Alot going on with us..

I got my wisdom teeth removed on the 6Th.. Thanks mom for watching the boys for me that weekend.. Well from Thursday to Saturday, so more than the weekend.. And I also wanted to thank my Grandma and Papa for watching me.. haha.. That was ready nice of them to drive to Logan to take me to my appointment.. So Joel could get to work on time!! May i add that the whole surgery and recovery was about 30 MINUTES!! Well in the offices.. It took me about the whole weekend to feel better.. Holy cow 30 minutes, that's FAST!!!



Oh yeah on the 5Th.. Brother Westwood asked me if i would speak in church on the 15Th.. I told him i had to talk with Debbie to make sure about when Conner's Farewell. Well his farewell was going to be on the 15Th so i had to cancel the talk on the 15Th.. So he gave us the 22Th. then shortly after Debbie called back to tell us that Conner's farewell has changed bcuz of a funeral.. Oh yeah Joel's great grandma died of old age.. She was like 94 or 95... Yes i typed it right.. 94 or 95!! She truly lived a long life!! Conner's farewell is this Sunday.. I'm excited to listen to him talk... It's always nice to hear missionaries talk before and after their missions..



Well so as some of you know.. Joel and I talked in church this past Sunday.. I invited my family and Joel's family, oh yeah and some friends.. And the sad thing was that our friends were the only ones to come.. Thanks ZaeJo's!! You guys are AWESOME!! I was really glad that i was able to touch other people when i wrote the talk for those that didn't get to make it.. Well i guess there is always next time!! I was glad that some people came up to me saying that my talk was one of the best talks that they have heard in Sacrament.. I'm really grateful that i was able to tell about the Resurrection.. It truly was a blessing..



Oh yeah my camera broke so that's one of the reasons why I've not posted.. It got fixed today.. YEAH!!



Enough serious.. how about some funnys!!



Madden was getting his jammies on (the ones that zip up in the front and are one whole jammie) and put his left leg in the right leg spot.. I wish i could have taken a picture of it.. But maybe i will reenact it for better description.. It was PRETTY funny to see...



i have started to wear sandals and Brakken saw my Pirate (skull and cross bones on them) shoes.. And said "where are my pirate shoes MOM!!!", "where mine at mom??"



And Enrichment was the last Wednesday.. it was so much fun!! We ate Olive Garden soup and salad with yummy bread sticks... Played some games.. It was a blast!!



The other day Brakken was teaching the colors to Madden.. It was so cute.. Big Brother helping his Little Brother.. Brakken would say.. What color is this Madden, and before Madden could say anything back he would say the color.. Thanks Brakken for helping out your brother..



This is GREAT NEWS!! Madden has gone 5 nights WITHOUT wetting the bed at night!! He is almost potty trained!! No more diapers for us!! Yea!!!



Another thing that happened on some past Friday was Madden was talking with Kay (my mom roommate's little girl) and she looked at Madden (thinking he said something to her) and said huh?? and Madden answered with a WHAT?? then back and forth.. Huh? What? Huh? What?.. It was really cute seeing them talking to each other about nothing..



Oh yeah... Twilight came out.. And I've watched it twice since Thursday!! Not much but enough for some.. I want Joel to buy it for me without me hinting.. But i might have to drop some hints soon.. Thanks Wendy for letting us (Elizabeth and i) come over to watch the movie at your house!! And your brownies were awesome!!



Well i hope this SNOW stops!! I was getting so used to the warm weather and then it snows again!! I'm glad spring is coming, well i hope soon!!

New Years EVE and DAY

Thanks LeeAnne for emailing me all these pictures.. i couldn't do this post without your help..

New Years EVE
LeeAnne and Carlos asked us if we would like to come with them to the Utah State BBall game.. And here are the pictures of us at the GAME!!



Funny thing about us going to the game was we saw Chad and Chelsea (Joel's cousin and his wife) there.. They were only a few rows below us..
The game was fun!! They boys were DANCING. They would push up the seats so they had more room to DANCE! It was pretty FUNNY to watch and the people around us thought so too. I can't forget to tell you about Madden. He wanted to strip down to his blue "A" but we forgot to paint one on his chest.. haha. Brakken enjoyed whoosh.. Putting his hands in the air when they would shoot a free throw, and then when they made the shot everyone would say whoosh and drop their arms.. Now we have to say Whoosh every time Brakken makes a shot in his BBall hoop at home.. It's so CUTE!! We would take Brakken again, but not Madden. Brakken loved watching all the player run back and forth with the ball. And LOVED the mascot, and how the mascot dropped from the middle of the score board at the start of the game.. Brakken yelled AWESOME!! and Madden didn't enjoy it that much.. He wanted to just eat and play..
Thanks LeeAnne and Carlos for the invite..
After the game we came to our house for games and SNACKS!! Oh yeah and watched the BALL drop in the NYC..

JANUARY 1st 2009!! Wow I'm getting caught up..

There are the best buds!! All we are missing is Madden.. But Madden wanted ti throw a fit, so no driving the truck..

Man, we are stuck..Brakken looks like he is saying... "WUZ UP"

It was a WHITE CHRISTmas..

This is what we did on CHRISTmas day.. We woke up and we opened presents.. We have decided to only say ONE gift and the stockings are from Santa.. Everything else is from US!!!
Yes COOKIES are what we had for Breakfast!! And CANDY is what we had for lunch and dinner.. We might have squeezed in some healthy food, not much but enough for December 25Th.. After opening presents we headed to my Gma and Papa's house for Christmas day.. We had a great time.. My family got us FOOD storage! YEA!! They all thought it was funny and weird that i (Raelynn) wanted FOOD for CHRISTmas.. So they all were laughing when they gave us our presents.. Thanks Family for the the gifts.. You guys are Awesome.. Before leaving we played a little MAD GAB!! Funny, when you play with people that have had a little too much to drink, and when it's BOYS against GIRLS!! Pretty intense if you've played games with my family.. My cousin Mike wasn't playing but was at the other end (of a long) table would yell out the answer to the phrase that was being read ONLY for the boys (but i guess that's what he is).. And the score at the end was like... i don't remember cuz we DIDN'T win!! We were like 25 points behind..
After playing games we head to see Joel's grandma Pauline and his sister.. But when we stoped by Joel's gma's house she was sleeping (my i mention it was like 6pm). So we went to Jesika's house, hung out and talked and talked and talked..

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The pictures are of the boys in their NEW TRUCK!! They are going to know how to drive before they can ride a bike.. Something is wrong with that sentence.. but FUNNY!!! And there is a picture of Madden with HIS MOST FAVORITE person PAPA!! Sorry to those that think you're Madden's favorite.. You are most likely Brakken's..
And the pictures at the end are of what we had to drive through to get HOME!! We left Jesika's house (in Ogden) at about 11pm and got to Logan at about 2:30am.. But took us about almost or more that 1 hour to get into our PARKING spot!! Joel was shoveling the snow for some time and then ROCKING the car back and forth.. Going from 1st then to Reverse then over and over again!! It was a LONG night or morning...
Hope everyone had a GREAT day.. And i never understood when people would say "KIDS make Christmas". But now that i have KIDS they TRULY make Christmas.
This is what we did the day after Christmas..

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Brakken is a much better driver than Madden.. Madden drives really bad.. it's STOP GO then STOP and then GO!! They kept getting stuck in the snow.. But soon they will get the hang of driving..

oh yeah HIYA Panda was not left the boys DVD player since Christmas eve.. It plays over and over AGAIN!!

Debbie, Scott and Conner came in town on Friday the day after Christmas. So we planned to celebrate Christmas with them (Jesika, Seth, Nicole (Seth's sister), Jordan, Joel's Gma and Gpa Hansen) on the Saturday 27Th for dinner. We went to my Gma and Papa's house to hang out before we headed up to Debbie's house.. It was nice to have the holiday cut into a few days..

We didn't plan on staying the night but the WEATHER was not going to let us drive home in SAFETY!! So we all played xbox 360. i have to say i kick butt at HIYA Panda.. And Jordan, Conner and Joel STAYED up til like 4 or 5 in the morning, playing HALO 3!! Brothers... But Sunday was funner, we went to to Skybox to watch the games (JAX and MIA play). The Jags lost and Fins WON!! YEA!! Conner and myself played some games in the game room thing that they have to keep kids entertained while the parents watch Football.. We bowled and played air hockey.. Thanks for letting me play with you CONNER!! Your fun to be around.. Thanks for the fun weekend Debbie and Scott..

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!!

Labor Day

Today (well September 1st) is Seth's Birthday.. Happy Birthday Uncle Seth! We love you!!
Oh yeah take a look...
Uncle Jordie (red Head) and Uncle Seth with the BOYS
Brakken throwing SNOW at everyone and everything! Throw snow at Brother: CHECK, Throw Snow at Tree: CHECK...
Brakken and Madden telling Papa Debbie that there is SNOW!!
The boys can't wait for more snow to come!

SNOW!!! Just a little but still SNOW!!! There was some snow on the ground next to Jesika's and Seth's house!! CRAZY!! NO spring and now no FALL!! What's going on with the WEATHER!!

Does this look like SPRING?

I took this picture this morning.... yeah you guessed it..it's snow. So i thought that Spring was here!! i guess not in Logan!! i'm soooo looking forward in moving south and taking our trip to HAWAII!! And finally say good bye to the snow!.. all of the snow..