My family

Family Pictures 2012

Kamberlyn 12 Years old

Kenyon 15 years old and Klaire 6 years old

# SIX

I made her promise me last year that she would not turn any older than 5...
and yet here we are,
another year has gone by....and she has turned 6 :(

 Can't even believe that my baby girl is 6 already...it goes to fast...I just want to freeze her in time.

 She is the most amazing, beautiful little spirt to grace this earth!!! I'm so happy that she is mine :)

She makes me smile everyday!!! The funniest, most grown up things come out of her mouth...

Seriously don't know where she came from.

Here are some pictures from the best Birthday EVER (According to her)!!

Another special event that happened to Klaire this year is that she
lost her FIRST TOOTH!!! I love to watch them get that first one out. It's so exciting for them.  She was so scared but yet wanted to get it out so bad. My friend Cami actually pulled it for her.

My Boy of FALL

I never thought I would be blogging about football! Kenyon has not shown much interest in it and we never pushed him to play. He did play one season in Tremonton but it wasn't really his favorite. When we moved he said he wanted to focus on baseball and basketball. Well this school year it's a whole new ball game!! With the opening of the brand new high school in town, Kenyon decided it was in his best interest to attend there instead of the regular high school. Even though he will not have the opportunity
to play Varsity ball until he is a Junior. He knew that he had the opportunity to be a part of a bigger plan, both with academics and sports. He started weight lifting in the summer and got to know quite a few of the boys and the coach for football. His coach told him he would make an awesome football player and encouraged him to try out. He decided to go for it and made first string. I'm so proud of him for trying something new even though he felt like he was way behind all the other players. He's coach is so amazing with the boys. I'm excited that we will be a part of LWHS football for the next four years!

KENYON IS #55!! (Same # he was with the BEARS)






***Pictures are from the first game of the season against Coconino. I was very impressed with them. This is a brand new team and they are trying to mesh together boys from 3 different schools!! They lost this game by a heartbreaking 1 point. The next week they played them again at home and smashed them 35-22. It felt awesome for them to win their very first home game in the brand new school. WAY TO GO VOLUNTEERS!!!

School has started in Arizona!!!

YEA!!! School is back in. I'm so glad to be back into a routine around here. It's REALLY quiet around my house tho :( Sometimes that's good, and sometimes that's bad LOL!! Lots of firsts going on around here this school year.
KENYON is a FRESHMAN in High School. YEP a freshman... Seriously I still remember my first day as a freshman :) My baby is in KINDERGARTEN BOO HOO. I was so sad to have her go. She has been my little bud for the last 5 years. All of the kids go to different schools so it's a little crazy. Both the older kids are doing accelerated programs so hopefully it won't be to stressful for them. Life is crazy. I'm just trying to savor the moments cuz i know the next 4 years are gonna fly by :((

Klaire getting off the bus


In her classroom


Walking the halls


Kamberlyn 7th grade


The 3 of them together before heading their separate ways

Preschool Graduation

Klaire had such an amazing year at Grace Lutheran Preschool. She loved her teachers Mrs. Karen and Mrs. Tyla. She learned so much throughout the year. Her best friend Kolter was there with her (we are sure gonna miss him next year). I can't say enough about this preschool. Thanks for a wonderful year...now off to Kindergarten :-(

Going YARD :-)

Kenyon had a year end baseball tournament in Lake Havasu this past weekend. He hit the crap out of the ball, going 7 for 8 including this 3 run homerun to left center field. It went way out...I'm takling 350 feet out!!! He amazes me. He LOVES this game and it shows :) I can not wait to see where he takes this talent!!

Graduation

Seriously could she be any cuter??



Preschool Graduation 2012

A little update

I know, I know.

Life just gets so busy.

Just wanted to give a shout out to Kenyon and the
White Cliffs baseball team.
This weekend they played a tournament in Bullhead City.

3 games, 3 WINS!!

Can you say CHAMPIONS :) I can!!

Kenyon pitched 2 out of the 3 games to help bring his team home with the trophy.

Congratulations Wolves :))

School Pictures

Kenyon 8th grade





Kamberlyn 6th grade

Klaire Preschool

Bulldawgs Baseball

Over Memorial weekend we traveled back to Utah so Kenyon could play ball with the Northern Utah Bulldawgs. We always enjoy going and watching him play with this team. A lot of the boys have played together in the past years, so we have a great time seeing friends and making some fantastic memories!! The Memorial tournament with Rocky Mountain is always a competetive weekend. 48 different teams competed in the 13u division alone. The boys played the most fantastic ball that I have ever seen out of them. They went 4-0 for the weekend and ended up seeding 2nd place!! (Only missed first place by 2 runs, seed 1 allowed 6 runs total and Bulldawgs allowed 8). We were all looking forward to playing championship games on Memorial day but the games were postponed because of rain. We will go back up on June 17th to finish what they started.






Team members: (Front L-R) Dillon, Keetch, Cort, Peyton, (Top L-R) CJ, Triston, Hyatt, Hayden, Bryant, Kenyon

Kenyon hitting a double

Coming into home....SAFE...Good call blue

Kenyon (#7) getting a payoff on the mound from his team. He pitched a hell of a game against the Lone Peak Knights.


My favorite ball players... Kenyon, Triston, Hyatt (Wild thing), Keetch, and CJ

The schedule

(9) NU Bulldawgs vs Snow Canyon Warriors (2)

(4) Utah Rage vs NU Bulldawgs (10)

(15) NU Bulldawgs vs Vikings Baseball (0)

(2) Lone Peak Knights vs NU Bulldawgs (9)

A teenager in the house

13, what a number!! It's crazy to think that we have a teenager at our house. Kenyon turned 13 back in December, I am just slow blogging about it. I picked him up from basketball and told him to get ready because we were going to Vegas for the night. (He didn't want to go because he had school and basketball practice the next day). I made him come with...I know I'm a mean mom...


We stayed the night at the Stratosphere. Pretty cool hotel for the kids. They loved going to the top and looking out over Vegas. They were all amazed at how high up we were. On our way back to our room... I had a couple surprises waiting for the kids... Grandma Sharon and Triston had flown to Vegas to meet us and come and stay with us for a few days. It was such a great surprise.. I was so proud of myself, grandma, and T for keeping it from the kids for over a month.

*The next day the boys road all the rides on top of the Stratosphere, and we played in the arcade.


We spent the time at our house playing basketball, going to basketball games of Kenyon's, T came to the dentist and lunch with me, and the kids played lots of cards with my mom.





It was so much fun having them come, I didn't want them to leave. Triston is like a son to me, I love that kid like my own. It's so nice to know that even though we are miles apart, the boys remain best friends.

The holidays 2010

Thanksgiving was different this year. We had just went back to Utah 2 weeks earlier so we decided it was to hard to go again. So we got together with our Arizona families for Thanksgiving and had lots of fun. We ate lots of yummy food and just hung out all day.





*Jon and I relaxing










* Kole, Tracy, Kent, and Shelly





CHRISTMAS

We left on Weds morning and drove 10 hours to my moms house. The kids did great. We only stopped twice. (Once to eat in Cedar City and once at Cabellas in Lehi). Poor Kenyon was sick but still wanted to go spend Christmas with family and friends. The kids stayed with my mom and Jon and I went to the house.(It was hard being there knowing it was probably the last time the house would be ours).
Christmas Eve we always go to my dads. It has been a tradition since I can remember. My step mom cooks all the food and we just visit and catch up with my step brother and sisters. WE were missing Shane and Katie this year. Poor Katie was in the hospital with a kidney stone. That night we spent the night at my moms.
Christmas day Kids got up about 8am and we opened gifts. Santa brought Kenyon a Fat head of his favorite team the St. Louis Cardinals, and baseball camp in January. Kamberlyn a ihome for her ipod and $50 itunes gift card, Klaire a Jessie doll and two nut crackers(Don't know where the obsession with nut crackers came from??)











**My cute Girls**

**MY Beauty**

**My Family**

We headed to Salt Lake on Sunday to meet up with Jon's sister and her family. We were super excited cuz we hadn't seen them in 3 years!! We stayed at an awesome hotel (The holiday inn express in West Valley) that had the best swimming pool ever. I'm talking kids toy and a water slide in it. Kids had a blast with their cousins. We ate some dinner at the training table (One of Candice favorite places), and got some pics of the kids together. I couldn't believe how big they are all getting.


*Eating at Training Table**




**Photo session**










**Oldest to Youngest**
Kenyon 13, Kamberlyn 10, Mason 9, Addi 8, Klaire 4, & Kannon 3




We had a fantastic time visiting friends and family but man were we glad to get back to Arizona....Utah is COLD!!

Loves