Look who turned 15!

Yes it is Londie Loo! I'm not quite sure how this happened because I know I'm not old enough to have a 15 year old! We had a quick dinner at Grandma O's and then since she is a shop-o-holic, we went to The Gateway and the boys went to see a movie. She got a cute new outfit in her favorite store Buckle. She is such a joy in my life, I am so grateful for her, a few things I love about her are.....
* she is very kind hearted and nice to everyone
*an awesome helper around the house
*she reads her scriptures almost every night
*helps to keep all the animals around here in line
*her sense of humor
*her optimistic outlook on life
*her love for her brother even when he is bugging her
*for being the best daughter EVER!

Londyn, Hayden, Preston and Reece

Riley and Londyn
Did I FORGET to mention that she now has her Learner's Permit to drive, Yes please keep our family in your PrAYerS as we are the one's she gets to drive around!

Preston and his BIG Gap!

All Preston wants for christmas is his one front tooth, hopefully two! I need to take more pictures because now his front tooth that is still there is sticking almost straight forward- he looks so funny! Dan wants to pull it but it's not very loose yet.

Thanksgiving Day.....

Oh you are going to love the pictures I took on Thanksgiving day.... Oh ya I forgot to take any!! What kind of blogger am I if i don't even take pictures of the thanksgiving FeAst!!! Dan's family came to our house, a tradition every year, it's great for us!! It was kind of weird this year because it was only Dan's mom, his sister Jeannie her husband Michael and Seth and my mom came this year. We usually have a whole house full, kids running and screaming everywhere, it was very quiet this year. Quiet but good!

Preston's Big #7 Birthday Bash

This was Preston's first Birthday that he had cousins from MY SIDE OF THE FAMILY that lives here to celebrate with - he was so excited. Jeannie brought the kids up and we had papa murphy's pizza for dinner then opened presents and had birthday cake and ice cream, then we took the kids to TOADS to really party it up, they had fun playing lazer tag and playing video games!

The Vamps were out!

I heard that these two blood suckers were wandering all over - I didn't happen to see them did any of you?

The ol' SWITCHEROO For HALLOWEEN..

Preston decided it wasn't good enough to only wear one costume for Halloween! He was a vampire at the Ward Trunk OR Treat -

Preston at the school parade as a Ninja Turtle

















Preston as a Ninja on Halloween Night

Hold On - I'm almost done for the night

I have not had a spare minute to post the last few days so I'm getting caught up! Tonight our ward had a trunk or treat - so We got all vamped up and headed to the church for a fun night of getting treats from trunks, after our bags were filled with too many treats we headed into the church for some more sugar - donuts and hot chocolate - a fun night was had by all!

Carving Pumpkins with Cousins... What could be better?

We met at Grandma Olsen's house had dinner and then ripped the guts out of pumpkins- Dan even got into the carving spirit!

Londyn and Riley focusing way too much

oooh goooey guts were not being enjoyed by my brother Kyle and Reece


The finished products And Last but not Least Jean whipping the cream for the yummy
chocolate crock pot cake she made us!!
The only thing missing from the carving night were Ty, Kimmy, Alexa and Kade!

Kudos to Jamie!

You'll all be sad to know that I no longer have PINK hair - cute Jamie fixed my hair and I must say she out did herself!!
Too bad that since that day when she did my hair, it has never looked that cute - I can never do my hair as cute as the stylist - DANG!

Little Bit of Bread with dirty clothes...

The other day I was picking up the house after the kids had left for school and imagine my surprise when I found bread among dirty clothes that had been thrown into the laundry room. I bet no one has ever seen that before.

It's all about the kids....

I was talking on the phone to our neighbor Joanne yesterday and she said she had a cat balloon she wanted to give Preston, so after I got off the phone I sent Preston over to get his little balloon and this is what he came back with. I guess I don't know what a balloon is.


She is so nice! She probablly felt bad for my kids because we have no Halloween decor up this year, I just haven't wanted to pull it all out. I know I can be a real fun hater (according to my kids). While we have been tending Olie he has been out front tied on the porch, well we had to immediately move Olie to a new location so we could put these on the front porch, they are really cute.

Just Hangin Around....

Grandma and Preston just hangin at Lagoon! We took a picture of Preston and then I told my mom she needed to get her picture taken, it didn't even take very much coaxing to get her to do it.

Hip Hip Hooray for UEA!!!!

We had a mini vacation without leaving home, at least not going too far. We started Wednesday night by starting to paint Londyn's room, then Wednesday we went to Lagoon all day, Grandma Olsen came with us and Londyn's friend Katlyn from our old neighborhood(they were the best of friends when we lived in Kaysville and they haven't seen each other for quite awhile they had a great day together). We also tended Olie while Kyle, Jean and the kids went to Washington to visit her family. Friday we painted Londyn's room all day, then Grandma O came up and spent the night we went to Rubios for dinner and then played our favorite new game WIG OUT. Saturday morning we went to Preston's last soccer game of the season and the other team didn't show up(Bummer), then Dan had some great plans for us, you guessed it something to do with horses, we got to clean out horse stalls and put new road base in them to get ready for winter. Sunday night we watched Nim's Island and then tucked everyone in bed so they could get up early for school. We had a really fun weekend together!

Preston's favorite lagoon ride - "Odyssey"

The tilt O whirl

On my favorite ride - "Tidal Wave"

The only time we saw Londyn all day long - We were on the ride "Wicked" - Loved it!!



Olie all tucked in for the night

Londyn was suppose to be all tucked in for the night - Busted - but I didn't get mad because she was reading her scriptures.
Preston already in dream land.

The perfect ending to a great weekend!

What the devil?

Were we thinking? When we moved into our house 2 years ago, we told Londyn we would finish her a bedroom in the basement. As time has gone on we decided we like her being upstairs and having all of our bedrooms together. I told her we would paint her room whatever she wanted, so she has been after me for months to get it done, last night at 9:45 pm we started to prime the walls and at 11:30 we were done YEA! We rocked out to AC/DC and had a lot of fun.
This is us all giddy and happy as we were getting started

And here we are when we were finished....

I LOVE HANGING OUT WITH HER!

Cutest ever magnet boards!

This is for Jeannie so she can see the magnet board I purchased her for a gift she needed. One of my friends makes these, they are so dang cute if any one needs one I can hook you up!

What is a Pole Building??

Whenever someone asks what Dan does for a living, the next question is what is a pole building? So I decided to post a few of the buildings we have done so everyone will know what he does.
We sell them and install them. I'm so fortunate to have a hard working husband that works hard everyday so I am able to stay home and care for our family. Dan is awesome at what he does - so if you ever need a pole building, he's your man!

A Shout out

I just have to thank Londie Loo for making me a new header and putting new decor on my blog! It's awesome having her to do that stuff for me. Thanks Londie I love it!!

Say NO to Winter!!!

This is what we woke up to this morning! We hate winter! This snow wasn't too bad, by the time we were out of church it was all gone. Preston was upset because he wanted to come home and build a snowman, oh well I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities for that in the months to come.

I'm afraid of heights........

BUT... Dan and Preston are not. During a wind storm we had a month or so ago some of our shingles flew off our roof. On Friday night pretty much in the dark a couple of the guys that work for us got up on the roof and fixed it. On Saturday morning Dan and Preston took a ride up in the high rider (don't know the name of it) to check out the roof. As of today it seems to be good no leaks yet! As I came out the door to see that Dan had taken Preston up with him I snapped some pics and Preston told me he had to wait in the basket all by himself while Dad walked on the roof, I was glad to learn he wasn't walking around on the roof too.

Stealing pumpkins???

Londyn and Preston jumped the fence into the neighbors yard to snag some pumpkins and this is Preston as they were returning. They didn't really steal them, JoAnne said they could come get some.