New Family Pictures!!

We finally got some new family pictures! The last time we had family pictures taken was 4 years ago. So we were long overdue!!

Darin hates this one with his foot sticking out. But I still love it!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!!

Our New House

We are finally in our new house. We moved in on December 10th. Of course there is so much to do still for it to be totally completed. I am just very grateful we were able to move in before Christmas. Can you tell that our front deck still needs to be completed?

This is our front door/entry...

Our piano room. I love having a piano room...the noise stays in there!

This is our family room...

and our kitchen. Lots of things still need to be completed in here like the countertops, the skins for the cabinets and a kitchen island. With time it will all get completed. I am just very grateful to have our own home again.

Utah!

I didn't take to many pictures of our trip in Utah because I was having to much fun! Here are a couple of pictures. On Sunday we walked around Temple Square. This is us in front of the Salt Lake Temple.

Jamie, Jared, Nash and Cammie met us at Lagoon. We had so much fun. These are the only pictures I captured while we were there.

Nash and Gunner...They had so much together!

Rylee's 10th Birthday!

On her actual birthday we were in Utah for Brody's baptism. So on her birthday we went to Lagoon. I think she really thought that was a cool birthday. This was her the morning of her birthday opening presents.

This was at her birthday party a few days later. She invited 6 friends plus her cousin Karlee was staying with us for the week so she was able to have one cousin there.

She really wanted trick candles. Those were the best trick candles I have ever seen. We finally had to take the candles out and put them in water. You can see how smokey it got in the house.

I let the kids decide between going to see a movie out at the park or going to the beach in Emmett. Yes we have a beach in Emmett. It is a man-made beach at the lake. They chose the beach. Tatum and Gunner both invited a friend so altogether we had 12 kids. (Deanna was in Utah for the week with Brody.) We didn't stay very long because that is alot of kids to keep track of with just 2 adults. Afterwards we went back to our house and rented some movies and had a sleep over. It was a very fun birthday party!

Deanna's Baptism

I'm behind on blogging AGAIN...Better late than never, Right? On July 3rd Deanna got Baptized. It was a very special day. Both grandparents came into to town for the occasion. We had so much fun with them and were sad when it was time for them to leave. Deanna had asked Grandma Wellman to give a talk on the Holy Ghost. It was a very good talk. Afterwards we went to our house and had some pie.

This is Mary, our neighbor across the street. Deanna had invited her to the baptism but she was sick that day. She wanted to Deanna to come over afterward so she could see how pretty she looked.

We are so proud of the decision you made to be baptized and we love you very much!

Slip-n-Slide Birthday Party!

Deanna turned 8 on Monday. She had a few friends over and we ate pizza and they slipped-n-slide. We also had a pinata but the dang thing broke before anybody could hit it. So we just dumped the candy out on the ground and the kids went crazy trying to get as much candy as they could.

This is the birthday girl with all her friends. We had a great time!