New little adventure

I have been bitten by the sewing bug and I have started my own little business. I really just needed something to do to keep me from having to work out in the yard this year and sewing is it. It has been really fun to go shopping for fabric, there are so many cute things out there! So here is my link to my business website and for the face book page. It is still in the early stages, more items and photos will be available once I complete more things but thanks for looking!

My baby is 12!

I really can't believe that Sarah has turned 12. What a sweet girl she is, she loves to hang out with both Colby and I and loves to do what ever we are doing from sewing or cooking with me to fishing and yard work with dad, she loves it all. She has turned out to be quite the little helper around the house and loves to try new recipes. Her favorite thing to bake is banana bread and she even labels the banana's with sticky notes so we know not to eat them because she is saving them to make bread. She has really enjoyed middle school and is the only one of the three girls that wakes herself up in the morning. For her birthday she wanted to go to Wahooz's so we had a quick party after dad came home and off we went to play. So here are some pictures of her little party and the picture's from Wahooz's are below.

Wahoo!

We went to Wahooz's to celebrate Sarah's 12th birthday. It was a nice night out and there was hardly anyone there, the kids got to ride the go carts as long as they wanted all night long. And we played miniature golf and laser tag and played lots of arcade games. Sarah kept saying all night that it was her favorite birthday ever...she really had a lot of fun. Ashlee, Haylee and Ethan came with us and they had lots of fun too. Haylee played golf for the first time, she rode in a go cart and we eventually convinced her to drive her own and she did really good. So here are some pictures of our fun night and of our sweet birthday girl!Sarah scared for her life and Racheal loving every minute of it!


Racheal riding by herself because no one was crazy enough to get in a go cart with her after seeing what happened to Sarah.


Sarah driving her first go cart.

Haylee driving her first go cart!


Haylee and Alissa cruising around the course.

Sarah at the miniature golf course.


Sarah playing a round of golf.


Ethan waiting for his turn to play golf and trying to stay warm.


Sarah and Haylee hung out most of the night and had lots of fun together.

A trip to the cabin

We were able to sneak away for the weekend in January and play in the snow up at McCall. It was during their winter carnival so there was some fun things to do in town and at the golf course they had a fun tubing hill. It was just the right size for everyone in the family to have fun. We took Ashlee and Gerrit and the kids with us of course and they had lots of fun too. Ethan didn't want to walk in the snow but he enjoyed sitting on the sled at the bottom of the hill watching everyone sled down. So here are some pictures of our weekend in the snow and at the cabin.

Do you know what 400 cupcakes look like?

Well...let me show you. Alissa and I volunteered to decorate 400 cupcakes for a friend's wedding, we had good friends that baked most of them for us and then we spent all day Saturday decorating. It was a lot of fun and they turned out soooo cute! We made rich chocolate and golden vanilla cupcakes and the bride wanted homemade cream cheese frosting and we made red chocolate 'W's for the tops. And we even made it over to the church with all 400 cupcakes in one piece, but we drove about 5 MPH though. Here are some pictures of our day.

Christmas 2009

Christmas was very laid back this past year, Ashlee had her inlaws in town so it really was just our little family. It was so nice to have the weekend to rest and be with family after Christmas. Sarah helped make our traditional Christmas morning cinnamon rolls and then they opened their pj's on Christmas Eve.



















And then we all slept in the master bedroom (a Christmas tradition that the kids have grown to hate because they can't sneak out to see if Santa came) and watched movies until we fell asleep. Then we enjoyed Christmas with each other.

Camping Trip to Ensign Ranch

One of our favorite places to camp is Ensign Ranch...unfortunately it is 6 hours away but we were able to go in August. We had so much fun. We camped back by the river and there was no one else back there. I just love having 300 acres of river front property all to myself. We rode horses and all the girls did really good, they loved it. We walked all around the different girls camp sites (they were empty) and tried out every rope swing we could find. The girls danced on every amphitheatre stage we found and Colby even gave them rides in a hand cart, they loved that until it was his turn. Haha. We spent afternoons at the lake and used the canoes they have and Colby tried out the rope swing they have that goes into the lake. We enjoyed perfect camping weather and most of all we enjoyed spending time together. We can't wait to go back!