We've Been Busy

Danny turned 36! We celebrated his birthday and our 13th Anniversary!

We stayed the night at the Mandalay Bay without the kids. Thanks to my mom for keeping the kids for the night. Then the next day she brought them to the hotel so we could have a fun time with them.

Danny and I went on a date to the Panda show.

The kids decorated the front door for Danny's birthday! Their idea.

We are just loving this super fun new park a block away from us!

We enjoyed the Nevada Day Parade with our cousins! Celebrating 150 years old.

We also enjoyed the Civil War reenactment at Bonnie Springs. (NV is the Battle Born State).

Invited friends over for a very fun Fear Factor FHE.

We finally got ourselves Children Museum Passes! The museum was a hit!

 Enjoyed Big Hero 6 in 3D with the family.

 Helped the Blackwells and the other Jensen's with a fun surprise for Jeff and Cindy Jensen.

While out of town we gave them a backyard! 

With grass, a fire pit, a sitting area and a trampoline, it's so fun to surprise people you love!

Proud Mama

I love that Doral Academy gives character awards.  

Max received an award for being RESPECTFUL. 

He is such a good, respectful boy and we are so proud of him! 

 Walt received the GOOD CHOICES award! 

We too are so proud of Walt for the good boy he is.

Hanna also recieved the GOOD CHOICES award! 

She also recived stright A Honor Roll!

We are so proud of each of our children and feel so blessed to have them in our family!

Van's 8th Birthday

I can't believe this cute boy of mine is 8 years old!

Grandma Susan made him his 8 year old quilt. And the kids made him cards on their own.

Walt taped some quarters and candy to a card for him and Hanna made some 

really good coupons for him. I love these kids of mine! They're kind of awesome!

Van's birthday was on Veterans Day so we went to the Children's Museum, 

to a neat park and to Cici's Pizza for dinner.

We got Van a teather-ball court instead of a party this year. He loves teather-ball!

Happy 8th Birthday Van! We love you!

Kids Love Face Paint

We went with Grandma Susan to her work party and the kids had to get their face painted!

Fun times!

Halloween 2014

The pumpkins! 

As you can see Hanna and Walt are missing. Walt started the evening upset with not liking the pumpkin he was given and Hanna ended the evening upset with not liking how her carved pumpkin turned out. So we had a success of 4 out 6 happy kids.

The costumes!

This is the first year the kids were able to dress up at school!

Max's grade do a PINK day and he won the most PINKalicious for his grade.

Hanna=Nerd, Van=Zombie, Daisy=Ariel, Walt=Ninja

Clark was a skeleton. My mom made Daisy's Ariel tail, which turned out great!

The kids were happy with their earnings!

We had our traditional dinner in a pumpkin.

At our ward Trunk-or-Treat/dinner.

Fall Festival

This was such a fun night at the kids' school Fall Festival. 

We are just loving their school and feel so blessed to be there.

The whole Star Wars crew was there!

The kids had fun running in these fun bubble balls like hamsters.

 

The kids had fun on these riding toys.

Cute "Nerdy" Hanna!

 Chewbacca was huge!

 Just a random silly pic. of Van and Hanna.

My Little Helper

I have to admit I feel like I'm a much nicer momma with just one little helper. I let him use the little cart at Albertson's and I think he's so cute and I even take pictures of the moment. Thinking back I wish I did have someone take a picture of me at the store with my 5 toddlers 5 and under. I remember my cart would be so full with babies I had no room for groceries. I would have Max pushing our food cart, I would hold one baby in the sling, one in the car seat, Van would sit in the cart and Hanna would hang on the side of the cart. And grocery shopping was stressful and I had no time to even think about taking a picture of what we looked like. I do remember the looks I got though.

Clark gets to enjoy lunch dates, which I never did with my 5 helpers.

We are eating at daddy's favorite noodle house, Monta.

Clark put on Max's glasses and said, "I'm Max!"

Clark reminds me most of Max. I'm not sure if it's because of all the one on one time I was lucky to have with both these boys or if it does have something to do with their personality or their looks, but being with Clark brings back lots of memories of my young mother years with Max. The funny thing is my way of daily tasks have changed a lot! With Max I did everything for and with him that consisted only of his interest. With Clark I go about my day as if I would without him as well. Once a week I attend an institute class, I just go in a different room and bring him some toys and a snack and turn on the speakers. I do all my running around that needs to be done while the rest of the kids are at school. For some reason when we have our first 2 children we feel like we can only go to parks and play dates and child like activities, but then when we have a few more children we realize we can actually still do what we need to get done and want to do with them along.    

Halloween is just around the corner.

I love this little boy and feel so blessed to have him as my little helper.

Eric's Birthday

It was my brother Eric's 42nd birthday on September 30th. He passed away when he was just 18 years old. I can't believe it's been 24 years since his death. His favorite food was steak and lobster, so for his birthday Max and I went out with my mom to celebrate his birthday.

Clark's Haircut

Our friend's the Boyd Family were blessed with the opportunity to adopt this sweet baby boy!

(Gary Clark III) We are so happy for them!!

Here is Clark and I at Baby Gary's baby shower when Clark had a full head of white hair!

He just got a haircut and that beautiful hair is gone! But that cute boy is still there!

Clark wanted to showoff his new bracelet that Hanna made for him.

And the gum he was chewing on!
Those big lips are him saying, "CHEESE"!

He's getting too big!!

Daisy Lost Another Tooth!

Daisy's lost SIX teeth now and poor Walt still hasn't lost one.

Both her front teeth are gone! She was doing a somersault the other day 

and knocked her 2nd front tooth out with her knee.

Jenny Misc.

YES that is GUM in my hair!!

You are most likely thinking it's there because of one of my 6 children. 

Nope. It was Danny! He missed the window! Yep!

Thank goodness for the peanut butter!

Book Club Girls Night Out!

R5 Concert

Hanna and Daisy got the opportunity to go to the R5 concert and meet the group back stage because the concert was were Danny works. Hanna brought her cousin Ruby and her friend Kennedy. It was my first official concert as well! The girls were wild and crazy when the first band started at 7:30, but by the time R5 played at 9:00 we were exhausted! The girls were falling asleep on the blanket. After a little bit they got back up and played, but we left a little early. We'll have to try again when they're older.

Playing in the Rain

We don't get too many chances to play in the rain so when we do we soak it all in!

Nevada got a lot of rain that weekend.

 I love how well they play together!

Selfies

The kids were asked to turn in 5 emotion selfies to the school counselor. The best thing about these pictures is I did them at different times while the others weren't watching and they still made so many same expressions! Here are a few of my favorites!

My very favorite was Max's laughing pic. Every time he tried to make a face he would crack up, the pic. in the middle was one of those times of him busting up laughing!

Family Night

We are loving this trail right behind our house.

Clark loves it so much he actually went out on it one day with out anyone knowing he was gone. About 15 mins. later I realized he wasn't outside with Danny and we found him with some lady (helping him) on the trail. That was really scary and very embarrassing!

Happy 6th Birthday Daisy & Walt

  Can't believe these cute babies are already 6 years old!

 Happy Birthday Daisy & Walt!

We love you both so much!

We finally celebrated Daisy and Walt's 6th Birthday with friends (9/19)!

We needed to get to know some kids before having a party. It was a lot of fun!