Jan-Mar 2014

Look how big Aspen is getting!!!

This is her showing off her new coat Aunt Kira got her for Christmas.

We had our ultrasound!  How cute is this!!  We kept the gender a secret again.  We actually ended up having 2 ultrasounds, during the 1st one they couldn't see everything they needed to on babies heart/blood flow.  The lady doing my ultrasound kept poking my belly trying to get baby to move position so she could see better but baby would not roll the right way!  Probably didn't help that I'm way ticklish!  The ultrasound tech knows my mom so she took a little extra time on me and got that way good pic!  Then she gave me a disc with the pictures on it as well as the print outs, she said it was too cute not to have a disc, I agree!!

I was in charge of making the invites for our wards Priesthood Preview, I loved how they turned out!

When she woke up after a night of braids her hair was too cute not to keep it that way!

We went to a softball scrimmage Ben was playing in, can you tell the kids had a good time?!  Hunter got a little too wild with throwing dirt around, and of course poor Aspen was his target!  It took several times washing her hair to get all the dirt out!  And she's holding the stack of wipes it took just to wash it off her face!  Definitely doesn't help that the red dirt really seems to cling on.

We went fishing to try out the kids new poles they got for Christmas.  I loved her face in this.

There's her cute smile!

Our little fisherman, he had a real lure on his pole.

He was getting pretty good at casting too!

Aspen just had the fake fish that the pole came with, she had a blast with it!  She also at one point was dancing right here watching her shadow on the rock, haha definitely a girl!

Aspen was still sleeping in a porta crib at this point and she would either climb over the edge to get out or kick it away from the wall (the kids had made a big hole in the mesh side) to get out of it.  Well this Sunday morning I was gone to a meeting and when Ben went to get the kids up for breakfast she was sitting on the floor next to her crib crying.  She quite often cries when she wakes up so Ben didn't think anything of it, he just picked her up and put her up to the table for breakfast.  When I got home she was just getting done eating so I set her on the ground, she collapsed.  I picked her up again thinking she was just being silly, again she wouldn't put any weight on her foot.  Then I realized something really wasn't right!  It scared me pretty good seeing her not able to even stand!  We still ended up going to church, and she wanted to go to nursery so we took her in there and just warned them that she wasn't putting weight on it and we went and checked on her a couple times, she still managed to get around without putting weight on it!  By the time we got home from church her ankle was pretty swollen!  All we can figure is that she must have twisted it when she dropped to the ground getting out of her bed.  We wrapped it up (it was an adult wrap so it was huge on her) and luckily she was fine and back on it the next day!  It was pretty sad watching her all Sunday though!  The crazy girl was running in heels the very next day!  I couldn't convince her to get different shoes or stop running around either!

We went out shed hunting and took a picnic with us.  After lunch the kids ran around playing in the snow.

Hunter had brought an air soft gun and was having a blast trying to shoot things.

Showing off his gun.

Aspen brought her a nerf gun.  The only thing she would shoot was the snow...

Then eat the snow off the dart!

She was cracking us up!  Silly girl!

Here we are on our annual Hunt Expo trip!

Hunter shooting a BB gun.

Aspen shooting at her target.

They were pretty proud of how many times they hit their targets!

Hunter even got to shoot a bow!

Then he was having some hard moments.

And this is what I got when I told him to smile.

So then Aspen thought she would copy him.

Finally this got him to chill out, when I told him I would only take a picture if he would at least pretend to be having fun!  We went for 2 days straight which was just too much for the kids!  The first day they seemed like they liked it but the second day they were just done being there!

Aspen always thinks she needs to copy Hunter, no matter how much it stresses her mom out!!!  Hunter has even tried to round the corner of the banister!  That pushed me way too far!  I just know one of them is going to fall one of these days, but they just think it's so fun!

Perfect day to fly our new kites!

For some reason this picture of Aspen reminds me of my friend Alisha... people did ask us if we were twins when we were little...  I always thought it was because we both had glasses, but maybe there was more to it!

They had a blast with their kites!

For one of our parent meetings the Fire Dept came and showed the kids the fire truck!  Hunter was one of the first ones to go through and he totally slipped and fell out of it!  He was tough though and didn't act like it scared him.

Since Hunter fell they started grabbing all the kids out instead of letting them get out themselves.  Can you see Aspen in the truck waiting to get out?

They even let them spray the water hose!

Aspen was one of the last ones so she didn't get to spray much, but they both still loved it!

I loved how they were coloring together!

Aspen wanted Ben to sleep with her!

What a nice dad!

For Brylee's birthday they rented out Jumpin' Jacks.  It was our first time going there, our kids loved it!

I love the mid jump shot of Aspen!  She's so cute!

Aspen had a little crush on Uncle Tyler and would follow him anywhere!

Aspen was scared of this slide, so Ben took her, then right after them came Hunter!

This picture shows pure JOY!!!

I sent this picture to my mom and sisters and asked them if they could guess what day it was at school, Mom and Kira both said mortician!  Haha!  It was beauty shop week!  He came home with painted nails everyday!  The picture doesn't do it justice but he as glitter all over in his hair, luckily the glitter spray ran out the first day so we only had to deal with that once!  Ben was not impressed and complained loudly to his Mom telling her that they shouldn't do that at preschool!  Hunter knew Ben didn't like it so the next day when I was there helping he was hiding in the beauty shop since he knew his dad didn't want him to do it!  Poor kid!  Luckily he was always more than happy to let me wash it all off, he just wanted to try it!

Suzy had her 3rd birthday party!

They are cute little friends!

We like to try new hair styles.

And she is always more than happy to get a picture of them!

And in our house if one kid gets their picture taken, so does the other!  I love these goofballs!

We got this wig with Madagascar 3 the kids thought it was pretty funny!  It was not very well made though, I kept finding colorful curly hair all over the place!  It was fun while it lasted though!  I thought I had a picture of Hunter in it too but I can't seem to find one.

The kids kept asking us when the baby was going to come out, we kept telling them it would be after Aspen's birthday, the above picture was the day before her birthday, so we are getting close!!

Nov-Dec 2013

Let's start this post off with a bang!  What does this look like to you?!?!

When I turned and saw him like this it gave me a start!  How in the world did he manage that!!!  We were at our friends house playing games and he had been eating a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie that we had brought and we told him he had to stay in the kitchen with it.  He wanted to still be able to see the movie so sat just barely in the kitchen!  I don't know how he managed to drop and squish it so much right there, but man was I glad when I realized that was what it was!!  I still crack up about it every time I see this picture!

We had a birthday party for my dad in Kanab!  Kira made him a cute cowboy hat cake, and all the grandkids loved helping grandpa with the candles!  I love how excited Talee looks in this!

Hunter had his first field trip with Head Start.  They went to a park in Cedar, they encouraged parents to come to it, so me and a couple of the other moms drove up with them (in my friends vehicle, parents can't go on the bus.)  The park was really cool!  But I think Hunter's favorite part was riding on the bus!

This was right after we ate lunch!  Aspen and the younger kids of the other moms that went were also there, there was a bridge at one part, Aspen was terrified of it!  I had to hold her hand or she would completely freeze!  It was pretty wiggly but it had walls on the sides of it, so I didn't think it would be scary since you couldn't see down but the movement was too much for her!

Our 1 picture of Thanksgiving!  Brandi brought stuff for us all to play turkey tag!  If I remember right I think she said cooper made the game up.  It was kind of like flag football meets freeze tag.  They would call out a color and that was the flag you had to try to grab, my kids were hilarious!  Hunter would get so mad if someone would grab his, and Aspen thought it was pretty and would cry because they were ruining it!  Finally we had to just put her on the tramp so she could keep all her flags!

Time to play in the snow!!!

We only really got this one snow storm this winter, but it was an awesome one!!

They loved it!

Ben was gone playing in a softball tournament (which ended up getting cancelled early because of the snow) so me and the kids made us a snowman!  And my prego belly was already starting to make it harder, I huffed and puffed a bit, but we rarely get snow here so I was not going to let it be wasted!!

This was how Aspen was for most of the snowman making...

She loved eating the snow!!

Hear he is!  Ben's mom gave us this snowman kit before we even had kids and this was the first time we got to use it!  Are you impressed that I still knew where it was after all those years???  The kit was missing something though...

Arms!!  There is a tree in the empty lot behind our house that has been dead since we moved in and it finally blew over a few weeks before this, so we hiked down through the rockiness and broke of the perfect snowman arms from the fallen tree!  If it hadn't just fallen I don't think we would have been able to find arms for him, there's mostly just tumble weeds around us!

If you look closely at the 2 pictures of our snowman you can tell his head looks different, I went to do something and turn back around and Hunter had knocked our snowman over!  I was so annoyed!  So after having a talk with Hunter, we re-built our snowman, and this time Hunter decided it needed some ears!  Later that day someone threw a snowball at our living room window, I just ignored it but then when we went outside a little later someone had knocked our snowman over!  Grrrr.  I really wish kids had more respect for other peoples stuff!  In this snow storm our neighbors also built a huge snow fort!  So huge in fact that several of the husbands had to help build it!

I thought this was hilarious!  It only took a few days for our snowman to look like this, and you can still totally tell what he was!  At least when the kids knocked him over they left all the pieces so we still have our snowman kit ready and waiting for the next big snow storm!

Getting our Christmas Trees this year was a lot colder than usual!

This was us waiting on the snowy hillside waiting for Ben to return with the chain saw.

Cutting it down!

And our frozen kids getting warm back in the truck!

This was the best we could get for our usual family with the tree right after we cut it down, the kids are peaking out of the truck.  We ended up not being able to go with the family this year so it was just us.  We got Joslyn's tree for her though, she hadn't been able to go with the family either.

The lights got put on...

Then a couple days later we decorated it.

Both of our kids have done this at this age, hang all of their decorations in the same exact spot and usually on the lights not on the actual tree, haha I love it!

I had to show her cute ruffle bum!

I loved her ranch stache!

And in our house you can't take a picture of just one of the kids!

At the ward Christmas party Hunter got in to see Santa before we were even in the room!  So no picture of him with Santa but here he is right after.  The primary did a little program after the dinner, and we had the ones that weren't a part of the nativity wear those choir collar things.  Most of the kids gave theirs back after but Hunter thinks he needs to keep everything!  So it stayed at our house for several months until it got destroyed, then I had to sneak it into the trash.

Aspen with Santa at the ward party, she looked a little nervous.

She did a little better with Santa at the library though!  We had her friend Suzy with us when we went to the library and this "helper" happened to be Suzy's grandpa!  I was a little panicked when I realized it, but when I told her mom she was smart and tells her kids that grandpa is a helper for Santa, so it was no worry of her realizing what was going on!  Phew!  That could have been bad!

We had Derrick for Christmas and this is what I decided to do for their kids.

I wasn't sure if Casey and Sophie were too old for hooded towels so I just did their names.

Then did this cute hooded one for Jack.

We made these cute Christmas presents for all the kids in Hunter's preschool.  He went through and wrote his and their names on ever single one!  Me and him painted the faces on with frosting while Aspen was napping, and he picked out which marshmallow he thought each kid would like!!  It was pretty cute!

We love hooded towels at our house and I get them one most Christmas's this year though since I was making Derrick's kids theirs I decided to make our kids one too.  This is Hunter's Angry Bird.

And here is Aspen's.  I think they turned out pretty cute!

Christmas Eve!

Time to open jammies!

This was what they woke up to!

They both got new fishing poles, bikes, and sleeping bags.

I think she's excited!

They loved and still love their bikes!

Opening stockings.

They both always want to play cards with us so Santa gave them each their own cards in their stockings.

The floor has disappeared!

Cutest Angry Birds I've ever seen!

Ben opening the tie the kids picked out for him.

The tree looks so sad without all the presents under it!

This seems to be the only picture I have of opening presents at Ben's parents!  Not surprising at all that Aspen is in her candy already!

We headed over to Kanab after our quick stop at Ben's parents.

I think Hunter looks tired in this!  A long busy day!  Here you can see baby #3 is starting to show!

These are their new jammies from my mom, they love them!!!

Hunter showing that it even has a cape, I love that his toosh is pooched out!!

We had a pretty calm New Year's, we put the kids to bed like normal, then Tyler came over and the 3 of us watched a marathon of Studio C, we were so distracted by the show that we missed it even turning into the new year!  That's it for 2013!  It was a great year!