Total craziness

It has already been a crazy school year this year. Having four kids in school helping in two classrooms and having two dancers and two basketball players has made for a very busy school year. Laney and Maya are dancing this year with Vogue Dance company. Laney danced for them last year so this is her second year and this is Maya's first year dancing and she is loving it. It keeps them very busy and hopefully worn out. Hunter and Isaac started playing basketball this year and its there first year doing it. They are actually doing really good. They practice two days a week and then they have games every Saturday. They are in the YMCA league right now and then in Jan they will play in the Iona league. It has been fun for them because there team consists of there T-ball team so they know all the boys and they also get to play with there cousin Jaron.
We had a great Halloween and Thanksgiving being with lots of family. I am not very good at taking pictures but we did have a great time. We are also very excited for Christmas and being surrounded by family. We also get to look forward to Laney getting baptized on Jan 5 2013 she has been talking about getting baptized since she was 6 so she is definitely ready and excited. I am not so sure I am I mean I am I want her to be baptized I am just not sure I like the whole growing up thing. Well I hope this next year I can be better at taking pictures and blogging.

All I have to say is it has been a crazy 6 years. Starting out with the shock of finding out half way through my pregnancy that I was having twins and then having them come 5 and 1/2 weeks early. Our daughter Laney was only twenty months old when we had them it was crazy but I wouldn't trade it for the world. These boys are such special spirits and I love them so much. Even though they have kept me on my toes for the last 6 years it as been the best and I would do it again in a heart beat. So enjoy looking down memory road with me cause it has been an awesome 6 years. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUNTER and ISAAC!!!!!

I am so excited how these family pictures turned out. I always get a little crazy with family pictures I will admit. I think of colors to wear and hope they turn out good. So I was really excited how well the colors turned out and went together. My sister-in-law Melissa did an amazing job she had to deal with wind and a little bit of rain towards the end but she did awesome and they turned out great. My kids even did pretty darn good I was really proud of them and maybe they did so good cause I bribed them with ice cream but whatever works right. Thanks Melissa you did awesome. Here are just a few of my favorites.

Happy Birthday Maya!!!!!

I can't believe my baby is four today. It seems like yesterday I had her. She has been such a blessing in our lives. I just can't imagine life without this little outgoing crazy girl. She kind of throws me for a loop she would rather play in the dirt and her brothers toys than do the whole girly thing. This past year I have had the opportuniy to just have Maya home with me while the older kids are at school and it has been so much fun to have that one on one time with her and enjoy reading to her or playing. We love you Maya and can't believe how big you have gotten. I hope you enjoy going back in time and looking at some pictures of Maya.

Finally a new post

Ok so it has been a really long time since I have done anything on my blog. I realized I didn't even post pictures of Laney's seventh birthday. I am so bad at this I hope to be better. I don't really like my computer so that could be a HUGE reason why I don't update my blog. So sorry. I decided to start off with easter. We had a great easter weekend. We colored eggs did an easter egg hunt all the fun stuff that goes along with easter. Then on Easter Sunday like we always do we went to church with my parents it was a great day the sun was shining and we were able to go for a little walk it was a great day to spend with my family. Anyway here are my cute kiddos in the easter sunday outfits they sure look cute!!!!

family pictures

So we decided to get some more family pictures done. We had Brant's sister-in-law Melissa take them and she did a great job considering Laney was kind of a pill. Laney decided to cry the whole time and it was kind of interesting but we had a great time. Thanks Melissa.

BALLOON FIESTA TRIP

So I am totally obsessed with this author. Marcia Lynn McClure is my FAVORITE author. She writes the best romance novels. Anyway she wrote a book that took place in Albuquerque New Mexico and in the book the main characters go to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Well Brant had two free tickets and we needed to use them so he said where do you want to go we can go anywhere. So I told him well we have been to California a couple of times already so I decided to google the balloon fiesta to see if it was a real event. Well it is so I told Brant I wanted to go to New Mexico. He was like what are you crazy what is there. Well I had to tell him it was from one of my Marcia books and he was funny he looked at me like I was totally insane to plan a trip around a book, but he agreed. So we started making our plans. There was a restaurant in the book called Sadies so I googled that too and it was real. So I told my sister April who is equally obsessed with her books and she said she wanted to come so I said come you and Todd can come it will be so fun. So all four of us decided to go. It just happened to be a weekend that the kids had no school. So we talked to grandparents and got it all arranged. Are plan was to go to two balloon shows. Well the first was is called a special shapes rodeo where all the hot air balloons are a different shape well that was Friday so we got up at 3:00 a.m. to catch the bus. Well to our disappointment it got rained out so we didn't get to see them. Well the next day was going to be the Mass ascension where over 800 balloons take off at the same time. It was AWESOME we were cold but it was totally worth it. We ended up going to Sadies to eat and loved it. We also went to old town Albuquerque and got to see a Mariachi band play and walk around there. We also got to see the Albuquerque Temple which was way cool too. We had such a fun trip with no kids Ha Ha. We missed our families but it was also really fun to get away. I hope you enjoy the pics we was an experience I will always remember.