Brandon is 8!!!!!!

I can't believe that my Brandon is eight years old already!!!  WOW!!  
Here is his Birthday, Baptism, and Scouts.  He is SO EXCITED to be eight....he already has his bobcat in scouts and he has only been in scouts for one week.  What a cutie pie!!!  
We love Brandon sooooo much and we are so happy that he is in our family!!

(A More Real) Love Story

This is so funny, so cute, ......and so true!!!!

The new me!!

k, seriously I don't usually do posts about me or even put that many pics of me on my blog, so this is pushing it a little bit, but I just cut over 10 inches off my hair.  Man my head feels so light!!!  I am going to donate it.  And who knows maybe I will grow it out again.   
Aaaaaa, I was so nervous!!!!!   And Daryl just happened to say to me last night..... "Angie I really like your hair long...... but do what you need to do"  So we will just have to see what he thinks!!!!
So here are some before and after pics courtesy of Lexi....

And the new hair cut.......

 

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