Time with the boys!

Hayden's school needed 30 desks put together, so we made it a father-son thing. I've never seen a six year old who loved manual labor (and power tools) so much!
It was pretty neat to see the proud look on his face after two hours of hard work, and hear him say "that was fun! Can we do it again next week?"

Parenting can be tough, but today was a win

Random Pictures!

I found quite a few pictures that were random enough they weren't worth a whole post but ones that we will want to remember so i thought that i would post them with a small caption so i remember later!!

In February I was released from the Mulberry ward Young Womens presidency (i was the secretary) and i was put in as the Mulberry ward Primary First Counselor which is quite the stretch for me since i have been in young women's for about seven years and have never spent one day in primary! but the switch has been and adventure and with a ward that has a primary pushing 200 kids it has been fun to have a change! My new responsibility is working with the children who are being baptize and coordinate their special day! I have really enjoyed that part and meeting with all the new families and working to get them ready! The children are always so excited and it is really fun to attend the baptisms on Saturday mornings! Here is Coleton with his best friend who lived across the street from us Max Layton, they just moved so he is sad that his buddy is gone but he moved to the next neighborhood over so we will still get a chance to see him!

Madi is on the move she started crawling at about 9 months and started walking about a week or so before her first bithday! She loves her bottle and she is the big blue eyes and blond hair and is so easy going! She is our amazing sleeper and loves being around the other kids!!

Here is Hayden when he got his cast off! It was a little tramatic! He was super excited to get it off since it had been 7 weeks with it on, but with a waterproof cast on for some of it, his skin was very tender and the saw (that is not suppose to hurt him) actually cut him and he tried to tell me and the doctor but we kept reassuring him that it was just loud not dangerous, sadly we were wrong! it took him about three days to start using it and now it is like nothing was ever wrong!

Here is our hayden! this is him! he loves his stuffed animals and he thought he would be so fun to shove them in his pj so that he didnt have to carry them all over!

Here is the clock brandon made for me, he made the frames and everything, i love it!

Here is a picture that we got when Brandons aunt and uncle Perry were in town!, it was one of the first pictures of all of the kids and it really just shows our life! What have we gotten ourselves into!

The ward campout was rained out so the tent was set up in the playroom for the night!

Poor Kenzies hair! It is so brittle and it falls out in patches, and she rubs her head on the floor and her hair just falls out! We thought for a while she had type 1 diabetes because she was drinking 10-12 sippy cups of water but after having her tested twice they determined that she just likes water! we thought for a while that she might have a deficiency of some sort but couldn't find one so we have just been trying hard to keep it trimmed and clean in hopes that soon it will grow!

 Here is the cute allen kids Nate (9) and Jason (5) they are so fun together and it is great because Brandon and i are good friends with their parents so we just love their whole family!

Neighborhood kids around the new campfire!

Madi found a yogurt!

We got a new Lins market down the street and their cart fits all of my kids! Two in the front, two in the car, and one in the basket!

Brooklyn loving her fuzzlet that grandma cheney made for her for christmas! This was after her summer swim lessons! 

Here is the mysterious plant that started growing in our grass! i have done so much research but cant seem to figure out what it is but the most frustrating part is that i have planted thirty some plants (strawberries, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, red peppers, green peppers,watermelon, cucumbers) and they have all died or not grown at all but seven of these random plants from seat are flourishing without me doing anything!!

Coleton was in a extra reading program after school at GWA and when they finish a program they recieved a coupon for a free pizza at brick oven pizza well Coleton earn four of them so we went and used them all one night for dinner! We were super nervous to take five kids to a sit down restaurant which is something we dont do but it actually went really well! the kids did great and ironically didn't eat hardly and of their free pizza!

Our trip to home depot for sprinkler pipe parts!

Madi loves when there are two seat in the cart because she uses the other person as a pillow and lays on them, luckly brooklyn is sweet and is fine with it, Kenzie on the other hand is not as nice! 

Hayden Graduates from Kindergarten!

Here he is with his teacher Ms. Woodcock, he did so well in her class and we are so excited for 1st grade!

Girls Cruise!

I had the chance to break a way from my normal crazy life, to spend four days with all of my sisters and parents!! We decided this year, instead of a big family reunion we would go on a cruise! All seven of us sister(counting my sister-in-laws) and my parents stole away, boarded a carnival cruise to mexico and played! It was so fun to not have to worry about kids, bedtimes, homework, cleaning, and just have fun together! We ate as much ice cream, pizza, and snacks as we could, stayed up late talking and laughing, going to shows, and playing in the freezing cold! We all flew into California to board the boat but with my luck i was the one who almost didn't make it! I had boarded a shuttle in st george at 4am shuttled three hours to the Las Vegas Airport, getting there at 6am i had plenty of time to catch my flight that left at 8 but at 8:15 they cancelled my flight and told us that we needed to go to the front desk to reschedule your flight! it was my main fear coming to life and i rushed to get in line! Being the 10th passenger in line (of almost 130) i was nervous if they could get me there and after waiting in line for over an hour with out any movement i was almost in tears! i had to arrive in california by 3 or the boat would leave without me! I luckily had some people around me who felt sorry for me that i was potentially going to miss this huge even after leaving my five children home and got me to the front of the line! The man at the desk was skeptical that i would make it there in time but was able to get me a flight at noon and i took it! i still stressed about making it to port but my sisters set up a shuttle (because i had already missed mine to the port) and with only a half an hour to spare i made it on to the ship! i was so happy to be on that boat!! We had three rooms fairly close to each other (mom and dad in one, cristeen, Marie, and caralee in another, and kari, caetie, devey, and me in the last) the boat was super rocky and a few of us got a bit sea sick but it was such an amazing weekend! i would do it again in a heartbeat and i loved the chance that i was able to spend it with all of famiy! I had some friends, karen allen, and jessica seal watching the kids when i left friday morning, brandon was home on the weekend and Minnie wilkins watched them on Monday as i traveled home, We left 32 kids at home, seven husbands, and lots of housework!

Mothers Day!

It was bright outside! it didnt go well!

 I got the adorable out door bench that we were all sitting on! i love it!!