Family Pictures Dec. 2009

We are very blessed to have a happy healthy family. Thanks to Denee' Ray Photography!!!!! (I posted Tillman's on the previous post he didn't get left out)

Pictures With Santa

This is what family parties are all about. SANTA!!!!!! The kids this year were so so excited to see Santa. No one cried! They call Brinley's name and she ran up. Which is not like her at all. I love Tillman and Santa's pictures. It is just so cute. Merry Christmas. Oh and Santa let me know that he is smiling in all the pictures too. :)

Brinley's New Do

A hair dressers' worst nightmare besides someone cutting their own hair is having a beautiful daughter with like five pieces of hair. Therefore I have to keep cutting those five hairs in hopes of actually styling it one day. Maybe some other hairs with eventually grow in. Anyways so this is her second hair cut. Basically cutting off the mullet. I visioned flipping it out with a head band and it turned out ok. Wish she had beautiful long locks but maybe someday!

Before the cut.


After the cut. Not a huge difference but looks way better.


After the blow dry and style. :)

Tillman's Photo Shoot

Here is Tillman's first photo shoot with Aunt Denee'. I think they turned out so so good. I love all of the pictures. There's a couple more but it was taking to long to post them so here is just a taste. Enjoy!







He tries to suck his thumb every chance he gets.

Mason's Soccer Team

Today was Mason's last soccer game. He had a blast and I think scored at least one goal every game. I think one was actually for the other team but hey they are only four. Thanks to the Ray's for coaching. :)

Tillman Grant Has Arrived

Just wanted to do a quick update to let everyone know Tillman has arrived and we all are doing good. Just adjusting to everything and the kids are just so excited to hold him. Almost to excited. He was born Thursday evening weight 7lbs and 19in. long. I thought he was going to be much bigger. He is just the sweetest thing. And I do have to say I really like my babies to come one at a time. Not so stressful. Thanks to family for helping us out while Mom was in the hospital. :)

Halloween/Pumpkins 09

Finally I have some Halloween stuff posted!!!!! We carved pumpkins this year at our house Thursday before Halloween which was nice the kids had fun and so did Dad and Grandpa Randy with his saw!

The Friday before Halloween we had our Ward Party. That was pretty much the kids trick or treating because I didn't feel like taking them around the whole neighborhood on Saturday.

But on Saturday Denee invited us to there block party and we went and have tons of fun!!! Then went back to grandma and grandpa's where Mason had fun handing out the candy. Fine with me. I think they had a good Halloween this year, except for someone stealing our blue light from our porch. Another how rude story.... Denee brought our some spiders and ghost and webbing for Mason to put up in front of the house and said all you need is a blue light. So we went and got one and while we were home on a Sunday night someone just took it right out of the porch light. I couldn't believe it. Mason was so upset someone stole his Halloween decorations and cried for days. I guess they needed it more than a four year little boy. How RUDE!!!!!



































This is why I wasn't up for much trick or treating! HUGE

Who has the cleanest tile and grout??? We do!!!

Today finally Colton has some time to bust out his skills and do our tile and grout. You know what they say the mechanics wife's car never gets fixed, the shoemaker's kids don't have shoes, the hair dressers kids are shaggy, ok so maybe they don't say that, you get my drift, but not our house. Here are before and after pictures.


Don't be alarmed but this is before......






Then he scrubs (no extra charge)



And steam cleans (included in price)



Then she is all clean!!!!! Much better. Not to mention how soft and smooth it is now. Wonderful. He also sealed it so it won't get so dirty. (just a little extra to sleal but totally worth it)

Ashton Update

Just wanted to let you all know that I did go ahead and take Ashton to the ER last night just to make sure everything was ok. I was pretty sure he was fine he wasn't showing any signs of abnormal behaviors. They did an X-Ray and everything looked good!!!!! We didn't get home until 2:00am but it was worth it. On a side note I sure hope that Obama's health care plan doesn't make us wait that long just to see the doctor. It was rough!!!!

The Biggest Goose Egg Ever!

I consider my kids a pretty rowdy bunch of kids and I think we have been pretty lucky with injuries. But this one I think is a big one. Poor Ashton came in contact with a chair wrestling around and boy did it leave a mark. He has a pretty big forehead anyways then a big goose egg to make it even bigger. He seemed to be doing fine but it makes my head ache. What a tough guy. I just hope it doesn't get any worse. No matter how many time you say stop messing around before someone gets hurt it is always a little late!

Now A Necessity!

A few weeks ago our washer died on us and you don't realize how important it is until you don't have it anymore. We went about two weeks without, deciding on what to do. I have been wanting the latest and greatest but found them rather pricey and never looked into it. After finding a great deal and a $75 SRP rebate we made the investment and I couldn't be happier. I now consider them a life necessity!!!

First Day of Preschool

We are well over due for a new post!!! Mason started preschool (kindergarten prep) a couple weeks ago. He and I both are very excited. We have had a couple adventures but hopefully they won't happen again. Mason got put on the wrong bus coming home and had to sit on the bus until the driver finished his route and then brought Mason home. It was over an hour late. He seemed fine but me not so much. He is only four people!!!!! Anyways he loves it and is doing great.