playing together. They kept going under the bridge (Rs legs) so R decided to trap her and boy did she giggle. Although he kept trying, this was the only time she would have anything to do with R. She’s funny.

We were able to get some family pictures taken at the park by R’s mom’s friend. I am excited to see how they turned out. These are some I took with my camera.

I love this picture of all the cousins. Too cute!

Here I was trying to do the pose where you have all the kids lay down in a circle and lookup in the sky. As you can see, it didn’t work out. It’s cute anyway though.

We had a lot of fun in Utah. It was so good to see everybody again. We love them all so much and miss them already.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Home sweet home.


We rolled into the heat of Mesa Wednesday afternoon after 1 week in Utah and one week in S.D. No food in the fridge and hours of washing was in order before I let myself blog or scrapbook which is what I really wanted to do. I finally got on top of things and then we had one busy Saturday so I have used this nice Sabbath to rest and chill with the kids. We had fun on our trip and I am excited to I post about the festivities tomorrow.

July 13th Birthdays

Happy Birthday to two very special peeps. 1st...

Uncle Sean. While in Utah two weeks ago we were able to hear Seans Homecoming talk. It was WONDERFUL! I am soooo impressed with him and the growth he has made. What a great example he is to us all especially my boys who still talk about him and his mission.


Next is my mom. She is such an amazing lady. I LOVE this picture of her holding Becca. It is one of my favorites. She is a wonderful Grandma who always makes each one of her grandkids feel soooo loved and important. I still find myself saying "I want to be just like her when I grow up" She is my greatest example.
Today my parents had their mission homecoming talk. I am so sad we missed it, but glad R's parents and Uncle Sean were able to attend I felt like they represented us. :) I know that they gave wonderful talks. When we were in S.D. last week my dad bore his testimony. It was AMAZING. I was so grateful to get hear his last "talk" from the pulpit that he served as Stake Presdient for 12 years. He always speaks with the spirit and such love, I could listen to him preach for hours!




Saturday, June 28, 2008

Mommy Tag

K and J's friend Justin tagged them. It's a cute one so here it goes.

1. What is something mom always says to you? J-"No"ha ha ha. K-"I love you"

2. What makes mom happy? J-"when I be good" K-"scrapbooking"

3. What makes mom sad? J "When I don't listen to you." K-"when we whine" (AMEN to that).

4. How does mom make you laugh? J "when you tickle me" K-"tickling me"

5. What was mom like as a child? J-"girly" K-"like B"

6. How old is your mom? J-"90" K-"30"

7. How tall is your mom? J- he put his hand on my head and then slid it down the side of me to my toes and said "17" -"less than dad...9"

8. What is your mommy's favorite thing to do? J-"scrapbook" K-scrapbook" (they know me good)

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? J-"scrapbook" K-"miss me"

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? J"cuz I tell everybody your name" K-"because your a good mom"

11. What is your mom really good at? J "scrapbooking" K "scrapbooking"

12. What is your mom not very good at? J "playing x-box 360" K "driving" (how rude)

13. What does your mom do for her job? J "scrapbook" K "giving people houses" ha ha ha. You know me I'm a realtor and I just give people their houses. :)

14. What is your mom's favorite food? J "poppy seed chicken" -it's really his favorite K -"weird salads"

15. What makes you proud of your mom? J "when you let me buy my speed toy" K -"when you let me play x-box and computer"

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? J "bat girl"
K -"Tinker Bell"

17. What do you and your mom do together? J "homework" K -"mommy school"

18. How are you and your mom the same? J "we both like dad" K -"our hair is the same color"

19. How are you and your mom different? J "I like to watch t.v. and you like to scrapbook"
K - "I'm a kid and you're a parent"

20. How do you know your mom loves you? J "because you lay with me and talk to me when I go to sleep" K -"because you say it A LOT".


We tag Sadie, Bailey, Kennedy, Archer and anyone else who wants in on the fun!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Sunday with Dad

R usually has to leave for work right after church. It's such a bummer and I've really missed Sunday evenings together as a family. Well this Sunday he took off so we could all go to a fireside about the Trek that we went on in June. They made a neat video that we all got copies of and the boys thought it was cool to see what the Trek was all about.

We had a great FHE before the fireside. K came up with the Lesson/activity all on his own. It was GREAT! He's soooo amazing to me. We learned about being a peacemaker then he had us go into the kitchen and make a flag. The rules for the flags were you have to use your favoirte colors and you have to have as many stars as you are old. Then he stoped for a second and said to me, "well you don't have to do as many as you are mom, if that's too much" ha ha. rude, R's older than me. :) He had gathered some sticks from the yard and taped them to our flag. It was very cute and he did it ALL on his own. What a cutie!

R even did one for B. On the back we wrote what we are going to do to be a peacemaker. When ever we see our flag it will remind us to do what we wrote. Isn't he WONDERFUL!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

My new favorite family picture.

Sunday Jaden came home from church with this darling little picture of our family that he drew. It is one of my favorites. I'm sad though, it got thrown away and now has spots on it but I just had to take a picture of it anyway. Maybe I can get him to draw me another one.
Here is what Jaden had to say when I asked him to tell me about his picture.
"It is a picture of my Family. This is Dad because he has no hair. This is you because you have big hair, this is me and Kyle because you shaveded all our hair gone, and this is Becca with Wots (lot's) of curls". Isn't he just adorable.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

taking a break from my busy day for some randomness.

So I totally don't get the formatting here on blogger. When I did the last post it was all cute and lined up ect... but then when it got posted it changed for some reason. I don't understand why. Computers are soooo not my thing. Anyway I have a ton of things to do and I needed a break so of course blogging was the answer. (scrapbooking would take me too long and I wouldn't want to stop) but now back to my awfully long to do list.