New appliances...

So the time finally came for us to buy new appliances. We just aren't cool enough anymore to have our old ugly off white, duck taped together ones anymore. We have been looking forward to this day for so very long!

We decided to hit up hooker appliance so we could get more for our money and let me tell you it is the place to go! Not only because the stores name is hooker but also because we saved a ton of money! We took this little diva with us! I think she forgot we were in cache valley because the jersey girl was totally coming out in her that day! I'm pretty certain by the time we left they were ready to get us out the door! So we picked what we could with our tiny space and were on our way!

The day of the appliance arrival couldn't get here fast enough! We were all excited!!! The whole process went fairly fast and before we knew it we had a brand new stainless Steele kitchen!!!

This kid was most excited about this!!! We hadn't planned on getting a fridge with a water line but after how much we saved we decided hey why not make our kids dreams come true!! This came with its own set of problems including a small flood in our basement but thanks to the most wonderful plumber on the planet it was all fixed and we are happier and more hydrated that ever!

Here is my beautiful dishwasher! It's a beauty and my favorite thing about it is it tells you when your dishes are clean so there is no more of "are these dishes clean or dirty?" Business.

The kids love the oven. We were a little nervous about it since the nobs are on the front. You never know when Harper is going to start the house on fire. So far she hasn't even touched them. The only thing she cares about is the light and being able to watch the food cook! She can sit like this and watch her food cook all night! We feels so classy in our new and improved kitchen I still can't believe how pretty it is when I look in there!

35

Richard turned 35 a few weeks ago but since I strongly dislike blogging I have forgot to blog about it. 

He had a great day! I think I hit it out of the park with his gifts this year! We got him all kinds of electronics every mans dream!

He requested temptation cupcakes for his cake. I can't blame him they were delicious!

We went to dinner at the Hu Hot, hooked up all his presents and made a wish! Here's to being almost 40!!!

Ice skating...

Last night was finally opening night of the ice rink! For the last couple of weeks everytime we would drive past it the kids would ask if it was ready yet! So last night when we saw it was open we decided to go drive by. That turned into let's go walk around on the ice which turned into hey let's go rent some skates! 

A nice little skater was kind enough to offer take our picture after she saw that the whole family was in there except for me! Pretty adorable if you ask me! We skated around, some of us fell more than others (richard) and we had a grand time! So grand that the kids couldn't wait to go again!

Well renting skates is expensive so luckily we found a box in Grandma princesses garage with all of our sizes! Lucky, lucky!

The boys wanted to hit the ice...literally today so we let them do just that!

Jack is doing pretty good...he's really good at jumping around to get where he wants to go! Actually skating not so much! But he has fun and that is all that matters!

Harper loves to skate around on her boots! She also loves laying on the ice! She says, "look at me I'm a ice princess!"  She really is just the cutest girl ever!

Trey is picking up the skating really good! He skates all over and falls a lot to but you'd never know it because he bounces right back up! Here's to more family ice skating adventures!!!!!

Cheers to a new year!!!!

We have been looking forward to this day for so long!!!! We have been ready to say goodbye to 2013 for at least 6 months. This year has been rough for us to put it mildly! 

We were all excited to ring in a new year and hopefully some good luck! The kids loved popping the mormon bubbly in the fancy glasses! Harper loved it the most. She kept saying, "can I have s'more please??!!" 

We all hung out watching movies snacking and watching the firework show the neighbors were putting on from our back patio!

At about 11:20 some little people were starting to have a hard time keeping their eyes open! 

10 minutes later the first and only party pooper was out like a light. We kept trying to talk to him to keep him awake but it was not happening! I was proud of jack though because he is not a night owl so I was pretty impressed he made it to 11:30!

When midnight struck we kissed 2013 goodbye!!!! Happy new year!!!!

Christmas time...

Oh christmas time how we love you! We started out christmas by going to my grandmas for our traditional family Christmas Eve party! 

We took this great picture of my grandma with all her grandkids. Us girls are pretty out numbered don't you think? Incase you are wondering I am the oldest grandchild and the youngest is seven. Trey is the oldest great grandchild at 7 and Harper is the youngest at 2. 

After we came home we got all settled in for the night. We spread out some reindeer food that the boys both made at school.

Everyone opened their christmas Jammies!

Then we set out cookies and a coke for Santa! A coke is a must for santa at our house.

Jack had a very hard time going to bed that night. It took him forever!!! He was just to excited for Santa and every sound he heard in the house he was sure it was santa! He finally fell asleep though thank goodness!

Christmas morning the kids were nice enough to sleep in until 7. We woke Harper up and it was present time!

The kids loved everything they got Harper got princess stuff and babies. Jack got his beloved aggies bear that he has been asking for for ages. Trey got all the sports stuff he could ask for!

 Santa was kind enough to get the boys personalized jazz jerseys! They are pretty awesome if you ask me!

Harper got tons of new clothes but her boots with the fur are by far her favorite! This girl loves the ugg boots! If you want to make her happy give the girl some boots!

Did I mention santa sent us bowling alley? That was a pain to put together but it's been worth it! We played a ton of games today...it's been great!

This is my favorite! I have been wanting this rug for forever! I honestly didn't think it was a possibility but that richard he's to good to me! We all love it but how could you not its beauty!!!

Harpers spent today taking care of baby cinderella! She's such a good little mommy it's pretty adorable!

Richard brought home our traditional christmas feast after work! We started this tradition a few years ago...we wanted to be just like a christmas story.

We ended the night trying to get a sweet family picture in front if the tree and fire. But in the typical fashion of this family, this is how it turned out! It couldn't be better it's totally us! We had a great christmas couldn't have asked for anything better (except richard not having to work)!! 

Once there was a snowman....

It was out first official day of christmas vacation today. We have recently got a ton of snow so me and the kids decided to go out and make a snowman after lunch!

I was going to wait until after Harper had gone down for a nap but I thought why not let her join in on the fun...even if she did scream at me the whole time. Plus she looks cuter than any person on the planet when she's in all her pink snow gear!

So here he is...our snowman! Sadly he didn't last very long. It started to rain so snowman now has a melted face. He went from looking happy, happy, happy! To looking like he had a stroke. Oh well it was fun while it lasted!

Santa I know him....

A few weeks ago we went to our ward christmas breakfast. We have lived here eight years and we've never been. Mostly because it's a breakfast that starts a 9am. We aren't exactly moving that early on a Saturday. But we did it, ate all the breakfast cassarolles (yuck) you could imagine and looked forward to our visit with Santa. Our ward has a few good characters in it so I thought hey santa probably won't be that bad. Think again....I was really waiting for jack to bust his all time favorite quote of "you're not the real santa...you're a fake....you smell like meats and cheeses"

Luckily he made a good picture he just wasn't very jolly and when he told Harper , "am I going to have to tickle your knee to get you to smile?" Things got a smidge weird and it was time to get out of there!

Luckily we had another Santa time lined up and this guys was the real deal!!! Last year we went to kneaders and had breakfast with Santa one Monday night and it was the best so we made it a tradition!

This Santa was really the best! He knew their names, totally called the boys out on their brotherly behaviors and allergy to cleaning their room and put Harper in her terrible two place. He even talked to them about their elf Elfis and how he has been talking to santa about them. It was magical!!! Trey also discovered there is something worse than getting coal...Santa told him if he wasn't good he would bring him a Barbie! It was great the boys had the best time and Harper could not get enough of batting her eyes at the big man!!