Pics from Hogan's BirthdAY!

 Waking Hogan up with birthday Candles! our favorite thing to do!  He was super excited to blow them out!

 Settin up the cozy coupe!!

 Playing cars with Grandma!

 Going to cafe rio for dinner!

 Singing happy birthday

Dia das Bruchas!!

 In portugese Dia Das Bruchas means Day of the Witches also known as HALLOWEEN in America! I love Halloween Time!! Its one of my favorites!

 I love my niece Anna! She always is so funny and makes me laugh! She loves to get messy!!

 May and Abbie making witches Brew at grandmas Monster Bash Party!

 All of the call Grandchildren with Grandma Lynda!

 Trunk or treating in our new ward! May looked soo soo cute as a BYU cheerleader!

 My hogi bear was Eddie Munster!!

 Carvin pumpkins!

 This is what Hunter named his Pumpkin: FRANKENSTEIN PIGGY!!

 The night of Halloween on the front steps!

We had a super fun Halloween! We went and watched the kids that morning in the halloween parade at school! Hogi was getting tired of waiting so I sat by my new neighbor Nikki who had an ipad and he played games with carson.  We went to Cafe Rio for lunch that day! Soooo yummy as always!  We had our traditional chili and fritos for dinner that night!  We got to eat apple cider at the neighbors that live above us.  Then we got to meet lots of new neighbors.  Our bishop gave our full sized candy bars and our other neighbors did an open fire pit and the kids got to eat smores!! It was such a fun halloween!

BYU vs. Hawaii

 We took the kids to a BYU game against Hawaii a couple months ago! What a blast!  We got to eat some yummy food before the game and they kids had a blast!!  

 We got to meet some of the BYU cheerleaders! Super cute and friendly!

 My parents.

 The kids got to high five some of the BYU football players before the game started!

Too Excited for the food!

 This is where it gets good!!  Hunter ate too much!!

 UHHHHGGGG I'm stuffed!! :)

Nancy (bry's sister) and Anna (our niece) came and found us at the game too!  They have so much fun with their cousins!

This was seriously such a fun night!! The kids had a blast! I'm glad we took lots of pics!

Kate's Baby Shower

 My best friend Kate is gonna have a baby boy soon! She already has 3 girls! So Christina and I thought it would be fun to give her some boy stuff!!  We threw her a shower at my place.  We did a theme of blue and green airplanes!!  Jake her hubby wanted to be a pilot so he loves airplanes.  I've known kate since we were in Elementary school.  We were roomies at Utah State and we had amazing good times!!   I love best friends you can always count on! Kate is one of them!!  She married our other roommates friend from HS.  So fun! I love her to death!

 

Steph Brown Hock and Kate.  High school friends and college roomies too!

 A super cute BYU diaper and monkey present from our friend Ashley!

 Some of us that were there! Julie, Ashley, Kate, Christina, and Me!

Happy Birthday HOGI BEAR!

This last week was tons of fun!! Hogan had his 2nd birthday!  We got up that morning and he didn't want to wake up!  But once we took breakfast into his room and stood there singing Happy Birthday 3 different times he opened his eyes saw the candles and stood up in his crib to hurry and blow them out!! It was super cute!   and took him to Toys R Us and we got an awesome deal on a COZY COUPE!  He got a free balloon and a birthday hat at the store that morning too!!  Hunter and I tried our best to put together the cozy coupe in the afternoon but we got tired and had to wait for dad to come home and finish it! We were glad that Grandma Lynda came over with tons of Hot wheels cars and tracks for him to play with in the mean time!  Grandma Redding cave over later that night (helped me clean and do dishes) and played hot wheels with him and we took him out to eat to Cafe Rio. when we were leaving dinner that night hunter gave my mom a BIG HUG and said "Grandma, thanks for buying the trailer!" She ordered the trailer to hook onto the back of the cozy coupe.  We were laughing hard because we didn't tell him to say that. He did it on his own.  Anyway Hogi and the kids love the free quesedillas!  Later that night cousins, aunts and uncles came over and sang Happy Birthday to him and ate Mickey Mouse cupcakes and icecream!!  What a fun day....oh yes but at the end of the night when it was time to go to bed he danced for us and was doing crazy moves! He was still celebrating at the end of the day! Too much fun!! We love the Hogi Bear!!

Random other funny things I need to write down:

Hunter told me that he is smart because he went to preschool!
He also told me that Miss Pateresa loves him because she put hearts on his preschool t shirt that he wore the other day!  
A couple weekends ago we got to go spend the night up in park city all of us!  We went to a yummy brazilian resturant and we were the only ones in the whole place.  We went swimming in the HOT TUB when it was snowing outside! It was a blast!  the kids would jump into the snow and then hurry back into the hot tub!! We rented Madagascar 3 and brought the DVD player and watched it in the hotel room with the kids.  We ran to the store for a doughnut run first and enjoyed a pretty good nights sleep!  The next day we went up to the olympic park and had fun walking through their museum of fun things! They had tons of fun interactive exhibits for the kids about skiing too! :)

There is a first time for everything!!

This is my year of firsts.  I keep thinking about a ton of accomplishments I have done this past year! Yes, they may be little but I feel like I have been courageous to do them and happy that I have been confident in myself to do it!

I ran my FIRST 5K in Alpine Days! I gotta give one of my best friends Christina credit for being my inspiration! My hubby was awesome and ran it with me! my time was like 31 min and 4 seconds!  My Sisters Britt, Ali, bro Tim, and nephews Miles and Caden ran it with us too! This pic is super early in the morning!

I learned my FIRST time to do some FUN ZUMBA!! I love ZUMBA! It's so fun! We get to dance to fun songs from Brazil too!  My sister's friend from high school and now my friend Melody does it for free at a church gym and we can all bring our kids too!

I first learned how to dive off a diving board swimming with my kids this summer.  I never learned how to dive! Weird I know!  I have learned that I want my kids to be brave (they are braver than me) but I want them to know that things that are important to me I want them to be important to them too!

I have read more than 4 books the FIRST time since college! Hunger games and Heaven is Here! I wanna read one more before the year is over! Anyone have any good books they have read?!?!

I gave Hogan his FIRST haircut this year too!   That was fun!! Sorry the pics are lacking.

I know I have more I'll have to ask Bry!   But I'm grateful for what I've accomplished and wanted to make record of it so I don't forget!  I know I have borne my testimony more than usual this year in sacrament mtgs than normal!! Hunter and May love to bear their testimonies in sacrament too! I have done more missionary work this year too! I LOVE missionary work and I LOVE helping out the elders and sisters!  It's the truest work on this earth and those missionaries work so hard!! 

Ok more to come.....love all of you who read this :)

NEW HOME!!

I've been reading "Heaven Is here"  by Stephanie Nielson.  I have felt the spirit so much lately! It's awesome!  I feel so connected with her.  During her accident and recovery her kids were the same age as Mayley and Hunter right now.  She had many heavenly experiences and it has helped my testimony to grow!

My heart is full of gratitude!  We got to move in to our new home after waiting for almost a whole year in a small apartment.  I loved making food on Sunday for my family! I can't believe how much room and counter space I have to cook! It's amazing and feels so refreshing to have more than one small counter to work on while cooking!  I'm so grateful that we have more than one bathroom in our home.  I'm grateful to Bry's friends who let us borrow their awesome trailer so we could move everything instead of having to rent an U-haul truck.  it feels so good to have our own yard.  To feel more privacy and not have to hear people above us or people walking up and down the stair wells.  I'm grateful for our new ward.  Everyone is so sweet!  The spirit was awesome on Sunday!  The kids have a fun primary.