Halloween 2009

Halloween is always big at our house. You wouldn't believe the decorations that we have been collecting. This is Ryan's favorite holiday and it is showing. Next year he wants to do a spook ally so we'll see how that works out. My brother stayed at our house and handed out candy this year and had a lot of fun scaring kids.

Vanessa loved being Bat Girl and Trista being Cleopatra daddy did a great job picking out their costumes this year since I was to busy to do much shopping.

Ryan figured Trista would love to dress up pretty and have a wig and of coarse she loved it

Natalia just got a hand me down costume that all the girls had worn. What a cute little witch she makes.

Happy Birthday Vanessa

As I sit here I realize how busy our lives really have been the last few months. I haven't even had time to post updates on my blog. So my New Year goal is to get better at this. I can't believe that I haven't even posted Vanessa's birthday pictures...So here comes the update hope your ready lol...

October 17, 2009 was our last game for Wood River cheering. They had all the cheerleaders cheering it was a night game at the high school it was so much fun. The crowd was so loud it was awesome. Talk about cold though. They even announced on the loud speaker that it was Vanessa's birthday and got her all embarrassed it was great. Natalia loved being on the side lines with her sisters and I instead of with Daddy and Mima in the bleachers. It was a fun night.

The next day my mom was sick but still she was able to wrap Vanessa's presents and my brother helped her hide the gifts. They did a scavenger hunt. The girls love when Mima does this for them. They looked all over for their presents and reading clues it was so cute.

After she found them all it was time to open presents. Here is a picture of her holding one of her presents and if you look at Natalia she is choking a poor cat. The first couple of times I felt bad for the cat but it kept coming back to her to get tortured.

These were all her gifts from her scavenger hunt at Mima and Papa's house

Vanessa got a bead loom set from us she loves making jewelry so we figured she'd love it

While in Boise we found her this cute horse figure she loves horses so she was way excited about this.

Of all things for her birthday cake our 9 year old daughter wanted a hunting cake (I know Uncle Dustin is so proud :) ) She was so excited to see her cake. What kind of girl are we raising? lol that's ok her sisters make up for it with the girls stuff :)

Happy Birthday Vanessa!!!

Conference

We had so much fun for Conference this session. We made Conference boxes and gave them out to a few people around town. It was so much fun for our family to make them and deliver them and see the smiles on peoples faces. What a fun thing for our family to do :)

Our girls during Conference they were working on their Conference packets and coloring and word searches, etc...they loved them :)

What we are doing...

Gosh what a slacker I am I got looking and it has been forever since I have posted anything on here. Sorry guys. Its not like I'm busy or anything. Between coaching cheer leading and now coaching gymnastics and my own schooling and having 3 kids and 2 of them in school and Ryan having his own business and just every day things I am so busy. So I am sorry and I'll try more to get on here and post...

Today I have 3 sick girls it was an interesting night I don't know if Ryan and I slept much seems as one got done being sick the other started. I've had 2 sick at once but not 3 wow that was quite the challenge for us. They seem to be on the mend this morning so we'll see how tonight goes since they seem to always get sick at night :).

We had a wonderful weekend. Ryan's Uncle John was here for 4 days 3 nights it was so fun to see him since he lives in California we only see him once a year at least. Poor guy got a taste of how we are always going. Thursday he got here and I saw him a few hours and had to leave for cheerleading practice and gymnastics. Then Vanessa was able to go play with a friend that use to live here that was visiting from Texas for a couple of days. It was a great surprise to her she had no idea her friend was here :). Trista stayed at gymnastics with me and was a great helper. Then Friday Ryan and John went fishing yah I told them they'd have to ice fish lol. Then we all went to dinner in Twin and had a great time and showed him the new temple since he hadn't seen it yet. The girls were so excited to tell him all about the open house. So cute. Then Saturday we got ready to go to cheer lead for our foot ball boys and YAHHH they won!!! it was so cold though wow. Then we went to the Trailing of the Sheep (a big festival here) my dad is a part of it and has gotton me involved to a point and also the 4H is involved so it was fun to go see everything and have fun there for awhile. John left on Sunday we were so sad to see him go it was an amazing visit.

Uncle John bought Natalia her first baby doll and it goes everywhere with her she loves it so much its so cute. She always was playing with her sisters but is proud of her own.

Yep our first snow...I am not sure I think Ryan got more pictures but we got 8" out of the next storm which was about Oct. 4 :( way to early for snow. Thankfully here it has melted but the mountains are wayyy to white.

Natalia playing blocks waiting on her sisters to get home from school.

Natalia was out helping us put up horse fence across the road and her sisters were so kind to bring her an oreo cookie which she loves as you can see.

Daddy bought Natalia her first cheeseburger. I figured she was to young but he insisted and you know to my surprise she ate 3/4 of that thing wow what a big girl.

Our Labor Day Utah Trip

So for Labor Day weekend we decided to go to Utah and see Ryan's family. We had a lot of fun. We went to a bunch of temples and took some great pictures. Went to the Planaterium in SLC which was so fun and played in the pool and got some more awesome pictures. You'll have to wait till Christmas time to see our best pictures we'll use them for christmas cards. I was so happy to have some great family pictures taken...Thanks Lamar.

Here is the girls visiting the moon

Here are the girls visiting Mars

Grams and Pops with the girls at the newest temple...Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Daddy and his girls at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple

The Gates Gang at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Yep this is cute but wait till you see at christmas time the cutest one of them all :)

Having 5 of us now to take pictures is quite the challenge. Most of the pictures Natalia was crawling out of them so some of them she just needed a prop to hold I didn't think she'd try to wear them :)

Trista was so cute and so excited to take pictures she is growing up way to fast

At the Mt. Timpanogos temple

Yep I love this one but wait till you see the perfect one that is one of my favorites...See Natalia is crawling away again :)

We all went to eat at Panda Express one of Ryan's favorite places to eat...Ashley and Bryce meet us there. The girls were so excited to show Uncle Bryce how they can use chop sticks.

More to come with Christmas cards :)

our end of aug first of sept fun

Here are some more interesting things that we have done...

Yep only in Idaho can Trista ride her bike and herd sheep :)

Trista and Vanessa cheering at their first official home game :) Vanessa was the oldest on this squad and totally took over.

So I go through stages of what movie I watch at night well lately it has been Toy Story 2 so when we were in Boise a few weekends ago we went to the Disney Store and Natalia did a V line for the Woody dolls and got so excited she didn't know what to do with herself and couldn't quit laughing it was so cute. Guess she is watching the show more then I thought :)

Vanessa on her first day of 3rd grade. Ya can't believe she is in 3rd grade and has the same teacher I had and she'll be 9 in a month so sad how time flies.

Trista off to her first day of Kindergarden. Ya I was sad but she is a pro since her teacher is the same as last year. She has grown so much this summer she is wearing pants that I bought Vanessa the beginning of 2nd grade ya I couldn't believe it either. Both of my girls did not want back packs with characters on them (without each other knowing) they both told me "mom I am way to old for that." well ok then :)

When we went to Cabela's we had to try on coon hats and of coarse the tounges were out through the whole store not just the picture.

August 2009

Since it has been forever since I actually was able to post to our blog I figured I better do it before I forget. August was so busy for us. We have no idea where the summer has gone because the kids are already back in school, which makes us sad because we love having them home. Vanessa is a big 3rd grader this year (has the same teacher I had in school) and Trista is a Kindergardener. Natalia hates when they leave and is always so excited to see them come home. Yep this past month I turned the big 28. I just wanted a nice relaxing day which wasn't because Natalia had gotton her shots the day before and was sick for my birthday :( but had a great day even at that. So here are a few things that we have done...

Vanessa in her cheer leading uniform she is loving being one of the older girls and being in charge...

the girls are cheering not for Wood River school but a private group based out of Hailey...Lots of boys are playing football for them and half the cheerleading squad is from Carey its been fun being the assistant coach for them this year.

Trista in her adorable uniform she is so loving cheerleading

Natalia thinks its a fun game to stand (starting the first of the month) she still only takes a couple of steps she prefers to crawl and I am not complaining at all she gets into enough trouble right now.

Natalia thought it was so much fun to get her kitty Carmel and push him around in Trista's shopping cart. We haven't figured out yet why the cat puts up with her but he does.

Since both the big girls were on the team the head coach had an outfit to small for anyone else and gave it to Natalia for the season. For the team pictures they put her right in the middle of the whole squad can't wait to see those pics. She is so cute she was a hit at the Gold Card Party all dressed up.

Our Little Miss all dressed up and heading to the doctor for shots. She did not like that idea at all.

The 3 girls in the yard playing. My dad gave them a few of these tunnels from the sheets of metal they came from they love it...the girls even got my mom's bum lamb to go through them.