update on December

Wow! December is almost over, and that also means 2008 is coming to an end, that is a little scary! This year we had a lot of blessings with different family members and feel blessed that everyone is doing well. I feel so lucky to have such great family and friends,and most important for my girls and Shawn! I love you guys!

December was a very busy month, we had alot of fun parties including birthday parties(Jentri, Cody and my dad), family christmas parties, work parties, The Forgotten Carols Play (thanks Pam, it was awesome!) ward party and much more. It didn't seem like we were ever home. This was the first year that Jentri and Lexie woke us up every hour wanting to see what Santa had brought them, it started at

2 AM (very long night)They were happy with what they got and Brynn was not sure but the wrapping paper was fun to play with.
I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas.

Lexie, MacCabe, Jentri, Brynn and Hayden

loving all the SNOW...

Brecia and Lexie modeling their cute vest that they got for Christmas

Brynn with her own phone... she loves to talk on phones

Lexie and Jentri with some soccer stuff they got from Grandma Shanna

Jentri's Birthday Party

I know this is way late, but here is a few pictures of Jentri's birthday party. She had a late night party, a house full of 9 and 10 year olds is very entertaining, they were a fun bunch of girls.

Happy Birthday Jentri

Jentri turned 10 on December 2, I can not believe that Jentri is 10 years old, where does the time go? I wanted to let her know that I am so lucky to be her mother, she is such kind hearted, sweet, thoughtful, smart and beauitful girl. I hope that you had a good birthday! I will post some more pictures after her friend party, wish me luck;)

All I want for CHRISTMAS is my two front teeth...

Before the tooth came out




After the tooth fell out

All Lexie wants for Christmas is her two front teeth... for the last two days everyone has been trying to pull Lexie's tooth, it has been loose for a good few weeks, tonight my mom came up and she told Lexie that if she let her pull her tooth then she would get her a jump rope, which she has been asking for one for a long time.
So now Lexie is so happy cause her tooth is out and best of all she has a jump rope, we will see how many things get broke in the house now. :) I think that it is pretty cute that she has lost her two front teeth right before Christmas. She is such a funny girl.

Looks who walking

I thought that I would update and let ya know that Brynn is now walking, she will be 16 months in a week so I guess it is time, once she figured it out she has been going all over and loving it. She has had a alot of falls and I am sure some more to come. Brynn we love you so much!

Cute little kids

Cute picture of Rayce and Brynn during our Hunting adventure on 11/15/08.

Saturday "Pheasant Hunting"

Check out the Pheasants!

On Saturday we went to Delta to go Pheasant Hunting, it was a fun day. My boss had organized the trip for a bunch of us.

Shawn, Jentri and Lexie in the middle starting out looking for Pheasants.

The kids enjoying each others company!

8 Things

Ok I am not good at these, cause when I am done I think of other things that I should have put down, oh well here I go- thanks Krista!



8 TV shows that I like to watch: (do I ever get to watch any TV other then Dinsey or Nick Jr.?)
1-Army Wifes
2-House
3-CSI
4-ER
5-Corner Gas
6-The Office
7-Grey's Anatomy
8-Ellen DeGeneres Show



8 Things that happend yesterday:
1- Got ready for work, got the girls ready, took Brynn to my moms and went to work.
2- picked up Brynn, ate lunch with my mom
3- changed sheets and made bed
4- cleaned bathrooms and started to fold laundry
5- Brynn woke up from nap and Jentri and Lexie came home from school
6- took Jentri & Lexie the church for primary program practice
7- tried to sign Jentri & Lexie up for soccer, left with papers because Brynn was would not let me fill them out, went to my moms filled them out, had my mom watch Brynn while I went back to finish signing them up.
8- made a cute star craft at my moms. Thanks mom



8 Favorite places to eat:
1- Rusty's
2-Taste of Hawaii
3-Pizza Factory
4-Panda Express
5-Costa Vida
6-Olive Garden
7- Mongolian Grill
8- Market Grill



8 Things I am looking forward to:
1-Weekend!
2-Thanksgiving
3- Christmas parties with our families
4-see the excitment that Christmas brings to my girls
5-Disneyland
6- the girls primary program
7-day after thanksgiving (no work)
8-next weekend

8 Things on my wish list: 1-go on a Cruise (hint, hint Shawn) 2-healthy and happy family 3-have no debt 4-to run in a marathon 5- new clothes
6- to let my girls meet my grandpa Jolley 7-healthy and happy friends 8-that my girls will make good choices in there lives and be good examples to other.

8 people I tag: Rashell, Amanda, Natalie, Alicia Vest, Jade, Janene, Kara & Hillary C

HaPpy HaLLoWeEN

Jentri and Lexies pumpkins that they picked out of grandma and grandpa Garfield's garden, they had fun carving their pumkins on Thursday night. Thanks Bud and LaRee!

I woke on up Saturday morning and looked out the window and there were two pumkins squashed in the road.

We had a good halloween. Slash was a true partier, I didn't really think about a costume for me until 10:30 PM Thursday, so I looked in the closet and saw some scrubs, Jentri was a cute little devil, Lexie was a Hershey Kiss and Brynn was a darling ladybug.

Cute glasses from grandma Shanna .

Notice that Jentri had her face painted, well that lasted about two minutes and then she could not stand it on, I know who she gets that from, I was the same way when I was a little girl.:)

We caught up with Riley at grandma Shanna's. Doesn't she make a cute little chick?

Lexie went to a Halloween Party on Friday, she would not wear her Hershey Kiss hat. They all thought that she was a silver pumpkin.

the girls

Brynn wanted to feed herself dinner, Jentri, Lexie and I could not stop laughing, she is such a funny little girl. We love you Brynn!

Red Ribbon Week is this week at their Elementary, Wednesday was crazy hair day, they had some friends over and get there hair sprayed. Don't they look CRAZY! Today they wore PJ's, that their Aunt Pam made for them they are her famous flannel pants, Lexie thought that is was way cool that she did not have to get dressed in the morning for school. Thanks for making the pants Pam!

Sunny Mesquite

On Friday my mom, grandma Jolley me and my girls went down to Mesquite, we stoped at St George and pickup up a few things at Costco and make a quick trip to JCPenny's I was about at my limit with patience so it was quick, we droped grandma J off at her place in Beaver Dam with aunt Ellen, Paige, Reagan, and Brooke. My girls had fun seeing them and playing for a bit.

We had a great time at Mesquite, I took J and L to the req. center while my mom watch Brynn, they have an outdoor pool that J has been wanting to go to, so we went there Saturday morning, but they close the outdoor pool when school year starts, FYI you have to go when it is 110 degrees, they had a good time in the indoor pool, so that was ok. They also had a good time on the bikes and J

was big enough to ride her grandmas beach cruiser bike, she was so brave.

On our way home before we got to the Gorge there was a sign that posted a accident, and the right lane would be closed, well it was something that we would rather have not seen, there was a fatal motorcycle accident, I don't know any details other than what we saw, they were still waiting for the ambulance to get to the accident, the girls were a little scared and then we get a hwy patrolman coming up behind my mom and beeped at her, J was getting ready to cry by that time, all he wanted was to pass her and hurry down the hwy. We stoped at Olive Garden and ate dinner. Thanks mom for a fun weekend! :)

Shawn came home about an hour after we got home, he had no luck hunting Saturday with his friend Travis, he was beat and tired, he has the next few days off so he can go hunting some more.

Happy Birthday Riley and Grandma Stubbs!

Happy Birthday to Riley and Grandma Stubbs! On Sunday Amanda had the family over for dinner, cake and ice cream, (notice I did not mention Quinn, I guess he is missing over in Greenwich Mnt?;) Riley is 2 years old and such a cutie. We had a fun time at Riley's birthday and it was good to see grandma Stubbs also, I hope she had a good birthday also.

SNOW

We went up Cedar Mountain on Saturday afternoon and yes it was snowing at Midway.
I am not ready for snow but if it stays on the mountain that will be ok! It was so pretty on the mountain with the leaves changing colors.

Grandpa Stubbs' 80th Birthday

This Saturday my dad and aunt Dianna threw a "surprise" 80th B-day for my grandpa, at my aunt Dianna house, it was a really fun time visiting with the family and letting the kids play. The food was great also, so thanks dad and Dianna.

Iron County Livestock Show 2008

This year Jentri was old enough to show a pig in the Iron County Livestock Show, she named her pig Dot's and became quite attached to her, Dot's was a good pig for her, she was a very mello pig, some of them were kind of mean. Brecia, Tyson, Cooper and Jentri all showed and did a great job, thank you Mike Smith for all your hard work! Jentri placed 2nd in her group, I was very proud of her. Her grandpa Stubbs bought Dot's at the auction, and it has been sent to Ariziona, she was really sad to see her leave, I think that was the hardest part of it all. Way to go Jentri!!

Labor Day Parade

Labor Day Parade was fun, a little chilly, but the girls had a blast getting candy and seeing cousins. We went and did the carnival thing on Saturday night, it was kind of rainy and cold but we had a good time. It was also Shad's birthday that day, I totally forgot and ask Shad and Rashell if they would watch Jentri and Lexie while Shawn, Brynn and I went to the home show's with some of his family, so late that night I was talking to grandma Betty and she said something about Shad's birthday and I felt sick, I am such a space case! I called him late that night and told him Happy Birthday and I was so sorry. So Shad I owe you big time!

Back to School

On August 14th school started back after a nice long summer. Jentri is now in 4th grade and she is liking school for the most part, I think that recess is her most favorite subject (ha, ha) and Lexie is now in 1st grade, she is adjusting, it has been hard for her to get use to the all day thing and eating lunch at school. The first few days were the worst but she is getting alot braver! They both have great teachers and that is always a bonus. I'm hoping to get a few things done around the home in the afternoon with them in school but I think that Brynn will still keep me pretty busy, she likes to have full attention lately. She loves to head for the stairs or the bathroom if you are not keeping a close eye on her, she is a good climber so alot of the time we stay behind her and let her practice climbing the stairs. She has been such a blessing to our family, she kind of has three mom's (her big sisters) that love to help, so she is definitely not laking any attention and she knows that.

Robinson Reunion and Brynn's one year old party

This last weekend we had The Robinson Family reunion up at Strawberry Mountain (Jolley property), we stayed down and the Stubbs cabin (sort of, it is in construction right now so we stayed in my dad's trailer) the cabin is looking good, I think that we will all be glad when it is done, anyways the reunion was alot of fun, the kids had a good time, I hardly ever saw Jentri except when it was time to eat, her and the boys where off taking little adventures and making huts. Lexie is having a little anxiety attacts, I think with school starting soon she did not want to be to far from my side, she had a good time with the cousins also. Brynn learned to crawl the week before we left so she got a little dirty and tasted rocks and dirt, she loves to play in the sand box that her grandpa Stubbs made for the grandgirls (ha,ha, no boys yet).
We played alot of fun games, I took up my moms game "The Human Slingshot" it was fun watching the cousins play, we had a few people hit the ground hard, but that was the worst of it.
So thanks to grandma J and her sister for all the hard work putting the reunion together.
Well on Sunday August 3rd was Brynn's 1 year old Birthday! We had a little party at our house once we got home that night, she loved the cake, and got alot of good stuff. I can not believe that she is one now, time flys by. We are so blessed to have Brynn in our family. We love you Boo Bear!

Fun Weekend

Happy 34th Birthday Shawn! We love you! Thanks for being such a good dad and husband.
On Friday July 18th we went up north, we stayed in Provo at The Cotton Tree motel and let Jentri and Lexie swim, that was all they cared about in a vacation.

On Saturday morning Amanda, Riley, Payton, Nick, Zach, Kate, Mac and Hayden all met us and we headed over to Seven Peaks, we spent the day playing in the water, then that night we went to Chucky Cheese to eat dinner, other then Amanda losing her keys ;) we had a nice dinner and the kids loved the games. We had to stop at Target and get some Aloe Vera because the sunscreen didn't work so well. Ouch!

On Sunday morning we all went to the Zoo, I called my cousin Kimese, so her Husband Zack and their cute girls Reagan and Brooke came also, it was fun to see them, they live in Taylorsville so we don't see them alot.

Shawn somehow talked me into letting us have a family dog for his birthday, she is a Welsh Corgi and her name is Lizzy, she is three years old, so she is not way hyper and is over the puppy stage, so I guess we will keep her. I should know better when he spends alot of time on KSL Classifieds. ;)