My 2 hot dates this month

I was lucky enough this month to be able to go out on dates with both of my boys for their birthdays. I have been trying to do that with each of the kids on their birthdays so that it is just a special day with mom. Bubba wanted to go to a jazz game for his date, so I got tickets for us back in february when they were running one of their specials. It just so happened that all the drama with the Jazz happened just a couple of weeks before we were suppose to go, and of course Bubba had gotten a D-will jersey for Christmas, so he wasn't too excited about wearing it, so he borrowed Jentry's really old Kirelenko jersey and off we went. We had dinner at Olive Garden, where they made a big deal about him since he was still supporting the Jazz by having his jersey on, and he told them how we were going to the game for his birthday, so they brought him out a free cheesecake and sang to him for his birthday and for not giving up on the jazz. So of course he is thinking the whole time that he needs a new jersey so we get to the ESA and he wants to go into the fanzz store and check them out, but just outside of the store was a kiosk that was selling genuine jerseys, but you could personalize them and i thought well it will be to expensive, but it was the same price as the regular jersey's with the players' names on it, so he picked his own number and had his name put on the jersey (they can't trade him) and now he has his own genuine jersey with his number and name! A few weeks later I was able to take Austin out for his birthday date. Anyone who knows Austin, knows of his love for volleyball! So we figured it would be fun to go catch a BYU men's volleyball game. Austin also chose Olive Garden for his dinner out also, although they weren't as friendly as the one in Sandy had been, so no free cheesecake or singing, even though I told them it was his birthday :( We were able to do a little shopping and get him some badly needed new church pants and then went to the game. We had a great time watching the game, they are so fun to watch and I think it was really good for Austin to get to see how the men play. I loved these outings one on one with the boys, and the good times and great conversations that we had and look forward to being able to continue doing it each year!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BOYS

March is a very busy month for me because it just so happend that both of my boys were born this month, with their birthdays only a day apart from each other. Bubba turned 10 on the 16th and Austin is 14 today (the 18th). What a joy that they have both been in my life! It's funny when looking at some of their pictures how much they look alike at times, yet they are probably about as opposite as 2 brothers could be. I love my handsome boys!!!

Austin then

Austin Now

Bubba Then

Bubba now

Snowboarding & Just Dance

The kids are loving the mountains of snow that we have this year, I could do without it, but that's what you get for living in Utah right? We have been able to get in a few snowboarding trips and "knock on wood" no broken bones this year! But one of our funnest things of late is a Christmas present that the kids got, a new game for the Wii call just dance. We have been having just dance parties and it has been great! We were finally able to get the whole fam together for a night to play and lets just say there were alot of great memories made, laughs and crying from laughing so hard! So if your looking for a fun family activity I would highly recommend it...plus its a pretty dang good workout!

I love this pic... Shelby's face says it all!

Shelby

Jentry ... she is a little more daring :)

But its Bubba who is the little daredevil :/

Austin is a little more timid??? Can't imagine why after breaking his arm last year

New Years Resolution...keep up on my BLOG! well thats already down the toilet

Sorry but this will be a pretty long post seeing as how its been months since I last updated my blog, I apologize, as you can tell from my title of this post, things haven't been going as planned, so this is my attempt to catch up about 5 months time in one post, and hopefully move forward from here and do better. So here goes.... Fall brought about a major change in our family by having SHYANNE move out to Virginia to attend Southern Virginia University. She did awesome as an outside hitter for their volleyball team, earned a starting position as a freshman, earned several awards and gained new friendships. She was able to take a weekend trip to Washington DC while she was out east and had a great time. She has now transferred to Southern Utah University for spring semester for a few different reasons and is settling into life in Cedar City. She isn't sure what she will be doing fall semester as of yet, she is exploring her "options" but most importantly is awaiting the arrival of her MISSIONARY who will be home in June. AUSTIN started 8th grade and is doing really good in his classes (which is making life alot easier for me) He still has his herd of sheep and is now raising chickens as well. He made the volleyball team for the middle school and has just started tournaments, they went undeafeated Saturday in their first tournament! JENTRY turned 12 in September and loves being in young womens. Her soccer team took first place in the region tournament, and she was the highest goal scorer on her team for the season. She rocked in flag football and showed all the boys that anything they can do she can do better! Now she has turned her focus to basketball season where she was asked to come and play on the middle school 7th grade team. SHELBY is sweet as ever. She turned 11 in december and loves her cowgirl boots that she got for her birthday. She played her first year of flag football this year and did really well! She continues to get straight A's in school!!! Shelby also has started the basketball season, and has amazed all of us with her skills this year! She has gone from being totally clueless to being one of the top scorers on the team and defenders as well. She keeps us laughing all the time with her crazy humor (she named her belly button STEVE) so as you can see never a dull moment. BUBBA well what can I say he's Bubba. He pretty much dominates in every sport he played this fall and winter. He played quarterback for his flag football team and amazed everyone with his arm and also running abilities, especially considering he was one of the youngest players on the field. He now also is playing basketball and is definately the "go to guy" When he isn't playing sports he is usally watching them on TV! He loves BYU and says he is playing football for them when he gets older. He has also found a new love for the Jazz watching games with me, of course except when they play the Lakers! Our FAMILY obviously stays busy and i love every second of it! I am however starting to get a taste of how crazy life is going to be with 4 close in age and trying to get everyone where they need to be and support them in those activities as well. We enjoyed going to a BYU football game as a family this fall (thanks to a very generous cousin!) The kids have all enjoyed snowboarding this winter with all our FEET of snow! We had a great & crazy holiday season, we were able to go to temple square and spend time with family, but honestly I was glad to see it end and get back to what we as a family call normal. If your still reading at this point I am happy you were able to stay with us, below are pics from the last few months, sorry there are so many but when you have 5 kids, and dont blog for 5 months this is what happens :/ So hopefully from here on out I will be able to stick to my resolution!


Temple Square

Christmas Morning

Jentry playing flag football

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve ~ new jammies

snowboarding

Bubba in flag football

More Temple Square

Halloween

BYU football game

Shy and her new best friends from college, Roxi & Lexi

Southern Virginia University Volleyball team

She plays "BIG" for a little 5'5 girl

Shy eats it snowboarding lol

College Freshman

Washington DC Temple

Shelby's 11th Birthday

Cutest little Santa's helper taking a break and doing some snowboarding

Shelby playing flag football

Isn't she just adorable?

Soccer Champ!!!

Would you want to mess with her?

Jentry snowboarding

Jentry's 12th birthday party

All attitude!

Ha this is totally the real BUBBA

He won a holiday turkey shooting hoops!

He had this smile on his face the entire game!

Austins new tennis racquet!

One of the kids' new games for the wii they got for Christmas

Just Dance

Frosty!