Jan. 2018 - June 2018

Jan

Playing Watch your Mouth with cousins

Playing on the snowy trampoline with cousins

Getting ready to play in the snow

At our annual family New Years Day activity at the church

Braden and Hayden in the hallway

Brooklyn broke her toe at the Larsen Cabin

Ninja turtle Bry

Mr Incredble Braden

Baby sweet Austin crawling

Bryson and his bear

Brysons art projects

Austin 9 months!

Braden and Anna watching a show at Grandma's

Self feeding

The flower Bryson made mom

Braden and Hayden playing

Cute Austin pulling himself up

Giving a look...

Wearing some headphones

Taking a nap with dad

Brooklyn's spoltlight sheet from YW's New Beginnings...I can't believe she will be 12 in December!w2

Good job Brooklyn!

Braden made a train!

Playing at the park on a warm day in Jan.

Cute Austin

Bryson baptism preview, I can't believe he will be 8 in December!

The kind of paint we have in our house for future reference

Eating a grilled cheese like a big boy

Don't tell!

Cute brothers playing

More Bryson Art

Braden making ice cream

Enjoying his firstish ice cream

Braden made BIG ice cream

Cute boy

Seeing if toe #2 is broken (it wasn't luckily)

Playing with Hayden on the trampoline

Playing with toys

Feb
(These are out of order but all happened in Feb)
Playing at the castle park

Brooklyn's good grades

Braden and Hayden playing in the snow

Brooklyn's old trophy from dance

 Holding Toby

Decorations in the newly completed toy room

Plahying in the snow

 Cute Valentine Brooklyn made

Exploring the newly finished basement

Brooklyn with the cookies she made

Austin playine peekaboo around the new couches

My cute Valentines

Braden was excited to get a valentine from a church classmate

Holding their V-day treasures

Curtis' V-day treasures

My cute treasure

Braden enjoying his ice cream

Playing on the dirt hill at the castle park

Playing on the toys

Chilling like a babe

More play

More chill cutie pie

Picnic lunch

More playtime...

More dirt hill

In my bday clothes Brooklyn picked out my cute shirt

Made some yummy chocolate strawberries

Eating and doing his squinty smile

Cute messy face baby

More of my cute baby

My cute Braden

Cute little crawler

Happy birthday to me

With a couple of my boys

Family that came over for my bday

My birthday loot

Me and my babies

Playing together nicely

My baby is 10 months old! (And I couldn't get the printer to work)

Playing Dr. with daddy

Date night for V-day

By Bryson

Posing with the Valentines his nice Aunt and Cousins sent him

My first attempt at a french braid.

Cute flower Brooklyn painted in her art class a few years ago but didn't have a place for in her new room so we had to take a pic before getting rid of it...

Cute pedi Brooklyn gave me

The cool kid...

Dad's amazing tower of corn cobbs

March

Book for Dr. Suess day

Brooklyn did great at her 5th grade program! We were so proud of her. She was an immigrant from France and was the only person that said her line in her language!

Have a latenight with her bestie Jocelyn. They did lovely hair on each other.

pretending to bite Jocelyn...ahhh!!

Cute baby eating

Dr Suess Day dinner. Aren't you people lucky to have such a fun mom? Green eggs and ham-burger, trufula tree tufts...

Bryson's lucky

Dr. Suess Hats

My cute pullu painter

Oreo baby

Cute face Braden

Cute babe Austin

Braden fits in the garbage can

Austin fits in the dishwasher

And my baby is 11 months!!

Playing at the park while Bryson is at tumbling

Trying out the playhouse at Sam's club

Braden has seen a picture of Curtis when he was about Braden's age asleep on his stairs, so Braden likes to lay on the stairs and have me take his pic. Silly cute boy.

Playing in the toyroom

More stair silliness

All Bryson's Cute Valentines from cousins/ Aunt Vicky

My cuties playing together (and a photobomb by our nice new couches.)

Cute messy face baby ( I think it was an oreo...?)

My cute little Chase pup

Good Job Brooklyn!

So beautiful! It was supposed to curl Brooklyns hair but it didn't work very well. But she looks fab!

More of my pup

Brooklyn my egg head

Braden my egg head

Austin my cute head

2 of my loves

What happens when the kids think it is a great idea to destroy styrafoam on the trampoline and then jump and roll all over in it. (NOT easy to get out of long hair!)

Using out new fire pit.

Eating a Smore

Grandma and Grandpa Larsen and Aunt Vicky came over to try out our firepit with us

Cute little Austin laughing and being his happy baby self

Eating some pie on PI day...it looks cute on him. Eat some wear some...

Give me my pie!

Brooklyn and Bryson had a flash mob at school from the Greatest Showman to the song This is Me (Brooklyn is in the purple and has pink hair)

Bryson dressup like a ninja turtle for dress up day

Brooklyn dressed up like Ann from the Greatest showman

My appropriate nightgown

My cute boys in their green shirts for St Patty's day

Our green St Pattys Day breakfast

Green treasures from the treasure hunt that the leprechaun left the kids

The clues

Happy cuties

More clues

The leprechaun even left this!

Silly cutie eating his green food

Delicious green dinner

Awesome mask Brooklyn made (and her cute St Patty's day shirt)

Playing outside!

On a walk with the cub scouts

Austin loving or tackeling Braden (or both)

Being silly for a picture!

Cute smiles

silly

Brysons masks from fairytale Friday

The blue color in the bedroom in case I ever need to know...

Out on a date! (Pretend we look awesome and not weird)

Silly boys

Bryson got to be the Star student for the week and bring this poster about him!

Cute Bryson

Cute Braden

Cute baby is hungry

Good job smartie Brooklyn!

Austins new chair invention (a bowl upside down.) He was pretty proud.

Handsome little mohawk dude

First haircut!

Before the haircut

Braden getting a haircut

Coldstone treat day!

Play at the park evening!

I did Brooklyn's fun Friday activity. We played "Bunny Wrap" with TP and buddy tag

Wow this cute little boy sure gets messy a lot!

Girls night plus an Easter Egg hunt

Brysons parent teacher folder thing

Cool lego creation by Bryson. (From his Easter basket treasures)

Shrinky dinks (General Conference fun)

Punching balloons (Plus some Easter items in the background)

Trying out Braden's table and being a big boy

Braden's Daniel Tiger instruments from his Easter basket

Playing together

Eating Easter chocolate

My Easter basket

Bryson's

Baby's playing with their Easter

And eating it

Baby Easter

Brooklyn Easter

Braden Easter

Everyone's Easter that was on the table

Everyones on the couch

 April

Playing at the park
Braden

Brooklyn

Bryson

At another park
Brooklyn

Austin

Bryson

Braden

Brook and Braden

Silly Braden and Grandma

Bryson chilling

Cute Braden

Cute Austin

Our  beautiful Easter Eggs

More conference fun

tiny fingerpainting

Braden showing his creations

Painting their creations

Cheeto break

More painting

Conference, Easter and April Fools day were all on the same day. I wrapped grapes in chocolate egg wrappers for a joke. I am so funny!

Our cute baby Austin turned 1 ! Happy Birthday sweet baby boy! 

Pics with family who came to his birthday party!
Aunt Julie

Austins B-day to be continued...
Skip to a couple weeks later when Brysons asthma landed him in the hospital. Showing the fun things in his arm

All the food he loved

My sweet happy boy

Bryson insisted on dressing up as a firefighter for a dress up day at school...even though his suit is too small...

(Austin's b-day continued )Our thank you handout from Austin's b-day party

 Brothers helping Austin try out his new fridge

Austin's had a circus themed party (Cause I like The Greatest Showman movie and I thought it would cute) So we had to take all the guests pics in front of the big top

Party play time

Cake smash time

 

Cute cakes for the baby

 Dallin Em and Toby

Grandma and Grandpa Davis

Jason, Steph, Hayden and Easton

Jeff, Colette, Cambria, Quentin

Julie

Cutest little 1 year old in the world

Bryson's art project

Cute cakes again

 Austins birthday treasures! His elephant went well with his circus theme.

 opening his presents

 Adorable birthday boy

Braden pics

Birthday boy all day

 Popsicle time

Trampoline family fun

Austin swing time

Finally able to wear Easter church clothes

Cute little boys

Smartie Brooklyn

Cute baby driver!

Cute swinger

Cute trampoline babe

Pizza for dinner

Emoji face paint

Playing on his elephant

 Cute happy baby

Find the babe

Still happy, trying to figure out this feeding himself thing

 Cute Ninja turtle glasses boy

Built his cool minecraft lego set

More being a daddy copycat on the stairs

My new fave food (ordered for a lady in East Farmington)

sweet boy ready for surgery

Had his circumcision surgery and trying to wake up...poor sweet baby

My injury of the day from the hospital. Also, Austins surgery was scheduled one of the days Bryson was in the hospital, that was fun.

Welcome home sign for baby Austin after his surgery (even though it was a same day surgery.)

Trying out the bean bag grandma Larsen made us

 My handsome happy baby

Messy cuteness

More trying out the bag Grandma made us, with Grandma!

Silly bib boy

Welcome home sign for Bryson

Austin after his surgery

 Still my happy sweet boy

My happy sweet big boy Braden

I FINALLY got my hair cut and colored. I had to do my tradition tween selfie pose.

We went to visit Kyle's grave for his B-day.  We love and miss him!

We drove by Grandma and Grandpa Arave's old house. Lots of fun, memories, and love here!

Happy juicy juice Braden

  Cute tiny boy

Cute squinty boy

We went to schools Color Run. It was so fun! Braden still talks about it!

 My cute little boys playing

What Braden does when asked to smile.

Cute boys...funny that Braden long pants and long sleeves on and Austin has shorts and short sleeves. Must be crazy weather springtime.

Brooklyn ready for her school play

Playing out large pool

Sprinkler on the trampoline

Chip enjoyment

May
Cool baby

Brooklyn was in her school play, she worked really hard and did an awesome job! She was a purple pirate.

We had another camp fire.

It was also Cinco De Mayo so this was our celebration food

Curtis took the kids to make me a planter for Mother's Day at Home Depot.

What happens when Bryson tries to get in the baby exersaucer at Grandma Larsens

Brrooklyn with her cute friend Paige who also helped with the play

With some more cute friends from the play

Madatory family pics

Ok obviously I love the cute messy baby pics

Our cute pics from Chuck E Cheese

Austin was not a fan of the giant giraffe ride

Playing piano

Playing playdoh

Backward ride on his elephant

Bryson and his friend Zach at scouts with me. They learned about careers, a pilot and a vetranarian

Olaf PJ night twinners

Program from Brooklyn's play

Playing at the park

What Austin does if he doesn't like his dinner

Braden's cute homemade ice cream mustache

Cute little cousins at grandmas

At Larsens

I am not sure what he was into but looks like blue smurf hands

My mothers day balloon and flowers

Another cute mustache boy

Playing with chalk

Brooklyn made us dinner all by herself

Playing at the park

At another park

Another park

At the Museum of Natural Curiosity

Outside park

Exploring outside and feeding the huge fish

Pic by the waterfall

And one by the bear

And in the tunnel cave thing

And on the stage

Playing in the sand

On the spider web climber

More fish feeding

More playground

Inside the water/weather room

Bug smash game

Austin checking his weight

Kids in the playland climbing big thing

Austin found playfood

Austin loved the baby playland

and the giant foam blocks

Brooklyn up above us all

Taking care of the animals

Playing some music

Doing some laundry

All the babies were tired and fell asleep after that

Playing at another fun park (we pretty much went on a park tour when the kids were off track in May)

Playing in the river at the park

Making Daddy eat his hat haha

Another park!

Brooklyn and Bryson had a tumbling recital. Grandma and Grandpa and Julie came to watch.

More cute messiness

Brooklyn with Grandpa Davis on his b-day

Crazy baby hair on grandpa's birthday

Cute little cousins

He just looks extra sweet

With aunt Julie

Playing with brother

All by himself because he is a big boy

More fun outside

Bro's at the store in their ride

Silly babies

Visiting graves on Memorial Day
Grandma and Grandpa Arave and Uncle Lamoyne

Kyle

Dad's brother Lynn

Grandma and Grandpa Davis

Eating messing dinner and still looking totes adorbs

And so is sill big Bro

We had a family bbq on Memorial Day at the park

Some dads and kids played frisbee

Austin liked the sand pit

And so did Braden

My cute babies 1 year old pics (some of them)

Bryson got 100% on his spelling test! Good job smartie!

Sweet boy

Bryson and some artwork from school

Braden and his comb glasses

Brooklyn and some of her artwork from school

Austin tries to sit on Braden's lap but Austin is almost as big as him.

All my cute boys in their twin pj's. And Brooklyn's eye and elbow photobomb...hehe she was trying to help me with Austin.

June
Bryson's half b-day 7 1/2!

Matthew's baptism

 Good job smartie pants Brooklyn! 100% on States and Capitals test!

 My cute boys

Dad showed us his old houses he grew up in

We attended Toby's baby blessing. Dad and Austin fell asleep after the breakfast

Cute Toby with Grams and Gramps

 Bryson's art project

Bryson at swim lessons

Braden and Austin swimming at Davis'

Swimming another day with Hayden and Easton

Bryson at swim lessons again

Playing in the backyard

Playing at another park

At Logan Cordon and Katelyn's piano recital and Anna's third birthday party.

Brooklyn spent hours and cleaned the van really well

Brooklyn after eating spaghetti. She is way messier than Austin after eating spaghetti.

Cute little ice cream face

I am not sure what Braden is doing with the paper towel but he looks cute

 We went to a couple parks. Brooklyn's friend Lindsey came with us.

The boys found a dog and the owners let them pet him.

Swinging

Chilling

 Cute little faces!! Love!!

Brooklyn. Looking lovely and freshly showered.

 Happy baby

Brooklyn's half b-day 11 1/2!

 

Father's Day!

Brooklyn at Biztown. She was an on air host with her crush.

Braden's half birthday- 3 1/2!!

Brooklyn at swim lessons

Braden and Austin playing in his half b-day present

 My cutie

More Braden's half b-day pics

 And he insisted he needs blue cupcakes with blue frosting...

Braden at swim lessons

Austin and Braden's swim lessons

My boys

Book by Bryson about his dad

Pic by Braden

Bryson's artwork

Playing at Grandma's with cousins

Father's day treasures

Brooklyn is a genius.

Braden and his birthday shirt that he picked out and LOVES!

Playing on the waterslide

 

At Larsen's sitting like a big boy

Handsome boy at church

First time feeding himself yogurt.

Cute teacher gift we gave the kids teachers

Dog pile on Brooklyn!

Poster Brooklyn made for school

Book by Bryson about his mom

Field day!

Cute little Braden

Dressing himself

Brooklyn at swim lessons

Book by Bryson about Bryson

Brooklyn's markings for her 5th grade program

Good job smart Bryson!

Braden at swim lessons

Bryson's page out of the book the teachers made them

Another park play party

Braden and Austin were trying to help Brooklyn come down and Braden said he would catch her (she really knew how to get down but it was so cute.)

We got snow cones too

Last day of 1st grade!

Last day of 5th grade!

Eating chocolate ice cream