The Palmer Family

Boys!

2012-01-23T15:24:00.000-08:00

Gotta love the little boys and all the fun huts they make:) Daddy made this fun hut and they didn't want to wreck it, so we didn't have a couch for a few days:) I love my boys and the funny things they do and say.

Fun weekend!

2012-01-10T11:41:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we were able to go with my friends and hubby's and we had a lot of fun. I have been friends with these girls for a really long, long time. It is always nice to have good friends and keep them:) We went to Cassie's house and ate pizza and just hung out. Crystal and I are going to be having our babies soon, so we wanted to all get together before we had them. We had a lot of good laughs, and a really fun night.
Our babies will be about 1 month apart, so that will be fun. All of our other kids are the same age too. Everyone wanted us to give a "belly bump" to each other, but we thought this was better! Thanks girlies, I had a lot of fun and always do with you guys:)
We finally got some snow over the weekend. It has been Mason's life long dream to build a snowman. So the boys went out with dad and tried to build one, but the snow wasn't that great for it so they made a snow cave instead. It was really cool, but Landon ended up crushing it so the 2 hours they spent on it was crushed in a matter of seconds....haha that's ok. They still had a really fun time!

Christmas fun!

2011-12-29T16:51:00.000-08:00

We had such a wonderful Christmas. Landon is so excited and so silly:) He couldn't wait to open presents. This is Christmas morning.....lots of pictures so here we go!
We slept in until about 7:30 and had to be to my parents at 8:00 for Breakfast, so we didn't open all our presents from Santa. We opened a few then we had to go. The boys were really good about leaving all the presents which I thought would be hard for them to do. This was their hunting guns that they both wanted really bad and santa brought them for being such good boys.
This is a truck that was really for Landon, but Mason wanted to be a part of it also. Usually santa has to bring 2 toys of everything at our house, but the boys are good at sharing too....(sometimes that is)
We went to my parents house and had breakfast with my family. It was so yummy and lots and lots of food. Then we opened presents from each other and we were spoiled and got a lot of fun, nice things.
Here is Mason and daddy saying cheese.
Mason waiting so patiently for grandma to give him one of his presents. The kids were going crazy, it was funny to watch.
Landon is such a good boy. He is just opening slowly, and taking his time:)
He got a fun drawing easel to draw and write on. He was so excited, it will be fun to set it up and have them play. He is giving a "thums up" because he was so excited.....tired, but excited!
Mason got a fun blow-up car that you sit in and can play cars 2 on the wii. It is funny to watch them both sit in it. (Need to get a picture of that)
Darin spoke in sacrament, and did a really good job:) We came home and got ready and opened the rest of our presents.
Landon with his favorite "cars"
Santa just knew that mommy wanted the Just dance game for wii and I was so happy he brought it to us:)
Me with my boys....and my big belly....(getting closer)
Latter on grandma and grandpa Palmer came to our house and we all went to Darin's brother's house in Richfield. All of his siblings and their kids were there. It was fun for all of us to be together. It was the first time in 2 years that we have all been together. There was a total of 29 of us in 1 house for 4 days.... (yikes) but Scott and Tina were great and everything went really well. We had a big Christmas dinner and here is Mason and Brauk.
Me saying cheese and ready to eat. It was a yummy dinner and we really had a lot of fun.
D and Car
We got a big family picture with everyone, but we didn't get one with our camera...but this is a picture of all the grandkids. There is a total of 19....soon to be 20. It was a great Christmas with both families. It is always nice to be with family. I hope everyone else had a Merry Christmas too!

Happy Birthday Darin!

2011-12-19T15:22:00.000-08:00

Happy Happy Birthday to Darin:) His Birthday is this week and we have been celebrating it all week long. We have had so much fun. Friday night we took the kids to the Ogden lights, and they loved it. Before the lights we went out to eat and they sang to Darin. He hated it. He fought me and fought me for them not to sing, but when your are the Birthday boy it is a rule that they have to sing to you....right?
They loved looking in all the little houses and seeing all the little people. Here is Landon with his big cheese grin, showing how much fun he is having.
Mason has to take a silly picuture (always:) He had a lot of fun running around and seeing all the pretty lights. With my family growing up we would call it "holy cow" when you would see all the pretty lights. So now that is what we call it....just passing it on to my kids.
All 3 of my boys
This picture is kinda bright, but it is the only one with me and the boys:) We had to hurry to take pictures by the houses, it was so buisy and some people aren't very nice and patient.
We went to Home Depot and they had a little place to take pictures, the boys thought it was way cool.
I thought this picture was pretty funny....gotta love little kids:)
So in Home Depot Santa was there. The kids were so excited. They walked over to him and this was the conversation that happened as they got closer to Santa.

Mason: Dad that isn't Santa Claus

Dad: Why would you say that? Of coarse it is

Mason: No dad, look he has 2 beards

Dad: What do you mean?

Mason: Look Dad, he has 1 dark beard on his face, and then his white beard that you can see?

Darin: (trying not to laugh) Mabey he is just trying to make people happy and helping out?

Note to Santa: Make sure you cover up your real beard before putting on your white fake beard.
Here is Mason's Christmas list. He did such a good job at writting it all out and spelling. He is getting so good at reading and writting. I thought it was so cute I had to take a picture of it and keep it. I hope Darin has a Happy Birthday...and let the fun continue:)

Santa Claus

2011-12-10T20:41:00.000-08:00

We went to Grandma and Grandpa's ward party and Santa showed up. The boys were so excited. They were the first ones in line and got to talk to Santa Claus very first.
Landon was so dang cute...all he asked for from Santa was a candy cane. Santa gave him one right then, so looks like we are good for Christmas. Santa doesn't even need to stop at our house.
Mason was so funny. He had a huge smile on his face the whole time, he loved it. He asked for a gun (which he asks for every year) he is a silly boy!
They are such cute little boys. They had so much fun seeing Santa and telling him what they want for Christmas:)

Thanksgiving fun

2011-11-28T14:59:00.000-08:00

We had such a fun Thanksgiving. We had all of my family here and ate lots of yummy food. Mason was so excited for the wish bone....he didn't even care about eating, he just wanted the bone to be dry and he was ready to make a wish. Him and Landon finally got to do it last night, and as you can see Mason won:)
This morning the first thing he asked was "Mom when is my wish going to come try?" haha I thought that was pretty dang funny.
My cute little silly boys

Daddy took the boys to the hunting store and they always have to go and see the elk outside. They are such boys. I had to do some shopping while dad entertained:)
Landon wanted to play this x-box game so bad. He couldn't even reach the handle hardly, and looked so little...but we thought it was so fun and cute we just had to get a picture. We had a Happy Thanksgiving. I didn't get any pictures because I was buisy with everything else and then sick afterwords, but that's ok...we still had a lot of fun.

Our Halloween fun

2011-10-30T18:28:00.000-07:00

We have had so much fun for Halloween. We had our ward party the other night and Mason was Thor and Landon was going to be spiderman, but decided at the last minute that he wanted to be a cowboy. We ate some yummy food, and the kids played some fun games and got some yummy treats.
On Saturday Darin and I took the kids to Lagoon for Frightmares. It was so much fun. There wasn't a lot of people there at all during the day. Mason was tall enough to ride all the grown-up rides, he even was brave and rode the fire dragon:)
Darin had fun riding the egg drop over and over again. Landon loved it, Mason doesn't love that ride so much.
Here are my 3 boys. It was so much fun to be in the kiddie land and have both boys be able to ride the rides. It was so much fun to just watch them and the fun that they had.
We went on the train ride and it was great. I have never seen all the animals so active. The tiger was going crazy and swipping at the fence, trying to eat us. The lion was roaring and going nuts. Mason said, "wow that sounds like a real lion" This is the boys being the cute little brothers that they are:)
They loved the swings. Mason rode the big swings but I didn't get pictures of that because I had to keep Landon happy and stay in kiddie land. He wanted to go with them and ride the big rides so bad...but he was fine with the little rides too.
You gotta love the little tug boats. I don't think any kid can go to lagoon and not ride them. Mason got a little board, but Landon liked the bell.
on the merry-go-round
The boys sat in the front of "puff" and I just got a kick out of it that Darin rode pretty much every time with them. He is a good little daddy:) I think he liked puff as much as the boys.
They sat in the front again, but this time Darin didn't ride with them.
Gotta love "Puff"
The new "Bombora" was so much fun for the kids. It was the perfect little roller coaster that Landon could go on and love it. Mason loved it too, and rode it by himself so dad could sit with Landon. It was so funny to watch his face. I could see it from the sidewalk, and I was laughing so hard. By the end of the day Landon was so tired they went on it and Darin had to hold his head up because he was a little worn out.
This is the first time Landon went on "egg drop" and Darin and I were laughing so hard. His little face was so scared, he didn't know what to think. He loved it after, but it was funny to watch him.

I love this picture of them. They are so funny. They loved flying the planes, and thought it was great.
"Space shuttles"
We had so much fun. I loved going at this time of year. We didn't want to stay at night with all the spooky creeps:) Mason wanted to go through the haunted houses, but I didn't want him to have nightmares so we didn't. I don't like the scary stuff on Halloween. I just like the cute little kids dressed up cute:) I loved Lagoon and had so much for frightmares. I'm glad the boys loved all the rides. I can't wait to go next year when I'm not pregnant and can ride the big rides with Mason:) It was so much fun to just watch my 3 boys though.....It was a great day!

Pumpkin fun!

2011-10-27T18:14:00.000-07:00

First off Landon is so dang funny. He gets a hold of Daddy's phone and loves to take pictures of himself, anything, and everything. He cracks me up....
He is just taking some pictures of himself and having fun with the camera:)
For FHE we carved pumpkins and it was so dang funny. Mason drew us a picture of what he wanted the pumpkin to look like. He drew a good old fashion Jack-O-Lantern with some mean eye brows. So that is what we carved for his pumpkin.
We started off just carving one and we ended up just carving one because Landon did not want anything to do with it once he felt the inside of the pumpkin.
He was crying, and dry-heaving and didn't like it at all. Darin and I were laughing so hard, I could barely take the picture and hold the camera straight....it was so funny.
Mason didn't mind getting his hands in the pumpkin to clean it out. He liked teasing his brother though with the dirty hands because he knew Landon didn't like it....isn't that what brothers are for?
After Landon felt it, dry-heaved, and cried...he left the room and wanted to go and watch his cartoons. He wanted nothing to do with carving:)
My pictures are not in order, but this is when they opened the pumpkin. Landon didn't know what to think? He was so funny, I wish I had it on video camera.
Daddy was such a good sport to help out. I just like to watch and take the pictures:)
Here is the cute finishing touch outside on the porch. We didn't have a tea candle so we put a birthday candle in. Hopefully it doesn't burn the house down!

Projects

2011-10-23T19:19:00.000-07:00

We are building another garage and it has been a fun project for us. I didn't get the first pics of the great big dirt hill that we had, but the boys had so much fun with it. Here is the start of it with just the floor, and the boys are big helpers to dad and all the other workers.
It was funny to have everyone ask us what in the world was going on? We got asked if it was a swimming pool, a great big waterfall, and a great big hot tub:) It has got everyones attention and everyone wondering what the Palmer's are doing to their yard?
Darin worked so hard this weekend, and had a lot of friends and family helping to. He got it all framed up and it went a lot faster then what we thought, so it has been really great.
Now that it is framed we move on to the next step. It is a lot of work, but will be so worth it in the end. I can't wait to have some more garage and storage space:) The boys are so funny the have had such a fun time with it. They would sit there all day long and hammer the nails and boards together. It is funny how "Boy" they are:)

Birthday Party!

2011-10-11T11:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to my big 3 year old. Sunday we had a Birthday party for Landon, Kade, Makhai, and my mom. They are all October Birthday's so we had one big fun dinner and party. It was a lot of fun, and of coarse a lot of yummy food:)
Kade is getting so big. He turned 12 and I can't even believe it. This is them opening presents. Mason just didn't know what to do. He wanted it to be his Birthday so bad.
Makhai was a big helper and wanted to help Landon open his presents. We had them all take turns opening so we could see what everyone got. They all got a lot of fun things.
Landon got a big puzzle, truck and trailor, grave digger remote truck, lots of toy story guys that him and Mason love.
He opened this from grandma and grandpa and it was so funny. I missed the happy, cute face that he pulled. This face is he was trying to be happy, but didn't feel the best:(
He was so happy with all of his fun toys. We got home late that night and him and Mason wanted to play with them so bad. We set them up that night like it was Christmas, so they could wake right up and play with all the fun toys.
Landon is such a good boy. I hope he has a Happy Birthday today. We love him so much, and don't know what we would do without him. I am so happy he is a part of our family:)

Happy Birthday Bugs.....We love you!

Happy Birthday Landon!

2011-10-05T15:22:00.000-07:00

It seems like I am saying this everyday, but time really does go by so fast. I can't believe my baby is going to be 3. I look back and it seems like he was just barely born. They grow up way to fast.
Little "buggie" has brought so much happiness to our family. He is my little softy boy!
I am so grateful for my 3 boys, and my little guy that is on the way. We can't wait to add another little boy to the family. The boys are so excited to get a new little brother. I am so thankful for little Landon and the son, brother, and big helper that he is. I hope you have a wonderful 3rd Birthday. Happy Birthday little Boy:) We sure do love you!

It's a ?????

2011-09-27T11:38:00.001-07:00

We went to the Dr. on Thursday and now we don't know what our little baby is....we just know that it's a baby:) It was crazy! Some of the shots Machel would get it would look like a girl, and then the Dr. would move and the baby would look like a boy? So we will just have to wait and see if boy was right? Or if it is switching and going to be a girl?

BYU game

2011-09-18T18:59:00.000-07:00

Darin went to the BYU vs. Utah game. It was so much fun for him to go with his buddy Todd, and hang out with him, his cousin Chad, and his uncle Jeff. They had really good seats. Almost on the field seats:)
He said the first was awesome. The flag was the size of the football field, and all the soldiers were there to help hold it.
Even though he was there cheering BYU on, and they got their trash handed to them.....that's ok. We won't talk about that. It was funny though because he was right in the middle of the Utes fans. I'm glad he was able to go and he had a fun night:)

Soccer

2011-09-17T13:57:00.001-07:00

Mason started soccer this fall, and he is having so much fun. Today was his 2nd game and he scored 3 goals. He was so excited, and we were so happy for him. I can't get enough of these silly boys!
For T-ball he was the green dragons, and now for soccer they are the gray dragons....kinda funny:)
It is so much fun to go and watch him and the other boys. They are so cute and it is so much fun. I look forward to Saturday's for his games, and so does Mason. He asks me all week long, "When is it going to be a soccer game day?" I am so happy that he scored and played so good with the other boys....Way to go Mason:)

Silly boy!

2011-09-13T10:13:00.000-07:00

Landon seriously is always cracking me up. He is so funny! I can't believe that he is my baby and he is going to be 3 next month. Where does the time go....seriously?
We got a 4-wheeler and the boys love it. They can't get enough of it. Mason is getting pretty good at driving it too. Now instead of doing "time outs" its "you don't get to ride the 4-wheeler when daddy gets home." It actually works pretty nicely! Love my boys so much:)

First day of Kindergarten

2011-08-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

Today was such a big day for Mason...and for mommy:) He was so excited, he woke up at 6:00 and thought it was time for school. Here he is at the school lining up with his class getting ready to go and learn.
He is so excited for his new teacher Mrs. Beyer. He is getting so big and growing up so fast. Time really does go by way to fast.
Here he is getting on the bus. He was so excited to ride the bus. That is all he talked about. Darin stayed home to see him get on, and then he followed him over to make sure he got to class ok. I was so glad he did, because I was so worried about him:)
He didn't want to take pictures at the bus stop. He was so funny, but we did anyways and he was ok with it.
Here are his buddies Corbin, Bridger, and Mason. They are all in different classes. But that is ok, Mason is happy to meet knew friends. They ride the bus together and love it.
Corbin and Mason were the first ones at the bus stop:) They are such silly boys!
Landon was so excited for Mason. He wanted to go to school too. He kept asking "When do I get to go to school?" It was so cute. It was such a great day. When Mason got home he loved it and he can't wait to go back tomarow.
The other day we went to the pool for the day. We hadn't been in a really long time, and Darin hasn't had the chance to come with us this summer, so we decided it was time to go. It was so much fun.
We went down the slide over and over again. It was nice because Mason can touch so he was able to go and we didn't have to worry about it. He spent the whole time going up and down the slide....it was fun!
Landon liked it to, so Daddy had his fair share of riding the slide. It was such a fun day. I am so sad summer is over and the pools are going to be closing.

And....

2011-08-25T12:14:00.000-07:00

Way behind:)

2011-08-25T11:05:00.000-07:00

I have been such a slacker lattely. Now that Mason will be starting schoo, I just remembered I never did post his pre-school graduation. That is something I want to make sure I have so here goes, along with everything else that has been going on.....

Here is Mason waiting to say his part:) He did so good at remembering everything.

Here is the cheese smile that I love:)

Grandma and Grandpa Palmer with Mason

Grandma and Grandpa Andersen with Mason

Dad, Mom, Mason and Landon....he got a picture with everyone but Rhett and Shantel, and their kids:(

Mason is going to miss Teacher Misty....good thing we live right by her so he can still go visit her:)

This is Mason with his little crush Kambia:) They are so cute...nice smile Bud!

Cassie go married in June and I have been a slacker at posting my pics. We went to the sealing and it was great. Here we are waiting outside the temple for her to come out.

here is Darin and I....it was a nice day to be at the temple with him and my friends.

We went camping with the Palmer side...it was a lot of fun.

The boys got down and dirty:)

Mason rode on the float with his pre-school for the 4th of July...he always looks forward to that, they have a lot of fun.

Us at the park after the parade, then we went to eat lunch with The Omans and their cute little girls.

At the parade the boys caught 1 goldfish each. They were so excited, we went and got food and a little bowl and everything for them. (Landon's died the next day, and Mason's died 3 days latter) It was sad!

In July Darin and I were called as a couple to be in charge of Youth Conference. It was so fun to go with the kids and take them to Utah State. We had a lot of fun. This is Darin diving...I didn't take many pics:(

This summer we did swimming lesson's. Mason had a great time and loved everything about them. Landon on the other hand just wanted to do his own thing in the water.

Heather, Me and Colleen watching the kids swim. It was fun to go with them and hang out:) Thanks girls!

We have had such a fun summer, it is sad to see it come to an end. Mason starts school and is so excited, Landon wants to so bad but will have to wait till next year.

Summer fun!

2011-08-01T11:37:00.000-07:00

I have kinda been a slacker at posting. We have been having a lot of fun this summer. The other day we took the boys to the Layton park and ate some lunch, and feed the ducks. The boys loved it, and the ducks did too:)
They wanted to jump over the fence and get in the water with the ducks and birds.
We had a really fun 4th of July. Mason got to be in the parade with the Appleseed float and he loved that. I need to post those pictures. That day we hung out at Farr West park, and went to lunch with Chad and Emily and their cute girls. Then that night we went to my sisters and did fun fireworks with my family.
The kids had so much fun. We had a yummy BBQ and ate lots of yummy food.
Darin bought some way cool fireworks and they were so much fun. There was one that parachutes came shooting out of it everywhere. There were a ton of them, and the kids just chased them and loved it. We had a good 4th. I can't believe August is here, and summer is almost over.

Casssie's Wedding

2011-07-04T14:43:00.000-07:00

My friend Cassie got married a few weeks ago and this is me and my friends at the luncheon. I have had these friends for a long time, and I hope I have them forever:) I have more pictures, but I had to steal this picture off of Crysta's blog:) I am so Happy for Cassie and Curtis, Congrats!!!!!

News!!!!

2011-06-29T14:24:00.001-07:00

Well Its official.....we are going to be adding to the Palmer family:) Darin and I are expecting a new little one. We were going to wait to tell everyone, and then figured what the heck? Why spoil the fun:) It was kinda crazy though. Before we knew we were even pregnant, Mason starting telling his primary teachers and everyone that his mommy was going to have a baby. They told me congrats and I told them I was not pregnant. Then we said who neat that would be if I really was pregnant and Mason just knew. So right after that I found out I was pregnant. He must have known it was time for another little one to come to the family:) We are so excited!!!

Go Green Dragons!

2011-06-22T11:40:00.000-07:00

Darin and I are the coaches of Mason's t-ball team. It is so much fun, and the boys crack us up every week at practice and at the games. There are 10 wild and crazy 5 and 6 year olds and they are so silly.
This is Mason at practice(When they are on their feet, and not sitting on the grass in another world:) haha
Grandma was able to come to this practice and take some pictures for us. I haven't been good at taking pictures because I am trying to help coach, and taking care of Landon at the same time, so it gets a little crazy.

Everyone listen to coach Palmer:)
Mason waiting for the ball to get hit his way. This is at practice:) It was a little chilly day!
Landon loves coming to the games and playing out in the field with mom, dad, and all the boys.
I just love these boys. I love coaching the little guys also. They are so funny. They have come along ways to where they were the first game. Landon wants to be just like Mason and play t-ball in a few years when he is old enough:)

More baptism pics..

2011-06-06T16:14:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures I just got that I wanted to post. This is from Brynn's baptism back in April. Here is our little family. Remember my boys looked like orphans because I have a hard time remembering everything when you are packing for 4 people:)
Here are the kids. They were so ready and so excited for Brynn to get baptized.
Here is everyone at the baptism....it was a good day:)

Holy Water!

2011-05-31T15:12:00.000-07:00

So the other day we decide to go out for a nice family drive. We drive down from our house towards Plain City and there was so much water. I couldn't believe it....
I really thought it was going to come in our doors once we started going through the big puddle. It was kinda scary. There is so much water everywhere....please stop raining!!!!

Sweet Boy!

2011-05-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

Landon is such a stud. Even when he is sick, you would never know it. He ended up getting pink eye and was still such a good boy. I felt so bad for him. I hate that pink eye crap. Yesterday I stayed home from church with him, and he was such a good boy. He is still so silly, making his cute little faces.
He got it pretty bad. He is getting better though, so hopefully it doesn't spread through the family. We have kept the kids apart and are hoping Landon is the only one that gets it....we will see though?

T-ball has started

2011-05-18T15:53:00.000-07:00

Mason is in t-ball this year, and he is so excited. I don't know what he loves more. Playing t-ball or the fact that Darin and I are the coaches. It is so dang fun. I thought, "What am I getting myself into?" But I really do love it, and the boys are so fun to watch and coach. Landon loves it too, if you can't tell.
We are the "Green dragons" and the boys picked that out themselves. I picked out the bright fun green shirts, and they came up with them name. Saturday grandma Zona and I picked out these cute baseball pants and belt. Mason has had his cleats for 5 days now and has not taken them off. He wanted to wear them to school. He loves them:)
I was so glad the rain stopped yesterday for the game. I was worrying so much about having to tell 11 five your old boys that they didn't have a game. Mason would have been so upset. We had a fun time with the first game. The next game we will have to get some actions shoots.

Our fun trip to Arizona

2011-05-17T11:53:00.000-07:00

We went to Arizona the end of April. It was so much fun. We have been telling Mason that when he turns 5 that is when grandma and grandpa will be home from their mission. Well 1 year went by and they were home when he turned 5.

They drove to Mike and Julie's and we surprised them and went there too. It was so good to see them and have them finally done. We didn't tell any of the kids that they were going to be coming so it was suprises for everyone:)

Here are all the kids showing there cute smiles....they are so silly.

We had a fun birthday party and of coarse some cake for Mason while we were there. We had strawberry shortcake, and it was so yummy. Funny thing is we didn't have any candles, so we used matches:) haha....Mason never even knew the difference.

He got some fun bubbles, and a way fun rocket that shoots way far. I even like to play with it!

What's a party without the fun presents right? The kids had fun, and Mason has had a birthday all month long in April:)

We were there for Easter and the Easter bunny knew where to find us. We woke up Easter morning and Mike told the kids a great story about Christ and the true meaning of Easter. They loved it. Then we found our Easter baskets full of all the yummy goodies.

Landon wanted to eat his all that morning:) so we had to hide his basket a few more times from him.

That Saturday before Easter, we had a fun Easter egg hunt and Dave and Tia's house. It was so much fun. Here are Kaitlyn and Mason showing off their eggs they found.

Darin, Landon, and Mike having fun in the sun. It was so nice there, but windy some of the days.

Dave has a farm, and a lot of land so it was the perfect spot for the kids to go and have a hunt and search everywhere for the eggs. Here is Mason by the crazy zebra looking chickens. I thought they were cool looking.

Mason showing off his bucket and eggs. He got hungry in the middle of the hunt and would have to stop and eat his candy...haha I had to teach him you gotta hurry if you want the good stuff:)

Like I said, he would have to stop and eat his candy in the middle of the hunt. It was pretty funny. He got tired I guess? or just really hungry?

There was so much room to find the eggs, it was great. It was fun hiding them too!

They found eggs everywhere. By the horses, the chickens, down by the river, (we didn't go by the river with Mason and Landon) that was for the big kids.

This is everyone waiting, and trying to get a head start.

Landon loved it. He was a little sleepy, but he still had a fun time finding the eggs.

Landon, Darin, Carly, and Mason waiting for the hunt to start. We ate a yummy lunch and hung out too. It was a lot of fun.

Then we had an egg toss. It was so funny to watch. You tossed the egg back and forth to your partner. Dave and Darin were partners and it was entertaining to watch. They won and the egg brooke, but it brooke on the cement....dang it:)

Julie, Landon, and me looking at all the fun farm animals. The boys loved it. I decided we need to move on a farm:) haha

Mason and Hailey checking out all the fun animals.

The goats had just had their little babies, and they were so dang cute.

We got to hold them, and drop them too:) They were cute, I wish I could have taken one home with us, because they were darling.

Mason would have taken one home too, if I would have let him:) They were such cute little babies.

We even got to be real farmers, and milk the goats. It was so dang funny to watch the kids milk them. Mason didn't know what to think at first. Then he got the hang of it. He kept asking me what he was touching while he was milking.

Once he got the hang of it, he loved it. Brauk cracked me up. He ran to the other side and wanted to try the milk. So Dave shot it clear over to him and Brauk caught some in his mouth. He didn't know what to think with the milk warm:) haha but it sure was great to watch them.

Mason getting the hang of milking the goat.

He is a little cheese boy:) He was so happy to be there and checking out all the animals, and fun thing there was to do.

This was a fun, warm day in the sun playing in the water. I was so glad that it was so warm, and that they could play outside the whole time:) It was great.

Landon wanting his shirt off, so he could get in the water too:) It was fun to go and visit. We had a fun Easter, Birthday for Mason, and great homecoming for grandma and grandpa Palmer:) So glad we were able to be apart of the fun, and so glad they are home for good.....for now anyways:)

Mason's 5th Birthday

2011-05-12T12:12:00.000-07:00

We had such a great time for Mason's big #5 Birthday. We were gone on his birthday to Arizona, so we had a party with my family before we left. Darin and I gave him a big basketball hoop. We put it in the back of the truck, so this was the kids smilling after they found it.

He was so excited for his hoop. He loves that he can go play ball and be big like his daddy. He got a lot of fun things from grams and gramps, aunts, uncles, and cousins too. This is his rex flash light.

I love this smile, cheese picture with his (m&m ball) is what he calls it??? I don't know why:)

He got some fun dvd's also. This is his awesome hat from Uncle Rhett and Aunt Shanny and the kids. He loves it, and wants to wear it everyday.

He was so funny with these glasses. Grandma Lynda gave them to him, and he thought he had to wear them to open all his presents. They were the birthday glasses with the cool candles on them.

Gotta love the ice cream cake. It was so yummy!

Landon loved it:)

Mason blowing out his candles.....I can't believe he is 5. It really does seem like it was just yesterday that he was just a little baby. He is a good boy, and I am so grateful for him.

I don't know what this pictures is? But I thought it was to funny. "It's all about me" is what he looks like, pointing to himself.

We had a yummy dinner. Hamburgers, salad, chips, all the yummy food, and then the yummy ice cream cake. It was a good day, and I was so happy it was nice and sunny for us.

Ryker, Mason, and Landon eating all the yummy food.

Kade, Mason, and Ryker, playing guns on the swing set. They are such fun cousins, Mason had a great Birthday:)

Landon loving the nice weather finally....so he could go swing:)

Landon and Makhai wanting someone to push them:) it was a good day, and I am so glad that Mason had such a great party. We celebrated Mason's birthday the whole month of April:) He has had a birthday everyday. So glad he is 5 and getting so big! Hope you had a Happy Birthday Mace:)

Visiting Family!

2011-05-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago we went to Richfield to visit Scott and Tina. I kinda wrote a little about it, but didn't post much pictures. We had so much fun. We went for little Brynn to get baptized. It was a fun weekend to be there because.....

Brayden had his jr. prom. We went there and watched them prominade. (This is a big thing in smaller schools, they don't do anything like this here:) It was fun to go and take pictures, and see all the pretty dresses.

We dressed up and got to go to prom together:) haha...it was fun though.

Then it was Bailey's birthday. We took her ballons to school and made her day. We had cake and ice cream and it was so much fun.

Mason showing his cake of coarse....being silly!

Bailey is 12 now and getting so big. I remember when I came into the family she was 3 and had her sippy cup, and silky blanket that she couldn't sleep without. It was fun to be there for prom, birthdays, and baptism's. Thanks for the fun weekend, and sorry it took so long for me to post!

Then back in March when it was St. Patties day we had a little fun with it. The little leprechaun came and left the boys a cute picture to color and.....

He left some of his footprints by the pictures. We couldn't believe how little the footprints were:) The boys loved it, and he left some green pee in the toilet:) haha it was pretty funny!

Fun Pictures

2011-05-01T14:23:00.000-07:00

This last week we were in Arizona and decided to have Mr. Dave Palmer take our pictures:) He did a great job and it was fun to go around the town in all the different places and take some fun pics.

The boys loved the railroad tracks. They would have walked up and down them all day:)

Mason and Landon did a great job. Landon wasn't feeling good, but was still a cutie. And Mason was such a little cheese boy, he was a stud:)

Can't go without getting the cute pics of the mommy and daddy:) I love Darin and am so thankful for him in my life!

These boys are just my favorite. I am glad they are such best friends. I love that they play, and laugh and fight....what are brothers without the fighting part right?

Mommy with her 2 little boys. I love you guys so much!

Gotta get dad with his 2 boys. These boys are such daddies boys it cracks me up. Everything Darin does Mason does, then everything Mason does Landon has to do. They are 3 peas in a pod and it makes life fun!

This pictures was fun. I just loved how we went to the junkyard, and the backgrounds turned out great. Dave is awesome and did a great job....Thanks!

I think this one is my favorite. I like how everyone is just doing their own thing and Landon is just hanging out with his hands in his pockets. Those boys crack me up everyday!

Gotta love Mason's face in this one:)

Little Landon showing his cute smile:)

Mason is such a stud with his cute smile too!

I am so grateful for my family. They were so good to make mommy happy and go get some pictures done. We needed some good pictures, it had been way to long. And Arizona made it nice to get them done with the nice weather and sunshine. Who wants family pictures in the snow here right?:)

Easter outfits

2011-05-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

Here are the boys in there cute little Easter suits. We weren't home last week, so I took some pictures today and dressed them up in their cute matching outfits. We had such a great Easter last week. We woke up and had a great story on Christ and how he suffered and dead for us. Then we got to find Easter baskets, and go to church with our cousins in Arizona. Then after church the kids were surprized with grandpa and grandma Palmer coming home from their mission. They drove to Mike's house and knocked on the door, and non of the kids knew they were coming home. It was a great Easter present for everyone to have them home safe and done with their mission. (More pics to come)
I wanted to get some pics of the boys in their Easter suites this week, since last week was so crazy. They loved their suits and were so excited to wear them and be twins...thanks grams and gramps Andersen:)

Ladon was a smile boy and always loves being in front of the camera. Mason was a little distracted. He had 2 pair of shoes 1 was to big and the other 2 little, so he was a little frustrated. They are such silly boys. I'm glad they had a good Easter and got a new suit each that they love:) Hope everyone had a great Easter!

April.....

2011-04-20T21:16:00.000-07:00

This time of year I have always loved. April is a month that a lot of things have happened. I was married in April, I had my first little baby boy in April, it's spring, and the flowers are blooming and everything is pretty. But it is bitter sweet for me because it is also the month that my brother passed away. It will be 4 years ago tomarow. It seems like it has been a really long time since I have seen him, and a lot has happened since he has passed. I am just grateful that we have his son Colton to be able to carry on the Andersen name and remember Brandon, because Colton is a little miny me of my brother Brandon. I am also grateful that my little Landon James is named after my brother Brandon James:) 4 years ago has been a long time and we miss and love you......
Darin and I are coming up on our 9 year anniversary. I can't even believe it. Time really does go by so fast. We had some friends that just had their 10 year anniversary and went to Hawaii for it. Darin said to me "Why don't we go to Hawaii this year for our 10 year anniversary?" My reply was, "because we will be celebrating our 9 year anniversary:) opps! I should have just went with it, and I would be in Hawaii right now:)
I am so grateful for Darin and the 9 years that we have been married. It seems like I have known you my whole life. I don't remember life without him, and I am so grateful for him.

Happy Anniversary D:)
Then......my baby Mason is going to be 5 and I can't even believe it. He is getting so big and growing so fast. It seems like it was just yesterday that I had him. I am so glad for Mason and the good little boy that he is. He is such a great big brother to Landon. He is a helper for mommy and always trying to be an example to all those around him.
I hope you have a Happy Birthday Mason and know how much mommy and daddy love you. Your a special little boy, don't ever change! Happy Birthday Spanky!

Big Boy!!!!

2011-04-20T21:02:00.001-07:00

Landon is getting to be such a big boy, I can't even believe it. He is riding a bike with training wheels and it is so dang cute. He knows that he can't go further than the mail box, and he turns around and goes up and down the drive way. He loves his spiderman bike! He is getting so good at peddling all by himself. It makes me sad how fast they grow....but makes me happy that he loves his bike and loves to be a big boy on it:)

Pre-school Easter party!

2011-04-19T15:02:00.000-07:00

Today was so much fun. I got to go to Mason's pre-school and be the helper mom. We had so much fun at his Easter party. Mason was so lucky because he had an Easter party and got to celebrate his Birthday all in the same day at school. Here he is wearing his birthday hat and decorating cookies. The kids got to sprinkle their cookies and then eat them and they were yummy:)
We went outside and had an Easter hunt and it was so fun to watch the kids look for eggs. They each got to find 5 eggs with their name on them. They were so good at helping each other. Mason is such a cheese boy. He was so happy to be the Birthday boy and wear his hat.
Here are all the kids showing off their cute easter bunny baskets. Teacher Misty always comes up with the cutest ideas. I don't know how she does it:) But the baskets were so cute, and the kids loved them.
Here is Mason and Hudson hanging out eating their cookies, mmmm good!
I was so happy to get to be the "helper mom" and be with Mason. It is so fun to be with all the kids, and see how they are all such good little friends.
The kids have been watching how a catipillar turns into a butterfly. So at the end of the party they got to let the butterfly go. They have been hanging onto it for awhile now and they were so excited to see it change and fly:) Although it wasn't really good at flying yet!
They loved watching it, and everyone wanted to touch it:) They wanted to feed it, and touch it, and Mason wanted to put his birthday hat on the butterfly:) They loved it.
They were so cute!
I think I got this picture twice, but I loved it so much I don't even care. He is such a cheese boy!
Showing the baskets, all 12 of them are so cute and are such good friends.
Mason found all his eggs and was so excited to come home and eat all the candy. I'm so glad I was able to help out, it was so much fun. Mason had a great Easter party and a Happy Birthday at school:) I'm glad it was such a fun day!

Sick day!

2011-04-12T15:56:00.000-07:00

Sunday Mason and Landon weren't feeling the best. So I went to church by myself and when I came home this is what the boys had been doing:) Daddy had fun and was really creative with them, and the boys helped him come up with this. Then the next day I woke up to the cereal box right in my face (on Mason's head) with a stick in his hand. It was really funny, after I got the crap scared out of me!

Family....

2011-04-11T19:08:00.000-07:00

Last week we were advised twice in almost 1 day that we should have a picture of the temple in our kids room. So for Family Home Evening we decided we would get some pictures of the temple and decorate them. The boys had so much fun making their frames all pretty:) They put glitter, stickers, and Mason wrote his name (he kinda ran out of room but that is alright) Of coarse they have to take a picture with their "scary faces"
Here is a picture with their cute little smiles. They are such good boys. Mason is always so good on Monday's to remind us that it is family home evening, and he always wants to know what we are doing, right when he wakes up.....so I better be prepared:)
Daddy took an early day and came home and played with the boys, since it was finally a nice day outside. We had fun riding bikes, playing baseball, and Darin even pushed me on the razor car all the way down the sidewalk:) haha those things are way fun!! Sorry no pics of that:)

Trying to stay caught up.

2011-04-09T19:06:00.000-07:00

Things seem like they are always crazy around the Palmer house. I feel like I never have time to blog. We have been doing some fun things that I need to post so I can stay caught up on everything. We took the boys to the Aerospace Museum and they thought it was great. They loved all the airplanes, they didn't want to leave when it was time to go.
We went on a good day when there wasn't any body else there, so it was fun! Mason and Landon are such little boys. Whenever they see an airplane, they want to be a pilot and be able to fly themselves. It was a fun day and I am so glad we finally were able to take them.
We went to Boondocks and had some fun. We didn't take a ton of pictures, and the one of Landon didn't turn out. So here is the one and only picture of Mason having fun at Boondocks. It was a really fun day. Darin took off work and we just did some fun family stuff for the day.
This past weekend we were able to go to Scott and Tina's and visit and see little Brynn get baptized. Jacob and Brynn got baptized on the same day and we are so proud of both of them. We were sad we weren't able to see Jake get baptized, but it was fun to see Brynn. It was such a fun and buisy weekend. I have more pictures that I will have to post, but here are a few. This is all the cousins that were able to come.
They are all so cute, and look great. My kids always look like orphans when we go out of town because I pack for 4 people and have to forget something, or grab clothes that don't fit someone. (If you notice Landon and Mason with out there church shoes, and Landon's shirt is 5 sizes to small) haha I grabed the wrong shirt. They all still look so cute, and were just so happy to be there.
All the adults left and when we got home the poor kids were home with the power out. The house was so dark, and they were so scared. It was so cute when we walked in they all started bawling, because they were happy we got there when we did. Here is Mason, Bree, Landon, Kennedy, Branson, and Briar. They are so cute!
It was Brayden's jr. prom one of the nights we were visiting. There prom's are different then the prom's around here. They have all the juniors learn a dance and all the parent's and families go to the prom and watch them dance and take pictures. It was fun, even though it was so foreign to me:) Brayden looked so cute. He just reminds me of a little miny Darin. Here is Scott, Brayden, and Darin at the prom. We went and watched the kids dance and it was so fun. I finally was able to go to the prom with Darin:) haha it was a lot of fun. We had a fun weekend and were so happy we were able to come have fun with the family!

Spring fun!

2011-03-22T13:08:00.000-07:00

Darin and I decided it was time to get a truck. I am so sick of asking everyone I know if we could borrow their truck. We do yard work and we call Rhett, or Chad and it gets old asking around.

So we found a fun truck and decided it was time to buy it:) The boys love it. They want to drive it everywhere we go. It is fun to go for rides and get muddy in the dirt. I can't wait to go camping in the summer time and be able to pack up an actual truck, not my car.

The boys had to get in and take some pictures for grandma and grandpa on their mission. We always try and keep them updated with everything that is going on at home. The best part about this truck in the summertime, is the drive-in:) I can't wait!!! It will be so much fun. I am more excited then the kids. So if anyone wants to go to the drive-in or camping, just let me know and I am up for it:)

They are such silly boys, always posing for the picture and being crazy. I love how Mason does something, and Landon is right there with him doing the same thing:) They are so cute!

Oh and Mason's new thing is playing cops and robbers. He loves putting panty hose on his head:) Or he has a winter mask that is suppose to keep your head warm, and he likes using that too. These silly boys always keep me entertained.

Fire Station Field trip

2011-03-04T15:19:00.000-08:00

We went on a field trip to the fire station for Mason's pre-school. We had so much fun. Here are the boys showing there fun faces:)

All the firemen were so nice. They let all the kids spray the fire house and show them what it was like to put out a fire. Landon even got to do it and he loved it.

He always loves going on the field trips with his big brother. He wants to be big like all the other kids in the class.

Mason loved it. Ever since we went to the fire station, he says he is going to be a fireman when he grows up. He is so excited about it too!

He got to spray the house and put out the pretend fire to. They had cones up and the kids got to knock the cones down with the water.

He knew just what to do when it was his turn to spray:)

Then they showed the kids a cool machine. It shows you where it is hot and where it is cool. It turns different colors so you know the difference. I think that is how it works?

They got to sit on the fire truck and take some fun pictures. They got to go in the fire truck and look at all the cool buttons inside too. Here is Kambria, Lily, Mason, and Corbin. They are silly little kids.

Here is all the kids and teacher Misty with the fireman. It was so funny. He was putting on all his equipment and was showing the kids how it is not scary. Well he went to put on his oxygen tank and asked the kids if they knew what it was. Mason says "oh cool, you get to wear a bomb?" I don't know where he comes up with things, but it sure was cute.

He loved hearing about all the cool things that the firemen do. He was so interested in everything they had to say. He couldn't believe that they get to live at the fire station.

Here the kids are looking and touching the equipment so they wouldn't be afraid.

Mason even made his own fireman hat at school, so he could wear it at the station. They all looked so dang cute in their hats.

We had so much fun, the kids just loved it. Thanks teacher Misty for the fun day at the fire station. We couldn't do a post without Mason pulling a funny face sticking out his tongue:) He is so silly. Thanks Mason and Landon for the fun day. I always have such a great time with my boys!

My little.....

2011-02-22T16:11:00.000-08:00

Girl??? Awhile ago we went to Bryson and Amanda's house for a fun family night. We always have so much fun when we go with them. Until Tegan, they had all girls, and the girls are so good with Mason. We went there and they had so much fun playing dress up. They made Mason look so cute, and feel right at home:)
He was posing and being a little princess for the night. We thought it was pretty dang funny. I forgot all about the pics and Bryson e-mail them to me the other night and I couldn't go without showing them to everyone. I'm sure one day Mason would be mad, but for now he thinks it is so silly.
This one was the prettiest dress of them all:) I think his face is so red, because he was a little shy. But he sure did make a pretty little girl:) Thanks Kayley, Macey, and Emma for having so much fun with Mason and dressing up with him. You guys are great little friends.

Celebrations

2011-02-22T11:46:00.000-08:00

We had a very Happy Valentines Day! That weekend we went out to chili's (everyone knows that is my favorite:) It was yummy, like always. Then Saturday night we went to my Aunt Pixie's birthday/retirement party. It was fun to see that side of the family, since we don't see each other enough. On Valentines Day, Darin had the day off and we had lots of fun. He gave me these beautiful flowers. He is such a great guy, and I am so lucky to have him in my life:)

Then we were so happy to go and celebrate my grandma's 99th birthday. That is right, grandma Russell turned 99 and is still doing great. The kids were so happy to be there with her. It was fun to celebrate and go eat cake, and cookies with her. Here are her great grandkids Makhai, Landon, Ryker, Mason, Mylla, and Kade. (missing in the pic is Colton)

Grandma doesn't like taking pictures, but we figured we better take a lot. It isn't everyday that you turn 99. The kids were so good and cooperated great. Grandma was the one saying "I think we have enough pictures" haha it was funny.

Mason likes to pull his funny little faces. That kid can't just smile:) he is silly!

Ryker, Mason, grandma, Makhai, Carly, and Shantel. Taking some more pictures:) We love to smile!

I liked this picture with me, my grandma, and my sister. I can't tell you the last time we had a picture like this?

The guys (dads) didn't get in on this pictures, and I didn't even realize it till now? But this is the kids, with my sis, and mom.

Here is another cute one with all the kids. It is so crazy when we take them all, but it is also so much fun. She is in a nursing home, since she brooke her leg 2 years ago. She hasn't really walked since then, but at least she is doing good. We go to the nursing home and it is silent, and then it is crazy when we get there, but this is alright. We always have fun visiting with family. This silly kids make me laugh.

This is my cousin Kristy, and Shelley, my aunt Betty, me, my sis, grandma and my mom. All the girls:) This is another fun picture that we haven't taken like this in a really long time. It is always fun to see family! We had a fun time visiting and we hope you had a Happy 99th Birthday:)

Fun weekend

2011-02-07T15:18:00.000-08:00

We had such a fun Family weekend these past few days. The pictures are a little out of order, but that is ok. This is Mason taking a picture of Landon and I. These boys love taking pictures. I need to get them in the photo business already:)

This is the boys hunting. They are such little hunters around the house. They always have their bags packed and their guns in case they come across a bear.

On Superbowl Sunday we had my family over to our house. It was fun to hang out and eat of coarse:) And Colton and Brittany brought cute little Jaylee. The boys love her. They were so dang cute with her it made me so happy.

This is Landon making his funny/scarry face. He has been doing it so much lattely and it just makes me laugh. It is at such a fun age right now, he cracks me up.

Mason just wanted to hold Jaylee all night long. He loved her and called her "his baby." It was so funny he said, "I want a little sister, but my mom can't handle anymore kids right now" What? Where does he come up with this stuff? He is so silly.

We just had our own little photo session taking pictures of Jaylee and the boys, it was a lot of fun. I can't believe she is 1 month old now. Time goes by so fast. She still is so little though.

Here is cute Brittany with baby Jaylee:) She is a good little mommy and Jaylee loves her.

I can't believe my mom is a great-grandma. We laugh everytime we talk about it. I can't believe my brother Brandon would have been a grandpa that is so crazy to me. I am happy that Jaylee can carry on the Andersen name. (until she gets married at least:)

She is a little cutie. She was awake for some of the time, but most of the time she just slept. Even taking all the pictures that we took, she just would sleep right through it all.

Ok so at the first of the post I talked about how the boys just love to hunt. Well this weekend we took them to the hunting expo. It was so fun. We had our good friends come to Salt Lake and made a fun weekend of it. Trevor, Nicole, and their girls, Trenton, Kelly, and their kids. Then we were able to see Jav and Tara and their cute boys at the expo. It was so much fun. This is all Darin's friends growing up and they have stayed friends ever since. I think it is awesome that they continue to be friends for so long. That is true friendship that doesn't come along very often:) This is the boys at the expo in the truck of their daddy's dreams.

By the end of the expo the boys were so tired they were laying down watching a hunting video. It was pretty dang funny.

Mason loved all the 4-wheelers, animals, guns. He is such a little boy. This was what he though was "his 4-wheeler" He loved it.

Here is Trevin, Mason, and Brady. They thought the animals were pretty cool.

This was my favorite of everything. I thought these Lions were so cool. The male looked alive. The taxidermist had his veins poping out, and his hair sticking up. It was pretty neat, and the boys loved it to.

Trevin and Mason by the cute bear:)

They loved the bear, it was pretty cool. But the lions were still my very favorite.

Darin, Landon, and Mason hanging out. They were getting a little tired so daddy had to carry them.

Mason rode the bull and it was so funny. He was a little afraid at first, but he did a great job. Once it started going a little faster he jumped off. I think it scared him a little, but he did a great job and was a real cowboy:)

The boys with their cheesy smiles:) They are so silly and such a fun time together.

Friday night we all stayed at a hotel. We thought it would be fun to take the kids swimming and just hang out and go to dinner. The kids were in heaven. Mason always wants to have parties, so this was a fun party for him.

And of coarse Mason has to take a picture of us in the hotel. He does such a good job. Landon is such a good little poser boy:)

Then Landon had to take a picture, because he loves to do everything that his big brother does.

Her are the kids swimming. Mason, Maizee, Taisley, Lexi, Landon. Missing: Trevin and Brady.

They loved swimming and had so much fun. We just hung out and had the pool all to ourselves it was great.

Mason and Maizee in the hot tub. It was nice that Mason could touch in their and some of the pool because his goofy mom forgot his life jacket...oops! That's alright though it worked out great.

He was a little fish and would have swam all night long if it was open all night. It was fun to go to dinner to. We went to chuck-o-rama with the kids. We put them all in their own booth and had the grown ups in our own booth. Where else better to go with kids then good old chuck-o-rama?

Landon was a little afraid of the water at first, but we will have to get him in swim lesson's this year and that will all change. We had so much fun with you guys. Thanks so much for inviting us and coming and staying with us after. I wish Trevor and Nicole could have came and stayed at our house, but they had to get home. It was so much fun to see everyone. It had been way to long. The kids always love to get together to, so we will have to do it again real soon:) Thanks you guys are all the best!

Field Trip day

2011-01-20T11:57:00.000-08:00

Last week I so much fun going with Mason and his pre-school class to the grocery store for a field trip. It was so much fun and Johnny the manager was so funny. The kids loved him, and so did the parents:)

He had Mason laughing pretty hard with all his funny jokes. He showed the kids all around the store and how things work at the store.

We went into the bakery and had to put on our "pretzel arms" so we wouldn't touch anything. The kids were able to see the big oven, and where the bread goes right before it goes in the oven. They loved it.

Landon is always a trooper. He goes with the kids and wants to be as big as them. He thought it was pretty fun:)

Johnny showed the kids how the butchers don't cut their hands off while cutting the meat. He put the chain glove on and was cutting his hand. The kids thought that was great. We just didn't want them going home, thinking they could play with knives:) that wouldn't be good.

They thought it was pretty cool feeling the chain glove. Who knew something so simple could be so cool?

Mason being silly with his little faces that he always has to pull. I don't know if that is a boy thing or a Mason thing but he sure does love to be silly in pictures:) haha that alright!

This is in the back in the storage. They were all magic and when they told the door to open, it would open. This is back were the big trucks come and drop everything off. They all loved it back there.

Here they are with their magic powers! Mason's favorite part was the bridge that would come up for the truck to come. It called it "the ride" It would go up and down.

At the end Johnny let them be crazy and scream and run up and down the aisle. They loved it. They would race and race. They would have done that all day long if they could have.

They also got to be the checkers then ride the belt. Here is Corbin riding with teacher Misty catching them at the end.

Mason is a super cashier. He must take after his mommy:) haha that was my first job out of high school was being a cashier. Good thing that didn't last long. I didn't enjoy it:)

But Mason might think otherwise. He thought that was pretty cool.

Then he got to ride the belt with teacher Misty catching him. Who knew the grocery store could be so fun and so cool for little kids?

It made Landon a happy boy!

At the end the sang a funny song. The got ballons, chocolate milk, and of coarse cookies. That was the best part ever.

They loved the treats. And of coarse Mason is so silly and had to make a funny face. Someday he will look back and wonder why he made such silly faces.

Landon got to hang out and eat the treats to. He just loves to be just like his brother. Mason and Hudson being silly:)

And at the end of the day you just gotta come home and relax:)

They are so silly. They love to get in the tubby and wear their towels after. They are true little boys:) We had so much fun. I love to go on the field trips with Mason and his class of friends. Thanks Misty and Janna you guys are the best!

Christmas fun

2011-01-04T13:16:00.000-08:00

This past year has come and gone so fast, I can't believe it is already 2011. I have a lot of things to be thankful for and this little girl is one of them. Little baby Jaylee Lena Andersen is here. She was born on December 27th right after Christmas. She was 7 lbs. 2 oz so she was pretty good size.

Here is Colton and little Jaylee. It was fun to go see them and Brittany in the hospital. She was born at Ogden Regional so the boys couldn't come and see her. Darin just sat in the car with them while I went and visited.

She was a good girl for me, but is a little stinker at night for mom and dad and doesn't like to sleep unless she is being held. We are glad she is here. It has been a buisy past couple of weeks with Christmas, and Jaylee being born. It will be nice to calm down a little:)

Chrismas eve we came to my house and had dinner and played games and it was so much fun. I was a slacker though and forgot to take some pictures. Christmas day we opened our gifts from Santa and then went right to my sister's house with my family to open presents with them. Here is Mason, Grandma and Grandpa. We always get spoiled for Christmas:)

Mason and I opening our presents. Mason was so excited he doesn't even remember what he got. He is a silly boy.

Kade and Ryker opening their basketball hoop. We got it all set up and it will be so much fun to play, once it warms up that is.

Mason being silly and Makhai in the background being a silly girl to. They are good little buddies and always have fun together.

Mason got some fun books with the magic pen that reads to them. Mason and Landon love them but Landon likes to rip the pages so we have to keep an eye on him.

Mason was so funny. He would find presents with his name and want to open them. Grandma didn't think they were his presents but she didn't realize she can't trick Mason when he knows how to read his own name.

I think he is sticking his tongue out and being a silly boy in every picture that I took of him.

Landon got lots of fun things. His big present was a plasma car. It will be fun when it warms up outside and we can actually go outside and let him ride it. He does like it though.

Grandma and Grandpa Palmer sent some great gifts for our family from their mission. It was fun to open them before Christmas and talk to them on the phone. The boys got BYU shirts and they love them. They want to wear them all the time. Here is Landon showing off his new shirt.

Mason showing some more of his presents. Sorry my pictures are a little out of order.

Landon and Darin on Christmas. Landon was a little tired. He slept in and I finally woke him up so he could be a part of the fun.

Here are both the boys showing their new shirts. Darin got 2 awsome pictures of Christ with Priesthood line Authority on them and the dates of when he got the Priesthood and the order of names of who it was given to. It was awsome. I got a fun key chain that the Navohoos made me. It is hand made and I don't know how anybody could make that. It is crazy. They are really talented.

We had to take lots of pictures of the boys in their shirts so grandma and grandpa can see them:)

It was a wonderful Christmas. I hope everyone had as great of a Christmas as we did. It was fun to be with family and friends, and even fun friends from High School, and just hang out and eat of coarse:) I'm grateful for my family and friends and look forward to another great year.

Happy Birthday Darin

2010-12-21T12:34:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to my Darin. I just wanted to wish you a very Happy Birthday and let you know how much we love you. I am so thankful for you. You are the best Husband and daddy anyone could ever hope for.
Hope you have a great Birthday and a great day! Love, Carly, Mason and Landon:)

Warning long post.

2010-12-06T15:25:00.000-08:00

So we have been buisy, but have been having so much fun. Let's start off with funny boy Mason. I'm sure you have all seen toy story 2. Well in it there is a part where woody is getting fixed up so he will look good for when he gets sold in Japan. Well Mason loves this show, so now he loves to act it out.

This is him fixing up woody like in the show. He even has his glasses and gets his paint brush and water to paint woody and make him look nice. He is such a funny boy.

Fremont went to State and we thought it would be fun to go and watch them play Bingham, even though they lost. The boys have wanted to ride "the train" (front runner) forever so we did. They were so excited. It was packed with all the Fremont crowd ridding to U of U right along with us.

The loved looking out the window and getting all the attention from all the nice people on the train. One lady was with her kids and even shared her taco bell with us because Mason wouldn't stop telling me how hungry he was:)

The game was packed and really cold, but still a lot of fun. I think I complained more then the kids about how cold I was. It really was freezing and anyone that was there can testify with me:) It was fun though. Oh and no I don't know the kid in the picture in the green jacket that is so annoying staring right in our picture. Some people really are so weird. You would think he would be imbarased but no! He just wanted to be a part of the family.

At this time of the year I get a liitle angry if I don't have a family picture to send out for Christmas cards. I love getting Christmas cards and I think they are fun to send out also. I have been wanting Heather (hint hint) to do some pictures but it has been way to cold. So on Thanksgiving day I made my sis come and take some fast pics for us. It was cold, but at least we just got a few.

We tried to hurry so the boys wouldn't freeze. They were pretty good, but at the end couldn't stop telling us how cold they were:)

We went a few places just really fast. I'm sure I stressed my sister out in more. She was having dinner at her house cooking, and then I come and grab her and take her away and make her be my personal photographer:) She did a great job though with the few that she took.

The boys are getting so big and growing so fast, I feel like I have to take family pictures every few months just to keep up with how much the grow.

It was fun though. And after we went and helped make some yummy dinner for Thanksgiving.

My family and some of my brother-in-laws family all came for dinner. This is the little kids table.

It reminded me of when I was little. We would have a "kids table" and I loved it, but deep down I always wanted to sit at the grown up table.

We even had little kid chairs for them, it doesn't get much better then that. They are such funny little kids. They love their cousins.

Kade, Rhett, and Carly getting ready to eat some yummy food. I was so hungry. It seems like you don't eat all day and just starve yourself so you can stuff yourself. Why do we do that honestly? I did that and it just made me sick that night.

Shanny, Me, and my dad.

Me and my sis. She is always saying I don't have a good picture of her on my blog, so here is a way good, cute picture. Just for you Shan:)

All the family at the big kids table:) We had lots of yummy food. It was a great time.

Darin and Rhett eating lots of food.

Dad and Darin stuffing their faces:)

My mom, my sis, and me stuffing our faces.

The girls, we had to hurry and eat so we could look at the black friday adds:) I always love to look at the adds. That is a part of Thanksgiving.

My parents by the tree. I have a really cute frame and I needed a good picture of my parents so here it is.

This last Saturday we went and visited my Grandma Russell. She is in a nursing home. They did a fun thing for them and took family pics for Christmas so we went to get some pictures with her.

Mason taking a picture of me, making sure the camera worked. We were having technical difficulties. But we figured it all out.

I'm glad we were able to go and visit. It is always fun to go and see her. She will be turning 99 this January. It is amazing how good she does for how old she is. She was 3 months old when the titanic sank. That is something crazy to think about:) Not many around when that happened.

Grandma, dad, mom and me. I love pictures. My grandma kept saying, "I think we will have enough pictures" She tells it how it is. This is a good one to have a cherish forever. I'm glad we could go and visit. The boys always make all the old people smile and laugh when we go. It is always a show:) We are the wild and crazy crowd. It was sure fun though. Can't wait to go again.

My Missionary Boys

2010-11-24T21:22:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday before church we just had to get some pictures of the boys. They were dressed up in there little suites with their scriptures. They looked like they were ready to put their tags on and go on their missions:)

Mason was dressed up and looked really nice for the primary program. Landon always has to do what Mason does so he had to have his tie on also.

He is such a cheesy boy, I love it. I is so happy and loves to take pictures and then see the pictures right after.

Mason is a cheese boy to. They are such silly, good little boys. I love that they love to dress up and look nice for church.

It was such a beautiful day we just had to get some pictures. The weather was so nice. It was before all the snow and freezing cold.

They love to be outside, I don't know what we are going to do being stuck inside for the next 4 months. They had to pick some leaves and play with them:)

Landon following his brother of coarse. He is so funny, he cracks me up. The other night Shaylee came over and watched the boys and she even said, "Landon does and says everything that Mason does." I just laughed because it is so true.

So much fun, once again goodbye beautiful weather, we will miss you:)

Mason dressed himself and looked "awsome" as he would say. We had to take a picture and send it to grandma Zona to show her how big they are getting while she is gone on a mission. Landon is right there hanging out. See what I mean? He does everything Mason does:) Silly boys!

Boys costumes

2010-11-15T15:08:00.000-08:00

So I am a little slow at posting our Halloween costumes. We had a lot of fun for Halloween this year. Mason was a cowboy. (He loves being a cowboy and dresses up like one everyday) Landon was cute little elmo. They had a lot of fun this year.

We went to Darin's work and went trick or treating and it was a lot of fun. Tracy always puts a lot of work into having it cute and fun for the kids.

This is Mason with his big cheese smile. They had a fun room with lots of treats, and bubbles and a fog machine. Well the fog machine was going and everything was fine. The next thing we know the fire alarms were going off. (The fog machine had set them off) Well we were all laughing and couldn't believe it. We were getting out of the building and it stopped so we stayed in. Not thinking anything of it, the next thing we know the fire dept. is there.

They showed up in their gear and oxygen tanks, ready to fight a fire. They were so nice understanding.

When Mason looked out the window and saw that they were coming he was so afraid and confussed. He heard the sirens and started crying. He kept saying "Are they coming to spray fire on us?" I don't know why he was thinking that but it was so sad and so cute. I had to explain to him that they were there to help us and if there really would have been a fire they would have put it out with water, not sprayed more fire on it:)

After all the craziness it was fun to trick or treat around the office. All Darin's employees are so nice and friendly. They all brought their spouses and kids to. Here is our little family!

Here are the boys before the party. We had to get a picture outside because it was such a nice day.

Earlier that same day Mason had his fun Halloween party at school. They got to dress up and have a fun party. The parents got to go and listen to them sing their Halloween songs. It was so much fun to listen to them, they are so funny. I recorded it since Darin couldn't be there.

This is his fun class with Teacher Misty. He is such good little friends with all of the kids. He knows all of them, most of them live right on our street:) They were all dressed up so dang cute.

Here is Mason before pre-school. This is probable the best picture I got of him with his hat, and beard and being a real cowboy:) Landon wants to be just like his brother. Everyday Mason goes to school he gets his back pack, and Landon has to get his back pack to. He walks in to pre-school with his back pack on and then when it is time for us to go Landon gets so sad and cries. He just wants to be big and go to school like Spanky:)

That is one cute little cowboy! He seriously has been wearing his cowboy clothes everyday. When I have to wash them it is rough. He just wants to be a cowboy and ride a horse he tells me.

Saturday night (trick or treating night) it was raining. Mason was so funny. When it was time to go out I asked him if he was ready. He said to me, "mom why would I want to go out in the rain trick or treating?" good question? He was so worried about leaving the house and nobody would be here to give all the trick or treaters their candy.

We finally went out and it was a lot of fun. We got about 3 houses into it and Mason was ready to come home. We talked him into going around our little block with his buddy Corbin and he was alright with that.

Ok so I have this picture on here twice. I thought it was funny though. Mason and I are posing and it is awsome:) Landon doesn't know what to think and is just staring at his crazy mommy.

Mason takes some pretty good pictures himself. If he isn't a cowboy when he grows up, I think he will be a photographer. Mabey?:)

We had a fun Halloween. We had a lot of parties, and fun activities that we went to. I'm glad that the kids had a fun time to. We always like going trick or treating, but I think Mason likes to give candy out more then he likes getting it. I can't complain about that:)

Kids say the darndest things.

2010-11-14T15:56:00.000-08:00

My kids say and do some funny things lattely. Mason has been so interested in Satan and why he is bad and doesn't want to be nice like Heavenly Father and Jesus. He has been asking so many questions about it. This was our conversations the other day.

Mason "Why is Satan so naughty?"

Me "Because he isn't nice, and he wants others to be mean to"

Mason "Does he have to sit on time out when he is naughty?"

Me "yes":)

Mason "Why doesn't he want to be nice like Jesus?"

"When we cry, yell, and are naughty that is following Satan mom"

So that night we were reading scripture and it talked about satan. That night he said the prayer and he said, "Please bless that satan will love Jesus and be nice"

It was so cute I wanted to cry. He is always thinking and is such a smart little boy!

Today was the primary program and all the kids did so good. Mason sang so good. He has been practicing his part and working so hard on it. He memorized it all and did such a good job. It was a long part, but he did it and I was so proud of him.

"For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son. That whosoever believeth in him should not parish but have everlasting life" is what he had to say and he did so good. He is such a good boy and I am so proud of him. I am glad that he is always thinking and knows how to be good and that satan is someone that we don't want to follow:)

More fun!

2010-11-12T19:46:00.000-08:00

Well this post is a little out of order, but that is alright. A few days before Halloween we had a fun Family Home Evening and carved and painted our pumpkins for Halloween.

Mason wanted to paint his. He didn't like touching all the seeds and stuff inside the pumpkin. I hurry and took this picture because it was the only time he touched the inside with the seeds:) He didn't like the slimy feel of it.

He did a great job on painting it. He just used his water paints. It was so funny because we put the pumpkins out on the porch when we were done. Well about 2 days latter it rained and washed off the paint. I didn't even notice but we are driving past the house and Mason said, "hey how did my pumpkin get all clean?" I just started laughing.

This was Landon's face sticking his tongue out when he felt the inside of the pumpkin:) It was so funny he didn't like it either.

Darin carved one heck of a pumpkin. He just did a cute smile face, but I didn't get a picture of the final results. oops!

The boys having fun and giving a big cheesy smile for the picture.

That same night our friends were so nice and invited us over for some safety tips from our neighbor officer Trent. He is a cop and talked to Mason and his buddies about how to stay safe for trick or treating. They had hot cocoa, treats, a fire in the fire pit. It was a lot of fun. I am so glad we got invited and went. We have good friends:)

This is all the kids with Trent and his buddy that came to help. The kids loved listening and seeing the cop car. They thought it was so cool.

Trent, Mason, Corbin, Mitch, Olivia, and Payton saying cheese with the cop car. It was a cold night but the hot chocolate kept us warm:) It was yummy! Thanks Kami.

The kids getting more pics. They couldn't get enough of it. The parents were froozen:) It was still a lot of fun though.

Here is the kids listening and drinking their yummy hot chocolate. The fire kept us warm!

Landon and Luke hanging out with their brothers. They want to be just like them:) They will be best buds, and the future trouble makers for the neighborhood:)

And of coarse Mason and Corbin giving us a big cheesy smile. They are such silly boys. They love to play and pretend they are going "to work" like their daddys. They are hard workers running around the streets of the neiborhood!

Mason's fun fieldtrip

2010-11-01T19:18:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago we had so much fun going with the Appleseed's to the cornmaze. It is always fun to go with them and be a part of all the fun things they get to go and do.

This is them sitting on the hay and taking a picture of all the cute kids. They had so much fun!

Her are all the kids with Teacher Misty....they love her so much and she is always so good with them. They all look so cute in their little appleseed shirts.

Of coarse Mason has his cowboy boots on. We can't go anywhere without them these days. Infact he was a cowboy for Halloween for the second year in a row.

They had another fun, big slide that the kids loved going down. They would have did that the whole time if we would have let them. All of them loved it, and so did some of the little babies:)

Mason loved it, he went down everyway he could think of. He had such a blast, and he would even get up there and try and hold hands with all his friends.

They had fun games for the kids to play also. Landon and Mason loved it. On this game they had to get the bean bags and throw them through the pumpkin face. Cute little cheese smiles:)

Here is Mason and Corbin with their scary bugs on their shirts. They tried to scare everyone with the little bugs:) They are such silly boys.

Landon loved trying to throw the balls in the little white holes. I think he was liking his sucker in this picture. He is such a silly boy:) He loves going on all the field trips with his big brother. The other day he grabbed Mason's old book bag and wanted to go to school with Mason. It was so dang cute. He can't wait to be a little appleseed to.

Here is Riley, Boston, Landon, and Mason playing the games. They had a lot of fun together.

This game they got to get in and look around for candy, skeletons, and all kids of fun things. Even Landon got to take home some fun goodies:) He was so happy!

Mason is such a good boy. He loves to have fun at school and play with all his friends.

Here is Landon and Luke. They are such little troopers and want to be big just like their brothers. They are going to be the next trouble makers in the neighborhood so look out friends and neighbors they are getting bigger and are ready to be cut loose:)

Mason and Kambria getting ready to find fun things. Mason has a little crush he tells Kambria everyday how cute she looks and they both say how they are going to get married when they grow up:) Look out ladies, Mason is on the loose:) Hello Ladies!

Happy Birthday!

2010-10-26T16:35:00.000-07:00

My baby is getting so Big I can't even believe it. He had his second Birthday, and is getting so old. He is such a good little boy. He Loves to do everything his brother does. If one is playing cars or cowboys the other is right there. They are just the best of friends.

This is them playing cowboys, and at the time Landon didn't have a cowboy hat, so he has his daddies sombraro on. Like father like son right?:)

October is a Birthday month for our Family. So we decided with all the Birthday's that we wanted to have one big party and it was a lot of fun. We had pizza, cake, pie, you name it, and we ate it. This is my sis and she is my best friend! Gotta love sistas:)

The birthday kids were Kade, Makhai, Landon and my mom. They were all within the first 2 weeks of October, so we have had a lot of fun and been buisy.

Mason was so sad that it wasn't his birthday. He kept asking "mom when do I get a birthday?" He just wants a birthday everyday, but then again don't we all?

He had to help Landon and all the kids open up their presents. He was so excited to give Makhai her outfit that he picked out. He carried it around all night and would fold it up for her.

This is him opening "his" record player. He couldn't sit and watch Landon, so it's a good thing Landon is a good boy and wanted his brothers help:)

They are funny kids. There were presents everywhere with 4 birthday's. It was like an early Christmas for us, but we liked it.

Landon got a lot of fun things. He just didn't know what to think of all the craziness, it was great! I tried to take lots of pictures, but on some of them my camera wigged out and the picture was all blury? I don't know what the deal was?

This picture cracks me up because it is our little "buggie" to the max. He is such a good boy, but is so good at the scuz face.....it just makes me laugh looking at him:)

Here are all the kids showing off all the fun things they got. Kade isn't in there, he was to buisy setting up his new track from Grandma and Grandpa.

Landon just wanted to eat the paper to get it open. If he didn't have help, he would use his mouth and bit it open. It was pretty dang funny.

He is a funny boy! Here he is trying to get it open, but can't quit get it. Mabey with the help of Grandma?

It was fun. We always have fun with family and craziness they just go together right?:)

Rhett and Shanny got Landon a little woody doll with a hat, and rope. Mason loved it so much he wouldn't put it down. Landon loved it to, but he didn't get a chance to love it with Mason stealing it away from him every time he got a chance to look at it. It teaches them to share right?

This is the end of the night when Landon was done and tired and ready for bed. Landon is such a good boy and we are so happy he came to our family 2 years ago. It was a great day! We had such a good Birthday with him and the rest of the fam. We are very thankful for our little bugs!

Black Island Farm

2010-10-05T12:16:00.001-07:00

We took the kids to Black Island Farm and it was a lot of fun. They loved all the fun little activities they had. It was a fun filled night.

This is the little corn maze box and it was filled with little tiny corn seeds. We found them in Mason's clothes when we got home to:) Landon just wanted to stand there, he wasn't about to get down and dirty in it. He didn't like it that much!

We had to go to the teter totters a couple times, they were a big hit with the boys:)

They had a fun little "cow train" and it was just us on it so I went with Landon. They took us for a little rid and in one spot we got in the mud and I thought we were going to get stuck, but we didn't.

The boys loved the train, and I guess I did to:) It was fun with it just being us on there.

They had a lot of fun slides there. This big black one was the hit with Mason. He loved it, and it was pretty high and big. I went down it thinking he was going to go with me on my lap, but he was "to big for that"

He would have stayed there all night and went on this slide if we would have let him:) It was fun. I thought if I took Landon he would go on it, but he kept telling me no and just wanted to stay and watch with his daddy!

Landon was a little afraid of all the slides in fact. I took him on one of the little ones and he didn't even want to do that. He got up on the hay stack and then was afraid so I had to go and get him down. Mason loved them all though so that made it fun.

Mason is so funny. I had pants on him but he didn't want them on he wanted shorts. I told him it was going to be cold and he would freeze. He didn't want to listen and wore his shorts. I guess he had a sweat shirt so that was good. I showed up to Darin's work and one kid (Landon) was dressed for winter and the other kid (Mason) was dressed for a beach party.

He was so funny on the slides. He loved them and tried going down them every way possible.

His legs slowed him down a little going this way. I'm sure it didn't fell the best either, but he didn't complain about it.

This was the bull swing I guess? Landon didn't want to do that by himself either, so I was the trooper that did it with him:) It was fun though.

Here Mason goes on the bucking bull swing. He liked it to go wild so it would throw him around, and it was funny to watch.

They had a maze that you could only turn left, but the kids just did it how they wanted. Mason got in and did the maze, Landon just watched and got in for the picture. They are such funny boys and the best of friends.

They had a lot of fun animals to. If you look up on the bridge you can see a goat clear up there. He was so funny and would climb the tree practically to eat. I thought he was going to fall and we would have a brooken goat, but he was good:)

This is the little "duck races" you would pump the water so the duck would go down the little pipe and try and win. It was a fun little game.

The boys loved the animals. They had goats, donkeys, birds, peacocks, chickens, pigs, you name it and they had it:)

Mason loved the goats the most. They liked us to feed them and pet them. I didn't know if they were going to bit our fingers off though:) No, they were nice.

Mason feeding the goat:) He would get little pieces of grass and the goat wanted more. We couldn't keep up with him he would eat it so fast. Finally the workers came and feed them and the boys liked watching them eat.

Mason, Landon, and daddy. We had a fun time at Black Island Farm. It was fun to go and play, and eat, and feed animals, and play all the games. We loved it there. It was for sure a fun place to take kids. After we got to pick out 4 big huge pumpkins, but I forgot to get pictures of those....oops:) Now we will have to carve them:) It was a fun night and I am so glad that we went.

Swimming with our cousins

2010-09-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

We love going to the pool to swim. We went with my family and it is always so much fun. The kids love it. They could go and go all day long there if you would let them.

Here is Landon, Makhai, and Ryker posing so cute for the camera. They are funny little kids:)

I love Mason in this picture. He is so dang funny, always doing his "rock on" sign and being so serious! Gotta love the Rykster with his bunny ears to.

They have so much fun I don't know what we are going to do when winter comes. Even now Mason is always asking, "Mom when can we go to the pool and swim?" Mabey we just need to move to Hawaii or something where we could swim all the time and not worry about the snow!

Landon is loving his sucker. He is fearless in the water. You have to keep your eye on this kid, he is a little fish. We always have fun with our cousins. Thanks Rhett and Shanny for always having lots of fun with us:)

I also wanted to share with you Darin's question of the day for me:) This was our conversation yesterday talking about Landon's Birthday coming up in October.

Darin- "So is Landon's Birthday the 8th or the 10th of October?"

Carly- "Are you serious? try the 11th"

Does this mean we already have to many kids with just 2? haha:)

Bear Lake Family Fun!

2010-09-14T12:51:00.000-07:00

We decided to go for a fun family trip to Bear Lake. We went once with just our little family and it was so much fun. Then we went again with our family and Christy and Ki and their kids. The first pics. are from the trip with everyone. Landon loved the lake.

He didn't want to get out of the water. He has no fear and would play in the water all day. That is why we love Bear Lake because it doesn't get that deep by the beach so the kids can play all day.

He loved to put the sand on his head and let it just sit there. I guess it felt good:) He is a silly boy. You gotta love this little cheese smile!

It was windy and all us grown ups didn't get in the water. We thought it was to cold, but that didn't stop the kids at all. The would go swim, run around and get cold in the water, then come and get a towel and have to warm up. It was pretty funny!

You can tell by Darin in his clothes, and Mason freezing in his swim suit that is was a little chilly day. But it felt good to just sit on the beach. It was so much fun.

Cheesy boy! He cracks me up. He is the happiest boy ever. He loved the water, but didn't like it when we had to rinse him off in the nude to get all the sand off of him.

The kids made sand castles, and played with a lot of the moss sea weed, and had so much fun. I wish it was warm all the time so we could go up there all year round.

Logan, Jayden, Kennedy, and Mason hanging out. They always have so much fun.

Landon loves being in the pictures with his cheese smile:) He liked swimming in his shirt to, so don't think I am a bad mom. He just wanted to run around in his clothes not swim suit.

I love how no matter how many people are there, the lake and the beach are just so big that it doesn't really get crowded. The water goes on forever and when your on a boat it is just nice with how big it is. I love it there:) Have I said that enough?

Cheese!

Loving to play in the sand. (Notice how the just like to sit there?) It must be warm:)

Ok so I know I have a ton of Landon just smilling, but he is so funny. I just love my boys, they make me so happy.

This is Mason in the river by our camp ground. There is a funny story to this river. Ki (my bro-in-law) decided he wanted to get in and scrub down. He ended up loosing his ballance, and falling down in the water. We thought he was going to start going down with the curent and drowned. After we knew he was alright, it was a good funny laugh for us all:)

Here are the boys hanging out in the truck. We went to the cave there and it was so awsome. This is after the cave, we were all a little tired.

Ki, and D inside the cave. It was so neat. We went on the tour and there were 444 stairs so by the time you go all the way down 1600 feet then you turn around and go back. That is 888 stairs and a long way down. It was so cool though.

Darin was such a trooper and great little daddy. He carried Landon on his back the whole time, then on the way back out Mason was so tired he carried him. I thought about asking if he would carry me to, but I didn't know if that would be to much? He had both boys, and a whole lot of stairs. Great work out for him:) He is a good dad.

This is us at the very bottom of the cave. They turn the lights out and it is so dark it is crazy. They say your eyes would never adjust to that darkness either. I can't imagine being trapped in that it would be so scary.

This is called "The stairway to heaven" It was a lot of stairs and was crazy to look up and down it. Here is D and Ki with Landon and Kason.

The boys again with the babies:) The got some good excersize.

Carly, and Christy in the cave.

Darin with Landon peeking around his shoulder.

All the kids hanging out at the camp ground. The kids loved it. They just couldn't keep out of the fire when it was going. I was the same way when I was little. I loved to get the stick on fire and make smoke with it. (A little fire bug)

Kennedy, Ki, Darin, Carly, and Christy hanging out just visiting. It was nice to sit and relax after the cave. We had so much fun with them and were so happy we were able to go.

Now these pictures are when we went with just our little family. The boys had so much fun together. They played in the water, and it was a lot warmer this trip:)

It was a little windy, but it was warm enough that Darin and I got into our suites and didn't hang out on the beach in our clothes:)

We went to a different beach this trip. There was a miny lake you had to go through to get to the big lake and Landon just wanted to play in it.

Mason playing in the sand with all the rocks and getting dirty. He is such a boy! Loves the dirt, mud, and all the fun yucky stuff.

We brought toys this time. The trip with Christy we forgot just about everything. We had toys and the boys loved it.

Mason showing his muscles. He is such a tough little guy!

We were up in the Uintahs with just us and it was so fun. There wasn't anybody else up there with us and we loved it. Although we weren't planning on being as far up on the Mountain as we were so I wasn't prepared for the cold.

Luckily I brought the boys warm shirts, but Darin and I were a little cold because I wasn't a good thinker when I was packing:) That is alright though we made it.

We went and bought all new camping stuff so it was fun to use our new tent, and tables and everything. We were really prepared that way, just not prepared dress wise:)

We had a big fire to keep up warm. The fire was so big that it actually sparked out and got on my shorts and burned a hole in them. I was so sad, I wear them all the time and probable still will so if you see the hole you will know what it is from:)

My 3 cheese boys. They had so much fun. We stayed up and played in the tent and they thought that was the best. Mason likes to play games with the flashlights so he thought that was awsome.

This is me trying to stay warm by the fire:) I'm just glad the boys were warm. It rained on us that night but our tent held up good and kept us dry so that is good.

Landon eating all the goodie treats.

The boys just hanging out.

Playing some football

We had so much fun. I am so glad that we were able to take time out of our busiy schedules and take these cute boys camping. It is always so fun to be in the outdoors and just hanging out with family. We always try and do as many family trips in the summer as we can. These ones were well worth it. We had so much fun and can't wait to do it again.

Our family trip to Moab

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We went to Moab for a family trip. It was so much fun. We went camping with Trevor, Nicole, Trenton, and Kelly and all of their cute kids. Darin has been friends with Trevor and Trenton forever so it is always fun to get together and laugh about all there crazy stories growing up.

We went to Packard's cabin and it is so nice. We went fishing at a lake that is by it and it was so quite. It was pretty much just us there and all the bears and wildlife with us:) Landon had a little scare while we were at the lake. He got sick and was throwing up (thanks friends so helping and being so patient for the poor little guy) and he wasn't breathing right. Darin and I were freaking out so the guys were able to give him a blessing and it helped out a lot. Not only with him, but with calming me down. We left the lake early that night so the next night we went back.....

And the kids loved it. They loved the fishing, the playing, and just being outdoors and running wild:)

This is Lexi and Mason and they are so dang cute. I am going to make them get married when they are older, I don't care if they want to or not:) J.K. But they had so much fun playing, and throwing rocks in the water. Mason picked me and her a flower and it was so cute. A little crush I think:)

This is cute Brady and Trevin. Trenton is on the other side of the lake so we didn't get his pictuer and Kelly is at the cabin slaving away and cooking us dinner. She is so nice!

This is our family at the lake fishing. The boys loved it so much, and Darin and I had a blast also.

The family again.....you can't get enough pics.

Trevor, Nicole, Taisley and Lexi. They are such a cute family and so much fun.

Darin and Carly just hanging out at the lake. I love fishing, but it was fun to see the kids catch the fish and watch how excited they would get.

Landon didn't even need the pole in the water, he just wanted to hold it and think that he was fishing. Whatever makes them happy right?

He had a good time with the barbie fishing pole:)

I think Trevor was hidding the fish in his pocket or something. He just kept catching them one after the next. Nobody caught as many as he did. Mason was so funny. He didn't want to touch the fish at all. The girls would touch it and hold it, but he didn't want to even pet it. He just liked the thought of catching it, and that's about it.

The boys hanging waiting to catch something:)

Taisley and Lexi were good little "fishergirls" They knew the tricks to catching them.

I wish we could do this more often. Sometimes it is hard to all get together. But we always have so much fun when we do. Moab is so fun I love it there. It is fun to go and see where Darin grew up to!

Landon and daddy hanging out.

Landon and Mason, such good little buddies

Landon loved to sit on the bridge and throw rocks into the water.

Us going for a 4-wheeler ride. Last time I was able to see a bear, this time I didn't but the boys did. We did see some bear poop though if that counts:)

All the kids in the truck ready to go and catch some fish!

"The gang"

We went to this awsome rock that you climbed up and you could look down and see a golf coarse. It was so pretty, it looked fake.

Mason took some pictures of us. He is pretty good at it:)
This is on the rock looking down at the golf coarse again. It was so pretty.

We had so much fun. I'm so glad that we have such good fun friends that like to have us come and visit and always have their home open for us to come. After we left Trenton had a scary accident and we are so glad that he is alright. You just never know what is coming your way in life. One minute your fine and the next minute anything can change in the snap of a finger. We are so glad for our friends and their cute kids. Thanks again guys:)

Lagoon and back to school

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Mason is back in pre-school. His first day was Sept. 7th and he is so happy to be back in and learning. He has so many fun friends in his class and Teacher Misty is great.

He was so excited to go and pick out a new Toy Story back pack and folder. He hasn't even seen the 3rd Toy Story but loves it and the other 2. I am so happy for him to be back in school. He has asked just about everyday this summer "when do I go back to school?"

Landon is going to be a little lost without him. They are best little buddies. Infact he wanted to be in the picture more then Mason did:)

We went to Lagoon and it was so much fun. It was Mason's first time going and getting to ride all the rides in kiddie land. We were able to go with all of Darin's side of the family (minus Grandma and Grandpa) so it was a lot of fun, and a lot of kids. We didn't take Landon, so it was nice to go on the rides ourself and take Mason on them to.

Brynn, Brauk, and Mason having a good old time. They loved it! But of coarse who wouldn't?

I went on the rides with Mason in kiddie land:) It was fun to be able to go with him. This is the egg drop, and we only did this one time because he was a little afraid of it:)

My pictures are out of order, but before Lagoon we went to Idaho and celebrated Jayden's birthday. This is all the kids eating cake and ice cream.

He loved the bumper cars. He would have stayed there all day if we would have let him. He was to little for the big ones, so he loved the little ones.

Tina and Carly just being kids on the swings. They were fun:)

Spanky liked the swings to. Here is a thumbs up for ya!

This is the little title wave, and you can see on Spanky's face by this time he is getting a little worn out. He was a trooper. He stayed for the whole day, and then at night grandpa Kenny came and got him.

Mason and Brauk in the airplanes. They are so funny.

Mason loved these airplanes that were in the water. He thought he was really a pilot flying them:) Mason and Kennedy.

Heres Mason, Julie, Hailey, Jayden, Brauk and then Carly and Darin in the back ground trying to get in the picture:) You gotta ride the title wave at Lagoon.

Of coarse we had to go back to the bumper cars:) Like I said it was Mason's favorite ride. Mabey he will be a taxi driver or something when he grows up:) hope not!

This is at the birthday party. Julie, Christy, Tina, and Carly. All 3 of my sis-in-laws. The last time we took a picture of all of us is when I was prego with Mason. It doesn't happen very often:)

Ki hanging out with Mason and Kennedy. I think Mason would have fallen asleep on this ride if he would have been on there long enough.

Driving the cars was my favorite ride when I was younger. They don't have the big ones anymore but the little ones are fun to. Everyone had a little partner to ride with but Mason??? I guess he was left out on this ride, he didn't mind though he still loves it.

All the kids waiting in line. The lines really were not that bad to wait in. It was the perfect time to go.

And finally Hailey and Mason in the little tug boats. They are just to dang cute. We had so much fun and were so happy that everyone was able to go. Sometimes when you have 8 adults and 19 kids you don't get to do everything at the same time. But I am so happy we all got to hang out for the day and spend the time at Lagoon. It was fun to have Mike and Julie here to visit.