Christmas at Our House

Christmas was wonderful as always, Kory took off wed and thurs, so he was home most of the week, he built me some much anticipated/needed shelfs in our foood storage room. On Christmas Santa brought the wii (and as always TONS of candy) for our family to enjoy... Mom and Dad got Gage his DS, and just to be fair Broc got a Game Boy, Macy got a "my first doll house". The funnest part was we took the kids shopping to get each other gifts and that was fun to see how excited they got to have the presents opened from each other. the present I ordered for Kory never made it for Christmas, so it gets to be his Birthday, Christmas, Valentines present.... I ordered him a Garmin Rino before Thanksgiving and it is still on backorder, oh well he'll get it sometime. Kory got me some new earrings. After that we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Heslops to talk to Nick who is serving in New Zealand. From there we went to Grandma and Gramdpa Haroldsen and had a light lunch and opened some gifts. From there we went to Ryan and Ambers for our Grandpa Joe Christmas, and dinner. After that the day was done so we finally went home and got in bed(Macy efinatly needed it)!! Good thing the next day was Saturday so we could spend some time and recoup from Christmas right... No Saturday night Kory's family was coming to our house for their Christmas dinner/party. So Saturday was spent busily cleaning up the mess that was made the prior day, and setting up tables and chairs, cleaning bathrooms, washing dishes, etc. That night everyone came and had a good time, there was plenty of room and food for everyone, and the present exchange worked perfect in our basement! Sunday we were finally able to relax and enjoy our Christmas!

FAMILY

Thanksgiving was great! We had 35-40 Heslop family members come to our home on thanksgiving and we had a feast! Everyone fit great, we moved out the couches and put up tables, then after dinner those who could stay went down stairs and watched movies... But the best part was that while the adults were upstairs, the kids were downstairs playing so there was limited noise from them. Later in the day we left to go to Grandpa Joe's for our second Thanksgiving, had great food and watched another movie.

This week Kory and I, along with Mike and Tiffany, and some of our other friends will be going down to Las Vegas to go to the National Finals Rodeo, it is always a fun time and LOTS of shopping!!

We put up our Christmas tree, and all our other Christmas things yesterday and Macy is loving it!! She loves the lights on the tree, and LOVES to carry around baby Jesus from my nativity. I bought her and Broc the Little People Nativity set and they spend hours playing with it! So excited for Christmas this year... It makes it fun when all your kids are old enough to enjoy it, and still young enough to make it fun!

Yikes!!

This was the group of Monsters that invaded my home this Halloween... For some reason there is a tradition for my family to come to my house on Halloween, have dinner, go trick-or-treating, and having Mike do some of his fun science experiments!!

Coming up next...

Korys family coming to our house for Thanksgiving! (YIKES!!!)

Whats been going on!!!

Well it has been well over a month since my last update... So here

are a bunch of pictures of what has been going on here in our life.

Gage turned 8 on sept 10 had a party with his friends,

and then Got Baptized a member of the

Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on

Sept 19th.

Broc turned 5 on the 11th and had a little party

with his friends

Macy Turned one on the 12th, and we had the family over to

celebrate her, and Brocs Birthday...

Macy had a cupcake cake

and Broc had a Ice cream spider cake.

The rest of these pictures are of what has been

going on in the mean time....

Fishing and Camping and quality time with dad horse riding.

Kory and Broc in the Uintahs

Gages party at Ogden Dinosaur park

Kory and I also celebrated our 10th anniversary...

we took a family trip to Jackson and Yellowstone...

Every one had fun!

Gages Birthday cake...

Back to SCHOOL!!

Well here we are into September now, so just a quick update on us...the boys are back in school and loving it (I love it too) Macy is starting to take steps, and getting so big and proud of herself. Gage has been getting ready to get baptized and is extremely excited to start scouts,and has started learning how to ride his own horse and goes riding with Kory and LOVES it!! Broc loves his friends, Riding on the horse with Kory, and is growing up so fast, he has started riding his bike without training wheels and can ride with us all the way to Gages school and back (almost 3 miles round trip). Kory is Working non stop it seems, with work and helping everyone else get their projects done. We will be celebrating our 10th Anniversary on Sept 8th and will take a little trip up to Jackson Wy.

These are the most current pics of the kids

JULY

Well July came and went soooo fast! It was a fun month, The parade was fun Macy got to ride on the baby contest float and throw out candy!! We had barbeque's, camping trips(filled with fun and fishing), feild trips(Dinosaur park), MORE camping (and fishing), and then a brief stay up in Park City (where the adventures were endless)Swimming, Hiking, and more!!! Glad August is here and we can start setteling back into a routine for school:)

"LITTLE MISS WRANGLER"

We had a fun day yesterday, I decided to enter Macy into the Plain City 4th of July baby contest after a lot of deliberation, Amber had told me she entered little Hazel in it and so I decided to put Macy in too and they could have pictures together. So the contest was yesterday, There were about 15/16 little girls there and about the same amount of little boys that were there, well after about 5/10 minutes of the judges watching them, they handed out the prizes... Little Hazel won the title for the most active baby there, and then they called out the winners for overall, I was surprised when they called Macys number, She was the winner of the"Wrangler Round Up" baby contest"Little Miss Wrangler"!! She now gets to ride on a float in the parade saturday, and won a little stick horse and cowboy hat filled with toys and of course a a Pretty pink tiara!!! HOW LUCKY... And what a cute little girl ;) Will post more pics later!

The first picture is Gage and Broc on a ladder going nowhere with a couple ferries on it, on the "boardwalk" in puerto vallarta the rest are at the fiesta, and at a resturant in Bucerias on the beach.

More pics (and check out the giant beetle, next to Korys finger)

SWINE FLU??

Puerto Vallarta was a BLAST!! Wish we could still be there, now that we have been home and know things are ok here. WE did LOTS of swimming, relaxing, and sampling the local cuisine!! Mmmmm fajitas, quesadillas, nachos, and chips and salsa:)!! No one got "the swine flu"(in fact we are more worried about getting it here) and Macy survived the airplane, she had a little bit of a hard time on the flight home from P.V to L.A the last half hour descending... but the next flight she was fine. She was such a little trooper, sitting in a hot sticky stroller, getting lathered with sunscreen, and being totally off any sort of schedule.

Gage and Broc loved showing her how to swim and were brave swimmers (I thought Broc would turn into a fish) Macy even learned how to go down the waterside (or the bottom 3 feet of it) by herself!! Gage did lots of bodyboarding in the ocean and figured out how to ride a wave in(see pic) Broc tried too with the help of Grandpa Joe. It is always a fun trip to go on, Thanks Kory for taking naps with Macy in the room while everyone else played! Gage caught a couple crabs on the beach, one morning we even saw a sea turtle on the beach (dead) it was pretty neat though.

hope you enjoy some of the pics. Jen

MACY 6 MONTHS OLD

Well Macy is now 6 months old, and LOVING life... we went down and had her "Aunt" Elizabeth Haroldsen take some pictures, and these are some of our favorites... She is such a fun happy little girl, we are so happy to have her in our family!

Here is a picture of "the Boys" in Arches National Park, had lots of fun climbing in "Holes"

Here is a picture of "THE Baby GIRLS" down in Gobblin Valley Lto R: Macy, Aspen, Hazel

Spring

Wow I cant believe it is already the middle of April... We just got back from our yearly Easter trip to the Moab area... went on some great hikes, let the kids do lots of climbing. We had a blast with Grandpa Joe, and all our Cousins. It was Macys First camping trip and she did great... had lots of fun.

Well now the countdown is on for the end of school only 31 school days left, and the count down to Puerto Vallarta on the day after school gets out. The kids are getting more excited for that every day. Macy is a very busy little girl, likes to play, and watch and laugh at the boys, Broc loves being her helper, and comes every time she yells. Gage is getting big, he also cant get enough of little Macy and the funny noises and things she does.

pictures

well here are some pictures I didn't get a chance to post earlier... Macy is getting big, she loves to talk and babble, and yell at the boys! Broc LOVES being a big brother, and Gage likes being a great helper!