Winter Hiking We love winter hiking here in the desert. We (as in Jason and I, definitely not the kids) always wish we could do more hikes, but winter is also sports seasons and every Saturd...
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Pinewood Derby Maddox's first pinewood derby was a bit of a disaster. Lots of time and money spent on making the perfect car. He had high expectations and his hopes were dashed when he came i...
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Happy New Year and a Winter Wonderland! New Year's eve this year was a little different. Jason took Jayden snowboarding in Utah for a boy's weekend. They had such a great time, and managed to...
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Merry Christmas! Finally the moment we had been anticipating all season long was finally here. First the obligatory stair picture before rushing downstairs to see if Santa really came. ...
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Christmas Eve It's no secret, I love Christmas Eve. Even more than Christmas itself. I love the traditions, the preparations, the palpable excitement and anticipation, the time carved out for...
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Family Pictures Welp, another family picture session for the books! This had all the makings of a typical family photo shoot: mom stressed about getting the perfect light, someone elbowing so...
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Winter Formal Winter formal is a girl ask guy dance and Kylie decided to mix it up and ask her friend Celyn to the dance. For their day date they planned a fun Christmas date the weekend befo...
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December We started the month out making our holiday bucket list and spent the rest of the month checking things off..Making gingerbread houses, homemade donuts and hot chocolate, decorating ...
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Thanksgiving 2018 It was a bit chaotic prepping for Thanksgiving with major bathroom renovations underway. We were down to the wire as we were finishing touch up paint when Grandma's plane wa...
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Little Things I can't believe the year is almost to an end! We have managed to stay busy with big things and little things in between. Here are a few of the random going ons.... Every year w...
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Halloween 2018 I just love the holidays with kids, and I'm especially savoring each one as they are growing older. And by "savoring" I mean I am still packing Halloween themed lunches for my h...
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Better than Christmas Aside from our wedding day and the birth of our children, I have never seen Jason this giddy and excited about anything. He has been so excited to get his new boat, I sw...
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Ten I just love this boy. He continues to be such a thoughtful and funny kid. He always makes me laugh with his latest phases. The plant phase will always be my favorite, but I did also lov...
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Fall Bucket List Make homemade donuts Play in the leaves Eat soup in bread bowls Make homemade rootbeer Decorate pumpkins Make a pumpkin recipe Watch Harry Potter and drink butter...
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Birthday Boy, Belmont and Boats There are pros and cons of always having your birthday during Fall break. Cons are you don't get to be at your own home and wake up to breakfast in bed and all...
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Cali Day 2 The first thing the boys wanted to do when we woke up the next morning was hit the pool. With a view like that, I wasn't arguing. It was nice having a slow relaxing morning. After ...
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Fall Break Cali Style It's been a few years since we've been to California and we were itching for some beach days. We also had another reason to go to California, Jason has been on the hunt ...
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The last of El Paso We ended our time in El Paso with a tour of downtown. We picked through the stalls at the market, sampled some Mexican pastries, took in the exhibts at the art museum and ...
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Whitesands I have been dreaming of visiting Whitesands National Monument the moment I saw a photo posted on Intagram. It's funny how that seems to happen a lot these days. It is less than tw...
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5 minutes of Fall Can I just tell you how much I love my sister? Whenever we're together it's nothing but high squeaky energetic voices and face rubs. She is one of my favorite people in the ...
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Tombstone Tombstone has been on my Arizona bucket list for quite some time now. I come from a long ine of cowboy stock, I grew up hearing stories of my great grandpa growing up in the same tow...
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Homecoming These two are such cute friends. It was no surprise that Dylan asked Kylie to homecoming, but what was a surprise was that he gave her two baby chicks when he asked her! He was s...
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19 Years and 3 months We celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary in June. And by 'celebrate', I mean we were both in different states and we both forgot. But there was a romantic mid-afte...
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Bearizona The next morning we headed to Bearizona, a drive through animal park. It was another spot to check off my bucket list and another spot that exceeded my expectations. It was fun driv...
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A family-less family vacation We've reached a new crossroads in our family. A crossroads that makes me sad. A crossroads that involves teenagers that would much rather stay home and hang out w...
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