A third of my life

The other day it dawned on me that I have been married for a third of my life-crazy! And what an exciting 3rd of my life it has been. Married for 9 years to Laun & having 4 beautiful children- what more could I ask for. I just wanted Laun to know how happy I am that he has shared this great life with me- I love you Laun.

Our family


at the temple


round-up


temple-9th anniversary

Christmas tree hunting- styling in our boots

family walk

Love this smile

Good looking cowboy

4wheeling trip

fishing trip

4th of July

Tucano's

Jacksonville, Wyoming- on the tram

Caspers

Laun's graduation

Caspers- Ice Cream Shoppe

Lewiston, UT

Easter

Idaho-drive (on Coopers 2nd b-day)

I love this one of us sharing the hospital bed

after Marlee joined our lives

a visit to Coopers grave

rodeo

Sea World

ward Luau

I know this picture is not of Laun & I but, he looks especially HOT in this photo

in & out

the rodeo

the suns game

CA-after a sailboat ride

Lucky for you all I have not had a digital camera for a third of my life:)

Our morning....

Marlee likes to stand by me when I am cooking.


Porter was so happy to wear a mohawk to school today. I love the height difference between these two.

Our weekend...

We went to phoenix this weekend & spent time with both our parents. Laun & I went to the temple saturday morning. Then we picked up our kids & met up with Ryan's family at the Lehi Rodeo. Marlee enjoyed taking a ride on a pony. Clayton & Alissa tried dressing a goat, it was pretty funny to watch. Then Clayton & Porter chased greased pigs (who ever could catch a pig got money) & they both came out with greasy hands. We enjoyed BBQ food & cotton candy. Then we went to Savannah Turley's baptism & my Turley Grandparents house for dinner & dessert. That night we watched a movie with my parents & had rootbeer floats.
After church we always make a treat & Porter picked divinity, the boys love when Laun makes divinity.

Oh I almost forgot- one night at my parents house we heard Marlee screaming & when we looked for her, Porter said,"I put her in the play room". He got sick of her "bugging" him so, he put her in time out aka playroom with the door closed. We sometimes have to tell Port that he is not a parent. Although it was kind of cute to see Marlee SO angry.

The updates...

Huck got into our garden several times- welcome to life with a puppy.

Clayton is as handsome as ever & looks like Laun more & more each day. A while ago he came home with extra spelling words because he told the teacher,"My mom says these spelling words are too easy." Lucky for him, he gets extra challenge words each week. He is a great speller & loves science. Although getting him to write is like pulling teeth. He is all about the social life & loves playing football with his friends.

Porter is such a cutie but don't tell him that, he likes to be called handsome. He is a wonderful reader & enjoys bragging about how well he is doing in school. Lets just say that he is not laking in the confidence area. He is great at telling stories & has some sweet facial expressions. He hates when we have to run errands because he is such a home body. He has enjoyed having a dog & likes to have Huck chase him in the backyard.

Marlee now has 7 teeth & is on her 3rd ear infection. I think she wants us to rest assured that her lungs work great because she screams about 50% of the day. She loves all the attention she gets in this household & continues to be a Daddys girl.

I love when they all cuddle on the couch together.

I'm your Huckleberry

It is about time. We have been looking for a dog for ~6 years. We found one of these German Wirehaired Pointers in the paper six years ago and have searched for the perfect one. The dog is not from the best looking breed, it may be said that they are flat ugly. When we found this puppy in Iowa through puppyfind.com we looked no more. He came with bed-head or bed-body, and is the wireyest looking one we have seen.
The boys love him and Marlee is not so sure of him yet. On the way back from the airport Porter said that this was the best day of his life, and better than rootbeer floats. Well said Porter, well said. This was before we told the Boys it was their job to poop scoop, but they took the news well.
He is a great little dog and we call him Huck for short.

girls, girls everywhere

We babysat the Beeson kids this weekend. And let me just say that Sam & Janae have some of the cutest & well behaved children. Plus they have lots of girls & Marlee was in pink heaven. And Clayton & Porter were so excited to hang out with Harry.

Here is Marbar & Charlotte


Laun kicking it with Lucy & Lottie


Georgia was so cute with Marlee


Laun was playing frisbie & football with the kids on the green belt

Lucy kept making Marlee laugh. They got out all these beanie babies & then I told Marlee to clean them up & she started putting them back in the basket, it was so cute.

Lottie was gracious enough to share her "slinky" blankets with Marlee & push her around in the shopping cart.

Grandma Lucy stopped by & made tiger ears (kind of like fry bread w/ cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top) & the kids devoured them right up.

Marlee & Cozy

I didn't get very many pictures of the older kids because they were always on the run-the cousins had lots of fun together.

Laun took some of the kids to the airport to pick up our "package" from Iowa.

Rodeo Days

Laun left around 4am in the morning for some conference & we will meet up with him on friday night. The kids get 2 days off because the rodeo is in town, you know how serious the rodeo is, it's practically a holiday around here. So I will experience having 5 kids around for the next 2 days (the twin boys I babysit & my 3 kids), lucky for me all the babies are pretty good & my boys are great with little ones.

Here are the ninos enjoying lounging around watching a movie. I don't know what got into Marlee, she was so cuddly.


The boys had fun entertaining the 3 little ones. Clayton was such a big help, he fed Marlee for me so, instead of feeding 3 babies at once like I usually do, I only had to feed 2.


Marlee does this new thing lately where she sucks her right thumb & then touches her belly button with her left hand. Hopefully she will drop these habits when school rolls around.


I made a grape & orange julius smoothie:

3oz frozen juice concentrate
1/2 cup of milk
1/2 cup of water
2 Tb white sugar
1 t vanilla
6-10 ice cubes

Mix all ingredients except for ice in a blender for 1-2 minutes. Then Add ice cubes 1 at a time & keep mixing until it reaches a smoothie-like texture. This recipe is so fast easy.

I'm not sure if we look better with a grape or orange mustache. Either way, Marlees hair looks the best for sure.


I also took the kids out to Chevy's for lunch since they had the day off. Porter complained about 75% of the time that we had to leave the house. Then I went to Relief Society tonight & got some great family home evening ideas. I am excited for friday already- to see Laun & a new "family member" that will fly in from Iowa.

Field trip to the Rodeo...

Clayton was so excited that he got to dress up for the rodeo fieldtrip. he wanted to set his clothes out the night before so he wouldn't forget to wear them(: He wore his spurs & bandana that he got from muttin bustin when he was 4.