Family Pictures

Every year I try to do family pictures. Here are a few of them!!!

Thanksgiving trip to AZ!

While we were in Arizona we went to this great zoo. The kids had a blast feeding and petting all of the animals there.


Here is Jordan petting the stingrays


Makayla really wasn't sure about touching these things...as you can see by the look on her face.


Me & Mady petting Mr. Ray!




Here stingray, stingray!


The girls by the kangaroos.


Brayden holding and feeding a parrot.


The girls


Mady feeding the parrots


Mady in front of the Lemur pen.


Brayden and Mady had fun feeding the ducks


Brayden looking at his monkey friends.


Pink Flamingos


Brayden loves watching all the animals.


Sally the camel has 1 hump....


Mady's dream come true


Braydo wanted to take this little guy home with him.


Please mom...can I keep him?


Mady & Billy the goat


Petting the goats




Woah...


Grandma must taste pretty good!



Oh look...its Bambi!

We all had such a great time at the zoo as well as hanging out with grandma & grandpa. Too bad we had to leave. :(

Road Trip!!!

Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go! This year for Thanksgiving we took a road trip to the beautiful Mesa, Arizona to see our grandparents. We left right after work on Friday and drove to Page where we spent the night to break up the trip a little. In the morning, we decided to go and see a few of the amazing sites around. We had planned on visiting the Grand Canyon however, thinking about my 4 wild children standing near the edge of that massive cliff caused me to have some pretty grand anxiety. With this thought in mind, we opted to see some of the "less" dangerous canyons. The kids wanted to go look at some of Lake Powell so we headed to the Lake Powell area so we could see the bridge and the horseshoe.




Me and the kids in front of the bridge



Matt & Hay



Makayla by the overlook



Two little chicas



Here are the girls walking down to horseshoe. It was really sandy and Mady was throwing a fit about all the sand that was getting in her shoes. Makayla felt bad for her and carried her for as long as she could. What a nice sister!



Here is horseshoe bend. It was quite an amazing site to see.



Here is Jordan climbing all over the cliff wall.



Makayla and Brayden on the ledge.



Here they all are overlooking horseshoe.



The girls sitting on the ledge.



Cute girls. :)




This is looking down the cliff wall.



This is the kids standing on the edge of that cliff wall.



And THIS is me walking back to the car because I couldn't stand watching the kids climbing around that cliff!!! It was making me soooo crazy! This made me very glad that we decided against the Grand Canyon. ;)

Halloween Fun

This month has been one for dressing up, that's for sure. Between Matt's birthday & the Halloween fun we are all costumed out! ;) Brayden's band "Thunderwear" had a Halloween costume party at Mo's. We had so much fun watching our little "Gene Simmons" up on stage. He even gave us the whole tongue thing at the end of his songs. We had such a great time watching him.



Here is our little "Kiss" rocker & his amazing tongue!



Here it is again!



Brayden & a guy from the band named Bradley.



Here he is up on stage singing his little heart out!



His cute teacher Mrs. Fulkerson came to see him perform. It was sooo fun to have her there.



Here is Mady & Jordan in their Halloween costumes.



Cowboy Evan & Baseball girl Mady.



Evan & Mady posing for a picture. :)



Here is Evan, for some reason he thought he needed to stick out his tongue for the pictures!



Matt & Andrea hangin' out! We had a great time this Halloween. Jordan went to a party at a "haunted house", Brayden went trick or treating with Bo & Brighton and Mady went trick or treating with Andrea & Evan. Matt, Rich and I handed out candy at our house. Good times! :)