Hard to say GOOD BYE!!! :(

August 29Th
Was our last day in Logan.. We had a lot of help moving and getting boxes AND cleaning!! I want to thank everyone that HELPED!!
This is Carlos, LeeAnne, and me.. It was really hard for me to say good bye to HER! i was about to cry.. LeeAnne, you are a really big influence in my life.. for the BETTER.. You are an AWESOME friends. I'm glad we got to get to know each other.. LeeAnne thanks so much for being there for me and just being the best friend that you have been to me.. I'm so glad that i have met you and still continue to have you in my life.. Thanks.. xoxo..
That day was hard but also fun.. The ZaeJo's took me to the Hippy market and we had a great time hanging out while Joel was driving or in Idaho moving... I got to stay back to finish cleaning and to say my good byes!! Thanks again mom for watching the boys while we packed and moved..

I got to drive the cargo VAN!! i was pretty sleepy but i drank a ROCK STAR and was WIDE awake!! i was so wake i thought i should take picture of me while i DROVE!! Crazy i know.. but i didn't have kids in the car..
a funny and smiley face.. gotta have both!!

We are now living in IDDY FALLS!! It's going pretty good so far!! i also wanted to Thanks all the brothers that were waiting for us to arrive to help unload! the church soldiers... hahaha.. that's what Seth called them.. too funny!!

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..

Shopping, Cruise-In, Bear Lake, and Showers.. OH MY!!

July 2ND..
I came to Ogden to shop with my sister... We had a blast.. And it RAINED like CRAZY!!
July 3rd..
We went to the Car Show in Logan.. It's called the Cruise-In.. The boys had a blast.. We saw a BUMBLE BEE and Optimus Primes cousin.. hahaha..
Here is Bumble Bee.. with the boys..
Optimus's Cousin...

Super COOL.. Brakken was saying all the Auto Bot phrases.. It was sooo CUTE!!!

After the Cruise-In we went to have a BBQ party with some friends in Kaysville.. i forgot to take pictures.. But we had a blast.. Thanks Brett and Nicole for opening your house to all of us..

4Th of JULY...

just hung out.. and had a BBQ with our neighbors Dan and EmberDee..

July 5Th..

We went to the Cabin.. Joel was sick so we wanted to get out of the house so that we wouldn't get sick with him.. i know STRONGER in NUMBERS.. but not this time.. hahaha

Here is a little of what we did..
While waiting for out BEAR LAKE PIZZA.. we played with all the toys outside..

Here they are again.. These two are my favs..

Shortly after eating out pizza and not yet been swimming.. Joel calls us to come home.. He missed us and want us to come back.. And i told him we would but he BETTER be feeling better.. and he was.. So we came home early.. Things we do for our LOVING HUSBANDS!! I love you Joel..

July 11Th..
We went up to the Cabin.. Everyone forgot that it was Brakken's Birthday party so this is his cake they made out of CANDY!! oh yeah Mema didn't forget.. She always REMEMBERS.. thanks mom.. that means SOOO much to BRAKKEN.. and me.

He doesn't really like to be the center of attention.. But does.. Silly guy..

He likes to sing to other people but he doesn't like when you sing to him.. Gotta love him..

July 12Th..

i went to Ogden... GHETTO Ogden.. for a baby shower..

This is my friend Erika and her baby boy.. with me..

Wow.. almost to Brakken's BIRTHDAY!! Holy Crap I'm getting there..

Week of Events

Last Wednesday I had a dentist appointment.. I have to say i was really SCARED!! I know, i have a phobia of the dentist.. I had Joel hold my hand the whole time... I know i know it was just a cleaning but to me i get so nervous i forget how to breath and it's not a pretty site.. My mouth has been hurting real bad.. So we got xrays.. and i have about one cavity on each tooth but the front ones.. Not a big surprise to me.. But now that we have insurance it's time for my wisdom teeth to get removed.. They are all the way surfaced.. So they hurt like HECK!!! And the big day of the surgery is the 6Th of March.. SURGERY.. Yeah, you don't have to tell me.. It's seem pretty extreme to get put under but the thought of my dentist in my mouth pulling with all his might at teeth SCARS the crap out of me!! So they are going to put me out and take care of what needs to be done!! Then after the 6Th i can go back to the dentist to get the rest of my teeth fixed!! Dr. Brett Skinner told me that it'll take then about 3 or 4 visits to get my mouth clean of any thing growing in there.. GROSS.. So in about 3 months i can start cleaning my teeth with baking soda and peroxide.. Yeah me, back to the natural whiting system.. Oh yeah i almost forgot about me getting Invisalign.. I have a missing tooth in the back of my mouth so i need to close that gap. My mouth is going to NOT HURT anymore!! Moving on to something happier!!

Brakken and Madden are doing speech therapy.. Just to see if they have any problems talking.. Cuz to me they aren't the best talkers.. So Thursday and today were there classes.. She will let me know if they need more classes.. I'll post more if they have to go back..

That Thursday Carlos came over to play.. This is what the BOYS did..

The BOYS pretending to have a sleep over..

Friday Debbie was in town so we hung out with her.. And what made it perfect is that my mom was out of town, so we got to spend time with Debbie.. We went to the Tree house.. On the way there Brakken was talking about how he needed scriptures for church.. (if you bring your scriptures to primary you get to fill up the jar to have a popcorn party..) Oh yeah Brakken is in Primary NOW!! Well since the first of January.. OK now back on track... Brakken kept tell us that we needed to get him scriptures. Everywhere we went he asked for them saying "are we going to get me SCRIPTURES" it was really cute hearing him ask for some!! He makes me so proud.. And he is getting so big..

Here are pictures of us at the tree house..

This is what i built with Brakken..

My little Knights Tale Town.... It has everything.. I think i did a pretty good job!

Saturday we got home from staying the night at Debbie's.. Thanks Debbie for letting us stay over. And after dinner we got some ice cream and a red box movie..

Here is Madden..

He has both Brakken and his ice cream cups.. Funny boy..

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!!!!

For those that didn't watch the game missed out on a whole lot of ENTERTAINMENT!! The commercials weren't that good but the Pepsi one took the BEST award.. It was more movie premiers than commercials. But oh well.. Well for those that did watch, your were either HAPPY or thought it was a BIG BUMMER... and i thought it was a major BUMMER.. I so wanted Arizona to win.. But it was a close game.. Thanks Aunt Kristy for having us over to watch the game at your and Todd's house.. Everyone's food was soooo YUMMY!! Oh yeah PA won.. way to go Pits.. haha that's funny pits!!

Speech class was today..
Here is them at there class playing.. SHOOTING guns

I think that wraps it all up... Feels good to be updated!!

Night Out on the TOWN!!

Friday the 23rd.. WOW I'm finally caught up!! YEAH ME!!
I went to SLC to hang out with my BEST FRIEND from high school.. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen.. After that we walked to the movies to see the times and to take pictures!!
This is Nicole and i!! Silly i know but STILL so CUTE!!
The two bff's and still BEAUTIFUL!!!
The whole GANG!!

KISS KISS!! Lots of Girls and Lots of FUN!!

Some us waiting for the movie to start!!
We went to see Mall Cop, Paul Blart!! Funny we couldn't stop laughing.. Well Nicole and myself!! Before the movie started the other girls we went with noticed a Jazz player in the row in front of us.. I don't watch Basketball so do you know who this is??

I had a great time catching up.. Nicole i can't believe it took us this long to hang out AGAIN!! Oh yeah congrats on GETTING MARRIED!! Your ring is beautiful! Good luck with the planning!! I'm here for you if you need anything!! and can't wait to see you in Feb..

PAPA Happy Birthday!! We love you!!

Truck fun with Robert and Carter

and Elizabeth and SSSS nannah.. We love having our friends over to PLAY!! here is what we did..
Lizz and Ssss nannah taking pictures of themselves..
The BIG brothers in the TRUCK now..

Robert and Brakken waiting there turn.. What good sports..

Robert driving with this big brother Carter..

Robert and Maddie!! Having a BLAST!!

Shoveling, Shopping, Lights, and Cleaning.....

Monday i decide to SHOVEL our sidewalk.. Our apartments don't shovel them enough... And since we are the most clumsy FAMILY!!!, we need all snow and ice removed so we won't fall.. Madden falls every time we leave the house and Brakken and myself always SLIP! So removing the snow and ice is something that i HAVE to do.. It's a most do, on my LIST of things to do...

The next day we went to work with Joel.. Well so i could do some Xmas SHOPPING.. I hadn't done any shopping for my fam (Brakken, Madden, Joel and myself). So i was off to Walmart, Smith's and PetSmart.. i got the boys a Toyota FJ Cruiser.. It's a super cute power wheel!! I need to loose some LBs so i can take a ride in it!! hahaha.. I got some stocking stuffers at Smith's... and the main reason for going to Smith's is for Smith Tix!! Joel says we can get the Britany Spears concert tickets for MOTHERS DAY!! Her concert is in APRIL!! So I'm way WAY WAY excited!! Oh yeah at PetSmart we bought a little Hermit CRAB!! his/her name is Herbie!! And right now he/she lives in a red shell that has a Reindeer painted on it.. and the shell he/she will move in next is a MIAMI Dolphins helmet painted on it! so that's a gift for Joel.. haha.. But for the Boys.. Joel got off work early so we could get soup and salad a Olive Garden, and then off the the LIGHTS at TEMPLE SQUARE!! I have to say this was the first time for us (Brakken Madden and myself ) seeing the lights.. And it was REAL cold but Clear and NO SNOW!!

here are some pictures of our first time seeing the Lights as a FAM!!

Brakken says "look it's the TEMPLE mom.. and it's OURS!!" it's so cute that he can tell the difference between a church and Temple..

After the lights we meet up with some of Joel's friends from work.. and we went to some YUMMY sushi place in the Gateway food court..
Here is a picture of the boys eating with chopsticks..

After eating... more shopping.. i had like 10 minutes before the stores closed but that's enough to look for a bag and matching wallet.. and i found one.. So cute.. And Joel wants shoes for Xmas so we got him some too.. Today i have felt like a shopaholic.. But we got everything for Xmas..

Wednesday was a VERY LAZY day.. i didn't do anything but hang out and make dinner and had the Pitcher's over to watch Survivor and eat some chili.. But yesterday i got back to work and carpet CLEANED our carpets!! I did the front room, dinning room, and hallway.. today I'll TRY and get the bedrooms.. But that means i have to clean the boys room FIRST!! Oh yeah and my mom's coming to hang out with us and drop off the power wheel.. So I'll post pictures of today tomorrow!!

DRIVE SAFE Everyone!!!