Las Vegas

We may have just had the longest weekend of our lives. We left home at 5:00 a.m. on Thursday and headed for Vegas. My mom bought us tickets for the NFR and my brother was getting married. Here are the kids in the car. They really did pretty good considering we were in the car for so long

We got to Vegas at 2:00 and they were SO HAPPY to be out of the car.

Then we took the kids to M&M World and to the MGM Grand where they have the lions. It was really cool. They have a glass window that you walk under and there was a lion asleep. A little while longer he woke up and was licking the glass. I didn't think Olin would care too much about it but he was so excited and kept shouting, "Cow, Cow, Cow"

We wanted to take them to more places but ran out of time. There was some Nascar thing on the strip so it took us forever to get around. This was my first trip to Vegas so I found it kind of amazing that all the hotels have all these things to draw people in. Since we had our kids with us it was nice.

On Friday we went to Cowboy Christmas. We walked and walked and walked but we got to meet Charmayne James and Billy Etbauer and some other rodeo people that I kind of recognized but didn't really know. Trent and I went to the rodeo on Friday but Trent's sister Alese and her husband Ryan came down this weekend too so they watched our kids while we went to the Rodeo. Thanks guys. I can't imagine taking them there. This was our ride to the rodeo, Pretty Sweet huh?? There is Bro and Tawny and my mom. Hannah, Cody, Kaitlin, Melissa, Carl, Me, and Trent all went Friday night. Then most of them went Saturday night too. Saturday was Bro and Tawny's wedding (my camera was dead by then) Of course I don't have pictures of the important things right?? Then we headed to Tropic to see Slate and Pennie. That was a 4 hour drive and then we spent Sunday there and headed for home at 5:00 but hit a little bit of the snow storm so we didn't make it home until 10:00. We had a lot of fun but we are really glad it is over with. I have tons of blogging to catch up on maybe it will happen one day.

Halloween Program at Jay's preschool

Hi it has been a while but it isn't my fault. Trent made me go camping last week in Colorado! I know you are thinking it is too cold and I don't even like camping but it was OK I survived it. It did snow about 6 inches but we were in the camp trailer for most of the time. Anyway I'll post pictures of it later I just wanted to tell everyone about Jay's preschool program.

I didn't even know they were having one until I dropped her off and her teacher said to come back early for it. They sang 3 or 4 songs and it was really cute. but you know the obnoxious kid...you know every program has them. they are the ones that won't stand where they are supposed to and they are louder than the rest. Then in the middle of the song her little brother starts laughing at her and then JayLee (you know the obnoxious kid in the program) says
"ha ha Olin thinks were funny! He is laughing at us." but she covered up well when the rest of the kids started singing she just jumped right back in.

Here are some pictures. I do have pictures of Olin in his Halloween costume... Well Jen has them by the time Halloween rolled around in Colorado (yes we went trick or treating camper door to camper door) my camera was dead. So as soon as I get them I will show you one cute cowboy. For now you get (as JayLee calls it) The Stature of Liberty!

Jay's teacher Mrs. Jessica

Jay's class (this is when she makes her move. that cute little girl's wings hit her so she decides to stand in front of her)


She had fun and she loves going to preschool.

Funny Kids

Olin is getting old enough that JayLee and him are starting to play alot. He is walking all over the place which is wonderful!!! I love it when they can walk. Here are some pictures and a little story of my two funny kids....

Here they are sharing a sandwich. Not bad, sharing is good.....

They share a room and it was about 7:30 in the morning when I went to get them because I finally heard a rattle or something well this is what I found when I walked into the room.....

Yes that is Jay's bed EMPTY... So I look to the right and see she climbed in bed with Olin to play. I thought it was pretty cute... Who knows how long I could have left them there
So last night we put them to bed at 7:30. Shortly after JayLee comes running out of her bedroom saying, "The baby can't get out!" I was a little confused. So I went in and saw this...

If you haven't guessed what she was talking about. Look closely, she made little steps so Olin could climb out of his crib. Luckily it didn't work. I love these two kids!!

Crafty Stuff

It has been a while since I've posted last becasue I've been sort of busy getting ready for the craft fair were doing. My mom, Hannah, and I did it last year and did really well so we decided to do it again. People here are still talking about the aprons we do so we are going to have to step it up and get a ton ready. To get ready for it I designed my own pattern. Here are some of the ones I've done...

If you want an apron and are in Emery County you can go into my mom's shop and buy one there. If you aren't in Emery County, go to our etsy shop. And if you want to make an apron like the ones above leave a comment and we'll sign you up. The class is on November 6 and 7

check out this skirt I did for my mom's blog and let me know what you think. I might even give it away or something since it doesn't fit jay.

JayLee's halloween costume is almost done she is going to be the "Stature of Liberty" (according to jay) I'll show you pictures in a couple days

Oh Yeah this girl named Tamara is doing a series of contests on her blog called Drabby to Fabby and she is featuring me the second week of November. Visit her blog every Friday for some pretty cool contests.

And just in case you are bored with me talking about me, here are some pictures to make this post worthwhile for those of you who just want to see Jay and Olin.

Family tradition, Trent cooks us crepes for breakfast on Conference Sunday so here is Jay and Olin enjoying their crepesAnd last but certainly not least, here is Olin....being none other than OLIN!!! He is such a tease, we don't know what to do with him half the time. So we just laugh and love him of course.

Happy Birthday Olin!

It was Olin's Birthday on Monday. We had a little get together with the family on Sunday. Thanks to everyone who made the trek! Here are some pictures
He was so funny with the cake. At first he was just getting frosting so he quit eating it. So I got him a fork and then he just dug in. I can't believe he is 1 already. He has a really fun personality and is of course full of mischief.

Look What I Can Do!!

If any of you have been to our house you know that this is the ladder that takes you to the finished attic. We keep it open in the summer to keep the house a little cooler. I was looking for something up there so I was going up and down and Olin thought it would be fun to climb it. He has been trying for a while but this time I stood right behind him and he made it all the way to the top.

PS Please ignore the messy corner of my house that I sew in.

First day of Preschool

Today JayLee went to preschool. She has gone back and forth from excited to not wanting to go at all for the last couple of weeks but I figured it was just nerves after finding out her boyfriend wouldn't be going to the same school. So here is JayLee on her first day of preschool

And here is Olin on his first day of preschool.....

Ha ha! Just kidding but isn't he cute? He is so funny about having a pen. He can't just have a pen he has to have paper too. He totally knows what to do with it.

Olin will be a year on Monday. Time flies! We got this car for Jay for her 1st birthday and Olin is enjoying it just as much as she did.