Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

I'm a little behind on posting, so here is a what we did for Christmas. My brother and his family came to visit us, we had so much fun seeing them and hanging out with the kids, we got to celebrate Adam's 1st birthday with them, we miss them already. On Christmas Eve we all went out to a nice dinner and after we were done we went back to my moms and had some yummy cookies, Adam ended up taking over my cookies and milk, but that is ok because it was so cute he was dipping the cookie in the milk and would put it up to his mouth and keep doing that, it was cute! We got the kids ready for bed at my moms and brought them home, we put cookies and milk out for Santa and then off to bed they went. After all the kids were asleep Quentin and I stayed up until midnight putting together toys(so we didn't have to that morning) and wrapping presents. Christmas morning Me, Quentin and the kids opened presents, they got some pretty neat stuff. Then we made breakfast for everybody, my family came over for breakfast and hung out for awhile and Q's parents came over. It was a nice day, we were so tired by dinner time, I think it is all the excitement. We had dinner at my moms house. We had a delicious tri tip, mashed potatoes, rolls and all the other good stuff. We had such a nice Christmas with our families, I am so happy my brother got to be with us, we loved spending time with them, especially Adam. Thank you to everybody for all the great presents, Thanks bonnie for the cute bows you made Ayla, I love them!!!!! That is what we did all summed up. Here are a bunch of pics. Enjoy!

Happy 1st Birthday Adam!

Our nephew (my brothers son) is 1 year old today, we are so happy we got to celebrate it with him!

Christmas Program & Santa

Brendin had a Christmas program the other night for school. It was so darn cute they sang like six songs, a couple of them were, we wish you a merry Christmas, reindeer song, a Christmas tree song. Brendin did really well and then after the program Santa came out and all the kids got to sit on his lap and he gave them a book and candy cane Brendin looked so amazed to see him and talk to him, it was priceless, Ethan and Ayla got to sit on his lap also. Ethan just kept looking at him and Ayla was ok for a minute then she started to get a little scared.

Birthday Party!!!

Brendin had such a great Birthday he has so many people that love him. He got lots of cool toys, all his grandparents were here to celebrate, my little brother and sister and one of his uncles was there also. Thank you Jason, Bonnie and Adam, Brendin really loved his Transformers and video he said it is what he always wanted :) we wish you could have been here to celebrate with us. Thank you to all the grandparents for all the wonderful gifts Brendin really loves them all. Quentin made an awesome monster truck cake for B and it only to 4 sheet cakes to make! haha. It took awhile to make but Quentin really wanted to make it for Brendin and he enjoyed making it. Some of the pictures are a little blurry because he was so excited and he was bouncing around. I still can't believe he is 4 already, my baby boy is growing up :( He is so great and such a blessing to have in our lives we love him so much!!!

Happy Birthday Brendin!! 4 years old!

Wow Brendin is 4 years old today! I can't believe how fast it has flown by, it was like yesterday that I just had him, I feel old now. Brendin has such a special spirit to him he has brought so much joy to all of our lives. On Wednesday we had a party for him and his friends at jump man jump, it is a place that has big inflatable slides and obstacle course, they all had so much fun. Today we are having a birthday party for him with just the immediate family. Here are some pictures from over the years, there are a lot so look if you want to. I will post more from tonight's party after it is over!

Pictures from his party!

Christmas is coming

I'm so excited that Christmas is right around the corner. I love this time of year. This year is so much better than last, I get to be at home with my family(and not in the hospital) and we have two new babies to celebrate with, my brother and his family will be here, we are so excited!. We got all are decorations up and decorated the tree and the house. My dad got us a cute blow up Charlie brown thing for the front yard. Brendin loves Charlie Brown.

What new things the kids are doing!

Ethan and Ayla are now crawling. Ayla army crawls because she knows she can go faster that way and Ethan took the time to figure out how to do it the right way but both ways work. They both have one toofer poking out, they look so cute. They absolutely love singing patty cake they both clap and smile the second we start singing it. We started putting them in the bath together and the love that Ayla yells and splashes and Ethan plays and just loves it, it is a little bit harder just because they move around so much so we really have to watch them so the don't fall over but they love it. All the kids have had a cold this past week. Brendin is doing well his Birthday is coming up so we are looking foward to that, he also has a little christmas program at school in a couple weeks. Quentin and Brendin have a movie night every once in awhile and it is so cute, they both cuddle up in bed and watch a movie and I get a little time to myself to watch something I want.

Thanksgiving

I have been so lazy about posting lately, there has been a lot going on around here with sick kids and Quentin's car breaking, Again!. For Thanksgiving we went to Quentin's parents and had lunch it was really good. Even the babies had some sweet potatoes, green beans, they tried cranberry sauce but were not to happy about it. Also Quentin's friend Shane and his family had Thanksgiving with us and stayed at our house for a few days. We had a great day and we have so much to be thankful for.

Time and Eternity

4 years ago today we were sealed together for time and eternity. Today we all went up to the temple and walked around, we took some pictures(thanks Merridy for being our photographer). It was a beautiful day, after that we went to Swenson's and had some ice cream just like we did after our sealing.

What's new

There are just a couple of new things going on around here, Ayla got here first tooth a couple of weeks ago and Ethan hasn't cut through yet but you can see were there are coming in and he is soooo very cranky. Ethan can get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth almost moving himself forward. Ayla pulls herself with her arms and pushes with her feet, it is funny to watch but it gets her around. They get pretty frustrated though because they know what they want to do but don't know just what to do. They are both talking a lot, Ayla is just a bit louder than Ethan, they both say Momma really well and Ayla says Dadda a lot, Ethan has this terrible high pitch screech he does when he is mad. Tomorrow they will be 8 months old, Wow!! Brendin has been going through some mood changes lately, I'm hoping he will get through all this real soon. He loves music, I turned Alvin and the Chipmunks on the other day and he grab his pretend microphone and was dancing and singing, it was so cute!

5 Years!

We have been married for 5 crazy years. It really doesn't feel that long I remember our wedding day like it was yesterday, I still wish I could wear my wedding dress everyday I love it. Quentin and I met through my brother, they were good friends through high school so I have known Quentin since I was 13 but I wasn't interested in him until after he got back from his mission and I was 17 by then, I was to young before to care anyways. . We dated for about 2 years before we decided to get married. 5 months after we got married I got pregnant with my little boy.(well now he is to big). Our lives have been an adventure filled with love, 3 beautiful children later and it keeps getting better. I'm so happy that my brother let me date his friend or I wouldn't have found my love. We have two anniversaries to celebrate on the 19th four years ago we were sealed for time and eternity at the Reno temple. I was actually 8 1/2 months pregnant with Brendin when we got sealed, that is so crazy to think about. Our scanner is not working, so I could not scan any of our wedding pics, hopefully I will be able to figure out something soon. We already celebrated our anniverary on Tuesday because Q has to work today, we had a nice peaceful dinner together at the outback, it is weird not having to juggle children at dinner time.

The last part of Halloween!

Halloween night my parents came over to help because Q had to work, so we all had pizza and Me, my mom, step dad all took the kids trick-or-treating, we went about 2 blocks and came home for a rest, Quentin had just got home so him, my dad and Cindy took Brendin out for another block or so, the babies had enough so they stayed behind. We had lots of fun, Ayla tried her first lollipop, she liked it but lost interest pretty fast, Ethan fell asleep before he could have any, to much excitement for one night. It was funny when we were getting candy, when Brendin would get something he didn't like or couldn't have because it had peanuts, he would say (in front of the people) uhh I don't want this, I don't like this or I cant have this. So I told him just say thank you and walk away, I learned to just pull him away before he could say anything in front of people, kids there just so funny.