CELEBRATING

1-11-11 and the fact that it was 11 degrees outside.



We went to the gas station and got a treat!

Saturday School

Stance and Jami's Wedding

Stance is one of Shiloh's younger brothers. He got married the end of September. It was a beautiful wedding.

The Bride and Groom







Helpers

High fives for the helpers

Our Forever Family

ShiAnne

Lizzy

This shot is just of Stance and Jami's families, the parents, brothers, sisters, their spouses and kids.


Shiloh's Family

Our Family (we didn't get any really great shots)

Stance and Jami with Stance's nieces and nephews, minus Brigham, he was only a week old.

Another couple in love. Ten years ans still going strong!


All my pictures from the first reception were dark and grainy. I thought I would get more at the second reception but this was all I got. I guess I was having to much fun.

Shiloh and Ina

Micah and Amber

Amber and Ina

Gideon enjoying the candy



We had a lot of fun and are excited to have Jami in our family.

Jami's Shower

Shiloh's younger brother Stance got married the end of September but before I can blog about the wedding I have to blog about the shower.

The S* girls threw our new sister-in-law to be a tea party bridal shower.

Only we didn't serve tea. Because who really wants tea at a party?

If I do say so myself the decorations and the food were awesome.

Lunch: chicken salad sandwiches, wraps, ribbon sandwiches and fruit

Dessert: cheesecake, brownies, lemon bars and cake

The Spread

The Decorations

The Party

The bride Jami laughing while listening to Stance answer questions on a pre-taped video.

Opening the "FUN" present (notice how red Stance's face goes)

Stance and Jami, The Happy Couple

For those of you that know Stance I thought you would enjoy enjoy this one.

I left my camera on the table unattended and this is what I found on it later.

Brokens

This past weekend we went to my cousin Chantelle's home coming. It was a great weekend. She did a great job reporting on her mission and we had a lot of fun visiting with everyone. Late afternoon on Sunday, when it was time to go and we had sent everyone to the bathroom and I was making the rounds saying goodbye to everyone, Lizzy was playing on the tramp getting her last few jumps in. She was playing with my cousin's girl her same age and they were the only to on the tramp when she fell and landed on her foot funny. She started crying and screaming, "my foot, my foot, I broke my foot, I broke my foot, I need to go to the hospital." I figured she had just rolled her ankle and that she was over reacting a little (sometimes Lizzy does that). We got her calmed down and hopped in the car for our 4 hour drive home.
Even after we got in the car she kept saying it was hurting and before we got an hour down the road we could see it swelling. We stopped at a Wal-mart right off the freeway and got so ibuprofen and zip-lock bags to put ice in. We iced her foot on the way home and she feel asleep before we got home but the foot was still swollen. I decided if she still couldn't walk on it in the morning I'd take her into the doctors. The next morning the foot seamed about the same.
We got into our doctor (whom we love) early Monday morning. They x-rayed her foot and he thought it looked like she had fractured her growth plate in her ankle. Because it was growth plate and you have to make sure it heals right he got us an appointment with a podiatrist that afternoon.
The idea of going to a specialist made me worry a little but when we got there he was relay nice and pretty much told us the exact same thing our doctor had told us, (way to go Dr. Hoggard). She had fractured the growth plate and she would have to wear a cast for 3 week. He reassured me that these brake usually heal with no problem and that he will check and make sure when we come back in three weeks.

Here is Lizzy hanging out on the couch when we got home. It was an emotionally exhausting day for both of us.

She can walk on her cast and is doing great now. She even has this funny hop skip jump thing she does to kind of run. We have given her a little bit of ibuprofen but it really hasn't bugged her much.

Now we just pray that everything heals right.

By the way that is three kids and three cast and if anyone is counting I only have tree kids.

4th of July Festivities

First we start with the hair. After I did this to my girls a few more of the girls wanted me to do it to them.

Rachel, Meri, ShiAnne, Ahnika, Lizzy, Lia and Claire


As is our tradition we always go to Tom and Traci's house for the 4th. They are great host and let us come crash every year. Thanks guys! Tom and Traci live in the country with a lot of land, so there is room for us to spread out. These are some pictures of just some of the activities.

Lizzy and ShiAnne on the horses.
Just after this Haley's horse that isn't broke all the way got lose and we got to see Haley ride for real. It put our walk down the road to shame.


Slip and slides, trampolines and lasso golf. I don't have pictures of it but we also had swimming, horse shoes, parade, fire works and of course eating.


Cute cousins! Gideon, Kelsie, and Daxton


Daddy and Lizzy


I know you can't see it well but I wanted to write down a little story about this shirt. When we went shopping for shirts for the 4th I pulled this shirt off the rack to look for it at it and Gideon said real excited, "Ya that one! That one is awesome! That one has a monster truck on it!" It was so different then any thing I had ever heard come out of my girls mouth that I bought it for him. He was so excited when he finally got to were it.


And just so you know I really was there even if there is no proof of it.

ShiAnne!

Love this girl but she is getting way to big.