Thursday, September 26, 2013

New Family Pics!!!

So not the update of pictures from our busy summer, but here are some (yes, these are only some, we have TONS of pictures) new family pictures for everyone to enjoy! 





 


Rollercoaster Ride anyone???  Hands UP!!!

Now, everyone lean to the left!!!

And to the right!!!  What a fun ride!














My Kermit thinks he is strong enough to give Mama a piggy back ride... these pictures were so fun!





We decided to do an oldest to smallest tower and then fall to the ground...


Oh my goodness, we had so much fun and our photographer was so good to us.  At one point Master Chief suggested I climb up in a tree with Miss Piggy.  So I did.  Miss Piggy is so much shorter than I am though, so I decided to pick her up with one arm, by one arm and pop her up on my lap, while sitting on one branch of a tree.  AND WE FELL OUT OF THE TREE!!!!  We were about 12 feet high, luckily we were not hurt and we got a good laugh out of it! 

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Where Have the Last 4 Months Gone!

In the last 4 months we have been crazy busy!  I wasn't quite sure how to update, do I make myself crazy and try to go through each event that has happened with pictures?  Well, put those posts off because it was too overwhelming!  So we are left with the easy way out... a list of fun events, a few random thoughts and if you're lucky maybe a few pictures in the next post!

May 2013
-Mama's birthday... a most fantastic birthday!  She was spoiled rotten and claims it to be the best birthday ever!
-Baby Girl's 4th birthday - a day she's been waiting for, for at least 11 months! She had a Minnie Mouse birthday celebration, went to a grand re-opening of McDonald's play land (her dream come true) for her birthday party with all her friends from primary, and ate a dinner of chicken nuggets! 

June 2013
-School finally let out for the summer, Kermit and Miss Piggy graduated from 2nd Grade!
-Mama went to Girl's Camp and it rained poured and then it snowed (be careful what you pray for)!!!  It was a wonderful experience, and I can't wait to go back next year.
-While Mama was at Girl's Camp, Master Chief took all 3 kids camping (brave daddy!).  They enjoyed sledding down sand dunes, visiting a museum and having some down time.

July 2013
-The kids did swimming lessons and all passed with flying colors!  Baby Girl was asked why she was in the preschool class and not in the level 1 class, she is such a fish!  Miss Piggy had races in her class and beat everyone in all the strokes!  Kermit is a master at the deep water, passing the swim test and earning the privilege of going off the diving board and rope swing now! 
-We took a trip to visit Gram-Gram, Papa and Uncle Nino.  We stayed in a motel along the way with a  swimming pool, which is our kids dream come true of course!  We ate at Benihana to celebrate Papa's birthday!  The kids learned gun safety and how to shoot guns.  We went water skiing and could hardly keep Kermit and Baby Girl out of the water!  Kermit even tried water skiing, but the skis were too big and heavy for him.  We sure had fun! 
-After playing with the family, Master Chief and I left the kids with the family and we drove to Wyoming to attend Trek.  We dressed as pioneers and pulled handcarts for 26 miles, re-enacting the pioneers coming across the mountains/plains.  Our first day was very hard, we trekked over Rocky Ridge, hiking 16 miles.  Master Chief and I re-enacted Jens and Elsie Nielson's story.  Jens got frost bite on his feet so badly that he couldn't go on any further so he told his wife to leave him on the trail and let him die, but his wife would let that happen, so she loaded him in her cart and pulled him in their cart.  They also had a son Niels who was 5 and they brought a little girl named Bodil Mortinsen along the way, both of these children died at Rock Creek Hollow and were buried in the mass grave there.  We were able to visit this grave, it was a very special place for Master Chief and I to visit.  For me, it was a mother to mother type place for me to visit for Elsie, I have to have others visit my daughters grave, and to be able to visit Neils grave for Elsie was something special to me.  For Master Chief it was very hallowed and reverent, he felt close to those 13 buried there, had he took his hat off in reverence, as President Hinckley would have done.  The second day we hiked 6 miles at Martins Cove, we had a very reverent river crossing where the priesthood carried the women across the river, re-enacting the river crossings done in the winters.  The third day we hiked 4 miles at the Willie Center and we did the Women's pull, up a very sand hill with extremely hard rocks at a steady incline at the end.  There were mud bogs, water fights, windy rains, thunder storms, square dances, and lots of fun memories made.  We are so thankful for our trek experiences. 
-We stopped to see Grandma Great on our way home and stayed the night with her!  What fun we had.  We went school shopping and had a tour of her new home she is building with my aunt and uncle. 

August 2013
-Miss Piggy attended her first volleyball camp!!!  This made Mama SO HAPPY!!!  Of course Miss Piggy loved it!!! 
-Kermit started his second year of football, his last year of flag football!  He is playing center this year, or as he calls it, "hiker".  He is the biggest kid on the team, by a whole head!  He can block anyone, even two kids at a time!  His first game was at the college stadium and he sacked the quarterback 5 times! 
-Kermit and Miss Piggy started 3rd Grade this month!  They are both so excited to get back to school and see all their friends.  They have a ton of homework though!
-Baby Girl has her open house for preschool tonight and has been counting down the days to start preschool, she can't wait to go to school just like her big brother and sister. 

Hopefully I will get some pictures of all these events up!  And then again, maybe not!

Monday, April 8, 2013

Spring Break 2013 PICTURES!!!

This has been a fun spring break for our family!  We still have one week to go, but I want to share our pictures so far!

Easter Goods!
Ready for Church Easter Morning
 Later that week after Master Chief was done with work we packed up and headed to Grandma Great's house!!!

Visiting Grandma Great's friend who has deer for pets!
  
Watching the deer eat
Then we went up to some other neighbors of Grandma Great's who have donkeys and a miniature horse.  Miss Piggy was a little afraid to get in there to pet the horse, but soon she found it was quite easy!

Back at Grandma Great's house we played outside on the laundry swing.  This will be gone the next time we see Grandma Great because she'll be tearing down her house so she can build a new one with my Aunt!  Mama spent many hours playing on this growing up!
Soon we had to leave and make our way south.  First we stopped at Mama's best friends house where were supposed to drop in, surprise her and leave in a matter of minutes.  I think we spent a good hour there talking, laughing and just having a great time.  Her oldest is betrothed to Miss Piggy, so we thought it would be funny to take a picture of the two of them.  I'm not sure how funny they thought it was though!!!
Her youngest is just a little older than my youngest and those two are two peas in a pod.  They played so well together, but both moms know that they could never be left alone for 2 seconds because they are both trouble makers!  They were quite the pair.  Perhaps they should be betrothed as well because when we told them to hold hands they were all too excited to do so!
 After leaving my best friends house we continued south to Salt Lake and to Temple Square.  We enjoyed walking around the grounds of the temple, seeing the beautiful flowers and statues.
Kermit wanted lots of pictures taken, he loves the temple so much and wanted to show him hugging the temple!  He said he never wants to let go.

 We got to go inside the tabernacle and show the kids where General Conference used to be held.
 Then we walked over to the Visitors Center.  Kermit wanted his picture taken in front of the building.
 Inside the Visitor Center is a beautiful statue of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Then we walked across the street to the new Conference Center.  They have a pretty waterfall that falls from the top of the Conference Center to the ground that was really neat!
 Inside the Conference Center was magnificent!  It seats 21,000 people, not a bad seat in the entire place and we listened to the organist practice for General Conference. 

After we left the Conference Center Kermit really wanted a picture of him with Angel Moroni, which is the gold statue on top of the temple you see in the distance.

 We were getting hungry, so we found a Noodles and Co for dinner.  Our girls were being quite silly.


Afterwards we went to our Uncle and Aunts house where the kids played, the dads played and the moms did the mom thing!  We made our way back home on Saturday afternoon and enjoyed a relaxing day Sunday watching General Conference.  It was fun for the kids to see Conference because we had just been where the magic happens!