The MTC

Last Wednesday me and my family dropped my little brother off at the MTC. (Or as my mom calls it Mothers Torture Chamber.) It was really hard saying goodbye but I am so glad I went. I love my little brother so much, he is so funny and can light up any room. I will miss him a ton but I am so glad he is on his mission. Look out people in the Dominican Republic, Tyson is coming soon. Here are just a few "picks" from the MTC!


Trying to get Tayton to pose for a picture, as you can see he had more important things to take care of.


This is what happens when you have other people take pictures:)


My little brother and sister!


Tyson with Tanna and Azlyn, my cute little niece.


And finally we figured out the camera, one big happy family. Too bad we didn't get a picture with us coming out of the MTC, that would have been a good one. Everyone in the entire room was crying. I hope everyone is doing good and have a great day!

Farewell 2008!

I must say I am a little sad to see 2008 gone. It was a really great year for us. Here is our entire year summed up in one post.

We started out the new year in Laughlin, NV. It was by far the hottest summer of our lives but we had loads of fun swimming and getting to meet a lot of fun people that I truly miss.


At the beginning of the year my dad came to Laughlin and then me and Tayton went with my dad to San Diego! We had such a blast at the zoo and at Sea World. Tayton still talks about Shamu, it was a fun time, thanks again dad.


The best thing about this year was the birth of our little baby girl Tanna! She was born on 06/07/08. I don't know what we ever did without her. She is the sweetest thing in the world and we are so happy she came to our family this year.


We also took a quick trip to the Grand Canyon and had a blast, me and Levi had never been there before and we love to go to places we have never been. It was so beautiful!


Another exciting thing this year is we bought our first home and we moved to Eureka. We are really loving it here.


I hope everyone has a great New Year, and I hope 2009 is just as good or better than 2008 was. Happy New Year!

Late Christmas pictures!

Sorry I have been a bad with blogging lately. We have just been really busy. We had a fun trip to Utah for Christmas. We loved getting together with our families, and we had a lot of fun parties. One of my favorite memories about this Christmas was when Tayton opened up some socks I got him. He took one look at them, and threw them across the room and said "I don't want these!" and then he kicked the wrapping paper. We all died laughing it was so funny.

He loved his airplane with a hoop Santa brought him and he still hasn't stopped playing with it. Thanks to everyone, we had such a great Christmas! Here are just a few pictures!


We had a family party at the Peak, Tayton had so much fun. Here he is in the foam pit!


Tanna enjoying her time at the peak!



I think I like Christmas! I love to get soccer balls, thanks Grandma!


Tanna having fun on Christmas morning.


Tanna not having fun on Christmas morning.


Levi's sister Kayla got Tanna some baby dolls. Tanna loved them! You know she really loves things when she tries to eat them.


Oh the suspence, what could it be?


It's my team Geo Trax, All Aboard!



Packa and Tayton plaing with his airplane with a hoop!


We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

The Polar Express!

Last week we had such a fun day! We left in the morning and met up with our friends Rex and Shauna and their cute boys, and we went and cut down our Chritmas Tree's. They live here in Nevada but when we lived in Logan we would go with them every year to cut down our tree, but last year when we lived in Laughlin we couldn't go. It didn't feel like Christmas without them so I was so happy when we could go this year! I didn't take any pictures of us cutting our tree, sorry. We got Tayton a little tree and he decorated it all himself. He wanted a pirate tree so he hung all his pirate toys on it, but then he decided he wanted to play with them so his tree is a little bare now. I will put some pictures up later.

Then later that night we went to Ely and rode on the Polar Express to the North Pole, Tayton had such a fun time. He loved it, here are some pictures:

Waiting to get on the train.


All Aboard, tickets please.





Tayton and the conductor!


Here they are reading the Polar Express book to us.


Hot choclate and cookies, can you tell Tayton loved it!


Dad and Tanna having a fun time.


I had to put this picture in, see the guy with the beanie, well he took all the family pictures for us. I didn't realize it until the end of the train ride, but that is the officer who gave me my speeding ticket. It was so funny, it is such a small world. He was nice so it was ok. I am just glad I didn't realize it until the end of the train ride.


SANTA! Tayton was so excited, I couldn't even get him to look at me he was that excited. Tayton asked Santa for an airplane with a hoop. (Geo Trax) Santa asked if he had been a good boy this year and Tayton said he was a good boy, so maybe, just maybe, Tayton might get an airplane with a hoop under the tree, we will just have to wait and see what Santa brings.



Here is the family with SANTA!


The end of the train ride, he has a hard time sitting still. On the way back from the North Pole everyone sang Christmas Carols, it was so fun, Tayton loved it.

So thanks Rex and Shauna, we had such a fun time. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, I can't wait! I think Christmas is so fun with little kids. I love this time of year, (except all the mean and crazy shoppers) Merry Christmas everyone:)

Our Thanksgiving trip!

We had a great time over Thanksgiving. It was so much fun. We brought home two German Short hairs. There names are Molly and Satch. They have been really good dogs, and we are so excited for them. Tayton is having so much fun with them, he will sit in the dog run for hours just playing fetch. He even wanted to sleep in the dog house last night with them. It was pretty cute. Here are a few pictures of our dogs.

Tayton having fun with Molly and Satch.


This dog is Molly, isn't she so cute.

We had to bring two cars because we needed lots of room for the dogs and all the stuff we got. So I decided I would leave early and go hang out with my sister and some friends that I hadn't seen in a long time. On my way to Salt Lake I got my first speeding ticket ever. I was in between Ely and Wendover. If anyone has ever been on that drive, you no there is nothing out there. The only car I passed happened to be a Highway Patrol. There were two officers and one was in training, the other officer even new Levi and I still got a ticket. So be careful when you come to visit me everyone, don't speed in the middle of nowhere. Other than that I had such a fun time, and Tayton had so much fun with my sister, he even said he loves Aunt Christa more then mommy and he wanted to stay with her forever. I didn't take any pictures of them, but here are a few pictures of another one of Taytons favorites Uncle Dante.


The weather was so nice, Tayton loved riding his bike that Uncle Dante made him.


Dante made this fun bike, Tayton loved it. Dante took him for a fun ride. Tayton always has so much fun with him.

Why we were there we went to temple square and saw the lights, it was pretty crowded but we had a great time. Tanna loved looking at all the lights. I also had some crazy times shopping on Black Friday. People can be so mean, I have a couple of bruises from all the people pushing and shoving but it ended up ok. I ended up getting everything on my list except I have nothing for Levi. He wants a nice bow for hunting but that is one thing he will have to get on his own. It was fun to see our family and friends again. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!


Here is Tanna, all bundled up.


Tayton saying cheese!


One happy family!