Brooke and Carson get married!

10.06.16

I pulled the kids out of school early. The girls and I picked up Grandma and Aunt Lynda and we were on our way to Logan, UT. 

Chris and the boys headed to Reno.

 A long drive to Logan.

 It was way cooler and so pretty up at the temple on Friday morning.

Chloe, Aubrey and Scarlett went to breakfast while Mom, Jenny and I attended Brooke and Carson's sealing. It was neat to be there with them.

Brooke and Carson Matthews

October 7, 2016

After the temple and luncheon we drove to Fernley. Another 8 hour road trip!! Yay!!

Kevin and Michelle had an outdoor reception on Saturday at their house.

There was karaoke and dancing and Aubrey was in heaven! 

The boys played corn hole and horse shoes. It was a fun night!

When Tammy needed a break dancing Jenny stepped in.

Aubrey attached herself to Aunt Tammy and said they were BFFs!

And our trip wouldn't be complete without breakfast at the Wigwam with Grammy!

The boys got to go shooting on Friday morning with Chris and Joey. 

Slugfest 2016

 The first weekend in October has become known as the Slugfest for our family. 

Sniper! 

 Chloe and Rylee just hanging out in between games.

 Nick and Cooper's teams both took 2nd place in the Pink division. Alex's team took 1st place in the Blue division. 

Sadly I don't have pictures at Nick's games since I was with Cooper and Chris was coaching Alex's team. But another great baseball weekend!

{September Shenanigans}

1- Labor Day was mostly baseball with 5 baseball games, but we did end our day swimming at Grandma's with family. 2- This girl is getting so big and so independent! 3- All About Cooper- Cooper's favorite place to be is at home with his family. Cooper's favorite subjects in school are math and science. Cooper loves to play baseball, ride his motorcycle with his friends, and spend tim with his family. He loves orange chicken from Panda Express. And he is going to try hard and get straight A's this year. 4- We went to Disneyland! 5- And the beach too! 6- Aubrey needed a picture with Dad to be put in her autograph book because Dad signed it. 7- All my kids still end of sleeping on my floor sometimes. Chloe came in because she wasn't feeling well and then Aubrey came in looking for her sister. 8- Alex taught FHE on Joseph Smith's first vision. He made a little panorama of the sacred grove and had little popsicle stick figures. 9- Aubrey looks like a cute little nerd wearing her fake glasses. 10- Cooper has been going to the doctor every couple weeks trying to get the dang warts on his arm gone. Cooper and Dr. Hailstone are becoming buddies now that they spend so much time together, he comes in saying, "what's up Coopster?". 11- Nick and Alex were able to go on a field trip for Scouts to the Las Vegas Search and Rescue Hanger. 12- Aubrey and Chloe with their unicorn ears. 13- Kenzie had a poopy diaper and Aubrey jumped in and offered to change her. 14- The girls swimming at Scarlett's birthday party. 15- Our house is FOR SALE! We had no plans to move any time soon, so this was crazy! 16- A little snapchat fun. 17- Chris and the realtor trying to figure out how deep the pool is at our new house. 18- Chloe and I at the General Women's broadcast. I love that we can do this together! 19- We got to church (late) and these three were matching. 20- Lucy and Aubrey playing together at Grandma's. 21- This is real life right here... eating dinner in the car on the way to baseball while watching a movie. 22- MMM spent the night and the kids wanted to have a picnic lunch. The sprinklers were on in the backyard so they settled for the front porch. 23-Alex and Cooper were excited to wear their pink sleeves for the breast cancer tournament and wore them to school. 24- "Marvel Monday" at school for the big kids. 25- Jenny, Scarlett, my mom, and I drove up to St. George to attend the temple with Brooke while she took out her endowments. We had an impromptu bridal shower at dinner too.

Beach Day

09.10.16

 After a day at Disneyland a relaxing day at the beach was perfect!

We headed to our usual spot at Newport, had lunch and played on the beach.

 Immediately hole digging began! I was happy to see Nick and Alex both in the water since this was our first time back at the beach since their near drowning experience back in March.  

We hung out and played all day and then  headed back to the hotel for more swimming and relaxing in the hot tub before we got ready for dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Such a fun weekend!

Disneyland

 09.09.16

 We skipped school and work and went to Disneyland for Scarlett's first birthday! 

"Making memories with the mouse" & Scarlett was the "cutest mouse ever".

Getting everyone to wear their mouse ears isn't as easy as it used to be!

Scarlett loved Toon Town.

Riding rides, waiting in line, and for the parade.

Aubrey got an autograph book and loved finding the characters.

I made aubrey ride Splash Mountain. She had her head buried in my lap the whole time.

"Back to School Brawl" [Labor Day Weekend

09.03-09.05.16

Labor Day weekend for our family has come to mean lots of baseball between the 3 boys as they play the "Back to School Brawl" tournament.

Between the 3 teams we had 17 games in 3 days! 

For pool play 10u Knights (Cooper) went 4-0 and lost their first game in bracket play.

11u Knights went 3-1 and came in 2nd place in the Silver Division.

14u Diamondbacks went 3-1 and ended up winning the championship in the Gold Division.

Cooper keeping score at BLD at Alex's game.

Aubrey getting her back scratched while Grandpa watches Nick's game.

Nick and Colton.

A BIG win calls for a team dab!

SNIPER! These boys pulled off another win.

Enjoying some cheese pie in between games.

Another win for the 10u Knights. They went 4-0 in pool play. 

They won! Dad and Alex are happy!

Getting ready for the championship game.

Cheering for our favorite Knights players!

These boys came in 2nd place. 

14u Gold Division CHAMPIONS!