January Wk 1 Fun!!

Along with ringing in the New Year,  it being Piper's birthday wk and her actual 9th birthday we are also down the 1st wk into January! So here's the weekly recap for January wk 1! The rest of the fun we had all wk!! :) On New Year's day our elves leave and go back to the North Pole! When they leave the leave a few gifts to say their goodbye to the kids! It's always board games or new card games! but this year they left a Trip to Hawaii for Spring Break! You read that right! We are going to Hawaii for Spring Break and we are extremely excited! We are going with our bff Facers and Bayardos! We can't wait to vacation as families in Paradise! These pics are so fun of them opening their gift! Their faces are shocked, surprised and priceless! Yayyyyy! We totally surprised them! Love making epic memories with my babies!  

We went to lunch and spent the day shopping at DTS with all the bestie Facers visiting! As you can see we had a hay day shopping! So many good deals I couldn't resist! lol and you know me I love a good deal! lol

Tried our new ninja slushy machine I got for Christmas! It is amazing! We love it!! Honz got to go golfing again! yayyy! Penny helped throw a sweet 16 surprise birthday for her friend! Fun hangouts with close family friends!

Non stop hang outs with neighbors visiting and neighbors that live here! lol Best wk ever with late nights and sleeping in all day! lol Their sched are wacked out! lol We love break time!!

We made it to Sunday Fun-day!!! They celebrated Piper at church! A big bag of birthday gummy bears and sang to her in Primary!! She was so excited! Sadly Penny came down with a bad sickness so she stayed home and slept all day! Hopefully she gets feeling better and it doesn't pass on to the rest of us!!! Ugh! No one has time to get sick!! We only have time to play! lol Now that's a weekly recap from ringing in the New Year- to celebrating Piper- to playing with family and endless hangouts- to getting sick! Wow! We have already done a lot to start off this 2026 year!!! haha

 

Happy Happy 9th Birthday Piper!

Happy Happiest 9th Birthday Piper!! We had officially made it to her actual Birthday! lol All the celebrating leading up to her special day we have made it! lol Can't believe my baby is officially 9!!! Wow! The baby isn't a baby anymore! lol We were supposed to be in Disneyland on her actual birthday but stormy weather and rain took over so  I last minute threw together a birthday party so all her cute little friends could celebrate her! She was bummed out when we told her we couldn't go to Disneyland due to rain but she quickly turned her frown upside down when I told her she could have a birthday party instead!!! yayyyyy! So here's the pics of her waking up on her birthday and opening the presents from us!!!

Lot's of fun things for our girly girl!! She loved all her birthday surprises!! Her highlight was her first polaroid camera and Disney on Ice tickets!! She's so fun and loves all the girly things!! So easy to shop for!! Love my baby girl so much! Seriously can't believe she is 9!!! 

Next up was her Bow themed Birthday Party! Thanks to amazon prime we were able to throw this party together in 2 days!! She said she wanted a bow theme and clicking on amazon I went! lol Her party turned out so adorable! Such a cute idea Pipes!! She nailed it!!! 

Then the besties arrived!! Such a fun cutest group of girly pops ever! Piper loves her friends so much! First they put decal bow stickers on tumblers! Then picked out bows for their hair and added the cutest charms to their new bows! They also added the left over charms to socks! Then they painted bow shaped wood sets! Ate donuts, fruit, chips and soda pop slushies! Sang Happy Birthday to the birthday girl with a cheescake  birthday cake!

Then it was time to open more presents! This time the presents were from her friends!  Her cute little friends sure spoiled her!! She loved all her birthday surprises! Her friends sure know her the best!

The present that stole the show was the real Labubu! lol She only has Lafufu and was so freakn excited to get a real one! lol She was dancing and squealing! lol  These action pics are so fun!!!! Thanks Charlee for the best present! She hasn't stopped carrying it around! 

Birthday cake pics!!! She loved when everyone sang to her!! That smile is priceless! Her birthday cake was cheesecake minis! Her favorite treat of all time is cheesecake so instead of getting cake and cupcakes I found these mini cheesecake bites at Sam's club! They were a hit! Delicious! She loved it!

The party ended and we were off to meet my brother , Mav, the Facers for birthday lunch at Eddies! We always go on New Year's day in honor of daddy but this year Ryan had to work! His only day off was Piper's birthday so we met up for lunch and celebrated both...Piper and Daddy! Great company and yummy food! We sang to the birthday girl here too! Yayyy! She loved it again! lol Love getting together with my family and love celebrating my birthday baby! We were having the best day and it continued!

The celebrating continued on! We had such a late lunch and were to full to get birthday dinner so we had the bff Decker's come over for cake!! Jackie gave Piper the cutest gift with all the fun party favors! We had to take pics with them! lol More birthday cheesecake for the win!! She was so hyped!! She loved us singing to her again! That was 3 times in one day!! and she loved it every time! 

The next day Daddy made her favorite Birthday breakfast! Yummy french toast! Then we took her out for her Birthday dinner! She picked Ojah for sushi and the cook in front of you place! lol It was delicious and of course we sang to her again! and she loved it yet again! All smiles! Big smiles! Put her new bow bedding on her bed and she loved it! Looks so cute!! Oh how we love our Birthday girl Piper!! She brings us so much joy! She growing up to be a quite the beautiful little lady inside and out! She is an absolute hoot! She loves to be sassy and silly! She is sensitive and sweet! She always making sure that mama is ok! Always checking on me! She's very task oriented and loves checking things off her to do list at school! lol She will get the entire weekly check off list done in 1 day! haha Love my baby girl so much! Happy Happiest 9th Birthday Beautiful Piper!

 

Piper's Birthday Wk!

Once we ring in the new year it's time to start celebrating our Birthday Girl!!! We kicked off Piper's birthday wk with a bang!!! I surprised her all week with her favorite food places! She loves donuts! Smoothies! Firehouse! Each day I surprised her with a different place! She loved it!! Then if it wasn't a food surprise then it was a shopping surprise! One day Tilly's! Once day Claires! One day 5 below! She was so excited! Got to make my birthday girl feel all the birthday love!!!

Then it was to DTS for more shopping! Took my birthday baby to build a bear! We go every year on her birthday wk! She usually gets the birthday  bear but this year she got the highland cow! She was so excited! She's having the best birthday wk!

More shopping this time with her bestie Kins from Utah! She got stay with us for Piper's birthday weekend! Matching outfits! Slumber parties! Even got to go to her favorite Sushi place with her bestie! Piper's birthday wk was an absolute hit! Sure love spoiling our Birthday girl!!

 

Happy New Year 2026!

5...4...3...2...1...Happy! Happy New Year!!! Going into 2026 with the ones I love the most! Can't believe another year has come and gone! The older I get the faster the days, months, and years go by! Cherishing the beautiful memories and moments shared together! So grateful for our health too! We've had an incredible year and many more to come! Cheers to 2026!!! 

It's always a great idea to have a photoshoot with your bestie! Ringing in the new year together! She is so much fun! We have the most amazing times together!

My teens were off to the stake New Year's Dance!! As you can see little Cashy boi going off to his first church dance!! Wow!!! As you can also see he is not trained to take pics like my Penny does! lol I need to work on this with him! lol Penny doesn't stop clicking and snapping pics and I love it!!!

We headed over to the Bayardo's for our annual New Years Party! Piper had a blast with her friends Dancing the new year in! We played games, snacked, danced and chatted! Love our families together! 

It was a little strange to only have one of my babies with us to ring in the new year! It's crazy how fast they grow!! We had an absolute blast!! We are so ready for 2026! Let's gooooo!

You wouldn't even know that Cash what at the same dance! He took zero pics meanwhile Penny clicking the pics! lol Cash had a blast at his 1st dance! He found several of his friends there! He reports he did not dance with anyone but did get a girls number! lol Too funny! Penny danced the night away! Rang in the new year with all her friends! She even reconnected with some old friends and loved that!

Before ringing in the new year! Honz golfed and had the best time! I took the kids to lunch at one of their favorite places! Then spent the rest of the day catching up on Stranger Things so we would be ready for the season finale! lol! Ruby even went to the groomers so she could be fresh to kick off the new year! Such an amazing last day of the year! We are ready for 2026! Can't wait to see what this year has in store for us!! In the meantime I'll keep taking pics and blogging! Creating life time memories 1 day at a time! Happy New Year everyone! 

 

Decmeber Wk 5 Fun!

Rounding out the end of the year with December wk 5 weekly recap! Here's the rest of the pics for the month of December! We got back from the Dunes and played until we rang in the New Year! So this is the official last post of the year! Wow! Can't believe it! The kids had lots of friends over! Cash road his new amazing Surron a ton! Piper played with all her new toys! 

Honz and Mav put up our new beautiful 100 in tv in our teen theatre room! The kids were so hyped for that! It literally fills up the entire room! It's freakn amazing watching movies back there!! Penny already had friends over to try it out! lol It was a hit! Loved having Mav come across town to play! and we have absolutely loved having Bridget with us ever since the day after Christmas! She flew in and has stayed with us since! Yayyy! She is the perfect addition to out family! Penny and Bridget have the best timed together! Love their core memories they make together! It's been an amazing December and an amazing 2025 year!! Next post Happy New Year!!! We are ready to bring on 2026! 

 

Dumont Dunes!

Packed and loaded! We were off to Dumont Dunes! We love the sand dunes! It's our Christmas tradition to head out to the dunes and spend several days playing a giant sand box! It's also the best way to kick off Piper's Birthday wk! When we arrived it was raining! So we got all set up and hung most the evening in our trailers playing card games! We loved hearing the rain hit our trailers! So much fun and so adventurous! lol

Sun was up shining and we were ready to ride! 

We love our campers! So many kids to hang with! Non stop riding and playing all day everyday! 

No service! It's out check out happy place! 

Birthday Girl Piper enjoying her giant cheesecake all by her self! lol She loves cheesecake like her daddy and we got it just for her! lol She was so excited! 

The dunes are always a great place to take a photoshoot! We loved being able to have Bridgett come with us to the dunes! We love when she gets to stay with us and make fun memories with Penny! Cutest besties ever! They have too much fun together!

When the sun sets it was bombfire time! We all love sitting around the fire! Sparklers! Floating Lanterns! and bonding time! 

Loved our evening sitting around the fire! Kids played all sorts of fun night games! Love that there's so many kids all ages of my kids to just run wild and play!!! 

The sun back up shining! It was time to ride some more! Every morning I went a 3mile walk with Mel! Loved it! Piper and Ruby would follow along in the mini razor! lol Too cute! Both my little shadows! hahaha! 

Love the action shots! 

Walking and shopping for me and Mel! lol Riding and jumping for everyone else! lol

My Cashy boi is getting to be a good little rider! He's been hitting the jumps!!

We love soaking up the sun and the sand! lol

The best rides! Little dumont! and then over to the swings! Piper had a blast on every ride with daddy! She is a wild one for sure! She was telling daddy to go faster and do the jumps! lol She would just squeal and giggle and then before we got back to camp she would fall asleep! hahaha! She's the best! 

Campfire fun!!! Smore time! 

Ruby time!! She's the best fur baby ever! She loves the dunes just like us! She is such a good girl! Just look at her sweet face in o ur photo shoot! lol

Living our best dune life! 

We hate when the fun has to end! We snapped some pics of our camping crew! We had an absolute blast with these families! Best memories made!! and Right before we headed home we got to chat with our favorite missionary! Elder Ence called his family and we all got to say HI! Love seeing his perfect smiling face! Miss him so much! We had an incredible time riding and relaxing! We absolutely love our tradition together at the dunes! Daddy would be so proud we are continuing his tradition on! Love my dune crew and love kicking off Piper's Birthday wk! Don't mind us just over here living up our Christmas break!

 

The Merriest Christmas!

Merry Merry Christmas!!! I love Christmas morning! It is our tradition to have all our kids sleep in our room Christmas eve! No sneaking and no peaking if Santa comes! lol We wake up and get ready for the day! I take pics of course lol but in their ages before they get to run out and see is Santa found them!! My mom did this every year on Christmas morning! It was so fun to go back and see our heights with each other! So I have continued the tradition around here every year!! Got my babies trained! Even little Ruby! Just look at her little face! lol Ready...set...go.. run to see if Santa came! lol

Santa found our house!! These cuties have all been on the Nice list! lol New room décor and Dancing with the Stars Tour Tickets for Penny! She was so excited for her DWTS tickets!!! Cashy got a new Talaria XXX Pro E-Bike! He was shocked and over the moon excited to ride!!! New tumbling mats for my little gymnasts Piper and also an Aerial  Silk for some amazing new tricks! Piper has been begging for a silk for a long time! Thanks to Santa he pulled through with the goods!! Now to figure out how to hang it from the ceiling! lol I love the joy and pure happiness on their faces! Oh how I love Christmas morning!

Stocking time! All of our stocking were loaded with the goods! All the fun things! Treats! Jewelry! Makeup! Bling bags! Basketball and football cards! Tools! Even Ruby had a stocking full of treats and toys! yayyyyy! I love my babies faces! Perfection! Even my fur baby's face is precious! lol

Present time!!! I try to snap pics as they open! It's so fun to go back and see what they were asking for and excited for in years past! So here we go! Penny's present collage! 

Penny's final spread! Incredible! Oh how I love my teenage girl and ad you can see she is so fun to shop for! hahaha! Besides clothes, shoes, room décor and jewelry Penny also got a ring making kit, legos, and new nails stuff! and the finished product of her new custom closet! She loves it!! Such a difference for her room too! Merry Christmas beautiful Penny! 

Here's Cashy's present collage! Clothes! Clothes and then more clothes! lol Pre teen with his style! and let's just say Cashy Boi has the most swag and style! Love my boy so much! New shoes! Legos! Custom plate and seat for his new Talaria! riding googles! His 1st pair of 100%! He says he's moving up in the world with those! lol and lots more colors of filament for his 3D printer! Yayyy!

Cashy's final spread! He made out good and definitely spoiled! His highlight was definitely his new E-bike! He is such a good rider! Crushes it out there! He was so hyped to ride it that he rode it over to Gma DeeDee's house for breakfast! lol Merry Christmas my handsome #1 Son! 

Ok this little one makes me smile so big! So remember how I mentioned that I try to take pics as they open their presents well this little one waited until she had my full attention for every present and had me take a pic of every present! lol She is the absolute best! She takes the picture taking very seriously! That's my girl!  Love my baby! 

Piper's final spread! She hit the jack pot! lol She's still in toy land! Barbie's! American Girl accessories! Baby dolly clothes! New shoes! Clothes! Cute little custom blanket I had made for her too! She loved it all!! Merry Christmas Pretty Piper! 

My Honz got some fun surprises too! We sure love spoiling daddy! Lots of tools! Shoes! Clothes! Custom American Stitch Golf balls on his favorite golf ball! He was hyped about that! That was a fun custom surprise! Never done that before! :)

Mama got spoiled too! New checkered purse! New shoes! Clothes! Perfume! and LV card holder! Always spoiling myslef all year long! hahaha My most precious present was from Piper! She made at school for me! She is my only one left in elementary school to make me a special Christmas surprise! I loved it! She was so proud of it too! Just melts my mama heart!

We took a break from our presents and headed over to Gma DeeDee's for her traditional Christmas morning scones breakfast! Yummy and delicious! 

It was a wonderful Christmas morning together! The cousins ate, sang and played! 

We had a fun photoshoot too! It was a great morning together!

Then back home to play and get the new items organized into the rooms! Lots of lego building! Slime making! Testing the new nails stuff! The best highlight for me was when my cute nephew Elder Chance called me on his mission! He is pure sunshine! Love his face and smile! It was the best to catch up for  a bit! He's doing amazing things and we are all so proud! He's got 6mons left! Wow! That's crazy! Keep up the amazing work Elder Ence! You got this! Such a fun Christmas surprise to talk to him! 

Honz cooked up a spectacular Christmas dinner! Steak and Fried Rice all of our favorites! The kids continued to play with all their new things the rest of the day! Daddy and Cashy worked on his new bike putting on all his new accessories!! Piper was really showing me all her tricks on her tumbling matts! Wahoo! I even caught Ruby playing with her new toy! lol We had such a blessed and glorious Christmas day! Can't believe how fast it comes and goes! Let us never forget to pay tribute to the true meaning of this beautiful Christmas day! So grateful for the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ! He is the true meaning for the this wonderful blessed season! I love my forever family and all the beautiful memories we make together!