February 2014: Jonathan & Victoria

Little Jonny gets HITCHED!!

My little brother-from-another-mother Jonny got married in February!  Road trip with BEN and Braiden!  That alone was worth the trip.  We had a blast.

Day before the wedding.  We had a lovely dinner with all the siblings, parents and grandparents that were in town.

It was a gorgeous, warm day in Los Angeles.

The reception was in Etiwanda at a church building.  I was amazed at the transformation for this reception.  It was so cool.

My dad and Uncle Tim.  These guys are pretty funny. I don't see a resemblance, do you?  

A great shot of all the older siblings that were there.  We were just missing Whitney and Paul!  Its only going to get more and more difficult to get us all in the same room as time goes on.  I am hoping that soon, we can get a picture with all 12 of us.

And of course, a given that we had to take a day to hit Disneyland.  It was particularly fun to go with my brother and Braiden. 

Congratulations you crazy kids.  

We love you.

November 2013

So here I am, all ready to start writing about our adventures in 2014 so far and I just realized that I skipped November and December 2013!!  Maybe I would rather forget??  Freudian slip?  Nah. Those were great months!  There were a TON of pictures from November.  It was a busy month.



The first weekend of November, Alicia came down to do the Snow Canyon Half Marathon with me and Amy happened to be coming through THE SAME WEEKEND!!  WOOT WOOT!!  It made for a fun weekend, indeed!

He took all our 10 animals to the Pirate Island Pizza place.  We sat, they ran amok and nearly got us kicked out.  Ha!  Oh well.

That same night Braiden and his Freshman football team were recognized at the Varsity game for having an undefeated season!

Max particularly loves football games...as you can see.  He does everything possible to NOT actually stay in the seat with us or watch the game.  If he wasn't so darn cute....

Saturday November 2, 2013.  
Snow Canyon Half Marathon 
AND my personal BEST TIME EVER!  Ran with Alicia and Kobe!  (Well, I ran a bit behind them)

Before the race.  I particularly love these races because they DON'T start at the crack of dawn.  8am is a great time to start a race and SNOW CANYON IS GORGEOUS!!  

This is what happens when you hand you camera to a 14 year old and ask them to take ONE picture...this isn't even half of them.  Sheesh. Good thing there is no film to be wasted.

I should mention that this race was almost completely DOWN HILL!  Good for time, bad for the quads.  Wow.  I couldn't walk the next day.

Speaking of the next day, We were watching my nieces so we had a large crew with us.  Nevertheless, we decided to take them ALL to breakfast at the Bear Paw Cafe.  YUUUUUUMMMMEEEEEE!

Did I mention that the Bear Paw Cafe has the MOST amazing pancakes, french toast, omelets, etc.  The pancakes are the size of a dinner plate...or my head.

The next weekend, I was able to go on a quick trip to California with Whitney and of course, we cant go to California without visiting Disneyland. YES, I went without my kids.  I have done it and I will yet do it many times in the future, I am sure. 

We visited with my dad, Norma and the boys a bit.  It was a really fun visit.

Triplets??  HA!

The obligatory scenery picture.  It was November, my favorite time of year to go.  Love, Love, Love the holiday celebration.

Me and Whitney, Me and Whitney, OH and another one of me and Whitney. After all, it was just ME and WHITNEY that day!!  That was a way fun day.  Beautiful weather, not too crowded.

AND...my BFF from my junior high years, Sherry, met us there and hung out with us for a while.   People used to think we were sisters.  Loved seeing her!

Eric turned 41 this year!  We continued our annual tradition of making a cake and decorating it for him.  The kids are getting better and better at this but one of these years, I expect they will ask if they can just go buy one for him.  Braiden is not interested anymore so its totally Paige and Cams thing.   

These were my many attempts to get the kids to wish Eric Happy Birthday on Facebook.  Can you tell that Braiden was thrilled?  Max would not hold still.  It was quite comical. I love these silly kids.

Thanksgiving this year was at my moms house. Ray, her new beau, fried a turkey for his first time for us.  It was DELICIOUS...and quite entertaining to watch.  

I never thought fired turkey would be so yummy.  It was perfect.  Also it was a beautiful day in St George.

Grandma decided to have a little pie with her whipped cream. 

November's favorite RANDOMS and SELFIES!

The Rest of June 2013

Disneyland trip with Delaney

Braidens First Surf

Max turned 2 on June 17th!

Max needs a spotlight, even if its behind his big sister.  This kid has been lucky enough to celebrate his first 2 birthdays at Disneyland.  Its a timing thing more than anything but I would guess that there will be many more birthdays celebrated at the Happiest Place on Earth.

This collage might give you a little glimpse at the little ham we call Max.  He is so funny.  He will just start dancing out of nowhere and gets in these little moods where he wont STOP TALKING!  Its a good thing he is cute.  He can talk my ear off with his jibber-jabber.  He eats like a bird, then he eats like a horse... and his favorite thing to say is "Ine hungry" or "Ine stink-ee".  He loves playing with his little Match Box cars and will use any surface as a track while he makes little motor noises.  When I turn on the TV, he wants to watch football or Daniel Tiger.  He makes me stop on the channels that look like football (even if its baseball) and will actually sit and stare at it.  If I could freeze time, I would do it right now...I don't want him to grow up.  Hopefully when he is bigger he will still want to hug me and call his brothers and sisters "Way-nee, Ba-nen, Paigee and Cammy" and when he is upset, I hope that singing "I Am a Child of God" still calms him down and makes him happy.  And while I love it when he does his little "naked dance" I hope he grows out of that before he is a teenager.  My sweet little caboose.

Junes favorite RANDOMS!

January Adventures (Fairy style)

I love this picture.  We don't get this many of us all together terribly frequently.  We are missing Christy, Julie, Bonnie and Ben.  8 out of 12 aint bad! (taken in January 2013 on our trek to California for the Tinkerbell Half Marathon).

We happened to get there on little Sammys birthday!

January 20th was the Tinkerbell Half Marathon.  This race was especially cool for me because Braiden trained and ran it with me...well, he ran with me until about mile 9 where he got bored...and ran ahead. We carpooled to California with Whitney and Ashton as well as some of Ashtons family who also ran the race.  It was really fun hanging out with those guys.

The race started at 5:30am which required us to get up at 3:30am...ugh.  But it always ends up being worth it. Braiden got his first exposure to a Half Marathon at Disneyland with 15,000 other runners.  It was a blast!  Like the socks?

Lets just admit it...I am cheap.  I have no problem snipping online proofs as you can see because I don't want to pay $17 for 1 5x7 print.  You still get the basic idea, right??  Notice Braiden's "AWESOME" socks.

Post-race...LOVE that medal!!!

...and of course who wouldn't spend a couple days visiting the park after the race?

January favorite randoms and selfys

(notice Braidens Brace-less face)