Grandpas Decline

We got the call the first week in December from grandma Wiser saying the grandpa had met with the cardiologist and his heart was weakening. It was beating at about 40 beats a minute and they gave him about two weeks to live. We have loved having Grandpa here is St george at the VA home so we decicided to go visit him. The kids really do love grandpa. He is sweet and loving, and even though he cant remember who they are, i dont think the kids even realize it because he loves makes it seem like he knows them so well. He doesnt say much but he is more then willing to play and tell them how cute and sweet they are while they are there!

We know that we dont have much time with him, but we will be so sad when he is gone!

Carleens 30th Birthday!!

With as crazy as our life has been with Brandon becoming the Young Mens President, Me as primary first councilor, Brandon teaching two classes online for BYU-Idaho, him taking the GRE and preparing for a doctorate program hopefully through Boise State, and Brandon working full time at the seminary while i get a house full of kids under control needless to say things have been crazy!! For my birthday i wanted a very low key birthday! I was in charge of preschool in the morning from 9:30-11:30 for kenzie and her class, then i was lucky enough to have my friends (Jessica, Karen, and Kara) over and we got take out! It was so fun!! Brandon gave me my present the day before (knew bed spread and sheets) so i was already enjoying it!! Then when Brandon got home we ordered some pizza, made some popcorn and watched one of my favorite christmas movies "The Santa Clause" it was great, then we grabbed some ice cream that night! it was perfect!

I have had so many people tell me how sad it is i am turning 30 but i am actually super excited to be out of my 20's with having kids younger i have always felt older than i really am and i am just excited for others to see that i am not this 20 year old that was crazy, 30 has a lot in store for me and i couldn't be more excited to get it started!!

Toy Story Toys

It always amazes me the things that i struggle to get rid of. I have talked may times about how i love to throw things out or give them away, but here is another item that was difficult! Here is out toy story set. We got it about six years ago. Coleton got it for Santa the first Christmas after we got into our house in Hurricane. This set was really expensive for us at the time, we were financially strapped on money, we had Coleton and Hayden, but were so excited to celebrate Christmas with two kids. Coleton was obsessed with Toy Story and we would have it on replay for him. I wanted this toy for him just as much as i wanted it to see his reaction on Christmas morning. We kept it and all the kids played with it as the sequels came out and it was a favorite toy for the kids that came over to play! we even lost our beloved jessie as her legs could handle the kids but the past few years its been out less, and with new toys coming in it was time to pass them on to someone knew just like Andy passed them on to Bonnie! Tyler Seal across the street is just like coleton and loves Toy Story so the other day we sent them over to him and i feel like we lost a little of that kid stage, which is sad but i am looking forward to what comes ahead for us. See ya later gang, we will miss you!

Thanksgiving 2016

Its funny how their are some times where i really never take any pictures of the holidays! This thanksgiving Candice and her family came so we went up the day before for dinner and then ended up staying til the day after thanksgiving. Mason had gotten a double ear infection so we decided to not come to our house on thanksgiving like planned! our kids were pretty bummed because we cleaned a ton to get ready and bought pizza from papa murphys so to not have them come was sad but we understood!

Grant and coleton are always buds, Lanie and hayden are quite the pair, and Madi and Mason seem to fight over the same toys :) Brooklyn likes to stick close to grace who gives her attention and Kenzie and Kate tend to play with whomever is available!

They played and played and then when we headed home the kids were so exausted they just layed on the couch the rest of the day!

Family Pictures 2016

Election Day

I am completely embarrassed to even write it but this is the first time i have ever voted! I have never even registered to vote before today! I have never been much into politics and honestly most of the people that get put in i am content with, i feel like they try to do their best but with such a controversial presidential election i felt like this was one of those times i needed to have my voice heard so i registered to vote and went and voted!

 I voted for Evan McMullin because honestly i thought he would do the best job, i didn't really think he would win but i wanted to vote for who i wanted the most and it was him! Sadly i didn't get who i was hoping for and i am kind of nervous for the next four years and where Donald Trump is going to take us but he is our next president so i might as well get use to it!

 

Brandons New Truck

After a long time looking, he has finally found his truck!! Its a Toyota Tundra!! Its in great shape and the guy he bought it from has maintenance record for everything thing that was ever done and it look brand new! He needs it to be a good young men's president is what he says but i think he just needed a good excuse but now camping and hauling wood wont be in my van so i am a happy women!!

Halloween 2016

This year for halloween i had to run between the two schools to help! The boys had their halloween parade at 1:30 and then Brooklyn had her parade at 2:30 so i ran quickly to both and then made it back to pickup the boys at 3:00 after school was out! This year we had a vanpire minion, Orange Ninja turtle, Elsa, Anna, and olaf! They had a great time and we loved beiing able to go trick or treating with the kids! Brandons parents and grandma were able to come walk with us which made it nice to be able to break off with the older ones who wanted to go fast and let a few hang back with the slow ones! All in all it was a great night!