Student Of The Month!

Congrats!! Look who was awarded student of the month!! Penny!!! She was selected out of over 3,200 students to be the November Student of the Month! Her Geometry teacher selected her! We are extremely proud of our girl! She is a shining star! She works so hard and is a dedicated student! She loves life! I Love the kind words her teacher wrote about her! She is so deserving of this award and we couldn't be more proud! Way to go Penny!!! I'm so lucky to be her mama!

Arbor View put on a luncheon to present her with her Student of the Month Award! It was a wonderful ceremony! and delicious food! It was so fun to be a part of such a special event to honor Penny!!! Oh how we  love our Penny girl! She is truly the best! Congrats Penny! We are so proud of you!!! Your hard work is paying off!!!

 

January Wk 3 Fun!

Another week down and I was finally feel well enough to get back to work! Here is the weekly recap  for January wk 3 fun! Piper had her map testing at school and did amazing! So proud of my girl!!! Such a smart cookie! We had a cozy dress up day at school and we  all got to wear our sweats and hoodies! The kids loved it! A few of us planned to wear our 9er's gear! It was so fun! It was great to be back to work! 

My Honz had a busy week! He was busy with the big  screen printing convention in town all wk! He was networking all week and loved it! My social butterfly! He was out there doing his thing! He loves making and building connections! He's the best! He also got to help his mom this wk! He loves being able to help anytime! 

Piper had her usual cheer practice and tumbling classes all week! She also had her annual well check! She's growing right on track! She loved playing with her bestie! and She's had a ton of fun cheering on the Bears this wk! She has really gotten into the Bears this season because of her favorite teacher Miss Anderson loving the Bears! 

Penny! She had her braces apt this wk! We love when we get to see the best Dr. Auntie Eryn! Back to baking! She has loved her culinary class and loves to whip up delicious things at home! She sure makes us some yummy treats! All from scratch! 

Our favorite Carter came over stayed the night and had a blast hanging with Cashy! Love having a 4th child! Carter is the best! I also got my hair down which means Baby Jack gets to come over and play! He's getting so big and so smiley! My kids sure love him so much!

Cashy had his volleyball game! They won all 3 sets!!! Wahoo! Cash is getting good!  Each practice and each game he gets better and better! He's really getting this Volleyball thing down! lol

and this is why Carter comes to stay the weekend! These 2 ride and ride and jump! They love going on their adventures together! So many miles put on their bikes! So much fun and memories made together while putting those miles  on! Love these 2 together! 

Sunday Fun-day!!! Cash forgot to put a tie on today! lol but none of us even realized until after church that he didn't have a tie on! So freakn funny! The rest of the day was lounging around watching football and shows! Ruby does the lounging and relaxing best! and that's our weekly recap for January wk 3! Can't believe how fast a wk goes by! 

 

Penny and her Photoshoots!

A girl and her photoshoots! It's the thing for these teens these days! Well at least for my beautiful teen and her besties! They love any chance to get all cute and go take photos! lol! They love snapping them on their digital cameras too! For a more vintage look! lol But all I can say is this mama loves all the pics! You can take as many photoshoots as you want! I'm here for it especially when you're this gorgeous! Oh how I love my Pretty Penny! 

She is so fun! Always ready to go go go! Loving all these pics!

So fun to be in the snow too! Such a cute fun idea for a photoshoot!

It was Lizzie's birthday photoshoot! Yayyyy! 

All these beauties together! They are such fun good girls! Love these little ladies! Such great pics too! Their outfits all came together perfectly! Love it!

Ohhhhh Penny and Hannah! Forever Besties! These 2 have so much fun together! They are both always down to play and party from running 2 mans or just hanging with the gang! They are so there and have so much fun always! Such fun pics together too! 

Happy Sweet 16th Birthday beautiful Lizzie! Penny had a blast celebrating her all day! From daytime photoshoot to night time party!! It was a black and white theme and the birthday girl wore red! So cute!! Love it!

The rest of the adorable pics from the party!  Penny had so much fun partying it up with all her friends! Happy Sweet 16 Lizzie!!

 

January Wk 2 Fun!

Already another wk into January! Here is the weekly recap for January wk 2! Our winter break continues! lol Our school had Monday off so of course we cont to play and celebrate little Piper! Cash was off to his bff's birthday party too! Bennett and Piper share the same Birthday! So fun! Cash got to party it up taking 1st place at the K-1 fast go cart racing! Wahoo Cashy! Speed demon! lol All your riding is paying off! lol You got those driving skills! lol He had the best day hanging with his friends and celebrating Bennett! 

Piper and I played too on our day off! lol I picked up Navy and took the girls to go play at Uptown Jungle! These 2 bestie cousins are the cutest! They always have the best time together! 

Back to school we go and yes we are still celebrating Piper!!! She had to celebrate at school too! She wore her birthday sash and birthday headband proudly! lol We brought 6 dozen mini cupcakes to her class to celebrate her! The class each got 3 little cupcakes! They loved it! All the singing and celebrating little Piper is truly the best! She had the best day at school! Yayyyy!

Best daddy award goes to my Honz! He had to take over for me in the mom duties because I got so sick! Our whole family actually got sick but I just couldn't fight it off like the rest of them! He got the kids ready for school and took them and picked them up for the rest of the wk! 

Back on the court for this guy but this time trying a new sport!! Volleyball with NYS! Cash had his first scrimmage game mid wk and loved it! He is such an athletic kid that he really can pick up any sport! So proud! It was so fun to watch him play and actually so fun to watch Volleyball! We are so used to him playing basketball or flag football so it was a switch up but so awesome! After the game we took the boys to celebrate! They crushed it out there! Way to go Little Rascal's! (lol- team name)

Piper continued to have a great wk!!! Sadly I wasn't there for any of it at the school! Ugh dang sickness! Piper got to celebrate with her Jr Lt House Leadership team their huge Win  of the state funded grant money for their school! Yayyyy! She had a cheer showcase and did amazing! Put on her first assembly for the year with Jr Lt House! Game on! She also had tumbling 2 times this wk! and got to spend her birthday gift cards at Target!! Wahoo she was busy this wk! 

After resting all wk I was able to take her to Disney On Ice! Every year for her Birthday we give her tickets to go!! I was worried all week I wasn't going to be able to take her cause I had been sick in bed! But I pulled it together for my Birthday Girl and we went! She was so happy I could go with her! It was actually good to get ready and get out of the house! We had an amazing time together! I love my little birthday side kick! She had a blast! She loved it! Sang every song and absolutely loved all the acrobat tricks! It was a great day together! We loved matching in a our favorite cheetah! and absolutely loved Disney On Ice again!!!

Cash has been busy riding and jumping! It was so fun to have Carter over to ride all day and play!!! These 2 have the best time together! Carter even came with us to Cash's first volleyball game! Cash played great! His serves are getting better! Wahoo! He's committed and loving it! It was another great few sets! Nail biting sets to be exact! Lol! Way to go Cash! Way to go #19! 

Don't you worry Penny was busy playing too! The weekend hit and she was gone! She had a fun photoshoot and birthday party! Separate post to follow cause she took so many pics at her photoshoot that it needs it's own post to share all the collages!! lol

We made it!! Sunday Fun-day!!! Cash finally lost another tooth! lol He has caught back up to Piper! The race is on with these 2 mouths loosing teeth! We also went to dinner with the Johnsons the night before! After dinner we hung out at their big fire pit out on their land! It was so awesome! We had a wonderful time catching up! Now that's a weekly recap for January wk 2! and I'm ready to start next wk healthy too! lol

 

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!