5 Months Old Already

Our little Kenz is five months old already. Where does the time go? It's looking like she's gonna keep her blue eyes, and the red hair seems to be sticking around as well. She is such a smiley little sweetie :) and she's a good baby, as long as you're holding her and she's not in her car seat. In other words...she cries every time we're in the car and if you're not holding her. Other than that, she's perfect ;) lol

First Day of School

Well, they made it through the first day of school! Kyler warned Kambrie that she wasn't gonna like going all day long, but she seemed to love it anyway. Actually Kyler seemed to like it today too. He even said his teacher was "the nicest teacher in the world." He asked Kambrie "Didn't you think she looked nice?" Kam said "Yes." Ky replied "Well she's as nice as she looks." Glad he likes his teacher :)

Lucky kids...Dad had warm cookies waiting for them when they got home. Peanut butter, my favorite.

Notice Ky's baseball shirt...he had the opportunity to play on a competition baseball team over the summer, the Snow Canyon Sliderzz and he's really been lovin' the game. He is learning to pitch and he's pretty good for just starting. His coach called him "a natural." :) That always make a mom smile. Anyway, he pitched in a couple innings in three of the four games at their first tourney. I can't even tell you how nervous I was the first time I saw him on the mound. Oh man! I almost couldn't take it. He struck out two batters in that first inning though, so that helped calm the nerves, a little. It was fun to watch him, and I'm looking forward to watching him in many more games. I think he'll be a good little player if he puts the time in to work at it.
BTW...Kambrie broke her arm a couple weeks ago. The kids were playing "Wipeout" on my exercise ball. Yeah, I guess she had her wipeout!

Bedtime Pictures

I just decided to take a few random pictures as the kids were going to bed the other night. So here are my kiddos, tucked in and ready for sweet dreams. Where's Ky? Well he held the blanket in front of his face and wouldn't let me get a picture of him. Anyway, 5 kids in 9 years of marriage and here's the proof. Happy Anniversary Danny!

A Tribute To Our Pioneer Heritage

This year we celebrated Pioneer Day by going to the Leeds Cemetery to visit the graves of some of our pioneer ancestors. Elijah Knapp Fuller is my great, great, great grandfather and Harriet A. Fuller is my great, great, great grandma. I think the kids liked the visit. It was fun for them to realize they actually have relatives that were pioneers.

After the visit to the cemetery we had a yummy barbeque at my parents' house, and then later that night we went to the RoadRunners baseball game. The game was fun and the fireworks were great afterwards too.

The Stairs

Seriously, there must be something about these stairs! Yes, he's asleep.

Big Mac...

Okay, so never mind the fillet a fish, but I do have a BIG MAC!!!! I'm a little nervous to get it figured out, but I'm way excited too. I waited all day to get it out of the box cause I knew that as soon as I did I could forget about everything else I needed to do today. Danny was as excited about it as I was though, so he started setting it up when I was eating dinner. Now I'm on my computer and there are dishes to be done, laundry to be folded, kids to be tended to and wait a minute...isn't that why my old computer became a thing of the past? Aaahhhh, better go.

Spike, come home from Hawaii so you can teach me how to use this thing.

I sure like how pictures look on it :)

Lagoon Fun

We had a fun time at Lagoon to finish out our vacation. The weather was overcast most of the day, so it kept it nice and cool. The kids enjoyed the rides. Kambrie was a little dare devil and went on every ride that she could. Ky got us soaked by begging to go on this water ride that in the end he said "wasn't worth it." I agreed. Kolter was a little bummed because he couldn't go on all the rides that he wanted to like the bigger kids, but he and Karsten did have fun on the airplanes and the flying things with guns on them. Kenz did pretty good, as long as I held her...nice. (Why did I bring the stroller? Oh yeah, to hold the blow up bats that Ky won at the baseball booth, all three of them. Good thing Danny only paid $1 at the basketball booth instead of $5 when he made the shot. Otherwise we surely wouldn't have had room to carry the huge basketball instead of the lame little stuffed tiger. Oops! Kyler was so sad)

All in all it was a fun day, ending just in time as the rain began pouring down just as Danny shut the car door after we ran to the car to avoid the rainstorm that we saw coming when we noticed the dark clouds on the horizon.




This was the favorite ride of the day. The kids kept going on it over and over. Luckily the line wasn't ever very long and it always went really fast.

We've Gone Country...

Okay, so we wish. Anyway, today we had a very fun, unexpected visit to the Mays in Layton. I just happened to text my good friend from college, Tana, who I haven't seen in almost two years, who lives in Wisconsin. Well, turns out she is home visiting her family for a month. Our motel just happened to be less than a half hour from their home, so of course, we went to visit.

It was so much fun for me to go back there. I have fun memories of great times back in the good old Dixie Days with Tana and being at her house with her family. So it was fun to take Danny and the kids there and let them experience it too.

They got to ride a horse and feed the horses too. They all LOVED it so much, and Kyler has decided that we are selling everything and moving out on a ranch. He says Dad said it's okay. Hmmm, we'll see I guess. Montana, here we come ;)

Seven Peaks

Seven Peaks was a lot of fun for us. The kids really liked the pools and the slides. They were brave enough to go on the scary ones too. Even Kenz enjoyed the sun and water and was a good baby the whole day. Karsten got saved by a lifeguard from the lazy river (second time he's almost drowned in one week!!)Ky rode slide after slide all day long. The weather was perfect and no sunburns. Hooray!

Campin Out

This is how you fit a family of seven in one motel room :)

Here We Go...

It's vacation time!! We're heading up north for some summertime fun. It's not easy packing for five kids for five days. I hope I didn't forget anything...

Summer Days at the River

One of our favorite things to do when the weather gets hot is cruise down the dirt road, in the pink jeep, with the music turned up. And where do we go? To the river to cool off a little.

We took the all the little Stuart cousins there the other day. They all had so much fun...makin' memories. Sweet summer fun at the river :)

3 Months Old

Yes, she still has blue eyes, and believe it or not, she has red hair too!

Kyler's Baptism

Spending Time in the ER...Again!

Our Kolter is so accident prone. Kinda like I was when I was little. A few months ago we had to take him to the Emergency Room to get the antenna of a remote control car out of the back of his throat. It was hooked back there kind of like a fish hook. Yeah, that was fun. At least they got us right in and took care of the problem right away. What a weird situation. Don't ask me how he got it stuck. I guess he just had it in his mouth or something. Anyway, so as if one trip to the ER a year isn't enough, accident boy had to go again when he slipped off of a pogo stick, splitting his lip wide open. This time we weren't as lucky with the quick visit, and hours later he left with three stitches in his lip and some glue to seal the cut on his chin. Poor Kolter. At least he's a tough little boy and handled it all really well.

You're Invited...

Since I can't seem to get these invitations out, I thought I would post it on here. Now you know :) I can't believe he's already old enough to be getting baptized. What's next...mission?!?!

The "Steps" to Baptism

Ky is taking the "steps" to prepare for baptism with a little help from Uncle Bear and Uncle Spike and Grandpa Nev too.

It's Summer Time

You can tell it's summer at our house when the boys get their summer buzzes. This picture cracks me up.



Already enjoying the lazy days of summer.

A Special Day

Kenzlie's Blessing Day ~ May 17, 2009

One Sad Little Girl

Well, after spending a fun day at the lake today we came home to find a tragedy. Our little Cloie (Kamz decided to spell her name like this)who we had left outside because we couldn't find her when we were leaving, had had a run in with the dog, and didn't make it out alive. It was so sad. Cloie was such a little sweetie, and when Iron Man would try to play with her she would just kind of lay there and not hiss or scratch at him like her brother Rookie would. So I guess this time he just got playing too rough or something. It was just so devastating for everyone, especially Kambrie. She cried hysterically and it broke my heart. I guess you can say we had a literal Memorial Day.




We made a little blanket out of some scrap fleece and wrapped her in it.




Then we burried her in the field across the street.




Don't let her smile fool ya...she was still so sad. She just wanted to do her best to give Cloie a nice grave and wanted to smile and tell her she loved her one last time.