Brace Face

Well he is officially a Pre-teen in every way. He has been having milkshakes, and jello and soup all day. Oh how I remember those days. It's really is hard for me to believe I am old enough to have a kid with Braces. Don't you just love his smile, I promise the personality is just as delightful.


He has orange bands in top and blue on the bottom. Chosen for several reasons: DUKE Bluedevils , Florida Gators, and simply bc orange is his favorite color!!! I asked him what he was going to get next time and he said HOT PINK. Lol.

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2 babies

Today we went to Seven Peaks with my cousins. Ruby was just amazed with my cousins twins!! She kept saying with both hands up "two babies,two babies". It was adorable. Here she is with one of them (not sure which one lol) while he drank his bottle. She just sat and rubbed his little leg! So sweet. She is in Love!!! It was a very fun day!!!


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Ahhh Summer

We love going to the pool and I was finally nice enough today to buy the kids snow cones. Claire said "you da best mommy in da wourld." let's just see who's saying that tomorrow when I ask her to do chores.


It really was a great day!!!!
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14 years!!

Happy Anniversary to the man of my DREAMS!!! Honestly I knew I was suppose to marry you 14 years ago, but I never imagined I would be this happy!!! Life has had it's ups and downs, but it has been worth every second!!! I feel you were MEANT for me and I think our kids are lucky we love each other so much!!! I love the family we have created and love being the Mother of your children!!!

I LOVE YOU MORE!!!!

We were just babies back then and the Lord must have been on our side bc we acted like babies sometimes too!!! I feel each year has been better then the one before, let's keep it going!!!

I like us better HERE!!!! :)

You make me SO happy and I know that can be a full time job!!! thanks babe for all you do for ME and our sweet FAMILY!!!

Claire turns 5

My sweet Claire Margaret

6-12-06

Well my little Claire Bear has turned 5. I really can't believe it, I can remember having her and how we couldn't believe we had another little girl. Now she is about to go to Kindergarten. Claire had a very fun birthday weekend, for months she has been saying she wants to go to the place where they cook in front of you. So on Saturday night we headed to a Japanese Steak House as a family, crazy thing is we almost fill a table all on our own. Claire was so happy and so was everyone else bc we haven't gone there in a long time.

Claire had a smile the whole night!!!

She was SO excited to see the fire volcano, Ruby was NOT!!!!

We sure do love this little girl. She is definitely high maintenance, but honestly Brian wouldn't want her any other way. She is HIS BABY GIRL!!!!! (don't worry I love her too, but in Brian's eyes she can do NO wrong, I know better!! )

Sunday morning we her actual birthday so we had a big breakfast and opened presents before church. She was just giddy!!!

Pure JOY!!! She loved the gift from her Memere and Papa, 2 cute little fairies. And also the one from Mama and Big Daddy, an Olivia set.

I LOVE these 2 pictures!!!! She is looking so big and grown up!!!

Claire loves her sisters, and Coleman was happy to help install batteries in the bubble blower.

After church we packed a picnic dinner and headed up to the canyon with our dear friends the Bonnettes. We had fun cooking and making s'mores. It was the perfect ending to this very special birthday!!!

These kids sure do love each other!!!!

Timberline Leadership Camp

June 6th-11th

This past week Coleman spent his first week away from home at a camp. He was so excited to leave that I am wondering if he likes us at all. :) He headed up to Hobble Creek Canyon with a group of scouts, that he didn't know, to do youth leadership training. Aside from the camp songs he had a BLAST!!! When I went to get him he was so dirty that I had to ask if he took even 1 shower, and he said "yes, 1" So 5 days with one shower in the dirty wilderness, let's just say it wasn't pretty. When I asked him what he learned he said he learned how to set goals for his life and how to lead a scout troupe. It really was a great experience for him!!! Here he is with his group. He really made some good friends and 1 of them happened to go to his school which was cool for him.

Before camp the parents were asked to write a letter to their sons expressing our feelings and hopes and dreams for them. On the last night they gave the boys the letter. Coleman would die if he knew I posted it, but since this is my scrapbook/journal I am going to!!! He doesn't read my blog anyway!

Dear Coleman,

We want you to know how much WE LOVE YOU!!! We are so grateful to have a son and that Heavenly Father blessed us with you!! Since the day you were born you have captured our hearts and our lives wouldn’t be the same without YOU! I know life feels challenging sometimes and you wish things would just be easy, but we PROMISE the Lord has a great plan for you and if you will decide NOW to always work hard at everything you do and to live the gospel Heavenly Father will work miracles in your life. You are a fighter and we want you to fight for your best life and a good education will get you there. We love watching you grow and seeing what you enjoy. Every year with you is more fun then the year before. You are always making us laugh and we LOVE your fun personality. We are so glad that our little girls have YOU for a big brother, I hope you know how much they love and look up to you. You are such a strong example of how I want them to be. Keep choosing the right and understand that when you make mistakes the Lord can help you do better. You make us SO proud and We are excited to watch you grow and change into a strong young man who will serve a mission and help bring the gospel to Heavenly Fathers children. Heavenly Father has blessed you with so many talents, try to do his will always and he will lead your life!! Thank you for all the laughter, jokes, scaring (mostly mom), and JOY you bring to our lives. Always know we LOVE you more then we can ever tell you and we are always here for you and even if we are not perfect we do everything we do because of LOVE!!! You are our ONLY boy and that is something special thanks for making us proud!!!

When he got home from camp I asked him if he liked the letter and he said "yes, thanks" I guess he was just too touched to say anything more. right? lol. I have to keep reminding myself that he is almost 13-a teenager!!!!, and as Evelyn reminded me the other day "those are the hard years" LOL.

dance recital!!!

JUNE 4TH

It was so fun to watch the girls grow this year in dance, Leland is loving it and plans on dancing next year at a new studio. She made a very competitive team and it should be a lot of fun!! Claire on the other hand said she needs a "break" from dance. Either way I am very proud of my girls!!!

Both girls in their lyrical costumes. Leland had 4 dances with 4 different costumes and Claire had 2, it was a very busy back stage :)