Baby Shower

Yesterday my family threw me a little baby shower. It was so much fun even though we didn't have many people attend. We played some fun games that Leslie made and had some wonderful food and fun decor from my mom and Aunt Teri. I got some wonderful blankets that I will cherish and can't wait to use! Enjoy the pix!


My mom won the Don't forget about Daddy quiz. It was a bunch of questions about Clint and what he said when he found out we were expecting. My favorite questions on there were the ones about what he wanted the baby to get from me and from himself. He wants the baby to have my smarts and his sense of humor! Let's all hope those don't get switched at birth!

Here is my Aunt Teri. She is such an awesome woman!

Here are Julie and Delaine chilling. Julie won the scrambled baby words we did.

Here are Anika, my step mom Carmen, and my Grandma Donna.

My most awesomest cousin Leslie (those were her words)!

Here is my wonderful friend Amanda opening her gift for the Nursery Rhyme game with some assistance from Heber.

This brown and pink blanket was made by Delaine and I just love the patterns to it!

My Aunt Ruth made this quilt with the purple minkie on the back and the ladybugs and frogs on the front! I am tempted to use it for myself!

This is a blanket that Carm bought the material to make and then found another blanket with the same material so she bought it too!

This is a blanket that I helped Carm start waaaaaay back when I was pregnant with Anika and we never ever got it finished. Carm made up the border on it and suprised me with this gift at the shower, and I love it!

This is Heber checking out the Winnie the Pooh gift sets I got!

Anika loves the tutu Delaine made for the baby! Now all my girls have tutus and I will have to post pics of them!

All in all it was a wonderful shower and we had a good time. Now who is coming over to put all of this stuff away for me??

Movie Day

So today Carm and I decided that since Dad and Clint had to work, we would take the kids to the show. Riley and I had already read the book and Anika is reading it now in her class. First we decided to go to lunch at JB's and boy was that a mistake. Riley was throwing one of his sulking fits in the parking lot so we all loaded back into the car and headed home only to have him promise to be good, so we did go in and eat. Of course Heber wouldn't sit still , but we finally finished and headed to the theater... Last time we went to a movie was Thanksgiving night to see Madagascar 2 and the kids all did really well. Heber even loved it and sat through all but about 5 minutes of it, so today we thought would go well. OH boy were we wrong. Heber kept getting up and down, and throwing fits, so we had to keep going for walks and in the very middle of the movie she pooped her pants. Oh yeah fun, so into the bathroom we headed! Man I love having a 2 year old. Finally after about an hour and a half of walking around with her, she finally fella sleep on my mom's lap! Thank goodness. The only drawback was that the movie ended about 10 minutes later! Oh well, I guess I can wait for it to come out on video to see the whole thing, the book was better than what I saw anyways!

My new village...

Today my kids went with my parents to finish up some shopping and look what they got me! I have wanted to start a village but just never had the space for one. So this year that is what the kids gave me for Christmas. I was so excited, I hurried and put it up. I will post more pics tonight when you can see all the lights. Each one of the kids got to pick out a building and they each picked out way cool ones. Riley got me the cinema, Anika picked the beauty shop, Brashae the one with the train, and Heber picked the fire station. Carm has a beautiful village and I hope that one day mine looks as good as hers does. I hope we can keep that darn cat out of it too!

Carving pumpkins.....

My Dad and step mom grew these pumpkins in their garden this year and we got them carved the other night! I lit them tonight and took more pics of them to post on here! I love carving pumpkins but I wish there was a quicker way to get the guts out!

Monkey Business!

It is the time of year when all the ghosts and goblins come out to play! When Riley was 2, Carm made him a very cute monkey costume! He of course would not wear the head part but loved playing with his tail! Then when Anika was 2 she also wore the costume,and now it is Heber's turn. But we have a small problem, Heber is terrified of the costume. When we got it out of the closet at my mom's house, Heber ran and hid until we put it away! She won't even touch the costume. So we took it home and decided to have Anika dress up in her costume from last year and Clint finally convinced Heber to try hers on. It took a little persuading and some trying on of the head piece by Dad, but she finally tried it on! Enjoy these pictures because she may decide to not wear this darling costume ever again!

Surviving Camp Flaming Gorge

We had a family reunion with Carm's (my step-mom) family in early June. My aunt lives in Dutch john so we decided to have it up there this year and that way we could all spend time on the Gorge also. It was a pretty fun filled weekend. Carm rented a condo at Flaming Gorge resort and it had enough room for all of us and the kids so we wouldn't have to drive up and down the mountain every night. We had a blast on Saturday playing on the lake and taking some fun pictures. Here are a few of them...

My stepmom Carmen, My dad, Clint, Heber, Cara,

This is all of us who attended the reunion this year!

The little cousins drying out after swimming in the cold water!

This is the Carter Creek Bridge. When my Dad was in high school they to jump off this bridge for fun but now it is illegal because of how dangerous it is!