Sunday, February 7, 2010

A fun and rainy weekend in Logandale, NV

On my way home from one brother's house I stopped off to visit another! It was so fun to spend time with family and watch Holdyn and Kimber play with their cousins! Here is little Miss Brielle. She is always 'on the go' and cute to boot!

It was raining almost the whole 2 days we were there, but Heidi had fun things to do inside.
Here we are making fun Valentine crafts!

They have two birds that also entertained us. The girls loved them! Kimber looks pretty tired in this picture....probably because she was. Both girls did well for being on the go for a whole week and not being in their own beds!

Here is Boston with his bird Blue.
Anyway, Thanks for letting us stay at your place and play, and eat lots of junk food with you :)
Heidi made the point that it seems like every time I go visit something happends and we have to stay inside. A couple years ago, I went by their house and it turned out that one of their boys had meningitis and we were all put on 'lock down' for a week. It was awesome! Jason and I ran around with cans of Lysol spraying everything that Bridger and Heidi (who also got it) touched. GOOD TIMES!

Prayers and well wishes for Sara

As most of you know, I was able to go spend last week with 2 nephews and 3 nieces while their mom and dad went to Las Vegas for Sara to have a brain tumor removed. Here is a picture of their family.

Here is Sara just before her surgery.
The surgery went well (As far as getting the tumor goes)
but she's been pretty miserable since. She's one tough gal!
Here she is after her surgery. Sadly they had to shave the front part of her hair.
Not many people could pull of the 'skullet' (Hairdo named by her dad). But Sara
still manages to look great...just after surgery and with no make-up.

Anyway, we love you Sara! Your kids were fantastic! I hope your recovery gets better than it has been and that you can be back to feeling well soon! You are in our thoughts and prayers!



The Welcome Home sign

We had a blast painting and putting up the Welcome Home sign for Brad and Sara! Their kids were awesome and did a great job with their parents away.

Planting the Garden

While Brad was with Sara down in Las Vegas for her surgery we tried to keep the kids busy doing projects. With the help of Brenda and Joel, we combined forces (total of 11 kids) to get the garden put together. Joel did the tilling while the kids picked the rocks out of the garden area.

Here is Kyle moving the huge rock out of the garden.
Brooklyn, Annie, Courtney, Megan and Luke working on digging up a huge rock.
Brooklyn, Tyler, and Kyle
This (ABOVE) is Katelyn the champion doggie pooper scooper!!!
Avrie (Above) and Annie (Below) sporting their cute smiles. Can you tell they are sisters? :)

Here is part of the crew hard at work. It was nearly dark when they finished planting and watering all of the seeds. Hope Brad and Sara like the surprise!

A quick trip to the Park




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Monday, January 25, 2010

Happy Birthday Rachel


Today was our GREAT friend Rachel's Birthday!
We had her and Cody over for (one of her favorites)
a Taco Soup dinner. Ben was on call at the hospital so he missed out.
We mostly just watch Holdyn hit Cody with balloons :)
We also made her cookies and some cookie dough instead of a cake.
We enjoyed it!
Happy Birthday Rachel!!!

Super Fun Saturday!

We had a long week full of rain but when Saturday came,
the sun came out! Holdyn was invited to Charlotte's
Birthday party which was a formal-wear Tea Party.
She had a BLAST to say the least! Here she is dressed up before the party.
Kimber had on a scowl most of the day, she wasn't cooperating as I was trying to fix her hair,
so Ben came up with the 'strap her in the doll stroller' idea. Worked pretty good.
Our ward was doing a service project at a local cemetery.
The girls jumped in with their little shovels and helped clean off the headstones...or
at least had fun digging holes and playing in mud puddles.
The night came and we thought they'd be worn out, but as you can see,
Kimber still has her scowl on, and as soon as her boots go on it is time to play.