It's been a while... and it's not because I have nothing to blog about, it may be because I have too much to blog about and not enough time to blog it all.  Blogging is not my favorite thing to do. Actually I told Anson it would be nice to pay someone to upload my picture's, and hire a writer to find the right words to describe my life, my family! I do love to look at my friends blogs for the latest updates.  I know one day I will be glad I blogged about some of our family events.

My life... could it get any crazier? Moving, Flying, Holidays, Birthdays is about all I've been doing the last couple months. 1 fun trip to Colorado, 2 great trips to Reno, 1 fabulous trip to Kauai,  Yummy Thanksgiving, A joyous Christmas, and Avery's very happy Birthday!

* In November I went to COLORADO with my husband to shoot a beautiful wedding. We must not forget that we got to stay with our good friends from Utah, Kelly and Jeff. Who just gave birth to a darling little girl. (Kelly's sister was the beautiful bride in the wedding Anson shot.)  Kelly and I saw Twilight, umm mixed feeling... moving on.

*At the end of November my Honey, sister and brother-in-law visited the beautiful land of KAUAI. Truly paradise! Kauai will have its very own blog post, with lots of pictures, but for now I must move on past that event to what is happening currently. That way I don't feel completely overwhelmed with too much to blog about. For now check out my sisters blog, she posted some pictures.

*We also had a WONDERFUL Christmas at my parents house. A white Christmas, with lots of JOY and HAPPINESS. 

I still need to hunt down our Christmas pictures. 

*WE MOVED!!! I love my house! We are so thrilled! I will one day post pictures:)

*My sweet BABY girl had her first Birthday. That is the most recent event and that is the one I am going to post about today.  One step at a time.

LEAVENWORTH:  We decided for Avery's Birthday we would go to a great family town called Leavenworth. Which also has a small ski resort and snow tubing. It was a great day with lots of laughs and cold feet. Austin our talented little boy is learning to snowboard. He is already better than me. Truly.  Avery enjoyed the warm lodge and food, riding in a backpack with Dad and walking in the snow, what a challenge for a ONE year old. 

What a great Dad. Multi-tasking.

What a STUD, we are so impressed!

I can not believe Avery is ONE! The year went by so fast.

 WATCH OUT BOYS she is a feisty little thing, thank goodness!

*Avery loves to walk around everywhere and run when needed(away from mom.)

*She LOVES books. She will sit for a long time reading with you. She also spends a lot of time taking books off the bookshelf and looking through them.

* She ADORES her brother, and wants to do whatever he is doing.

*She loves to be center of attention, of course. 

*She loves being loud and crazy. Singing/dancing.

* She loves to eat eat eat.   

****Avery is such a joy to our family. She is a darling little girl and we all love her dearly. She is such a smart little thing, with lots of spice to her personality.    

Isn't it so great being a mom and thinking the world of our kids.

Happy B Day!

 YUMM!

In TWO weeks...

I am going to FLY here..

PLAY and RELAX on this BEACH...

HIKE and ZIPLINE to this waterfall...

Rent a SURF BOARD..

yeah right, and get eaten by a GIANT SHARK, no thanks! I'll watch Anson.

GO SNORKELING with him.

DANCE PARTY and FEAST at the LUAU...

Anson and I will be leaving for Kauai in TWO weeks along with my sister Ann and her Husband John.  We are SO excited to GO!!!! Thank you Ann and John for inviting us to go with you:)   NO my kids are NOT going!  It's going to be a wonderful ROMANTIC getaway. 

The BEST day of my Life!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ANSON

Two years ago today was by far the happiest day of my life! A PERFECT moment! Anson and I were Sealed for time and all eternity. In the Beautiful Salt Lake Temple.


The Day Began...
I remember waking up Nov. 10th and just feeling peaceful, not stressed about my hair, my makeup, if my dress would zip up. I really just wanted to run to the temple and meet up with Anson RIGHT AWAY!

When we finally met up at the temple... Anson and I hugged, it felt like Heavenly Father was also wrapping his arms around me. When we were finally dressed and ready, we got to sit in the CELESTIAL room which was AMAZING, and BEAUTIFUL. With all the beauty that surrounded us nothing compared to what I felt inside. I have NEVER felt the spirit so STRONG. At that moment I was SO thankful for my Heavenly Father and opening my heart to the strong spirit, to know that I was in the RIGHT place with the RIGHT guy.
Anson and I could not stop smiling. When we met our sealer he told us that he felt the spirit strongly... that we were a beaming light, and with that, he said he was afraid that we would be lifted up to heaven before we were even sealed. He then showed us around the Celestial room and pointed out many symbolic things. It was great and very interesting. Then finally we entered the sealing room. I loved to see all of our loved ones smiling at us. Our sealer was amazing and said so many wonderful things. It truly was a PERFECT moment. To kneel across from Anson and feel the way I felt, was to me, a piece of Heaven a gift from God. I LOVE that day those moments in the Temple. I am so thankful to be SO loved by my husband and by Heavenly Father. That day will ALWAYS be the BEST day Of my LIFE!

Plus we went to Disneyland for our honeymoon... why not?? It's magical! :)

Sorry I went waaaay overboard with pictures!!
I wish I could post them all, because I love them all:)

It was SO COLD that day!!

SHEER JOY

I will be forever thankful to my family and friends who traveled to be with us on our special day!!

Anson's BOYS! The 3 on the right are single, Ladies??

Here is a video from our wedding. We had somebody video record when we came out of the temple and during pictures. Anson took the raw footage and started to make our Wedding video. It is not at all done but here is the first minute or so if you are interested.
Of course it's not the BEST quality on the blog??
Make sure you turn your volume up:)

I know Halloween is OVER but...

I forgot to post these...

These are pictures from...Trunk or Treat in our NEW ward.
I tried to get Austin to be Peter Pan and Avery could be Tinker Bell... but Austin wanted to wear his Pirate costume from last year because he liked the ride at Disneyland so much.
It was fun dressing up Avery this year. She is the cutest little FAIRY!

Me and the kids traveled to Reno for Halloween this year so "Disneyland DAD" Mike, could take Austin to Disneyland for Halloween! LUCKY Austin! Austin was Bumble Bee from the Transformers. He had TONS of fun of course:) Two trips to Disneyland in one month sounds like a pretty good deal for a 4 year old.


Avery took 3 steps that night, it must be the Fairy costume!!

"Umm I don't think I want that green hand to get me!"

It's our tradition to build a Ginger Bread house for Christmas every year.
BUT Barb found this Halloween house. It is much easier for us to build a scary looking house rather than a pretty Christmas House. Here are our results.

Scary!!