Much needed get-a-way

Me and Carl went to the Grey's River, in Wyoming with my family for a fun snowmobile trip. We left the kids at Carl's mom's house, she was nice enough to watch them for 4 days! We've never been away from them that long. I must say, it was nice, but we missed them a lot too. It was a lot of fun. We snowmobiled on Friday and Saturday, then went to church in Etna on Sunday, and some went to see the Tetons. Here's a picture of the Tetons that Carl took. I didn't go, but stayed at the cabin, went in the hot tub for a little bit, played cards, and relaxed. After all, it was a vacation, right? Then we came home on Monday.

Here' the cute cabin where we stayed.

Me and Carl in the loft we shared with Tyler and Afsonai. We didn't get any snowmobiling pictures, we forgot the camera both days, but it was amazing!

This was just last Monday, Carl and Fisher made cookies for our family night treat. Fisher loved it, he was snitching the whole time! Carl was too, in fact.

Here's Fisher's "sad face"

Here's Chachi's "sad face" . . . I think she wins the contest.

Fisher and Ainsley playing in the closet together.

Fisher had pulled his chair up to Chachi's they are getting to be so cute together, I love it when they play. Fisher was making Ainsley laugh today in the car, it was so much better than when he takes things away from her, or knocks her down and makes her cry. I'm sure I've got much more of both coming my way.

Christmas Pictures

Here's Ainsley's pile of Christmas presents. I didn't get one of Fisher, cause he was too busy playing with all of his stuff.

Here is Fisher with his new Cars race track. He also got James the train with tracks, and a Thomas with tracks - he can hardly get dressed, eat, or do anything else but play with his trains. Santa did a great job this year!

We were opening presents from the family.

Fisher and Ainsley coming down the hall to see what Santa brought. We had to wake up the kids and convince Fisher to come out to see what he got.

Grandpa snuggling with Ainsley and Doll. This was after she threw up all over herself and me, and her jacket was the only thing we had to put her in.

Grandpa holding up the angel (Ashton) to the cute little sheperds (Fisher and Cameron).

Chachi looks so much like Carl in this picture - it's a little scary. They even have the same double chin!

This was Ainsley when she first came out Christmas morning. She opened her presents from the family before Fisher was even out of his room.

What a cute little sheperd boy. He kept the towel on his head quite well, I was surprised!

Overall, we had a great Christmas! It was so fun to spend time with family, we loved every minute of it. It was an amazing blessing also that none of us got sick over the holidays (except for Chachi's random throw-up on Christmas eve). We are very excited for a new year at our house, and a few new changes in our family. We hope that we will enjoy this year as much as the last one!

IT'S A . . . BABY!

Well, we had our ultrasound today, and it's official, there's a baby in there. Much to the dismay of many, we are not finding out whether it is a boy or girl, well, at least until it comes out, then hopefully we'll know. Anyways, here's a scary 3-D picture of our baby, isn't it cute? Everything looked great, so we were very excited about that.

New Pictures

"Grandma, here we come!" The kids had their first real sleepover at my mom's the other day. So, we packed their bags, and they were carrying them around ready to go. They did really well without us. Actually, I don't even think they missed us.

Here's Chachi in her new Christmas pj's from Grandma Cookie, and apparently she thinks that ornament is a cookie.

I was putting dishes in the dishwasher, and Chachi was playing in cupboards, like usual, and I went over to see what she was doing, and first she was standing in the pot, and then she sat in it, and got stuck. Good thing she was stuck so I could grab the camera. Chachi stew for dinner anyone?

Here are the drinking buddies. Are mine the only kids that go through juice like no other? I think we need a bigger juice budget!

Fisher's trying to restrain Chachi for the picture, he looks pretty proud of himself. This was at Carl's grandma's Christmas party. We had a really fun time, and lots of yummy food. It was nice, all of the grandkids, except Chachi and Coby were big enough to just play together. Fisher loves playing with his cousins.

Here's Fisher in his Christmas pj's he LOVED them, he kept feeling himself, because he thought they were so soft! Thanks again Grandma Cookie!

Christmas Time is Here!

Here's our beautiful Christmas tree. Fisher helped put the tinsel on, as you can see. He had a lot of fun decorating it, and watching Carl put on the lights.


This was the USU football game on the 29th. It was a lot of fun. Everyone was there but my mom, we missed you mom!

This was at IHOP after picking out our Christmas trees. Fisher adopted himself into the Olsen family.

Here were the rest of us at the other table. It was sure fun to be with everyone the whole weekend.

Here we are picking out our Christmas trees. We got some good ones this year! Me and the Olsens had been up since 5:00 shopping, it was fun, but I'm definitely not going to Walmart next year, I'm not even going to look at their ad! We went out to Cabela's too later that day - it was pretty fun, Fisher loved the animals, but Chachi just wanted to walk around the whole dang store. I managed not to get any pics of Thanksgiving day, but it was a great day.

Happy Thanksgiving

Since Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I'm feeling quite grateful for everything that I have, I thought I would do a post on how thankful I am for a great husband and father of my children. He is so good with them, and they love to have him home. This is their favorite game to play, the kids get so excited. This video was taken kind of at the end of their playing, so Carl is a little tired. It also shows you how good Chachie is walking. It was so funny the other day, Carl was at work, and Fisher was looking around for him, so I told him he was at work, and Fisher says, "Ugh, work and scouts!" in this angry growly voice. It was so funny - it's true though, if Carl is gone, it's usually to work or scouts. Anyways, I don't know if you'll see this, but we love you Carl! I hope everyone has a happy, safe, and grateful Thanksgiving tomorrow!

Little Mite

We had Ainsley's doctor appointment today. It went well, besides the fact that we all had to get flu shots - ouch, I hate those things! Anyways, here are the stats of our little one year old. She is 27 inches long and 16 lbs. 12 oz. She is below the charts just barely. Her head is 60th percentile though, so I guess that's good, if you like looking like a dum dum. Well, we love her anyway, she's our cute little bug.