Easter Pictures

I knwo this is really late to post Easter stuff. It's just been so crazy, but I really wanted to get them on here, so better late then never I quese!


Rylee looking to see if the Easter bunny had come!

Things I want to Remember

So I have seen this on other peoples blogs and really like the idea. So this post is mostly just for me. I have been using this as a way to record whats going on in our family. I will end up printing our blog into a book and really wanted this to be in there. So here it is Things I want to remember

1. Ashlynns nick name is "little bums" They are just so little! I do need to say thou how much she hates it. Every time I call her that she says no I'm not little bums. She really want to be a big girl like Rylee and so she says I'm big bums. One day she will realize that little bums is a good thing!

2. I love how Easton just automatically knows what to do with Cars. No one ever showed him but he pushes them all over and makes noises. It is so cute!

3. Rylee is getting so big she thinks she is too cool for mom. She thinks she is smarter than everyone. This one is not so cute but maybe one day I will think so. No probably not.

4. Easton loves when his daddy comes home. He hears the alarm say "front door" and he has a instant smile and crawls to the door and gets him

5. This one maybe is part of #4 but that's ok. When Bradon is studding Easton crawls up the stars to find hi. I will go and bring him down and a couple of minuets later he is heading back up to get him. If he knows Brandon is home he just cant leave him alone.

6.Rylee is doing so good in school. Every report card she improves. I love to here her read. She is awesome!

7.Ashlynn loves to wear her swim suit. Or as see would say "swimm smoot" Even if it is 17 degrees outside. She always becomes attached to one or two outfits at a time and will wear them every day until they are so worn out I have to throw them away. Right now it is skirts, leggings, and a really small pare of striped stretchy pants. I have put them in the good will pile about four times, and somehow they keep ending up in her dresser. I guess I will let here use them for PJ's for a while longer!

8. Rylee has a little crush with the cutest little boy in our wsrd. I cant think of a cuter kid for her to like! He is also in her class at school and her teacher told me that they do everything together. They walk to the lunch room together, get supplies for each other, sit together, basically everything together. She tells me almost every day that she LOVES SAM! I went to pick Rylee up from their house one day after they babysat for me, and Sam told me that hi is IN LOVE WITH HER. It was so cute. I watched them play and they are two peas in a pod. We did have to have a little talk with Rylee about not being old enough for a boy friend!

9. Ashlynn is always the first on up in the morning. She comes in my room and the first thing she says is "mommy will you go down stairs with me" the second thing is "can you get me milk" I know its not too exciting, but the funny part is every morning I always say good morning Ash how was you night, did you sleep good? and I try to cuddle her, but all she is interested in, is going down stairs and getting milk!

10. Rylee has the craziest memory. Brandon and I are always amazed at all of the things she remembers from such a really long time ago. We where just having family Scriptures the other night and we where talking about how the golden plates where in the hill comara and she said "mommy remember when I stood by that fire place in Josheph Smiths house where he hid the plates after he got them" Brandon and I where so surprised she remembered that. It had been several years since we had gone there.

Shout-out to my Wife

So, as many of you know, Dental School has been such an overwhelming thing in our lives. It is constantly busy and taking up so much of my time. To add to that, I try and DJ and wash window's on the side. My poor wife has been so excellent at putting up with me these past couple of years with me not wanting to specialize, then thinking about, and then deciding not to again. She continually has to have nights by herself taking care of the kids while my nose is in the books trying to get through these classes.

She is such a great person for putting up with my stressful personality these past couple of years, especially during this recent semester as I am dealing with Oral Pathology (worst class in Dental School). I just want to tell her how much I love her and how thankful I am for her. She hardly complains. She is such an amazing person! We are almost there! One year, four weeks!

Love ya babe!

Loving the weather!

When Brandon was at the Priesthood meeting on Saturday I took the kids to the park! We had so much fun! The weather is just so amazing right now. We didn't come home until after 8:00pm! Oh yeah, that's another great part about the spring and summer, it gets dark so much later. Well, it can be a good thing and a bad thing. It makes bed time kind of hard. But when school is out it won't matter anymore! Anyways, here are some fun pics from our outing!















I think Easton has learned that when the camera comes out CRY! He did not like me taking his picture at all!





When I put the camera away he went back to playing and having the time of his life!

Spring Time In Louisville

One my favorite times of year in Louisville is SPRING. Its an end to the long cold winter, and everything starts to bloom. The sun finally comes out after months of wondering if there is really a sun!! And everything is so beautiful and new. I just really wanted to capture its beauty. The streets are actually lined in trees with little white blossoms.

Some new of the same thing

So I was thinking that the snow pictures of the girls looked a little washed out so here are some that I tweaked in Photo Shop! I'm still trying to figure it out and need a lot of practice, but it is so fun to play with!

Day Two Of No SCHOOL

The girls went in the back yard to make a snow man.....I think it is more of a snow pile but what the heck SNOW MAN It is!!!!





It has been a great two days.....and I cant believe Im going to say it but I cant wait until school starts back up

Our Snowy Fun Day

So for the first time in for ever, Rylee and Brandon both had a snow day off from school! Rylee has had a couple of snow days, but the dental school doesn't really believe in snow days. So it was a nice surprise that they both had the same day off. We had such a great day. We met up with Bryce and Meghan and we headed over to Denney's for free Grand Slams, but when we got there the line was all the way around the building, so we went to Wild Eggs and it was so yummy!!! We then made a Costco run. Brandon and Bryce where like two kids in a candy shop, and got generators with there tax return. We some how managed to talk them into not studying and not playing with their new toys, and taking us all out to go sledding. After four stores we realized that there where no sleds in the whole town and Bryce saved the day with what I like to call ghetto sleds!!!! The kids didn't know the difference and had the time of there lives! This is a snow day that they will always remember! We had so much FUN!






Rylee couldnt seem to get the sled up the hill fast enough...See wouldnt stop for anything





Rylee jsut couldt stop smiling!! I think she had way more fun then anyone


You cant see it in this pic but Easton would giggle every time he went down!











Bryce and Meg being CRAZY!!







OK SORRY IT WAS SUCH A LONG POST, BUT WE JUST HAD SO MUCH FUN WE WANTED TO SHARE ALL OF THE PIC'S

The Birthday Girl

So I know this is a couple of days late, but the last post explains why!

The day started out great! She got to wear her Birthday Crown that dad made for her to wear to school so that everyone would know it was her Birthday. The wonderful mom that I am, took cupcakes to her whole class that afternoon! When she got home, I could tell that she was trying to have fun but she just wasn't her self. By 6:00pm she had a fever and was crying because she didn't feel good. By 7:00pm she was in bed and is still sick to this day.
To make it up to her we will go to Chucky Cheese when she is feeling better and she will get another cake. She thinks that is pretty cool because it will make three in total!





Ever since she could talk she has told us that she wants to study horses when she grows up! So when someone in our ward was giving away this big horse I knew it would be loved and Rylee would take good care of it for the little girl who was growing out of it!






She also got a new DS Game that she wanted for Christmas and santa didnt bring her. We rock and got it for her!!




It was perfect timing with the new game. With her being sick she as played it for hours!

A House Full Of Sickies

Welcome to a house full of Sickies. We have all been sick except Brandon, who never gets sick.

Our boor little Easton has some crazy bronchial infection and has to have breathing treatment every four hr. As if that wouldn't bee bad enough he also has two ear infection.

Ashlynn has two ear infections and Pneumonia.

Rylee, the poor thing got sick on her Birthday. She has Strep Throat

And Im just a bad combo of all there crap!!

So with lots of rest, antibiotics, breathing treatments and soup, it's been a little crazy over here!

Pictures of our Insanity

There was five of Brandons friends and there where sweating like PIGS and HUFFING AND PUFFING like the big bad wolf!!




Rylee helping her daddy



The Girls enjoying there new Piano