HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

Last week was my mom's birthday! She is such a wonderful, kind, fun, and loving mom! She has always been so helpful and patient (even when things get out of control)! I am so grateful for her and all she does! Happy Birthday Mom!!

~KaeLee

Scrumpdilleump

KaeLee and I have been working on a food blog called SCRUMPDILLEUMP! This blog has (when I say has I mean will) have a bunch of our favorite recipes. So, anytime you are looking for a quick recipe for dinner or a little snack check it out at www.donuttastegood.blogspot.com

Christmas Nativity Family Style!

Yesterday night Kaden, Clark, and Grace got into some nativity dress-ups that I had bought a couple of years ago at a craft fair and decided it would be fun to dress up as Mary(Grace), Joseph(Kaden) and Donkey(Clark). Was really cute and a good laugh seeing Clark carry Grace on his back.

Red Rock Gymnastics

Friday the girls got to go the The Ute Gymnastic practice meet. It was so fun to see all the cool tricks those girls could do!



After the meet all the gymnast were signing posters and Grace just had to have one so we stood in line for about 25 minutes waiting to get the signatures but, it was worth it because now Grace can show off her true Ute spirit with her gymnastic poster on her wall.

Family Traditions

Family traditions are so fun and helps your family to grow closer together. It seems that around Christmas time there are more traditions that go on in one month then the rest of the year. One of our traditions is to go to the Festival of Trees. This usually happens on a Friday. I go and pick up the kids from school and then go and spend a couple of hours looking at all the cool trees. Also, another one of our traditions is getting a picture with Santa which also usually happens while we are at the Festive of Trees.





Here is one of the many trees. This was KaeLee's favorite tree. Can you guess what the theme was? TWILIGHT.

A Little Late but, Happy Halloween

We started out trick or treating at Blaine's work. This is a tradition and such a fun one. When the kids get done trick or treating there they already have enough candy to last them a year but, of course we just can't stop there. So we went back home everyone went trick or treating except for KaeLee who stayed home and gave candy to trick or treaters. We had a great night!

Family Caravan to St. George

Last weekend we got the chance to go and take Blaine's mom and dad, and some others in his family down to St. George. While we were down there we were able to go to Tuacahn, Snow Canyon, Zions, and many more places. It was so fun and we can't wait to do it again.


The first thing we did when we were down there was go to the Tuachan play BIG RIVER!! For all those who don't know what Tuacahn is it is a big out door (play)theater. They put on such a great show!


This is a picture of all the kid, before we went in to watch the play.


It is so beautiful down there. This is a picture Kaden took right as the moon was coming up over the red rock.


This picture pretty much speaks for its self. Big hairy ugly spider. As we were walking we saw people stopping to look at something on a wall. Out of interest we also stopped to look and found this huge thing just sitting there.


The boys had a great time playing pool at the hotel. Grandpa used to love this game when he was in high school but, had not played it for a long time. So we thought it would be fun for them to play a little game.


Saturday morning we went to Snow Canyon (a national park just outside of St. George). This is KaeLee and Blaine in a little slot canyon we hiked into.


Kristen, Grandma, and Grandpa had a great time on the hikes. They had not been to St. George for a long time so this was a great opportunity to show them all the cool thing down there.


Kaden and Clark loved to climb all over the rocks and see who could climb the highest.


Grace also loved climbing on the rocks but, her favorite thing to do was posing for pictures.


Look at the beautiful view!


The last thing we did before heading home was go to Zion's. It was amazing up there. This is the whole gang execpt for KaeLee(taking the picture) and Grandpa(who wandered ahead).

Thanks for the great memories!