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Island Park and Yellowstone

2011-07-16T14:51:00.000-07:00

The last week of June my whole family decided to rent a cabin up in Island Park for a family vacation. Now we have been on camping trips and such but we have never all gone and stayed in the same place for that long, so we were all super excited all 22 of us! We rented this cabin Each Family had there own bedroom and there was 4 bathrooms to share, it was a big place.

Oh yeah it also had a HOT TUB! who could forget about that. Bam would have sat in that all day and night if he could.On one of the days we were there we went to west yellowstone and went to the bear and wolf discovery center (or something like that) They had a bunch of bears and wolves there. you could sit and watch them and aren't we all glad that there was a metal fence in between us those bears were a little intimidating look at there claws huge.

that place was really fun if you got there in time the kids got to go in the bear place and hide the food then watch the bears go around and find it, but we did not get there in time maybe next time. I got a video of one of the bears running after this crow and swatting at it, but I could not get it to upload :(
Now onto yellowstone! we got into 4 separate cars and headed off with walkie talkies in hand. Well to make a long story short no one knew where we were meeting and come to find out the walkie talkies did not work that well and of course no cell phone service. So my car and my sister Stephs car ended up here

They said that when they first came to Yellowstone they all thought that they were in hell, and by judging this place I would have thought so too the water was boiling and bubbling and boy did in stink! We left there and started to go find the rest of the group and of course people were pulled off of the rode everywhere and we saw these
they were walking down the middle of the road and they were blocking traffic the cars could not get around them they were so close we could have touched them. Even though we saw tons of them I still think that they are cool they are huge! So after being lost from the group for about two hours we were all getting frustrated until we saw this you can't see it very well but it was a huge black bear just walking through the grass. It was so awesome and made getting lost so worth it. We eventually met up with the rest of the group and quickly made our way through the park to Old Faithful should I say old lame'ol the only fun part was when it shot up the wind was blowing and got all over everybody but a few of us who were trying to chase Chaetton, they were stinky.
They boys went on a few fishing trips but only Brian caught something and it was in an illegal spot but I think that they still had fun in their kickboats and no kids. We also celebrated Bams birthday there all he wanted was a truck that said yellowstone oh and a buffalo and a gun everything he saw he wanted and everyone pitched in and made it a special day for him thanks!
So now back to yellowstone and this time we all stayed together and so we got to get out and see lots of things like these

I cannot believe how much water there is there it was kinda scary to see all that power

On the way back to the cabin i was feeling bummed I just wanted to see a big bull moose but instead we saw thisyep a big black wolf jogging up the road. I secretly felt sorry for this lone wolf till he kinda stopped and looked at us and I imagined him stealing my kids for a snack. And they said because of him that is why I did not see my big Bull moose. Yellowstone really is a pretty place full of buffalo.
Another day we went to pan for gold I wish that i would have gotten pictures on the way there it was amazing but i didn't so you will just have to imagine it. a few pictures of the kids panning for gold.

we didn't strike it rich, but we all had a lot of fun, we found flakes of gold and the lady helping us got rich by us doing the work, so in the end we all got a little richer.
We had a great time and made lots of good memories. Thanks everyone that went for good times, good food, and good memories! Lets go to Alaska next year then we will really see a big bull moose.

CATCH UP

2011-06-16T15:19:00.000-07:00

Wow it has been a long time since I updated my blog so I am now playing CATCH UP. First we had the END OF SCHOOL! I think that i was more excited than my kids. And yes both my kids are passed their grades Ashton is going to move up to the 5th grade (What the heck yes I have a 5th grader.) Bam is going to be in 1st grade ( in school all day so sad!) And i guess that leaves me and Chaetton home all day by ourselves. I did not get any pictures of the last day of school for Ashton (yes i am a bad mother) but I got some from Bam's kindergarten graduation which was the funniest thing ever. Bam with his teacher Mrs. Wright
Christian and Bam we are so glad he moved here and he lives next door
Collin Bam Tyler, these boys were trouble
Next we had Chaetton's 2nd Birthday, I cannot believe he is 2 i am seriously sad to think about it. He is the cuttest kid and SO BUSY I cannot take him anywhere. He loves to play with cars and anything outside. few pictures from the birthday party

few pictures of Chaetton through his life

Even though Chaetton hits and throws cars, dirt and anything else at Bam, and then runs to Ashton whenever he is in trouble we would not trade him for anything.
Baseball season has started again. Ashton plays pitcher and shortstop and his team is doing very well with 0 losses this season they are wishing for a state trophy this year so I will post more after state. Bam is playing T-ball again which is very entertaining to watch. He is improving every game. I was going to post some pictures but it is taking way to long so I will post them later. We have some fun family trips planned this summer so hopefully I will stay caught up. Hope everyone has a fun and safe summer

What We Have Been Up To

2011-03-10T10:38:00.001-08:00

This winter was and has been a long one! We got lots and lots of snow, and even had a snow day! I don't remember ever having a snow day when I was little but after it dumped like two feet of snow and the power had been out all night and all day they decided to have a snow day so what did we do???? We went outside and played in all that snow.

After I pulled the kids around town behind the car, having a dog chase them and Ashton losing a shoe two hours later we realized that when the power is out you cannot pump gas ;) and you can also not drive anywhere to get gas when you have no gas so that ended our snow day.

One day Brian took the boys ice fishing. I think that they had lots of fun, they take food and BBQ right on the lake and they have tents with warmers in them so they stay pretty warm.
Little Fish
Big Fish

Someone is tired of fishing.Ashton also finished up basketball season, they do no keep score yet but they did really well and it is fun to watch them learn and have fun!

Even Bam and Chaetton had fun at the games.To finish catching up the other day it got warm like 50 degree's warm so the boys decided to go out and have a paintball fight which was very entertaining to watch. They both got "kill" shots to the head lets hope the winter weather is over and spring is on its way!

Chaetton didn't want to participate in the paintball fun so he just played in the snow and in the road I am such a good mother. So now I am caught up hope you enjoyed the super long post, look forward to pictures from my relay race and we have a camping trip planned in a couple weeks, but until then Hope the warm weather finds you all!

Christmas New Years and Catching Up

2011-01-27T07:38:00.000-08:00

Christmas started out with the kids School Christmas program. It was good except that they decided not to have Santa this year which was weird. Ashton and Bam both did great Bam had a a hard time putting on his reindeer horns. I don't know if it was the mohawk or the fact that he doesn't know how to put on a headband, but he had the whole crowd laughing.
Of course Christmas was great again this year. Ashton and Bam were super excited they both received an email from Santa this year and come to find out they were both on the "watching"list cause they had not been nice to each other (imagine that)! But they both pulled through and came out on the good list cause they got most of what they wanted on their lists.

Ashton was most excited cause he of course got playstation and Wii games and a basketball hoops game. Bam was excited about everything that he got but he especially liked the zu zu pets. Chaetton got a basketball hoop that he plays with all the time he loved shooting hoops with the safety glasses on! You never know when a stray ball may get you in the eye.

I Had a great christmas and I hope Brian did as well! (even Santa thinks he is hard to get stuff for.) For New Years Brain and Colby went ice fishing while the girls stayed home and crafted, then we all came to our house with some friends and family we played games and even let off fireworks I think that they were the Illegal kind, but it was so freaking cold I don't think no cops were out. I did not get any pictures from that night cause i am the worlds worst picture taker, but I hope that everyone had fun. I had a few New Years Resolutions but have already fallen short! So I just hope that this year will be great and my family and friends will be Health and Happy. Happy New Year!

Ashton's Football Brian's Trip and Thnksgiving

2010-12-05T09:11:00.000-08:00

Ashton finished up another year of football. They did it a little different this year, they had 4th grade up 13 year olds on the same team this year, which made it really good if you got all the older kids and really bad if you got the younger kids, well we got most of the younger kids but they did really good they only lost one game during the regular season and then they took fourth in the championship so they didn't do to bad. We can not wait for tackle football next year. Ashton and his teamAshton running with the ballAshton his friend Ky and Brian he was the coach again this yearBam upside down at one of the games it sure was good to have lots of family and friends there to play with.
Chaetton chilling in the stroller on a semi warm day he was usually bundled up so tight you couldn't see him.
Right before Thanksgiving Brian took a trip to go see the Utes play Notre Dame, and then he went to see the Colts game (not sure who they played) He said that they had a great time even though both teams lost and it was rainy for the Utes game.
Touchdown Jesus
Brain and his friend Wes on Notre Dame Campus

Some pictures of the churches at Notre Dame. He said that it was really cool to see and the churches were awesome! Now for the Colts Game A few pictures of the stadium No pictures of the cheerleaders they are probably on another camera
Brian Bought Ashton a Austin Collie Jersey and Bam a Addai Jersey they love them! We are glad that he got a chance to go and that he had a good time. We spent Thanksgiving here in Spring City with Brian's family we had a good time and of course good food. Of course I got no pictures cause I am the best mom ever. Later me my sister Teddi Sue and my sister in law Brianne went black Friday shopping (what in the world were we thinking.) No i did not get in any fights like the last time i went but it was sure fun watching people there are some CRAZY people out there.

HaLlOwEenN 2010 Continued

2010-11-07T15:11:00.000-08:00

This year for Halloween the Boys had a hard time deciding what they wanted to be. Ashton always wants to be something scary so I thought that he would be Michael Myers, or Jason, but he surprised me and wanted to be a BYU foot ball player. But before he was that they had a Halloween carnival at school and he was to cool to dress up so we just colored his hair white.Ashton and his friends were all something to do with BYU, but since I am mother of the year (and it was hailing) I did not get a picture of them sadly neither did anyone else. Bam had a even harder time deciding, he usually doesn't like scary stuff but for the Halloween carnival he ended up being this. Then we went down to manti to do some trick or treating and he was a star wars clone trooper (again I did not get a picture) so then we got back and he decided to be a utah utes football player which the helmet came in handy when it hailed.Chaetton did not have a choice of what he was being this year so he ended up being a girl, he sure was cute! Everyone kept saying that they did not know that I had a girl, but i did for one night out of the year! Hope that this does not come back to bite me in the butt one day!We got lots of candy and had a great Halloween! Hope you all did as well!

Halloween 2010

2010-11-02T07:33:00.000-07:00

Halloween started out with of course carving pumpkins. Ashton and Bam got huge pumpkins from the pumpkin patch and Ashton was so excited cause he thought that we would get tons of pumpkin seeds, but really there wasn't any more than usual and the bigger pumpkins were easier to clean then the little one. Weird. A few before shots before the boys dug in.

Chaetton and Ashton dug right in they cleaned their pumpkins out really good. Bam on the other hand would not even touch it. He heard the word guts and was not even going there... So much for him becoming a doctor of some sort.

Brian even decided to step up and help carve this year. and Ashton started to think that maybe he wanted to be the headless horseman, but after carrying the pumpkin around decided it wouldn't be the funnest thing ever. The finished project. Chaetton's is a smiley face cause that was the last and easiest thing that I could carve, plus he is so Happy.Bam's is a bat with it's wings spread out super SCARY!Ashton's is a werewolf with lots of small details thank goodness for the pumpkin carving tools and of course Brian's help

Maple Canyon, Pumpkin Patch, And The Haunted House

2010-10-24T13:19:00.000-07:00

Since Brian was working on UEA and we couldn't go anywhere my mom, niece Teggan and my kids decided to go for a hike so that I could also try to get some pictures of my kids (I will now leave that to the professionals.) We headed out to maple canyon, somewhere i have been wanting to go for a long time. I haven't been to Maple Canyon in a very long time so we weren't sure where the starting of the hike that I wanted to go but eventually we found it and so did everybody else. I also had forgotten about the couple of hard spots as well but we all got over it with only a little bit of tears. It was lots of fun we saw quite a few dead things that I think fell out of birds nests but we did see one little live snake that I think after playing with it to much eventually died.Here are a few semi good shots that i got but like I said we will find a professional to take pictures next time.
This is my niece Teggan is she the cutest thing ever! So sometimes I wish that I looked like her then reality hits when I look in the mirror. I guess I will have to deal with it cause plastic surgery is too much.
Chaetton was a monster! but I guess that is how they are when they are one.
NO I did not tell Ashton to get in this pose he was just goofing off but it turned out to be cute, weird but cute.
Bam cheesing a way. He tried really hard to take pictures if only his eyes would stay open.
The boys looking their best.
After many failed attempts everyone started to look like thiswe decided it was time to go to the pumpkin patch. A girl that I work with has a pumpkin patch that you go and ride to the patch on a tractor pick you pumpkin out ride back while eating a doughnut and apple juice so we decided to go on out. Bam got to choose the tractor we got to be pulled with it was red for Utah Utes of course. The kids in the pumpkin patch. Ashton and Bam picked the biggest pumpkins I could hardly get them back to the tractor.

It turned out to be a really fun day long but fun! We haven't carved the pumpkins yet, but we will before Halloween I just hope that we can find a pan big enough to cook the seeds cause I am sure by how big those pumpkins are there is going to be alot. As the above pictures shows some of us at work don't get out alot, so we decided to go to a haunted house. We first went to eat a the Texas Road House. YUM! We told them that it was Angie's birthday since it really is on Halloween. They made her get on a saddle with a spotlight on her. She was celebrating her 26th birthday again! Doesn't she look good. After losing two of our co-workers (they were too scared to go to the haunted house) we headed over to the Haunted Forest. Even though we did not see Michael Myers (He is so scary) we had a great time. I would like to tell Ashley thanks for being so brave and letting me hang onto her. (she knows what I mean) Also for Annalisa for closing her eyes the whole entire time it really gave us some experience leading blind people that we may need to use at work, and thanks to Angie for leaving me so the guy with the chainsaw could cut my legs off I really don't need them anyway.
We had a great time, and got the crap scared out of us! Can you guess which ones if any peed our pants? Only those that were there know the answer and since we are so good at following HIPPA we will never tell.

First Day Of School and Ashton's Birthday

2010-10-03T15:33:00.000-07:00

Was anyone else sad about the first day of school as I was this year? Usually I am so excited for school to start but I was really sad! I felt like we still had fun stuff left to do, and that the summer went by way to fast, oh well it came and my kids were super excited especially Bam he started kindergarten this year, and Ashton is in the 4th grade ( I know I am so old) The first day we always walk to school with some friends this year was the same.
Bam did not start school the same day as Ashton did but he still had to wear his new school clothes.Ashton and his new school clothes.Both ready for school.

They both love school still which is a good sign. Ashton says that this is the best year yet, and Bam just likes to go so that he can play with his friends. But what the hay as long as he likes to go. The boys ride their bikes to school everyday with friends, and they love it, it also makes it easier on me as well.
Ashton's birthday was Saturday Oct. 2 I can not believe that he is 10 wow where did the time go by? We had a birthday party with family on Saturday and he and some friends are going to go swimming on monday for his friend party. Ashton is a huge BYU fan so of course that is what kind of party he wanted so i made a cake. i was going to make it out of fondant but after trying for hours I gave up and just used plain frosting. I am thinking about going into cake decorating business so if any one wants cakes made I can do it but it has to involve simple shapes and one letter. Ashton said that it was the best looking cake he has ever had so I guess that is all that matters.
Ashton is such a good kid he always helps out even when he hasn't been asked. He is such a good brother to Bam and Chaetton. Ashton is very smart and always does well in school. He is a very good athlete something I am sure he got from me. We love Ashton very much and are so glad that he is in our family. a few pics of Ashton growing up.

A Whole Lot Of What We Have Been Up To

2010-08-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

Just a little recap of what we have been up to this summer. Sorry if this is a long post.

Another baseball season has come and gone Bam played T-Ball for the first time and really enjoyed it. He also enjoyed playing out in the outfield, in the dirt with cars apparently matchbox cars and baseball are now played together. Ashton played ball again this year with Brian coaching they did all right, but didn't make it to state but another team picked Ashton up and took him to state which was really fun. They played really good at state, its just a little hard to compete with teams that play 6 days a week. So they had fun and that is all that matters.
Then we had visits from cousins which is always fun. My sister came from texas with her kids for two weeks, and we ran the whole time she was here.

Of course we went swimming!

And to get Ice cream!

and for walks up to the temple. (we found out that they need bathrooms at the temple)

The kids and adults also had fun at jumping jacks!
Another Fun thing that we did while they were out here was we planned this big sleepover at my moms house. My other sister came up from Preston and we told my mom that we were going to sleep out in a tent on her lawn. But we really had plans to stay up all night and decorate her lawn cause it was her 60th birthday. We got the tent all set up and the kids in there. and my mom just stayed in the tent with us FOREVER! We had to have all the birthday stuff hidden and had to try to keep the kids quiet which was very hard. Finally she went in the house and the fun began. The kids helped Steph put marshmellows on toothpicks, Bam actually just stabbed the marshmellows and then ate them, Me and Sheena blew up 200 pink water balloons and taped them onto skewers, all the time we are trying to be quiet cause my moms window was right above us. Finally all the kids fell asleep except Ashton who was telling stories and my other sister Teddi Sue showed up with the posters. We than began to decorate my moms front yard, and after all the hard work the kids put into putting the marshmellows onto the toothpicks we didn't even use them cause you couldn't really see them. After a very long night and quite a few stories from Ashton and then having to move into the house because we didn't put the rain gear up, the next morning came. All the kids did a great job in keeping the lawn a secret but we finally had to tell my mom to go outside and lets just say she was really surprised. She was also really surprised when we took her up town to get a drink and she saw the Happy Birthday poster that we put up on the Manti Templar sign. All and all we had a great time and made some great memories.

We also have gone on a few camping trips this year. the first one we went on was to fishlake, Love fishlake. The kids had a great time riding 4 wheelers and fishing and just playing with cousins. Bam also found his calling in life while we were there, he is going to be the official caveman spokesman for geico insurance. That kid loves dirt!

The next camping trip we went up on skyline drive. We took the kids fishing and they thought that was fun for about a minute and so we took them around to the opposite side of the lake and this is what the ended up doing cause it was so blasted hot.

After fishing someone had this great idea to go for a hike. So me and my sister-inlaw threw the babies on our backs and off we went. With 4 adults, 5 kids, and two dogs lets just say that we didn't see one animal. After we sat for a little bit and ate snacks we decided to hike back to the jeep before it got to dark. On the way out Bodey started to chase something and he took off. With it getting dark and having 5 kids to try to get off the mountain we just kept going, cause usually he comes back... well he didn't this time. Brain and his friend Steve went back to where we had ate looking for him and never found him, so we left him and went back to camp. All of us were really sad, including Brian even though he says that he is worthless you can't help but to love him. So after a really long night I got up early and went back to where we had started and out comes Bodey yelping for joy. Oh if only we could have seen what he saw, poor little dog has never slept outside before and his belly had scratches all over it, The event traumatized him for a good week, he didn't even go out to chase the birds probably because he now knows what it feels like to be chased. We are sure glad that he is back, next time he will be on a leash.

So that is what we have been up to this summer. There is still 3 weeks left in the summer, so i am sure that we can blog about something we have been up to.

Happy Birthday Bam

2010-07-09T10:12:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Bams birthday on June 28th we had a family birthday party for him that day and it was also his last T ball game which of course he did awesome at! (More about Bam and Ashton's baseball in another post.) He of course got spoiled with lots of toys especially guns which he is really into right now. Here are a few pictures from his birthday party.

A couple days later we had Bam's first friend birthday party, he wanted to go to the Manti pool so he could only invite a few friends. He finally got it narrowed down to three little boys in his class, and after much coaxing from the boys mothers they all decided to come if their families could come, so it was one big birthday party to say the least. The boys had a great time it was hard to get pictures of all of them together but here are just a few.

Bam is such a funny kid he says and does the funniest things. He loves to ride his four wheeler, play in the sand, play with Ashton and his friends. He loves Bodey and always wants to lay by him in the bed, and he loves the band greenday. Bam is pretty laid back most of the time but I think that he has a little Osborne temper in there somewhere. He has the longest eyelashes and big brown eyes that always brings compliments. We are so glad that he is in our family and cannot imagine our life without him! Just a few pictures of Bam growing up.

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY BAM!

A Blog of Firsts

2010-06-10T13:24:00.000-07:00

So Bam Graduated from preschool this year and is getting ready to start KINDERGARTEN in the fall. Not sure how I really feel about that but it is going to happen so I might as well get used to it. So they had preschool graduation they got all dressed up in graduation gowns and even did the graduation walk it was really cute. Every thing was going ok, until Bam had to get up and say a poem that he had to memorize and he wouldn't do it unless he had his teachers help which is not like him but I just thought he was in some weird shy mood. (like that ever happens) so the Graduation goes on and he just isn't acting happy so afterwards i wanted to get a picture of him and his teacher and he started to cry and said that he had an earache. so we got hardly any pictures and went home put ear drops in and a heating pad on, needless to say he is still super excited to be going to the same school as Ashton. We did get a few pictures and here they are....
this was right before graduation

I like this one it looks like he is kissing his teacher but he is not she was helping him with his poem.

the big graduation walk with the cap and gown So Cute!
Happy Birthday Chaetton! So Chaetton celebrated his first Birthday on May 19th. We were supposed to have this big double birthday party for chaetton and my nephew Gradey who's birthday is two weeks later we were going to rent the swimming pool and have a big BBQ, but of course the weather was crappy pretty much the whole month of May so we just had a little family party at home. Chaetton is such a good boy he likes to eat you would be able to tell if you saw his cubby thighs, he also likes to pull peoples hair and listen to them scream that makes him laugh and laugh. Chaetton is our blonde hair blue-eyed baby has a little bit of different look than Ashton and Bam but we love him just the same. Some pics of Chaetton at his birthday party notice the picture of him eating the cake look at the floor underneath if you don't already have an indoor dog get one look at how clean my floor is compared to the table and Chaetton.

a few fun facts about Chaetton: He crawled at 6 months and Walked at 9 months. He has the longest lizzard tongue. He loves Bodey even though Bodey doesn't have the same feelings. He loves to throw things down the stairs. He is my only child that has never slept in my bed or taken a pacifier. Wore a helmet 24/7 for two months because of a flat head. Just a few pics of Chaetton's first year.

Happy Birthday Chaetton! We can't imagine our life without you!

Finally Camping

2010-05-02T17:13:00.000-07:00

So we finally got our first camping trip in of the season. If you guys have never been to the San Rafeal Swell you better get going there before the government turns it into a national park, it is so AWESOME. So for this trip we took my niece Teggan along with us which was way fun cause then I wasn't the only girl and she entertained the kids as well.. So on the way out there me and Teggan rode in the jeep and if you guys have ever seen the movie The Hills Have Eyes I am pretty sure that this is where they filmed it. So me and Teggan talked about that movie the whole time we were out there trying to scare ourselves and it worked! Brian took the older kids on a ride and left me and Teggan and the camp around dark and we are talking about the movie, and all of a sudden this car pulls into our camp site. Talk about having to change your underwear! They left without killing and eating us so that was good.
The first day we were there the kids caught lizards, ok i take that back Teggan caught the lizards while my kids screamed like girls. They rode the four wheelers and did lots of climbing looking for special rocks but instead found petrified poop which was cool the kids also enjoyed the dirt and snacks. I heard once that the dirtier the kid the funnier they had well from the looks of them they had a blast.
As you can see Chaetton also got his helmet off the day before we went and WOW do we miss it! I don't know how many times you can hit your head on the trailer awning but i could guess... it was about three times... in one day. Poor Chaetton and his unprotected head.
So after several short rides on the fourwheelers that took us to see these places

We decided to take a long jeep ride to another arch and a bunch of copper mines, I don't know how the miners found these place cause they were a long way from now where but it was so much fun we saw wild horses on the way out there so that was way cool. this was the arch that we went and saw So here are some of the mines that we saw and yes I let my kids go in and yes it was way SCARY! This is the last mine that we went into and talk about the hills have eyes it was creepy there was all these different tunnels leading off to who knows where some had been collapsed which was freaky and there was this scary door that said do not enter so of course we do. nothing was behind it.

Any one up for some hide and seek in the mines?
So after an extremely long post and a million pictures I hope that I have convinced you to go out there, but if not then you can read my next post because we are going back out there next week!

This Might Be A Long One

2010-04-09T08:29:00.001-07:00

So I have been way behind in my blogging so I am going to try to catch up on a few things so it may be a long post.
So Chaetton has a flat spot on the back side of his head and since he is probably not going to have long hair in the back to cover it up with thought that we should probably fix it so he got one of these I know that it is not the cutest thing in the world and he has to wear it for about 3 months 23 hours a day 7 days a week, but it does have its pros! like for instance when you are holding him and you accidentally hit his head on the corners of walls and stuff it doesn't make a mark. It hasn't bothered him at all and we are just preparing him to play a little football. So far I can see a big change in his head and hope that it comes off soon but if not o well we still think that he looks really awesome in it. Ashton and Bam also like to wear their helmets every now and then they look pretty awesome as well
So this guy here turned the big 32 on April 3. I hope that he had a good birthday even though he wasn't feeling good I think that he was saying he didn't feel good because he is so old! Just Kidding! Brian is a great dad and husband he is always good coaching the boys teams and playing with them, he works hard for our family and even though we don'y say it often we appreciate everything he does! Hope you had a Happy Birthday! We think you look pretty good for being 32!
Easter! Well like everyone else we were supposed to go camping for easter but the snow ruined that idea, so we decided to head down to Mesquite with my parents and stay in their trailer with them. It was nice to be down there where it was actually sunny. On Friday the bigger boys went on a four-wheeler drive and me my mom and Chaetton rode around mesquite, we wanted to go gamble but i didn't know how that would look with my 10 month old kid sitting in his car seat by the slot machines so of course we went to WALMART! The boys went to a place called something Butte. they had a great time and saw lots of cool things.

They saw this big sinkhole called the devils throat and by the looks of the looks of the pictures probably does take you to the depths of hell. They also saw Bill Garrets grave he was the brother of Pat Garret who shot Billy the Kid or something. They had a great time. Later that night we took Ashton and Bam to the Arcade and Ashton pretty much tore it up, then Bam had a run in with dog poop, and of course we went swimming. Then we came home and colored eggs.

Ashton is very careful at coloring his eggs, Bam was done in about 5 minutes and Chaetton could have cared less about it. The kids got new swimming suits for easter so hopefully summer is on its way.
Brian and I have been keeping busy with work and kids Brian is about to start coaching the boys in baseball. Ashton and Bam have been busy with school and of course playing. Chaetton started walking in march so that has been fun, he can now go outside without scratching his knees. So there is my long post I am now caught up and will try to stay caught up so to not have one of these long posts again. Thanks for Reading!

The boys have done it again

2010-03-12T06:45:00.000-08:00

So Ashton just finished up yet another sport for the year. THey just finished basketball and even though they don't keep score officially the boys keep it and according to them they were undefeated! (with Brian as their coach of course.)
Ashton played really well this year as did the rest of the team. We are really excited about these kids to be playing because they are all from Spring City which means they can have their own team, and they are all really good which means they can finally have a Spring City team that wins! We just hope that they can all continue to play together. Here are just a few pictures that I took enjoy!

Bam also loved to go watch the games most of the time you could find him down sitting by the boys on the bench, and the boys are so good with him, i mean really who doesn't love Bam.
So good job Ashton! We love coming to watch you play! Next sport Baseball which Bam will be starting this year. Oh Boy here we come, hopefully the weather will be better than it was last year.

Christmas and the Wii Wee

2010-01-25T12:04:00.000-08:00

So going back to Christmas (better late than never) We had another awesome christmas i think that we all got everything we wanted and more (except maybe brian he is so hard to buy for even Santa has a hard time he should make a list and send it to Santa.)
Ashton got a HUGE star wars ship that has lights and sounds from grandpa and grandpa Osborne he loves it! He says if he could hide it from Bam he would but it is to big to hide. He also got a BYU jersey and helmet with his name on the back along with bionicles and legos.
Bam also got a jersey and helmet with his name on the back but his is a utah utes, oh the rivalry at our house. He got spongebob legos and other toys. Ashton and Bam also got a nintendo DS to share which they love.
Chaetton did not get world peace like he asked for but he did get lots of clothes which made mom happy, he also got a little table that he can stand up and play with and also a bike that he can walk with which he loves to do, he is all over the place with that thing.

My parents gave all of their kids a new Wii for christmas which was so awesome! They let us all open them up at the same time everybody was screaming it was so loud I don't know who was more excited my kids or my sister Teddi Sue. So anyway a couple of days after Christmas they boys went ice fishing and me, my two sisters Sheena, and Teddi Sue, my mom and Ashton were playing Wii bowling. I am not giving names those of us that were there know the whole story, but it was one of our turns to bowl and slipped and almost did the splits which also hurt that persons toe, (there was also a lot of cursing going on at that time as well.) The rest of us were laughing so hard that another one of us peed there pants, not just a little bit (a puddle) so much that we actually had to get the carpet cleaner out and clean the chair that they were sitting in, shortly after that the made up songs started up. "The rains came down and the floods came up" has a whole different meaning now. Anyway we have had so much fun with the wii and I am sure that that will not be that last time one of us pees their pants while playing the Wee i mean Wii.

Lost tooth, Crawling Away, Snow Fun, and SANTA

2009-12-22T12:16:00.000-08:00

So when Ashton was a baby he had most of his teeth by the time he was one or close to it, now that he is 9 he has only lost 4 teeth. I know i know that the dentist says that it is better to keep your baby teeth for as long as you can but seriously Bam will start losing teeth before he does. Anyway so the other night his front tooth was very lose and he was throwing a fit cause he couldn't sleep so me and Brian offered to pull it out and he would have nothing to do with it. So after a VERY long night he went to school the next morning and while he was at school it CAME OUT! His teacher gave him a little treasure box to keep it in and then he put it under the pillow, later that night the tooth fairy came and gave him two bucks but she also forgot to take the tooth, O well the money was good!
Chaetton has started crawling a little after Thanksgiving except he didn't go forward he went backward, (Now he is going forward) It was so funny to watch him he was like a truck driver backing his trailer up. He would look back at where he was going and start going backwards, then he would stop sit up look around turn himself if he needed to and then start going again. One day I left him in the kitchen and was doing a few things and went back to check on him and couldn't find him. I could hear him so when I went into the other room this is what I found He was so ticked the bar on the chair was blocking him from going anywhere and he could sit up to change directions, lets just say that he most likely has the Osborne temper. Chaetton also thinks he is so big that one day I left him in his crib and came in and found him like this.
One day it had snowed and snowed and snowed, Bam decided that he wanted to go out and play so he talked me into going out. It was FREEZING the wind was blowing. Bam wanted me to help him make a snowman so we tried to roll the snow into a ball but that didn't work so I just started to put snow in a pile and make it work. This is the army snowman and BAM. A couple more pictures of BAM in the snow he made me bury him. We had a great time even though it was sooo cold.
Who Can forget about SANTA PICTURES! Ashton asked for a Nintendo DS. BAM asked for a basketball hoop And I am pretty sure Chaetton asked for World Peace and some new shirts.(Right Brian)
So anyway after an extremely long post. Hope you all have an Awesome Christmas! and A Happy New Year!

Is It Over Yet !!!

2009-12-09T09:31:00.000-08:00

K seriously is winter done? Does it have to be like -7 degrees outside the whole winter? We just got our first big snow storm of the year it sure does look pretty but it is FREEZING! So Ashton and Bam decided that they wanted to go outside and play in the snow, even after i told them that they didn't have snow clothes because they have grown out of the others. (Hope Santa brings new ones..) They didn't care so I let them go out, Ashton in gym shoes and Bam with socks on his hands and snow pants that are floods, both of them with just jackets they looked AWESOME! just call me mother of the year. I told them that if i got them ready they had to at least stay outside for a half hour cause it is a pain in the butt to get them ready. Any way they stayed outside for a long time and they didn't even complain about the cold. I have yet to venture out into the cold because yes I have become a wuss bag. Here are some pictures of them playing in the FREEZING cold snow.

We are the champions..... Finally

2009-11-16T10:30:00.000-08:00

So Ashton played flag football this year. Ashton is a very good football player he is the fastest on his team (he gets lots of practice running at home if you know what i mean) Anyway they went undefeated all season and we had great weather most of the games until the last week before finals and then we all looked like this It was so flipping cold I left Bam and Chaetton with my mom thanks to her I could go stand in the snow and watch Ashton. So after one week of cancelled games Ashton's little team went undefeated (with Brian's coaching skills) and won the little league championships YEAH!!! Good Job Ashton!! It was fun watching them this year can't wait for next year I'm sure Ashton and Bam will be practicing all winter long in the basement for next season, Ashton as BYU and Bam as the UTES. So until next year We Are The Champions!

I have NO idea what I am doing!!!

2009-11-13T13:26:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone yes I am finally starting a blog. People at work just keep pestering me and then Darci has this good idea to blog and then print them out at the end of the month, she is pretty smart so i guess i will try it. HERE WE GO