The always beautiful Mesa temple lights!

Two weeks ago Boyd, Jaime, Kason and Hadley came down for the weekend. We got to take the kids to the temple. When we were getting ready to go Shaylee asked "Where are we going?" I replied "To the temple." And Shaylee got all excited and said "We're getting married tonight!" So cute. I love it!
We had a great time. All four kids oohed and aahed the whole time and we went in the visitors center and watched a film on the Savior's birth! I love Christmas!




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Santa at Bass Pro Shop

We got to go have lunch at Famous Dave's (so good) and go to Bass Pro Shop and see Santa! When we were getting ready to go see Santa I was putting Shaylee's shoes on her, some black slip ons. I wore some brown chukkas and then Savannah wore tennis shoes. Shaylee let Savannah know that her shoes just weren't as cool as hers and mommys cause they were just tennis shoes. That made Savannah mad and she told Shaylee "Santa's gonna bring you nothin' but a lump of coal this year 'cause you are so mean."
Shaylee was so excited to go see him she could hardly stand it. On the way she asked, "how long until Santa", about every two minutes.
So when we got up to Santa he was great. First he asked them if they had been good all year. Savannah said yes, then Shaylee said yes and Savannah blurts out
"Nu-huh, Shaylee made fun of my shoes!" Santa was trying not to laugh and then said "Well, that's not sooooo bad, your shoes look pretty spiffy to me."
He sang Rudolph with them and asked them what they wanted for Christmas. Savannah had spotted a pink fourwheeler in the store right before we got to him so that's what she requested. $1700, I sure was glad Santa told her he wasn't sure if that would fit in the sleigh. Shaylee requested a real Palomino horse. Santa was like "WOW! These girls don't mess around." He then gave them hugs and candy canes. What a cool Santa he was. I will definetly take them back there next year. Also, they had such cute decorations with coloring and games. And, they had real Reindeer,(caribou) I think in full mount. You can see one in the back of the picture.

Dancin in a Winter Wonderland

Savannah and Shaylee's Christmas dance recital was yesterday. They have been in a combo, (ballet,tap and jazz) class this fall. They danced in taps for the recital and they were both so cute. "Blue Christmas" by Elvis was the song. They are both getting so good at it and love to dance.
As you can see Shaylee was fast asleep in her car seat before we even made the 2 mile drive home. Lots and lots of fun!

Fun with Nani

Nani and Papa Hulsey came for the weekend to do a little shopping and go to the girls dance recital. We had lots of fun with them, and the girls were so sad to see them go. Nani picked these huge pine cones up before she came down here and then helped the girls decorate them like Christmas trees last night. They had a ball, painted them green, then put cotton balls, glitter and glued the little puffy balls on them. Savannah's is the red and blue and Shaylee's the pink and purple. Thanks Nani!

Now a Christmas game

Just relaxin on a Sunday afternoon

We are home now and hunting season is officially over. It feels GREAT! However the extra money will be missed and it was lots of fun. The girls are sure glad to be home. We had a lazy Thanksgiving. The last day of the hunt was the day before Thansgiving and I had been feeding 20 guys for 6 days and I caught a cold on the last couple of days. So, we just enjoyed relaxing, had lunch at the lodge and then went to Quemado and saw Jared's family for the rest of the day.
The girls are soooo excited about the Christmas season and Savannah has decided that blue and raspberry are her new favorite colors,(previously pink and red). I asked how they want to decorate the tree this year and she said all blue. So we got blue lights, blue glass balls with snowflakes,and blue bows. Shaylee is very in to the Tinkerbell faries and we found some "fairy" ornaments for her. Maybe we will put our tree up and do some decorating tomorrow!

Thanksgiving Memory Game

Halloween

So, here it is, a week late. It was lots of fun, the girls got PLENTY of candy and got to strut around as princesses again! We went to a Trunk or Treat at the church here in Queen Creek. My friend Mary called me the morning of Halloween and we were just chatting,she said she was gonna dress up as a farmer so I said, "what the heck, I may as well dress up to." So the girls and I went to Party City and they chose Cinderella for me. If only we could've got daddy to dress up as Prince Charming!

It's been awhile

Hello everyone. We have been gone for quite a bit this month so the blog has suffered. Hunting season started up by Grants, NM. I went up there with my brother Dalon and cooked for two weeks. We had so much fun. We camped on the back side of Mt. Taylor, so pretty up there. I should've taken pictures. The girls stayed with my mom in Luna and went to school, they are learning so much. I got 1 day off between week one and two and when I went to see them it was pretty dang hard to leave them for another week. Then we came back to Queen Creek for a couple of days (daddy needs more attention) and then it was back to Luna for another week.
The girls love it on the ranch and the mountains. They love being able to go outside and have all the wide open space to play in, something I was lucky enough to do every day when I was little. Uncle Dalon got them a miniature donkey "Pokey Joe", which they absolutely love. He is as gentle as a dog and just their size. We are getting them saddles for Christmas this year, shhhh...They will think they are in heaven when they can ride their donkey with a saddle just their size. Pretty Exciting!

Happy Birthday Shaylee

Shaylee is 3 today! She is getting to be such a big girl.Everything her big sister does,she wants to do. It's so sweet . She started dance (tap,ballet and jazz) on Thursday and is already wanting to know how long until next time. Savannah is in the same class and told me that the teacher had to tell Shaylee to be quiet because she kept talking to the girl next to her. I guess they were talking about their tutus.
"SO CUTE" if you ask me.
We took the girls and our friends Micah, Mary, Amber and Kaylee to Amazing Jakes for Shaylee's birthday party. We had such a good time. The girls rode a frog hopper, a train and some spinning tea cups and then played some other games. It was a Tinkerbell party, which Shaylee loves right now. If we ask her what she wants to be when she grows up she says "Tinkerbell."
What a delight this little girl has been to our whole family. She has such a sweet and fun personality and makes us all smile so often. We love her sooo much.

Luna Pioneer Days

We just got home this afternoon. We had so much fun. Jared had to work all week so the girls and I went up last Monday. It has been raining up there for awhile now so the grass is knee heighth and the weather is beautiful.
So on the way home I had a brain storm and decided to make a Moon Valley Outfitter float for the parade and have all five grandkids be in camo on it. My sister-in-law Larae and I dressed in camo and rode with them. As you can see in the slide it was pretty cute. The kids threw out lots of candy and ate quite a bit while they were doing it. Savannah had a bugling tube and she bugled threw the whole parade. She is sounding pretty darn good too.
Then we went to the rodeo.My brothers Dalon and Elden and their friend Armondo Aarona got in the Wild Cow Race and won! Woo Hoo! Dalon also won the bareback riding. He says he is trying to collect enough Luna Rodeo buckles that if he marries a big girl he will have enough buckles to make her a concho belt with them that will go all the way around her! I think he has 8 or 10 by now so he should be getting close. He is so funny.
Savannah,Kason and Hadley all rode sheep. Shaylee wanted to but I was to scared to let her, probably next year. Savannah was so excited to do it as soon as we told her about it, all the way until she got in the shoot with it. Dalon helped her and she told him "Uncle Dilly, I think I've changed my mind." Of course he told her to grab two hands full of wool and hold on tight. She made it pretty far and when she hit the ground she jumped up and dusted off smiling. She says she can't wait to do it again. Kason and Hadley were also so cute riding theirs.
Yesterday evening we drove down in the meadows below my dads house. There must have been 200 elk (cows and calves) in there. We turned the truck off and listened to them all talking to eachother. The girls thought that was so cool that they stuck their heads out the windows and were trying to make the elk sounds also. It was so cute.
We had such a great time just hangin out with family and friends and can't wait to go again.

The Little Mermaids

We have swam a lot this summer thanks to Aunt Eloise. She has been so nice and let us come anytime we want. Savannah could swim really well last summer and this summer she has become awesome at it. She can dive 9 feet to the bottom of the pool and pick up diving rings, swim from one end of the pool to the other and is so much fun to watch. She absolutely loves it and would swim two or three times a day if I would take her.

Miss Shaylee has been pretty timid about until the last couple of days. She has figured out how to put her face in and we take her floaties of in the shallow and she can swim a few feet at a time now. The other day she had been playing without her floaties on for quite awhile so I told her we should put them back on and she got a sad little face and said " No Mommy, I just wanna be a little fish like Savannah." She loves to be like her big sis so I'm sure it won't be much longer until she is being a fish just like Savannah!

A wonderful weekend

We went up to Luna and Quemado for the weekend. We went to the parade in Quemado and the girls filled a big bag with candy. Then we went to Luna and had dinner with family, a fish fry of Striped Bass some of my family had caught at Lake Powell last week and some Tuna and Mahi Mahi dad and mom caught in Mexico a couple of weeks ago. It was so good! Then we set of a bunch of fireworks. Savannah and Shaylee loved them.
Then we went back to Quemado for Nani Joy's birthday. We had a hot dog roast, made smores, had cake and set off a few more fireworks. It was all so much fun! Our families are the best!

We had so much fun

Bibbidi Bobbodi Boo

Well, it started with Shaylee on Sunday having a fever after church. She was hot for probably 12 hours but with the help of tylenol it was'nt to bad. Then Savannah got a fever Wednesday afternoon and with Tylenol hers only lasted 3 or 4 hours. Nevertheless I feel so sorry for them when they don't feel good. Anyway, I started chilling Wednesay evening and went to bed early. I woke up at 2am burning up and having a nightmare. I could'nt go back to sleep so I came down stairs and put all the new colors on my blog. When Jared went to work about 5 o'clock I went and layed down with the girls. I then slept until 9 o'clock. Shaylee and I woke up about the same time and Savannah was already laying there awake just bein quite. When I told her good morning she said "Oh I'm so glad you and Shay Shay woke up, I was starting to worry that someone had cast a sleeping spell on you guys."

Do these boots make my feet look big?

The other day I was in the kitchen and Shaylee was by the door and she kept hollering "I'm leavin." So I went to look and here is what I found. I don't think she was goin very far in daddy's boots, at least not very fast anyway.

Little Miss Ballerina

Savannah's ballet recital was a couple of weeks ago. She did so good and was so cute! Both of her Nani's (aka.grandmas), Popy Tommy, Kason, Aunt Pooh and Uncle Kriston all came to see her. It was lots of fun and we were all so proud of her.
Shaylee was clapping and cheering the whole time, she is so excited to start dance this fall and big sis is already showing her some "moves"!

The girls having fun on Henry!

Well, we just got home from Luna. We were up there for a couple weeks and had lots of fun. We went fishing, rode horses and enjoyed the cool weather. The girls rode papa's mule Henry and just loved him. Shaylee calls him Henny and we could'nt hardly pry Savannah off. Lots of fun!

My sister in the Women's Bass Tournament

Audrey is sitting in first place after the first day at Lake Neely Henry in Alabama. She weighed in 12lbs. 9oz. and we are crossing our fingers that she can do the same on her second and third day. She has done really well with her pro fishing and we are all so proud of her. I have to give credit to her husband Roger also, he has taught her so much about bass fishing and is so supportive. Go Audrey!!!!

Dancin Dollies

The girls both love to wear tutus. Savannah does ballet and Shaylee can't wait until she can to. I am planning to put them in a combo ballet,tap and jazz class together this fall. They are both excited about that. When they are not wearing they're tutu's they have swimming suits on, it is getting pretty hot! Savannah always asks me why I don't wear mine around the house too. Aaaa.....no. They are such little blessing and I love them soooo much. There's nothing better than being a mom.

Pretty little Shaylee Sage

It has been loose for quite a
while and she kept asking how
longer until it falls out. So she
was so excited when it finally
happened. Kason was here so
that made it really fun. They
put it in a little box and they
slept on "the pillow"together
and when they woke up!!!!
the tooth was gone and the tooth
fairy had left cash. Woo Hoo!

Savannah lost her first tooth!