Girls weekend!!!

For the last 2 years I have planned a "girls weekend" with my sister, sisters in law, my mom and all my Cali cousins. This year was sooooo much fun! We stayed at Todd and Kristen's house and I hired 2 message therapists and an esthetician...it was heaven!! We all got facials ad messages, we sat in the hot tub and gabbed and ordered Olive Garden for dinner, YUMMM! We all brought our "favorite things" and shared them with each other so we got to leave with a nice goody bag full of fun stuff! We stayed up chatting till 3:30 am, got up and had a delicious breakfast, got dressed and headed out for shopping, movies and dinner! Everyone needs a fun getaway like this! I felt so rejuvenated when I got home! It was so nice to have this relaxing getaway before the baby comes! Thanks to my family for coming and making this such a fun weekend! I love you guys! And thanks to all our wonderful hubbies for watching the kids so we could have our "time out".


This is our Saturday Group Shot



Friday Night Hot tubbin"!
(back row L to R: Miriam, Kim W., Autumn, Amber
Aunt Barbara, Me. Front Row L to R : Erin, Susan,
Tanja, Jaime, Katie, Bettie, Emily)



Autumn was brave and went off the
slide head first!



After "Our Favorite Things"! We loved our
goodie bags! Heather did a great job making
bags for our stuff and folders for our favorite
things papers!



Yes these are my ugly, nasty, SWOLLEN
feet! I push on them and they indent like
this! I can't wait to have this baby so I
can have my feet back!



Some of the girls at breakfast.



At the movies! We went to see "The Women".



The Rabb/Barney group (Gina, Jenny, Susan)




The Thompson Group (back: Jaime, Kristen
Front: Heather, mom, me)




The Waldron group (L to R : Amber, Kim, Autumn,
Emily, Katie)

More pictures to come!

The Twilight Movie

Oh My Gosh! I finally finished the Twilight Series and I loved it!! I finished Breaking Dawn this evening and now I can't wait for the movies to come out!!! I know Twilight comes out November 21st so if anyone wants to go with me let me know we can make it a party!! If you haven't read these books yet you are seriously missing out. I am not a reader, but these books have made me excited to read. I think the last novel I read was in High School and I just read all 4 books in about a month. I highly recommend you read them and then come with me to see the movie!!! You can watch the preview right here, just click on the "videos" link, but don't watch the preview unless you have read the book!!!

We need your help....

OK so we are having a hard time deciding what to name this baby and he is going to be here really soon so could you all help us please!!! I posted a poll just under the little baby widget on the right side of our blog. Let us know which name you like. It's totally confidential so we won't even know you don't like our son's name if we decide on the one you did not vote for! Thanks for your help!

Our Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend we decided to meet my parents up in Big Bear, spend the night with them in their travel trailer and get up early Saturday morning for some fishing. We rented a Pontoon boat and took the boys out. They had soooooo much fun as you will see from this slide show. We caught so many fish! We had a blast! There are about 30 pictures so it's kind of long but there are some cute pictures of them catching fish!! On Labor Day we decided to go swimming at uncle Lee's house then we went to see the movie "Fly me to the moon". It was 3D and the boys really enjoyed it. Then we got some ice cream at Coldstone before heading home. What a great weekend!

First Day of School!

So this year Brigham started 1st grade and Joseph started Kindergarden! I think they are the most handsome boys in the whole school, but I'm not prejudice or anything! They are both really loving their teachers and there classmates. I asked them both what their favorite thing about school was, Brig said playing on the big playground and Joseph said going to the same school as Brig! I was really worried about how Joseph would do because he just didn't seem as ready as Brig did last year, but he has done great! We were so excited because he got the same teacher's Brig had last year and we just loved them!!! A perfect fit for Joseph, they are both sweet and bubbly which is exactly the type of person that motivates him. Brig also got an amazing teacher and has alot of the same kids in his class as last year. Here are some pictures.


Brig's 1st day of 1st grade!


Joseph's 1st day of Kindergarden!


Paul wanted his picture taken too! It
was so funny because he just walked
up like it was his turn after Joseph and
said CHEESE! Mike and I were laughing!
He thinks he's such a big boy!


Joseph at his desk.


Paul wanted to say goodbye before we left.

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Joseph's teacher's Mrs. Manhire on the left and
Mrs. Jacobsen on the right. They are such great
teachers! And of course Paul had to be in the picture!

Pregnancy Pictures

OK so I know I am so crazy for posting pregnancy pictures on my blog because everybody hates to see themselves huge like this and I am no exception, but I think it is important to document this kind of stuff! Call me crazy! I think it's because I am the youngest and I have never seen a picture of my own mom pregnant and always thought it would be neat to see. I have tried to take a picture during every pregnancy...so this is the latest. This was after church one day and Brigham and Joseph were begging me to let them take a picture with the camera so I decided to let them, they did pretty good for being 5 and 6. These were the better ones, I have a few of my legs or butt you know the ones I'll never post and need to erase! Anyway enjoy looking at me as a fatty now cause I only have 34 more days and them I am going to kick my own butt into shape!! I like being pregnant starting at about 4 months and ending at about 7. At 8 months now I am soooo uncomfortable and ready to have this baby I could cry!!! I just hope it goes by fast, I am really trying to keep myself busy.

Annual Guys Fishing Trip!

This is one of the highlights of Mike's year! This is when he gets to just be one of the guys and let loose and have fun! I'm really glad they go and do this every year, I think they deserve it for all there hard work (plus it gives me an excuse to have my girls weekend=). They rented a really nice RV and pulled the quads behind them. Four days of fishing, quads and whatever else it is that guys do when they don't have to worry about the wife and kids.

Josephs Birthday Party!

What a fun party! Joseph really enjoyed himself and I think the other kids did too! I cant believe my sweet little Joseph is 5 years old!!! Man they grow soooo fast! I love you Joseph!

I'm Back

OK ...so I decided I didn't like having a private blog because I wasn't motivated to blog so I'm back! I've added alot of posts and there are more to come...I have alot of catching up to do! I hope you enjoy what I've done so far and I look forward to blogging again! YAY!

Raging Waters!!

So now that gas is so much I decided the best way to keep my kids busy this summer was to buy season passes to Raging Waters. They absolutely love it and so do I! I just sit in a chair in the shade and watch them have a blast, then we go to the lazy river before we head home. We had so much fun I talked my whole family into buying passes! So now my mom comes down with Kim, Boo, Todd, Sierra, Greg, Trevor, Ethan, Kate and Shawn and we all go together then they spend the night and we go the next day before they head home. My kids have really enjoyed spending time with grandma and cousins. There were to many pictures to post so I made a slide. Stay tuned for more....we go every week!

4th of July

Some of you no that 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. We go to Utah every year, but this year we couldn't because I am so prego! So this year we went to Todd and Kristen's house for a pool party. We all had a good time, but I have to say Ccalifornia just doesn't do the 4th like Utah does! I missed seeing all the flags up and down Center street, the parades, the carnivals and performers and fireworks! But we still had a great time at Todd and Kristen's house, thanks for saving our 4th of July!

All the guys decided to play a game of Waterball.

Chad and Mike fighting for the ball.

Brig, Chad and Mike

Paul loves the waterslide! He would just go down the slide and go under the water and pop up with a big smile on his face. He is such a water bug!!!

Joseph had a good time just relaxing in his water ring.

Joseph's pre-school graduation

On June 20th Joseph graduated from pre-school. I can't believe he is going to be in kindergarten this year...they grow up tooo fast! He was really cute performing his songs. These pictures aren't that great and I can't figure out how to download the video, but when I do I'll add it to the blog.

Joseph and his teacher Mrs Bandhari. He just loves her, she is so great!!

Joseph and the teachers helper Mrs Garcia. She was new but he loved her too.

Brigham's T-ball party

Brigham's T-ball team had a party at a place called "Pump it up" with bouncers and stuff. The kids had lots of fun jumping and playing games and then we went into one of the rooms for pizza cake and trophy's. Of course I didn't remember to pull outmy camera until we were in the back room...duh!

The cake..what a cute idea!

The pizza party

This is coach Kenny giving out trophy's.

Brig and one of his best buds Cooper.

Camping in Big Bear

In May we decided it would be fun to go camping in Big Bear. We invited Chad and my parents to come along and we all had a great time.

Family picture

Paul in front of the tent with his truck. That truck kept him busy the whole time!!

Chad and his boys Grant and Drew with my mom.

We decided to take the ski lift at Snow summit and eat lunch at the top. The kids loved the ride and the view was gorgeous! That is something everyone should try. I'd like to do it again soon.

Chad and his boys on the ski lift behind my mom and Greg.

Lunch at the top of the mountain.

After lunch we went fishing at Big Bear lake. We didn't have any luck with the fish, but the kids had a good time!

Brig just didn't want to leave until he caught a fish. We bribed him by telling him we's take him fishing later. Anyway we had a really great weekend!