Conference & Flying Kites

For Conference weekend we headed down to Mapleton. We enjoyed a couple days of warm weather and on Sunday woke up to a few inches of snow. . . . Isn't Spring time in Utah so fun?!?! Saturday in between sessions we roasted hot dogs (from the burn pile dad had going), flew kites, rode the quad (as Tessa calls it), and grandpa gave tractor rides as he was plowing the orchard. It was a fun day, and all of us got sunburned in the overcast weather.

Jeremy worked on his jeep over at the shop (you can kind of see his jeep across the street) while all of us tried to untangle kites and get them up in the air!

Nice sunglasses Hatee . . . I think I had those when I was her age.

I love how some fashions make their way back around!

Tessa, Reagan and Abby having a good time!

"Look how high it is!"

It sure is fun to have Tessa (I guess Abby and Chad too)

so close to us now!

She is such a sweet little girl and so much fun!

We loved the nice relaxing weekend we had and enjoyed being able to watch Conference!

Cute Things!

This is Jeremy and Bree. She is one cute and funny baby. Bree gets to come and play at our house some Friday's (yeah for 4-10's!) while her parents go to work, and some Sunday's when BOTH of her parents have to (get to?!) go to ward council (yep they are pretty righteous). Brock and Melanie have been our good friends ever since we moved into the ward and we enjoy hanging out and playing with them and their little munchkin.

Reading up on the primary lesson in their jammies!

She is too cute!

I got an amaryllis before Christmas and it finally bloomed. It sure was pretty.

I saw this cute wreath idea posted on a blog over a year ago. I had it bookmarked on our computer and decided that I should make it this year for a Valentine's wreath for our front door. It looks so cute and was a very easy project, just lots of cutting little red felt circles and pinning. If you are interested I got the idea from here.

Here is a close up of it on our front door

(don't look too close, looks like our front door needs a good clean!)

Happy Valentine's Day!

xoxo

New Baby, Christmas and always wear a helmet!

Brett and Wendy (Jeremy's sister) got a wonderful Christmas present! Noelle (Ellie) was born on December 22nd. We were able to go and visit them in the hospital. What a sweet thing!

Uncle Jer with three cute girls!

We were able to spend a few days down in Mapleton over Christmas, and this is the only picture I took!

(They are pretty cute kids though!)

We had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed being our families.

Before Christmas we met the Greer family down at Temple Square and ate at the Lion House and walked around to see the lights!

We had somewhat of an exciting week leading up to New Years.

(Although this kind of exciting is the type that I wouldn't mind never having to do again!)

The Tuesday after Christmas dad was pushing snow on his 4 wheeler in front of the house. One minute he was on his 4 wheeler and the next he wasn't and was face down on the road. No one saw the accident but luckily people found him seconds after it happened. He took a ride in the ambulance and after a few hours and two CT scans later, the dr.'s decided they needed to go in and do emergency surgery to drain the blood that was collecting in his brain, as his condition was getting bad . . very fast! The surgery went well and they were able to repair the skull fractures and put in a drain tube for the blood. He was in the ICU for the next several days then spent a few days in a "regular" hospital room (which happened to be the smallest hospital room known to man!) He is home now and recovering (which means he is back going to work and doing his church callings!) The nurses all said, "now that is why you wear a helmet when you are riding 4 wheelers." So I guess even if you are pushing snow going 2 miles an hour you should just play it safe and wear a helmet! I think we could find a nice pink one for him!

His cut up clothes

A picture that I took on my phone while he was sleeping in the ICU.

Grandpa's biggest fan! (Although that was as close as Micah would get . . . hospital rooms and grandpa's connected to things are kinda scary, wouldn't you agree?!?!)

His awesome horseshoe scar

Those few days we surely felt the power of prayer and were grateful for everyone who thought of him! We love our dad/grandpa and glad that he is home safe and back to "normal!"

Work Parties!

Figured I had better write about Christmas before the holiday comes around again! Both of us had fun work Christmas parties. For my work they let us leave the office for a few hours and enjoy some food from the Golden Corral and some much needed time away from our desks! I walked away with a $5.00 gift card to Subway and a sweet metal water bottle (which I can't even use because when I fill it up with ice and cold water at work, it is SO cold on my hands! I know. . . . I am a pansy!) Now to the fun party. Jeremy's work had their party at the Grand America. We were able to go last year and lucky enough to be able to go again this year (even though Jeremy only puts in like 5 hours every two weeks). It was so fancy and such a fun night!

A pansy picture to go with my pansy reference above! (There wasn't any snow there that night. It was just REALLY cold!)

Thanksgiving 2010

This Thanksgiving we headed down to Mapleton. The Vegas family came out and we all had a great time eating way too much and playing! On Friday we all headed up to Draper to visit Grandma and to go to a fun place that Nichole called "Chuck E Cheese on steroids" The place had arcades, mini bowling, bumper cars, miniature golfing and such. We had a lot of fun!

All the cute kids with Great Grandma Rose

The girls on the bumper cars

Hatee helping her dad win some tickets!

Nichole beating Adam in basketball

Yeah for bowling! It was a the perfect size for little people!

We were able to see Brandon and Stacie and their cute kids for a few minutes while we were both in Mapleton for the holiday. It was wonderful talking with them and catching up! Even if it was only just for a few minutes!

Cute Maelea

Smile!

The cute flower center piece Kelsey made for Thanksgiving dinner

Apparently Thanksgiving is boring!

We had a great time!

Friends and Baby Showers

Katie and Chris are having a baby! We had a baby shower for her at our apartment. It was sure fun visiting with old friends and seeing all the cute little itty bitty baby things! Can't wait to meet the little guy! (I am still rooting for the name "Bridger" since we all lived in Bridgerland Apartments, but Katie says that name sounds like it would be a naughty little boy. She is a teacher and knows naughty, so I guess we will have to think of some more options for them!)

We forgot to take a picture until everyone was gone, so we got one of just us!

All the great presents!

The wind was blowing like crazy that day. I had crepe paper wrapped on our balcony and as Jeremy was taking it down it was flying straight out!

Lisa came to Utah to visit for a few days! It was so fun to meet her and Emily at our favorite meeting place, The Training Table.

We had fun talking, laughing and eating way too many fries!

Come back and visit soon Lisa!

Halloween (Past and Present!)

Halloween sure is a fun time of the year! It is especially fun for Miss Maren because every year she gets to have a fun halloween/birthday party.

This years party did not let us down!

Birthday girl and Mr. Oreo face.

(Don't mind their mom wrapped up in toilet paper, she was getting cold and that was all she could find to keep warm . . . .

or we were playing a minute to win it game!)

Hatee taking her her turn at spinning (Note for next year . . play all spinning games before eating large amounts of food)

Who knew toilet paper was so much fun to play with?!

It kept the kids entertained for a good 15 minutes!

Hatee shaking her booty!

Oreo contest . . .

Task: Oreo starts on forehead and needs to end up in your mouth

(using NO hands!)

I did not do well at that game. Jeremy did great!

Warren Jeffs and his lovely wives

Jeremy was a chilean miner and I was a paper doll

(can you tell we didn't have much time or a lot of creativity this year!)

And now for Halloweens past . . . .

Halloween 2008

(skipped 2009 cause I already blogged about it last year!)

I was a nerd and the girls were from High School Musical

A couple days after Maren's party that year we all packed up and headed to Disneyland for a fun filled family vacation!

Disneyland was decorated so cute and we had a GREAT time!

Cousins! (Aren't they cute?!)

Halloween 2007

(Ward par-tay up the canyon in a big lodge)

Katie and I were flappers, Hannah was a gypsy and

Chris was a rocker (I think!)

Yeah for Halloween it is such a fun holiday!