Merry Christmas!

Christmas was so fun! The day got started to early, like always. We can thank Brittany for that:) she was in our room from about 3 o'clock on every few minutes asking if we could go see what santa brought. It was one of those nights that I felt like I would do almost anything for those few extra minutes of sleep. We did make her wait until 6:00, and she did survive just to let you know. The kids had a ball, Brex totally understood the unwrapping thing. Londyn went right to her new dollhouse, and Brex to his racetrack, and then Britt was quick to find her new mint chocolate phone. After letting the kids play for a bit, we went to nana & papa's house for breakfast with the fam. It is tradition to have "buiscuts & choc gravy" it is so yummy! we look forward to the few times a year that we get this treat. We then spent most of the day there with fam. A few of these pics are from our Christmas eve party that was done Hawaiian style. Hope you all had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Once there was a snow man

So my kids just LOVE to do the snowthing, so while being in Utah this past weekend. Londyn especially, really wanted to be outside alot. She kept asking her uncle Blaine to help her to build a snow man. So they did get one built and it looked great!

Jordon is home from Oregon:)

So on Friday 21st morning, Brex & I flew to SL to see my bro fly in from his mission. He has been serving in Portland, OR. He looks so great! I love my fam, so even though the weather was very snowy and very very cold, which made his flight delayed several hours. We still had a great time visiting, while taking over the busy holiday airport. Afterwards we went to eat and then to see the Joseph Smith movie. It was fantastic! we then went to the Temple Square lights. Brex was having a hard time because the day was a long one, and he never did get a good nap in, soooo we didn't get to stay as long as we would have liked, but what we did see really helped to get into the Christmas spirit. So my mom will just love this picture of her with her eyes closed (this is a regular thing with her and picture taking:))))) the people in the pics are my sisters and my mom and in the background is my dad. In the other pic is me and my Bro Jordon.

Britt's Pro decorating skills

Brittany went to a Austin's, who is a friend from schools party this past Saturday. They have an annual gingerbread house making party for Christmas every year, there were oddles of people there. His mom is like a super mom, she baked enough sugar cookies to build atleast 30-40 of these ginormous houses. They had tons of candy to decorate with, I am sure of the fact that this was a hit for everyone, infact I think that I want to try to make one:) when Britt got the invite, I seriously was expecting like the grahm cracker over emty milk carton style houses. Fun fun! the kids are so funny, they are just dying to eat this thing, but we have it displayed on the kitchen table. Sooo, Britt has set up some rules, the back of this house is free game as long as noone takes things from the front. Ha, you should see what the back is looking like a week later. Londyn spends I swear half the day checking things out deciding what she is going for and then how to make the attempt for it even though she is always wanting the stuff she cant have. This has created much entertainment.

December update

I need to get back into updating this blog:) We are so busy getting ready for Christmas, yeah, we LOVE christmas! We got our pics taken by a friend, and she did a great job. We have lots of big things coming up besides Christmas, on the 21st my Bro Jordon will be coming home from his mission, he has been serving in the Portland Oregon mission. I am preety close to my bro, I have missed him oddles, Brexen and I are flying to SL early on the 21st to be there when Jordon flys in. We will then ride down with my parents to there house where Brad and the girls will be waiting. We will stay for 2 days and then get back home on christmas eve in time for our party. Also my b-day is on the 30th, followed by New yrs. thennnnnnn on the 2nd of Jan we are going back to Hawaii:) Brad and I are going without any kiddos, it will be fun, but I am really worried about how much I will miss my babies.

A few more from our family reunion

Angela sent over all of her pics from our reunion, she had so many great ones, so I decided to add a few more for you all to see:) The top one had everyone except for my grandpa Peipgrass in it, he ended up not being able to get there til later than expected. As you can see we had a great time!

family reunion

We just went to our family reunion this past weekend. We all had such a great time! It was up at my parents cabin just outside of Blanding. My dad and brother Blaine have done so much work on it, "da cabin" looks great, and worked perfect for all of us up there. We plan on doing our reunion there every year. The weather was such a releif from the million degree weather we have been having here. It was overcast everyday, and we even got some rain a couple times, but it was perfect. Its to bad that it takes so long for us to get there because otherwise we would go up there more often. While there we had a suprise 30th wedding anniversary for my parents, I think that we did good to keep it a suprise. We spent part of Saturday at the lake until we got rained out, we had rented canoes and kayka's. We were a little bumbed not to get more water time. One of these pictures is of Brad and Brian spinning Jen and Ang on the swing that my dad built out of an axel, so it was well greased and would get going like a million miles an hour, it looked like a ton of fun, however I didn't ever get on it because I know that I have a week stomach for spinning:) but they were good sports. And most importantly we all got a great laugh, they both hopped off the swing sick and dizzy, jen went stumbling trying to catch her footing. Brittany was almost non existant while there, she was so busy running with the pack, and londyn had so much fun getting dirty, one day she spent the better part of it playing in a water puddle. Brex was so tuff and was crawling across gravel to get to the fun, his favorite thing to do was ride on the ranger, one day he wouldnt go down for his nap and he was so tired and was fussy, so I took him for the longest ride, and he didnt budge the entire time.

Britt's new room

ok, so can you say polka dots. After spending what seems like forever in Britt's room painting and putting dots everywhere we are pretty much finished:) we still need to hang a few pictures, but this will let you see how cute it turned out. And needless to say, Brittany LOVES it!

4th of July

This year at the 4th we had a great time as always. Brexen and Londyn stayed and watched the parade with grandma and grandpa Bradford, grandma Lyman, Angela, Brian, and mom and dad. Brittany got to ride with grandpa Lyman in the parade, she was on the back of his 4 wheeler, she had a blast! The day was a hot one, we stuck around for the races for the kids, diving for dollars (Brittany did great and walked away with over $10), also Brittany did a swimming relay and took first place in her age group, I had no idea that she was such a fantastic swimmer. We watched a little of the horseshoe tournement and then ate lunch befor taking off up to the cabin where it was a little cooler. We played pool, and then started our own horseshoe tourney and I would like to say that Angela and I won! later that night we went to watch the fireworks, they were great as always, however the wind kicked up this year towards the finale and they had to postpone it for a bit. We left and got the kids to bed and those that were up later got a finale that was wow! unfortunatly I didn't see it, but I did wake up wondering if we were in the middle of a war zone.

I got the ok from the Adults at the party!

I thought nobody wanted me to show our funny pictures of us on the waterslide, but when they read the blog they wondered where those pics were. sooo here they are:) we all just look so great! This was so fun, we got laughing so hard at each other at times we thought we would pee our pants. we would get going so fast that we would fly off of the end of the slide. One of the pics is of Brad,Tracy, and Jami racing on the slip and slide, Brad won by a landslide.

Brittany's Suprise party #9

So we had suprize birthday party for Brittany yesterday. 7/21/07 it was a huge sucess! I have to say that it is super hard to plan a suprize party while she was out for summer break. She was always with me and always asking lots of questions about all the phone calls, etc..... but in the end it was great. Everyone that knows Brittany knows that she is never at a lack for words, and we managed to make her speechless. When she walked through the front door all of her little friends jumped out blowing those little party blowers and screaming. Britt just stood there with no expression on her face, infact I dont remember who said it, but they thought that she looked almost mad. But she totally wasnt, it just took her a second to realize that we had pulled a fast one on her:) All of the kids had a blast, Londyn loved the slide! we had swimming, a slippin' slide and the blow up slide. We had a cute little snow cone machine, so the kids just helped themselves while running from thing to thing. I have some great pictures of all of the adults playing on the slide, butttttt I have threatened not to show those pictures, I will say that it was so funny. Britt we LOVE ya!