playing catch up!

Hello there family! don't worry, we havent forgotten about this blog! Life has been crazy! stephen comes home in just two short days! Its been a mad dash for the finish line what with painting the kitchen, getting new furniture for the family room, basically rearranging the entire house, planting the garden, getting the flower beds in, maintaining the yard, and getting a new trampoline! Phew! But its all really fun and exciting and so worth it!
UPDATE TIME!!!
dads business trip this year was to boston, so we took marissa and anne along with us! Such a fun trip, and so cool to go back east and check out all Boston had to offer!


baby Mckay turned 1! He is such a hunk of cuteness! We love him very much!


Matt Graduated from UVU!

Julie Graduated as well!

As did chase!! 3 college graduates this year! So exciting!




Well, that's just a taste of the craziness that's been going on, more details to come later.
Loving life!

Thanksgiving Gardens on Two-buck Tuesday!

A few weeks ago,we went to Thanksgiving Point as a family and took some photos:
Stanford and I sitting in a romantic corner of Thanksgiving Gardens

Marissa and Anne join Mom & Dad in celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary on Aug. 6th!
Matt & Jaime and their beautiful family! The girls are natural posers. Aerom had to be bribed......
Seth and Julie still on their honeymoon!
Rachel, the prettiest flower in the bunch!

We survived the Trek!! Stephen and Treven helped us out with pizza in Green River.

Well, I am learning how to do this blog thing. Baby steps out the door...baby steps into the elevator...haha. J/k, this is Seth contributing to the blog/teaching mom how it works!

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so this blog thing really worked out I guess. that is cool and all but whatever....

ONE THING TO NOTE, THE BLOGS ARE ARRANGED FROM NEWEST TO OLDEST, SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO START AT THE BOTTOM AND WORK YOUR WAY UP!!

Amen!

Amanda pretty much said it all. I know mom will need us to walk her through doing this like 10 times before she can do it herself, but hey what are kids for anyway?
I just wanted start this off letting the both of you know that we really appreciate what you have done for our family. We enjoy the dinners, the hugs, and all that you do for us. I just hope that some day I can do for you what you have done for my family. Have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Don't forget, we love you so much.