Iddy Falls Visit...

August 13Th
We went to Idaho to find a place to live.. Joel got a job promotion and this is going to be our new home..
We saw this really cool thing in town.. Eagles and a mountain lion.. COOL..
Our first picture in Idaho Falls.
We thought we would take a family picture.. Our first FAM picture is Idaho Falls.

Me with my SONshines!!

oh yeah if you can't tell it's SUPER windy!!
My handsome Boys.. with their dad.. Jk Joel is handsome too..

We found a fishy pound thingy..

We are going in.. Well one the temple grounds..

We stopped by the Temple we would be living by.. Idaho Falls Temple.. Soooo PRETTY!!

I have Angel Moroni in my HAND!! I always wanted a picture like this.. Madden want to do whatever i was doing.. He is sooo CUTE!!

My boys posing.. Brakken found his tie in the car.. And wanted to wear it on the Temple grounds.. He told us that's what you wear to the temple, SHIRT AND TIE!! So that's what he wore.. Shirt and TIE!!!

My FAV people... The love of my life and OUR boys!!

Us in front of the Temple

This is in the visitor center.. Jesus, who would have thought.. jk.. The boys were soo excited to see him and to take a picture with him..
We found a place and now we just have to wait for us to move out of Logan and move into Idaho..

No more LONG drives...

Joel WORKS in Logan NOW!! Yeah us!! I'm so glad we get to see him about 2 to 3 hours more than before.. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.. haha.. These are a few of the workers at the Ogden Branch.. One car prep (Jorge), Manager (Seamus), M.T. (Matt), Joel, and M.A. (Brett)..

Brakken picked these PRETTY flowers for me during Sacrament.. It was so cute.. They went to the car to get Madden's blanket and Brakken thought about me.. What a sweet boy.. I just love being the only girl in my FAM!!! It's nice cuz i get spoiled.. Thanks.. Oh yeah I'm going lighter and lighter with my hair.. I'm a blondie.. Do you like it??

One Special Day...

My Best Friend from High School is getting Married May 14.. So like in 15 days!! Saturday she took out her endowments.. I'm so proud of her.. One reason is that when we were in high school we weren't the best kids.. I don't think anyone would have thought that we would go to the temple... I don't even think people thought we would get MARRIED... But LOOK at us.. We did it Nikkie Jay.. And we both have the MOST FAB hubbies.. Well i do.. You will... when the 14Th comes.. haha.. The main reason why I'm so proud is that.. She is doing the right thing... She is FINALLY TRULY HAPPY!!

Here we are at the Bountiful Temple.. Joel, myself, Nicole, and Eric.. We are the Fantastic 4..

The truly Happy couple in front of the Temple.. I was so amazed at how big this Temple was.. And how BEAUTIFUL!!

It wasn't real nice outside but it was a FAB day to remember.. After the temple we went to Cafe Rio.. where i might add that i didn't fall on my FACE!! hahaha.. what a milestone I've accomplished.. lol..

Nicole.. Eric is perfect for you.. You caught an AWESOME guy.. What a lucky guy he is.. And i can't wait to see you in all WHITE!

This is what we did with Grandma Debbie on Friday.. We hung out with her all Friday and half of Saturday.. Friday we went to watch Jordan play SOCCER.. And it was really cold outside.. Not soccer weather.. I'm not sure what soccer weather is..??? And it rained a little.. So i think that's why the Trojan's lost.. Bummer..

Brakken and Madden wanted to ride everywhere like this..

But they only got to pretend.. in the parking lot.. haha.. Brakken is so FUNNY!! I love you both so much..Thanks Debbie for watching the boys and Dinner.. It was yummy..

Elder Conner Graff

Well Sunday we sent another Missionary out to tell others about the Church.. I'm so grateful that we are able to share this great gospel with other people around the world.. Well even as close as the people in our neighborhood.. This Sunday was truly amazing that i could hear what the Graff's had to say about how proud they were of there son, and brother.. I was kinda nice hearing them bare there testimonies about the church and what a great impact it had on them.. I truly have a testimony of missionaries.. If it wasn't for them i know that i would be missing out on some of these great blessings that I've received..

Here is my FAMILY with the new missionary... Elder Graff.. He left Wednesday i believe.. So he is officially an ELDER..

Oh yeah on Tuesday i got my root canal done.. and tomorrow I'm going in to get my crown put on.. So please wish me good luck..

Friday FUN!! and Saturday SERVICE

Just the "COOLEST" Girls ever... Well i think/KNOW so.. Haha..Amaya was making FACES.. and not smiling!! What a silly girl!!

Now that's better.. Great smile Amaya..
Yeah you have seen it.. I'm a blondie.. Well that's what it says on the color wheel thing at the Salon.. It's a cinnamon and a honey color.. I absolutely LOVE LOVE it.. What do you think??



Saturday Service.. We put together hygiene kits, school kits, tied blankets, sewed pillows and bags..We did all these things with LOTS of LOVE! I hope the kids enjoy them as much as i did making them.. Why did we do this awesome thing for others.. Well it was a Women Stake Conference.. And all this stuff is going to Byana Mary Hill School and Orphanage, Ghana Africa.
This are all the sisters working hard in the gym of the church..
After the kits were put together the blankets, pillows and bags took awhile to make.. But i truly had a BLAST!!

When you have all these sister working together you get so much DONE!!

Sew away GIRLS...

Working together..

One of the quotes i Loved hearing during the Talk before the service project was "you can NEVER go wrong when helping a CHILD" by Thomas S. Monson... And the other QUOTE was "prayer is not ENOUGH!! you need to act".. I loved this Conference a whole lot!! I'm so Grateful for all the blessing that i have.. Now go do some SERVICE!! Well if you want.. Make sure you do it with LOVE...

Ready for CHURCH...

The boys have told me that they are ready for Church... But i think they are missing a few more clothes to complete the look.. They seem to think they are dressed for SUCCESS.. What funny boys!! Yes Madden's underwear are on backwards and inside out.. He still hasn't fingered out how they go on RIGHT!! He thinks as long as they are on who cares.. haha

Begining of DECEMBER to NOW

1st of December we put up our TREE!! Not lights or very many ornaments BUT lots of CANDY CANES!!! or what Brakken calls them Canny CORN... It's really funny..
The next day the boys broke the gate down and eat ALMOST all the candy canes!!

on the 3rd.. We had our Ward party.. It was pretty fun.. We eat and Santa came.. and then we did a White Elephant gift exchange to a story about Mrs. wRIGHT and Mr. LEFT.. So you sit in a BIG circle and pass the gift from left to right.. Really fun.. But i sat next to 5 kids and we would always end up with like 5 or so EXTRA gifts.. haha.. But when the story ended we all opened the gift we had.. Brakken opened his first and it was COOKIE cutters.. And he looked at his Cookie cutters and said OHHH MAN.. And throw them in the middle of the circle.. And walked away pouting.. Maddie opened his and it was a Xmas HOT PAD... And looked at his hot pad and gave it a hug and still to this day he walks around the house with it.. It's every cute Madden truly made his lemon into Lemonade.. and Brakken not so much..

This is Madden with this HOT PAD!!

Here is another picture of Madden carrying it around

This is a picture of what happened when we were walking into our house... We had a lot of stuff to carry in our house.. And we hear Brakken say he needed to go pee... and then this is what he did..

on the 4th Tayli and myself went and did Temple work.. After being at the temple Tayli and Jake had us over for some yummy soup.. Thanks Tayli and Jake.. We hung out after dinner and played with their bunny.. And when we drove home Brakken was helping Joel drive.. Brakken was pretty good at driving.. When we got home we finally took pictures of the boys by the tree.. Madden was not wanting to take any kinda picture...
Here is the SAD boy..Here is the SMILEY boy with the SAD boy on the ground..

After Brakken took his picture by the tree he wanted to be the one behind the camera.. Here are some pictures that he took of Joel and myself..

The 6Th was my Really good Friends BABY shower.. Well it was a Welcome to the World party (she had her little girl 6 or 8 weeks early).. i forgot to take pictures again... but had a great time anyways.. oh yeah and after the shower Elizabeth and myself took our rice rocket to get it registered.. Lots of waiting time in Jiffy Lube.. Later that night i went with 2 of my friends to see TWILIGHT AGAIN!! I love that movie!!

7Th was Joel's gma Afton's birthday and her birthday party and it was in Riverton.. So we left on our journey out of Cache Valley at 1pm.. to hang out with FAM.. I forgot to take pictures of today.. But we had a great time!!

Last week Madden throw the biggest fit.. He cried and didn't breath, and walked from the kitchen gate to the middle of their room.. And he layed on the ground.. i have to mention that he's lips, feet, and hands are BLUE and his face is WHITE!! He had walked and cried withOUT BREATHING!!! i thought he was going to pass out and he finally took a breath and turned his normal color.. He has always thrown fits were he holds his breath but he has never took it that far.. But he is fine now..

This past Friday, we went to my mom's house.. She had my little niece over Amaya.. So we hung out with Amaya, Danni (my brothers girlfriend), Josh (my brother).. The plan was to make gingerbread houses but we did other things.. Things that i don't remember.. Well Amaya was getting potty trained.. So you can imagine what the day was like.. running back and forth to the bathroom... Here are the kiddos taking a nap together.. I love how Madden has his arm on Amaya's FACE!! Kids are so cute.

But when Joel came to pick us up after work.. Amaya wanted Joel to hold her and wanted to go with us to Debbie's house (we stayed Friday night and Saturday day at Joel's mom's house so we wouldn't have to drive in the snow).Here are some pictures of Amaya LOVING on Joel..

She cried when we left.. It was so cute but i felt bad.. It broke my heart to see how much she loves us..

Saturday i went to Lunch with a high school friend.. we had a yummy lunch at Apple Bee's.. Penny/Dano i had an AWESOME time catching up and eating with you.. Take care..

Wow sorry from the long post.. But i haven't been keeping up.. So i had to put the last few weeks in one long post..

Oh yeah "now it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" the snow finally CAME!! YEA!!

Thanksgiving...

Man, i have lots of things to be thankful for.. For starters my HUSBAND (Joel) and my BOYS (Brakken and Madden).. Two other people that i wouldn't be the person i am today cuz of there HELP.. My SAVIOR and My Heavenly FATHER!! Today was a blast.. Welllllll KINDA... The MORNING was AWESOME..(we had breakfast and bowled with the Hansen Fam!! Thanks Everyone for the Wonderful time I can't wait for next year!!)
Madden telling uncle Jordan that he needs more syrup for his food!!

Daddy and Maddie

This is us bowling

Then the AFTERNOON was another story..(this 3 or so hours was with my family) I have never been more disrespected by my OWN FAMILY!! My mom's sister (she doesn't even deserve to be called me aunt) totally-flat out said what i BELIEVE is FALSE!!! How dare she say something like that!! I never tell her that what she believes is CRAZY.. And she had to comment on how Joel said the PRAYER!! My SWEET Grandma asked Joel if he could say it and my mom's sister had to comment on what he said and how we shouldn't even say a prayer at family get-togethers.. But to end on a HAPPY note.. We left my PAPA and Grandma's house and headed back to DRAPER for a fam dinner with the Hansen's again.. (wow lots of driving.. Breakfast we drive to Joanna's to eat and that's by Jordan High School, and the Real Stadium, then down to Morgan area for lunch, and up to Draper for dinner and now we are home..) We had a yummy dinner and i got to talking with Afton (Joel's gma) and she told me that being an EXAMPLE is one of the best ways to show people what's right.. and later that night his Uncle Neil told me the same thing.. Thanks you two for the great guidance.. I just feel i have to STAND up to anyone even my fam about the gospel and i know telling someone something doesn't always mean they are listening or even soaking it all in.. But i do learn things the hard way.. Thanks to my thick head..haha

After today i really didn't KNOW the meaning of what Thanksgiving DAY was for.. BUT now i do.. Thanksgiving should be a day to day thing.. NOT just once a year!! I have learned that just getting together and eating is NOT Thanksgiving.. Thanksgiving is a DAY to spend with the people you are THANKFUL for and to have in your life, and to look back on all the things that GOD has blessed us with.. Now i think I'll spend more time MAKING GOOD memories and not crappy ones.. One more thing I'm SOOOOO very Thankful for the GOSPEL, and the love it's brought to my life.. Thank you to those that helped bring it to me..

Sunday the 16th and MORE

These are some funny pictures of the boys sleeping... ON EACH OTHER.. Well i guess Madden sleeping on Brakken... They are too FUNNY..

I'm way behind on the posting.. We have been doing all kinds of fun things.. We started a pre-pre School class for the boys on the 4th of NOV. we go every Tuesdays and alternating every week from English to Spanish (teaching the same lesson for 2 weeks) .. I'm learning.. as well as the boys.. And on Wednesday we go to the Library for Story time.. Brakken loves it. Madden and myself walk around looking for movies and books to borrow while Brakken listens to stories.. Well i think he is listening, they haven't complained yet??

And Thursdays we are doing story time with some ladies from the WARD.. And Fridays we are going down to Ogden to get some of our FAMILY fix.. that sounds funny.. But i need to see my family every week.

Oh yeah one of my friends had their baby.. I don't know if i can say who they are but when and if i can, I'll post some pictures of their baby.

Wow i think one more post and I'm up to date.. How awesome is that..

Past Weeks in a NUT SHELL.....

So on last Tuesday... Brakken and Madden wanted to slam their bed room door.... Maddie on the inside and Brakken in the hall... i hear a really LOUD slam and then i hear Brakken SCREAMING.. I knew what happened!! And his fingers were STUCK in the DOOR!! I paniced and went FUNG FOO on the door to kick it down... Oh yeah i have to remind you the door was locked and i was BARE FOOT!! So these are the pictures after what happened.. Brakken is ok and so are his fingers.. After the screaming stopped i thought about it over with Leeanne and i think i could have just pulled his fingers out.. they were only shut in the door a little bit... i use to think people were crazy and epesially MY MOM when she jumped off a 2 story building to get my brother after he got hit by a CAR!! or even when you hear about moms that lift cars off of their kids!! So now i DON'T think they are ANY bit crazy!! Cuz i'm one of them!!














Then on WEDENSDAY... Leeanne and myself went to that work out thing at the church.. Cherri is the teacher and SHE IS GREAT!!! We did an Awesome job teaching us and i bet after she told her hubby that we are so NOT talented!! haha




FRIDAY.. We celebrated my MOM's birthday!! Happy Birthday MEMA!! (that's what the boys call her) WE LOVE YOU!! So for her birthday, her and the boys took pictures!! She needed new pictures in her house to update her new life as a GRANDMA!!!
the day was like this: Jeramia's for breakfast, took pictures and then went to MY grandma and MY papa's house!!! We hung out for a long while... then i was off to get JOEL from work and drive home to have a GNO... We got pizza and Leeanne and myself left for BOWLING!! We had a blast!! We both suck but this game we did really good Leeanne got 117 and i got 90... But i got a STRIKE the first bowl.. but got a F for passing the line!! How crazy is that!! it made me PRETTY MAD cuz STRIKES don't happen to me OFTEN!!

Then the weekend was CONFERENCE!! I loved all the talks.. And after listening to everyone speak i feel energized.. And Joel and i started this new thing... Every conference we get NEW G's.. YEA US!!

Well that's sums up the past few days!!

Oh yeah tonight is the work out group thing at the CHUCH at 9pm... So come with a towel and a water bottle!! Hope to see you there!!