Holidays

It's that time of year again!! YEAH!! We made our annual Gingerbread houses (out of graham crackers) with my inlaws this past friday...SO FUN! I think this has been the first year that I felt like I knew what I was doing....The kids all did so awesome too! Big Baby just ate the candy and didnt really show an interest in wanting to do one (phew!)so just the older kids did one...we yet have decided where to put them. We are really excited for Christmas this year! We are going to start a few new traditions with the kids.. The first one is to go to Thanksgiving Point for the lights and maybe a carriage ride... the second I want to start is sleeping under (or right by) the christmas tree, reading books on Christs birth and other christmas stories a few days before christmas. Every year we have always gone to see the lights at Temple square as well, but this year we are going to start taking our own hot chocolate to walk around with.. (because my family is getting so large!)...It hasnt snowed too much yet this year but we love to go sledding when it does..so that I think will always be one of our traditions as well!...maybe not for me though this year because of this massive belly I have :)

I really want and NEED some of these right now!.....

Updates

According to my little sister Jessica, I need to blog. Pulling up my blog and seeing snowflakes was actually pretty refreshing due to I already think it is getting to warm outside haha!
Lets see we have moved AGAIN (I know stop already!), but we needed something bigger with all our kids and something not on a busy street. We are actually renting a home from one of our old friends in our first neighborhood that we lived in for about 6 years! It's so fun to be back in our original ward and with all our old friends, and of course the many friends for the kids too!. Our home is AMAZING!! the yard is HUGE and it is at the top of a circle which is so nice when you have kids! We never have to worry about the kids riding their bikes.
We kept the kids in their old school until the new school year so we have to drive them everyday, such a pain lol. They just went back on track and get off in about 2 1/2 weeks for the summer!~ WOOT!
We have already got a camping trip in this summer too! It was soo fun! I just wish I would have taken some pics! The problem is the more kids you have the less you take cause you are either A: to tired or B: forgot the camera...Anyway, we went with my in-laws up to the American Fork Canyons for 3 nights..we roasted lots of marshmallows and made lots and lots of dutch oven goodness! I love camping with my family! so much fun for the kids!
Matt's classes are getting a little tougher so we decided to have him drop work and just do 1 day a week at the pharmacy and I went back to work FULL time! (STAB ME WITH A FORK IN THE EYE) The one good thing about going full time with my company though is that I get to work from home!! So SO SO SO nice! I love that I can take my breaks with my kids and hubbs and I can eat healthy stuff all day long!! I only have to go into the building 1 or 2 times a month AWESOME!!
Matt just got a new calling this last week....Young Mens president..cough..cough...so much for all his free time eh! He is really excited though and has just jumped right in! He is going to take the summer semester now so that he can get into the groove of things with the calling..I figure though since he still has about 4 years of school left whats another semester right haha! anyway he is an amazing man and I am so happy that he takes on every calling that he is given!!
Lets see im sure there is sooo many more things that have happened in the lst 6 months but my brain is a little fried!

Igloo #2

My wonderful hubby made another snow igloo with all the fabulous snow we have gotten!
Parker has been waiting all winter for this...sammy and him like to sleep out in it too! (crazy kids!) matt usually sleeps out there too but my nephew Andrew came over to spend the night and could not wait to sleep in it with them!! He was soo excited and thought it was the coolest thing ever!! Here are a few pics of the Eskimo home.....

My Sammantha

This year Sammy wanted to have a Carnival birthday party so I told her she had to choose on either a party or getting gifts from mom and dad...and it is of course sammy we are talking about, so she chose party! Sammy lives for friends and entertainment she reminds me of myself when I was young soo much!
So I rented this huge bounce slide thing and stuck it in the cultural hall of the church and I bought a whole bunch of toys from Oriental trading to give away with the carnival games that we did. My brother and Mom helped out with those! thanks guys!
And of course we ate lots of pizza and had a pinata that I made out of a papersack and duct tape lol! I figured with 30 kids I would need something that would be hard to break so all the kids will have a turn right?!! haha!
Oh and the picture with samm and the little red headed boy....this is her "love" they both have a little crush on each other and I think it is the FUNNIEST thing ever!! he is so small compared to her but he is the SWEETEST boy ever!














Here are my ABC's about Sammy........

*Animals.....every kind
*Beautiful! She has been such a beauty since the day she was born!
*Camping ..especially with family
*Drawing
*Eating....she is my only child that will eat anything I make! I love it!
*Friends are the most important thing to her
*Giving people things
*HATES waking up
*Is going to marry Justin Beeber in the temple
*Jumprope...she is really good!
*Kind to everyone she meets
*Listener..she can lend you her ear anytime!
*Music
*Not having to shower everyday and she is a happy camper:)
*Outgowing is probably THE best word for her
*Playing the piano...she has picked this up very quickly! she is soo good!
*Questioning everything...still!!
*Relaxing with her dad
*Stuffed animals...she has like 50!
*Trys to get her way with EVERYTHING!
*University of Brigham Young is her favorite( cause her Aunt goes there!)
*Very very good at saving money
*Writes notes to communicate all the time! (She will love junior high)
*Xrays showed she broke her finger when she was wrestling around with cousins
*Yelling at her sisters and brother
*Zookeeper is what she wants to be when she grows up.

4 Year Old

Haven turned 4! She is LOVING the new age lol! Here are the ABC's about Haven...
Always wants to play at Tegan's house
Beautiful!
Colors on everything
Does NOT like hotdogs!
Eats almost all of my dinners I make:)
Funny
Gets into the handsoap
Has to sleep in just her underwear
Is the cutest big sister to Isabelle
Jumps on the trampoline almost every day!
Kids like to play with her
Loves to whine till she gets what she wants
Milk is her favorite drink!
No is one of her favorite words
Opens my mail
Pumpkins are her FAVORITE!
Questions are always coming out of her mouth
Really, really , REALLY loves to bug her siblings
Stubborn
Trys to sneak to her bff's house all the time
Under her bed sleeps her big sister Aubrey:)
Very sweaty!
When she goes to bed she has to have her "Boo Blankie"
Xray's would show she is full of it! ( haha! that was a toughie!)
Yell's at her sisters to give her back her things
Zippers make her frustrated

My Family take 1

I am sure a lot of you have seen these on FaceBook but I had to let everyone know how excited I am about them!! I have not taken pics of the family for a couple years so I am stoked! My good friend Sam took these! Thanks again Woman!!! I cant wait for the rest!!