grandma arnell

Daryl's grandma turned 90 last Saturday.  We had a huge family party for her. (((It was actually daryls birthday too.  He was so sweet about it though and let grandma have her day!!  I love daryl to pieces and was so happy to see him turn the big 36!!!  )))  First everyone that could all went to the temple together...there were about 45 people there.  Then we all met at uncle brents and aunt jan's house for the party.  Grandma was so happy and loved being surrounded by all of her family. I am so grateful that I am able to know and love Grandma Arnell!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!  
ps (thanks jan for the photos:)

happy girl....

What a cutie pie!!!

Steamboat Springs

We had so much fun on our little vacation to Colorado.  We took our kids skiing.  I was a little nervous about taking Ellee with us but it turned out to be just fine and tons of fun.  We went with a couple of friends who also had little ones, so we took turns skiing and watching babies and swimming.  The kids did so good skiing.  I can't believe how fast kids can learn how to ski.  I went with Lex for a while and we skied down one run and it took us 1 hour to get down to the bottom.  She skiied the whole hour and did awesome.  She was so cute on her little ski's.  Bre and Brandon had a blast.  Daryl, Bre, brandon, and I were all skiing together one afternoon and we accidently took the kids down a black diamond.....wooops.  Well Bre did great and Brandon did too, it just took him about 20 minutes to get down the hill, but he sure learned fast how to turn side to side.  Bre and I had to camp out at the bottom of the hill for a while to wait for him.  But he almost always had a smile on his face, except for the time he got mad and chucked his ski down the hill....  :)

 

 

Love this picture...hehehe...this is me while I was skiing.  I kept videoing Lexi while we were both skiing and then I saw my shadow so I took a pic!!! :)

  

This is the black diamond hill I was talking about...that is Bre, Brandon, and Daryl headed down. I am about half way down the hill.  :)

 

This was me and bre camping out near the bottom...what a beautiful day!!! 

Ellee would get so excited when it was time to go "swimmy"  She would run the whole way...

  

One morning all of the "girls" got to go out by ourselves...what a blast!!!!

 

Ellee....

Like mother like daughter....needless to say she is a happy girl!!!!   yummmmm

Poor little thing...

My poor little Ellee was in the hospital all day on Friday.  She has some kind of bad bug in her that has made her throw up, get diareah super bad and have a fever of 103 for five days now.  This hospital visit was day number three.  Luckily her fever is now gone.  I worried for three days that her appendix was going to rupture, because these are the same symptoms that Brandon had when he was 18 months old and his appendix did rupture and it took the doctors a week to find out what was wrong with him.  Anyways I have now had three docs tell me that it is not her appendix, so maybe I will believe them.  So anyways they gave her an IV which helped tremendously and an anti nausea med which has also helped so much.   So we are just trying to see it through.  She was so funny in the hospital, they wanted me to put a little tiny hospital gown on her, but I know that she thought it was a bib and she put up a bigger stink about me putting her "bib" on than the nurse putting in her IV.  So needless to say she just wore her jammy pants and a blanket.  She was so dehydrated that she would just lay on the bed or couch and wouldn't even try to move.  She really didn't even mind that much when it took them 5 minutes to get the IV in.  Hopefully she will be back to her crazy little hyper, curious, and high pitched squealy self soon.

 

Grandpa Hunt

My grandpa just passed away on Sunday night.  I am so grateful that we got to go visit him a couple of weeks ago when he was awake and knew who I was.  I helped him drink some water and my kids sang him a couple of songs.  That will be my last memory of grandpa.  I am so happy that I got to have him alive for as long as we did and that my kids could know him as well.  Grandma died about 12 years ago so I know grandpa will be much happier where he is now...and not in any pain.  Love you grandpa.
Thanks for the picture Kris.

ST. GEORGE

 

  Breanna had a soccer tournament down in ST. GEORGE so we packed up the whole family and headed down.   We had so much fun!!!  It was fun to be there with so many friends.  We played right at Dixie State College campus.  Bre's team didn't do quite as well as we had hoped.  They lost their first game, then won the next two so we thought we were for sure in the semi-finals and we came at the time of the game all ready to play just to find out that the team we had beat was playing in the finals instead of us.  What a bummer!!!  I guess it was so close to determine the playing team that they had to look at goals scored against us and we had one or two more goals scored against us, so we were out!!!  We were sad for a few minutes, but had a great time playing and Bre scored three goals and learned a lot!!! 

The weather was awesome!!!  60's compared to the teens at home.  WE stayed at one of Daryls cousins house.  It was so fun to visit with them and his aunt and uncle.  

 

Lexi had fun playing with her little friends Carly and Mia.

 

I love this pic of Ellee and a baby palm tree behind her.

 

The kids found the Dixie State Mascot stuff...silly kids, whose are they anyway???

 

Now the kids are pretending to catch the football...

 

Cute Ellee at Sonya and Robs house..

Of course if we are in St. George we had to do some swimming!!!

 

On Sunday we went to church at 9, then went to walk around the Temple grounds.  It is so beautiful and pure white.

 

Time to come home, I totally did not want to.  It was so nice in St. George, but I guess all good things must come to an end...at least Ellee slept most of the way home :)