Christmas!!!

Connor got a new garage for his cars. This was the first year he really believed in Santa. It was really fun!!


Kristoffer got a new spider-man bike from Santa. He was very excited!!



My girls were very excited Christmas morning when they woke up and saw that Santa left them a Wii!!!!


Playing guitar hero!! This is one of their favorite games. I am terrible at it. Maybe when the kids go back to school I can practice and try to beat them.


Jonathon and Kristoffer love the Wii too!

Congrats Maggie

Maggie finally graduated from nursing school on December 13th. We are very proud of her. It was not a moment too soon since she is due in February.


Maggie reading the "nurses pledge."


Wesley and Maggie at the pinning ceremony.

Katelynn's Birthday

Katelynn had her 13th birthday this month. She has been acting like a teenager for a while so it's about time she legally became one.




Thanks to all who made her birthday special. She had a wonderful time.

Kristoffer's Christmas Program

Kristoffer had his Christmas program yesterday. It was so cute. Kristoffer is painfully shy when it comes to getting up in front of people so we didn't think he would do it but we were proud of him. He did a good job. Sorry the video is a little shaky but I was trying not to laugh.

My Anniversary

On November 23, 1996 I married Jonathon for eternity in the St. George temple. I have been in love with him since I was about 16 years old. Marriage has definitely been harder than I thought it would be but it has also been wonderful. I love him more every day.

Trunk or Treat!!

We had our trunk or treat on Wednesday night at our church. The kids had a great time. Katelynn and Ashley went around with their friends. Kristoffer went with his cousins and Connor helped me give out candy.


Kristoffer dressed up as spiderman. He didn't like having his face covered so we left the mask off.


Connor was Bob the Builder. He loves Bob the Builder so he had a big smile most of the night. He didn't really want to get candy, he just wanted to help me give it out.


Ashley was a witch. Katelynn was at soccer practice so she is not in any of these pictures. She is probably getting too old to dress up but she went as Rosalie from "Twilight." I'm not sure if people knew what she was supposed to be but she had fun anyways.


Connor loves this dragon costume. My friend, Trisha let me borrow this dragon costume to see if Kristoffer would wear it. It didn't fit Kristoffer but Connor loves it. He wore it all day yesterday. He even took his nap in it. I had to leave the fan on. By the time I took it off last night he was sweating.


Connor is trying to open a bag of goldfish crackers. He would not let me help him. It was pretty funny to watch.

Family Home Evening

Kristoffer needed a little help but he was pretty proud of his pumpkin! He drew the big circles around his eyes to try and help me out.


All of the kids had a good time carving their pumpkins!


Ashley cutting out her pumpkin!


Katelynn was helping Connor carve his pumpkin!!

It's Connor's turn to go to school!

Connor started preschool today. He was a little nervous but mostly excited. I was having a hard time leaving the school because he is just so young. He just turned 3 a few weeks ago. It just makes me a little nervous.

I love school!!!!

I don't know who was smiling bigger, me or the kids. I just feel so free. I still have Connor at home but he will start pre-school next week. Then what will I do with all of that free time?




Kristoffer has been looking forward to wearing his football outfit for a month. Of course he had to take his comfort toy (football) with him to school.


Katelynn said she had butterflies in her stomach. This is her 1st year in junior high.


Ashley had perma-grin. She was so excited for school!!

Connor's birthday party!!!

Connor was so happy when he woke up from his nap and saw all of the Lightning McQueen decorations.


Connor did feel very special while everyone sang Happy Birthday to him.


While Connor was opening presents he kept wanting to stop and play with what he had just opened so Jonathon had to keep telling him to open another one.


Connor had a great time on his birthday. Thanks to everyone who helped make his birthday special.

Family Pictures

We had a little family reunion last weekend. We had our family pictures taken while we were all together which does not happen very often.


Family pictures with 11 grandchildren is tricky. This picture has my Dad and Kathy and my Mom and Larry holding all of the grandkids. They are good sports to get along and take pictures together for the kids.


It was a lot of fun seeing my siblings again. We always have a good time when we get together.

Ashley's finally 10!!!!

Ashley is finally 10. We had a slumber party for her on Friday to celebrate.




Ashley invited some friends for pizza and bowling!! They had a really good time!

Ashley's birthday party

Boys will be boys!!

Kristoffer and Connor found the smallest mud puddle they could find after we watered the lawn. The puddle got bigger the longer they played. I thought they were innocently playing in the yard. And this is what I found.



Both the boys kept sticking their heads in the muddy water.

Boys & Puddles

Our Camping Trip

We went on a camping trip over the fourth of July weekend. The campground was by Silverton, Colorado. We went to Silverton for the fireworks and we went four wheeling. We had a really good time. We desperately needed a vacation.


Kristoffer, Abbie, Easten & Connor loved taking rides on the four wheelers with an adult of course.


Jonathon was enjoying a little snooze!!!


Kristoffer & Ashley enjoying their cousin Abbie and some friends.


Maggie, Larry, Katelynn, Ashley and Maggie's father-in-law Rodney rode to the top of the mountain with us. Isn't this a beautiful view. It is so peaceful up there!! I loved it!!


Ashley & Katelynn at the top of the mountain.


Maggie and Audrie at 13,000 feet. It was beautiful!!