We have been so busy. I thought maybe it would slow down after the holiday's got over with, boy was I wrong. We had a great Christmas and New Year. We are all ready to tackle a New Year!

We are finishing the rest of the basement. They are hanging sheetrock this week. We are so excited to get it done. Grayce has been wanting her room painted forever, so we painted this past weekend. She choose purple, it really turned out cute. While we were painting Grayce's room Libby kept saying "paint my wall pink", so we painted her room pink. Now that that is done I need to buy new bedding for both of their rooms since neither one of them matches. I would post pictures but my camera is messed up and won't let me put pictures on my computer. Hopefully that will be fixed SOON!


Josh spent this last week in Florida for work. We are glad that was the last trip there. I don't know of any other trips that he has planned, so hopefully he is home for awhile. He tries to ride the horses a few times a week, but that can get hard between work, scouts, kids activites and just everyday life. I am so thankful that he works so hard. I don't know what we would do without him.

Kody and Brady both started basketball. Kody plays with 8th graders this year and he looks like the little guy. He has lots of growing to do in the next year. He has almost passed me up though. Brady has so much fun playing. His friend is on his team and sometimes I think they forget that they have other team mates on the court because all the do is pass to each other. They are so funny! Grayce is in gymnastics and loves it. She smiles the whole time she is there. Last week she got to ring "the bell", because she did something all by herself. She was so excited. Libby is so busy. Most days I can't keep up with her. She is starting to talk so well. She makes us laugh everyday. Sometimes I wish she would stop growing and stay the size she is.

I keep busy taking the kids to and from school, taking them to their activities, cleaning, doing laundry and did I say cleaning? At the first of the year I decided that I was going to try and not be such a clean freak with my house. I'm really trying to not clean my floors everyday. Yes, I mop and vacuum EVERYDAY! I'm having a very hard time not doing it. It's amazing how the mop just ends up in my hands. :-) Well, anyways....We hope everyone is doing well and hopefully soon I will be able to post pictures and give an update of our basement.

Forgetful me

I was going to update our blog, but I just spent the last hour and a half changing the background on our blog. Maybe if I posted more, I would actually remember how to do things.

A little of what we have been doing.....

Kody turned 13 on the 12th of November. I hope I can survive these teenage years. He is good, great kid. We are very proud of him. He also got his first deer. He was very proud. Thanks Grandpa for taking him!!

The boys start basketball soon and Grayce starts gymnastics tomorrow. She is so excited. She has been wanting to do gymnastics forever. I'm sure she will do great!

Josh has been home for a few weeks. He is home until the January, then he will do a bit of traveling again. His job is great. He loves it. (except for the travel part)

We had a great Thanksgiving. It was nice to see the family. We also went and cut a christmas tree over the break. The kids had a blast, they actually got to sled a little bit.

Next week Josh and I head to Vegas for the NFR. We are going with Jade and Amanda, we always have such a good time. We are so excited to go!

More updates to come.....

Halloween and Libby's 2nd birthday.

Ahhhh....Grayce thought Brady and pretty scary looking.

Grayce laughing like a witch.

Brady looks pretty scary. His black hair made all of us laugh. He now wants to die his hair black.

Libby wanted nothing to do with her costume. She went trick or treating just like that.

Libby turned 2 on the 27th. She was so excited about her bike. She rides it all over the house.

She was also excited about her clothes. Thanks to both Grandma's and Grandpa's.

She loved her birthday balloons.

WAHOO soccer is over!

Brady and Grayce both played soccer this year. Brady loved it and played great. Grayce on the other hand....hated it. It was a fight to get her to go every game except for the last one. She was actually excited to go because she knew it was her last one. I don't think we will be doing soccer with her next year. I am glad it is over!! Kody got braces this last week. His mouth sure has been sore. He sure does look different. Kody and Josh went muzzleloader hunting a few weeks ago. Kody missed a few. Oh well, hopefully next year. Josh has been traveling ALOT. We hope he will be able to stay home soon.

Here's an update....

View from our hotel

Libby running away from the wave.

Me and Josh.

Grayce loves to pose.

Me and my girls.

Kody getting ready to snorkel.

Brady just wanting to wear the snorkel mask. He was scared to actually go snorkeling.

My kiddos.

Wow, we have been so busy!! The time just flies by. We went to Florida for 2 weeks. We had a great time. We loved sitting on the beach everyday. We all came back nice and tan, except for Josh. He was working all the time. We went to the Miami SeaAquirum. That was a lot of fun. The kids loved it. We also went to the Florida Marlins baseball game. They lost, but we still had a good time. All the kids did really good for their first time for flying. I think they all liked it.

The boys started school last week. Brady is in 2nd grade. He is loving every minute of it. Kody started 7th grade. Middle school is a big change but he seems to be liking it and Grayce started Kindergarten today. She was so excited to go. Brady and Grayce are both playing soccer. Brady loves it. Grayce told me she didn't want to play anymore after her first game. She "hates" it. I'm guessing she will probably change her mind.

Josh is keeping busy. He is traveling a lot and riding the horses when he can. Hopefully someday he will stay home!!

A little change of plans...

This week we found out that Josh is going to Florida for the month of August and part of September for work. So we decided for me and the kids to go for some of the time. We leave August 2nd and come back the 14th. The kids are so excited to go and to especially fly on an airplane. We had to cancel swimming lessons. Hopefully we will be able to get them in later in the year. We have so much school shopping to get done before we go.

Kody's baseball team got beat out of the tournament. They all played great but was bummed when they lost. I guess it had to end sometime!!