Abbie is 11??!! Happy Birthday

I really can't believe she is this old, although my memory is horrible and I keep telling everyone that she is 12, it is all too old to me. She is as sweet and easy to get along with as ever. I think if all the kids were as easy as her I would have had a dozen :) We celebrated with the whold family at the Mayan, a fun place in Sandy that is "Mayan" themed. They have cliff jumpers that do a little show and dive into a pool, it is pretty cool. Abbie had her buddy Sadie with her because we "had" to watch her while her parents were out of town. This was a treat for us she is a sweetheart and a treat for Abbie because it was her "family" birthday year, so we usually don't have friends, and she got to spend the night for 5 nights on top of it! It was a great day. We love you Abbie!

Homecoming!

Is this the most handsome kid or what?? Jacob went to his first formal dance, Homecoming on Sept.19, 2009

He was very excited about his flower, later to be very dissapointed because the petals all fell off:(

Giving her the coursage...Getting pinned...They are so cute, her name is Kari Knott they met last spring Thanks Sister Knott for the reminder :)

Our family is growing!

NO, I AM NOT PREGNANT!!!

We are so happy to announce that Alissa is engaged to Samuel Brett Taylor. They will be sealed in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple on Oct. 15, 2009. (This too is another reason for my lame blogging as of late)

What happened to August?

I know that something happened in August but I can't remember what because I DON'T have any pictures!! The kids started school, not that I lost the pictures but lame-O mom and didn't take any. Abbie is in 5th grade, Sam is in 9th and Jacob is in 11th, WOW time flies.
Our Ward put on a wonderful camp out up the canyon, we didn't stay and camp because it is too hard on Annie, but we left late and came back early. The kids loved roasting marshmallows, singing and the next morning making ROCKETS! The primary did such a fun activity, making rockets that they got to shoot off. Bro. Dailey and Bro. Rawlings made these awesome rocket launchers that the kids were able to actually shoot their own rockets. It was a fun end of summer party.

Happy 3rd Birthday Daniel and Hello cyber world!

No I am not dead! I just have been having a really hard time getting motivated to start again! I lost a whole years worth of pictures on my computer!! Annie fried it with a bunch of magnets so I had to get a new hard drive, needless to say I have had a hard time restarting. I am so thankful for my blog though because it is all I have of the last year. The only post that I didn't get caught up on was Daniel's 3rd Birthday, he was so excited and had a wonderful day. The whole family was here. I even BOUGHT him one of those (gross) cakes that are decorated all cute with dinosaurs on them, he thought he had died and gone to heaven, it was so cute! He is such a sweet little boy, and we are so glad to have him in our family!