My Mom

My mom died two years ago today. In some ways, I can't believe it's been two years and in others it seems like so much longer. I miss her everyday. I'm sad of all the things she is missing, especially with Hailey and Colby. Till we meet again Mom. I love you.

Hailey's 6th Birthday

Hailey turned 6 in April. I'm late blogging on EVERYTHING!! Sorry. I can't believe she's already six. They have been six wonderful years! She is such a sweet heart. She is much fun and so smart. I love listening to her ideas. She's got some spunk to her too. I'm so grateful to be her mother. We're so happy to have her in our family. This year she wanted to go to Boondock's to celebrate.

Random pics from zoo and children's musuem

2009 Recap Part 1

Here are a few pictures to re cap 2009. It's a work in progress, I'll get the rest of the months done soon, so keep checking back. 2009 was a very eventful year for us. We moved in with my dad, built our house, my nephew finished his chemo treatments, my dad got married and with that union I gained six great new siblings!! I love Deanna too; we get along so well. It was a wonderful year. Unfortunately our computer hard drive crashed, taking with it many wonderful pictures. I don't have many pictures from Jan-July of last year. Take my advice and back up your computer A LOT. I backed ours up the beginning of January and then with moving and everything, didn't get to it again, and then it was too late. I was really bummed out about the whole thing and took a "blog-cation" from April to December of last year. Oops. 2010 will be much better.

My dad got married! :)



Colby turned 3 in July


Cabin Fun


We went to Star Valley to see my mom's parents for the 4th of July


My dad got engaged May 9, 2009


JANUARY 2009; I turned 27

Disneyland 2009

We took the kids to Disneyland for the first time in December. It was so much fun. The kids loved it. The weather wasn't prime but we still were able to get a lot of rides in. Hailey met all of her favorite princesses and Colby loved seeing "Shake-it-Car" (Lightning McQueen). We made the mistake of taking Colby and Hailey on the Mad Hatter ride as their 2nd ride in the park. It totally scared them both. Doug and I had no idea, having not been to Disneyland in over ten years! It was our Christmas to the kids and in Hailey's words "the best present ever."



Make a Smilebox greeting

Can You Guess What This Is?

Anyone venture a guess at Hailey's latest drawing? I must say it's pretty creative. The other day Hailey happened to let out a little "toot." At the time of such passing, she was drawing pictures. Next thing I knew, she brought this masterpiece to me. Yes, it's a bum and "the smell." Life is never boring around here. :)