Sweet Toby

I am making Toby a blanket and I am using 2 different colors and doubling the yarn so I had to deal with a lot of twisted yarn and knots. So cute little Toby made me this cool box. It is so helpful!! I love it!

Morgan has one but it is a bit more...professional, but mine has more love put into it. It was nice to have and it was so sweet of Toby to make it for me. I love him.

Super Bowl The Right Way

We just had a bunch of food. It was so good. Everything was so good I just stuffed myself as fast as I could. So I was done snacking by kick off.

This was Toby's and my table.

Here is Jesse and Brooks.

We like cheese!!

Here are the boys very excited!!! We still didn't have the chicken wings or the brie. We could have fed 15 people but it was just the 4 of us. It was a lot of fun. The game was awesome too!! And that is how you do the Super Bowl right...just have a LOT of food.

VEGAS!!!! (this one is long so brace yourself kids)

My brother Jesse was planning a vacation to Las Vegas. As he was telling Toby and I about it I started to think how nice to would be to go on a vacation. So we invited ourselves. It was so much fun. So far in our relationship we have had a hard time with vacations, they ALWAYS have something that goes wrong that makes the whole trip not worth it. Even our honeymoon was a mess. Vacations for us always add more stress. This time we broke the curse and we went on a vacation with no problems...well one but it was little and it turned out to be a good thing!!

Jesse was taking Brooke "his girlfriend" for her Christmas present. The plan was to pick Brooke up from the airport Friday night and leave for Vegas Saturday morning, early! She was flying in from Cali and because of the weather she had already spent 3 hours in Vegas, then after another 2 hours in the air they landed. During our car ride home Jesse decided to break the news to Brooke about her sweet vacation present. Jesse didn't exactly get the excited reaction that he was hoping for. But after hearing the thrilling events scheduled for our trip, Brooke then became excited!! If only we would have left for Vegas when we found out that her flight was delayed, we could have meet her there and saved 5 or so hours waiting around for her to get to Utah... haha..

The first night we stayed at the MGM Grand. The rooms were great especially compared to any hotel room we have ever stayed at before. That night we went to a great restaurant. We had the most fancy food we have ever had. Then we went to a Cirque du Soleil show called KA. It was amazing. I can't even explain how much I LOVED it. We all loved it!!!

This was not us at the show we cheated a little. We saw this poster of KA and Toby did a great one handed picture taking job.

Cute Jesse and Brooke after KA.

Funny story...when we went to KA Jesse got a cocktail and it was the size of a Big Gulp for 711. It was MASSIVE. It had VERY strong. So for some reason Jesse thought that it would be a good idea to do some push up's. I still don't know why but he felt like he really needed to do 40 push up's. He only got to 30.

Brooke said something about doing the push up's where when you come up you clap behind your back...so of course Jesse had to try one or two. I hope this picture helps you imagine how he did. I'm surprised he didn't get rug burn. But it was terribly entertaining.

The next day we went to the Bellagio. We walked around for a while looked at the BEAUTIFUL hotel. I really like the hotel part of vacation. I enjoy having a nice room and just spending time in there. But we were in Vegas so there was a lot to see.

During our stay at the Bellagio we had a ton of fun checking out the shops and casino. BUT...Jesse and Brooke's room was not ready when we got there. And it still wasn't when we left..... After doing some window shopping and hanging pool side for a while, Toby and I went up to take a nap while Jesse and Brooke stayed and played in the casino. Then the "fun" began.... Long story short Jesse's 1st room smelt of smoke. Then the next one was not clean, the robes were, the glasses and towels were all use and the bed was not even made. It was just gross... So they got ready for dinner in a dirty room and asked for it to be cleaned while we were at dinner. We went to a steak house in the resort, called Prime, it turned out to be spectacular! . I know I keep saying that but every time we go out to dinner it is just great!!! It was a really neat experience because the restaurant was right on the water where the fountain show was. It was even better then the night before. After dinner we wanted to go watch the fountain show but when Brooke and I went up to her room to get her coat the room was still not clean...err... Again, to make this long story short, they didn't comp us fairly enough for the trouble that we had to go through. So we left the hotel. It turned out to be a very good move. YAY!

We went to the Venetian! The other two hotels that we had been to were beautiful but this one, whew, was incredible! The shops and the casinos and the rooms and EVERYTHING was just AMAZING!!! They had the most beautiful painting and sculptures.

For our last night in Vegas we went to the exquisite restaurant called Tao. The food was sooo good. Throughout our dinner we had brief interactions with the restaurant manager, he was really cool. He obviously liked us as well because he ended our night with complementary dessert, it was probably one of the greatest desserts of all time!!

Our rooms came with 50 $ credits, so we played some slots.

Gina pretty much rocks the house...Yes, Yes that would be a royal flush. Gina won 60 bucks. I was so stoked because she won some money!!-Toby

When Jesse moved in with my parents he brought with him POKER. Not that there wasn't poker before then, it just didn't happen at my parents house. So when he came we all went crazy. At least a game a night and the loser had to do the dishes. Just to say Jordan did a lot of dishes. Jesse is a great player so he decided to play in a tournament. He got 6th out of about 60 people so we were all proud of him for that!!

The last night we felt like we needed to see another show. So we went to Phantom. It was fun but the boys had a hard time with it. Brooke and I really liked it. But it was still nothing compared to KA.

Sorry about all the talk here are a bunch of pictures:
The Venetian had a gondola where you can take a boat ride through all the shops and they sing to you. It was so beautiful.

Jesse and Brooke at Tao.

See that blur yeah that was me!! I won super speed at the slots. Haha.

This was the ENTRY to our room at the Venetian.

Pretty much these rooms had more square footage then any apartment we have ever lived in. It was around 1200 sq/ft..... yea it was awesome...

These decorations for Christmas must be a pain in the butt to find a Tupperware big enough to store them in.

Best trip ever!!!

The End!!

Early Chirstmas

Like always Toby got spoiled this year for Christmas.

Sadie's ok with it too.

I had found this 4 wheeler while I was trick or treating with Raelin and Ryker. Because I didn't trust that it was a good enough deal to get without talking to Toby. So he got his present 2 months early. But I totally didn't mind because it came with a plow and a winch so all the snow that we got before Chirstmas was not a problem. It also came with the seat on the back and a trailor for it too. So it was a steal of a deal and we had already had so much fun sledding with it and clearing the driveway!

The New Yard!!!

Toby, Jordan and I were talking about something we could do for my parents to thank them for letting us live there. We went through a lot of ideas and we came up with fixing up their yard. They have this planter right in front of the house with really ugly trees to say the least. This is what it used to look like.
UGLY right? Especially compared to the rest of their property.
Then Toby and Jordan tore everthing out. I have to say that I think that it looks so much better already.
Look I'm a helper!!
Jordan too...
Even Sadie helped. She did a great job.
We had to take out a lot of grass. It was really hard. Luckily I had to go to work and I got home just in time to help with the not-so-hard stuff. Jordan and Toby did such a great job. It was way more work then expected, just like every yard project.
We got a peach tree and some lylac trees for planter. We also got a ton of bushed and ground cover. We should start a new TV show. "Pimp my yard" we did a really good job.
Like I said Toby and Jordan did a great job. Toby is one heck of a worker and he had such great ideas for everything!! He also got Jordan to work the hardest he has in his life. So that was nice for Jordan. Jordan helped out a ton. I don't think that we could have done it without him!
Here is a lame picture of the finished product. I wanted to get a better picture but then it snowed. Utah...grrrr.

We still have 4 or 5 more trees to plant. For Christmas and Fathers Day I would tell my dad that I would get him a tree but we never got to it. So we are making up for it now. My parents want to plant them out in the pasture and block some of it off so the horses don't get them..again it snowed right before we were about to get started on that new project.

THE Bed

This is the bed that Jesse and I built while Toby was in Canada. We had so much fun! We were sleeping on an air mattress and so Jesse decided to build us a bed. The design was Jesse's. I was just the helper. It was hard to keep it a secret from Toby but it was worth it when he saw it.

These pictures don't the bed justice what so ever!!! I love it!!!

Sadie's Swimming

Sadie has not been super hot on the idea of swimming. Jesse has taken Sadie up the canyon a couple of times and got her to swim quite a bit but every time Toby and I go with she won't even get close....except this one time!!!

I was so proud!!! It was like watching my baby take her first steps.

She is so cute. She would stand on this rock and watch Ladie swim all over. When Ladie got close Sadie would pounce and start to wrestle with her but then Ladie would go back out in the water and Sadie would just stand on the rock-waiting and watching.

Sadie is now a fisherdog. Ok so the fish was already dead but this is a great picture. Don't worrie I brushed her teeth after!!

CAMPING!!

Toby got home from Canada in the middle of October. We didn't get to go camping at all this last summer. If you know us we love camping. Even though it had snowed the week before Toby was determined to go. I was a bit unwilling after the freezing weather that we were having in the valley and was not about to even consider going up the canyon to staying the night. But the weather got nice and warm so we took advantage.

Anyway we ended up going camping and the weather was beautiful!!! We had so much fun. Jordan, Jesse, Morgan, Brice, Raelin, Ryker, William Toby and I were all part of the camping crew. My mom and dad joined us for breakfast. Its jun having all the family around!!!

Jesse brought his guitar and we had some fun making up songs and just messin around.

Morgan and Brice had a lot of studying to do for tests they had on Monday. Toby and I wanted to stay after everyone left so we could hike and play. We decided to keep the kids and we had so much fun!! So here we are before our hike.

We had to have a funny face picture!
What cute kids!!!!

Just some more random pictures of the cutest kids in the world.

School Pictures

I have never been a fan of school pictures. But for some reason I pick a job that requires me to take one. At least I look more professional. At Mountainville we had casual day so I was in my jeans and my Nintendo shirt for pictures. So at least I'm all growed up this time.I like this picture of my new hair way better then the other one. So some good came from school pictures!