Not going to try

I am not even going to try to play catch-up. It has been too long.
I have had a hard time keeping up with the blog for several reasons. The main two being that we have had bronchitis and pneumonia for the last 6 weeks at our house. It has been miserable but I think (fingers crossed) we are better now. Saige and Brett never got it and we sure hope they don't.
The other reason is that I loved when I opened my blog and saw that video of Chance helping Saige on the monkey bars. He is gone now. He has been in the MTC a month now and we really miss him. It probably won't really hit me until we go home again and he is not there. We are so excited to have him get to Chile so that we can hear all about it. The pictures are random-sorry!
While in Utah, we were able to go to Hansen's baby blessing. We usually miss out on things like that so we were so excited to be there. He is such a cute little guy!

We had an awesome Halloween party in Midway! Thanks everyone for making it so fun.

Then we went to Circleville to say goodbye.

Helping Chance pack.

A visit from Bigfoot!

Whippin' up some yummy cookies with Grandma

Riding Buster & Brownie


This is one of my favorite pictures of my Grandma. She would kill me if she knew I put this on here. She is making carrot cookies (a family favorite) and I made her stick the beater in her mouth for a pic!

A countdown poster that I made because I couldn't find one to buy that I liked. There sure are a lot of empty circles on there (730 to be exact).

We missed Disneyland because of our sickness. But, we did go to Build-A-Bear and made horses and we were told it was the best birthday EVER!
I CAN'T believe they are 5. So Sad :(
Thanksgiving was GREAT. My parents came down and we had so much fun. We had a BIG dinner that took me 3 days to cook. The best part of it was the egg nog that my mom made. It is my favorite drink EVER. Not the stuff from the store-YUCK. Definitely not the same!
We went to see the Christmas Carol. It was such a cute movie (although, beware with young kids-it is scarry!). Dad helped us hang our Christmas lights and put the girls b-ball hoop together-THANKS DAD!
Then we watched The Santa Clause at the Hubble Theater (our awesome neighbors down the street who have an in-home movie theater).

Last night for FHE we went and got a tree (at a lot-not the mountains. It is NOT the same). We had fun decorating it and then we ate leftover Cold Stone ice cream b-day cake.
I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

My Little Monkey

Dirty Jobs with Brett Remund

Some of you may be wondering what it is exactly that Brett does as a Vet.
Well, here it is.


Some of you may feel like you get crapped on every day at work.
Brett really does get crapped on every day at work!



It doesn't get much dirtier than that!

Thanks for working so hard for our family!

Cousin Fun, in the sun!

Last week, our Harrison cousins, Aunt Jess, and Cousin Denise were able to come for a visit! We had so much fun swimming with them.

Vacation Day #5 and 6

We pretty much swam the whole week (and didn't get sick of it). In fact, by the time the week was over, some of us were wearing socks in the pool because we had been in so much that our feet were wrinkly and blistered! It was so much fun to have my family here. We have so much fun when we are together. Things are going to be different soon since my bro. Chance is headed to Chili on a mission. We are so excited for him but we will miss him very much!







Daredevils!







Oh yea, I forgot to mention that we ate alot too!

Vacation Day #4

Carrot Farming

Bakersfield is the carrot capital of the world so in addition to swimming, Dad and the boys went carrot farming. They went driving around and saw some guys out digging carrots. So, they pulled over and hopped on the machine with them. They were gone for a few hours so they must have had fun! They said that no one spoke English. I asked my dad how they communicated that they wanted to get on and ride. He said, "they figured it out when we climbed on!"

Vaction day #3

In additon to swimming, we spent the day being goofy! Handstands and swinging in the blanket were on the agenda. Of course, it had to end with a challenge from Jade, "See if you are strong enough to swing me"!


GO Stefi!

Here we go...

WHOOSH!

It always ends with getting thrown on the couch.

Jade's turn

TOO HEAVY!