While Mom's Away the Kids Will Play.....

While I was recharging my batteries with a girl's weekend, Clint and the boys had their own little weekend away.  They hit the sand dunes. They couldn't stop talking about it when they got home.    

 Rob and the boys

Daddy and his 3 boys

Tanner and Troy

Scoob and Carter

The whole gang including the Christianson boys.

And while the boys were off doing boy things....

Miss Blakley was getting spoiled by her Grandma Terra and her cousin Lela.  LUCKY GIRL!  They took her to Gardner Village to see all the witches.

Looks like it was a WIN, WIN situation for everyone!
I HEART weekends like that.

Sept. 21-23, 2012

Girls Trip~

Back in September, My mom, my sister-in-laws Emily and Wendy and I went over to Denver to spend a weekend with my Aunt Marilyn and my cousin Brittany.  They invited us to their Stake Conference where my ALL TIME FAVORITE apostle Jeffrey R. Holland was going to be speaking.  I was so excited to go over there for some girl time with my favorite girls and to be spiritually lifted with the words of Elder Holland.   

We had some time to waste at the airport before taking off.  

My Aunt's new house is so stinkin cute.  She has done such a fabulous job decorating it and getting it just right.  I wish I would have taking pictures of it to show off and of course to get some decorating tips from.  I did get some funny pics of her HUGE bathtub.  You could have quite the party in it:)  

On Saturday, we went shopping, Shopping, and more SHOPPING!  I think we hit just about every store in the Denver area.  It was so nice being able to be gone all day long without having kids with us.  We could take as long as we wanted in each store, eat when and where we wanted, and chat our hearts outs without any interruptions:) So nice!

Wendy and her healthy snacks!

After a YUMMY lunch at Paneras! 

Why oh Why don't we have a Panera in Utah???

We went and saw a movie.

I really liked this one!

And then we did some more shopping!!!  I really don't think we could have bought one more thing or else our suitcases wouldn't fit on the airplane.

I love these girls!  We laughed so hard!

On Sunday, we got up really early to head over to the church and get a place in line.  They  were only letting so many people into the building.  It was being broadcast to two or three other wards but we really wanted to be able to see him in person.  

I believe they had 1000 tickets to hand out.  I was #64 in line!  We had to wait for 3+ hours for the meeting but it was worth every minute.

After the meeting was over, he stood in the foyer and shook everyone's hands on their way out.  I was so neat to be able to shake his hand.  Of course, I couldn't help myself and had to pull out my phone to snap some pictures. 

My cousin shaking his hand!!

We had to head to the airport shortly after the meeting.  Poor Em was sooo tired.  She doesn't sleep very well when she is away from home.  She needs another vacation just to catch up on her sleep.  

  

I love these girls so much!  I am very thankful for them and love spending time with them!  We are already planning our next girls trip:)

CoUsInS aRe ThE bEsT!!

It's Friday, Friday

Gotta get down on Friday

Everybody's lookin forward to the weekend, weekend

YOU'RE WELCOME!

Now try to get that song out of your head:)

Fridays are always better when you have a campfire, marshmallows and cousins to hang out with!  Tops off the week!  If only we would have taken more advantage of the nice fall weather when we had it.  

 Brooks

 Kenli

 Benson

Bentley

 Troy

 Cute Wends entertaining the girls!

 Blakley and Ally

 Carter

 Yep!

It was a good Friday!

Sept. 28th 2012

Murray's Homecoming

My two beautiful nieces on the day of their homecoming dance.

Jessica

Tristin

Blakley and I went over to their house to watch them get ready for the dance. When the boys came to pick them up, Blakley wasn't to sure what was going on.  She thought she was going to the dance with them.  She even got ready in her Tangled dance!!! lol 

 

"Why can't I go to the dance?"

Sept. 15th 2012

Blakley Doo starts preschool!

My baby girl started her first year of preschool. sniff sniff

How can she be old enough to be in preschool??  She's my baby. She couldn't have been more excited, though.  She gets to go with her cousin Bentley! WIN! And she gets to have her favorite nursery song leader Ms. Hillary as her teacher! DOUBLE WIN!  She thinks she's pretty big stuff now.  She picked out her very first pink backpack, which is about the size of her.  We tried to get her to get something smaller but couldn't talk her out of it.  Her mind was made up:)  

She missed her first day of school because she was just getting over hand, foot and mouth disease.  Aghhhh! Hope to never see that disease in this house again:(  But she was ready to go by the 2nd day.  I walk her to the preschool and has expecting a little hesitation from her BUT nope nothing!  She marched right in there and didn't look back.  I was a little sad but oh so happy that she was going to be OK without me.  I miss her when she's gone.  She's become my little side kick, now that the boys are in school.  I love to see her face lite up when we pick her up.  And oh boy does she get excited to show you what she did that day.    

Love my little girl so much!!!!

Bentley and Blakley

Sept. 6th 2012