Dumont Dunes!

It's Sand dune time!! Let's ride!!! There's nothing better then heading out to the dunes right after Christmas! It's been our family tradition to do this and we have been doing this same trip for years! We love it! Oh how we love the dunes! The kids ride non stop all day long! We love being with our family and friends! So here's day 1! Setting up and gearing up to ride!

We had beautiful perfect weather! Sunny and not to cold with very little to no wind each day! That's the best! 

We love nights by the fire! Lot's of story telling, laughing and munching! lol Great times! An amazing day 1!

Day 2! Our Razor went down! Dang it! We just got it out of the shop from being serviced too! Ughhh! Oh well  that didn't stop us from having fun! lol We just hung around the camp and enjoyed visiting and relaxing! Cash and Piper cont to  ride and play! 

So many friends to hang with! We didn't see Piper or Cash much! lol They were both busy camp  hopping, riding and playing! 

We love shopping vendors row! The kids all need new dune swag! lol The best is the Ice Cream truck that sings on by! We always flag him down and get the treats! lol We also camped with one of Penny's good friends, Gunnar and didn't even know he was going to be there! That was fun! It was also Cash's first time riding his dirt bike out at the dunes too! He was a bit nervous at first riding it but quickly got the hang of it! He was killing it! So proud of my boy! 

Here's the rest of day 2! Loving out life! The dune life!

Day 3! More riding! More playing! More eating! More visiting! More chilling!

Auntie Em led her pack of riders to little dunes and taught Cashy how to transition from dune to dune! He loved it! He followed her lead and learned so much! He's still talking about it! They even found a jump and hit that several times over and over! Cash said this was his most favorite day! Riding along side his Auntie Em, cousin Mav and daddy! His bestie Sawyer came along too! He loved it!

Enjoyed the rest of the day! Day 3 was our last day and of course we had a blast!

Check out this sunset! Holy moly! Our last sunset for our dune trip and it was amazing! Purple and orange sky! It was gorgeous! Loaded up and rushed back into town so Penny could hang out with her friends! It was a great few days! We love our Dumont trips! and we love making all the memories! We can't wait to get back out there!

 

The Merriest Christmas!

Merry Merry Christmas!!!! It's tradition the kids sleep in my room so they can't sneak out in the middle of the night and ruin the surprise of Santa! lol Then when we get up we all get ready for the day before going out and seeing if Santa found them!! I take pics of the kids in their ages and then they get to run out and see if Santa came! My mom did this same routine with me as a child and I have done with  my kids their whole life! lol It's extra but I love it! Love traditions! 

Santa found us!!! and boy did Santa sure spoiled them! Piper got a tv and scooter! Cash got the best 3D printer with tons of colors to print with! Penny got her 1st Mac Book Air! Christmas is already off to an amazing start!! Best little kids ever! Love all their faces so much! Oh how we love Santa!

Next is stocking!! The stocking were stuffed full with toys, treats, makeup and jewelry! Santa sure spoiled us with our stockings too! Even Ruby's stocking was stuffed full of fresh new toys, treats and dog teeth cleaning stuff!

Let's talk about our Christmas fit!!! lol Cashy hand drew and designed out crew necks! American Stitch with Christmas lights on the front! The back had a Christmas tree with baby Jesus! Love that he wanted baby Jesus on there! After all Jesus is the reason for this wonderful season! Love my boy! Love that he took it upon himself to design our fit! He wanted us all to match to keep our matching on Christmas day tradition up! We love matching as a family and Cash is my number 1 for wanting us all to match or be coordinated with matching colors daily! He has an eye for fashion and style! Love my #1 favorite boy!

My Lucky Penny! She is pure joy! Full on teenager and so much fun! Her Christmas this year consisted of clothes, more clothes, shoes, lip products, jewelry and more clothes! lol Love my Penny so much! She is such a good girl! A beautiful soul! Perfect in every way! Absolutely loving the women she is growing up to be! Loving each stage of life with her! She is the best and so much fun!

My Cashy boy!! He is pure sunshine! My happiest! Wakes up with a smile and goes to bed smiling! He loves life to the fullest! He is so fun to shop for cause he has such good style and wears it well! So swaggy! lol His Christmas this year consisted of high end shoes, sunglasses, clothes, cologne for his rizz and Legos! He loves everything you get him and is always so grateful! He literally thanks me daily that I am his mom! He is my wild child but the most tender hearted sweet boy ever! He never wants to disappoint others! My people pleaser! Love my #1 Cashy boy so much! 

My baby! My Cutest little Piperoni! She is my quiet and my most care free! Goes with the flow! My ultra sensitive one too! She is my salty sweet! lol She loves her momma! My baby chick always following me around! She love to sing and boy does she ever love to giggle! Sometimes giggles over nothing! lol When she wants to tell you a story she doesn't stop talking! lol Love my baby! Always and forever my baby! Piper's still in toy land so her presents consisted of Barbie's, purses, play real makeup, American girl doll stuff, baby accessories, clothes for herself and more toys! Her favorite toy that she hasn't stopped carrying around is her new reborn baby! She is such a good mommy too! Love my Piper girl so much! She is so much fun! She's alwasy living her best life!

Here's Honz's spread! He made out good this year! We all love this daddy of ours! He is the hardest working man we know and does it all for his family! We love you daddy! 

My hawl! lol I made out good too! I always get so spoiled year round! lol

Gramps spent the night and enjoyed Christmas morning with us! We loved having him be a part of our Chistmas fun! We even spoiled him with presents under the tree! Gramps was so excited! He loved when I would take pics of him with his presents like I did the kids! lol It was a joy to have him with us! My cute amazing nephew Elder Ence opened his box of presents we sent to him! yay!!! Auntie Em sent me a pic of my #1 missionary opening his presents! He was so excited on ft with them and I loved that she sent me a pic of him on Christmas morning! Honz made his delicious hootin nannie german pancakes that we took over to the Facer Christmas breakfast! Such an amazing Christmas morning together!

Then we were off to Gma DeeDee's for brunch! Her scones are to die for! This is a Christmas tradition for sure! We had a wonderful time visiting with aunties and uncles and all the cousins! It was a great time together! Lots of pics, yummy food, fun games, and funny presents! Thank you Gma DeeDee for a great time!

Too end our lovely Christmas day we went to the movies with our bestie neighbors! We have never gone to the movies on Christmas and boy was this fun! I'm thinking this will be a new tradition for us! We loved it! We saw the new Mufasa Movie! It was live action and the prequel to the Lion King! It was amazing! We loved it! It had all the feels and amazing music! 10 out of 10 for sure! Then back to the house for more playing with Christmas toys! House hopping with neighbor cousins and ended with one last sleep over before the neighbors headed to their river house and we were off to the dunes the next day for both! Wow! What an amazing Christmas! We are blessed beyond measure! Love my family so much! It was truly the Merriest Christmas of all! 2024! 

 

Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve!! Can't believe it! The non stop Facer Christmas fun has not stopped! lol Chad's dad came into town and stayed with us! It was really great to be with him! The ladies went shopping! lol There were zero lines at Tj Max and we got all our Valentine's fits! lol We are def ahead of the game! lol The kids cont to bounce from house to house! Never a dull moment and always having the best time! 

These beautiful teens! They spent hours making tik toks! Laughing, singing, giggling and chatting! Love these amazing beautiful little ladies inside and out! So much sass and personality with each of these beauties! lol I had to make a collage of just them! They are too fun! The teens also did several runs thrifting, splash, and gas station stops! It's fun we have some older teens that are driving! Penny sure loves that! She gets them to take her around any chance she gets! Cash too! lol

The little girls' worked for days on their performance and tonight was the show! :) They put together a cheer/stunt routine! They did amazing! We all loved it! They worked so hard on it too! So proud! Piper was the best little flyer! After the performance it was time for the Christmas festivities! and you know my best neighbors included my kids in all the fun! My heart is so full the amount of love they show to us! Grammy and Dude hide a present for each of their grandkids and kids and my kids and then they all find their present! It was their Christmas jammies! So fun! My kids had a blast!

After all the festivities all the kids came to our house and watched a movie to wind down! Santa was on his way!! Yay! Penny made cookies for Santa! Piper cut the carrots up for the Santa's reindeer! and Cash filled the mug up with cold milk for Santa! Snapped one more pic and off to bed they went!!! Such a wonderful Christmas eve! and to all a good night! 

 

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

The Facer Christmas fun continues! and we were invited every step of the way! We are so lucky and  blessed to have the best neighbors and to call them family! They treat us so good! On Christmas Eve Eve we were off to bowling! We took up 5 lanes with 6 people per lane! We dominated those bowling lanes! hahaha! The kids had a blast! The best times ever!

I love these amazing friends/neighbors we call family! Always the best time together!

My Honz put on an amazing Christmas luncheon for his staff! Cashy boy got a fresh cut for Christmas! Looks so good! He got that rizz for sure now! lol Then for dinner we went on a couples date to Din Tai Fung! It was delicious as always! Meanwhile the kids bounced from house to house gaming, movie watching, doing nails, eating and just having a blast from sun up to sun down!  

 

Family Neighbor Christmas Fun!

Let the family neighbor Christmas fun commence! lol The Facer's and the McKay's have arrived next door to their gma and gpa's house! The non stop fun from house to house has officially began for this Christmas season!!! We are all living our best life!!! We are the bonus family that live next door to all of them! lol We all get so excited and count down the days to see all these beautiful humans! All 7 of the Facer's next door children are in town for Christmas! Which means all 7 of the Facer's kids have kids! Which means the party is on! Non stop fun from sun up to sun down! 

I'm already snapping the pics! lol Look at these cuties! Planning dances and cheer routines! Teens making Tik Toks! Endless Fortnite battles! Basketball and Pickleball tournaments! Hot tubbing at night! Watching Christmas Movies! Littles playing in the play room! Yummy food, snacks and drinks between both our houses!  I'm so grateful for my bff neighbors next door for truly treating us like family! They always include us in all their plans! Everything! It makes my heart so happy! To be apart of them- family!

Sunday Funday! We all went to church together! Today - church was watching Sadie sing! Then brunch and chill at the bff Summerlin Facers! lol I love my family so much! I love our pic in our Christmas colors! :) Jesus is the reason for the season! Such a beautiful sacrament today! Loved being with all our people!

We have been dying to make gingerbread houses all month long! Well we finally did them with all our family neighbors! Lined them all up and the kids had a blast making them! But first a Christmas movie in the bff Facers incredible movie theatre! Then it was gingerbread making time! 

More amazing action shots of the gingerbread making! I sure love all  these faces!

The final showdown! lol Such a wonderful time together! The kids all had a blast! I of course had fun taking pics of them having so much fun! Such a great day together! Thanks again neighbor Facers for always including us! We love being apart of your amazing family!

 

December Fun Wk3!

It was the last wk before school gets out for winter break! Wahoo! So many fun things going on this wk at the school! Car selfies! Cash working on the classroom decor! Actually helping Mr. Gaastra take down his classroom since he is moving! Got spoiled all wk long from students and co-workers! A fun dress wk for staff only and so many  fun festivities at school all wk long!

Cash has his 1st 5th grade field trip to the Illuminarium! Ieven got to go as a staff chaperone! Wahoo! This was actually such a fun field trip! The kids absolutely loves it! It was amazing! Beautiful display of lights and music! Loved it! I'm def taking my family back! Cash loved that I got to go on my 1st field trip with him! We had such an awesome time together!

More school fun!! Piper and the entire 2nd grade put on the cutest Christmas show!! They sang their little hearts out! I was so proud! Love my little baby up there just a performing!! She did great! 

More Christmas cheer from amazing students and carline besties! I was totally spoiled!

Cash was invited to a fun bestie Christmas party! He had a blast! Gift exchange fun! Made Pizza! and played a tons of games! He did not want the party to end! Bff Jackie came over and we did our gift exchange! We had a blast! Just laughing and loving our life together! 

Yep! More work Christmas fun! We had our staff Christmas party at the Santa Fe! Bowling!!! I love my co-workers!  We always have way too much fun together! and that's my final  spread of all my Christmas spread from co-workers, students, and carline! They love Mrs.  Emylee!!! lol I love all them too! Such a fun wk of surprises! 

The school Christmas fun just keeps going on! I was able to go watch the 5th grade do their final handball tournament and while I was out there I got to see my middle school students! Always so fun to see my old students! They were just as excited to see me as I was seeing them! 

Class parties for Cash and Piper! It was a great Fri-yay right before our long Christmas break! Cash and myself last day with Mr. Gaastra which was so sad but we are so excited for his next chapter in life! He has made such an impact on Cash and all 5th graders! He will be greatly missed! e wish you the very best Mr. Gaastra!

Friday night fun! We headed out to Logandale for Basketball! It was mine and my littles school Sky Pointe against Moapa! We have good friends that live out there that play on the basketball team so it was a win win to go out and support bith teams! It was so much fun! 

While we were out in Logandale Honz had a daddy daughter date with Piper! They took Ruby to the vet for her yearly check up and shots! She passed with flying colors! Then daddy took Piper to get Sushi and yogurtland! Her favorite! So all around we all had a fabulous un Friday night!

 

The Unforgettable Christmas Express!

You all know the fun does not stop over here! We pack all the things in! All the Christmas traditions! lol To finish off December Wk 2 we headed out to Alamo for the Western Elite Christmas Express! This is our most favorite Christmas tradition we do as a big family and close friends that are basically family! There's nothing better than this Christmas Experience! 

Western Elite's generosity is unmatched!!! Their Christmas Express is unforgettable!! We always have an absolute best time!! There's nothing better then being with your family making amazing memories together!

At every turn there's something new! Beautiful lights all around! Fire pits to hang by! Food to eat! Hot Cocoa to drink! Train rides and hay rides! Light up dancing in the circle! and lot's of picture taking for me! lol

So many fun photo opts every which way! 

We are just walking our way through the line to the big train and taking a ton of pics along the way! lol

Almost to the big train! Taeya's train! 

We made it! It was so much fun to see Taeya! We always make sure we are on her train! lol She is the best conductor! They have added 3 new scenes too! So it was so much fun to watch out the windows! Headed all the way to the North Pole and picked up Santa!! Wahoo! We sang Christmas songs and my girls got to sing on the mic! They loved it! The most incredible experience! 

After the big train we all jumped on the Hay ride! We looped around and had a blast!

We had the most incredible time as always! Another year in the books! Thank you so much Western Elite for the most amazing Christmas Express! We are still in "awe" over you generosity! The night was incredible and unforgettable! Loved having our big group be able to come out and enjoy the fun! It was the best night to be with family and very good friends! Merry Christmas everyone!