Our Piggy Had Her Babies!!!

She actually had them on Friday the 19th but I didn't want to bother them with pictures until now. They are all so cute and fun! Curly had three babies two are curly haired and one is slick hair. I am not 100% sure if we have all girls or two girls and one boy. Maybe it will become more obvious when they get a little older. Any way.... the kids are having fun feeding them, watching them and making sure they have plenty of hay to chew on! They are getting really active and love chasing their mommy. I placed an ad on KSL to sell them today. I think they will be able to go when they are about three weeks old. Troy even said we could keep them if we wanted to!!! Amazing!!! But I do not think we will. They are slightly smelly but it would be fun to play with them outside in the backyard when it gets warmer.

Dustin and Cameron with Santa

Jimmy and Sarah with Santa

St. George had a snow day and canceled school on Thursday. The kids had lots of fun playing outside and building a snowman. We only had enough snow to make one. We used all our neighbors snow to! Snowballs were thrown and hands got cold so we came in a made some hot chocolate with our Cocoamotion! We even sang a song about it! It goes like this....

Cocoa in motion it's cocoa in motion.....

(Maybe you had to be there. It was pretty funny)

Cameron and Dustin worked very hard to make this ball of snow. It was so heavy I could barley roll it! The snow was very slushy! I am so out of practice at building snowmen It has been to long since I built one. But the kids did great! I love to spend time with them! They are the greatest joy in my life!!!!

OMG!!!!

We have been so busy with getting ready for Christmas! Well I have at least!! We had such a fun time for Thanksgiving! Thanks to everyone for craft time, food and fun family time! I love Thanksgiving dinner because you can eat like a pig and nobody cares because your supposed to eat to much, right!! The kids had so much fun to. They made lots of cool project and got to play in a small amount of snow. Enough for the big kids to throw snowballs at the little ones! O' and I can't forget the train!! Dustin and Cameron had loads of fun driving Grandpa's train. I love there smiling faces. They just glow with excitement. Thanks Grandpa for being awesome and having a train for the kids to drive!!!

This is Thanksgiving lunch. Yummy! PB&J

Craft Time!!!!

Sarah and Jimmy spent most of the day making cool shapes with these beads and then I got to iron them to make them stick together. Troy even got into it. It was lots of fun! Cameron and Dustin each made one then down to the train they went!(and stayed)

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and was able to find things they were thankful for. I sure know I did!!! We love you all so much and thank you for all you do for us!!!!

Jimmy had his first pack meeting!!! YEAH!! He was able to get his Bobcat patch (and I got a Bobcat mom pin!). He is now officially a Wolf. He is doing so great and has already passed of several achievements. He is so close to getting his first silver arrow, only two achievements away! He is very motivated to earn some more for next time. Some of the other boys earned belt loops and Jimmy says he would like some of those to, but first he needs a belt. His leaders are really great people and I am so glad to have them.

Pomegranate Jelly

A team of helpers and me made pomegranate jelly yesterday. Grandma and Grandpa Merrill came over early yesterday morning to help me. We made a huge mess of the kitchen and had lots of fun. We soaked the pomegranates and then cut them in half and took the seeds out. Then we cleaned them really good and put them in a juicer. What a fun time!! It went pretty well but one time the juicer got off balance from the pulp build up and it started swinging around and making juice go every wear! It took Grandma and me to get the darn thing under control. Even Dustin got in on the fun!

We ended up with 39 jars of jelly!!! It is so yummy!!! They are such a pretty color to!!

Private Blog

I have recently made my blog private due to some disturbing news. I have sent out e-mail invitations to everyone I have addresses for, but if you know of anyone who would like to read my blog that is unable to please let me know. All I need is there e-mail address. Thanks!!! I hope this will make it safe enough to keep posting pictures.

Hey everyone!! Well tonight is the night the kids have been waiting for. CANDY CANDY CANDY!! We finally carved our pumpkins last night and here are some windows into our fun time doing it. Sarah, Jimmy and Cameron were big fans of getting there hand as gooey as possible!! Dustin not so much! He cried!! It was lots of fun anyway. I love Halloween. We also had fun at the kids school today with a parade and a class party. Dustin and I went in with Cameron's class. All the kids were so cute! Well happy haunting tonight!!!!

Today is my birthday!!! I am officially 31 years old. Man how the time has flown!! I am going to eat cake and ice cream tonight and watch a movie with the kids. Troy is out of town so we will probably do something fun this weekend to celebrate. My sister sent me these pics from my birthday when I was a cute little girl. I am not sure how old I was but I am guessing around 4 years old.

Well Jimmy's baptism was a great success!! We had a large amount of family come and watch him be baptised. It was so awesome!! I loved to see all the little kids gather at the front of the font and watch. Brother Webber was the representative from our bishopric. Sunday morning he made a comment during sacrament meeting how awesome it was that there were 6 kids being baptised and when our ward was called for there turn to go almost the entire room was emptied!!! Thanks to everyone who helped with lunch. It turned out so nice. We got some fun family pictures to.


Thank for everyones support!!!

Jimmy's Baptism

Jimmy would like to invite everyone to his baptism. It is going to be on October 11th at the LDS chapel at 1200 N. and Bluff at 10am. It would be great if he could have some family there to celebrate this day with him. We will have a lunch at the Royal Oaks park if weather permits. Please let me know if you will be able to come so I know about how much food we will need for the lunch. Thanks everyone!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU TONZ AND TONZ!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR 8 YEARS OLD!!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOUR CHOICE TO GET BAPTIZED.

THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT SON!!!

Happy Birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUSTIN!!!!!

We love you so much !!!!

Dustin can always make us laugh and we are so happy to have him in our family.

We are going to travel to Salt Lake to see my niece get married this weekend. I am so excited to see my family and to watch my gorgeous niece go through the Temple! I love to visit my family! I miss them so much! Especially when it gets close to the holidays.

:)

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They might be a little crazy but they are mine!!!!

(OK alot crazy!)

These are some spiders we have found lately. The two small ones we found in our wheelbarrow. One is a black widow and I don't know what the other one is. The tarantula we found in the bathroom at the park, well Jimmy found it after he stood up from using the facilities! He was so scared he screamed like a woman! It was right by the toilet!!!

You people are not going to believe this! First of all I do not beat my children (although some days I would like to)!!!!! Anyway! Dustin has been to the ER again! Yesterday he was riding Cameron's bike and fell off onto the handlebars of Sarah's bike that was laying on the grass. He severely injured his right ear. He cut it horizontally from edge to edge His stitches are about 1 inch long. I had a neighbor come and watch Cameron so I could take him to the ER. When we got there they took him right back and put so numbing gel on it so they could get him stitched back up. He is such a brave boy. The doctor asked me if I thought he would lay still or if he should give him stuff to sedate him. I told him I felt he could lay still and he did. I got him a warm blanket and snuggled him in and about half way through the process he fell asleep. He has not complained at all today about his ear hurting. He is my little Troy! (and yes I still blame him!!)

What's Left

This is what is left of Dustin's stitches. 2 and 1/2 out of the 6 he had are still in. He has about three more days before they were supposed to be removed but I don't think they will last that long! Isn't he cute though! I love my kids!!

Nap time for Daisy and the puppies!!

A BOOK OF MORMON THAT'S FALLING APART

USUALLY BELONGS TO A PERSON WHO ISN'T.