I Love You, Arizona...

Thanksgiving in ARIZONA!  

 Aunt Ann and Kase!  Having fun playing football and eating turkey all day!

 Kaylee and Rochelle!  They sure love each other!

For a fun day, we went to the park and rode a train!  We pretty much rocked that place!

BBQ in the park by the best BBQ'r this side of the Mississippi, my brother!

He made bacon wrapped sirloin burgers! YUM YUM!

 My cute niece, Abby! 

 Cousins chillin in the park!

 Ella and Kaylee.  They loved being together!

 ALL ABOARD!

 You may be wondering, why would she put this pic of her brother and some random lady.  But THAT very spot was my most favorite part of the whole trip to AZ!  When we were leaving, we all got in one HUGE line and played follow the leader all the way to the car!  It was one of those, "you just had to be there" moments, but seriously I laughed so hard I nearly peed my pants!  My brother led us and we all followed!  Now THAT is good quality entertainment!  (for the rest of the peeps at the park)  ha ha  I love my brother!

 Grandma playing with the kids at the park!

 Scotts on top of the world!

 While Kaylee went to jail!

 The crew piled on the buggy!

 My gorgeous sister!

 They were having so much fun!

 I ended up taking a bath...

 Mom, of course would be in the ONE spot that had anything to do with an animal.  ha ha

I sure love my family!  I wish we lived closer!

AZ

Kase's 3 year old pics

 I can't believe my baby boy is 3 years old!

 And I can't believe he is sooo darn cute!

 Had to get a momma squeeze in there.  I wasn't dressed for a pic, but whatevs. 

My boys, my world!

Crazy fun

 Jen, Em, and I are posing fools!

 Nice photo-bomb by Kaylee!!!!  ha ha ha

 Finally got to meet!

 Grandma and Grandpa are sure happy!

I sure love them!  There is nothing like family fun!

Happy Fall, Had By ALL!

Lots of fun things happen in the fall... 

Fall Festivals all over the place, which the kids LOVE!

These next few pics are of Hee Haws!  Kaylee's awesome 3rd grade teacher sets up a night for all of the class to meet there with families!  Super fun!

 Then the next week, we rocked CORNBELLY'S!  This has become a tradition of our little fam!

 Doesn't that pumpkin smile just make your heart melt?!!!

 love him

 Another super awesome things happens in the fall, MY BIRTHDAY!  Yes, I love my birthday!

Not just because of presents, ok well a little.  But I do love birthdays!  We have a few in Oct. in the fam!  Paul, Emily, Kathie, and I!  Cool peeps were born in October!

 We rocked the ward Halloween party as the Incredible family!  Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack.  The perfect line up of kids! 

 Kaylee didn't want black hair for the actual Halloween Day, so she wanted to be a snow princess.  We used a Christmas flower arrangement stuffer for a wand, and we made her crown out of snowflakes and hot glued it to a cheap dollar store crown.  Easy peasy.

This fall, I got picked to be the ROOM MOM for Kaylee's class!  I have secretly always wanted to be a room mom, and it has been so fun!  This is her class party!  We had fun food, games, and pics!

Kon-mans kindergarten class Party!

Then I got to help out for Konnors Thanksgiving Party!

Happy Fall, had by ALL!!!!!!

Army Grandma's HOME!

Lynn was serving in Afghanistan and we missed her so!

We are so thankful for her service, but glad she is HOME!

 Look at Kase's face as he saw Grandma coming home from Afghanistan at the airport!  

PRICELESS!

 Of course we made some fun signs to let her know we love her so!

 This was like 2 min. before we saw her!  Quite the patriotic group!

 Kaylee girl got the first hug, mostly because she was faster than the rest of us.

 Her fave daughter in law!... ME!   (well, I'm her only daughter in-law, but who is counting)

 This poster is my personal fave!  She is going from stinky sandy bulky Army boots, to classy and sassy high heels! 

The Welcome home gang...

Random catch up pics

Close Call

Yesterday, I volunteered at the school in Kaylee's class.  My awesome neighbor Sarah watched Kase for me.  When I was done volunteering, school was out.  So I drove the older two kids home and we stopped across the street (kiddie corner from us) to pick Kase up.  It was a cold snowy day and there was ice all over but Kaylee and Kase wanted to walk home.  I reluctantly agreed, but it was only a whole 2 houses away.  I said, "ok, just cross the street together".    THANK HEAVENS Kaylee listened to that rule.  I backed out of the driveway and was waiting for them to cross in front of me.  But there were a couple cars coming towards us, so the kids waited for them to pass.  And without any warning at all, a truck came ZOOMING from behind me, and went around my car.  He must have been going 40 mph!!! Kase didn't see the truck and started to bolt out.  I never felt sooo helpless in all my life!!!  It happen so quick, the truck was going WAY too fast down our street, Kase was bolting into the road.  I knew the truck wouldn't have enough time to stop.  But KAYLEE came to the rescue, she jumped toward Kase and grabbed him by the hoodie and yanked him back into the clear!!!!!!  My heart was beating out of my chest!!!!  I just witnessed my daughter save my sons life!!!!  It was a moment that is ingrained in my mind!  I am just so thankful that she was aware and fast enough to grab him!  I love my children so much, and that moment scared me to my core.  I am so thankful we have siblings to watch out for one another. 

2013

Ok... so lets be honest.  I just logged on here to blogger and shamefully realized I haven't posted anything since OCTOBER!  Geesh.  Slacker.  So, of course, I went to my pics and was trying to decide what was the most important thing that happened since then so I could get bloggin....But then a super genius idea popped into my head.

My hubby completely rocks and made a video of our family titled, "2013 In Review".  So here is the video.  I think you can only watch it on a computer and not phones or ipads.
click HERE.
Thanks hon.