Family Pictures!!!

We had our family pictures taken in November by Debbie Rackham, they turned out great our best pictures by far!! Dave hates to get pictures done and Debbie was really fast a total of about 15 minutes and she was done. Even with Mckay not wanting to cooperate she got good ones.

Believe it or not Mckay was crying most of the time. I told you she was good!

Hayden even liked this picture which is saying a lot for a 15 year old!!

Madison is growing so fast into a beautiful young woman!!

Sophie is wonderful she is always happy and so beautiful!!

My little twin Maycee, except the brown eyes, so cute!!

He really was crying!! Our baby is growing up so fast!!

iphone

On Friday nigh Dave and I went to see Leap Year, it was really cute, and I stuck my cell phone in the cup holder on vibrate in case the kids called. I guess when we got up to leave I forgot to grab my phone. So Saturday afternoon I was looking for my phone and couldn't find it and thought I probably left it at the theater, so we called them. They didn't have it but said sometimes they get stuck between the seats and people have found them weeks later so I thought I would go by on Monday and find it. Well I went and searched the theater and it wasn't there so we called the phone company and they said someone was having a lot of fun using my phone. They had used 798 weekend minutes and 297 anytime minutes already, they also had some international calls in there. So we canceled the service to the phone and Dave gave me his iphone so he could upgrade his. Now I have some new friends calling my phone except they speak spanish and i don't!!

Potato Torte!

So the scripture reading is going good and I'm actually enjoying it, not that I don't always enjoy reading the scriptures but this time it seems easier. I got my food storage binder started and I'm working on the being patient part, I have an idea for this I found on another blog that I'm going to try I'll let you know how it goes!

Another one of my goals for this year is to try at least one new recipe a week. My recipe binder is exploding with recipes I have torn out of magazines that I would someday try well that day has come!!

Hayden has been begging me to make the potato torte that Melissa D'Arabien made on food network ( he watched that show with me) and so yesterday was the day.

The potato torte has a homemade pie crust, I have never done that before, but it was pretty easy and turned out great! Everyone loved it especially Hayden I think he had 3 pieces!!

Fresh out of the oven. Isn't that Beautiful!!
We had the potato torte with brisket and spinach salad!

No Leftovers!!

Parrot eating a cheeseburger!

On our way home from church Sunday this is what pulled out in front of us, a parrot eating a cheeseburger!! Really the man would take a bite and then the bird would take a bite, it was hillarious. We were at a red light so the kids got to watch the bird finish the burger and the head up to the steering wheel to drive!!

Only in Lincoln!!!!!

Bowling!

On Saturday morning we took the kids bowling. Everyone had a great time, Sophie and Maycee both had 2 strikes and were so excited!!


Everytime Mckay would roll the ball he would jump up like he had rolled his tenth strike, it was great to watch!

Robots!!

Saturday evening as we were getting ready for scriptures and family prayer Mckay came out of our room saying "I'm a robot, I'm a robot!" and all the other kids started following him around being robots!! Where does he come up with this stuff?

Here's some ghostly robots!

Its a new year!

I have a lot of goals for this new year, here are a few:

Be better at my scripture reading!
Finish getting all of my food storage and rotating what needs to be!
Being more patient!
And posting more on this blog so I can actually make a book this year!

I'll let you know how it goes!


For other news we have a new member of our family, since we have all of our babies and our kids have been begging us for a long time now we decided to make this the best Christmas ever and get a dog! I know us with a dog crazy right!! We are going to keep him we are not giving him back either!! All of the kids couldn't believe we actually got a dog! They all love him even Sophie(for those who don't know she is terrified of dogs)!! We could have only given them all the dog for Christmas and they would have been fine!!

This is Buddy(like Buddy the Elf, Elf is our favorite Christmas movie)!!

Just Look at that cute little face!!

Whats wrong with this picture?

Actually we have two dogs Mckay who is one half of the time and Buddy!

Sherriff Woody is Back In Town!!

Dave was going through all of his Halloween stuff in the garage and found Hayden's old Woody costume he wore about 12 years ago and it fit Mckay Perfectly!! When Mckay saw the costume he said "You found my Woody costume!" It was just waiting for him!! He was supposed to be a dragon!

Here we are except for Hayden, he was to busy running around to take a picture, he was dressed as a nerd!

Just a side note two of my nephews came dressed as Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street and none of the other kids new who they were!! Where did we go wrong?

The Ghosts Came Out For Halloween!!

Sophie, Madison, and Maycee were ghosts for Halloween!

They were so cute running around! This year we went over to

Grandma and Grandpa's and had a harvest party with a trunk

or treat instead of the regular trick or treating! It was a lot of

fun to play with there cousins!!

They Grow So Fast!!

"Come lay in the bed and watch Maggie and let me play with your hair"

Mckay loves to watch Maggie and the Ferrocious beast and loves to play with my hair!

He is my baby and is growing very fast.

I'm not ready to let him grow up yet!

I still want my baby!!

People always tell you to enjoy your baby and I have enjoyed every minute of him.

But they are all getting big so fast that I need more time!!!

NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN UNDER 3!!!

There is a reason they put this on the lego package!! Mckay was playing with some legos and then started crying. I asked him what happened and he said "I hurt my nose". I picked him up and asked him where he said "in there" pointing inside. I said what happened and he said "a lego in it". Thats right five kids and the first lego up the nose. I looked in and could see the little red lego in there. The advice nurse told me to close the other nostril and blow in his mouth and that might blow it out. I tried but didn't blow hard enough and he wouldn't give me another chance. So as we were about to leave for the doctor and Dave got home he tried and the lego came shooting out of his nose. All is well now!! That is why they say not intended for children under 3.

Clean Shavin!!

Tonight we went over to a good friends house, their 7 year old son has cancer and his hair has almost all fallen out so for his birthday his mom had a party and most of the boys and men got their heads shaved with Ty!! Dave Hayden and Mckay were part of it!!!

Before!
Half way!!

All done!!
Hayden, Mckay, Dave, and Ty!!

There was almost 75 guys who got there heads shaved!! It was great!! There is a new gang in town!!

Going to work with daddy!!

We golf!!!

Look at me I can golf!!

Mckay, Dave and Maycee!

The Firestation!!

Maycee, Mckay and I went to the firestation!! They loved it!! They both got to sit in the fire truck and drive it!! Maycee even got to spray the firehose!

Madison loves to knit and made these hats herself!

YUM!!! YUM!!! YUM!!! Dosen't get better than this, homemade bread!!