Happy Birthday Lexi!!!

Happy Birthday to my gorgeous beautiful daughter!! It seems like just yesterday when you woke me up in the middle of the night so you could enter this world. You came into this world at 3:15 am weighing 8 lbs 5 oz. You were the most beautiful thing we had ever seen. Even though we were dead tired we could not stop holding you and admire you. You brothers were so excited to see you when grandpa and grandma brought them up to the hospital. It's too bad their constant wanting to hold you and love you and protect you has turned into teasing you, laughing at you and playing tricks on you to get you to yell at them. But what are brothers for??


Now 8 years later and 45 pounds heavier you have grown into a beautiful daughter of god. We are so proud of you Lexi and for your choice to be Baptized what a big decision for you to make on your own. I love the mommy daughter times we have and am looking to soo many more as you progress into a young woman!! You are our life and we love you more than words can express!! Just think as tall as you are getting and you 2 older brothers aren't growing very fast pretty soon you can play all the tricks on them cause you will be looking down on them and they will soon fear you!! Hope you have a wonderful day!! Love mom and dad!!!

Valentine's Day

Friday was such a hectic day! I had to help in the kid's classes for their Valentines Parties. Then Drew didn't want to stay for his school dance so I had to check him out. Couldn't find him anywhere had to search the Jr High's school dance for him for 40 minutes turns out he walked home. So I get him and rush to Jeff's sister's house to get my hair colored. Then Jeff calls me at 5:00 and says that John and Rochelle and Sam and Michelle just called and purchased tickets for the movie Taken and that they were going to dinner right then. Well hello just got my hair colored not done no way can I be ready!! Jeff of course told them we would meet them for the movie but not dinner since he still was on his way home from Roy. We get to the movie and it was so dang good!! A little disturbing but waayyy goood!! We got out of the movie at 9:00 and decided since Andrew was babysitting and all of Jeff's sisters kids were sleeping over that we were going to go out for dinner to have some alone time. We ended up at Olive Garden in south towne. The time alone was sooo worth it!! I haven't had a quiet and peaceful dinner in a long time. Thanks love. So Saturday we of course have to wake up early for Brayden's last Jr Jazz game. Which they won by the way. Then we had to sign up Drew for Baseball and then we spent the rest of the afternoon finishing tiling his sisters bathroom. Way fun!! NOT. But to make things better we went out to dinner with Xela and Brent and ended up going to Bucca De Beppo. So dang good!! After dinner we had tickets at the Desert Star Playhouse and watched Home School Musical. It was sooo funny they were making fun of High School Musical and Naploeon Dynamite. WAY FUNNY!! Thank you love for 2 awesome nights away from the noise and caous that always surrouds us! We decided not to get each other any thing this year cause why waste the money on things that die. I so enjoyed just being with one another without my little rugrats hanging on us and telling me that I can not kiss daddy cause it is gross. LOVE YOU BABE you are always going to be my #1 Valentine!!

Brayden, Brayden, Brayden,

I am constantly fighting Brayden to do his homework everyday after school.! It takes him literally an hour and a half to do 15 multiplication problems in math cause he thinks it's too hard and he whines and cries the whole time he is doing it. So we finally finish the math at 5:00 pm and start on the chore of writing out his 28 Valentines for his party today. Of course he starts to write out 3 and decides that he doesn't want to do anymore and he tells me that he will write the from on all of them if I will write the names of who they are to. Sorry buddy not gonna slide I could care less if you even handed any out! I had already sat and helped Baylee and stuffed the candy in all of Lexi's so you being 10 you are on your own except for stuffing the candy. Well after an hour of writing those out at 6:00 he tells me oh ya mom I have to decorate a Valentines box for tomorrow and my teacher gave me paper to decorate it with in my backpack. UGGGGHHHH!!! Why do they always wait till the last minute??? So Brayden got the scissors out and a tissue box and then he goes upstairs and gets on my cricut cutter and decides that he needs to make a bear on my Animal Kingdom cartridge and the sounds that the bear makes So he told me all it is is pushing buttons and glueing them on to the box any dummy could do it so he doesn't need my help! Well thank GOODNESS for the cricut machine cause he totally did it all on his own.!! Way to go Brayden!

Here is his finished product. He calls it his GROWLER MAIL!! He was so excited to take it to school today cause it was something he could actually do on his own and it only took him 15 minutes to make it.

U of U Gymnastics Meet

Last night we took the kids to the U of U gymnastics meet we had free passes from the school to get the family in for free. We had a blast!! We went with Jeff's two sisters Joyce and Vicki and their families. Ciarra and Baylee had so much fun dancing to the music and screaming at the top of their lungs with Brooke and Jessica. Lexi hung out on Uncle Tom's lap of course with Elizabeth. She loves her Uncle Tom. We have gone to these meets for the past 3 years and we never got a chance to go last year so we decided to start the tradition up again. Andrew was away at a Scout Klondike camp out so he wasn't with us but Brayden had a lot of fun watching all the girls in their cute outfits with their tight bods!!

It was so fun Jeff always takes his Binoculars so that he can see better and some college boys who one of them was on a blind date turned around and saw how Jeff was watching the meet and he kept hitting his friend saying "Dude check this guy out he can see every detail" "You can see every flaw on the all the girls" thats the way to go" So we got a good laugh at them laughing at Jeff. Of course Utah won out of all 4 school which were BYU (haha) SUU and Texas. This is Ciarra with her favorite Aunt Joyce!! When Joyce is around mom does not exsist!!