I'm a big girl now...

Here is Chloe all ready for preschool! I couldn't decide if I wanted her to do it but she talked me into a few days before her class was supposed to start. She kept drawing pictures of herself at preschool and that really put the pressure on me.

 

Walking into class all by herself. Don't judge the preschool by those big nasty bears out front, the teachers are wonderful and the program is too! She will probably skip right to first grade after this!!

 

She even has her own cubby for her princess backpack.

 

I think this is my favorite of all the pictures (although that first one is pretty cute). Once she found her desk and started working she was way to into her work to say goodbye to me. I know she is loving it so much and we miss her when she's gone but it's fun to have a couple of hours alone with Campbell! (until Jan anyway)

 

You do the talkin'

Happy 8th birthday Cooper and Carter

This year the boys birthday happend to fall on the first day of school AND family night at the big Washington County Fair!! We had never been to the fair here before and thought that would be a fun birthday treat. We were all having a blast until Misty decided to buy the boys these nasty little hermit crabs for their birthday. I guess I shouldn't say that, the kids all LOVED them, they just made me want to barf everytime I saw them. Unfortunately they are no longer with us. RIP spongebob and patrick, we will always remember you. (It was an accidental death, I swear)

Here we are having some good times with family and friends! Cooper and Billy went on the gravitron and looked like heck when they got off, it was pretty funny. That Cooper LOVES the rides, he wasn't afraid of anything there!

P.S. I am still cameraless so my kind sister Joni posted these for me. SHe left me a nice litte note reminding me that it had been way to long since Sophia had made an appearance on my blog. SO here is a little Sophie for anyone who has forgotten (or never knew) how cute she is! Oh and you're cute too Bandit!

A blast from the past...

You may have noticed a lack in my blogging lately. I have a good excuse, my camera broke. It was he last day of school water party that did it in I think! Joni was kind enough to loan me her camera for Chloe's party but we have had no fresh pictures since. Anyway, I thought I would take you on a little trip through memory lane and post some old school pictures (like so old that I had to scan them in, who needs digital?)

We will start off with me as a young child, maybe 3ish. I think its obvious but I am the one on the far left.

Here is Billy's family when he was a youngin. You can tell he is ALOT older then me by the style of clothes right!!!

Flash forward to high school, our glory days! I was on the swim team and this is at our state swim meet at BYU, but I couldn't tell you if this was 97 or 98. Either way, lots of fun, I loved swim team and I am in the process of talking my kids into going that direction! (Shhh don't tell Billy)

Here is Billy with a baseball trophy. Im going to go out on a limb here and say they won state and he was a senior (that part is a total guess) He is napping right now or I would find out more details. I actually enjoy baseball too, and would allow the kids to play that sport,its wrestling I'm totally against.

Okay you might start recognizing us now. This is a picture of us the very first night we officially "hung out" together. It wasn't our first date but still pretty fun to have! This was in August of 1999.

And if you cant tell by the attire, this is our wedding day! Hope I'm not showing to much leg here, haha! The photographer seriously made him take that thing of with no hands, it was funny and akward!

Here comes the good stuff, a select few of you have been fortunate enough to see some amazing pics of us in the Army but to those who haven't, this is my little gift to you!!! Can you find me?? I kind of hope not! This is actually in basic training, I wasn't that hideous the entire time I was in the army.

We were still in training during 9-11, which was seriously scary. About a month after we were done and finally able to live together again my unit was supposed to be deployed to somewhere (I cant remember where and again, Billy prob does but he is still napping!) I got issued all this desert gear so we took pictures of course. We didn't end up going on that deployment and I hurried and got pregnant to avoid any future deployments!

Oh and this is my scary face, I got in trouble in basic all the time for smiling and laughing to much but somethings you just cant change!

So me getting pregnant didn't really help Billy with the deployment issue! Here he is in Oklahoma just 6 weeks after Carter and Cooper were born. Not nice Army, not nice. Doesn't that cot look super comfy to sleep on for 2 months!

I was really hesitant to include this one for a few reasons; 1- my pasty white skin thanks to living in the state of washington where the sun shines about 3 days of the year, 2- Billy's sweet hair cut and, 3- my rather large pregnant body. In the end I decided it might be good to prepare all those people who don't believe me when I say I get HUGE in my pregnant state. Get ready it's coming and it's not pretty when it does!

NO BOYS ALLOWED

 

My sweet little Chloe turned 4 this past Tuesday! I can't even believe it, she is going to school in one more year?? We decided to have a little girls only party this year and it was tons of fun. First we had arts and crafts time at Brushfire, our local pottery studio. Chloe made a lovely blue unicorn with red polka dots. She invited all her (southern) girl cousins and their moms, and of course her grandma Loni.

 

Brushfire is conveniently located a couple doors down from 25 Main, our favorite place to get cupcakes in town! So we headed up there and everyone picked their TWO favorite flavors to enjoy. (I got strawberry lemonade AND raspberry lemonade and I strongly recommend them both)

 

We finished up our girl day at Taylor Andrews where all the little girls got their toe nails painted hot pink with black zebra stripes. They turned out very cute, as you can see! We had such a fun time and I'm pretty sure Chloe felt very special on her big day!

 

We finished off the day at pirate pizza (this is Chloe we're talking about, she's not your typical girly girl)with the family. I snapped this picture on our way out and realized that she is definitely growing up way to fast.

Schools out for summer..

My neighbor Jennie threw an awesome last day of school party for the 4 boys on our block! We started the party a little early and filled water balloons to soak the boys with when the got off the bus. One of the boys is actually home schooled so he came over and helped us with the ambush! We had tons of fun and I cant think of a better way to kick of the summer. (Bonus: I got a sweet sunburn all down the front half of me and am now sporting an awesome stripe down my legs!)
The four boys; Carter, Cooper, Preston, and Coby

and don't forget Campbell. Oh and Ryker, but I didn't get any pics of him:(

The girls, not in school yet but still happy to support the cause! Bella and Chloe

 

WATER BALLOON FIGHT!!

 

Preston and Carter (clearly more interested in the licorice then the fight)

 

VS Cooper and Coby

They also had a pool for swimming, water guns, and a beach ball that had water spraying out of it. I was to busy getting my burn on to get pictures of everything.