This is the only recent pic I could load on here since Calie does most of the pic taking anyway, So let me start off by saying I never give my wife enough credit for EVERYTHING she does. I never, ever tell her enough how greatfull I am for her and all she does. From the time she gets up in the morning till she goes to sleep she is running, and typically it is for everyone but her, Doing hair, keeping up with kids, homework, dance stuff, helping out at the school, and then dealing with me, not to mention all then other things life throws at her. She honestly works so hard and never gets told enough how much it is noticed. Thank You Love.
From the time we had been dating till now I see how much her love for me has changed (somedays more then others granted) but always I know that no matter what happens during the day back then and now, she will always give me a big hug and tell me she loves me. The children are so lucky to have her. I know right now they might be a bit on the crazy side but she always will be the one to look at me and tell me to remember they are kids and enjoy them.
Calie I am so happy to have you in my life, I know there are ups and downs, some amazing and others amazingly disasterous, but always your there to say you love me. I always remember that night at the park when we sat and ate Kit Kats and Hot Cocoa and talked about how no matter or how bad anything ever will get, not only does candy and cocoa taste delicious, but that we will always be happy with each other. I love you for that, for the simplicity of us. We have had some major things go on, but still we sip our Cocoa and enjoy the Kit Kats. I love you so much and hoe you take time for yourself to realize how much not only I love you but your amazingly crazy children do as well. Keep smiling and know that we all love you no matter what. K. Your Fam Always and Forever.

Where does the time go?

So this is a few days late but I guess better late than never! It was my little(well not so litte) Remies birthday last week! 7 years old! HOLY CRAP, that kills me! Happy Birthday Rems, I love you! I don't know I think about what a blessing she is to us every birthday but for some reason this birthday I was really emotional about it all! I thought all day about all the emotions, blessings, and feelings that came the day she was born, there was a lot of them! I am just so thankful that I have her and the I get to be her mom! She is such a special girl and she makes all of us so happy! She is the best big sister and I am so thankful for that! Her little sis and brother love her so much! So on her birthday the poor little thing was sick. I felt so bad she woke up at 5 in the morning because she was so excited to go to school on her birthday and celebrate with all her friends at school when we told her she couldn't go because she was sick she cried for about an hour. It broke my heart. She kept saying I can't stay home and just do nothing on my birthday. Well this little girl is a lucky one and has a great dad so after we laid around and didn't do much during the day he suggested that we go get gingerbread houses to build, a movie and we could cook dinner at home. So he put a movie on and I was in starting dinner when the baby starts crying so he tells me to go sit down and get him feed. I was in the other room for about 15 minutes and when I went back into the kitchen he had been very busy. He had asked Remie a couple days before her birthday where her favorite place to eat was and what her favorite meal was and she told him she wanted to go to the Old Spagetti Factory and have spagetti and meatballs. So he made her spagetti and meatballs he had a tablecloth out with seven candles in the middle of the table and had it all set and ready for a candle light dinner. He even found our favorite Spamoni ice cream we get there. She was in watching her movie and had no idea what was going on. So when it was all ready me, Shawn and Ryklee sat at the table and yelled at her to come eat. When she walked in we all started singing Happy Birthday. You should have seen the look on her face! It was so cute she was so excited! Her daddy loves this little girl and tries everything he can to make her feel so special! It was such a fun night and made her birthday! Things said about Remie around the dinner table: Ryklee-"I love that my sissy plays school, house and dance with me." Mom-"I love what a big helper Remie is. She is always willing to help me out with whatever I ask!" Dad-"I love what a great big sister she is and how she is so good with her brother and sister!" Razdyn and Ryklee both light up when she walks in the house from school. One of the first things she does is picks her brother up and bounces him. If he is screaming he stops immediatly! Happy Birthday Rem! And thank you Shawn for being an amazing dad and making sure she had a special day. I got to take her on Friday for her birthday with her grams, and her aunts and girl cousins from my side of the family to Park City and stay in Hotel, it was a PARTY! So fun, I am glad everyone was able to make it and celebrate with us! We ate lots of food, swam and stayed up tell 2:30 in the morning chatting! Thanks for coming everyone we love you!

The Amazing Tree Experiance

So on Sunday we took a family outing to go cut down a Christmas Tree. We decided last year we were going to try to start a new Family tradition by going and cutting down our own tree. I threw out the fake one just to make sure we dont give in. Dagan and Whit were nice enough to hook us up with a permit (Thanks Wade, Dagan, and Whit) and then they invited us to go along on the adventure with them. Heaven only knows what would have happened if we would have tried it on our own. It was a beautiful day and a great experiance. We started out with three 4 wheelers and 2 snowmobiles to get 13 of us into find trees, do to difficulties with the snow and 4 wheelers we ended up with 2 snowmobiles (a couple of sleds use your imaginatioon) to get 13 of us back in the trees. Dagan and JC created the shuttle service and i dont think there sleds were really meant to cary that many people. We got to the trees and found some great picks. Ryklee had to have a walking stick and i dont know how many time someone almost lost an eye. We got the tree Rems and Ryks wanted and took it home. Highlight of the trip has got to be Dagan getting his unstuckable sled stuck and plastering Whit and Ryks with snow and mud. We got the trees loaded and finished the day with a couple of trips down the sledding hill. The girls had a blast and didnt want to leave. I hope this is a tradition for the ages. Definatly a must. Thanks Dagan and Whit, and Fam for the good times.

Meal Makin Momma

This is a post for my sister in law, Candice. She has started a food blog. She post some great recipes on it. She is a great cook so they are all delish! She is totally inspiring me to do better at making dinner and trying new things which both are something I struggle with big time. I hate grocery shopping and trying to decide what to make but I am loving her having her blog because it is helping me out a ton! Everyone should check it out! www.mealmakinmomma.blogspot.com She also has a page on facebook. Love ya Cand!

WOW! Where do I even start? I have so many things to be thankful for this year! I guess this is the best place to start. Happy Birthday Shawn! I am so thankful for this guy! He really is the best. Not quite sure how I got so lucky to have got a hold of him and kept him. He really is the best husband and Dad me and my kids could have ever gotten. LOVE HIM! I am loving seeing him as we are raising our kids he has so much fun with them and they all idiolize him. Ryklee has to follow him everywhere he goes if he is out side she is right on his heels doing what ever it is he is doing and loves every minute that she gets to spend with him! We was at Mom's the other day talking about Remies birthday and we asked Ryklee if she wanted to go with the girls and she said no I want to stay with Daddy and build something. Didn't matter what it was as long as it was with her Daddy! And then there is Remie. Shawn is kindof struggling with her growing up and getting independent. She is in school and dance and so it seems like she is always gone. So he tries to take her on Daddy dates every chance he gets and she loves them. Her Daddy dates are something she will never forget. Shawn walked Remie to school towards the beginning of the year and he came home all bummed out and tells me he doesn't think she needs him anymore. He felt like a lost little puppy dog. They got over to the school and she saw one of her friends so she ran a head of him to walk with her so he was just following behind, but she does still need him she stopped and made her friend wait with her for her dad to catch up to them. She loves him and loves the time she gets to spend with him. Both of them are such Daddy girls! We love you Babe!
Happy 30th Birthday! Wow you are getting to be an OLD MAN!




I am also so thankful for these three kids! My girls are getting so big and Razdyn is growing way to fast! But I am loving being there Mom! I am so grateful for all the family I have! We have been so blessed and I am so thankful for all I have!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

The Crazy little family

So I finally was able to access this again from work (shhhhhh!) just kidding. I did learn how to make the pics bigger from last time. I figured we (Calie) hasnt played on this since April for Ryks bday and alot has happened. Sweet little Raz has been added what a crazy time. a bit of a change throwing a new baby in the mix. He slept finally thru the night last night YES. 2 months old and I would say growing like a weed but he isnt. I told Calie we are destined to have miget children due to all the jokes her and Heather crack. Anyway below are some pics. I will start doing more of a regular post as I still pics from Calies camera. Halloween should be next since the party is this weekend.

Wow, My Baby is 3! Where does the time go?

Happy Birthday Ryklee! I can not believe that my baby turned 3 over the weekend! She was so excited about her birthday and could not wait for it to get here. I am so lucky to have Ryklee. She is the funniest little girl and definatly keeps me on my toes ALL the time! She is a goer but she is such a good little girl and a big helper. In the last month she has decided that she is no longer a baby and is ready to be a big girl! I have been trying to get her to potty train for about the last 6 months and she has just not been interested. She decided one day though that she was a big girl and she didn't need diapers anymore and that has pretty much been it. Don't get me wrong she has had some accident but for the most part has did awesome! She loves her big sissy and wants to do everything she does! She is also a big time Daddy's girl, and when he is home she is his little side kick no matter what he is doing. We love having Ryklee around when she smiles or giggles it is hard not to laugh and just be happy!

 

 

 

Ryklee and Remie on the morning of Ryklee's Birthday. Remie went birthday shopping with me and she saw these hats and she had to get Ryklee the birthday cake for her Birthday and of course she had to get her one also. It is so funny the things kids love that entertain them.

 

We went bowling for her birthday this year. She would get the ball go up and throw it then run off to do something else. She had her cousins there and was to busy to really be bothered with the game but we all did have a good time.

 

 

Since her birthday was the day before Easter after bowling we went to Mom and Dad's and had dinner and an easter egg hunt. We had an egg toss that turned into an egg war. Which the big boys enjoyed much more than the kids. I am not sure the next day how they felt about it since they had huge welts from being hit by eggs but it was a good laugh.

 

 

She loved all her presents she got for her birthday but I think she was most excited about her night mask that she has been wanting forever since her big sister has one and then her tent that she has slept in every night since she has got it. We just bought them a new bed, I don't know why we didn't just get them a tent, It works, doesn't it?

 

 

 

 

Ryklee has started dance this year and I had to put these pictures in here, it was parents week so we got to go in and watch them. She loves her dance days and has so much fun doing it! Love you Ryks!

It's been a while!

Wow it has been a while since I have posted anything on here! Shawn has been bugging me, every time I go to get on the computer he asks if I am going to blog. I don't know for sure what my problem has been but I have had a hard time doing this. I get on her and blog stock everyone else but can't seem to do a post myself.
Life has been crazy lately! I don't even know where to begin! I guess I can start with that we are expecting another baby! We are excited and I am keeping my fingers crossed for a boy but preparing myself for another girl, it's my luck! I will love it no matter what, I just want a healthy baby! I get to find out April 14 what it is so I will have to post again then and I guess maybe if I don't post then you can probably assume that it is a girl! (I'm kidding, kindof) We have been busy with dance, I started working at Progressions Dance Academy, it is where Remie takes dance, helping with costumes. This time of year gets crazy trying to get all the costumes done for competition and recitals. But we have pretty much accomplished it and we had our first dance competition this last weekend. I have to say I am soooo proud of my little Remie. After she made her dance team last year she started on me telling me that she wanted to do a solo this year. So we decided to let her do one and I think that I was way more nervous than she ever was! Anyways she got out there and she did her dance perfect! It was the best I had ever seen her do it! She was the only one in her catagory so of course she got first, which personally I think she would have been the best anyways, but then at the end of awards they give away a Judges Choice Award and she won it! I was so excited and proud of her. She had so much fun and just loved doing it and can't wait until her next competition! She did that on Friday night then on Saturday she had her team dances. Saturday was a crazy day and I am feeling really bad because I didn't get one picture of her or her team that day, next competition I guess. They did really good they got second on all there dances and won best costume on there production number dance which was fun and made all of my long nights worth it! So here are some pictures of her on the night of her solo, Hope you enjoy! I just can't say enough how proud I am of her. She is doing so good in dance and school and she is the best big sister ever! Ryklee loves her to pieces and wants to be and do everything just like her. I love my girlies!