Johnston Family

February

2011-06-01T11:59:00.000-07:00

Trey singing in his pre-school Valentines day program.

Sterling and I were able to go to a Valentines day dinner date that the girls in Nyssa put on for a fundraiser. They had dinner, entertainment and pictures. I heard their was dancing. I couldn't have done too much of it, but it would have been fun to have a dance or two.

Sterling and I in the hospital just waiting and passing the time. This was the first time that I really wasn't sure when to go in. Sterling called the Hospital for me and we decided to just go in and I was sure glad we did. By the time we got there I was already at dialated to a 5. I think we got to the hospital around 5:00 or so. They gave me an epidural pretty fast, but it didn't work so well on the left side of me. One leg completely dead, the other not so much. Abbie was born at 8:27 PM.

Our brand new baby, little miss Abbigail.

Me after having little miss Abbie, just waiting to hold her again.

Mommy & Abbie

Daddy & Abbie

This is my favorite hospital picture of Abbigail all cleaned up after her first bath. They brought her all tucked in with this cute little hat.

Our Family on Saturday Dad, Mom, Chase, Trey, Keegan & Abbie

Grandma Johnston and Great Grandma Beus holding Abbigail.

Grandma Larsen with Lisa and Abbigail, Grandpa had to come up later. He was in Michigan.

Little Abbigail in her coming home outfit.

Sucking her thumb. We saw her do this in ultrasound pictures too. Don't know if thos is good or bad.

Sunday, on our way home from the hospital. We almost went home the night before, but I wasn't feeling very well and so we stayed in the hospital until the next day.

Lisa with Abbie after we got home from the hospital.

The boys playing a silly game with Grandma Larsen.

Pink Balloons the kids put on the mailbox for their new little sister.

The little sis cuddled up in a blanky after her first bath at home.

Keegan just being his cute little self. I loved this picture!

Pouring cement under our porch so we could make the stairs going down into our basement.

Little sis sleeping. I love to watch a sleeping baby. I love the way they put their hands up. So cute!

My mom and I decided to use their nice camera and try to take some pictures of Abbigail on our own. She was four days old and though we weren't professional. I think we captured a couple cute photos.

Little Abbigail all happy and sleeping and looking all cute!

Aunt Laura holding little Abbigail at JC Penney after we went and had pictures taken. She was six days old.

I always seem to put Laura D to work when she comes to visit. I had her help me paint the last little splotches that needed painting in the kids room upstairs.

Grandpa Larsen finally made it up to visit after a late night of driving in near blizzard conditions. He had a short visit, but it was fun to have him there.

Sterling and our friend Jake did a little finishing work on our porch. They put trim around things and put up a shelf and a coat rack.

Sterling had the boys do some yard work while our friends were here. They dug up some bushes and filled in some holdes. They worked pretty hard for little kids. Well, Chase did :)

The girls are just chillin a bit. Laura, Lisa and Abbie.

Our first Sunday at home. Abbigail is one week and a couple days old. So big already!

Here are Mr. Mario and Mr. Luigi. Trey had me make him a mustache so he could be Luigi and Keegan had to have one too.

Here are Mr. Hardhat Man and Luigi holding the little Sister.

Grandma Johnston hold Abbie with Trey and Chase admiring.

The boys just looking all cute together in their cuteness.

Grandma Larsen holding her newest little grandchild.

Mommy and Baby

Our friend Karli came and took some pictures of us. I think she did a wonderful job! It was a bit chilly that day, but it worked out. I love the pictures, they were really fun! Abbie is 10 days old in them.

Love this picture of the brothers, they are like this all the time.

January 2011

2011-03-06T18:15:00.000-08:00

A couple days into January we went over to Owen and Emily's house to help them pack up a few things for their move up to Washington. Here the boys are entertained with the our portable dvd player because their's was already packed away.

Trey turned 5 years old on January 3. He is getting so big. Trey is such a nice guy. He is always concerned for others, except when Keegan is pestering him to no end. He's going to pre-school, and likes it once he's come home. Trey likes to dress up, most recently as Mario and Luigi. He likes Woody from Toy Story and lego's. He also likes to play the Wii, V-smile and computer games. I really have to regulate his game playing habbit. :) He's pretty picky about food, but I know he'll always eat cereal. He's only five and can pretty much take care of himself. He likes to think so, anyway. He's a fun guy and we love him a lot.

Here is Trey's cake. One of his gifts was a hot wheels playset with Buzz Lightyear on the car. "To infinity and beyond." So I decided to use that and make him a hot wheels cake, with Buzz about to take the leap.

Singing happy birthday to Trey.

Chase finally lost a tooth that was loose for forever. It was almost sticking straight out. Our neighbor talked him into letting her pull it out. She gave him a dollar.

Annette and I went to Robin & Dustin's to help them pack up and get ready for their move. We were able to pack lots of stuff. The boxes were really heavy. I felt bad for the guys having to pick them up. This is Grandma reading a story to Keegan and Macy.

Here are the cousins watching a show together.

Here are Annette and Tricia making the yummiest dessert ever. Molten Chocolate cake. It was quite splendid.

We decided that it would be fun to buy a coconut from the grocery store. We had a bit of trouble figuring out how to open it, but with a bit of searching on u-tube we got it open. The boys loved it and thought that it was the coolest thing ever.

One weekend the family all got together for Rachel's babies blessing. We had a nice time together. After the blessing we all went to this fun lodge to eat and it was really nice. Too bad it's not closer to our house.

The kids had lots of fun sliding down the stairs. Oh to be little again.

We had three different soups, yummy rolls and delicious desserts. I couldn't eat much of the dessert, because of my gestational diabetes, but savored each bite.

On the 29th of January my friend Erin threw a shower for me. It was lots of fun and we had lots of friends come and drop by.

Here is the table of yummy food from the shower. Yum Yum!!

The rest of 2010 in a flash

2011-01-25T19:25:00.000-08:00

This post is not going to be in order at all. But you will all still get the idea of our year.

Keegan and the other boys helped me pick all the pumpkins in our garden. It was a really nice day out and we had a lot of fun. We had a lot of pumpkins too.

Little Keegan trying on Dad's motor cycle helmet. The boys think this is super cool.

Little Keegan helping out with breakfast on our family camping trip up in Idaho City.

Keegan helping me out in our Garden. We had a really big garden this year, but then I didn't do much in it because of morning sickness. It sure looked nice though.

I had lots of little helpers helping me when we redid our downstairs. Here is Keegan helping paint.

We had lots of baby calves this past year. The kids loved to go out and help, in the warmer weather that is.
Here are Keegan, the calves and the kitty, Tiger.

Here is Keegan Stiring up milk for the calves. The kids even named a couple of them. One's name was Christmasy.

Trey and Keegan sliding down the slide at the park in Adrian, during one of Chase's t-ball games.

Cute little Keegan snuggled up on the couch with his tiger snuggly guy and his milk. I'm sure he fell asleep watching a show. His favorite thing is milk and a show. He doesn't always get it which makes him really not happy, but it's his favorite thing, especially when he is sad.

When the cousins came to visit, they all got in the dirt and were covered from head to foot. Keegan looks like a dirt boy.

Laura standing by the Vietnam Vetrans memorial in Washington DC. She is the nicest sister ever to bring me to this fun place. We had a great time.

Aunt Laura helping little Keegan back down the hill at one of our many Dutch Oven Dinners up behind Bowens home.

Laura and he massive slice of pizza on our trek to find the metro going to our hotel one evening in Washington D.C.

Lisa, Trey's back and Keegan at Regan's baby blessing. She was super cute and we had a nice time all together as family.

Lisa and Leslie when we went back to Washington. We started of in Baltimore and Leslie picked us up. We had fun. We went to this Awesome ice cream place and then we played games. It went by way too fast. I wish we could have spent the week with her and then a week in Washington.

Trey, Lisa and Chase at Strawberry Daze in Adrian. The kids played at the booths. We got cotton candy and icee's and the jumped in the jump house.

Keegan and Mom at Grandma Johnston's house. It doesn't look like he really wants to be in the picture.

Sterling and Lisa on our 8th Anniversary.

Lisa and Chase. Chase is showing off his missing teeth. Silly kid!

Keegan and Lisa at Grandma Larsen's house. With his shut eyes it doesn't look like he wants to be in this picture either.

Lisa and Trey at the Larsen family reunion in Provo, Utah. What's he looking at?

Dad and Keegan just chillin in the living room.

Here are the boys at Easter with all of their loot. We've started doing something that I really like. The Easter bunny hides the real eggs and some eggs filled with things that tell the Easter story of Christ's death and resurrection. We read that before we go to church. After church the boys have another egg hunt to get some candy.

Here is Chase on his first day of First Grade. His teacher is Mrs. Martin. He wasn't too happy to go to school this year, as you can probably tell from the picture. By the end of the day he was really excited for the new year.

Trey's first day of pre-school this year went really well. He was pretty excited to go. His teacher is Miss Krissy. He goes to school great and seems to like it. I have found that he never will finger paint with the kids though. I don't know why. Maybe he doesn't want to get his fingers dirty. Silly guy!

Sterling turned 30 in 2010. We threw him a big suprise birthday party. I turned out to be a lot of fun. We had lots of friends and lots of cake, and food. It was a fun time!

Chase had his sixth birthday this year. He is really starting to become a big guy. We had a tractor cake that he thought was pretty fun. Chase is a super nice helper. He helps with everything and he is always the fastest to help. He loves to be active and do anything where his little body is moving around. I think he would rather not stand still, ever. He is a nice friend to have!

My 32nd birthday was this year. Grandma Johnston helped the boys suprise me with a cake and presents, which was lots of fun. Sterling took me out to Olive Garden and a movie. It was a nice birthday.

For Halloween Grandma Johnston let the boys take some of the pumpkins home from her Garden. We had small pumpkins in our garden and she had big ones, so we did a little switch. The boys filled up the wagon with small pumpkins and then traded them for big ones.

Silly little boys love to play outside. It's always nice when they play nicely together and it's fun to see what their little imaginations will come up with.

On Sunday's after church we always go over to Grandma and Grandpa's house for lunch. This is the boys favorite spot to sit when we go over to eat. They sit on the window sill, with their feet on the bench, and it's the perfect height to the table.

The boys like to sit and watch a show together. Here they are in their little chair's eating chips and cheese and watching something intriguing.
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Keegan and Chase are nice little friends. I just loved this picture of them standing together outside the Stake Center.

Picnic's are always a fun thing we do in the summer time. They boys love it!

Dress up time happens daily at our house. We get lots of pirates and cowboys, but we also get some silly creations as well.

This year the boys played in the bouncy house at Strawberry Daze and just loved it. It was really hard to get them out of there.

The fourth of July this year was on a Sunday, so we celebrated on Saturday. Chase was supposed to be in a parade on the 4th with his baseball team, but since it was on a Sunday we decided to have our own little parade with the family. The kids decorated their bicycles and threw candy and had a really nice time.

Keegan fell asleep during the first parade that we had, so we had to have a second parade so that he could get some candy throwing in as well.

The bunny incident started when Sterling brought home a jack rabbit that had been washed out of a sprinkler pipe. The boys dried it off and we stuck it in this little red tub to recuperate. Later that night Sterling and I were watching a show and heard a noise. Apparently the bunny was feeling better and jumped out of the box. Those things are fast. We couldn't catch it. The next morning Sterling had the grand idea to let the cat in the house while we were at church. When we came home Chase went downstairs to find quite the massacre. It was a mess. Poor kid! I'm glad I didn't have to see it. But, it was quite the talk of the boys to everyone for quite sometime.

I took this picture of the boys while we were at the Larsen family reunion in Provo. We were in a park and found a nice door that led to someone's backyard. It was the perfect spot to take pictures.

Here is little Chase showing off his two missing bottom teeth. He ended up losing three teeth in 2010. The fourth one almost fell out, but just missed coming out before the new year.

Quite the random picture of Chase. He was at Grandma Johnston's house and decided to dress up like rudolf the red nosed reindeer.

The spring concert for the elementary school was all about the wild west. The kids were able to dress up as cowboys and had a fun time doing a country dance and singing songs.

We were at Grandma Larsen's house for her birthday and the boys and I made her a birthday cake. It turned out to be pretty cute.

Chase at the school pep ralley. Chase does not care for the noise at all. I didn't realize it until he was in Kindergarten and his teacher told me. Another teacher said we must really have a quiet house because he doesn't like noise. I just laughed because he is the loudest kid at home. Apparently the noise of the pep ralley was just too much for him and his teacher took him out of the gym. Silly kid!

We colored flags and the boys planted them in dirt in the our sippy cups. They looked really nice.

Chase played t-ball this year. It was his first year playing on a team. He was a little leary at first. But he caught on quite fast. We practiced with him a bunch and he was hitting the balls in no time. They had coach pitch ball and then if the kids couldn't hit the ball they would use the Tee.

Here is Chase posing in his T-ball outfit. The games where he hit the ball and we were in town, we'd go out for Ice Cream at A&W. It was a lot of fun.

Chase's mighty team of little t-ball players. We had some really good players on our team. I'm glad there are enough kids who want to play, so that we can have a team without traveling very far.

Chase just peeking over the edge of the couch.

This year Sterling helped the boys make a corn maze in the corn field next to our house. It was pretty fun and the inlet was right in our very own backyard.

The Larsen family reunion was really hot this year. We were all baking in the sun while the boys waited their turn for the fish pond. They sure enjoyed it though.

We played pictionary at the family reunion also. Here is Laura with her game face on and ready to draw.

Here are my mom and dad at the family reunion. I thought this was just a really nice picture of them together.

My dad with his brothers and sister. The empty spot where my dad's hand is, is the hole for the other sister who wasn't there, but on a mission with her husband.

The twins both wore green to the reunion. At least we both didn't wear green stripes. We matched anyway, and I guess that's ok.

Laura D and Chase just hanging out in the shade.

The boys are cooling off and getting a drink at the fountain. They also had fun with the leftover ice.

Trey giving Grandma Larsen a hug after she opened the card he made for her at her birthday party.

Grandpa Larsen and Laura just hanging out on our couch waiting for Chase's birthday party to start.

Grandma Larsen and Keegan eating food at Chase's birthday party! YUM!

Grandma Larsen and Trey talking and waiting to eat at one of our many dutch oven dinners.

We had a big water day when we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Larsen this summer. The kids and Grandma played softball with a sponge and water and then they had a huge water fight.

The boys love to play catch with Grandpa Larsen. They also took turns hitting the ball.

The boys and Grandpa also took time to play some frisbee. Sports with Grandpa are always fun!

We had an Easter Egg hunt when we went to Grandma and Grandpa Larsen's in March. The boys decorated some brown paper bags and then they went out for the hunt.

March

2010-08-13T08:03:00.000-07:00

So, I realized that I didn't take many pictures in March, but they are fun ones.

My sister came up and we took the little men skiing. This is Trey's first time skiing. I was a bit nervous that he wouldn't like it, but he really did like it a lot and wanted to do it all by himself.

Me and the boys!

Aunt Laura and the boys!

Me helping Trey learn how to ski. He is pointing at the ski lift. He really wanted to go up the big hill.

Aunt Laura helping Trey.

Chase going up the magic carpet lift.

Chase starting his way down the hill.

Trey decided that he was done for the night and just stepped off the side of the magic carpet and collapsed on the snowbank. He was done.

Our cousin Evie had her first birthday party at chucky cheeses and we all had fun. Here are Sterling and Keegan racing a car.

Chase and Evie are riding in a big truck.

Keegan and Trey driving in a little smart car.

February

2010-06-01T21:20:00.000-07:00

This is Trey's Preschool class. Trey is the one in the red cowboy hat. They had a Valentines Day program for us. I love to hear them sing.

Trey made me a Valentine at pre-school. He was so excited to give it to me.

Chase had a couple cavities that he had to get filled. He was a great sport. They stuck the gas on him and he was fine. They let him listen to a tape and when they asked him questions he just kind of giggled. Weird enough, it was almost fun for him. I guess that's a good thing.

Riley turned 12 and received the Priesthood, and so we all went down for it. It was nice to be there with family.

Keegan and Trey playing with trains at Robin's house with grandpa.

Keegan just chilling in the laundry basket with his monster truck.

We made some carmel apples. They were soooo good!!!

The boys, especially Trey dress up in outfits, I just had to capture this one. They look like they are all ready to go somewhere.

For Annette's birthday, her mom and sister came out and suprised her. They brought a splendid birthday cake from Costco. It was soooo good!!!

Sterling and Owen eating the yummy cake!

January

2010-06-01T06:59:00.000-07:00

So I finally have gotten to January. Whew! Now that it's June. I was looking through my January pictures and found that I didn't have very many, so either it was very uneventful, or I was just to busy to take many pictures.

At the beginning of January Robin and her kids came to visit. The kids always have a fun time playing together.

Here are the kids and a gingerbread house they all helped make at Grandma's house.
Trey's birthday was on January third and he is now four. We had a party for him at Grandma's house with the cousins.
At home we had another little party with him, where I made him a cowboy hat cake. Trey is a cute little guy. He loves to dress up in anything and everything. He always has to be wearing a hat, to preschool or town or wherever. Cowboy, construction, pirate, you name it. He always has accessories too. Trey is a nice guy who likes to watch winnie the pooh, play outside, and listen to mom read him stories.

Here is Trey opening one of his birthday presents. Sometime it feels as if Christmas never ends at our house with two birthday's so close together after Christmas, but we do have fun with it.

Here are the boys all sitting together watching a show. They looked pretty cute all together, so I had to take a picture.

Here are Trey and Keegan downstairs watching a show while we are working on the downstairs.

Brothers are so nice, Keegan and Trey just being silly under Trey's colorful blanket.

Keegan found a chair and some oreos and is just chilling.

Trey is dressed up in one of his outfits playing the V-smile.

Keegan all dressed and ready to go outside and play in the snow.

Chase and Trey standing by their masterpiece snowman.

I just thought this was a cute picture of all the boys standing together with a candy cane.

We went to a birthday party for our friend Justin and they had a Nerf gun wars. It was a really fun party. The kids loved it.

December 2009

2010-05-30T16:23:00.000-07:00

I have really got to get on the ball or I'm not going to get through this year until it's over. Well, December was busy busy, of course.

Sterling and I went to Indiana for a couple days. We were in meetings pretty much the whole time, but it was fun and on our drives we were able to see a bit of the countryside.

There were tons of windmills out there in Indiana. It was dark on our way in and there were red dots everywhere. We later learned that those dots were windmills. There were hundreds of them.

Homedale always has a Christmas Parade that is always fun for the kids to go too. They get candy and have some good old cold fun.

This is the kids waiting for the parade to start.

Santa is always the biggest hit of the day. We waited for about 45 minutes out in the cold snowy day to get a bag from Santa. My camera died so I wasn't able to get a picture of the kids with him though.

We went to RC Willey to buy some mattresses for the boys and Santa and Mrs. Claus were there. Chase wrote him a letter that said what he wanted and gave it to him. This year he wanted a real live tree, a photo book and a truck.

Trey wasn't too excited to see Santa. Here we are seeing the famous hide behind the hands.

Keegan wasn't too sure about Santa either.

Here are the little boys and Sterling strolling through the mattress department.

Keegan and I took a quick trip to Utah. My Great Grandma Penrod passed away and I flew down with Keegan to go to here funeral in Goshen, Utah.

I just thought this was a great mischevious little smile.

Here are Keegan and I at her Graveside.

Keegan was a perfect little flight buddy. He quite enjoyed the view out the plane.

We decorated a gingerbread house with all the fixing. Including Santa on the roof. The boys loved it.

Sterling and the boys were re-enacting the Nativity for Family Night.

For Nursery Trey's class made some Rice-Krispy Ginger bread houses.

Chase's wish list on the wall at school.

Grandma Johnston and Chase at his winter Concert at school.

For Chase's winter concert, they did the Polar Express. He is on the front row. It was hard for me to get a really good picture of him.

Our friend Sam came over dressed as Santa and gave the boys a big suprise.

This is our Annual Christmas Eve morning breakfast of Ricegrot.
Christmas Eve night we went out to Uncle Sam and Aunt Barb's house and had Oyster Stew and Clam Chowder and had a nice evening together with them.

A couple days after Christmas Grandma and Grandpa Larsen came up and we had Christmas morning all over again.
Grandma Beus and Bonnie and Owen and Emily came out for Christmas dinner. We exchanged gifts and ate and had a nice time together. That evening we all got together and ate red cake and ice cream and watched Night at the Museum II.
Grandma and Grandpa Johnston coming over Christmas morning.
Another thing Chase really wanted was a book full of pictures. He loved it. I think it was his favorite gift.
They boys with some of their toys on Christmas morning.

Ellis and Mary and their kids came and all the kids made another Gingerbread house.

Keegan turned two on the 30th of December. Keegan is a fun little man. He can keep up with his brothers in most things they do. He likes to sing even though he doesn't say any words with his tunes. He can out eat both his brothers put together. He so badly wants to be big and go to school with the boys when they leave. I wonder what will actually happen when it's time for him to go. He's a cute little man.

Here is Keegan with his Donald Duck birthday cake.

Keegan and a tuck and trailer he got for his birthday.

On New Years Eve it really snowed. It started out slow and then it was crazy. The boys had a lot of fun playing in it.

Sterling went and got a sled that we pulled behind the truck. We went up and down the road and had fun until Sterling went to fast and we all fell out.

Because of the storm we were unable to attend the New Years party in Boise with friends. So we made up some grub and had our own little party with the boys.

We made some party hats and waited for the count down.

The boys didn't stay up until midnight, but we had a countdown a couple of times.

Sterling and the boys popped some streamers. The boys loved it.

Here is the gang at Keegan's little party. We ate and watched Monster's Versus Aliens. Poor little Trey was sick and layed on the couch all day.

Chase wanted a real tree from Santa and he came through. Took down the fake one and put up a real one for him.

November 2009

2010-04-25T19:10:00.000-07:00

Ok, so my blogging lately has just been terrible, but I think things might be slowing down so I can actually get some computer time in. Here is our November from last year.

Well this is actually not November but I forgot to put these in. This is our last summer play day at the park. Keegan is looking mighty big and old here on the slide.

Treyton and I are eating some Ice cream and posing for the camera.

Chase is quite the monkey on the monkey bars juggling his ice cream cone too.

This year we rented out some of our ground to grow potatoes. The potatoes turned out to be huge. As you can see, three potatoes were as long as Keegan.

Here is the new window in the boys bedroom. Chase had stuck his foot through the window. It was an old single paned window. The guys tried to fix it but broke the piece of glass as they were putting it in. I did not want to put in another pane that might get broken, so I made us get a new window. This was the only window besides our bathroom window that was still old. I'm glad we changed it. It's so much nicer. Trey loved it. When he would wake up, he would just stare out the window. It was pretty cute to watch.

I just thought this was a cute little picture of Keegan.

I caught a picture of Sterling, Garold and Keegan taking a break from hauling corn in.

This was the cutest picture of the boys and their cousin Evie. They were just thinking she was fun and I had to catch the picture of it.

Keegan is silly, here he is with a fireman's hat a wooden spoon and his trike.

Every Sunday we go to Grandma's house for lunch after church. The boys love to sit on the windowsill. It is the perfect height for them. Here they are lined up and pretty much happy.

This fall we started to buy a bundle of bull calves. It's been busy with all the bottle feeding. Here is Chase. He's a great little helper, when he wants to be of course. :)

I was out snapping some pictures and I saw Trey just standing here looking out at something. I think he was a bit cold and frozen in place too. But it sure made for a nice picture.

Chase is pretty cute. He's showing us his machoe muscles. Milk sure does a body good.

So, I have to admit, I was one of the crazy ones who went to see New Moon at the midnight showing. This is a few of us who went. We actually had a really big group. These are the four that I actually knew. It was fun, but a bit crazy. I think I made it home around 3:30 a.m. Sorry to say, I was a bit cranky the next day. My sis was nice, she talked to me on the phone the whole way home so I wouldn't fall asleep.

Every theater in the entire place was starting the show at the same time, so when the show let out, it was quite a mad house in there.

We had an early Thanksgiving dinner at our friend Jake and Emily's house. It was a lot of fun. The kids were in one room and the adults had a fancy dinner in the other room.

Well, this year I turned 29 again for the 3rd time. I think my sister is 31. We had a fun birthday. I got a cheese cake and party in Adrian, and another party a few days later in Tremonton, with pumpkin/peacan pie.

Here's our family picture on Thanksgiving day. We really had a hard time getting Trey to actually smile. He's been in an I want to hide my face stage.

The adorable three Johnston brothers saying cheese and playing in the pumkins at Grandma & Grandpa Larsen's house.

Here is the Larsen clan on Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving dinner was soooo yummy!!!

October

2010-01-24T17:16:00.000-08:00

So, it's now January and has been officially forever since I last posted an update on my blog. I need to get with it a bit. Things always seem crazy. I'll get things up to date, I promise. Here is our October. We had a bunch of fun.

General Conference was a lot of fun. We had a bunch of family over and we watched and played and ate.

Here are Evie and Emily and Chase with his books in a rocking chair.

Treyton and Morgan are cuddled up on the couch.

Chase, Luke and Keegan are busy frosting cookies.

Everyone sitting down to watch.

Here is silly little Chase, I don't know if you can tell, but he has a bandaid on his nose and he is just being silly after school one day.

The boys had some friends over to frost sugar cookies. Morgan and Max were visiting also for spud harvest. They helped the boys make a scarecrow. It was fun to have them here.

For Pre-school Trey went to the local fire department and got to learn about firemen and the firetruck. The kids were able to shoot water from the fire hose and climb into the truck. Trey loves the fireman hat they were given and wears it all the time.

Another pre-school trip Trey had was going to the pumkin patch. They were able to ride on a hay wagon and pick out their very own pumkin.

Keegan at the pumpkin patch with Trey's pre-school group.

My mom came up this month and helped me make some tomato soup and can it. We had a lot of fun, but a bit of drama too. The kids were playing with a piece of the victorio strainer and lost a piece. We looked for it all day and couldn't find the thing. We borrowed the piece so we could finish, but after my mom left I found the piece behind the couch. We looked there like a million times, but not good enough I guess.

For the Halloween Carnival at the Elementary there was a pie making contest. I made an Apple Pie, I almost missed out on the judging. I arrived just in time. They were judging when I got there. Crazily enough, I won! It was pretty exciting. I won a cookware set.

Chase was able to take a fieldtrip with his kindergarten class to the corn maze. I was glad I got to go. It was fun! The kids went through the maze and then they were able to pick out a pumpkin. They also were able to feed some goats.

Here is Chase in one of the little straw mazes they had set up for the kids.

Keegan is dressed up in Chases costume as spiderman on a bike. He's pretty cute.

Trey and Keegan at the homecoming parade in Adrian. They watched the floats and got some candy. The parade was short and sweet and the kids loved it.

After the parade we went up to the high school where they had the homecoming pep assembly. All the grades were able to participate. Chase is wearing the orange shirt and doing his cheer.

Trey's pre-school class dressed up for Halloween. They sang us their songs and showed up their costumes. Trey is the little cowboy on the bottom row.

Chase at the Halloween parade at school. He is dressed as spiderman.

Grandma Larsen was here for the Halloween party at Chase's school. Here she is with Trey. We're in the cafeteria for the party.

The boys digging out the seeds inside the pumpkin for our dinner in a pumpkin night. They also drew a scary face on it.

The corn field in back of our house. The blue pipe you can see is one of the boys favorite toys. They love playing in it.

Decorating the scary halloween house. The boys decorated it about three times during October. For halloween the Jeppson's came to visit us and Justing is here helping Chase and Keegan in the picture.

Here are the boys making a snowman pumpking. So I guess it is a pumpkin man.

During the afternoon I take the boys into Homedale and we go trick-or-treating to all of the local businesses. At the moment Trey was not very happy, but he is my Cowboy, Chase is spiderman and Keegan is the little mouse.

Here they are again, walking down the way, getting some candy.

At the church we have a chili feed and then everyone goes trunk-or-treating. It is a very fun tradition. The kids stock up on candy and have a full bag in less than five minutes. Whew!

Here is Rhonda and Preston. They were able to come for Halloween this year and that was a lot of fun. He was a little superman. After the trunk-or-treat we went around to some people around that we knew. It was a long trick-or-treating day. It started when we left the house at 2:45 p.m. and ended at 9:30 or so when we got back home.

September busy, busy, busy

2009-09-28T13:43:00.000-07:00

Roxy, Johnathan and their kids came to visit. His brother was getting off his mission, so they came up for that and got to visit. It was fun to see them and spend some time together.

We have a four day school week, so we got a long weekend for Labor day. We left Thursday after school and stayed in Jerome at Aunt Robin and Dustins, then we went on down to Tremonton to play with Grandma and Grandpa Larsen. We went to the park and played outside and had a fun time.

This is the tree I used to climb all the time. I climbed way up in it and then the kids wanted to climb up too.

Grandpa Larsen and Trey dressed up as firefighters.

On Saturday we went to Ogden to meet up with Aunt Laura and went the the Dinosaur park there. It was such a neat place. The kids absolutely loved it.

In this picture there were some animated dinosaurs. When I took Chase into the room he was not too sure about it, and started backing up pulling my hand. I reassured him that they were not real.

Outside they had bunches of dinosaurs to walk around and see. They had a place to dig up dinosaur bones and a playground. It was so much fun. The kids still talk about it.

On Sunday we went to the baby blessing of my niece Rachel's daughter Angela. She's a cute little thing. There were five babies being blessed in that ward that day. I have never been in a Sacrament meeting where there were five babies being blessed.

After the blessing and lunch in Burley we headed on to Rexburg. We spent the night at Blake & Rhonda's house where everyone there came over for dinner. The next day we all got together for breakfast and then headed to the park. We played kick ball. It was the greatest thing for a big group of all ages to play. We were easy on the little guys and hard on the big guys. We had a fun time.

Here is a group of everyone waiting for their turn to kick the ball.

This was a cute picture of Max helping Preston out on a bike.

I love this picture of Trey, Luke and Chase. They are such nice friends and love to play together.

We had some cement work done on our graineries and the boys just had to sit and watch all the goings on.

Here is the cement truck going in the grainery. With the left over cement they made us a little slab to step on as you step off our porch stairs. It looks really nice.

Here is Trey on his first day of school. I was a little wondering how it would go. How things would be different between he and Chase's first day of pre-school. Trey didn't cry at all. He went in and started playing with the trains and he was good to go. He really likes it.

One day this month I made six pies. We gave five away and saved one for us. Chase decided that our pie would be a whole lot better if he decorated it with sprinkles and put the headband I wore for my wedding right in the middle. He suprised me, wow, was I suprised. That was the most interesting pumpkin pie I have ever eaten.

Trey with his name after pre-school. I've realized that Trey likes to destroy the things he makes at pre-school as soon as he gets home. So, I've decided that if I take a picture of him holding it as soon as he gets in the door, then I don't have to worry. I can document it, he destroys it and I throw it away.

We had some trouble with the combine after the guys were done combining the Teff one evening. Our neighbor was combining for us and he was driving down the road with Sterling. The auger had been left out and they unkowingly hit a power pole. They knocked it over before the could get stopped. Sterling said sparks were flying everywhere. It was a crazy evening.

On the 17th Sterling and I had a night out. Some of our friends gave us a gift certificate to the anniversary inn and so we decided to go. It was such an awesome place. We loved it. We picked out the Romeo and Juliet suite.

There was a winding staircase up to where the bed was ontop of what looked like a balcony.

Here's Sterling lounging on the bed. As soon as we got there he had to figure out the tv.

The tv was pretty cool. It was projected onto the side of the wall. You could see it from upstairs or downstairs. It was pretty cool. They gave you all kinds of food too. Cheese cake, sparkling cider, snacks in the evening and breakfast in the morning. Plus there were warm cookies waiting for us when we arrived. It was a nice place. We will definetly go again someday.

This is a picture of our friends and neighbors, MaryAnn, Brooke, and Ginger. MaryAnn and Ginger were baptised on the 19th of September. It was a fun special day. I gave the talk on baptism. I was really nervous, even though it was only five minutes. It went pretty ok, I think. Sterling was able to baptism them and it was really nice. He was a little worried to because he had only said the baptism prayer in spanish, so he practiced beforehand to make sure he'd get it right.

Chase decided that he want to make a pack to go out with. He went out and found a stick and one of my not so nice washclothes and made himself a nice little pack. I thought it looked really great.

They started digging potatoes by our house and so we went to watch. We went out into the field and Chase found this really crazy potato that he just had to show everyone.

We rented out half of our farm to a guy who planted it all in potatoes which we have never had on our farm before. It was kind of fun to have something different. The kids really like watching them dig the potatoes.

Annettes sister Areta came to visit for a few days and we were able to each breakfast and dinner with them and chat for awhile. It was nice to catch up.

Chase's First Day of School and August

2009-09-13T18:18:00.000-07:00

Keegan fell asleep with a sucker in his mouth while I was giving him a hair cut. It just looked so cute we had to take a picture.

The two bigger boys after their hair cuts. I told them they could have a sucker if they sat nicely for me. They were so intently watching Winnie the pooh. Which is of course, their favorite show.

Chase and Trey splashing in a pool of water at Grandma Johnston's house.

Trey and Keegan playing with trucks at grandma J's house.

Chase adn Keegan looked so cute sitting in the back of the truck. They got up there and looked like such cute little buddies. They are pretty nice little buddies.

Keegan and his dirty face. You can really tell he liked his dinner. It's gone from his plate, but all over the place.

On August 11 we tried to go to Glenn's Ferry and watch the Three Rivers Crossing. We had 20 minutes to be there by the time we made it to the exit for Glenns Ferry. It should have taken us like 5 minutes to get there. That didn't happen. There was a backup on the freeway because of a train, and sadly we did not make it in time to see the crossing, and neither did hundreds of other people. It's too bad. I guess this was supposed to be the last year they were doing it.

At least a bunch of us were able to get together after we didn't see the crossing and have a picnic together. We had a nice time talking and eating, and catching up while the kids played.

The kids all had a race. They raced and raced and raced. It was fun for them. Poor little Luke was being drug along a lot.

A picture of Emily and cute littel Evie.

We froze lots and lots of corn this year. It seems like we did it for days. I didn't get a picture of us in the house, but here's one of the guys shucking the corn outside.

Keegan and his corn.

Here's a picture of the guys moving a grainery. They ended up putting cement in the bottom of it so they can fill it with grain or corn.

We decided to take one last outing before school started. We were going to take the boys camping. The day we left I had a terrible headache, I now think it was a migrain. We went and watched Monsters Versus Aliens in 3D. The kids loved it and have been quoting it ever since. I was feeling so crummy that Sterling decided to just get us a hotel room. We stayed at the Oxford Suites in Boise. We've stayed there before and really like it there a lot. We went swimming and downstairs in the place for soda and lite appetisers. It was fun, even with my headache.

Bajio's was right next door, so we walked there and just in time too. They were closing, so we grabbed some food and took it back to our room.

Here's a picture of the Boise temple just right outside our window of the hotel.

The second night we went camping at a lake up in the mountains by Burley, Idaho. The lake was lake Cleavland. It was above the Pomerell ski hill. It was so beautiful there. We stayed up there with Sterling's sister Robin and her family. We went hiking on a fun little hike.

The boys and Sterling, hiking up the hill.

The lake was so peaceful and beautiful. The mountains were pretty too. I really enjoyed it up there.

The kids roasting marshmallows, they had a really hard time because it was so smokey.

The next day we went down to Burley and let the kids place in the storybook playground. They love this playground. It is super fun.

We then went to the Gossner Cheese factory and bought some Ice Cream. They have splendid ice cream there. It's sooooo yummy!!

The place is way cute too. It makes you feel like your in Switzerland or Germany. The ice cream is almost as good as over there too.

This is Chase on his first day of school. He did so well. Chase's little friend Ginger and her mom MaryAnn took Chase to school for his first day. We thought he'd have less anxiety that way, and he really did well. I had some people say that he was pretty confident. He likes school, he does think that it is too long. It is a long day, but they learn so much. He does have his off day, but he mostly likes it.

Here are Chase and Ginger coming in for their first day of school for the year.

Chase and his teacher Mrs. Ellsworth. I can tell he's a bit nervous in this picture. He really likes his teacher a lot.

Grandma & Grandpa Larsen's House

2009-07-26T16:59:00.000-07:00

In July we had a fun trip to Grandma and Grandpa Larsen's house. The first night we were all there together was a bit stressful though. Keegan started to feel hot. He wasn't feeling well. I gave him some tylenol and was just trying to make him comfy when he threw up all over me. I put him in the tub and cleaned him up fast. Poor little guy was shivering like crazy. We bundled him up and handed him to my dad where he fell asleep. Not long after he had a seisure. My dad came running and told me to get in the car we're going to the hospital. Keegan stopped breathing on the way which scared me really bad. I also drove to the old hospital in Tremonton, I forgot they had a new one. Anyway, after a long evening of poking and prodding the poor little boy, he was able to go home. Everything was ok and by the next night he was pretty much back to normal. Whew, why does everything go wrong when you're on vacation. He ended up having an ear infection, that is why he had the fever in the first place. Poor little man.

Keegan at the hospital with all the stuff all over him. He was a pretty sad little guy.

Roasting hot dogs and marshmallows with Grandma Larsen and Aunt Laura.

Eating in the back yard with Laura. The boys also got to sleep in a tent with Laura too. They had tons of fun.

Me, Laura and Jen at the Premier of the New Harry Potter 6 show. We were pretty lucky. We were able to see it at 9:00 P.M. and the show didn't really come out until Midnight. In the theater they handed us all out water and they were passing out all kinds of prizes. It was crazy, but great! I really enjoyed the show, I thought it had some fun humor in it. Of course it was sad at the end, but good.

So, before we went to the movies I made my sister take me to the Ikea store there in Utah. I loved the place. I'm such a nerd because I think it would be awesome to take Sterling there on a date. We could eat and look at furniture. I wish we had one in Boise.

This is Laura's place. Her bedroom is the window right there on the bottom floor. It's a pretty nice little place they have there.

Before going back up to Tremonton from Draper we went up and Laura showed me the new temple there. It was really neat because from up there we could see the Oaker Mountain Temple and the Jordan River temple. What a beautiful view.

The Jordan River Temple

Me in front of the Draper Temple. It was very beautiful up there.

We went shopping one day in Logan, and then on to play at the park. Here's Laura with her popcorn chicken.

Keegan and Grandma Larsen going down the slide at the park.

While at the park the ice cream truck came by. Since we live way out in the country we don't get ice cream trucks coming by, so I had to run Chase over and grab an ice cream for all the boys. Chase chose to get them all spiderman ice cream. They loved it!

Across the street from the park was a little zoo. It was about 50 cents to go in and there were a lot of fun things to see.

The boys did sparklers one night. It really took us some time to even get them to hold the sparklers. They were pretty afraid of them, but then they got used to the idea and liked it.

I just quite enjoyed this picture. The boys fell asleep one afternoon and they ended up in a pretty uncomfortable looking position. It's amazing how kids can sleep through almost anything sometimes, but then when you want them to sleep it's impossible.

One evening we played ball with Grandpa and Grandma. Keegan thought it was pretty fun to try to hit the ball.

Here is Trey playing catch with Grandpa. They had to throw it to Keegan a little too. He didn't want to be left out of anything.

We also had a car washing party that was great fun. The kids loved it and wanted to help out a bundle. We had two shiny looking new cars after it all. Wow!

Since we don't have a driveway or sidewalk, we thought that this would be a great time to teach chase how to ride his bike. I was actually really suprised at how fast he caught on. It took less than an hour I'm sure. We had just never tried before, I think he could have been riding his bike for a long time.

Here is chase riding his bike for the first time, wahooo.

I just thought this was a cute picture of Grandpa reading the boys a story.

Larsen Family Reunion

2009-07-26T16:25:00.000-07:00

The second weekend in July we went down to the Larsen Family reunion in Fairview, Utah. It was so nice to see all my cousing and Aunts and Uncles. We had fun eating and chatting and playing games.

Sterling and Keegan sitting waiting for the reunion to start.

Me and the Keegster eating our yummy food!

Chase and Trey with Grandma Larsen. They have a treat from a game that they played.

The adults played a fun game answering questions about our Parents and Grandparents. My cousin made a fun playing board of my Grandparents house and surrounding areas. It was an awesome board and we sure learned some fun things about our Grandparents.

There is an awesome playground there in Fairview. The boys just loved it. Sterling had some fun playing on it too.

This is part of my Grandpa's farm. The small pasture is where they kept their horses Buster and Blaze and behind is the milk barn and the hay barn and some other buildings.

This house is where my Great Great Grandmother Larsen used to live. All growing up it was vacant. Someone is living there now, but the outside has pretty much stayed the same.

These pretty flowers are at Sterling's Aunt Areta's home. Her husband is quite the gardener and has some very beautiful flower bed and a small creek lined with rocks that runs through the property.

After a trip over to Nephi to visit my Grandmother Penrod and see my uncle Jim we went on over to Ephraim to stay with Josh and Mollie. We had a great time chatting with them. The showed us the new home they are building and it was really exciting!!

I just had to snap this picture of cute little Trey. He is my sleeper and is so cute!

Silver City

2009-07-26T15:52:00.001-07:00

Rolinda and her girls were able to come for a bit and we had a really nice time together. Karen, Sterling's cousin also came and played with us.

Here is Brindisi holding a mouse. It's crazy the found it and stuck it in this glass bottle.

All of us enjoying a nice meal out in the yard over at Garold and Annettes.

Me and Keegan just having some fun.

While everyone was here we went to this place called Silver City. It was a really cool old mining town. I guess it's a ghost town. But it's been upkept. It was neat to see how things were back in the day.

The kids all got in the back of the car while we were sitting and I thought they looked pretty cute and squished. There is Chase, Elena, Porter & Trey.

Here is a picture of the front of a couple of the buildings there in Silver City.

Everyone standing in front of a building, Ster, Trey & Chase are walking along.

This little building a brew vat. You could look inside it and they had some fun little trinkets and things of the town in there. It was pretty fun!

We found this fun truck and the boys just loved it. We let them play in and around it for awhile.

In front of one of the houses there was a rock snowman. It drew all the kids over to it really fast.

Sterling, Bridisi, Elena & Porter just waiting for everyone to come down the road.

This little house was one of two powder houses. They were way in front of the town and made really quite thick. The were placed this way, so that if they blew up, hopefully it wouldn't hurt anyone.

Rolinda taking the boys for a walk. Cowboy of course always has to follow. He dosen't ever want to be left out.

Independence Day Celebrating

2009-07-05T15:10:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we went to the Vale, Oregon Suicide Horse Race
I had never gone to the race before, but I had heard a lot about it. The riders come down this steep mountain trail. There were only five racers. I thought there would have been a lot more, but I quickly learned why there aren't so many.

A horse went down, going end over end. From where we were, it looked like the rider was run over by the horse coming down behind, but he was ok, so I'm guessing the horse missed him. After this moment we never saw the white horse again. We saw the vet and others working on him up there, but we never saw the horse. My guess is that it didn't turn out well.

Here is a picture of a rider coming past us and toward the water which they go through, and then on into the stadium.

Me with Chase and Trey at the 4th of July Breakfast in Adrian.

I had to take a picture of Chase in front of his new school for the fall. This is the new Adrian Elementary school. This will be it's second year of use. Lucky Chase gets a new school.

In the afternoon of the 4th we hiked up to Jump Creek with the boys and our friends Jake and Emily and their boys. It's such a nice little waterfall and pool. Now, that I look at it the water is kind of dirty looking, but it really is pretty, and you wouldn't think that there would be something like this out in the middle of the desert.

Here's me and Emily in the water. It was a little cold at first, but once you got wet it wasn't so bad.

The boys at Jump Creek playing in the water.

There was a guy there jumping off the rocks. I thought he was a little crazy, but it made for a neat picture and he didn't die, so that's good.

After swimming we all came home and had a BBQ. We fried stuffed bacon hamburgers, corn on the cob and more. Yum!

The boys on our trek up the mountain. We drove up the butte behind our house to watch the fireworks all through out the valley. It was pretty exciting!

We didn't quite make it all the way to the top, but we still had a really pretty view. I had made some strawberry shortcake, so we ate that as we sat and watched the fireworks. We really had a nice time.

June

2009-07-05T14:55:00.000-07:00

June was a fun month and it went by SUPER fast! It seems like that sure does happen when you are out having fun. I really try to make things fun for the kids.

Out in our yard Chase found this moth. It was huge! I tried to take a picture, but it didn't look that big until I had Chase stick his hand next to it so that you can really tell how big it is.

I just thought that this was a pretty cute picture of the boys! They really like to be outside together.

My three little men curled up on the couch watching Curious George in the morning. It seems like that is about the first thing they do in the morning. Wake up and watch Curious George.

We had Mike and Mary Jane Griffin and their kids over for a little hot dog roast and smores. It was a lot of fun.

Chase eating his smore! YUM!!

Here's Chase & Trey playing with their cousins, Luke, Riley and Tori.

We were able to take a trip over to the Oregon Coast. We went to Corvalis and stayed with Roxi and Johnathan. It sure was a lot of fun. Robin and her kids and Annette & Garold all came. This is a picture of Maltnomah falls on our way home.

This was a fun little Salt Water Taffy place in Depoe, OR. Sterling and I stopped here and got some taffy on our honeymoon, so we had to go back and take the kids there when we saw it.

Sterling, Trey & Keegan at the beach. Joshua is off to the right.

Me (Lisa) & Chase touching something in the water. It grabbed my finger and I didn't like it too much.

This was looking down the stairs of light house in Newport, OR. It's the tallest lighthouse in Oregon. We took Chase up. I was holding his hand and we were walking up and then all of a sudden I got really scared. It was seriously crazy and out of no where. I had to hold on tight to the railing and walk really slow. At the top we got these little pins that said "I survived the climb" It wasn't bad going down. I don't know why I got so scared, but I really did.

Here we are, the Johnston Fam in front of the light house in Newport, Oregon.

Roxi and Johnathan live right near a river there in Corvallis. We all went down and played in the river. The guys and three of the boys floated the river with their life jackets on. They said it was pretty cold.

They had the funnest little park there, it was right by a school, so the school kids I'm sure played here at recess, which would be so fun. The kids loved it.

I just thought this was a really cool picture of a field of Christmas trees. There sure were a lot of them around. Roxi and Johnathan have one in their backyard as well.

Cute little Keegan, sitting in a tree.

The cousins, taking a break.

Keegan and Grandpa. We went on this really pretty walk. Everything was so green and it was just really nice.

The boys with their cotton candy at Strawberry Daze in Adrian.

Keegan, going fishing. Tori is behind him.

Trey going fishing with Riley behind him.

We were a little afraid of termites in some wood we stuck around our house, so we decided we better get rid of it, so the kids were helping us out. Chase and his cousins, Tori and Tannor.

There was a really bad storm here that had some flash flooding. It took out some of our corn and made a big mess. The field is supposed to be green above, but it sure is not.

In this picture you can see where the water and mud flowed down the mountain side.

Where the tractor is, all along there is supposed to be a cement ditch. It is completely filled with mud. It was such a mess.

If you look at this picture you can see a crack in the windshield, well this was from Trey. I don't know why, but he was sitting in the car while we were talking and he banged his head on the glass a couple times and all of a sudden the window cracked. He sure is a hard headed kid. :)

Here is Keegan with baby cousin Evie.

My sis Laura went to Australie and brought us back a fun treat to try. She brought us back some Kagaroo and Crocodile Jerky. I was a little nervous, mostly for the crocodile because it was white and looked different. But I was brave and tried both. Now I can say I've eaten Kangaroo and Crocodile.

I just thought this was cute of Trey. He was just sitting in this tire, not doing anything, just sitting there being cute. I just had to snap a picture of the little man.

There was a carnival in Homedale that we had to bring the kids too, but then I realized that the tickets were overly ridiculous. I only let them choose one ride to go on and it cost $6 for them. Laura went with Chase and cousin Elena went with Trey.

They were excited to go at first, but as you can see in the picture, it didn't seem like they liked it very much. Expecially poor little Trey. They were sure sad when they had to leave after only one ride though.

Aunt Laura came up and took me and the boys to the zoo in Boise. It was a lot of fun. We really liked it.

Here are me and the boys in front of the African Plains Exhibit.

The boys sitting by a replica of a grainery in Africa.

Elena came to visit us for a bit, which was a lot of fun. The boys love her to pieces. Here are Chase and Elena having a Strawberry picnic out in the back yard.

Happy Father's Day

2009-06-21T18:22:00.000-07:00

Happy Father's Day out there to all you Dad's and Grandpa's.
Hope your day was special!

Birthday & May

2009-05-31T21:08:00.000-07:00

So, on May 7th our Little Chase became 5 years old. He is growing up so fast. I can hardly believe it. Chase is a fun guy to have around. He is my little buddy. We always have fun wherever we go. Chase likes to run and jump and climb the walls, seriously. He is our little monkey. He likes to look at books and play teacher time. He likes to write his numbers (letters) in a notebook...he has tons of them. Chase always reminds us to read our scriptures at night and is a great big brother. He helps me out a lot.

My kids are really into Winnie the Pooh lately. We watch a show almost every day. So, I thought it only appropriate that we have a Pooh Bear Cake.

This is one of Chases Presents. A kangaroo from Aunt Laura who went to Australia recently.

On May 8th was Kindergarten Round up. Chase was a bit nervous at first. I dropped Chase off in the Kindergarten room and he did cry a bit. But they told me that it didn't last long. I signed the little guy up for school and he got to play in his new classroom with his new friends and teacher. This is the first year they have used this school so he has a new school too. Chase told me he wanted to come back and that made me happy. This is a picture of Chase with his horse from Kindergarten round-up.

My mom and dad came up for Chase's birthday and we went out to eat lunch the day after.

I thought that this was a cute picture of my mom with the boys, out to eat lunch.

Chase playing on the slide at the park in Homedale.

Little Treyton looking quite grown up, playing at the park in Homedale.

On May 10 was mother's day and Our Anniversary. Sterling took me for a drive out by Succor Creek. It was a fun little drive with a pretty view.

Here is the view, it was a lot prettier in person.

Sterling took us all in the dump truck to have some fun. The boys are all looking out the window at Sterling in the loader, he was putting dirt into the dump truck. I thought it was a cute picture of the boys.

On memorial day Annette fixed some yummy lasagna and we had a nice picnic outside in their back yard.

In the evening on memorial day we took the kids to Kuna to the cemetary there and they put some flowers on the graves of Sterling's grandparents and Uncle. This is Trey putting flowers on Sterling's Uncle Dan's grave.

This is Chase putting flowers on his Great-Grandma and Grandpa Johnston's graves.

After going to the cemetery we told the kids that they could go play at the park.

Me and Keegan at the park. Kuna has a really neat playground. It was tons of fun. I even liked going down the slide and could have played there myself. It was great!

Speech, Stuff, Burning Ditch & Succor Creek

2009-05-03T19:58:00.000-07:00

This was a fun week. Sadly enough I can't really remember the beginning of the week, but the end was a lot of fun. The Johnston family came together for Owen & Emily's baby's blessing.

Uncle Dustin read to all the little kids on Saturday night. They loved it.

Saturday afternoon everyone got together and we all drove out by Succor Creek and went four-wheeling. Everyone brought 4-wheelers and motorcycles. Here's a picture of our family plus Tricia & Luke. We weren't packed this tight the whole time, pretty much just for the picture.

Here's Blake, Rhonda and their cute little man Preston.

We drove pretty far, but then I started to get chilly and so did some of the kids. I was afraid it was going to rain. We ate our sandwiches and food stuffs and then those of us with small kids went home while the others drove off to find the honeycombs.

Here are those who kept going. I hear they saw some pretty country and had a really nice time. We'll have to do this a bunch more.

The guys all went out on Friday to help Jack Arnold with a project. Here are Jack and Garold in the boat ready to go.

They put a propane tank in the boat and decided to do some weed burning from the boat. We weren't so sure it was going to work, but it seemed to work ok.

Here is Chase and his famous peanut butter, apple, and grahm cracker sandwich. Silly kid. He came up with it all by himself.

On Tuesday we watched Lizzie and had tons of fun. Here are the kids frosting some sugar cookes.

Sterling was asked to speak at the Foundation Scholarship meeting on April 27. He did such a wonderful job. Everyone in the place just loved him. I'm very proud of him. He tries so hard and is such a good student.

April April April

2009-04-26T19:09:00.001-07:00

My this month has just flown by. I can't believe it's been a month since I posted. Ok, so I found my camera. Yeah!! It has a broken screen, but it still snaps pictures. Phew! I just have to point and shoot and hope I'm getting a good shot. :)

Little Keegan thought that his new little cousin Evie was something pretty neat. He had to come over and see what everyone was looking at.

This past Thursday my sister-in-law Emily had a Dove Chocolate party. It was tons of fun and oh so yummy. Here is a picture of Chase, Trey and Grandma admiring cousin Evie.

This past week the water was turned on. Over the a Winter months we got a new pipeline up to our house. When the water came on, it became a muddy mess behind our house. The boys just loved it and had a blast. The next day that wagon was pretty stuck and dried into the ground, and was pretty hard to get out.

Chase had mud from head to toe. He was quite a muddy mess. Trey was pretty muddy too.

So, if you've ever seen Herby Fully Loaded, there is a scene where Herby lands in the back of a monster truck. My kids totally love anything Herby. They sing the little Herby song, as we call it, while they race their little Volkswagon bugs around the house. When they saw this Truck in Nampa, they just loved it. Trey couldn't stop stareing. Chase and Keegan were asleep at first and little Trey was doing anything he could to wake them up.

So, I decided to make my garden bigger this year. I used to have two small garden boxes, but I talked Sterling into finding me a couple more railroad ties and I threw it together. My two boxes share a side but thats ok. I can grow a ton more stuff now. Sterling brought me some dirt, so the boxes are all full and look great. I just need to plant now.

I wanted to take a family picture of us on Easter Sunday, but everyone was home and changed before I could get a picture of us all. So, we tried to take one the week after. As you can see we had some difficulty. Out of all the pictures we snapped this is the only one you can see everyone's faces. Oh well. At least we tried. They still look pretty cute.

Sterling came in and picked us up a couuple weeks ago and asked us to come help him. He needed some little hands to stickdown a pipe and clean out a birds nest. I ended up cleaning most of it out because I have long arms as well as smaller hands than the guys. Sterling told us not too worry there were no birds in there,but I was sure worried about grabbing something scary.

After lunch on Easter Sunday the kids had an Easter egg hunt at Grandma Johnston's house. This year we thought we were pretty genious. We were kind of sick of all the candy that we get for every holiday that comes around. I don't want to kids to turn into sugar. So instead of candy in their eggs we put gold fish crackers and these little chocolate bunny cookie things. I also cut up some stickers and stuck in a couple of them too.

Treyton and his Easter Eggs at Grandmas house.

Chase and his bag of Eggs. Chase was really a speedy egg finder. We had to slow him down so the other little men could get some.

Here is the only picture of anyone in their nice clothes on Easter Sunday. Cute little Keegan in his cute new tie. All the boys and Sterling got new ties from the Easter Bunny.

Here are the big boys finding eggs Easter Morning. The each got a bucket with a shovel for their Easter basket. Our tradition for Easter morning is that the boys wake up and find the real eggs we colored along with 12 other eggs. In each of these other 12 eggs are pieces of paper that tell the story off Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. There are also little things in each egg to go along with the story, such as a nail or a stone etc. It is a fun way to talk about what Easter is about. Later on they get eggs filled with edible stuff.

Here is Keegan Easter morning, he wasn't too excited to find eggs. He mostly just stood around and tried to Eat everyones Cadbury eggs and Reeses eggs.

After the Easter egg hunt the Saturday before Easter Tricia and Dana helped us color eggs. It was pretty fun.

Me and the boys after the Easter egg hunt in Homedale. We almost didn't make it. I thought it was at a different park. We drove to three different parks trying to find it. I finally asked someone and we made it just in time.

Chase kept saying that he wanted Trisha's sister Dana to help him, but when we came to the park he decided he wanted me to take him. Trisha took Trey and Dana took Keegan, who suprisingly didn't cry. Neither one of them picked up any eggs though. Oh well.

Chase was pretty speedy at picking up the eggs. after we got to the other side of the field we noticed a little boy who got there just a bit too late and didn't pick up any eggs. He was crying and very sad. Chase gave the little boy one of his eggs. That was so nice of him.

Here is Chase with his Easter bunny basket waiting patiently for the hunt to start.

The boys all made their very own Easter basket out of a milk carton. The put cotton balls for the little tail.

Trey is a cookie man. He loves to frost cookies.

We made some Easter Sugar cookies. They were yummy and fun. We left out a couple for the Easter bunny to nibble.

The Friday before Easter we went to school with Dad aka Sterling ;) After dropping dad off we went to D&B and looked at the baby chicks. We stayed there forever, they loved them.

Here is Chases pre-school class at their little Easter Program.

The first week or so of April we went ove to Tadd and Megan Baker's house for Pancakes and coloring eggs. We all had fun over there with them.

The whole crew at Grandma and Grandpa Johnston's for General Conference. I made a bingo game for the kids to play while they watched. Chase really enjoyed it and I think he learned a bit too.

The Sunday morning of General Conference the Johnston family has a very fun tradition. They eat waffles with ice cream. I had never heard of anyone doing this before. It is a very fun treat and quite a fun tradition.

The boys love it outside and that is where they always need to be. I'm so excited that it is now getting warmer.

My sis Laura and I decided to take Chase skiing at the end of March. I only cost us $10 a piece for night skiing, so that was great. I was so excited for the little man, and he was too. When we first got there it was really pretty cold. Chase was not too happy to be there because it was so cold. I was pretty cold too. I thought we were going to call it an early night.

Laura and Chase were quite the snow buddies. We decided to eat and get some hot cocoa. Afterwards. I went did two runs by myself. Then as Laura was taking a couple runs I took Chase back out. He loved it.

When it finally came time to leave I could not get Chase to leave. We finally told him they were going to close. He thought they were going to lock us in up there, I didn't tell him other wise because I wanted him to leave with us. It was great fun, I hope we can take Trey with us next year.

Here was our game night over at Aden and Tricia's house. It was fun. We should have done it more often. I sure enjoyed visiting them or having them over while they were living over here.

Camera, Suit, Cat & Pink

2009-03-22T20:19:00.000-07:00

So, a couple weeks ago I went to take a picture. I turned on my camera and the screen was black with what looked like a spiders web across it. The screen was broken. I was so sad. My camera is not even a year old. The camera still worked, you just had to guess where to snap your shot. Anyway, last week I took the camera to Ontario with me and at the end of the day, it was gone. I'm so sad. Mostly because I had tons of pictures on my SD card that I can never get back. I've just been borrowing camera's so I'm not going to have many pictures until I can actually get a new camera, or borrow one for a while.

Little Trey wore a suit for the first time to Church today. He looked so cute, but my little monkey wouldn't smile for me. This is Trey standing outside of the stake house in Nyssa.

This past week I let Keegan play outside a lot. It has been so nice this week. I believe it even got up to 70 or more. So very nice. Anyway this was the first of the nice days that the boys played at Grandma's house and Keegan was so infatuated with this cat. He followed it all over for awhile, and tried to get it under the swing.

This morning I was helping Chase get ready for Church. About a month ago Rochelle gave us some ties of the ties her kids don't wear anymore. One of the ties was pink. I asked Chase to help me pick out a tied for him. I asked if he wanted to wear the pink one and he said, no, I'm not a mommy, you wear it. It was pretty funny.

Baptism

2009-03-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

The end of February we went to Rochelle and Dustin's house for Max's baptism. The baptism was very nice. Rochelle gave a nice talk. Max was pretty cute. Just after he was baptised and Dustin was bringing him out of the water he gave a relieving ahhhh. It was so funny and cute! Just like Max. We had lunch at the church and then the Johnston family went back to the house and played all afternoon. We chatted inside and made egg rolls that night. Sooo yummy!! Later we also got in the hot tub.

Here these guys are watching and waiting for their turn on the snowmobiles.

We piled our family on for a ride. It was pretty fun!

We did have one little mishap though. We fell over. The kids didn't really like the ride after this. Hope we can get them on one again. It was a fun afternoon.

The boys loved playing cars. Rochelle's kids have an awesome collection of cars. My boys so did not want to leave. Trey still asks me if we can go to Rochelle's house. It of course comes out shells house.

Reception in Adrian and February

2009-03-15T21:20:00.000-07:00

A week after the wedding in Georgia there was the reception here in Oregon. Here's a picture of us and Trey.

The girls just love the bashful Chase. Maryn and Hayley are trying to get Chase to play with them. I think they finally succeded after Chasing him around for a bit.

This is a nice picture of Grandma Beus, she was looking so pretty this night.

The newly weds just before they left the church.

This is how they left the church all decked out in the tractor, I was just hoping it was very clean inside for her dresses sake. It was really a cute way to leave. Everyone thought it was super fun.

There were some really nice days of playing outside in February and I just had to take some pictures of the cute little men out there. Keegan found this little toy at Grandma's house and just had to climb onto it.

My three little men in the wagon. I like to take them for walks this way, but I don't think they're all going to fit in this wagon together for very much longer. :)

Chase just loves to dig in the dirt. He's making a big ditch.

Keegan just loves it outside. Whenever his brothers leave to play outside he stands at the door and just cries because he wants to go too. When it was finally nice enough to let him out too he had sooo much fun. It was really had to get him back inside. I think he'd live out there if I'd let him. You wouldn't think a one year old would be like that, but he sure is.

Keegan found Trey's boots and tried them on. It was so cute we just had to snap a picture.

On Valentines day we made sugar cookies and frosted them. It was pretty fun and yummy too.

Keegan didn't frost his cookie, he pretty much just ate it.

Cute little Trey with his masterpiece of a cookie that didn't last very long because it was soon in his tummy.

I saw Trey just looking out the window one night and I thought it was so cute. Him and his little relfection.

Cute picture of Trey!

This is video of Chase and his new form of hair gel. He used mud!! Funny kid, they just love the dirt and mud and there is plenty of it out here, so they are pretty much in heaven, whenever I let them outside that is. :)

Georgia

2009-03-15T20:43:00.000-07:00

So, in Georgia there are tons of trees. I didn't realize how many trees there were there. Especially the type of trees. I felt like I was up in the mountains the whole time we were there. This is a group of trees in the neighborhood where Tricia grew up. It's very pretty there.

While we were in Georgia we went to this place called Stone Mountain. It was really neat. It was a big granite mountain just sticking up out of the ground. There was a stone carving on one side of it.

We rode a tram to the top of the mountain and were able to look around. It was quite a view.

Here are Sterling and I on top of the mountain, you can see Atlanta behind us in the distance.

The stone from stone mountain was taken and used to build many government buildings. Here is a block that weighed a lot, not Sterling, but the block.

Before we left, we went to this fun store. This was only half of the house, it is bigger than this on the other side too. It was full of all kinds of fun things.

On our way to the airport we just had to stop at the wafflehouse. These things are everywhere. Seriously all over the place, so we had to stop and see what it was about. It was pretty yummy!

Picture of Sterling and I on an airplane back home.

The morning after we got home Denny's was giving away free grandslams, you can't see very well but the line is well out the door and down the sidewalk. Instead of going to a Denny's in Salt Lake, my sis and I went to Tremonton and grabbed my mom and kids. Their was quite a line, but it did go past really quite fast. We had a very yummy brunch. It was actually a lot of fun too.

The Wedding

2009-02-22T20:09:00.000-08:00

Aden and Trisha's wedding was very nice. We were scared we weren't going to make it though. Sterling left his wallet in Trisha's sister's house and we were locked out. Her sister Laura made it back to us just in time and we made it to the Temple with just minutes to spare. The ceremony was very nice. It was fun to see two big families in the room. There are ten siblings in each of the families and both Aden and Trisha are the youngest.The newlyweds coming out of the Atlanta Temple.

All of the guys in our family who were at the wedding. I really thought this was a fun picture, they all look so nice.

The Johnston family in front of the Temple.

The four sister-in-law's.

I thought this was a cute picture of the Newlyweds at the reception.

Trisha's sibling's pulled a fun little joke on the newlyweds that night. Trisha's twin sister Dana dressed up in a wedding dress. Trisha was taken out of the room and then it was announced that it was time for Aden and Trisha's first dance. Dana came in and started called for Aden. She found him and drug him into the middle of the dance floor.

Trisha then came into the room and said, "He's mine!" It was really funny and lots of fun!.

Aden and the twins!

This was the grooms cake, I just had to take a picture of it. It was such a fun idea. John Deere tractors and corn stalks.

January

2009-02-08T11:46:00.000-08:00

I can't believe I haven't written a single thing about January and it is now February. January was quite a busy month. We had tons of fun! On January 3 was Trey's birthday. He is now 3. He's such a big kid. He is so tall, almost as big as his older brother. I can almost put them in the same clothes. I know I will be able to in not too long. Treyton is a fun little man, he is so nice. He loves his choo choo's. I should never put them away because as soon as I do he wants to play with them again. He also loves trucks and tractors. He likes to ride bikes outside, play with the puppy and his big brother Chase. He is also starting to play with Keegan, which makes me happy. Trey also likes to sing the herby car song while he racing cars. He doesn't like to take his coat or clothes off, unless it's his choice and then you can't get his clothes on. He likes to look at stories. Trey is my easiest kid to put to sleep and he can sleep forever. He does know how to snore though. I love my little man and am so glad he's in our family.

Here's a picture of the birthday boy eating his birthday lunch.

Here's his cake, we gave him some crayola finger paints. I saw this cute little crayola cake and thought it would go along just great!!

We had a fun little party for the little guy. He didn't want to blow out his candles though. He went to blow them out and Sterling could tell he was going to spit, so he covered Trey's mouth. Poor little guy wouldn't even try to blow them out after that.

The little guy opening his presents. The one in his hands is a blue Lightning McQueen.

Keegan recently loves to eat the bubbles in the bath. He is so funny. Cute little guy!

One day my mom gave me an idea for the boys and they just loved it. We made a man out of their food. I had a peanut butter sandwich for the mouth. Carrots for the hair and one cut in half for the eyes, and some dip for the nose. It was super fun.

Chase was just being cute outside playing in the tree so I decided to take a picture. On the day of the inaguration the past Presidents were coming along and I was telling Chase who the Presidents were and he told me they weren't the President, the President is President Monson, he said. I thought that was cute! I was also talking about how we live in America and Chase said, "Mom, we don't live in America, We live in the country."

This was a really pretty view of a sunrise outside my house. It's always prettier in person, but I still think it looks very nice.

Here are the three boys snuggling up on the couch. I can always tell when Trey is saying cheese because of the cheesy little grin on his face.

Chase has recently had a thing he's been doing. He loves to sleep in a pillowcase. Usually it's not just him in the pillowcase though. Usually he has the pillow still in there along with a few toys. Most of the time I have no idea how he fits, or how he stays in it all night long, but he does.

Trey loves the phone, he loves to talk to most anyone on the phone and he'll talk forever. Most people can't really understand him yet, but he loves it.

Keegan is starting to be a climber. He can climb on top of the table if the chairs are pulled out just right. This time he climbed up on the chair and couldn't stand up because the table was above him. Poor little man. I had to take a picture of him though.

Here are the boys playing in their room. They are getting better at playing together. They are such nice friends. Most of the time that is. :)

Just before we left for our trip to Georgia I told Chase to go pack some things in his backpack to bring to Grandma Larsen's house. This is what I found in his backpack ready to go. I thought it was just really nice.

Birthday Party & New Years

2009-01-18T20:24:00.000-08:00

I just thought that this picture of Chase with Cowboy was really cute. Poor little Cowboy was hit by a car last week. It ran over his back legs. He seems to be getting better now. I hope anyway.

Keegan is my only little one who has really ever had a bottle for very long. He just loves his bottle and I don't know if I'm ever going to get it away from him. He sure is cute with the top sticking out of his mouth too.

Here is the cute little birthday boy!

Trey was funny. He took an onion and just started eating it. It was killing his eyes but he really liked it.

Keegan and Grandpa at the birthday party.

Opening presents. He actually opened the last one all by himself.

Keegan and his birthday cakes.

Keegan getting ready to dish into his cake.

Keegan loved playing in his cake. He just played and played and wouldn't eat it.

Finally after way too many pictures, I finally captured a picture of the little man eating a bite of his cake. I can't believe that it has been a year already. My little man is so big, even though he's a lot smaller than my other two boys at this age. He loves his big brothers and they love him. He loves to push cars around the floor and he's the little monster that crashes the choo choo track and the block cities that his older brothers are making. He stood up for the first time for a long time on Christmas Day. I know he is going to walk any day now. I'm just hoping it's not while we're in Georgia. I love his little laugh and the cute little personality that he is getting. He is quite the joy to have around and I'm grateful for him.

On New Years eve there was an Elder's Quorum party at the Church. We had pizza and talked and had fun. The boys just ran and ran with all the other kids. It sure was freezing in the cultural hall though. I had my coat on the whole time and was still freezing. It was fun though.

After the party at the church we went to Vale to the Wolfe families house. This is Sterling's sister's in-laws. We had a great time. We ate yummy food and played games and just had fun. We haven't really gone out for New Years since we've been married and I'm glad we finally went to a party.

Poor little Sterling always doesn't quite make it to midnight. He's not so much a night person, but I always wake him up at midnight so he can at least see the New Year for a second and I can get my New Years kiss. Happy New Year!!

Christmas Fun

2009-01-05T11:16:00.000-08:00

Just before Christmas it snowed and we were able to have a white Christmas. They boys and Sterling went sledding with Garold pulling them along. The puppy cowboy is running behind them.The Sunday before Christmas I dressed the boys in their little matching vests. They looked cute. We tried to get a cute family picture after church, but this was as good as we could get. It's still nice though.
On the 23rd we had a treat. Santa Claus came to visit the boys. They were so excited! He told them to be good. Sterling likes to go out and play Santa to the neighbors. He brought them a poem, an ornament with Jesus inside and some sugar cookies. When he came to the boys Trey caught on and said, "My dad Santa" I don't think we'll be able to use Sterling next year with the boys.
My cousin Josh, Mollie and their three boys came to visit us on their way up to Washington. It was so fun to have them come visit.

Chase, Talon and Trey just being boys and having fun.

This is Sterling with four of the six boys that were at our house on Christmas Eve morning. We have a traditional Norwegian breakfast of Rise grøt or rice porridge. Very yummy.

Christmas Eve day we ate lunch at Chuck-O-Rama and then we all picked names with everyone who was in the area and we went Shopping. We bought a gift and then went to Grandma Beus's and exchanged gifts.

After the gift exchange we went to Uncle Sam's house and had Oyster Stew, Clam Chowder and tons of other yummy food. I honestly have never tried the Oyster Stew, I'm not brave enough. But everything else tasted great and it was nice to see everyone.

I had to take this picture of the guys huddled around the computer.

Christmas Eve Night we stayed out pretty late at Sam and Barb's. Our drive home was kind of scary. The roads were terrible. I can't believe we didn't get stuck in the snow somewhere. By the time we made it home it was past 11:00 PM and the boys still had to open their pj's and get to bed. It was an exciting day for all of them.

So, Christmas morning was tons of fun. We stayed up until 2:30 A.M. wrapping presents. I should have wrapped them sooner. In the morning Sterling was so excited to get going that he woke me and the kids up at 7:00 or so. Not much sleep, but lots of fun.These are the cookies the kids left for Santa, we were going to make cute sugar cookies, but never had time. Chase wanted to leave Santa some crackers too.

This is a picture of the tree and presents before the kids woke up.

Here are me and the kids walking out to see what Santa had brought.

The cute little man and his first Christmas pajamas.

Chase and Keegan

Dad, Keegan and Trey

After opening our presents we went to Grandma & Grandpa Johnston's house to see what was going on over there. We played with Rochelle and Dustin's family all day. The kids stayed in their pj's all day.

This is Trey's most recent thing that he likes to do. He kept eating his toes on Christmas morning.

The day after Christmas we ventured out to Utah. The freeway heading South was closed, so we had to go through Pocatello to make it to Tremonton. The kids were so good, even little Keegan. We only had to stop one time for a few minutes for the little guy. This is a picture of the boys at Grandma & Grandpa Larsen's house.
Keegan opening a present.

Chase and Laura in their Cubs hats.

Chase helped Grandpa Larsen shovel snow outside. He's such a big guy.

The snowman Aunt Laura and the boys made. They love snowman and they pretend to be frosty the snowman all the time at home. We build them and then put a hat on their head and they come to life. They sure love it.

Playing games and eating yummy German cookies. My sister made us a yummy Turkey dinner. It's kind of funny because she doesn't like to cook meat, and she really doesn't like turkey, but she made it and it was great!

Thanksgiving, Early December

2009-01-04T19:15:00.000-08:00

So, I haven't written in way too long. The days and month just flew past me. Lots has happened and we've had a fun month and a half or so. I'm updating from Thanksgiving to the early part of December. This is a picture of Sterling and the boys just after we finished decorating the Christmas Tree in their room.

Just a cute picture of Keegan with a Santa hat on.

I took the boys to see the holiday parade in Homedale. It was really cold, but they had tons of fun getting candy and getting excited for Christmas.

Chase and Trey were both so excited to see Santa. This is Chase waving at Santa. After the parade they were able to get a bag of goodies from Santa.

I found the boys had taken a cookie sheet from the kitchen and were eating the leftover chocolate from the oreo balls I had made. It was so cute, I had to snap a picture.

The boys made some gingerbread houses, that they call cookie houses.

This is the tree from the Adrian Christmas tree lighting. We all came and had hot chocolate and chatted with friends.

Here is Keegan's first time seeing Santa. He was pretty good. He just looked at him and didn't cry at all. I was suprised. It was freezing, but we still had a nice time.

We were doing the 12 days of Christmas for the boys. Chase was so excited about the whole thing. Sterling said he heard a knock on the door. Chase was on the back of the couch and kind of fell off into the chair and cut his eye. This is a picture after, he was so good while it was taped up. Poor kid, this is the third time he has cut his eye really bad.

The first weekend of December we all went to Rexburg for Cole's baptism. Here is a picture of everyone afterwards. I can't believe how fast everyone is growing up.

Trey and mom at The Hard Hat restraunt after the baptism.

Aunt Raina made fun hats for everyone. Here is a picture of Hayley and Chase in the ones that they picked out.

Rhonda and her cute little man Preston.

I went with the kids to Robin and Dustins house on Thanksgiving. Robin, Rochelle and I went to the day after Thanksgiving sales. I always think it's crazy fun!! We had a Thanksgiving dinner with the whole family on Saturday and then they blessed Macey on Sunday. It was a fun family weekend.

Keegan is helping me make the pies. Well, he really wanted to, so I gave him some flour and he had some fun, so that I could get the pies done.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year. Grandma and Grandpa came over and we had a yummy meal. Sterling wasn't with us for Thanksgiving, he was helping our neighbor move to Arizona. We missed him.

30th Birthday Party

2008-12-16T21:31:00.000-08:00

So, I have lots of catching up to do, but I'll just do my birthday for tonight. November 24 was my 30th birthday. It's kind of weird. Last weekend Aden asked me how old I was and I started to say 20 something and then I just stopped talking. I don't feel older, but oh well. It's not bad. I was thinking that I'm grateful for getting older because it means that Heavenly Father has allowed me the opportunity to live on this Earth for this long. So, getting older is more years of happiness. Anyway, I was sick on my birthday. My kids had been throwing up all weekend and finally the night before my birthday I got sick and felt yucky all day. Sad thing was, was that everyone who visited me that day got sick also. My parents and sister came to visit which was really fun. Emily and Owen came for a bit also. My mom made a yummy breakfast and we had a nice day. I went to the store with my dad and we picked out some yummy food for lunch. We didn't go to town because the fog was terrible.

Here is a picture of Laura and I with our 30th Birthday crowns that she made for us.

My mom had the boys decorate the cake. They also drew us pictures. Even Keegan drew on one for us.

This is the card that Laura gave to me. As sadly true as it is. I thought it was kind of funny.

Haircuts, Cuties & Stuff

2008-11-24T10:43:00.001-08:00

So, I decided that it was about time that I gave the boys all haircuts all by myself. I've been trying to learn for the longest time and I finally did it. I was pretty pleased with myself, I didn't have to shave anyones head. Their haircuts turned out pretty well, even Sterling's. I was glad he had enough faith in me to let me cut it. :)

Chase loves the leaves. He was hiding in the them and was quite the cutie.

Trey decided that it would be fun to draw on his face. What a funny kid!

Keegan likes to play in the cupboard. He just loves it. In this picture Chase wanted to come and play with him too.

Pipeline

2008-11-13T14:33:00.000-08:00

So, the past week there has been a pipeline going in across the farm. There is a canal that zigzags across the place and almost the entire thing is being buried with some huge 30 inch pipe. Sterling took these pictures of one piece of pipe going in. They hauled each pipe with the stacker.

In this last picture you can see a bit of the canal that they are piping.

In this picture you can kind of tell how big the dirt pile is. It's pretty huge.

The kids just love all the dirt.