Til We Meet

Our very good family friend returned home on January 24,2013. Gail was the first one other then my parents to hold me when I was born. She and Mike have been Mom and Dad #2. If Mormons did the whole God Parents thing they would be my God Parents. She has been there for me my whole life. We got to see her one last time in May 2011 when they surprised me and my sibling in Florida when we were on our family vacation there. Shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer. We were told it was a form of cancer that kids usually get and they usually can pull out of it but adults usually have a harder time with it. It did go into remission for a short time but came back with a vengeance. She had already beaten breast cancer years before that. She had a lot of complications this time around and spent the last 6 months in and out of hospitals and finally in pretty much ICU because the chemo wiped out her immune system. She got MRSA and almost had to have a leg amputated. The final blow was a chest cold that very quickly turned into 2 different kids of pneumonia that ended up taking her life. She fought a good fight and hung on as long as she could. God had other plans for her. She is already greatly missed. Its weird to think she is not around. I keep wanting to pick up the phone and call her but she is not there. Mike is going to have to deal with my phone calls now!! I hope he gabs as much as she did!! Thank you Gail for being such an amazing person and mom #2! Thanks for yelling at Mike every time he tried to put me up a tree! Thank you for spoiling me for all those years and bringing me grocery shopping so I could keep Mike entertained and getting henna tattoos and being your goofy self! I love you and miss you. We will see you again one day.

December 2012

Taking my hubby out for his 28 birthday!!!



Brett insisted on taking a picture with me and the kids because I never have pictures with me in them. I am grateful he thought about it but I hate taking pictures!!

Christmas Eve! I am so proud of myself I made all 3 of their jammy pants!

See I like these kind of pictures with all 4 of them in them!! I just love them!

Grandma Snow and Casen on Christmas Day!

mmmmmm bread roll!

Uncle Nick and Casen. Casen didn't look too thrilled to have his picture taken. Oh well they are both so cute!

November 2012

I decided to attempt to take some pictures of Madi and they turned out okay with the crappy camera I have!!

She poses by herself its hilarious! She is so gorgeous though!

For Weston's birthday we took him to Fat Cats and ate pizza and bowled! It obviously was too loud he was covering his ears for the first part but then got used to the noise and stopped.

Obviously I was taking too long to cut the cake so he started eating it himself! Aunt Rachelle made this cake and brought it to the bowling alley for him! He loved it!

My Eskimo baby!

We went to California for Thanksgiving this year and we went by the San Diego temple to look at it! It is so pretty I love it!

Daddy and the kids on the beach! It was FREEZING and extremely windy but they didn't care! I stayed up on the beach and kept Casen warm!

This was a different night on the beach. Still FREEZING but they didn't care!!

This pelican was about the same size as my kids! He was just chilling and didn't move! People would walk right up next to him and he would just stare at them!

I always thought these two looked alike but didn't realize how much until I took this picture of the two of them next to each other!! Brett definitely looks like his dad!

This is how Casen spent beach time!

And like this!

Exploring the rocks!! We had to bundle them up after this in tons of towels and turn on the heater in the car to warm them up! They had so much fun and were such good sports the entire trip! I was dreading the 11 hour drive out there but thanks to DVD players and treats we made it through it without fits and even with a 7 month old it was really good!! If my kids are that good on ever trip I will bring them anywhere!! 

We finally got a Christmas tree sooner then a week before Christmas!!

I am so in love and thankful for my little family. They make every Holiday amazing and I wouldn't want to spend any Holiday without them.

Sept and Oct 2012

Casen about to get his first hair cut!!

That foot was good entertainment while getting his hair cut!

We went on a family drive up the canyon and it was so gorgeous!! The kids actually loved every minute of it!!



No one can get Casen to laugh as hard as Weston can! These two have such a sweet bond. Weston can't wait until Casen can wrestle him though!

Casen on his first "mini hike" with daddy!!

Weston, Madi and my cousins kids were playing out front one day..... My kid of course found the only little mud puddle out there..... He comes to the door and demonstrates how he stomped and splashed in the mud. Then looks at Brett and says "daddy I dirty like you!" (Brett comes home from work some days muddy and dirty so Weston thought it was pretty cool to be like daddy!!)

Needless to say we laughed pretty hard at him then stripped him down outside and I took him in to shower and daddy sprayed off his clothes outside with a hose!! He was one happy boy though! I am sure there will be more of this in the future!! His favorite thing to do out back of our house is play in the dirt, and poke bugs with sticks!  He is all boy that is for sure!!

This is a classic Weston face. We can hardly get a real smile or anything out of this kid!!!

We went with Madi's preschool class to a place called "HEE-HAW Farms". My nephew came with us too! These kids had a blast! They had this big corn box there! You know instead of a sand box they fill it completely up with corn and let the kids play in it!! It was a total hit with these kids!! That night I was still finding corn in shoes socks underwear and diaper!!!

He was a little scared at first but I finally talked him into petting a little piglet!! Madi on the other hand wouldn't stop running from pig to pig to goat to horse and whatever else they had in there! I couldn't get her to stop long enough to take a picture of her petting any of them!

This is how Casen spent his time at the farm!

A little look at the corn pit! Casen tried eating them....

We went to another place up here called "Cornbellys" with my bestie Desi and my nieces! There was so many people and the kids were running around like crazy even with 3 adults it was hard keeping an eye on these 4!! I definitely was having some anxiety with all the people and kids there!!!!

At the Hee Haw Farms they had this big slide that you get on potato sacks and slide down! Madi is usually my cautious one.... Not on this thing she ran up jumped on the sack and took off down that thing so fast! She and Weston both loved it and went down it so many times!!!!

I will have to post picture of the picture I got of the kids for Halloween. Weston was Iron Man and Madi was a daisy fairy and Casen was a puppy! Weston and Madi got a ton of candy this year!! Halloween is getting funner and funner every year I love it!! I am so excited for Christmas to come this year to see the excitement on their faces when Santa comes! These two are growing up way to fast..... Today is Weston's 3rd birthday and it makes me so sad that he is getting so old! Madi is going to be 5 in March! Where is the time going! Everyone always says to cherish these days when your kids are young because before you know it they wont be! They are so right!! Weston is already talking about when he goes to school and I keep thinking  oh my gosh that's not that far away!!! Casen is almost 7 months old!! He is rolling around babbles on and on smiles and laughs and has two teeth! He thinks his siblings are pretty awesome too. Madi is the nurturer mother type and Weston likes to be the "court jester". Weston is as big as Madi now too! She can still take him for the most part though! The other day I was getting Weston dressed after his bath and Casen was laying on the floor in the hallway playing, next thing I know Madison come running in telling me to come look! I asked he what she wanted me to look at and she just kept saying "mommy just come see, come see what I did with Casen" and me not being too worried told her to hold on just one minute. She kept bugging me and finally she said "mommy come see I put Casen on my bed!!" That got my attention!! I went into her room and sure enough Casen was on her bed!! I asked how she got him up there and she looked at me like really mom I am a big girl! So she goes on to tell me "I grabbed his legs and drug him into my room and then I picked him up and put him on my bed!" Okay now you have to know Casen is not a light weight baby. He is 18 pounds and Madi is like 32 pounds soaking wet! the amazing thing is is that Casen did not make a noise!! He didn't cry or complain or anything! He probably thought it was the coolest thing ever!! So since then I have let her hold him while she is standing VERY VERY supervised and Casen every time gets this HUGE grin on his face and seriously loves every minute of it!! My kids are crazy and my hands are full with these 3!! I love them though with all my heart! I couldn't imagine my life without them!!

Summer Picture Overload!!

Snuggling with papa!

He isn't chunky or anything lol! This is when he was about 3-4 months old.

Not enjoying his siblings too much!!

Her last soccer game of the season!! She loved playing and keeps asking when she gets to go play again!!

First smiles!! Now he uses his cute smiles to make me get him out of bed or pick him up. He knows how to work his mommy already!!!

The boys hanging out with "brownie!" Seriously Des could you make my kids look any more pale!!!

We went up to my aunts cabin with my cousin and her family! These two boys were looking for stick to beat each other with lol!!

All the kids..... Oh and Brett too hehehehehehe!!!!!

He didn't have fun playing in the dirt! "Look mom I'm a pirate!" Yes he is ALL boy!!!

We saw this buck right outside of the cabin! Then we saw one with double the antlers!! I couldn't get the big one on camera he kept walking......

The kids loved their tumbling classes this summer!!

Swimming at my uncles house with Nick!

Doesn't Casen looked so thrilled!! Nick makes my kids look pale too!!!

Weston finally having fun and swimming around by himself!! Somehow we got both the kids to just off of the diving board!! They each did it only once and that was it for them!! Haha

Up Provo Canyon at the falls! He is such a daddy's boy!! Aren't they so cute together though! I love this picture!

We were eating dinner and Brett and I looked away for a minute and all of a sudden Weston was gone! I looked down at his chair and this is what we found! He was out cold!!

When we went camping we stopped in Heber City to get a yummy shake from this place up there and Madi was so excited because we got her her own Oreo shake!! She was in heaven!!!

Casen is going to be bigger then her one day too!! It's okay though she has the feisty little attitude that will keep her brothers in check!!

What mom I didn't eat any chocolate!

Crusties I get most days!

Proud daddy!!

Madi is in "Joy School" which is just like a pre-school. Just the moms of the kids teach and rotate weeks. Its cheep and the kids LOVE it!!! This was her first day of school!!

We have an office now for the company and I have had to bring this little bugger with me a few times and this time he was supposed to be sleeping in his car seat and I could hear him fussing and didn't think much of it but when I walked out into the front office this is what I found! He is already try to escape and get out of naps!!

He rolls from back to belly all the time!! He just refuses to go from belly to back!!! He will lay on his tummy and just scream when he is done and then Madi will run over to him and flip him over and he is usually happy for a few minutes and then flips back over onto his tummy!!!

Daddy went to Michigan and brought these two back matching Jerseys!! They are such studs with them on!!!!!

Aunt Rachelle is in culinary school so we went and saw her the other day and Casen got snuggled and kissed like crazy and loved every minute of getting all this attention from his aunt!!