The past two weeks the kids and I spent in Arizona. We drove down on Monday to help with Stormy's wedding preparation. It's amazing how much goes into planning a wedding. But everything turned out wonderful and it was so awesome to be able to attend Stormy and Spenser's sealing. Those two are so perfect together, I am so happy they found each other. Stormy looked gorgeous on her wedding day.

We spent all day Friday before the wedding decorating the cultural hall. And we literally spent all day Friday doing it. The kids were wiped out by the end of the day.

Everyone taking a break from decorating and eating pizza... Kade, Maylee and Neela all asleep on the couch... At one point Maylee crawled into Noah's lap while he was trying to figure out the lights and just wanted to snuggle, it was so cute... The Wedding Day...

This is the best picture I could get of Dutch in his cute Wedding outfit... Maylee looked adorable in her Wedding outfit but she was being a little stinker and wouldn't let me take a decent picture of her... So here she is giving Daddy a drink of water... And with Mommy...

The rest of the time there we spent hanging out with family. It was seriously the busiest two weeks. We really never stopped going the entire time we were there. Thankfully for David's mom, he was able to fly down for the wedding and then back for school and then down again for Thanksgiving. We had so much fun, Dutch especially had a blast playing with Maxx, Jase and Kade. He seriously loves his cousins so much and I love watching him play with his cousins. I always hate taking them away from family. I'm so grateful to have such a great family and for my kids to be so loved by everyone.

While I was there I did Maylee's hair in pigtails for the first time. So CUTE!!! David and his brothers minus one on Thanksgiving...

Tonight for Family Home Evening we decorated the house for Christmas. Dutch is so excited for Christmas this year and is definitely starting to understand what it is all about a little better. At least the Santa Clause and presents part. So when David brought the tree in from the garage and started setting it up Dutch got super excited and shouted, "Christmas is here, where are the presents". So he doesn't completely get it but we are working on it. So after we set up all the decorations we had a lesson using their Playskool nativity to help him understand that Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. However it is very exciting as a parent to watch how excited the kids are. I love Christmas time. I'll have to post some more pictures of how cute the house looks all decorated for Christmas, but tonight I am completely wiped out.

My mom, Tara and I were also able to go and see New Moon while I was in town and I have to say it was a thousand times better than Twlight. I was so nervous to see it because I was afraid that I wouldn't like it but I loved it. And wow its hard not to like Jacob better after seeing the movie because, WOW he sure is good looking.

Some random cute pictures just because....

Baby Girl!

We found out today that we will be welcoming another little girl to our family in March. We are super excited. Dutch is excited and wants to name her little Dutch and Maylee doesn't have a clue what is going on but we think she is going to love having a baby around, except for the fact that she will no longer be the baby herself.

This past weekend we made a very quick trip to Phoenix to help welcome home David's little brother Chase from his mission to Argentina. We left Friday as soon as David got out of class, got to Phoenix around 9pm and headed home on Sunday around noon. It was short but we were so glad we were able to go. It was a lot of fun to go to the airport and watch Chase see his family after two years. Unfortunately while we were there both of our kids ended up really sick. When we left on Friday we knew Maylee had an ear infection but we got some antibiotics for her and we weren't too worried. Until Dutch woke up Saturday morning with a high fever and cough. But despite all the sickness we had a great time seeing Chase and the whole family but I am hoping that the family doesn't end up sick.

Waiting... We see him... Finally he's here, he sure did walk really slow down that terminal. After the airport we spent the rest of our time at Fawn and Dave's house spending time with family and eating. It was fun to be able to just sit and visit over there just like before we moved. It really made it hard to leave.

Ashley, who weighs as much as Dutch, was pushing him on the swing. I think she used every ounce of energy she had. The car ride home. I know I looked riducioulsy sleepy here but I was. David and I literally only got about an hour and a half of decent sleep the night before. Dutch was up every 15-20 minutes from his fever and cough. It was miserable. I'm just glad we were able to make it home safely, with as tired as we were. On the way home we were making excellent time until we came to Hoover Dam. About 4 miles before the check point traffic came to a complete stop and it took us about 35 minutes to get through it. And as we are just creeping along Dutch announces that he needs to pee. David didn't want to pull over and get out of line so we tried to see if he could hold it for a few minutes just til we made it through check point. Well that wasn't going to happen, so we finally came to an area with enough room to pull off and I got out with Dutch. We only walked about 10 feet from the car and I pulled down Dutch's pants. Since he is potty training he still can't use that great little hole in the front of his pants, so about 15 feet from a huge line of traffic, Dutch stood out there with his naked bum pointing to the traffic peeing. It was so hilarious.

White Coat Ceremony

Two weekends ago David had his White Coat Ceremony. Both of our parents were able to come up for the occasion and support David. Basically the White Coat Ceremony is where the students accept their white coats and make their oaths as a Doctor. It was fun to see him get his white coat, even if it is still short! At the end of the ceremony when everyone was clapping one last time for the student doctors, I had the most overwhelming feeling of, 'this is really happening, he is really going to be a doctor'. I know that might sound lame but it has been such a long road for us that it just still hasn't really seemed real. But that really made it sink in. I am so excited and proud of David. The kids did not enjoy the White Coat Ceremony, after having already gone to church for three hours they were not very happy about having to sit and behave for another two hours. It was very hard trying to keep them entertained. At one point, during a relatively quiet moment in the banquet hall, Dutch says really loud, "I need to poop, Mom". Very embarrassing, yet funny. David and his buddy Brian.

Happy Halloween

While we were in Buckeye last week I took the kids to my sister-in-laws ward Trunk or Treat. Which really got Dutch excited for Halloween. While watching all the other kids at the ward party he finally started saying Trick or Treat and let some of his shyness slip away. I was so excited. So I was really excited for Halloween night. But of course Dutch threw a big fit and said he didn't want to go or get dressed up. After being forced into his soccer outfit and out onto the street he got excited again. It took him a few houses to warm up and start saying trick or treat but he got it down. What he really enjoyed was knocking on the doors. Maylee of course is just a little ham. At every house she would stand there after they gave her candy and just keep saying 'bye-bye' and 'thank you'. And everyone loved her, they all thought she was so adorable in her Hula outfit. Which as a very biased Mom, I would have to completely agree.