Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! We changed it up this! We were so grateful for Jacob and Bre for inviting us over to Bre's family's house for Thanksgiving! The holidays are weird and sad! Especially the firsts! This was the first Thanksgiving without my dad here. With no living parents! Wow! It stings a bit for sure. So with that said Eryka and I decided we wanted to change it up and planned to go to Disneyland! Thankfully Bre invited us over the day before Thanksgiving to enjoy amazing Thanksgiving food and family! We played games! Penny put on a singing performance! Shared what we were thankful for! I am especially thankful for Bre and her loving family! It was a wonderful day together! Best friend cousins for sure and that makes my heart so happy! It was a wonderful per- Thanksgiving!

 

Noah's Baptism!

 Noah's Special Baptism day! We are so proud of sweet Noah! He chose to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was a perfect and special day for sure. Cash was beyond proud of his best friend! Noah asked me his Auntie Em to give the talk on the Holy Ghost and you know I gave the same Holy Ghost talk that I do for all my nephews and nieces baptisms. It's a great interactive talk with lots of fun surprises. Why change it up! Just keep giving it! lol Ans I'm sure that is why he asked me! He wanted all the surprises! lol

Such a great day! We love you sweet Noah! Thanks for being such a great example to me and my kids! You have made one of the best decisions in your life! We are so proud of you!

Primary Program!

 Primary Program Success!! This past Sunday was our Ward Primary Program! This comes once a year! This is when the cute little primary kids from age 3-11 yrs put on the sacrament program for everyone to watch. My calling in church is the Primary Chorister! Well my job is to make sure all the kids know the songs for this spectacular program! Yikes! It's a tough one! The hardest calling I have ever had! It's been a challenge! lol The prep each week has been over whelming to say the least but I absolutely love these primary kids so much! Hearing them sing and share their testimonies through song is so beautiful! They love to sing and even better they love to sing about our Savior! So very proud of all my primary kids! They crushed it up there! They sang and did their speaking parts perfectly! I was told this was the best Primary program they have ever seen! YAY! There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd! The kids brought that spirit rushing in! Guess I'm not getting released anytime soon! lol 

So not only was this my first time being the primary chorister, this was Piper's first time in the primary program! She was finally old enough! This will be the only time that all 3 of my kids were in the primary program together! This was Penny's last primary program. She goes into young women's! Can't believe it! It was a great day! It went perfectly! Now onto learning Christmas songs for the performance in December! lol no breaks over here! lol I love all my primary kids! 

State Champs! Go Pirates Go!

Wow! What a night! We were so excited to hear that Chad's High School Football team made it to the state championship game playing at the Allegiant Stadium! A chance of lifetime for these kids to be able to play where the Raiders play! WOW! Well of course we had to go! and we defiantly had to wear Chad's High School Jerseys! I wore the home game and Chad wore his away game jersey! So awesome right! We definitely felt really cool in his "Throwback" jerseys! 20 years ago was when his High school Won the championship game his senior year! Chad was so excited for his High School Team! One of his best friends growing up is one of the coaches for the team! It was fun to see him in action! Let's go Branden! We had the best night! The stadium is so bougie! So much detail with the Raiders logo every where! Even embossed into the comfy padded stadium seats! lol It was quite the exciting game! Pirates were down going into half time and came out with the BIG WIN! Chad kept saying they're getting a ring! Clearly that was a highlight for him as a Senior in High School! lol He even wore his championship ring it to the game on his pinky! lol 

Such a fun night! Way to go Pirates! You did it! State Champs! Wahoo!

 

Ears Pierced for Enya!

Over Veteran's Holiday I took the kids up to spend time with Eryka and her family! We were so excited when sweet little Enya said she wanted to get her ears pierced! We took her right over to Claires in the St George Mall! Little Enya is 6 yrs old and is so brave! She did amazing! In fact she sang after they pierced her ears! lol She is just the cutest! We are so proud of you! Then it was time to shop! We had a hay day in that store! lol

Fun pics riding along in the car while up with my cute niece and nephews! We love cousin time!! It's the best!! 

October Monthly Pics from my Phone!

You know it's all the selfies you took on your phone all month that you want to post about! lol October has already come and gone! Piper gave her 1st talk in Junior Primary! She was so quiet when she was talking! lol She did so  good and was so brave!! Way to go Piper! Penny gave the talk in Senior primary the same day but I didn't get a picture of her! Dang it! She did perfect as always! lol

School is in full swing!! Cash had a biome project due! He did it on grasslands! He loves the Lion King Movie and modeled of the movie with all animals! Pride Rock with the lions! It turned out perfect! Penny had a science project due! She had to build and insulator for an ice cube! Piper loving pre-school! She had her Halloween school party! She said she had the best day ever! 

Cheer Camp was in the beginning of the month! Penny loved it! It was a 2 day camp! I got to be there being one of the coaches! It was so much fun to see the girls have a blast while learning! Great job eagles! 

Golf for Cash! He started his first junior golf tournament! He is killing it out there! He absolutely loves to play golf! He has practice 1 time a wk and the matches are on Friday's! The best part is Chad gets to drive him around in the golf cart! Cash loves having daddy there! Basketball is soon to start for Cash as well! So he will finish golf and go right in to Basketball season! Keeping the kids busy!! and this boy loves it!

 

Happy Halloween 2021!

Happy Halloween 2021!!

Happy Halloween from the Modern Witch! Scary Ghost Rider! and Light up Unicorn!

These 3 all picked out and designed their own outfits! lol and all 3 were very particular as to what they were needing for their costumes! lol Down to the shoes! Love it! We love Halloween!

Little Miss Modern Witch! Daddy wasn't too sure about those fishnets and little black dress! lol I thought her Modern Witch idea turned out great! She's growing up! Pre-Teen! 

My Scary Ghost Rider! He had to have this mask and then ended up not even wearing it! lol! He wore it for pictures is all! It's hard with boy costumes. All their costumes include a mask or a weapon and you can't have either of those at any school function! lol Oh well! He loved his high-top boots and leather jacket! Silly boy!

Pretty! Pretty Light up Unicorn! She had to have the Unicorn costume that lit up! The skirt! The wings! The unicorn horn! All lit up!! It was great for me because I knew just where she was! lol! It was quite genius for a momma! She loved her Unicorn costume so much! Sweet baby! Getting too big! Growing too fast! She's still my little Diva and wanted to be in the stroller and pushed to all the houses when she was tricking and treating! lol 

Halloween was so fun! We got our little posse together of friends and family and trick or treated in Bre and Jacob's new community! We hit up so many houses! Their buckets were full before we took our last turn back to their house! Couldn't believe it! They kids had a blast! Beautiful weather! Beautiful night together!

Together again! A few days before Halloween we went to Bre and Jacob's ward trunk or treat! We were going to miss our ward party because we were going to be out of town! So we got another use out of their costumes and got tons more candy! lol Again beautiful weather! and beautiful night with family! Best Friend Cousins right here for sure! Love it!

 

Knott's Berry Farm and San Diego Zoo Adventures!

We were finally able to get back to our San Diego tradition! This was our 13th year going! We went to Knott's Berry Farm Friday and the San Diego Zoo Saturday! Oh what a blast we had! This time we rented a Airbnb in  San Diego! It was beautiful! Up on a hug hill and over looked Sn Diego! All fancy and modern inside! It was just perfect for my Brother's and my family to stay in! The party never had to end! Each night we watched movies or played cards out on the patio! 

Top collage starts our Friday at Knott's Berry Farm! Piper was tall enough to go on all the kiddie rides and the medium size rides! She's getting taller! It was also nice that she could get on and of each ride with out my help! Milestone! It's the small things in life! lol 

Knott's Barry farm! Cash was tall enough to go on almost everything. There was like 3 rides he just wasn't tall enough! He would get so bummed out having to sit out the rides!.lol

Knott's Berry Farm!

More Knott's Berry Farm!

Last collage of Knott's Barry Farm! Our Airbnb! and Dinner! It was a great day! We didn't wait more than 5 mins per ride line and the kids just kept getting off the ride and getting immediately back on! It was amazing!

The San Diego Zoo! It never disappoints! It was perfect weather! The animals are so amazing to watch! Piper loved it! She was so cute with her map telling us what animal she wanted to see next!

More Zoo pics!

More Zoo pics! We found our most favorite Candy Corn Cotton Candy at both parks!! It's seriously the best if you love cotton candy like I do! lol 

Zoo pics!

More Zoo!

As the night was ending the Zoo put on a Halloween party with music and dj's around the park! These Dj stages also had fog and bubbles that would blow into the crowd! The kids loved it! Us adults did too! Me and Em couldn't' stop dancing and singing! It was a so much fun to end our night!

 The fun came to an end! We packed up and left our amazing Airbnb! Yum-Yum Donuts for breakfast! Also  the cute pic of their fun Zoo Surprises! Every time we go to the zoo the kids get to pick out a fun surprise! Their favorite animal of the day! 

One of my most favorite trips all year!! Love being with my brother's and family continuing traditions and making the most perfect memories!