Easter

Well we had a great Easter this year! My sisters came into town and Casey and Ashley came up and we were all together. On Friday we colored Easter eggs at my house and had a BBQ. Then on Saturday we had an egg hunt for the kids at Lomand view park. Then on Sunday we went to church and I think this is the first year that my kids actually understood and remembered Christ resurrection. So that was great! My girls were so excited Grandma made them new dresses at special request!(I know I have the most talented mom!) They looked beautiful! It was funny having all the kids together!

Update!

Wow it has been forever since I've updated. You know every time my blog has a huge space it most likely because we are moving again and I am crazy busy! Well as you know my husband is a General Contractor and since there is like no work that is the reason we have moved a lot. So we were in Arizona and Jim started commuting to Pocatello Id for a hospital that he was dry walling on a commercial job. I was getting ready to have my baby so I stayed with Jim's sister Kari in Gilbert for 6 weeks. Than we stayed with my Mom and Dad, just the kids and I while Jim finished up the hospital in Pocatello. We didn't want to move our family for a month and then move again. We knew he would be going to Salt Lake at the Huntsman Cancer center. So we had Tanner James West on September 3rd. 2010 in Gilbert AZ. He was born 2 days after Kylee's bday. Jim barely made the delivery with 30 mins before the delivery. We moved to Layton in November, and Jim has been working in SLC. It has been nice to be back in Northern Utah. We have never lived here in our marriage. We blessed Tanner in our new ward on Dec. 5th. We had a great Christmas! We had our own Christmas this year at our house and than after wards went up to my Mom and Dads house. I thought I would just do like 1 picture of everything so its kinda crazy but oh well. Here is a picture of my cute reindeer!
After Christmas we decided to go to visit Jim's side of the family back in St. George. We had a really fun weekend at Jerry and Lisa's house. There was a lot of family from Arizona and Idaho that we don't get to see very often and we had lots of fun. We hope that 2010 treated you all well and that you had a good Christmas season. It was my intent to get out Christmas cars, but it didn't happen... surprise lol. Well we are excited for 2011 and the good things it will bring for our family. Happy New year to all!

Lake Powell!

Well we went to Lake Powell last week for a couple of days. We went with Jim's sister Kari and her family and his brother Jerry and there family.

We went to Paige and stayed for three days. Each day we would go to a different part of the lake, and play, have lunch on the beach and play some more!

Since I am almost 8 months pregnant, I just stayed in the boat and enjoyed the ride. Jim and the cousins would take turns with the girls on the tube!

My girls are such thrill seekers, they loved the boat and the tube rides!

After wards we went on to St. George for a couple of days, for our nephew Wesley's wedding.

The wedding was nice, and we had a good trip. By the end we were will ready to come home, we had been gone for 6 days. While we were at Jerry and Lisa's and the lake Rachel had the flu and the whole house got it! yuck! So it wasn't fun when all the kids started throwing up! Then it spread throughout all the West family. I think there was like 20 people who ended up getting it! Brinkley got it on the ride home in the truck, so right when we thought the adventure was over suprise!
Jenny my sister is looking for houses in Dammeron Valley and St. George area, so she and the boys and my mom came down for the weekend too. So we got to see cousins on both sides. My kids sure love their cousins!
Overall it was a good trip, we had a blast at the lake and enjoyed seeing everyone!
This last picture is of the girls surfing! It was pretty funny!

Brinkleys #3 Birthday!

Well on Wednesday my baby girl turned 3! That's so crazy to me... it has gone so fast! We had a great day, she woke up at 5 in the morning and came in and asked if it was her birthday. So she was way excited, I told her she had to go back to bed for a little bit.

We did her party in the afternoon, because it worked better for Jim, he had a lot going on the night. This was the first party we have had in Arizona and it was a lot different than the birthdays in the past.

We have always lived by lots of cousins, and my sister comes down a lot for the birthdays. So we really missed Macie, Mandi, Rachel, Kylah, and "the Boys" (Jenny's 4 boys).
We were really glad that we at least lived close to Kari's family, her four kids and Jake's friend were the only kids at the party.

Aunt Sandra came a little later to celebrate in the fun too! Well she openend here presants, and he had cake and ice cream and then the kids just played.



She got a pony house that has baby pony's to take care of, and a CD player, play computer, and hair stuff.
She is my girly girl! She has been blow drying her hair and taking care of her babies, and she loved every second of it. Afterward we went swimming at Kari's with the kids, she was very stubborn about having to go to Kari's afterwords, so it was her day and we went. Happy Birthday Brinkley we sure love you and enjoy all the fun you bring to our family!

Memorial Day Weekend

Well we had a great memorial day weekend. We decided to get out of the heat and head to Payson. We stopped and had a picnic by the park with our girls and after lunch we feed the ducks our leftovers. Then Kari decided that she and her kids wanted to come up and hang out with us. So they met us in Payson, and then we drove up higher in the mountains, because Jim wanted to scout out camping and fishing spots. We drove another hour till we hit a place that we could fish. So we stopped and let the kids fish for a bit. It was getting cold so we built a tiny fire so they could roast marsh mellows! It was a fun day! Lots of driving, but worth the adventure. It got kind of interesting when Kari told us that she was almost to empty and we still had to get off the mountain. We had to stop and buy some gas off of a family camping .... LOL so we could make it back! The girls have been wanting to go fishing for weeks though, so they loved it!

Kylee's last day of school

Well we have reached another milestone in our lives. Kylee is offically done with preschool. Crazy huh. Next year she will be going to kindergarten and Brinkley will be in preschool. Well Kylee had a great school year! It was kind of crazy for her, the poor girl went to three different schools this year with how much we have moved.

She started in Enterprise, and then went 3 months in St. George and then finished here in Queen Creek.


This is her holding up her snack matt, and showing Brinkley the ropes for next year, Kylee has improved and learned soooo much this year. She absolutely loves school and is very smart.

Here in Arizona her teacher was Ms. Klein and Ms. Jessica. They had a really fun class room and she has learned so much just in the 3 months of going here to Cortina.
Well now I have to figure out how to keep them busy all summer! Oh well I am excited for her to move on and she is too. Here comes summer! LOTS of swimming!

Carrie Underwood Concert!

Well we had a great weekend! We have been talking about trying to go to a concert the last couple of weeks. We just celebrated our 6 wedding anniversary on May 1st and we wanted to do something fun. Ever since we have been married I have given my husband a hard time, because he loves music and has never been to a concert! Which is just crazy I know!





So my sister in law Kari tells me that Carrie Underwood is coming to Phoenix. So Saturday I got on the internet looking for the date and tickets. Well the concert was scheduled for October like 12th, which would no way work for me cause I would have a new baby by then.
So I am looking at her tour and she is playing in Tucscan on May 15th and I'm looking at that date, and I'm like hey that't tonight! So i text Jim thinking nothing of it and he is like let's go!






I look at tickets and their is only 2 available and they are on the floor! So we are excited and we buy our tickted. Then like an hour before we were supposed to leave I checked the same website, cause my sister in law Kari and her husband Ed really wanted to go. 2 other tickets came available and they were on the front row! Sow we got there and the event center wasn't huge and there were tons of extra seats. So Jim and I sat next to them on the fron row and never got booted out! It was crazy fun! I can't believe how close we were!
Her opening acts were Sons of Syliva and Craig Morgan. They were both great Entertainers! Craig Morgan jumped down in the crowd and this is Kari and I giving him the hi five! Then Carrie performed she had about 10 different outfits and at one point road around the air in a old truck singing in the back! It was just a fun night and a great performance!

I think my husband is going to be ruined for now on front row seats on his first concert! Crazy I know! What a great time we all had! This picture of Carrie we took and she was like 5 feet away!