The Ostrich Festival

Well we had our first adventure here in Arizona. My sister in law Julie had my other sister in law Kari's kids for the day and we decided to take them to the Ostrich festival in Chandler. Jim had to work so he wasn't able to go. So Julie and I took the 5 kids to the festival. It was fun, it's called the Ostrich festival because they have Jockies that ride ostriches and they actually race. We just saw the ostriches and not the races. They also had an exhibit where they had different monkeys, and a petting zoo where the kids fed the animals. Then we found a zip line that the kids did a couple of times, they would land on air mattresses, Brinkley even did it the last time, but I didn't get a picture. It was funny to see her hanging on, she was so little when she dropped everyone was laughing and clapping for her. Of course she loved it, she came back laughing and gave my a high five. They also got to play in a huge dinasaur bounce house, and watch dogs jump off a dock into a swimming pool. We were there for quite some time, it was a fun day. Julie also had her grand baby Kianya who was a great sport for such a long day! We ended the day with a ride on the ferris wheel! Brinkley was to short to go, she rode the merry go round. So we had a great view of the whole park. My kids had a great time with Cole and Karli. It was fun to still have cousins for them to be with!

Here we GO again!

Well it seems like every time I haven't updated my blog it's because we are moving and we don't have the internet connected!
Well I don't know how many of you know, but yes we just moved again!
We sold our house 4 months again and had moved back to St. George, but we knew we weren't going to be there long.
So we just moved to Gilbert Arizona! Yep it's been a big change! I have never lived outside of Utah before, and ever since I went to College and got married we have basically been in
St. George, Ut. So it is going to be quite and adventure, especially to go to a big city like Phoenix. Well we started loading our Uhaul and were planning on making in one big trip. It didn't work out that way. The 1st and 2nd Uhaul were both loaded and packed so good we couln't have fit one more thing in them.
A big thanks go out to our brother in laws and their families for all their help with the move. Jim has the best brothers that are always willing to help. There's no way we could have done it with out them!
This is the uhaul getting loaded the first time. Jim drove it the first time with his brothers Jerry and Joe and then came back and filled it and drove again. Meanwhile I loaded up my girls and the go cart in the truck and passed Jim going the opposite
direction and went to start getting what I could organized and unpacked. It was quite the ordeal, but we are here and unpacked and it's going good!

The night before we left we had a goodbye party at Joe and Christi's house. It was a fun, but bitter sweet party. We are really close with all the different families there and will love and miss all of them!!!
This is a picture of everyone and than one of the small cousins. Kylee and Brinkley will miss their cousins. They have already said hey Mom lets go to Macie and Mandi's house or Rachels house, so we have already started to miss them.
We have been blessed already to live so close to Jim's sister Kari and her kids. The girls have already gotten to play and at least still live by some cousins. Anyways we are excited for our future and what lies ahead in our lives. We are grateful for all the family we are leaving behind and will truly love and miss them! Thanks for all your help we really appreciate it!

Funny Girls!

Well all last week we were with my Mom and Dad at their house.

Jim had to go to Salt Lake so we stayed with my parents.
I forgot my camera or I would of had some great pictures!
The girls had a great time playing in the snow... something we
don't see a lot of here.

I met up with Kara and Meagan in Layton and had a great time visiting at lunch
with them. If was fun to see them. I didn't get to see anyone at Christmas this year so it was good to catch up.

Then Jenny and I were feeling adventurous and we decided to take our 6 kids to the Circus! With just the two of us, we had a great time the kids loved the animals and the show so yes
it was worth it after all. These are funny pictures of the girls. When we got back Jim had brought back these things for them. So of course they had to try everything on.
Oh and the next day they tried the goggles out in the jacuzzi tub to see if the could swim and see under water.




I thought this one of the princess fairies was cute! What fun girls we have!

Jim's Birthday!

Well this is the posting that I have been thinking about all week!
Jim celebrated his 33rd birthday last week.


It was a crazy week so we celebrated it early, and he was going to be out of town on his real birthday!








So at the last moment we decided to go to Pirates Pizza, it's pretty cool. It has a ship and the whole setting is pirates. Then they have a place for archades and I slide for the kids.
Of course Jim is playing with the kids too! Then we came home and he opened his presents. He had been wanting a Blue ray player. So the girls helped him open his presents. It was fun and they were so excited that it was Daddy's birthday! We hope you had a great day and we love Jim!

Happy New Year!

Well as you know we are always a step behind on getting our pcitures
and events posted on our blog.






I actually forgot that I had taken these pictures, so I thought what the heck
I 'll stick them on anyways!

We celebrated our new years at Jim's brother Jerry's house. They had games
and Guitar Hero, so we had a pretty good night.


The kids each celebrated in their own way, Kylee played and played with her cousins
till she was exhausted. She actually made it to midnight ... I wondered we go to bed
early at our house.








Brinkley made it to about 10 and then was asleep on Dad's shoulder, she celebrated the
rest of the night in Lisa's bed. So hope everyone has a great year in store! Happy New Year!

Late Christmas!

Well we had a great Christmas this year! We went up to my Mom and Dad's and
celebrated it with the family!
Jim has decided that he wants to learn how to Golf, he has a little in the past with my Dad
and enjoys the challange and wanted clubs for Christmas!

Kylee has been asking every Santa she sees for the whole month for a Woody doll from Toy Story!

She was a good girl and got what she wanted!






Brinkley asked santa for dress ups, so she got a princess trunk and other playdo
activity things!


I had been wanting a Cricut for scrapbooking, and I was so excited when I got one!

We had a great time at Mom and Dad's, the boys went snowmobiling and hunting, and we had a couples night to Timbermine and the movies! It was so much fun to hang out with my sisters and Casey and all our extened family that we don't see very often!
Hope all had a good one!

Getting Christmas Trees

Well we had a great Thanksgiving full of craziness and activites.
Jims sister Kari and her family was in town and we rode four wheelers
and did Christmas shopping and had a great time.
So we hadn't done any christmas shopping or decorating.

Jim came home from work early on Monday and said lets go cut us down a
Christmas tree!

So I got all our snow things and we headed up to Cedar Mountain.


Usually we go with all the Wests to cut down Christmas trees and it takes a whole day,
but everyone did their own things this year. So for the first time it was just our little family.

We got all dressed up and within about 5 mins boots were falling off and mittens and needless to say it didn't last very long.

Of couse my husband decides to cut down one of the biggest trees to choose from. It was close to 50 feet high the trunk was as big as his head!
Timber then once it was down he cut it down to about 12 feet so we could fit it in our house.

We stopped to get food on the way back, and the got in the the stand and fully decorated by midnight! Wow we thought that was pretty dany fast, considering we didn't even leave St. George till 3 in the afternoon. Jim does have good tastes though, cause our tree looks great!

Here is it standing. but its so tall it blends in with the rest of the forest! We had a great time and this is one of my favorite West traditions! I will have to put one on later of the final product!