Guess who's TWO?

Avery had a Birthday Bash! Avery brought his favorite present with him to the park. He's pretty darn good! It totally reminds us of Chad (daddy) and Devin when they were that age.

daddy still has it

First time blowing or eating bubbles


Happy Birthday to YOU!

putting on his new shoes

Toree and Preston

The weather today was absolutely beautiful!
Perfect park day.

My love/hate relationship with sandboxes

Every once in a great while I come up with "something" that I'm kinda proud of! This time it would be a sandbox for my grandkids! I have great memories of playing with my cousins in my Grandma Hansen's sandbox. We would spend hours out there under her tree having a wonderful time. We always had sandboxes for our own kids but I hated how they would track it in the house in their shoes or pockets...whew....and in their hair! (I didn't solve that one, so get over it!) So, here is my sandbox!

you heard me- a - sand - box.

Comes with a lid!
They sit "around it." Not "in it." And you can get little cushions for their little buns! (optional)

I put my sandbox on my pavers so when the sand gets dumped out, accidently of course, I just sweep it into the cracks!

FUN TiMES TOGeTHeR

Our family is such a great blessing to us! What would life be without them?

Here are some of the things we did together:

It's been years since we have had a family picture with everyone. Either the boys were on missions, not everyone could come, or a spouse wasn't there, etc. SO, I was very excited to have my whole family home for this one day. My goal was to get a picture. So I noticed that no one was having naps so I said- "Hey, let's get a picture!" So everyone was getting in there places and Devry said, "Where's Toree?" and I said, "oh!! I could just spit!"

I forgot she had gone with friends to a New Years Eve party!

We'll have to paste her in there!

We love our firepit. So we must "always" love marshmellows!

Lulu loves roasting the mellows!

We had so much fun playing games! We brought out Luck Plus card game that we hadn't played in years. It was new all over again!

Do you see why I love being a Grandma?

These two had such a great time together.

and these two!
"Hey, Joseph. What's up?" Avery found out that Grandma didn't mind him carrying these around since they're made out of cardboard! He had a great time.

Lindsay finally lost her tooth! That was pretty exciting!

just hangin
Grandpa playing with the boys
We played lots and lots of games. Jillyn and Brandon enjoying our Christmas slush.
We held and played with the babies! Sooo fun!Little DavisSweet P

I've just decided that there should be at least 1 baby at every Christmas.

So here's a BIG thank-you, ahead of time, to my married kids!

We played alot of the Beatles Rockband. It's amazing how many years we have been singing these old songs and now my kids like to sing them!

This girl is amazing on expert.......and gets 100%!

Family Traditions

Our Annual Christmas Nativity

Good participating this year except we couldn't get the wise men to show up!

It's always hard to gather the grandkids for a pic and get them all sitting. It looks pretty calm but after they shouted "CHEESE!"......the little ones burst into tears! The volume was pretty high. That next pic would have been a classic.

Christmas morning opening presents


Cooper and Avery riding their new stick horses!

Choo Choo

We took the kids to the Train Park in Scotsdale. Cooper and Avery love trains!

Being Christmas time, the park was very festive and fun
These two mostly came along because they heard we were going out to lunch after the park!

just waiting our turn