A little bit of RANDOMS

I decided since I'm so far behind I'd update the past few months with some of my favorite pictures taken. Enjoy!!!

The boys and I had a fun time while daddy was away in November for some Tech Training. We spent the week playing games, watching movies, sword fighting, and making silly faces.

We spent our Thanksgiving Break at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Tx. We had a blast and were exhausted when we got home.

Ryan OR

Joe Dirt?

Ryan had fun this past Halloween. And YES he went to work this way!

Funny Boys!

Benson has earned the name "BUG". The first 8 months of life he battled to stay healthy so we called him Benson bug, he's our Love bug too...but he is the BIGGEST WATER BUG we know also. This kid is fearless when it comes to water. He LOVES IT!

Cute Bug

Sweet brothers hanging out

Our three musketeers on Christmas Eve

Ready for Church

Sleep

Tight

My Angels!!!


I am slowly catching up with everything and promise to do better updating our blog.

DEAR BLOG...

...so lately every time I sit down to upload pictures or update our adventurous children decide to :
A: Start World War 3 Over A Beloved LEGO
B: Make Their Own Lunch With TONS OF HONEY!!!
C. Fill The Toilet With a WHOLE ROLL OF TP
D. Stand Right Next To Me and say MOM, MOM,MOM, CAN I, CAN I, CAN I...until I don't even remember what I was trying to do in the first place.
E. ALL OF THE ABOVE PLUS SOME!!!

We had an AWESOME Thanksgiving Vacation. We packed the whole crew up and headed to Grapevine Texas were we enjoyed THE GREAT WOLF LODGE http://www.greatwolf.com/ ...if you live close to one I highly recommend going. It was fun to be in a water park in the middle of winter. A few days after arriving home, December 3rd, Benson was finally weighing enough and old enough to undergo his bi-lateral inguinal hernia repair. He flirted with the nurses and was a pretty happy baby considering he didn't get to eat 12 hours prior to surgery. THANK GOODNESS FOR OUR SWING!!! The swing kept him lulled to sleep until we needed to head to the hospital. He was his normal happy self within 24 hours post-op!

Christmas was enjoyable! We ATE WAY TOO MUCH!!! I've never stepped on a scale after the holidays until this year...I think it's crazy how one can gain 6 pounds in a day. YES...6 POUNDS!!! However, I've never been one to care about weight management but seriously 6 pounds in one day is ridiculous and I will be more careful when the holidays roll around again!

The rest of our time is filled with work and church callings. In fact in the next 12 weeks we have 1 weekend to ourselves and the rest is filled with Youth Activities, Temple Trips, Primary Activities, and Practice for The 10 Virgin Performance I've been asked to sing in (which I'm way excited for, the music is FANTASTIC!!!)

I do have pictures to post but they were all downloaded to our PC Tower and I don't want to wake Ryan to link the laptop up...so those will have to wait for another day...

Here are the boys' statistics, kinda fun to see where they all are:

Caden: is 5 (almost 6) weighing in at 52 lbs and is 4 feet 5 inches (He'll be taller than me soon)
Levi : is 3 weighs in at 41 lbs and is 3 feet 8 inches (NOT far behind his brother)
Benson: is 7 months and weighs 17 lbs 14 oz and is 2 feet 4 inches
Ryan is...just kidding...


Goodnight, I must sleep before Benson wakes for his night feeding!!!

Family Pictures 2009

As I said in the post before our sweet friend Tonya Peterson http://www.tonyapeterson.com/blog/ took our family pictures this year. She brought along another friend/photographer, Shillawna Ruffnerhttp://www.shillawnaruffnerphotography.com/ and daughter, to help the boys focus and got our photos done in record time for our rowdy bunch. Those of you in the San Diego area looking for a good friend and great photographer check our Shillawna's website and book her. She is fantastic at what she does and passionate as is Tonya, those of you in the New Mexico area...she's AWESOME!!! Thank you both for helping pictures be fun. I didn't feel stressed and the boys didn't cry and whine!!!






Caden and Benson having a moment...

Yep we are excited...

Classic Levi smile...

Best Buds...

What a lucky girl I am...all these protectors and studs...

Benson 3 months...

Our 3 MUSKETEERS...

Levi is such a good big brother...

Our sweet Caden and his broken arm...

Like I said BEST BUDS!!!

We have been so blessed with 3 handsome sons to raise. I am so thankful for Tonya's willingness to capture these moments that will be gone with a blink of an eye.

I've never known any photographers on a personal basis until this year and now I know 3. Those of you in the Seattle area check our Courtney Roah Bowldin, http://courtneybowlden.com/blog/, she is a sweetie and is also very good at what she does.