Happy Fathers Day Daddy!!!!!!!!!!

We love you!!!!!!!!

words cant describe how lucky we are to have the dad that we do!!!!

We Love you for:

sunday walks

oreo's and milk

late night nachos

fireworks

fathers blessings for school

family night at the Padre games

hitting practice EVERYDAY

tennis games

beach

Lake Powell

beach

road trips to Arizona

beach

long runs on sat mornings

smores in the backyard firepit

watching sunsets on the beach together

hide and seek in the house for FHE

early morning math help at 6:30

road trips to Utah

spring skiing

love notes left before a business trip

date nights with kids

movies

thanks for being the best Father to our kids! We love our life and love living every minute of it with you!!!

Our sweet Grandmother

I took these pictures of my sweet grandmother just last month when she was here visiting. She is such an amazing woman and I realize how much I have learned from her and my dear Mother!! I don't get to see her much living away but love and cherish my time more than ever with her!! You know how they say some day you will do things how your mother did...... It is sooo true and I am so grateful for the relationship I have with my Mother and grandmother! I have come to appreciate now that I am a mother raising my children, the strength my grandmother possesses and the testimony she has. What a gift she is to me and my family and I hope to have many more years to love and learn from her.

Conner and grandmother

Kailee and grandmother

Jake and grandmother
Crew and grandmother

Jake's baptism

Well I am a little late getting these pictures up on our blog! It is the last 2 weeks of school and it has been a little crazy being we are trying to finish up state reports,science projects,oral speechs (yes in 2nd grade!) force and motion projects, not to mention all the other craziness that goes on around here!!!

Our little Jake is growing up!!!! He turned 8 in March but we just baptized him in May because he wanted to have his grandma and grandpa there who recently returned home from their mission in South Africa. What a great day it was with all of our families, friends, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents!! Living in California we dont get to see everyone often enough so we love to have visitors and loved having sleepovers with cousins!! How proud I am of our sweet little boy who is not so little anymore. He was so excited to get baptized!!!

JUMPIN JACKRABBITS!!!!!!

JAKE AT HIS 8TH B-DAY PARTY

JAKE WAS SO EXCITED FOR HIS PADRE CAKE!!

SO I ROLLED UP MY SLEEVES AND WITH MY GIRLFRIENDS HELP& MADE BASEBALL CUPCAKES!!

MY KIDS KNOW I ALWAYS WANT A TURN!!!!!

OUR SWEET 8 YEAR OLD BOY!!!! WORKS HARD AND PLAYS HARDER!!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU JAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our baby is 4!@#^**** YIKES!!!!!!

Good morning birthday boy!!!!!!!

Make a wish!!!!!

Crew is the baby of the neighborhood which makes him everyones little brother!!

Even though we never even saw "Walle" in the theatre, Crew insisted on a Walle cake!! (I didn't even know he knew who walle was???) After all he is "4" and that's what he wanted so that is what we ordered!

Just because he is "4" doesn't mean it isn't exhausting saving the world!!!!

We love our "Crew Baby" so very much and cherish him everyday of our lives!!! We are so blessed to have him and kiss that little face 1,000 times a day!!!!! AT LEAST!!!!

We love our CREWISMS ............."you set me up....Conner" and "mom, I cant pick up my toys....I have a game to get ready for at four sixty" "who's in the bathroom......hurry...I gotta take a dookie" "mom....where's my cup? ( not the kind you drink out of!!) He has to call Steve at work at least once a day and ask "Dad when are you coming home to do batting practice with me?" and last but not least........."that's how I roll", and as he hits a baseball he says "All day baby...all day!"

Will you be my Valentine!!!!!!!

Valentines day is one of our favorite holidays! Steve and I got engaged on Valentines day 17 years ago!!!!! My kids cant go to school without their heart shaped waffles with strawberries and homemade syrup!!! a breakfast for any cupid!!!!!!!!

Our Kailee bear is 11

Kailee having her favorite b-day breakfast...ebelskievers! Good morning sunshine!!

And she if off to school in her new birthday attire!!!

On saturday we took her and 2 of her friends to eat lunch on the pier!
It was perfect timing for the picture, look at what just landed behind them on the fence!!!!

O.k. the boys needed a picture with the bird too!!!!

The day couldnt have been more perfect! we had a long wait to eat but the girls didnt mind!

Finally food....... along with oreo shakes!!

We came, we ate, and we left with our balloons!! What a fun afternoon we had!!!!

Kailee ended her day with her favorite dinner......pasta, ceaser salad, and garlic bread!



Happy Birthday K-bear!!!!!You bring us soooo
much joy and happiness! You are the cherry on top of our family and we love you so much!

I love your butterfly kisses, I love your hugs , I love your toes tucking under my legs when they are cold, I love your homeade oatmeal cookies on sunday night , I love your pink room that screams "girl", I love going together to get manicures , I love the notes that you leave on my mirror saying " I love you" . Daddy and I love that you are our only girl! Happy Birthday Love!