Santa Claus Came To Town!!!!

This is just a glimpse of what Santa brought to our house. Paislee and Riker got a miniature pony. His name is M & M and he helped Santa carry elves to and from the workshop. I think that he is going to get a lot of love at our house. He has already been on a walk around the block to check out his new house and surroundings.

Riker keeps calling him, "mine goggy, mine goggy". This little guy is the perfect size, as you can see, Riker is the same heighth as his back.

We hope you have a Merry Christmas! We will post some more pics of our fun adventures of Christmas Eve and Christmas later.

Oh Christmas Tree

We have been enjoying this very busy and very exciting and fun time of year. Heath just recently transferred into the Air Force Reserves after serving 9 years with the Utah Army National Guard, we are very excited about the changes that will come with this transfer.

Our latest adventure took us to the mountains for a family tradition.

To find the....

perfect tree.
This year we went to a new spot and after 4 hours of searching Heath found "the perfect charlie brown tree"

The kids had a blast riding the 4 wheeler and playing in the snow.

Riker and Paislee having a snack while we scoped out potential trees.

Our cute tree, if fits so perfectly. The kids are really proud of it.

Riker was so excited to play on the ladder while Heath set the tree up. He is the cutest little man ever!

We also decided to have an entire kid Christmas tree. We made our own ornaments out of gingerbread cookie dough, although all the ornaments on the bottom of the tree have little bite marks in them. Riker can't quite figure out why the cookies are on the tree! Paislee is my little baker, she did such a great job of cutting out the cookies with the cookie cutters.

The perfect Christmas Tree! It brings such an nice warm feeling along with the yummy smell of pine. We have had the lights on since we strung them!

We hope you enjoy the holiday season and hope that you feel the true spirit of Christmas in your hearts and homes.

Merry Christmas

Two of these pics are turned side ways, and I am not computer savvy, but my pictures are showing up in my window to create a new post as lots of letters and numbers and no pics. I wanted to delete the two pics that are not rotated, but can't figure it out. Sorry. These pics are a little catch up of us.

Riker decided that he was going to put window clings on the front door while I cleaned. It was really nice, it kept him occupied for about an hour. I was actually able to accomplish something.

Paislee and Riker got some new church clothes and looked so stinkin cute that we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a pic. Pnut is wearing the camel necklace that her papa brought her back from Iraq.

The last pic is Riker helping me make whipping cream tonight. We also made a yummy pumpkin pie and some chili. Tomorrow morning Riker, Heath and I are going to Meadow, where my sister-in-laws family has a ranch. We are planning to play and ride motorcycles for the weekend. Paislee is already over there with my mom.
We will soon have pics from our exciting weekend.

Hope everyone has a very enjoyable and safe weekend.

Did Anyone See the Swine?!?

I have been wanting to update my blog, but have been sick in bed since Saturday. Heath went to Heber to watch the extreme mustang makeover that his older brother was competing in, while my mom and sister came down to go to some holiday boutiques. My mom and sister ended up watching my kids until Heath got home because I was so sick I couldn't even get up off the floor. By Monday, Heath had decided that he needed his wife and the kids needed their mommy back so he took me to the doctor. They are pretty sure I contracted influenza and possibly have some pneumonia going on. I attempted to get ready for the day today and travel north to go to work, but by the time I got out of the shower and started to dry my hair, I was ready to lay back down. I will attempt again to go to work. I still have no energy and have no appetite, which doesn't help to get my energy back. I have some greater empathy for those that get the gomboo and hope that those that haven't had it don't have to experience it. I hope to be back to myself soon, since my projects are sitting undone and the house work is piling up! I hope to have cute pics and stories of my family to post soon.

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween! I decided to make homemade cinnamon rolls to go along with our homemade chili. They were super yummy.




Miss Paislee was "Sleeping Beauty" according to her she was not a princess and Riker was a cute little chick. It is Paislee's costume from last year. He loved wearing his costume and taking in on the festivities.

We left grandma set up with the treat bucket at our house while we took the kids trick or treating.

Paislee and Riker both at a run for the next house and handful of goodies! It was really exciting to see how into the holiday my kids got. After the first house Riker had it down. He knew that after he knocked he would get a treat and he would not let me help carry his big bucket. After the first couple of houses I had to dump his bucket into a grocery bag.

This is Riker when we got home from trick or treating. His new trick is to stand in the middle of the kitchen table. He can get up as fast as you can get him back down.

This is the kids and our spooky monster pumpkin. They had such a great time carving it with daddy.

We also carved pnuts teeny tiny little pumpkin. By the time we came home from trick or treating. The top had burned. It sure was a great little pumpkin though.

We hope you had a great Halloween.

(hopefully we will have a new fam pic to display soon. We had them taken, but have not had them edited yet. I am way excited, we are going to have a large pic done on canvas)

A Day at the Weber's

Ever since Paislee started preschool she has loved to do arts and crafts, which is new at our house. She has never been interested before. The other day I was doing house work and found her in her room making a picture for the family.

I decided to get the play-doh out that has been stashed away in the closet since Santa gave it to Paislee last year for Christmas. I don't like to clean up messes, but sad that I have waited for so long to let my kids play with it, because it has kept them so entertained. Riker doesn't like the taste much, but loves to pull it apart into tiny little pieces!

Paislee is in seventh heaven and for the last two mornings it has been the first thing she asks to do when she wakes up!

Sunday morning I was trying to get us all ready for church, as quietly as possible, since Heath had worked and was trying to get some sleep, when I had to run to the laundry room for something and came back to Riker sitting on the kitchen floor with a wedge of bread. Paislee was sitting on the counter with the bread knife and said, "mommy I didn't even cut me, Riker was hungry so I wanted to get him some beckfast." What a great big sister!

The last couple of days Riker has started to say "teese" when he does something that he wants us to see. (I think he got it from having family pics done last week) He is also becoming the newest stunt man around town. He is so proud of himself.

I had to add this picture. I opened the blinds this morning to the backyard and this was the view I got! All three of the horses lined up evenly spaced, facing the same way, with their bums towards us. It was quite the view :)

When Grandma Melody came over and babysat the kids while Heath and I went on the mountain, she pushed Riker around in a diaper box. Well, now he thinks that if he can fit in it, it is a ride around the family room for him. He will sit in anything and wait to be pushed around. He has learned that if he signs please and says "tank tou" it helps with the number of times he gets rides.

I hope you enjoy your week and will hopefully be posting some fun and exciting Halloween pics next week.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Welcome Fall!

Fall Round Up!

Yesterday Heath and I went with some friends to round up cows. We rode for about 9 1/2 hours. Melody, my mother-in-law came and watched our kids. We had a lot of fun. This is Heath and Boomer getting a drink.

This is Skeeter and I getting a drink. He is our cute little Mustang that we got from Heath's brother Tate for helping with some fencing on their ranch. We love Skeeter!

This is on top of the mountain. We stopped to have lunch and give the cows a little break.

On October 8th, 2008, my grandfather passed away. Last Thursday, the one year mark of his death we took grandma and visited his grave. Oh, how I miss my grandpa. I know that he is watching my little family grow, but how I wish I could give him a great big hug.

This is the kids helping with the chores. They love to climb and play on the haystack!

We went to the pumpkin patch last week. I tried so hard to get Paislee to look at the camera just once, but it didn't happen. They had a lot of fun, although Riker's not sure he likes his pumpkin on the front porch. He keeps taking off with it.

This is us in the pumpkin patch. Scouting out the best pumpkins!

We have a serious sweet tooth at our house for fall treats. Thanks to my friend Sharie for giving us a super easy and yummy caramel popcorn recipe. My kids are hooked!

I hope you enjoy. Happy Fall Y'all!

Oh Where Does The Time Go?!?

I'm hoping that one of these days I can update my blog more regularly, but for now, this is what we have been up to.

I can't believe it. My little Pnut is 3!

Not only did August and September fly by, but really the last 3 years have just whizzed by.

We had a Birthday Party at the park on Saturday. We had the cousins over and had a blast with the pinata. We also had lots of yummy food.

I made Paislee a birthday cake, it didn't turn out quite like I was hoping, but Paislee loved it. That's all that matters right!

Heath had Governor's Day for September drill. The kid's had fun hanging out with their cousin Parker, Aunt Amberlie, and Uncle Ben.

Heath marching, he is the soldier closest to the fence in the back. It was really hot at the stadium and the soldiers were dropping like flies.

Papa came home on leave from Iraq and spent a couple days at our house riding dirt bikes. We had a lot of fun, but the two weeks that Papa was here from Iraq went by way too fast.

This is us on top of a trail just North of Gunnison. We had such a great time, except that I wrecked my dirt bike and broke my handle bars. I am still trying to recover, I hurt my knee
and elbow. Thank heavens no broken bones though!

Mom and Dad

Mom, Riker and I watching Papa and daddy jumping the dirt bikes across a ravine.

Riker worn out after a day of biking. Paislee was at school while we went playing. We joked that next time we will have to bring tie downs for Riker!

Papa up to his chest in tumble weeds. They are a very deceiving ground cover.

Papa brought all the kids a treasure from Iraq. Paislee received a camel jewelry box and a camel necklace. They are absolutely beautiful. She wants to wear her necklace everywhere.

All the boys got a camoflouge backpack with their name on it in Arabic.

Paislee started "Princess Ballet"

Paislee also started preschool. She goes two days a week for 4 hours a day. I really thought that I was going to have more time to get tasks accomplished. Boy was I wrong. I am trying to figure out where all the time goes.

We went to Jackson Hole for our summer vacation. We saw lots of neat things. This moose is in the Teton National Park.

We also did alot of hiking while we were in Jackson Hole. This in on top of the tram at Teton Village. It was truly amazing and beautiful. We had a great time and are already looking forward to when we can go back.