Every Family Has A Story......

Aye, I can't keep up!

2009-07-19T16:47:00.000-07:00

I just have a hard time keeping up! I guess I'm not cut out for bloggin duties! Seems like we have been so busy, then I look back and think what the heck have I been doing? Since I am in young womens still, I decided that I am going to work to earn my medallion AGAIN! I have been working on my personal progress. For one of my 10 hour projects which by the way exceeded far more than 10 hours I planned a family reunion for Memorial Day weekened. It was alot of work but so worth it. It had been 7 years since we had a Thurber Larson reunion. Throughout the weekened we had about 130 people. The weekened started with an early morning service project to clean up the barn that blew over followed by pancake breakfast. Then it was to our house where the kids played on the slip and slide. Then it was over to the church for a kinda Surprise wedding and bbq dinner, acution, magic show, talents. Sunday church, with the traditional cemetary honoring. This year we honored my grandpa. It was very nice to hear the stories about him. Then off to our house again to have homemade ice cream ( our favorite!) and desserts (our other favorite!) And as if we didn't have anything else going on. It was Baccalaureate for Audie. I had to opt out of it. I decided not to leave a hundred people at my house. To say the least it ended up being a busy weekened, actually the only word that comes to mind is Craziness! BUT we made it through it. I did drop dead on Monday! I am so glad I planned the reunion though. It made it so worth it to see people laughing, working and seeing each other. I love my family. I love getting together. I have such great memories of being with cousins and I want that for my own children. We are so fortunate to live close to family. And we are especially lucky to be next to Grandma Larson. We have a great heritage. We are having a little computer issues right now so I can't get all the pictures I need, But here is the one of all of us who were there on Sunday.

All hundred of us ....

This is some of the "girl" cousins down at the cemetary clean up

Here is my dad with Maci and Addison, Nates little (big) girl

After I tried to recover from the reunion we had to send kids back to school. Our school started late, so we had to go back to school after memorial day, BLAH! I was ready to be done with getting Jayse up and out the door, and schedules BLAH again. I was ready for summer! But it still went on. Audie has graduated from High school, now she is going to figure out what life is really about.... we think! Here she is with her favorite cousin Brady Fenn

Maci and Audie. She LOVES her Aunt Audie and quad rides!!

Here is the fam who we could get for a picture. Tyler was gone fulfilling his church calling getting ready for scout camp. So he was not able to make it

2009 Graduation

2009-06-11T22:26:00.000-07:00

2009 GRADUATE
(from Preschool!)

Ok. I think we are in trouble with this girl. I gotta tell you the story behind this. Since Tyler has been doing a little photography here and there. He took pictures of Audie, my sister like I think about 5 different times, Anyhow, Breeana decided that she too also needed graduation announcements. SO she picked out her outfit and off we were to get pictures. We've yet to make her announcements. Tyler has been busy with work and scout camp, so they got put on the back burner since it really only is PRESCHOOL ! But I am sure she won't forget! So this is the outfit she picked. She did the posing too. Tyler did a great job as always! Great Job in preschool Breeana! She made alot of new friends which was why I put her in preschool, now she will have so many friends on her first day of kindergarten! This was a serious graduation( I mean just look at them) Not really actually they could've cared less but this was the real deal......caps, music, report card, AND a photo book of the school year.

Kindergarten here I come!!

Breeana with her teachers. Miss(Aunt) Vicki, and Miss Lynn They were great, they put alot of time into doing alot of things with them
Jayse at his end of year field day.(Don't know who that crazy kid is next to him, just looks like a goof ball in the picture) I kept missing all the important pictures, but he did really good. His team took 1st place in the relay. He was pretty excited about that.

on you mark, get set and run like heck while trying watch the kid next too you! Watching these kids was hallarious! They were too worried about the kid next to them. Too Funny!

Mothers Day

2009-06-10T00:07:00.001-07:00

This was kinda a crazy day, so we didn't get any pictures with me and the kids and all that stuff. But for Mothers Day we went over to Central to spend Mother's Day with Tyler's mom. We didn't get away as early as we wanted. Our plan was to get to her house before she got home from church and surprise her with dinner. Even though our day did not go as planned we still had a good day, and a yummy lunch.

Here is Tyler and his mom. I love this picture of Tyler with his mom. Even though he is a stinker sometimes, He loves his mom!!

Carol with the kiddos. No matter how you look at it Becky's kid Maci, and Tyler's kids they are ALL her grandkids! She is the Best Grandma, Mom and Mother-in-Law anybody could have! I dare anyone to try and top that!

Hopefully it was as nice of a day for her as it was for us.

Little League at a glance...

2009-06-09T17:18:00.000-07:00

Well I managed to take some pictures before the season ended so here is the little league season at a glance. I am still so bummed that my other pictures got deleted. Especially the one of Tyler umpiring. He was a pretty cute umpire and a good one at that!! Oh well.

Jayse and Breena were on the Diamondbacks team, it was a little confusing getting 3 people ready for games at a time all wearing the same shirt. Tyler was Jayse's coach. Breeana was on a team with many of her school friends and church friends. She is more in to the social part of playing ball rather than actually playing ball plus some other things. I have to be honest and say that I really didn't get to watch much of their games, because I was too busy chasing Maci and keeping her out of the road, off of the field, keeping her clean, and trying to feed her so everyone else didn't have too, although that didn't matter!! She was like a little bird that everyone would feed cause she is so cute! Nachos, sunflower seeds and snow cones were her favorites!

Jayse LOVES to play ball, any kind of ball for that matter. This year he played minors which was a little more challenging than coach pitch, but he did a great job. He played short stop.

Here he is actually listening to his dad give a pep talk before the game. Why is he not that attentive when I talk to him. Oh, probably cause I am asking him to do is chores or something that he really doesn't care about makes sense , right?.........
Hey batttterrr, baaaaattttteer. baaaatttttter!

Doesn't she look so cute! She's a pink girl.

This is what I love about watching Breeana play ball, She was not afraid to just sit there. After all it's just T-Ball I guess. This day they were low in numbers so she had no company out there with her. I am pretty sure all the wishing flowers have been picked! What the heck else do you do out here?!?

This girl HATES to get sweaty! This is her last game and they stuck her behind the plate. I think this was the hottest day that they played. So as you can tell, she didn't want her hand to get all sweaty! I loved it when the ball would roll past her and she would just watch it, and then get up and go get it--WITHOUT her glove in hand. Very Funny! Couldn't resist not taking a picture.

Hey Breeana the game is over here!!

Now we're talking! She LOVED to bat, and she always got on base!

Now on the other hand what was Maci doing during the games....... wiping dirt all over her legs. Look at that face..... Are you sure this is what your kid looks like Becky??! I could not for the life of me keep her clean EVER! It was food or dirt. I finally gave up. I think this is a snowcone, nacho, licorice face. All of what everybody would give her.
How sweet, a wishing flower- this is what Breena calls them.

She can't wait! Baseball and Wishing flowers in the field! I think she is going to have to practice putting the helmet on and learning to use the bat... Love this picture!

How could you pass this picture up? You know her dirty face is so cute! Uugh....My biggest pet peave (how the heck do you spell that?) sThis is the signature show me your teeth picture. Don't you want to pick her up and squeeze her?!

So I was thinking about this:

TOP 6 THINGS I LOVE to HATE about the going to the ball park.

1. When my kids "show up" with food from the snack bar, cause all the kids like to hang out around the snack bar! duh! (actually cause their parents work in it.)

2. SNOWCONES!!! Sooo messy! Especially in the car!

3. Maci eating all the leftover sunflower seed shells. Yuck!

4. The snack bar on our way home from the game as dinner is waiting at home. (I mean how can you tell them no snack from the concessions? Every kid's dream! my kids anyway...)

5. Spending 4 out of 5 week nights at the ball park.

6. Did I mention snowcones?

Well I guess the kids ball season is over now, but now Tyler is going to play softball, so my ball park troubles are not over yet! But I do have to say that I really do enjoy watching everybody play, at least what I get to see in between chasing kids!!

Still behind on blogging!

2009-05-31T21:31:00.000-07:00

Well as you can see I am STILL behind on my blog. The honest truth is, is that I was asking Tyler to get the Little League Pictures that I took on opening day off his computer, and they have mysteriously disappeared.Tyler is taking FULL RESPONSIBILITY for my lack of blogging. I was so on a roll!!! I have given up on waiting for Tyler to get the pictures off his computer. Anyway, as you can see there are no little league pictures. We have no idea where they went, but Jayse and Breeana are both playing ball and Tyler is coaching Jayse's team. They are both on the Diamondbacks team. Go Diamondbacks. If you're lucky and I remember the camera, andcharge it, AND remember to actually pictures AND post them you might get to see them!! The season is about over. Seems like it flew by....which isn't such a bad thing. I mean I love to go watch them play, but it's getting a little too warm to out at the ball park at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. So like I said if you're lucky you might see some pictures.

So we are skipping to Easter weekend. This year for easter it seemed so crazy. We did the usual Saturday before easter picnic. This year we went with a bunch of cousins! They all live around here. The weather was interesting. It was supposed to rain, so we couldn't decide if we even wanted to go, but we did anyway it was chilly. We ate lunch, had the easter egg hunt, got a couple pictures and then the rain came. I mean crazy wind and rain, so we threw everything in the truck and that was the end of the picnic. Tyler and I were lucky enough to speak in church. I'm not sure how that has happened to us. In the 3 years that we have lived here, we have spoken 2 times on easter sunday, and I have given a lesson in young womens. I wonder if I will ever have a peaceful, no-stress easter sunday...... hhmmmm...So because of this, mom and dad stayed up till the wee hours studying for a talk until their eye lids I think just shut on them--totally forgot that the easter bunny was supposed to come the next morning! YIKES!! We woke up and Tyler was quick to remind the kids of the true meaning of easter and that the easter bunny wanted them to think of that instead of candy and stuff. After the talk we rushed home so the easter bunny could make his visit. It actually went quite well. They were so excited to come home, and whaddya know. He came!!!! I guess he didn't forget afterall. We didn't get too many pictures, but we managed to get a few. I hate when there are so many things going on that it makes Sunday seem so crazy. Oh well.... we had a good day anyway.

Here's the Fam, Breeana grouchy as always, unless it's her idea

The whole family-The Fenn cousins. This was everyone bundled up just before the storm poured rain on us

The kiddos. I did forget to mention that just as I was going to pick up Maci to get the kids together for a picture she was walking with Breeana's shoes on. She tripped and hit her head on the edge of the rock where our wood stove is. I thought we were maybe going to make a trip to get some stitches- or superglue, but amazingly enough it didn't crack open. just a little blood, not even a bruise the next couple days after. not sure how she managed that, but I was glad it wasn't worse. So if you look close she has a nice band-aid across her head.

I just had to add this picture. She is like a little dog. She loves to drink Jayse's cereal milk. She is funny!

Look who is 89 years old!

2009-05-06T22:27:00.000-07:00

Grandma Larson (my moms mom) Has turned 89 years old! This is hard to believe, mainly because I remember when I was little thinking that grandma was old. I can call her old because I know that she will never read my blog!! We are just glad to be able to live close enough to her and have Sunday dinners, and see her through out the week. Not many grandkids get to live by their great-grandma. I think our kids are special!! Well when you get older, birthdays aren't near as much fun, but Aunt Bev sent grandma some party stuff -you know like annoying noise makers. Along with that we had grandma's favorite, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, and my personal FAVORITE .....drum roll............ banana split cake! MMMMM... Let the Party begin!! Thank goodness for skype. (If you've watched Oprah you know what skype is.) We were able to put Wes on Skype since he is in Kansas and isn't able to be here with us. This is actually pretty cool. He was able to be right there with us and join in the fun as it was happening. They have even played dice games over skype. kinda crazy, but amazing for us to enjoy and add a little bit of happiness to all of us.

Can you believe this?? Grandma was even getting in on the action with Jayse. She's not scared! She might be 89 years old, but she can Party!! The kids had a great time too!

Happy 89th Birthday to a spunky Grandma!! She keeps things happy on Sunday. I love it that you never know what is going to come out of her mouth! Always entertaining!! We love her!

Remind me not to do this again!!

2009-04-22T00:34:00.000-07:00

UGGH... this is taking forever, but I am determined to "catch up" One thing is for sure life is never dull around here, and hasn't been......you'll see what I mean.

I swear I watch her. My mom likes to say that she has to put her running shoes on if Maci is coming over. She is just way too fast!

This scene here is pretty reoccuring. She is so dang fast getting up on my bathroon counter, and she know exactly where my mascara is and how to open it no matter how tight I put it on. Every day she sits up on the counter and watches me get ready.

Lunch gone bad!! chicken nuggets and Ketchup.mmmm..... When the plate goes up, she's done!

The kids really enjoy riding grandma and granpda's 4-wheeler-especially Maci

I'd be lying if I did't say that we have all enjoyed the trampoline Santa brought. Especially now since the weather has been so nice, they have spent alot of time outside. I love it. Jayse and Breeana love to play crack the egg!. They have also made up some of their own games.... It's quite a workout too!! They especially love it when Tyler gets on and wrestels and jumps them super high!! Maci loves to be outside so this is so perfect for her too. She knows how to get on and off all be herself. She is a big girl now!!

We were lucky to get a visit from Papa Larry, while they did a little spring cleaning at the prison where he works, it was a short visit. The kids love to play, and crawl all over him. He hasn't been back in a couple months.... maybe he had enough for a while ?? humm...

OK.... so I have been informed that I am not a very good scout mother. I mean I know I should be the best since this is my first time having a scout right!! Huh? Not really sure what that means, but Tyler is an awesome scout dad!!! So being first time scout parents means that we are now able to do the pine wood derby (pretty much the night before!) That was not my department!! Anyhow, Here is the day of the BIG race! Everybody looking on while registering the car.

So you guessed it. I'm still not quite sure how this happened, but Jayse took First Place in his class AND first place overall!!!!!! Amazing, just a silly little car, Oh did I just say that...He got a ribbon, a medal thingy, and a BIG hersheys candy bar that his dad ate, I guess since he did some of the work he needed to be rewarded too. I wonder if you could guess what kind of car he had......yep..... ASU colors..... It was superfast!! Unfortunately he was not able to race in districts because his aunt Melissa was getting married that same weekened.
GOOD JOB JAYSE!!! ( and dad too)

I'm almost halfway caught up!

2009-04-21T23:27:00.000-07:00

Christmas 2008 was good for us. Santa brought us a trampoline and It was a little windy and chilly christmas morning, Breeana was the only one brave enough to go out and Jump. I was even such a chicken that I took the picture from inside the house. As always Papa Larry came and had a shortened Christmas Break with us, and thank goodness he didn't give us the scare like he did last year! Santa always finds him at our house too...... The kids love to have him come, especially since we don't get to see him too often..

Jingle all the way.....

Santa sure brought some crazy things this year in the stockings! Billy bob teeth??!!??

This winter we were lucky to get snow not once, but twice!! It was a couple days short of a white christmas.

During Christmas break we went up to Mesa and hung out with our favorite Aunt Becky, Uncle Chad, Cayden, RiKenna, AND Taylor and MOrgan. Rikenna and Morgan were celebrating their birthdays. Becky and I took the girls out for a girls day. (Becky's idea, I had never heard of this place) we went to this place called Libby lu's. The girls had a GREAT time!! They got their hair done, make up, glitter in hair, nails, cat in a purse, they picked out a ton of girly stuff. They looked so cute and ready to go out on the town. We had lunch and met back up with the boys. Then we were off to the movies... We watched bedtime stories.. Well I watched waht Maci would let me watch. She wanted to get down and run around, but it was a cute movie. Here are the boys having snacks at the movies. After the movies, dinner at Chad's choice. Islands Burgers. Mmmmm...and how lucky could we get?? Kids got to Eat FREE!! Score!!! A super fun weekened as always.
Here are the Princesses.. Taylor, Morgan, RiKenna, and Breeana

The UPDATE continues!!

2009-04-20T21:31:00.000-07:00

I told you that I was going to update...I'm serious. No more messing around!

HALLOWEEN 2008

Here is our "little" Maci. I think she will always be little Maci. She is so pettite(sp?) This halloween she was raggedy ann, duh like you couldn't see that, But this year was special cause that is actually the same costume that my mom made for me and wore. My mom had saved it in her box of costumes just because, who would have thought my own daughter would have worn it! She looked like a doll don't you think? Makes you wanna pick her up and squeeze her!

I think that Tyler's Uncle John (who passed a few years ago) who was a CRAZY ASU fan would be proud. Breeana has a thing for ASU. Jayse is more like a ASU/and slight U of A fans at times. Breeana is an ASU die hard like her dad. Since Football season is in during halloween she was really into the cheerleaders, I am pretty positive that is what brought on the cheerleader costume. At the beginning of the football season somehow we managed to convince her that it was ok NOT to be a cheerleader for Jayse's team. But WOW did she amaze us when she knew all of the cheers!! Bounus for us-she even had a dance to the ASU fight song!! She did a great job at it too. She was an awesome cheerleader. Her dad was loving it! GO DEVILS!!

Well I think this was about the time when I actually gave up on the blog..... The time of year that our house gets crazy. No, really.... I think you have no idea. The mom at this house goes into "crafty" mode wait, I mean "crazy" mode. It actually only lasted about 2 months. I did a craft boutiqe. I really do love it, (Tyler hates it) I just don't love the aftermath ( that I am still trying to pick up all the pieces 4 months later) I usually work crazy, then just die afterwards. I make a ton of stuff, then clear everything out of the house and open it up for the weekened. This year we were open two weekeneds which was unusual. This year I also had several friends come and bring their crafts which made it nice and there was a great variety for everyone who came. My sisters and mom also make baked christmas goodies. People look forward to it every year. I always have early birds! I was a little skeptical and worried this last year with the economy and all, but it turned out to be one of the best years so far. (See those Merry Christmas blocks in the second picture. I thought they were so darn cute, so I made some. I ended up with 10 orders! That is a little unusual)

OK well dang, what do I say about this........It all started with Tyler asking/begging my cousin to take him Lion hunting, and the rest is history...... Just kidding. This is Tylers first mountain lion. It is now at the taxidermist, waiting to turn into a really expensive rug to hang on the wall!! Well the rest of the story is, Is that Tyler is really good at hunting and he LOVES it, way more than I wished he did,( and that's no secret) BUT remember he's really good at it, and for that reason, my cousin has asked him to partner with him in a guide service for Lion hunting. So because he was gone already alot with work, now he is gone more taking people hunting mostly on the weekends. And because Tyler is good at so many things he has created a website with pictures and video and stuff about the business. You can check it out at www.chasintailaz.com I don't know all that fancy stuff how to just click on the link, but check it out anyway.....It's still in the early stages of getting started, so we'll see what happens. Way to go Tyler.

This picture was long overdue for an UPDATE!! It has been about 7 years since we had a family picture. The family had changed and grew a whole lot! We had such a great time getting pictures. We took pictures at 2 different places, we had one of Nathan's friends take them for us and I think we took pictures for about 3 hours!! Since some of us had other plans for Thanksgiving we decided that we would do a picture and then have our dinner the weekened before. It was so nice. I don't think that we have had a thanksgiving all together ever. We were always missing someone for some reason. So this was a first for us... how sad to say huh? Oh well. it was a good time. The kids had a blast with the leaves!!

**The Annual Parris/Burketts Christmas Party.**
Our Grandma is so awesome because she has these special connections to have santa, and his is ALWAYS able to visit us early. He always knows about all the kids- sometimes he does get them a little mixed up with who lives where and with what parents--- it really is confusing. things change every year.....But nonetheless he does a pretty darn good job!! He always bring the kids a bag with stuff... He's such a good sport, he even lets the adults sit on his lap, then everyone has to dig him out of the chair he is sitting on when it's time to leave. Its a fun tradition we have along with candy houses-The candy houses are actually grandmas idea that the parents just LOVE! Right Becky?? You know how the saying goes. sugar 'em up and send 'em home. Yea grandma's pretty good at that. The kids love to be together with their cousins causing trouble usually. The adults had it pretty easy this year. We got a hotel (oh year, plus Maci- Grandma isn't that lucky to keep her YET!!) and left all 13 grandkids at grandmas for a HUGE slumber party. Our grandma is AMAZING isn't she? We love her!! The kids also loved her when surprise all MATCHING PAJAMAS!!! YAY!!! They looked so cute, even big girls Taylor and Morgan..Thank you grandma we love you!! You're the best!

PLEASE nobody pass out!!

2009-04-19T22:01:00.000-07:00

I know you are all in what some people might refer to as a state of SHOCK!!! Yes, I actually have given our blog a complete makeover and Oh yea what's that word again UPDATE well I know you can't believe it, but guess what people BELIEVE IT, cause it's true, you're lookin at it. Some people think that i have "nothing" to do. Well that is a little false, perhaps that's kinda why the blog has gone un updated for so long??? I guess I just haven't had my priorities in order. Ha! It has actually seemed a bit like a circus around here. I am going to try and give you the short version of the last 6 months if that's even possible. So I guess for all of you who are just being nosey (that would be me too, it's okay I'm a blog surfer too) and want to know what we've been up to or, who have nothing to do obviously that is why you're reading our blog, you can just sit back, relax, and keep checking back often. I am going to try and get us caught up in the bloggin world. Oh and did I mention that the other reason I am updating is so that we can get our names off the bottom of everyone's list!!! Enjoy and I'm sure I'll hear from you....probably something like, it's about time blah blah blah!! yea I already know......

So for all of you who are dying to know, I'm finally going to let the suspense end for you all and I'll finish tell you what happened to the birthday girl!! She had a great birthday. Her and her cousin Lexi- who is Melinda's daughter have the same birthday. Yes, the same birthday, don't ask me how in the world it happened! Breeana was born in the morning, and Lexi was born late at night. For her birthday I made little mini pizzas and everybody got to make their own pizza. We also had a pinata, and Pink cupcakes at Breeana's request. She is a pink prissy girl. She is in to doing her hair I think about 20 times a day. You think I am kidding. headbands, buns, barettes, bobby pins you name it...., she even asked me if she could have my broken flat iron. Everytime I see her she has a new hairdo! I am glad that she can do her own hair though. She loves to brush my hair as well. Oh and she loves the lip gloss and make up. The only thing about this is, is that Maci is usually right beside her!! She loves to color, play my little pony, listen to music, she loves Hannah Montana if you couldn't tell- I"m not sure how that even started cause I don't even let her watch the show, still don't. She is a little poser for the camera. Anyway we love her and she is growing up way to fast!

So about two weeks after Breeanas birthday, the next exciting birthday we had was Tylers. October 18th. We had his most favorite dinner -steak- (I think he would have this every night if he could.) The only bad thing about this birthday dinner was that he had to cook his own dinner. He is "king of the grill" at our house and it's cause he does an awesome job!! We went over to my mom and had a "birthday" dinner with her too. Her birthday is Oct 16th. It was her 50th. I just decided that birthday are near as fun when you older. Seems like just another day... But we tried to make them fun. huh Tyler? Jayse wanted to get him, and he was very specific. A long sleeve, camo, ASU shirt. How in the would he came up with that I don't know. Breeana always thinks he needs a new ASU hat.... that's cause she isn't the one having to put them away. It was a good day. Happy Birthday to Tyler! I can't believe I almost forgot. He did get his most favorite cake in the world the 15 pound chocolate lovers cake from costo. It is the best!!!MMmmmmm ....I (We) love you Tyler!!! xoxoxo

This was probably one of the BIGGEST birthdays and the last birthday of the year, and WOW! We went out with a bang! Jayse had his eighth birthday. Can't believe I have a son who is eight years old and old enough to be baptized!! unbelieveable!!! I remember thinking when he was about 3 years old that how long it was going to be before he would get baptized. How times flies. He looks just like Tyler too!!

He dad wants things to be just like it was for him. On his eighth birthday he got a BB Gun, so guess who got a BB gun for their birthday?? Jayse. He and his dad waited a long time for this one!! He has loved it. He can't even sit at the table and eat his breakfast in the morning without looking for birds. Kinda drives me crazy cause then he has to stop and try and get the bird. so you could say it's a little distracting in the mornings! The first thing he does when he comes home is you guessed it. BB Gun. I always get the "hold on, " just a minute I just need to get this bird." I do have to say that he is a pretty good shot!! One day he came walking up and I noticed the bird was looking pretty blue and green kinda like a parakeet. I looked and him and thought Oh no, he killed someone's pet bird. I think it made him feel really bad. I immediatedly started questioning him if the neighbors had a bird and they didn't. He was nervous at what his dad was going to say, but It ended up that it looked like it someones bird had been on the loose for a while...Whew! Tyler and I had a little chuckle after he walked away of course....Jayse loves Hunting and sports, riding dirt bikes, Hummm...sounds like someone else I know. I wonder where he gets it......His dad!!! Like Father like son or however that saying goes. He hates homework, I'm not sure what 8 year old boy "likes" homework. He does really good in school when he tries, he gets side-tracked with other things like visiting.....He is a great artist with an imagination!!! He loves to make his sisters laugh!! We're glad Jayse is the big brother in our family.

So this was the big baptism day. Saturday, November 1, 2008 This was an extra special day for several reasons.

1. Because Jayse was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by his dad.
2. 'Cause his cousin Cayden waited 2 months! so that they could be baptized on the same day, Both by uncle Tyler and dad. What a fun memory!!
3. Jayse's Grandma Bernal and Both of the boys Grandma Parris gave great talks at their baptism. Grandma Parris made them each a baptism towel with their names on them.
4. Jayse and Cayden's PaPa Larry flew from Athens Texas, and MaMa Paula made them each a quilt(comforter) Papa Larry shared his testimony.
5. Family and friends were able to be there on their special day.
6. Jayse's mom was actually early and not late to the baptism!!!!

Jayse and Tyler (two of the most handsomest boys!!)

Uncle Tyler( Dad) Jayse and Cayden

Here are two future missionaries!!

They quilt made by MaMa Burkett....Jayse's favorite too....deer hunting

So this was really fun. We had to have something to entertain some kids, cause there were alot of counsins and friends after lunch, we wanted a jumping castle, but they were all rented out, but wait we got an even better deal!!! A HUGE slide. The kids had a blast on this, but I think the adults had an even better time!

It seemed like everytime we turned around one of the kids was hurt and crying............

I think they all took a turn at being hurt...

Despite all the craziness it was a nice and fun weekened.( it always is if it involves our favorite Aunt Becky and Uncle Chad, Cayden and RiKenna.....)We are glad that Jayse and Cayden made the choice to be baptized.

This is the end of the Birthday Bashes until 6 more months!

WE HAVE A BIRTHDAY GIRL * BREEANA*!!

2008-09-29T12:12:00.000-07:00

It's Breeana's Birthday. She is so excited because she is turning 5 today!! We have dinner planned tonight, so more pictures and stuff to come later..

IT'S THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!

( Here's an Aunt Marty picture with her head cut off!! :)
We made pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for her snack day. Oh yea, we can't forget they also had sprinkles on them -everything is better with sprinkles. yummy!

Happy Birthday to Chad (Becky too)!!

2008-09-28T00:45:00.000-07:00

Date Night, well that's what I called it. That was because we didn't have any kids. No kiddos, and it's a date nowadays. Actually this was a Birthday Gift for Chad. Becky just invited us to go. We had a great time as always with them!! Never a dull moment. Between Tyler and Chad they keep us laughing. We LOVE Chad and are so glad to have him as part of our family now! Way to go Becky ! The kids LOVE their Unc Chad as well. There are some of our family who haven't met him yet, but let me tell ya you're missing out on a great person and a good time! But even though he's OLD now,(He just celebrated 40 yrs) he is stil able to keep up with all these kids we have. Becky and Chad share the same birthday, so it's double the fun. Oh and by the way she just turned 30!! Way to go Beck! Happy Birthday to you both!!!

This was our first and last baseball game of the season since this was the D-backs second to last game, at least they won, that always makes it better. We had a ton of food, soda and water ALL NIGHT LONG. We were offered alcohol a couple times finally we had to tell out waiter that we did not drink and it was going to be soda and water for us ALL NIGHT LONG. He was very cool about it. We even made a sign and set it up at the end of our table, it said. No Alcohol beyond this point. I'm pretty sure that it worked, cause no one offered us drinks for the rest of the night.

Tyler and Chad really enjoyed the wave, just check out the pictures... And I think it would be safe to say that Becky and I enjoyed the dessert... Even though there is a picture of Tyler eating getting ready to devour the brownie, (that is one of his favorites), we HAD to finish it off. It was all soo yummy!!!Thanks for a FUN night Becky and Chad!!

Tickets to Friday's Front Row
Tyler, Janell, Chad and Becky Enjoying some D-Backs game hoping for a win, cause we paid good money dang it!
AAHHHHHHH .......the wave .Tyler and Chad getting a little excited for the wave to come around
Gonna have to look close here... That would be the thumbs down on Oh Blah Blah Blah Blama.
It's a good thing we didn't let that commercial ruin dessert for the night. We had the birthday dessert smorgasbord. Let me tell ya.MMMMMMM.......MMMMMMM. Cheesecake, brownie with carmel drizzled, and some yummy peanut butter thing.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY PICTURES MACI!!

2008-09-27T12:38:00.000-07:00

Well, I really can't believe it, This year has gone by so fast. I can't believe that Maci is already one year old!! We have loved every minute of her in our family!!! From her teeny tiny 5lbs 4 oz to We think about 20 lbs. now Whoo Hoo! Gosh we didn't even know how to hold her she was so small. But this year has brought much laughter to our home Jayse reminds us all the time that he was the first one to make her laugh, saying something that was so rediculous, and off the wall, BUT it made her crack up.He has this special way of charming her even still. He loves to make her laugh and she loves laughing at him. She follows his to his room every morning while he gets ready for school. I asked him what his favorite thing about Maci was and his reply was that she laughs so hard all the time. :) Breeana has been the biggest helper. Wow! She was and still is such a good babysitter. She was my right hand girl. She would feed Maci her bottles and even burp her. She was so good at it. Maci's a little bigger now so it doesn't work as well for Breeana. She is great at playing ponies with her and taking her outside. Maci Loves to be outside, as soon as a door opens, she is gone, or at least tries to be. Breeanas favorite thing about Maci is to watch her laugh and roll all over the floor. She is quite the entertainer. Did I mention as well as entertaining us she is also keeping us on our toes. She loves to climb. on EVERYTHING. If she can get her leg up on it, she is climbing on it. You name it. couches, stools, end tables, in the kitchenly drawers, boxes.....I could go on. I think our most favorite thing about Maci is her ability to dance!!! She hears the music and moves. She's a great dancer! Everytime we get in the car she has to dance. She especially loves it when we are going across the street from my moms to our house cause she doesn't have to get in her car seat and she gets to stand up on the steering wheel and dance away... Anyway we love her to pieces!!!!

So a little about her birthday, We just had some dinner and of course some cake. My sister Emilie is the lucky one to wanted to develop the talent of cake decorating. She is really good at it. I got this birthday shirt for Maci cause it was cute. (I'm really liking the polka dots on everthing for girls lately.) Anyway so we couldn't decide on what to do for a cake, until..... duh make it like the one on her shirt. It turned out ssooo cute. She loved the cake, and you can imagine, it was fun and games until she realized that everyone was looking at her and laughing! Her favorite game is peek a boo, this is how we were able to get the frosting all over her face. Isn't that was 1st birthdays are all about!!! She somehow managed to actually pick up the cake off the plate. She wasn't very thrilled about presents as like most one year olds could care less. She had some cousins Easton and Samuel there that just turned 2 and know what presents are all about and were way more excited to open them then her. She loves her babies!! Oh, and the stroller, she likes it more when the kids give her a ride instead of the babies, go figure. Anyway Happy Birthday to our little "may may". Or little "peanut" as all the nurses called her!

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It's the birthday girl!! She's showing off her smile!!
Just chillin before all the excitement...well not really. She really didn't want to get her picture taken. She wouldn't sit still and just look at the camera. Imagine that a one year old not sitting still to get a picture taken...
If you'll notice her shirt matches her cake!! It's kinda hard to tell. (her picture on the right side has a close up of the cake) We couldn't decide what to do for a cake, then I just loved it. It just looked fun. This cake just turned out sooo cute!!
MMMMM............. whipped cream frosting.............
Peek...............a..............

...................BOO!!!!!!!!!!!
well it was fun while it lasted....Party over. Glad you were all entertained. I am one years old now...
Inside these gifts were, 2 babies, a baby stroller, Baby Einstein videos, books, PJ's, a dress, a vacumn, a ride on giraffe thing. She loves them all!Does it look like she doesn't want her brother and sister holding her to get a picture?? This is pretty normal. She's figured out that she doesn't need them bossing her around. HHmmm. go figure.

Bobcat Football--GO BOBCATS!!

2008-09-20T15:08:00.000-07:00

The craziest time of the year has begun. Fall is in the air. I love this time of year.... for our family it means, BIRTHDAYS!!! YEA (for our whole family. We made it that way on purpose so everybody could remember them. They are even spaced within a couple weeks of each other) , Football, Tyler going hunting, and of course the holidays sooner than we think.<

Jayse is keeping us busy playing football, He is one of the big shots this year, and is loving it. He is the quarterback. He is good at the hut-hut thing... we practice it all the time. It makes me nervous, cause I want him to do good all the time. So far he's been doing really good. Makin' me proud! He always manages a touchdown or two. He's a good flag puller too! Today he made the winning touchdown with 3 minutes left in the game. So Grandmas and PaPas can be proud of the little Burkett!! Oh and I failed to mention, it couldn't possibly be because his dad is his coach, could it? Of course it is. His dad encourages him to do his best!! Sometimes Tyler tends to get a little excited!! He(Tyler) is quite competitive on the field, so I am encouraging best behavior:).. It's been fun to watch since Jayse actually understands the game now after 2 years. He's not just running around looking like a chicken with his head cut off, and some random whistle blowing every few seconds. Breeana has been watching the cheerleaders and is learning the cheers, don't know if that is good or bad thing. Here are the latest Football pictures we have.

Labor Day Continued.....

2008-09-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

Ok so I really an NOT good at this!!! This is taking me a while to figure this out. Duh..... It's like I am having some serious "blonde" issues!!I have been having to ask for technical support so it's taking me a while to post.

Anyway Labor day continued...... So everything was completely normal with this kids. We had the occasional cousin crisis and not getting along. So that was good to see that they still get along the same. They haven't forgotten each other. It's been a year since we have seen them.
Wes and Danielle bought a new house there and have decorated it up real cute. Good job guys!! Anyway they will be here in November for Thanksgiving. It should be fun especially when we get Nate's kids in on the fun.. PAAARRTTYYY!! That's alot of crazy kids in one place. We took so many pictures....here they are......

Wes was dying to get his hands on her......And she even let him hold her...
What else can you do in the car for 15 hours but sleep..... to keep me happy that is!
Jayse and Dominic having their turn to rock out.

The goodbye picture... Some not looking too happy
The kids on the slide. The park was beautiful...
They think they are soo cool. Especially Wes with the shades on in the house....

This picture is for Wes. This is Wes the whiner. He needs his mom and dad...alot!! He misses them. Kansas is a LONG ways a way! But he was so happy to see them after the shock wore off, Well I'm not sure it actually did. As soon as we got there seemed like we had to leave.

Labor Day

2008-09-15T16:24:00.001-07:00

Well as you all know we can be quite spontaneous! We tried to make plans a couple times, I had had it , and decided not to do anything, and just stay home and try to finish some of my on going projects around the house. My parents were going to Kansas to SURPRISE Wes and Danielle. We tossed around the idea, but I still decided no... Well at the very last minute my guilt got to me (that was Tyler guilting me) we packed it up in about 2 hours and loaded it into our tiny little car and headed to Kanas at 10pm at night. We knew the kids would sleep most of the way since we were driving through the night. It was a 15 hour car ride. I even did a little driving. Tyler and I switched off driving and sleeping. The kids did great, but they were anxious at the end, as were all of us. My mom called Danielle and told her that they were coming but they kept it a secret from Wes. We even kept it a secret from my mom for awhile. We met up with my mom and dad at a convenience store in Oklahoma, my mom was surprised! Wes was in more shock than anything when he saw my mom and dad. Well then we pulled up and surprised both Wes and Danielle! We had a fun weekened. Nothing too exciting, we just hung out and visited. Took the kids to the park. Took Audie's senior pictures, went to Sonic, and played Guitar Hero for hours! The kids picked up right where they left off. Dominic and Breeana even had the cousins quarrel a couple times. That was normal.

I'm a Slacker!!

2008-09-13T08:19:00.000-07:00

Alright, I admit it, I'm a slacker!!! I knew that this would happen, I would create a blog and not update it as much as I wanted. Sorry, just be patient with me :) I may have to turn it over to Tyler if it gets too bad, since his life is working on the computer, but Hopefully not.

So we really aren't boring people...just a little busy.....on the go as well. Actully I have had alot of projects going on at home. Painting, repainting, redecorating, VINYL (for those of you who don't know I have vinyl machine. The kind you have seen that is popular for home decor. I really enjoy doing it!) oh, and did I mention the normal cleaning and keeping up with the kids. Anyhow cut me some slack. I'll get going here.

We finally did it!!

2008-08-14T16:08:00.000-07:00

Well, dang, We finally did it, our family has joined the Blogging world!!! I've been talking about it for a while, but I think I got more motivated over the summer when we had taken lots of pictures, and we wanted to share them with so many people, but I don't know if you all know how much I don't check email, and "work" on the computer. So thanks to my WONDERFUL husband the family(and ward) computer genius, we now have a blog!! Couldn't have done it without him. Now you all can hopefully keep up on the fun and exciting things that go on in our family. AND I won't have to send pictures and updates to everyone we know...I really think I'm gonna like this....Oh yea and by the way all of you who have been asking me to to do this...it wasn't that easy to set up, or I really am more computer illiterate than I thought. I just don't really have the patience for it. Actually I decided I really don't have to when I have someone like Tyler who can do it for me, and it's done the right way!!! I'll get the hang of it. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy our blog. Thanks again Tyler, luv you!!