Way behind... But better late than NEVER!!!

This is the Smithfield Parade on May 9Th!! We had a blast.. Here are so pictures of us having a great time..

Like Father like son!

Waiting for the CANDY to come...

These pictures are of Mothers Day!! Happy Mothers Day to every Mother!! This world would be pretty sucky with out MOMS!! So keep on keepin on MOMs!! You are Special and Outstanding! We went to my ggma and papa's house.. You guys are great...
Playing in the WATER!! With Cousin Andrew..

Walking with dad..

May 14, 2009... The Wedding that i worked so hard to get into shape for... Here is the Bride and Groom coming out of the Salt Lake Temple..
Bride and Groom with all the GIRLS!!
Me trying to get in the most FAB place.. haha wait i already can.. silly me...
This place is so pretty.. This is an attempt of being a great photographerJoel and myself.. The HAPPiEST couple.. well besides the Bride and Groom...

Joel waiting while everyone was taking pictures!!

May 15th... Off to the Father Son Camp-Out!! They had a great time.. I gave the camera to Joel so he could take pictures and this is the only one from the whole 2 days.. A picture that i took.. But at least they had a great time together BONDING!!
May 22nd... So we went to the Cabin with the Pitcher's and Casto's.. It was fun.. But what sucked was it rain the whole weekend!! But here are pictures of the fun we had indoors..
This is Madden putting on Mia's PINK shoes!!
Cute Sean Sean..

Andrea playing Memory with all the Kiddos..

Charles fell asleep with Baby Savannah.. And the boys were laying in his legs.. it was pretty cute..
May 29th... We went back to Bear Lake again.. It was a little better weather.. But not by much.. It was raining off and on.. But here we are playing at the park and pool..
The boys got so dizzy in this thing.. They couldn't walk when they got off.. We couldn't stop laughing at them..

They are so peaceful when they sleep.. and i love how they kinda cuddled with each other..

Madden is a born swimmer.. My guess is next year he won't need floaties.. Way to go Maddie..

Brakken might look like me but is swimming impaired.. like his dad..

Well i'm almost caught up.. YEAH Me!! Have a great day..

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..

Showing off OUR.....

Muscles!!! Who would have thought that i was so buff!! hahaha.. This is what we did at my Gma and Papa's house Friday night!! We have tons of fun hanging out with our family!! Thanks for dinner Gma and Papa.. I (we) love you guys!!

My Papa and MYSELF!! Look how RIPPED we look!!

Tom (my cousin) and my SILLY Husband Joel!! Show those muscles BOYS!!
My STRONG boys!! They are growing so FAST and getting SOOO BIG!! If you look in the back ground my gma is FLEXING too.. jk she really isn't!! but i like to pretend!!

Man, just looking at those pictures makes me get scared! haha..

This is Kay and my boys.. She is a cousin separated from the family.. Her dad has known me since i was wee little.. So a family friend, so pretty much FAMILY if you ask me..

Nicole is the NEXT Bride to Be...

This is my High School Friend from Morgan High.. We did everything together.. Here we are..
Nikkie Jay and Rae Rae.. aka Nicole J. and Raelynn
All the pretty ladies at the Bridal Shower to support Nicole.. I'm so proud of what she is doing with her life!!

The Bride to be stuffing her face with Mallows for not knowing about her soon to be hubby Eric..

Another WRONG answer.. Stuff 5 more in your mouth.. haha

That's what i did on Saturday.. It was really nice seeing her sooo HAPPY!!, and doing what is right!! Way to go Nicole.. I love you and I'm so proud!!

I really need to work out more to be FIT for her big day.. I have til May 14..

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!!

BLACK FRIDAY...

MADNESS.. is the only word to describe the day after thanksgiving!! BUT i LOVe LOVE LOVE it.. I got some clothes for the boys and myself and some MOVIES!! I got HIYA OSO for 7 dollars!! How AWESOME is that!! Oh yeah HIYA OSO is Kung Fu Panda.. Brakken is learning Spanish and is now turning into a bilingual kid.. haha.. NOT so much.. But all the fam is telling him it's PANDA not OSO.. I don't think they know he is speaking spanish, i think they think he is making up words.. But oh well..
And we got WALL-E too (and a xmas movie).. And Wall-E is the movie we haven't got out of our DVD player.. It's been in our DVD player since FRIDAY!! I have the movie already memorized!! They want to watch it again but i have to have at least a hour of peace without it PLAYING! The Boys walk around the house saying WALL-E and EEE-Vah.. It's way cute..
I wish we could spend more MONEY on Black Friday but this year money it tighter than normal..
But on Saturday we took FAMILY pictures.. Debbie is giving them to Joel today at work so I'M WAY excited to see them.. We took them with all the FAM, Conner even came down from Florida to take them with us!! How awesome is that!! Oh yeah Conner is Scott's son (Joel's step dad's son) and he lives in Florida with mom.. I'll post the pictures when i get them from Joel today.. I have to admit we are one GOOD-LOOKING FAM!!

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..

Park City Girls WEEKEND

From Thursday to Sunday every year the Hansen fam (Joel's mom side of FAM) plans a 18 and older Park City trip. This trip involves SHOPPING, eating, GAMES, and MORE SHOPPING.. But this year we didn't have to much money for me to spend for all that fun.. So i went up Friday (21st) in the afternoon to hang for a few hours. Then after finding a shirt for me and a church outfit for the boys and pj's for the boys too.. We went to Wal-Mart.. Then to dinner at Cafe Rio..

Back table from the left going clockwise.. starting with the brown shirt with white undershirt girl... Brooke (Joel's cousin) Aunt Lori (Debbie's sister and Brooke's mom) Grandma Afton (Debbie's mom and Joel's Grandma) Aunt Kristy (Debbie's sister, her kids are too young to come) Cierra (Joel's cousin) Aunt Cami (she is kinda finding, and she is Debbie's sister and Cierra's mom)

Next table in the far right corner.. Kelly (Joel's cousin) and Aunt Cindy (Debbie's sister, and Kelly's mom) They didn't think they were in the picture..

Front table (the COOL people table) Debbie (Joel's mom, black shirt) Jesika (Joel's sister) and Myself (Joel's wife..)

I had a BLAST hanging out with Hansen GIRLS.. Thanks Hansen FAM!!

Then off to pick Joel up to WATCH the movie TWILIGHT!!!

I absolutely LOVED this movie!! I thought Edward was crazy looking.. But in the middle of the movie i was CRAZY about him!! He is DREAMY!! I want to see TWILIGHT again and AGAIN!! So if you haven't seem it GET out and SEE it!!

FIRE FUN

This is what we did last last TUESDAY (the 11th)!! our first time at the FIRE STATION!!

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This is what we did on FRIDAY for Madden's birthday party with the FAM!!

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This is what we did on Saturday with friends...
This is not all what we did my CAMERA broke so i couldn't take pictures!! Until after the party was over and we were just hanging out..

Brakken and his BIG SMILE!!

Savannah and Maddie with Elizabeth on the couch in the background..

Madden came to sit right next to Savannah..

Thanks to everyone that wished Madden a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and those that brought him gifts!! Madden MOMMY loves YOU!!