Christmas Parade

These pictures are not great. This was the kids watching Tatum in the parade for dance.

The Rockettes!

I know this is really late but, I wanted to make sure and talk about the fun we had. Emily, Brooke & I went and saw the Rockette's and had so much fun!

happy anniversary!!!!

nine years baby! i can and can't believe it. i'm so glad i went on a blind date with my tall, dark, and handsome rex ten years ago. thanks for all you do for me and our family. you still make me laugh. your an awesome husband and dad and such a hard worker. today was so fun shopping and the suns game tonight was so fun. thanks for planning the whole thing just for us. your the best! i love you so much.

best of both worlds

we have been talking about going to the hannah montana concert, seems like forever! rex had surprised tatum with it for her birthday. the even better surprise was that sydney, kali, and emily came too. on top of it all we had front row. tatum kept saying she couldn't see and then there was a guy on stage and i told tatum do you see that guy that's where hannah montana will be. she started screaming with excitement! i believe this being their first concert, they now have very high expectations.the girls all day saturday couldn't stop telling him thanks. thanks babe for getting the tickets, we had a blast!
oh yeah i have tell what the girls favorite thing was about the concert, sydney's is all the fun different costumes. and tatum's was when she sang the best of both worlds. mine was the last song when she sang about her papa , so sweet.

another year of dance!

i know it has been a couple of weeks, but i haven't put our pictures of the state fair on. tatum is going for another year at dance on the performing team which is her third year and each year i hope and even try to encourage her to quit, but not tatti she is loving it and getting better and better each year.

rex was out of town so i switched kids with emily she took landon and i took kali we had so much fun!
SERIOUSLY check out the picture of the corn dog it really was that BIG! i had to get a picture of little kali holding the HUGE corn dog.

i love the picture with kali and sydney and the cute one with her head down that's brynlee. the little girls couldn't keep there eyes off the dancers.

and then the cute picture of her friends from dance sydnee and natalie they all have so much fun together!

happy halloween

in march for syd's b-day she got the book fancy nancy and ever since they have planned on dressing up as the fancies.( that's how we got our name). no one knew who they were, but they had so much fun! and we didn't even have to buy anything except for landon's top hat. the rest is all dress up stuff. we didn't have to go far and we got lots of candy. the highlight was that i got out of having to dress up. my kids have had it planned what i was going to wear forever! it was a great night grammie and papa were here and steven and his friend brett. bridget and dustin and presley came over later to hang out.

hey everyone we got a new computer and it isn't set up yet and that's why i haven't been on forever. so we have had a lot going on we had l andon, rex tatum and my birthday that almost covers the whole fam except for sydney her birthday is in march. well we've had fall break for almost 2 1/2 weeks now. one more day til tatum goes back we have had a couple of busy weeks.

my sweet friend cami invited me to go to chicago and go to the oprah show. there were four of us girls on the trip me, cami, jaime, and melissa. we were on the show with the author melissa gilbert the book is eat, pray, love. it would have been even more exciting if we would have read the book. we did get the book at the show and i started reading it on the plane and it is a good book, but i really don't make time for reading and i haven't picked it up since.

so oprah looks pretty much the same and acts the same too, she can turn it on and off so quick especially since in the middle of the show they decided to air another show that will be in december. the first show was already on and you can't even see us and we worked so long and hard on our outfits!!!!

chicago is such a fun city, i loved it we went to navy pier, shopped on the magnificent mile and also saw

wicked! we ate all day and night long even if we didn't get the right dessert at one restraunt we went to another! we actually were eating steak and choclate cake, carrot cake, and a couple other desserts while the taxi waited to bring us to the airport!

This guy sure loves this girl!

landon can't get enough of quincy! he can hardly concentrate on anything when she is around. he wants to hold her and help in any way he can. i will tell him go play & he will start to go in the other room but then he just can't stand to be away from her for too long!

new eyes!

i'm lying in bed blogging with big huge goggles on and i look over to see how funny i really look cause my husband has the same goggles on! we got lasik done on sat. i'm so excited i can see now, it's been one of the easiest surgeries i've done. your recovery is to sleep and put eye drops in. no problem! six years ago rex and i went in for the consultation i then found out i was pregnant with tatum so rex went ahead and did it. this time he just got an inhancement. rex's twin brother randall and our friend flloyd had it done so we all went together. thanks amanda for driving us you even stopped at mcdonalds for breakfast for all of us kids on valum. i'm so glad you didn't have a camera. i can't believe it the doctor said i'm now seeing 20/20.

something sweet to EAT!

i just noticed my last post was aug. so i figured i'd let ya know what i've been up to. first i have to say i'm so excited em has a blog so does amanda and now britt. i'll need to put them on my group list soon. we went to dinner with a bunch of couples to carabas ( one of my faves!) and then went over to gelato freeze next door, some of our friends from our last ward opened it and we thought we would have something sweet and support them. it was so yummy and they decorated it so cute, they even have a fun kids area. so everyone go taste it! williamsfield and market. pb crunch is my fave of course.

Here's Photos of my home for Ashley's Home Challenge

your the BEST!!!!

i have to say a big thank you to sweet lindsey who was so willing, like always to help! thanks for doing my new cute background, i love it so much. i was so sad that i couldn't make the class, but brooke said to check out my blog what a great surprise. your such a great friend and so talented thanks! you know just what i like too.

Tatum

I love this picture of Tatum in her ballet outfit for dance!

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7 crazy kids!

well it's been pretty crazy around our house the last couple of days. emilys in the hospital she's too early to have the baby and they've kept her in the hospital to keep a watch on her. in fact sydney's been telling people she's in jail ha ha. she over heard that she feels like it's jail especially em who is always on the go! so on mon. i picked the kids up and went to my parents for my dad's birthday party (i did warn my mom that i would have 7 crazy kids with me!) she was cool she is grammie them too..we had of crazy fun. randall picked the boys and i have the girls and i ended up taking presley also since bridget was leaving early the next morning. WE HAD A FUN BIG SLEEPOVER! the kids have been awesome i mean not awesome enough to ever have 7 kids.

10 of the thousand reasons why i could never have seven kids!!!

#10 i'm just not patient enough for all the questions.

#9 i would need a new suv like a club wagon

#8talking about kids in the car oohh i hate it when they unbuckle then can't get back buckled by themselves.

#7 the crying for no reason at all! and only lip gloss could shut her up.

#6 always having to follow through

#5 the guilt of having to hold all my babies, big or little!

#4 ruining your nap

#3 the restriction of the certain things you really can't do with kids, like going tanning i've thought about it,but you just can't do it.

#2 screaming!!!! i want a sippy in my milk, she has it a little backwards, but she does scream it.

ok i can't think of #1 i'm starting to feel guilty like i'm just complaining, but all of this stuff happened today,except for the nap they all took a nap at the same time. and they've been really good and it's only been 2 days.well heres my #1 they are so messy!

my man

Basics 1. Who is your man? rex 2. How long have you been together?9 years 3. Dating/Engaged/Married? dated 8 months,engaged 2 months,married 9 years 4. How old is your man? 32 You or your man? 1. Who eats more? we eat about the same 2. Who said "I love you" first? rex 3. Who weighs more?rex 4. Who sings better?neither were both bad 5. Who's Older?rex 6. Who's smarter?rex DIFFERENT WAYS 7. Who's temper is worse? mine 8. Who does the laundry? me 9. Who does the dishes? me 10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? rex 11. Who's feet are bigger? rex 12. Who's hair is longer? mine 13. Who's better with the computer? rex he had to copy and paste this for me 14. Who mows the lawn? carlos 15. Who pays the bills? i just retired from this. brad at the office does it now 16. Who cooks dinner? oh me or take out 17. Who drives when you are together? rex 18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?rex 19. Who's the most stubborn? rex 20. Who is the first one to admit when they're wrong? me 21. Who's parents do you see more?mine 22. Who named your dog? we don't have one 23. Who kissed who first? rex kissed me first 24. Who asked who out? rex it was a blind date 25. What did you do? dinner, movie and then went to gameworks 26. Who's more sensitive? me 27. Who's taller? rex 28. Who has more friends?probably rex 29. Who has more siblings? rex has 1 brother & 1 sister and i have 2 sisters 2 brothers 30. Who wears the pants in the relationship? rex for sure.

Tonto Creek & Cabin

my mom and jack decided to drive up to my grandparents cabin in forest lakes because my grandparents were already up there and they were wanting to hang out with jack before he starts school and real life again. so she decided to be the cool grammie that she is and bring the kids because what is fun at a cabin without kids. tatum was so excited because she has been in school now this is her third week, she was needing a little get away already and mom had already brought sydney and landon up the week before while tatum was at school. so landon had his shoes in hand thinking he's going of course, not today just the girls. so rex and i were excited to just have one kid. we did our usual saturday be lazy until it's off to geckos for lunch with randall and emily and kids. then we went and ran errands and did some shopping for new clothes for me. we quickly realized the girls are much easier to shop with than boys! we really had a fun day just hanging with landon. he's so much fun. well the girls got home late that night while rex and i were out to dinner with our friends cami and micah. so the next morning we heard about all the fun they had at the cabin and fishing at the creek. it's so fun to hear and crazy to see the pictures it reminds me of being a kid and doing the same stuff. i'm so glad my kids got the chance to experience, just a little of what we did growing up. we use to go up to the cabin all the time as kids. my grandpa would bring us fishing all the time we loved it. we wouldn't leave til we all had a fish. then we would have trout for dinner that night. i have so many wonderful memories of trips with my grandparents most of the places that i've visited are with my grandparents. (i will have to find some old pictures of us and post it.) it's always been a fun thing for them to bring us to fun places they still love disneyland. just a few years back for their 50th they brought the whole fam to disneyland. they are the best grandparents you could ask for. they have always known how important family is. i'm sure thats why my mom & dad makes it a priority that family comes first too. ok i'll stop now that's the most i've ever written hopefully it makes sense.






syd was so excited at first, but then realized it's still moving. she is so my kid!


don't you love sydney's outfit, the shoes she brought she had already grew out of so she's wearing some of carters i know she can fit carters, but not hers. i guess she was a little concerned about wearing them bacause she said they didn't match her outfit, but she always ends up picking comfort...that's my sydney girl...i love you so much.

grandpa helping tatum with her fishing pole. i'm shocked tatum liked it. she was quite interested in the gutting of the fish.

and jack your so cute with the kids they love you.

grandma with tatum and cody. even grandma fishes.

they are all posing for the camera of course!

woohoo they had so much fun!!!

Memories!

i found these old pictures of my girls & thought i would share them. brooke & i took photos of our kids for father's day one year. they turned out so cute and the kids were very good. enjoy!

BUNKO!!!

last night was bunko at emily's house we had a blast and extra fun with teddi being in town! we had emily's yummy salsa and the prizes were great too. here are a couple of the necklaces she made. that girls got talent!! thanks girls for a fun night.

Love You Babe!

I got a fun surprise when I was out at Bunko! When I got home I found out Rex had put together the table I had just got in the mail for the kids toy room. What a sweetheart!

update overload!

so i was going to add even more pictures, but it won't let me and that's my sign to stop. and landon is not feeling good he is pretty warm, i think he's getting more teeth. i was going to put on the pictures of swimming lesson, you can look on bridget's blog there doing swimming lessons with presley. they are doing so well. they almost scare me more now. especially sydney she has improved the most before she wouldn't even put her face in the water, now she will jump in without letting you know, she does finally get to the side. we are very proud of her, and by the way it helps because both of the girls have a crush on the teacher tyler.

they released me from nursery and now i'm on the activity committee and our stake had a carnival. we had so much fun i was helping at the basketball booth while rex and steven brought the kids around to all the booths then when it got late i sent them home with sleepy landon. and me and the girls had so fun some of their friends that live around the corner from us showed up and we hung out with them. katlyn and celeste are very sweet and we waited in the line for the horses for atleast 45 min. and then tatum was scared to get on i made her get on. she gets scared of stuff just just like me, sorry sweetie!

dancing queens

the girls have been taking dance for 2 years at sas dance in gilbert. they have been loving it, showing off their moves and getting to see friends every week. in june they had a performance at higley high the inaugural ball.... the dance studio always does cute things they are so creative. tatum actually has been in dance for two years and syd one. tatum is in a performing group which after the first year i thought i would be a better dance NO i'm not every year i want to quit, but not the girls they love it and there doing better each year. so we are doing it again it already started up again. atleast this year there not going to disneyland.

sydney

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landon

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cute cousins

take a good look.....landon and presley are playing nice together. landon and presley love playing together but sometimes the two can get at each other.

root beer?

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Hangin' at Brooke's

i hung out at brooke's house all day fri. i blogged while brooke organized her room. so this is what the kids did after the naps. they love going in the closet and goofing around. kennedi looks like she is impressed with landon, they have so much fun together! and of course landon and sydney were having fun wrestling, they do this at home all the time they were having fun with all the paper. i hung at brooke's while tatum was at school. her school is just down the street so i hang there a lot. she wears a uniform and hates it! if i don't bring a change of clothes or she's in a bad mood, so today is the last day of school so get a good look at this picture of the uniform she's going to ryan elementary in the neighborhood. and regular clothes from now on yohoo!!!!