Performing Piper!

All dolled up and ready to perform! Well along with how busy our last wk was (Dec wk 1) Piper also had 2 performances with her Singer's Company group! But this deserved it's own post! lol I can't believe how Big my baby Piper is getting!! She absolutely loves to sing and dance and perform just like her Big Sis! She had been practicing a ton and was ready!!! It was time for little Piper to shine and that's just what she did! Love her so much!

Here is night one's performance at the Retirement Facility! All the little Grandma's and Grandpa's loved it! Piper had memorized both her singing and speaking parts and did them perfectly! Love her and so proud! She dances and sang her little heart out! 

After performance pics with her besties! Actually Cash's besties! lol Janie and Elsie joined singers company this year and Piper loved being with them every week at practice! Cash had a blast watching them perform! They all did great!! After performing we celebrated at Yogurtland!! Wahoo! We had a blast!

Day 2!! 2nd performance for friends and family!!Grandma came! Piper was super excited about that! Loved having my besties come out to support and watch Piper too! Made my whole day! Love my besties!

Fun actions shots of Piper performing!!! She did amazing! Such a shooting star!!

Always camera ready! and those that know me know I live for taking pics! Piper is so fun to watch! She was just a dancing, a shaking, a singing! Love her so much! Great job Pipes!!! Oh how we love Singers Company and so much love our director Mrs. Janae!

After performance fun! We mingled and took some fun pics!! Always such a great time!

The fun continued! You all know me! lol The party never ends! We took the kids to see Moana 2 after Piper's last performance to celebrate! We haven't been to a theater movie since summer time! That's a long time! We even brought Cash's besties Janie and Elsie to celebrate their performances as well! The movie was great! We all loved it! 

After the movie Honz took the 2 teens to get snow cones and Pizza! Awesome!!! I took the littles back to Elsie's house to see her new mini cows! Omg look how precious they are! Piper and Cash even got to bottle feed them!! So adorable! What a special treat! My kids are all obsessed with cows and horses! They were in pure Heaven over at Elsie' house! She's got all the farm animals! Love it! Thanks for letting them come over and play! Such an awesome, amazing day!!!

 

December Wk 1!

We are in full swing in this Christmas season! Here's the 1st wk  of December in  the books! lol Running kids around as soon as the school rings is pretty much our after school life! lol We have also had some time to spread Christmas cheer! We delivered bestie neighbor gifts! Penny and Sadie shopped for our Elder Chance! We created a 12 days of Christmas Stocking! We can't wait for him to get it! 

School Fun and car selfies! Cash made the wall of fame for his 100% writing piece in Mr.  Gaastra's class! 1st off its hard to get 100% on writing in Gaastra's class and 2nd it's a huge accomplishment to make the wall of fame!!! So proud of my Cashy! He loves Mr. Gaastra and has absolutely loved writing this year! He's getting to be a pretty dang good writer! Piper and her cheer bestie off to Gymnastics! THey love their tumbling class together!

Now this was a fun adventure for Honz! He got invited to take a private charger plane to the UNLV in Boise! He couldn't pass up the exciting opportunity! Although UNLV lost and my Honz froze his butt off! Honz reports he had a freakn blast! Such a fun quick adventure with the guys!

 

Ruby pics!!!! and Basketball is back in full swing! Cash is in the gym 4 days a week practicing! 2 times with the team! Oh he made the Varsity team at the school! I'm not sure I mentioned that in my blog yet! lol  Congrats son! and 2 times with a private coach! Cash loves his one on one practices with his private coach! He has learned so much already! He works hard and plays hard! Excited to see his growth and what the comp basketball team will do this year! Let's goooooo!

Oh my beautiful  Penny! She wanted to perform in Sacrament in Dec,! and that's just what she did! This past Sunday Penny had the amazing opportunity to share her beautiful voice! Man or man as soon as she opens her mouth you can instantly feel the spirit! She is so captivating! Her confidence and stage presence is unreal! She just continues to amaze me every time she performs! Penny sang He is the Gift accompanied by Christie Gifford, her vocal coach! It was absolutely beautiful! So proud of my girl!

 

Sunday Funday for sure! Thanks to all that came out to support her! She get's so embarrassed and mad at me when I invite friends and family out to come here her sing but she is worth it! She has no clue the impact her voice has on people! That's why I like to invite the friends and family out! lol She is an incredible performer and daughter of God!

Well Penny wasn't the only one to perform on  Sunday! I was asked to put together the Stake Primary Choir a few weeks ago to perform at the Night of Choirs! So I held a few practices and gathered the stake children! We have had a fun few wks practicing that's for sure! Sunday was our big performance! They nailed it! Blew it out of the park! So proud of each of them! I loved having both my littles also in my choir singing their littles hearts out with me too! It was a beautiful night a singing! We enjoyed every bit of it as a family! Can't wait for next years! There's nothing better then beautiful Christmas music to get you into the Christmas season! Christ is the reason for this and every Christmas Season! 

The Incredible Enchant Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! lol Yes sir!! As soon as we hit Vegas coming off our Thanksgiving weekend we had 1 hr to regroup, bundle up and we were off to Enchant Christmas at the Ball Park! I had booked this back in Sept with my bestie Shayla! We love doing this tradition together the first weekend right after Thanksgiving!! This is one of my most favorite Christmas traditions!! 1st stop SANTA!! He does exist! This Santa is hands down the very best Santa ever! Took so much time with us! Never felt rushed! Santa even played with Piper and switched hats when I was taking their photo together! So magical! We sure love Santa!!

The Christmas lights never get old! We love being with our bestie family!

So many photo opps and you know I stopped to take pics all night! lol

We were on a hunt to find the lost animals with bells! Oh what a beautiful maze of twinkling lights! Penny got so exctied when she spotted a "Big P" sign! She said that's me! lol Of course we had to take pics and then you can see the little P - Piper had to follow right along and get a pic as well by the "Big P" sign too! She said I'm a P! lol Piper always following and doing what Penny does! Good thing Penny is a good girl! lol She's got little sis looking right up to her! :)

The gorgeous lights! We could not stop taking pics! lol It was beautiful weather too! No wind so it was nice outside! Not freezing at all! 

More beautiful lights around every corner! More pics to take around every corner! lol

 

I took a pic by each lost animal! So beautiful! 

We had so much incredible time once again with our bestie family! We love making memories with Team Hilsabeck! These are my people! Love them very much! To finish the night we went to Yogurt land! Delicious! The best time kicking off this Christmas season! Can't wait for all the Christmas festivities to come through our the month! It's going to be a busy season that's for sure and I'm here for it! lol :)

                                       

The Happiest Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!! We had such an enjoyable time up in Santa Clara for Thanksgiving! Nothing but laughter, chatter, and full bellies! I'm so grateful for my family! The love they show to me and my little family is unmatched! It's been a tradition to do Thanksgiving with Uncle Jim and Aunt Debbie since I was a little girl and have continued to do this long past my mom passing and recently my father passing! Thank you for always extending the invite to us! My heart it full!

The best cousin time ever! These kids played non stop and truly have the best time! So much to be thankful for! 

Piper wanted to bring crafts to do with her cousins because she said they always have so many fun crafts to do and I want to bring more! Love her! She sure had fun doing those crafts with cousins! In fact all the girls did! The boys had fun doing boy things! lol Outside and wild!

We shopped the lame Black Friday ads! lol To prepare for our Black Friday shopping extravaganza! lol We wanted the old school feel of touching the ads but dang there was nothing good in the paper! We were very sad! All the ads were online! lol We headed up to Cedar to stay in Gramps (Chad's dad) new home! It is absolutely beautiful! 

Black Friday Extravaganza!! Yes I love this day so much! It is my most favorite shopping day of the year! lol and I love to shop in the stores! Old school! lol I talked my fave cousins into meeting me there! Man oh man did we have a hay day! lol A freakn blast together! We hit up all the stores and found all the deals! It was an epic morning of deal finding and laughter!

Went back up to Cedar to get the rest of my little family and then headed back down to Santa Clara to go shooting with the cousins! Before we met up with them we stopped by to get the most delicious caramel apples from my sister! My sister Eryka is the creator of these incredible caramel apples and she was selling them at an event! We surprised her and bought 12 of them! lol I can't resist them and I love trying all her new flavors! Caramel Apple Delight and Friends! If you haven't tried these they are a must!! 

Now it was time to shoot! lol Loved meeting up with my cousins! This time it was shooting! We had a blast! We all joined in the fun! 

Cashy has a good eye and aim! I did good too! Penny enjoyed pulling the clay pigeons to launch in the sky! Honz of course never misses! Piper played with the little cousins climbing or sat and watched us! Such a fun day! We loved getting the invite! We all had a blast!

We even had a little photoshoot! lol I seriously love these cousins of mine so much! They bring my heart so much joy! I think what made this Thanksgiving the best and so memorable was the extra time we spent together! All day Thanksgiving instead of rushing back to Vegas! The epic black Friday shopping together the next morning and the shooting guns adventure! The best couple of days ever! Love my family so much!

Then back up to Cedar for this cuties Baptism! We are so proud of Piper's bestie cousin McKayla for choosing to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! Such a wonderful baptism! McKayla is such a sweetheart! It was such a beautiful morning together! Piper was so excited for her to get baptized and she kept saying "I'm next!" That's right Piper you are next! Your baptism is coming! Yay! 

Bottom corner pic is my Honz holding a huge box of poinsettias! My Honz not realizing the date came back to Gramp's home to surprise me with the poinsettias. As soon as I saw them I began to tear up! Poinsettias were my mom's favorite holiday flower and on this day marked 27years my mom has passed! Can't believe he was led to those without even knowing how special they are to me! Every time I see a poinsettia I think of my mom! Wow time flies! Can't believe it's been 27 years! I still miss her like crazy! That never goes away! Love my mom so much! Love my Honz so much too! He just knows without knowing! He is my person!!

Happy Thanksgiving ya'll! Now that's a wrap!

 

November Wk 4!

Thanksgiving Break here we come and you know us we crammed it all in! lol Well Penny still had school Mon and Tues while the littles and I were off all wk! Cash had basketball practice both  mornings while Penny was at school! Love my Penny pick up car selfies! and you can see little Ruby was so excited to be with me when we picked up Penny from school! Piper had a fun play date with her little bestie Charlee and then they had gymnastics class together! They are just the cutest and play so good together! 

Tuesday night fun! The Arbor Varsity Football team made it to the state championship and you know we were there to cheer our Aggies on!! Penny of course was running the student section with the stuco friends and the rest of us had a blast in the stands! It was unfortunate we played against the hardest team ever! We made 1 touchdown and that was a Win for us! Sadly we got stomped on but we still had a blast! We bleed RED!!  We love our Aggies! They put up a tough fight to the bitter end! So  proud of our Arbor boys!

Loved spending the night with our bestie family! Shayla and I wore our sequined out red Game Day shirts! These sparkle tops were a hit! I even made it on the news/ YouTube for my excessive cheering and hype-ness in the stands! lol What an awesome experience to play in the Allegiant Stadium! We all had such a fun night cheering on our Aggies! 

On Wed we packed in  all the fun! This was Penny's first day off for Thanksgiving break so we saved the fun so she could come with us! We started the day at the Discovery Children's Museum! It was so much fun! Piper didn't remember going here so that means she must have been a baby last time we were there! We love being with our bestie family too the Hilsabeck's! Each of our kids get along with each other so good its insane! Makes planning and having fun together so much more exciting and easy! We love it!

We went from room to room just a playing! Non stop fun! We definitely got our Pogo pass worth that day! 

Well the fun didn't end at the Discovery museum! lol For the evening we met up with our bestie family again and Ice Skated at the Rock Rink at DTS! I have never taken my kids to this ice rink! We always pass it and talk about going but always end up at the Golden Knights practice arena to skate! lol It was so much fun! The ambiance was just perfect! Made you feel like you were skating in New York City at the Rockafeller Center!

The kids had a blast!! They actually can skate really good for only doing this 1 time a year! They got way better skills then their mama that's for sure! lol Just love all their smiling faces! Love these moments together making memories! 

and the fun continues! Since we were at DTS we must do the Light the World Giving Machine! We love doing this every year! The kids love buying items for others! It's the best feeling!

We love the Giving Machine! Cash picked out a Goat to give! Penny picked out Baby Essentials to give! Piper picked out a Blanket Bundle to give! and Honz and I picked out Meals to give! Such an amazing opportunity and experience to Light the World! It's beautiful to give and to be together as a family giving! It was the best end to the best day! 

This is Sunday Funday! Ending the wk with a bang! lol But before Sunday came we had Thanksgiving up in Santa Clara! I'm doing the Thanksgiving post next! So back to Sunday Funday! It was fast Sunday and my little Cashy had the feeling over come him to bare his testimony! He did it! He convinced daddy to go up there with him! I'm so proud of both my boys! They both did great! So proud of Cash! He felt the Holy Ghost and needed to share about it! Love my brave little boy! It was the best sacrament! Love my family!