Frosty the Snowman!

I’ve wanted to post these pictures of the kiddos playing in the snow for a while now…..I finally got around to doing it. This was when we got all that snow around Christmas. The kids and I had a blast making a snowman and playing around in it!











He didn’t last very long, as soon as I got a couple of pics he fell over!! Man, all that hard work too!! ; )





Jenaya, holding one of our neighbor’s new little puppies.



Snow doesn’t stick around to long here…as you can see in this picture, it’s already melting



I had fun making this story board in PS of Jenaya rolling one of the snow balls. I know it’s hard to see her face in the smaller pictures but it was cute and so determined!

Look What We Found In Our Bed....

Curly-locks and the two BEARS!! Sorry, I couldn’t resist that one (Ben & Jenaya are a bit more ornery than Lanessa is). They must have ALL crawled into our bed after we put them down last night, because when we were ready to go to bed this is what we found! Silly kids.





Oh, and Benny said something pretty funny to me this morning. I went and kissed Lanessa then turned and puckered to give Ben one when he said to me “I can’t kiss you mom”. So I asked him why? He replied “because robots don’t have mouths”. He pretends to be a robot off-and-on, going around the house talking in that monotone robot voice. “..I….AM….A….ROBOT….”

Well, I won’t be posting on here for a little while because I’m going on a little trip next week with some of my sisters. We are going to California to attend the “Price is Right” I’m totally excited and I hope at LEAST one of us gets called up… I mean (on down) to the stage ; ) I wish my two younger sisters could come too, but you have to be at least 18 to attend. We plan on going to the beach and walking down the Hollywood walk of fame and a few other things like… shopping of course ; ) I’m so excited, I can hardly wait to go. I’ve never been able to do anything like this before with my sisters. So it will be such a treat. I’ll tell you all about it when I get home.

Just a couple of recent pics.


Here’s Jenaya looking pretty for the camera.




Lanessa girl



Benny boy



I took this one of my friend’s beautiful daughter while we were at a birthday party yesterday at the park.

Chuck E. Cheese's

We were able to visit Josh’s grandma in ABQ this past weekend. It was so nice to see her again. The kids were super excited to see their great grandma. They asked her all kinds of questions about her aging skin and spots (repeatedly. It’s a good thing grandma thought it was cute. Lanessa wanted to sit with grandma to rock-a-bye, snuggle and talk. It was so sweet. I wanted to take a picture of her with the kiddos, but she didn’t think she looked good enough for a picture : ) she said we could get one this weekend when she comes down to visit because she’ll look better then.

On the way into town we stopped at Chuck E. Cheese's. The kids had been counting down the days till they got to go. We all had such a great time. It’s a good thing we don't have one here in Farmington or else we'd be broke ; )

Our Trip

Last Saturday, we were able to attend a reunion with a bunch of friends we made while living in Albuquerque. It was so much fun. Most of our friends we haven’t seen in 3 years. We meet at the Jackman's (Matt's parents' house) in Orem Utah. It’s funny because none of us there actually live in ABQ anymore. We all meet while our husbands were in school and had such a great group of friends. Us girls really became close by leaning & supporting each other through those tuff school years. I don’t know what I would’ve done without them. Love you guy’s!!




Our husbands and kiddos were there too. This is just a picture of us girls. I wish everyone could have made it.



A fun waterslide the kids had so much fun playing on.



This is the cutest playhouse that Grandpa Jackman is in the middle of building for his grandkids. Isn’t it so adorable?? I told Josh I was taking pictures so he could build our girls one some day ; ) This is where Jenaya played the entire time we were there. She LOVED it!








For such a short trip we sure packed in a lot of fun! We traveled up on friday. I meet up with some friends for a girls night out that night. Saturday was our friend’s reunion. It also was my sister Krista’s b-day so a couple of my sisters and I took her out for a fun girls night out that evening (Josh, you’re such a sweetie letting me go out two nights in a row! Love you ; ). On Sunday we went down to Delta to visit my Grandma. Then on to Green River to spend the night.



Monday, we woke up and went to Arches National Park outside of Moab. It was so cool to see all the different rock formations.












We decided that we'll need to go again when Ben & Lanessa are a little older so we can do more hikes; and when it’s not over 100 degrees outside. Benny lost his footing and rolled a couple of times, about here where Jenaya is in this picture. I know he must have had his guardian angels looking out for him that day because it definitely could’ve ended up fatal. I was scared to death!! (It’s a lot steeper than it looks in the picture and it keeps going down)




We also visited Mesa Verde National Park on the way home. It’s in between Cortez & Durando Co. It was sure a sight to see. Josh & I both had only been once before when we were little, so to see it again as an adult was simply amazing. I can’t believe that people actually lived that way and survived! I asked one of the Rangers what their water source was and he said it was just what seeped through the rocks and probably was enough to cook with and maybe have one cup a day. That blows my mind. I’m such a HUGE water drinker I don’t know how they survived on one cup a day!!








Ben & Daddy (with scary eyes) down inside a Kiva.


We had fun, but it’s good to be HOME.

New Scooters

I’ve wanted to post these pictures & video of the scooters Josh brought home from his trip to Utah a couple of months ago. The video shows how excited they were. What a fun daddy!

Ps this was my first time recording a video on our camera.

Happy 4th of July!

We meet with a bunch of friends for a barbeque and to watch the fireworks. Josh was in a choir concert & was able to meet up with us right before the fireworks started. We took the kids to a fireworks stand yesterday to pick some out. We plan to set those off tonight. FUN stuff!

Sorry I haven’t been on here for awhile. Life is just hectic right now. We are trying to get our house ready to put on the market here very soon. I have been going through the house trying to get things ready for a yard sale. We have so many yard projects that take up so much time (mainly our trees but I’ll tell you about all that latter). I also need to post pictures of the twin’s birthday, they turned 3 on Sunday. But for now Happy 4th of July!!