Me and my men, kinda

I need to remember that I am 29 and pregnant and that I need my sleep. Tuesday night our ward had a special Family finance class. We had a friend watch the kids. When we got back she informed me I was going to a girls night with her and some other single friends. Well how could I turn down a girls night. So Joe and Went and said prayers withe the kids before I left and Clayton informed me that I was to stay home and Dad could go. Well I left and we got to our friends house at 9 and played some games and had a good time for a couple of hours. It was fun to be out with adults. When I got home at 1 a.m. Joe was laying in bed awake waiting for me. He is a worrier when it comes to me and so he was thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong to keep me out so late. After he knew I was fine he was asleep within minutes. I sure love that husband of mine. Clayton is trying this new system of just him and mom at home out and has become a big helper, sometime helper means making a great big mess so mom gets to steam cleaning the carpets. Cute kid that Clayton. I sure love my guys!!

Light, Camera, Action

Tis the season for Primary Programs I guess. Crystal had hers on Sunday and did very well. She had been working hard and had her part memorized. She also sang loud, to ensure that Mom and Dad could hear her. After Sacrament meeting was over the first things she asked was if we had heard her singing. She scared us a little during the sacrament song when she walked to the pulpit, luckily she just needed a tissue. Since she had no pockets in her dress,so she thought the best place for the tissue was on her shoulder inside her dress. So every time they got up to sing she made sure to take out the tissue and wipe her nose before singing and then stick it back inside her dress. I got several comments about how cute she was with that tissue. Her and Clayton kept waving back and forth to each other during the program. She sat right in the middle behind the piano so there was nothing obstructing a view of her by everyone. Also during the songs she would start leading the music along with the chorister. Joe said he needed to go home after sacrament meeting and when I asked him why he said "To Hide". But we sure do love our little performer.

Baby Emmett

Hey all, I had another ultrasound today and I thought I would share my favorite picture.. The baby is Defiantly one of our kids. It made it very hard on the technician to get many decent pictures. First it wouldn't stay still then when it slowed down a little it laid down on it's back and kept turning it's heard. It is a good thing we didn't want to know the gender because the baby was very modest. When she could get a good face shot the baby would either bring one hand up and start sucking on fingers, or would bring both arms up and block the shot. So My favorite picture is one of an arm.. I love little baby arms they are so little and cute, so that was great. Happy Veterans Day to all those out there.

Hey All this is a little of my week... First I did my Civic Duty and privilege and VOTED!!!! Most of who I voted for were Elected, But you can't win them all. Then I had two days to bast in the fact that all political ads and signs were gone I love taking Crystal to school and not seeing all those signs.

Then came the dreaded day. I turned 29 yesterday. So I went and bought my cake (chocolate with raspberry filling) and we went to dinner and had a couple friends over.. We had lots of fun..

This was a great Halloween. Fist we carved the pumpkins the night before. On Halloween we got the kids dresses up (Crystal a construction worker and Clayton a cowboy), Then we went to the church for trunk-r-treat. After that we went to a community Halloween party. It was so nice we sat outside at a picnic table and ate dinner we had gotten from the party.

Hey we had a quick trip to Idaho Falls last weekend and this is what we saw on our trip..

This was the back seat on the trip..

This was the kids on saturday. Enjoying out wonderful leaf pile..

This is clayton with a couple cousins two weeks ago..

Hey all this is our little scholar. This is a picture of her at Pre-School Graduation in the spring. In the mail the other day we received a letter from the Principal of Crystal's school. My first thought of my sweet little girl was "what did she do"! Well she did do something but it was very good. The school has an Accelerated Reader program at school. The kids read something then take a test and each test she takes she gets points for doing well. The most that she can earn in one school year is 25 points. Well she has 10 and has had her picture put up on the Reading wall of fame.. The Principal hopes she can get all 25 points by the end of the year. I figure is she can get 10 points the first 6 weeks of school the last 15 points will be done just about as quickly, I am thinking she might even get it done around Christmas if she keep up the good work. We sure are proud of her. She loves school and works had at learning to read. Her goal is to be able to read books to her little brother. She sure has a great big heart.

Down in a hole!!!!

It took a while to get this pictures but here they are. Joe and three of his friends wanted to go on a 4-wheeling/caving trip. Well it happened to be the same day as the General RS Broadcast so I declined the invitation to go along (plus I can't breath in caves so it was for the best). So off Joe and his friends went with our two kids and two of our buddies kids.

That would have been fun to have passed that group on the mountain, 4 men and 4 kids. They all had lots of fun , and I had a GREAT time at the RS broadcast. Our Stake had a dinner prier to the broadcast. It was nice to see my friends from other wards we don't run into very often now that we have moved to a new building. If you didn't see the broadcast try to get a copy of it and watch it.

Clayton with his new daytime best friend. Crystals Favorite doll Abby!!

Clayton was running in the house a couple weeks ago, when I heard a blood curdling cry. Clayton had grabbed a fork from the kitchen before he began running and when he fell he just about lost an eye. Luckily for all of us he just missed his eyeball. He has learned that you don't run with things in your hand.

Just thought I would let you know what we have been up to this week. Friday we went out to dinner with some friends. It was fun to have a couple to hang out with instead of just all single people, Though we do love the single people we hang out with also.. Last night one our our single guy buddies offered to watch the kids so we could go out to dinner just the two of us.. We took him up on the offer. When we got home the kids were in bed (not asleep). Shortly after we had some more people over and played games until 11. It was tons of fun though. I thought I would put in some pictures of my Roses, I think they still believe it is summer it has been so nice. The Roses are booming like Crazy..

Here we are again. One year later and we are still married and better yet we are still in Love and still even like each other. We have now been married for 8 wonderful years and can't believe how blessed we are to have found each other. We love you all. Here are some pictures our last 8 years and the reason we do what we do each day.. Joe and Rosie

I Love Blog's

I just wanted to say what a blessing starting a blog has been. I have found A LOT of family blogs, Family that I don't see very often. I love being able to see what all the family all over the county has been up to and see the pictures of their beautiful families. What a blessing family is. My Dad sent and email the other day asking us to Pray For my Cousin Susan's little boy Neal who is in the hospital and Dad said "Isn't it wonderful that, in a Celestial family sealed together for eternity, we can all join our faith and prayers together in special times like this." How true this is. I have seen the power of prayer when a family combines their faith. This is the biggest blessing in my life. Without family The Journey and the finish line would be pretty dull and lonely.

Hey all I was told I needed some more pictures. Until my computer is fixed so it works right I will have to just do a couple at a time. This is Joe and I with Paul, Amanda, Linette and Todd. We had just gotten off the river after a 12 mile rafting trip that took 50 minutes. We were going pretty fast and we got pretty wet before it was all said and done. Once I Get the computer working right I will do a slide show about all our different adventures this summer. Oh ya the tall skinny guy with no shirt on is our just turned 18 year old river guide..

Hey all I we are busy trying to keep things going. Once I figure out this dumb computer of mine that is as old as the hills I will get some cooler things on here. Right now it won't let me. So I will keep working on it so keep checking.. This is a Pic of Crystal and her JoJo with one of the "BAD" guys after the shoot out in Cody This summer

Hey all, life is going... Crystal is now half way through her third week of school. Joe just got home from Riverton where he was sent by the college to take a class. We are all glad he is home. Clayton and I are busy keeping things together and doing some service, and playgroups.