Arizona countdown!

Okay, so I am terrible at being consistent with my blogging, but sometimes we are just more exciting than others. We have been fighting colds and just go, go, go so I guess that is our reason for not blogging. Anyway, We are counting down the days until we make the long trip to Arizona again! We are leaving on April 3rd so we only have 10 more days. Yeah, we are so excited. The kids have a countdown calendar on the fridge and anytime they walk by it they count the days, it is pretty cute. Our little family will be leaving on Friday and we get to stay for a whole week. We will for sure have some pictures and stories to tell when we get back so be prepared!

P.S. For all of those who don't know by now. We are expecting our fourth child! He/She should be here the first part of July. We are tentatively looking at the 10th. We are not finding out what we are having so that should be fun. We are really excited and Trevor and Abby can not wait!

Update time again

SLEDDING
Awhile back we were visiting my parents and we were trying to find things to entertain us. We decided that it was the perfect day for sledding, if we could find enough snow. Well we happened to find enough snow so we went sledding for the first time this winter. The kids really had a blast. We thought that we were going to end up just pulling them around but they actually went down the hill pretty good.



Carter Sleeping
The other day we were having lunch and I left the room for a minute to say good-bye to Nick. I came back and this is what I found...


Carter sleeping in his pizza!
Brooke's Wedding
Nick's littlest sister was married on Feb. 6th. It was a really special day. For some reason we don't have very many pictures. Hopefully we can talk Nick's mom into duplicating hers. Anyway it was a great day and we are so happy and excited to Brooke. Here are two of the pictures we did get.

Last but not least, our candy house...
We have been cooped up inside because we have had colds and it is really cold outside so we have been looking for things to do. Well we made some dog houses out of boxes a couple of weeks ago and the kids absolutely loved them and played in them non-stop. The only downfall was that they couldn't stand up in them and Carter would get pretty frustrated. So I decided that bigger would be better. We decided to make a gingerbread house. The kids had so much fun decorating it with the paper candy. They call it the candy house and they love it even more than the dog houses. They can all fit in it at the same time and they have a blast!

BIG BROTHER

Trevor is a great big brother. The other day I asked Abby to go turn off a light, however, she couldn't reach. So Trevor ran over and said, "Oh Abby, it looks to me like you could use your big brother!" It was so cute. Well to make the story even better; I thought Abby would throw a fit because she didn't get to turn the light off. I was wrong; she replied, "Oh yeah that's right, you are my big brother so go ahead." It was such a fun thing to observe.

A couple of hours later Abby was trying to get her shirt on and was having some trouble. She started to walk away and Trevor noticed that her shirt was way up in the back. He ran over to her and said, "wo hold on girly, you need some help." He proceeded to fix her shirt for her and then went about his business. I love my children and I recognize that I am so blessed!

My trip to Phoenix!

On January 4th I was able to take a road trip with my little sisters Nikki and Amber. Nikki and her husband drove from Phoenix for Christmas. Trent (her husband) had to be back to work before her so she sent him home on an airplane and Amber and I volunteered to accompany her on her long trip home. We left Sunday morning and drove all day. I have to admit I was dreading that part but it was actually a lot of fun (traveling without kids is so easy)! We were able to spend the next three days together and having so much fun. We did so many things like, hiking, shopping, playing volleyball, riding the NEW light rail, seeing downtown, miniature golf, shopping some more, painting our own pottery and much more. We really had such a good time together. It was really fun to just be able to play and have fun and not worry about my kiddos (thanks to my wonderful mother-in-law). I didn't get very good pictures because we used Nikki's and Amber's mostly. They have better cameras. Anyway, here are some of the pictures I got.

Nikki and Amber and a cute little restaurant called Mimi's. (yes we ate outside, it was great)!

Amber and I on the light rail.

Me. Amber and Nikki on the Mill Ave. bridge.

The three amigos at a little park on Mill

Me and Nikki doing dance, dance! (I was so lousy)

Amber is a very serious biker!

The three of us miniature golfing

Amber and I climbing the palm trees (it is a lot harder than it looks)

Amber and Nikki at hole in the rock (where we hiked to)

One of our stops along the way to Phoenix. You can't tell but there is a huge dam behind us.

We had to leave on the 7th. We really were not ready to leave, other than the fact I was dying to see my husband and kids. We had so much fun. I can't wait to go back, in fact Nick and I and the kids are going to be making the trip soon! We did it last year and we are ready to do it again so look out Phoenix, here we come!

Update time!

No we have not dropped off the earth we have just been really busy and have not been home much at all. I will try to update you on what we have been doing. There are a lot of pictures so I hope you enjoy. This post will just be the month of December.

TREVOR'S 4th BIRTHDAY

Trevor turned 4 on December 9th. It is hard to believe that he is 4. We had a real easy going day. We served him breakfast in bed and then he opened his presents. Later we went to story time and that evening we had a little party with Nick's parents and my parents. The rest of the day was occupied with Trevor playing with his toys and sharing his toys with his siblings. He is such a good little boy. All day long I heard things like, "mom, how did you know this is what I wanted, thank you so much, I love my cars!" He got all of the characters off the movie "cars" and he plays with them non stop!

Trevor concentrating really hard while decorating cupcakes for preschool!

I put Trevor's cars in old Disney movie cases and he was so confused until Dad helped him look inside.

Here are his presents that he loves so much!

getting ready to blow out the candles

this is Trevor's T-Rex face. He got some dinosaurs from Grandpa and Grandma and he loves to pretend to be dinosaurs.

Christmas

I know I am the only one in the world that has not posted anything about Christmas but like I said we have hardly been home and I didn't bring my cord to download pictures anywhere else. So anyway, we had a great Christmas and the kids were spoiled.

Carter thought it was fun to be Abby's baby!

the three musketeers checking out their stockings (so we don't really have stockings so we made some at midnight!

Paige, Abby, Trevor and Parker enjoying a little Kung Fu panda

Trevor got an umbrella from Abby

And Abby got an umbrella from Trevor (they were probably the favorite present)

Trevor with his remote control wheel loader

The kids checking out the new race track

Carter and his new vacuum

Abigail being a great mom and taking care of her baby!

We had a great month. We were here and there and everywhere. We have birthdays galore in December so that is always crazy (it doesn't help that they are all within days of each other either). I was in charge of our big ward party, and Christmas shopping always seems to consume my thoughts. Sorry it took us so long to document a little about our crazy lives but they say the best things in life are worth waiting for!

Kyle's Wedding

My only brother got married on Nov. 21st. We had a great time at the wedding and receptions. We are excited for kyle and we really love Alyson. They are a cute couple. They got married in the Manti temple so we went down the day before and stayed in a cute little motel right across from the temple. The Manti temple is so gorgeous. It was a really neat day. Here are a few of the pictures from the big day.

Trevor and Abby were playing with kids the whole time so it was asking a lot to get the pictures that we did.

Tent fun

Here is our tent that we made a couple of weeks ago. The kids really had fun in it but it didn't last long. We decided to make a new one in the toy room that was taller so they couldn't tear it down. It lasted a lot longer and was more fun. I somehow forgot to take a picture of it though.