Thanksgiving

We wen't to Uncle Brent and Aunt Darla's for Dinner this year. We alway's have yummy food. This year I thought i'd be creative and make a new pie,(should have been soup) and diffrent potatoes, ya not real great. from now on I will just stick with the good old fashion stand bys

Pics: brent and Kyle carving the turkey , food table, boy's playing football, Uncle Scott and Grandpa, then Avery and Ester.

Avery's Birthday!

So for Avery's birthday, we had a movie party. Seven 9 yr olds running around the house playing kung fu panda, pokeman, and every other thing you can imagine. We poped 6 bags of popcorn for the movie and it was gone in 20 min. Boy's sure are hungry!!!

Holloween

Ok so to try and do get everything updated in order I think that holloween is next!

Avery wanted to be Darthvader, Zack wanted to be like Uncle Kent, and I went with them as a red neck model, what great fun!

More Pics from home

Yes milk comes in a bag, not in a jug!!

Sorry Kent!

Ok so i was politely informed that i had not updated my blog in a while. Kent sorry, so much going on so little time. So here are a couple of pics from my trip home in October and yes i ate a lot and gained about 10lbs, but man it was worth every bite!!!

yes the beer store and liqure store are seperate and not sold at the local walmart!

Lesson Learned the hard way!!!!

Well tonight I had an experience that was absolutely terrifying!!! I had gone to Brigham City to pick up our beautiful family pictures. I let the kids stay in the car, like a good mom, I rolled down the windows, turned off the van and took the keys with me. So like most kids do Zackery moved from his seat up to the driver's seat to pretend he was driving. Can you guess yet what had happened next? , yep that's right, Zackery (and I don't know how) put the car into gear!! I'd parked on a slight incline and forgot to put the parking break on, the van rolled back, across the road, up over the curb, into the neighbors yard and got wedged in between 2 small trees. Amber and I were standing on her front porch and I had turned to make sure they were OK, when I saw the van start to go back words, the look of horror and the terror in there little voice was worse than almost dying. Matter of fact I think that I would rather die than see my children hurt or that scarred again. Poor zack shook for almost 2 hrs. When the van had finally stopped and the kids got out of the van, and I was talking to them, Avery told me that they had put the emergency break on to make the van stop, and it didn't. Amber's husband ran a little experiment, and we found out that the emergency break wasn't working at all. I think that there is going to be a trip to the dealership this week, to ask questions as to why the van was sold when the emergency break was broken.. Thank heavens for those trees. Had the van turned it's steering wheel the other way and they had missed the trees, Avery and Zackery would have gone over a small embankment, and crashed into the house across the rd. Some times I wounder how heavenly father expects me to live through raising this child. He may just kill me yet, and he's not even a teenager yet!!!

Zack's First Day of Kindergarten!!

Well They are not great pic's, but they are the only ones Zack would let me take. These pic's show a grumpy little boy, but don't let it fool you, he was very excitted to go to school for the first time.

More Camp Pics

Far Left: Casey and Holly,
Center top: Grandpa Berry cooking
Top Right: Avery and Grandma Berry playing games.
Bottom Left: Katie and Zack singing for us at the camp fire.
Bottom Right: Doug's arrowhead finds!!!

Family Camp!

It's that time of year again. Family camp!! We left our house at 3:30 am, and arived at camp just in time for breakfast. These are just some of the fun pics we got. Enjoy!!!

Pure Fustration!!!!!

OK I am about to go on a little rant!!!! OLD MEN ARE $%^%^&#@

Doug and the boy's were in an accident at the end of June and I have finally taken the car into have the estimate done!!!! ready for this $2,700 of damage done to our car and that's before they pry the back door open, cause right now it won't. It was a little old man driving the other car and there was very little damage done to his car. His insurance co is trying to make Doug at fault and our co, is saying that the old man is at fault.. If you ask me men at the age of 70 should have there licences taken away!!!!

Lagoon

Doug took the boy's to Lagoon on Friday, and boy did they have a blast!!! Doug went with some friends of ours and they all took turns in kiddy land and ridding some of the bigger rides. Avery got to ride his first Roller coaster and Had a blast. That's all he has talked about since . Avery was also tall enough to drive the go karts. OH I'm in trouble!!!

OH DEAR!!!!

OK so for those of you who know me, and know me well, I can't (or maybe won't) put down a good book. So for the last year I haven't had the time to pick up a book for me other than to read to the kids, so I have been listening to books on CD. The latest and greatest books I have been listening to are the Twilight Series, by Stephanie Myers: OM!!!!! is all I can say. For an LDS author, it's been one of the most thought provoking series I have ever read, and not in the traditional sense of thought provoking either. It makes you look at good and evil in a light that you had never thought of before and can monsters traditionally thought of as evil be good. Out of this all comes your own personal opinions, but for those of us who thrive on symbolism and hair pulling thoughts, comes another book. A classic, that has been mentioned only briefly by the author of the twilight series, until recently I have never ever though about reading. What book might this be you ask, well it is called Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Like Charles Dickens Tale of two cities wasn't torture enough, I need my head examined!!! I have come to a conclusion, classics are classics for a reason, they are our beginning in literature, they were the first to give us in site to ones imagination, the first to let us know about love and illogical, family strife and the total difference between classes. For the lack of a better saying, they are the first to put into writing MAN'S IN HUMANITY TO MAN. The story of Cathrine and Heathcliff now have a very special place in my heart, a place I thought only reserved for one other person, but now are inhabited by 3. If you have not read this book, I highly suggest it. It will make you look at love and Class in a whole different way.

Rest In Peace Mufassa!!!!

My poor Zackery and Avery for that matter learned a hard lesson on life and death this week. Our poor Moufassa died late Tuesday night. Zack beaing the loving child he is (with Animals) took Moufassa to bed with him unknown to me. At some point durring the night Zack rolled on Moufassa and killed him. When I went in to give the kids kisses before i left for work, i found him passed away right beside Zack. Needeless to say my children were devistated to wake up to this. Belive it or not I was granted bereavement leave so that I could go home for the funeral. After the funeral we sat as a family and disscused when and what type of animal to get next. We have narrowed it down to a small but sturdy dog, or a rabbit. I did tell them though that it would be a couple of months before we got another pet. You see I had never had a pet growing up that died. There were always dogs around, but nothing more than that, so I a 33 yr old mom had a melt down over losing a hamster. How silly is that. Well Moufassa know that you were loved greatly and don't worry you have plenty of family to watch over you in heaven.

Kenade's First Birthday

Well this is the pics that I had taken at Kenade's birthday.