Winter is Here!

Monday morning I woke up bright and early to put out our garbage (yes, the garbage truck comes at 6:45, bless their hearts), opened up our garage and stepped out onto some white icy stuff with my bare toes. A little surprised, but I proceeded to drag the garbage bags out onto the sidewalk, barefeet and all...who wants to take time to go back inside for shoes?....Besides, growing up in Cedar City gave me an appreciation for snow...it might as well snow if it's going to be super cold, right? Anyway, Haylee woke up at 7:30, looked out the window, and said "MOM, CHECK IT OUT, SNOW! HOW FUN, NOW WE CAN GO OUT AND EAT IT AND STUFF." She tried to talk me into letting her go right outside but I held her off until about 8:30. Brecken was super excited as well and headed straight outside after some pancakes. He wasn't going to skip out on breakfast like his sister tried to do. The most exciting part for him was jumping on the icy trampoline, trying not to slip and fall and get all wet! Oh how I remember those childhood days!

Our 1 year old

We love our little Alainey! She turned one year old on November 14th. She is soo good to her mommy and daddy! Alainey has the sweetest personality and she is always happy. She can melt anyone's heart (especially daddy's) with her big blue eyes and and contagious smile. We feel so blessed to have her in our family. We Love U!!

Alainey with her little friend Elisa

Our little Kitty


Look at our trick-or-treaters!
Lets go get some candy!
These two were so fun to watch on Halloween. Brecken had talked for weeks about being "zorro" for Halloween and riding around on his black horse to save people. But then a few days before Halloween we were browsing the costumes on Target's website and he spotted the power rangers costumes. He quickly changed his mind about zorro and informed me that he wanted to be a power ranger. Well, I certainly don't have the sewing capabilities to make an official power ranger costume so I told him we could just go take a look at Target and see what they have left. Much to my surprise, when we got back to the halloween clearance section in Target there was this blue power ranger costume hanging on the rack....and it was just his size. How lucky are we! Brecken really wanted Haylee to be a purple power ranger with him but Haylee was dead set on being Sheriff Woody. She also had a really cute Barbie Fairy Princess outfit to choose from but I think she opted for Woody because she loves wearing her cowgirl hat! Anyway, they started out walking from house to house but by the end they were running. Layne and I had to be on our toes to keep up!

Look How We've Changed

We've entered back into the blogging world again and it feels good to be back! We were without internet at our home for awhile which caused the absence of blogging. It's been fun to check out everyone's blogs to see what you've all been up to. I have to admit that I've been staying up way too late the last two nights...oops. We wanted to post some updated pics of our kiddos since it has been so long! And this is just the start of some catchin up to do!

Computer troubles.....Ah!!

Yes, we have major computer troubles! That is why I have been a missing blogger for awhile. Our screen on our laptop cracked so we can't see anything on it. An awesome ward member let us borrow an extra monitor that he had so we hooked our laptop into it. But that has been a little hit and miss too. We just pray that we're lucky and it will work so we can keep up on all the important things, like blogging.......!
So if any of you know of any awesome computer deals going on right now, let us know!

Family Time

Just a quick update for ya'll. Alainey is 3 months! Wow, time sure does fly by. I think I say that in about every post, don't I...... She has started to coo at us when we talk to her. Brecken and Haylee will say, "look mom, she is talking to you." Brecken and Haylee love it when she smiles at them and they seem to get the best smiles by simply saying "Hi" to her over and over with a really cute voice. The kids got to go outside and play with the dogs the other day because it was sunny and warm! Yes! I hope it continues to get warm, I'm ready! Little note to self......summer babies are the way to go!
This family picture was just taken in December. We need to go get another one done now that Alainey has learned to smile!

Tribute to President Hinckley

I know that it has been a couple of weeks since President Hinckley passed on but I still wanted to pay tribute to him. What an amazing man, with a catching smile that made everyone feel good. Our kids absolutely adored him and loved to see pictures of him. I had a chance to meet him in Cedar City when he came to the Shakespearrean Festival. It was only a brief handshake and 'hello' but wow, what an effect it had on my life. I felt as though I had gotten a little glimpse of what heaven is like through him. Thanks President Hinckley, for your life, teachings, and love.
Here is an awesome video tribute to check out:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7433508959787481703