Christmas 2011

Catching up on past events (life must be a little crazy right now)

Our insurance company had a big party at the Fun Park.  The kids had a lot of fun.  We all played laser tag...even little Hunter.  He had a blast running around in the dark trying to shoot at people.  Brian took the girls rollerblading while I watched Hunter pay on the soft play.  Then we all went to see Santa to let him know what everyone wanted for Christmas.

Christmas morning the kids woke up and a had a very nice day.  

Merry Christmas

CARS!!

Autumn and her new Sunday dress 

I am not sure why Brookie is into the Monster High dolls

Autumn was excited to get her new 3DS

STAR WARS!! (I have to laugh at Hunter, he looks almost drugged)

Brookie's 7th Birthday

I can't believe how fast time goes by. My little girl is now 7 years old. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that my kids were all so little. We had a family party on her birthday. It was a little hard trying to get everything arranged because Brian worked late that day and it was the last day of school before Christmas break. It all worked out okay with a little help from my sister, Kristin, who kindly agreed to pick up the cake and some pizza for dinner.
Hunter is a little nut. I really don't know what he was doing but somehow got in the way of the camera and decided to be silly :)

We opened up presents and Brooklyn had a blast.

This was Brooklyn's surprised look ans Autumn brought in her last gift....

A brand new bike!

Happy Birthday Brooklyn!!!

Fun Times

We went to the pumpkin walk for the first time. We had a lot of fun. It was nice to get out of the house and do something fun as a family. The different exhibits were really cute. People are really creative.
There were a ton of these wooden picture boards to poke you head through. The kids had a lot of fun running around getting their pictures taken. I will have to put more up after I figure out how to turn them without having to post them of facebook first. We even had a little fun with one. I have an awesome photographer (Autumn).

Number 4!!!

I guess one of the big things that has happened recently is that we found out that we will be adding to our family. The kids are super excited. We decided to tell them while I was taking a picture of them in their shoes. They stood in order from oldest to youngest. At the end I placed a pair of baby shoes. It took a little while of guessing why we had some baby shoes there. I think Autumn figured it out pretty quickly but sat and giggled like she didn't dare ask. Brooklyn thought they were for her baby "Big Baby" Hunter later told his grandma that they were his imaginary friend. We sent the text to different family members to let them know. It was funny to see how quicklysome people figured it out, while it took a few questions from others to figure out what the picture meant.
The official due date is June 23rd, 2012. Autumn's 9th birthday. Hunter has been super cute about it. He keeps asking when I was going to have my baby. He makes sure he doesn't squish the baby, and one day he decided to try to feel the baby in my stomach. It was so funny. He pointed out on one side of my stomach was the feet, the otherside had the bum and the pee pee was in between. He also went to the first ultrasound to find out how far along I was. My doctor, Dr. Noorda, told Hunter that the baby had a gianormous pee pee (he heard about Hunter's feeling the baby story then Hunter told him the baby had a pee pee like his) So now Hunter is sure we are having another boy so he has someone to play cars with. I am more sick with this one then any other pregnancy. For a while people teased me that there was twins...I assure you there is only one. So it will be interesting to find out what this baby is in June (we do not plan on finding out the sex of the baby) We are really excited!

Puppies,Puppies, Everywhere!!

Okay, It has been really crazy at my place lately, so I haven't posted for a little while...okay a long while. One reason is I have been trying to sell puppies that we have and I am either constantly posting on KSL or on my doggy blogs. I seemed to never have the time to update my family blog. So once again, I get to try to catch up on all my past events...starting with our puppies. In less the 2 weeks, we had 2 litters of puppies born!! That made for lots of little puppies!

We had 9 german shorthair puppies...

...And 5 mini schnauzers

They started out small (especially the mini schnauzers) but they grew quickly and soon all puppies found new homes :)

Autumn's Baptism

On July 2, 2011, Autumn made the choice to be baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
We are very proud of her. It was really a neat experience. She even wore the dress that my mom made me when I got baptized. She was baptized along with one of our neighborhood boys Ethan Bartlett. We had lots of family and friends there. So many that people had to stand.

We had a nice luncheon after at the park. Of course I would forget to get pictures of our family and friends there. Later that day we were able to spend some more time with them watching the Cache Valley Cruise-in. My dad even got his '69 mustang running and I had a fun ride with Brian, Autumn, and Savanah down Main Street. We had a very busy day, but it was wonderful.

Autumn turns 8!!

I can't believe how time flies. You blink for a second and your baby is turning 8. They grow up way too quickly. Although Autumn is my little challenging child and we seem to butt heads often, she has a very sweet side to her. She is a very loving and kind little girl. (But don't call her little when she is around. She hates everyone telling her how little she is.)
Autumn is very creative. She loves to color pictures, but her favorite thing to do is write books. Staple a few blank pages together, slap on a title and she is ready to go. She has written stories for just about everything from puppies to dragons. I love to see her excitement as she shows me one of her newly written and illustrated books she has created. She loves to read books. Her most recent book is The Secret Garden. I love listening to her read. We will just keep on reading to find out what is going to happen next. She also loves the Puppy Pals books and the Animal Ark series. Anything that involves dogs, cats or horses. She loves animals.
I took Autumn out to get some pictures for her baptism announcement. We drove all over trying to find some good places. We just happened to drive past this door and I loved it. (No I am not a photographer with a fancy camera and photo editing software... but we liked them anyways.)

We had fun celebrating her birthday. We had Grandma and Grandpa McBride, Aunt Kristie and Ethan, Grandma and Grandpa Achatz, Kristin and Jerel, and Great-Grandma and Grandpa Page come. She got some nice gifts, clothes, a puppy webkinz, 2 breyer horses, a journal that we need to work more on writing in. She had a great time and said she got everything that she wanted.

And then daddy pulled out her big surprise.... A brand new bike!!

We enjoyed a cute cupcake cake that for some reason when I bought it, I thought it was a cute bear. Maybe because it was dark brown. But I was informed that bears don't have manes. So it is a lion.

Hopefully this next year won't fly by so fast. Soon she will be all grown up and gone. So for now I am trying to enjoy all the time I can have...even the bad ones :)