My mom is here somewhere...she is either watching my little brother get bigger every day and decide he doesn't want to be a baby anymore.
She is holding down the fort while Daddy studies abroad amongst the many battle grounds and historical sites of Washington DC.
Bring on the Birthdays!! She is busy building Arks for little babes 3rd birthday. "Happy Birthday Weston"
After many trails and errors -OK only 2 tries at making an Ark out of cake and a hour before the party mom had to turn to desperate measures, Costco, Michael's and a glue gun. Alas Babe's Ark cake.
Attempt 2-cake made it out of the pan but would not stand upright.
Attempt 1- Cake would not come out of the pan.
Then right after Weston party she got ready for Olivia's birthday party.
Liv's big 8th birthday was spent with her girlfriends where they made bracelets and picture frames. They played games and dance to ABBA-really whats a "Peace party" without ABBA.
You would think after all the parties were over that maybe we could find her, but nope. Once the parties were all cleaned up then we prepare for Grandma and Aunt Jojo to come visit from Washington.
While they were here we went to Antelope Island for the day. It was a fun adventure while there we saw Bison, and Lots of Spiders it was really gross. (the spider part)
We roped some cows and played on an old farm.
While here Grandma and Aunt Jojo got to meet Greyson for the first time.
They were also here for Olivia's Baptism. On the day of her baptism there was a double rainbow and on the way home from dinner we noticed that the Rainbow ended right over the temple. What a reminder that the temple is truly a real pot of goal. Mom and Dad told Olivia that it was her Heavenly Father telling her he was proud of her for getting baptized and that her next goal should be the temple. " I like to look for Rainbows whenever there is rain".... Liv thought it was pretty cool that she got a rainbow on her baptism day just like the song.
Princess Olivia
After 3 dunks she was finally baptized-Dad kept forgetting 1 word "and" trying to translate from Portuguese to English made things a bit difficult.
While Grandma and Aunt Jojo were here we also blessed Little Greyson Phillips Saunders. Boy was it a busy 4 days.
You would have thought mom could have taken a break then and updated her blog. Well not exactly.
After many trails and errors -OK only 2 tries at making an Ark out of cake and a hour before the party mom had to turn to desperate measures, Costco, Michael's and a glue gun. Alas Babe's Ark cake.
Attempt 2-cake made it out of the pan but would not stand upright.
Attempt 1- Cake would not come out of the pan.
Then right after Weston party she got ready for Olivia's birthday party.
Liv's big 8th birthday was spent with her girlfriends where they made bracelets and picture frames. They played games and dance to ABBA-really whats a "Peace party" without ABBA.
You would think after all the parties were over that maybe we could find her, but nope. Once the parties were all cleaned up then we prepare for Grandma and Aunt Jojo to come visit from Washington.
While they were here we went to Antelope Island for the day. It was a fun adventure while there we saw Bison, and Lots of Spiders it was really gross. (the spider part)
We roped some cows and played on an old farm.
While here Grandma and Aunt Jojo got to meet Greyson for the first time.
They were also here for Olivia's Baptism. On the day of her baptism there was a double rainbow and on the way home from dinner we noticed that the Rainbow ended right over the temple. What a reminder that the temple is truly a real pot of goal. Mom and Dad told Olivia that it was her Heavenly Father telling her he was proud of her for getting baptized and that her next goal should be the temple. " I like to look for Rainbows whenever there is rain".... Liv thought it was pretty cool that she got a rainbow on her baptism day just like the song.
Princess Olivia
After 3 dunks she was finally baptized-Dad kept forgetting 1 word "and" trying to translate from Portuguese to English made things a bit difficult.
While Grandma and Aunt Jojo were here we also blessed Little Greyson Phillips Saunders. Boy was it a busy 4 days.
You would have thought mom could have taken a break then and updated her blog. Well not exactly.SCHOOL
Then school started for Daddy, Olivia and Harrison. 
Olivia started 3rd grade at Wasatch Elementary with Mrs. Montanez, which was kind of scary since most of her friends are in Mrs. Allred's class. She is doing awesome and received the "Star Reader" for her class for January. Olivia also started to wears glasses while in 3rd. (see later pictures).
Harrison started Kindergarten at Wasatch. He is in Miss Joy's Class.
Olivia started 3rd grade at Wasatch Elementary with Mrs. Montanez, which was kind of scary since most of her friends are in Mrs. Allred's class. She is doing awesome and received the "Star Reader" for her class for January. Olivia also started to wears glasses while in 3rd. (see later pictures).
Harrison started Kindergarten at Wasatch. He is in Miss Joy's Class.He loves going to school and he was even the first 'Wildcat of the month" for the school year from his class.
Nothing slows down once school starts for mom. From car pooling, cleaning, grocery shopping, homework and taking care of 4 kids while daddy works from 7 am-til 8pm it makes it even harder for mom to find time to update her blog.
Halloween is a fun time at our house we like to go to the pumpkin patch and get pumpkins, but this year we didn't make it. We bought our pumpkins at Maceys. Weston carved a self portraits do you see the resemblance
Little Greyson was a Lion
Liv was Alison in Wonderland
Harrison was Dracula
Weston was a Giraffe
Nothing slows down once school starts for mom. From car pooling, cleaning, grocery shopping, homework and taking care of 4 kids while daddy works from 7 am-til 8pm it makes it even harder for mom to find time to update her blog.
Halloween is a fun time at our house we like to go to the pumpkin patch and get pumpkins, but this year we didn't make it. We bought our pumpkins at Maceys. Weston carved a self portraits do you see the resemblance
Little Greyson was a Lion
Liv was Alison in Wonderland
Harrison was Dracula
Weston was a GiraffeThen my mom got lost in the holidays.
Greyson's 1st Christmas.
I think he got a little spoiled.
Liv got pretty spoiled too, she got her first sewing machine and "Zoobiles" and "Squinkies".
Weston and Harrison both wanted Woody's and fought over who Santa would bring it to them. Needless to say they both got one.
Greyson's 1st Christmas.I think he got a little spoiled.
Liv got pretty spoiled too, she got her first sewing machine and "Zoobiles" and "Squinkies".
Weston and Harrison both wanted Woody's and fought over who Santa would bring it to them. Needless to say they both got one.(Harrison also got spoiled for Christmas, but in editing this post his picture got deleted, if you could put pictures where you wanted them then I could have fixed it.)
Then to start out the New Year....
Harrison had his 6 year old birthday. We started with Liv that the 6th birthday you could have a party with friends every other year, so this was Harrison's year for his 1st birthday party. Well he opted out. He wanted to go to the Dinosaur Museum in Lehi for his birthday instead. (For the 3rd year in a row.) So he got to pick someone to go with him and he picked his cousin Traceson.
We ate at In-N-out burger after YUM!
Sometimes mom feels like she has the whole world in her hands or at least on her shoulders, but really its just Olivia, Harrison, Weston and Greyson to keep track of.
Greyson digging for Dinosaur bones.
Then to start out the New Year....
Harrison had his 6 year old birthday. We started with Liv that the 6th birthday you could have a party with friends every other year, so this was Harrison's year for his 1st birthday party. Well he opted out. He wanted to go to the Dinosaur Museum in Lehi for his birthday instead. (For the 3rd year in a row.) So he got to pick someone to go with him and he picked his cousin Traceson.
We ate at In-N-out burger after YUM!
Sometimes mom feels like she has the whole world in her hands or at least on her shoulders, but really its just Olivia, Harrison, Weston and Greyson to keep track of.
Greyson digging for Dinosaur bones.So as you can see my mom has been around just not in the blogging world. Hopefully we are now all caught up.
Now maybe it won't be such a challenge for my mom to return to the blog. Ü
(Thanks for the idea Celeste).
