I found some pictures of my son playing football and wanted to post a few. I think these boys look so cute in there uniforms. Darrian is an x man because he is to big to run the ball (saftey reasons) so he has an x on his helmet.

Best Day Ever :)

Well, I had a Best Day Ever experience. On Saturday me and the hubby packed up the car and took our kids skiing (and snow boarding) up to Brighton. In the last 10 days it has snowed 10 FEET, I had butterflies the entire drive. When we got off the lift and skied over to our first run I just new it was going to be SWEET! The snow was perfect. The kids wanted to take a run on their own so we left them on Snake and headed over to Great Western. We dropped in on Clarks Roost and it was incredible! I can't even explain how awsome it feels going down a 40 degree vertical with the powder brushing over your thighs, its total freedom. When you crash in that good of snow its just like Poof, buried in fluffy white powder. Every time I would get to the bottom of a lift I was covered in snow, I had some crazy crashes. I even took my 2 girls (7 and 9) down double black diamonds. The snow was so forgiving you could be twice as daring. We had so much fun and the mountains were soooo beautiful with all the pines covered in fresh snow. I think I found my Soul Purpose, skiing :)

"In our friendly neighbor city of St. Augustine great flocks of sea gulls are starving amid plenty. Fishing is still good, but the gulls don't know how to fish. For generations they have depended on the shrimp fleet to toss them scraps from the nets. Now the fleet has moved....The shrimpers had created a Welfare State for the ... sea gulls. The big birds never bothered to learn how to fish for themselves and they never taught their children to fish. Instead they led their little ones to the shrimp nets. Now the sea gulls, the fine free birds that almost symbolize liberty itself, are starving to death because they gave in to the 'something for nothing' lure! They sacrificed their independence for a handout...Let's not be gullible gulls. We... must preserve our talents of self-sufficiency, our genius for creating things for ourselves, our sense of thrift and our true love of independence." Reader's Digest

I went with my daughter on her field trip up to Discovery Museum at the Gateway. It was really cool and a lot of fun just to spend one on one time with her. Here are a few pictures I took with my phone. She got to fly a Helicopter and rock climb, (when she got to the top she said it needed to go higher). She even got to be a news anchor for channel 5.

Field Trip

I didn't really think anyone was reading my blog but over the Christmas Holiday there were a few comments on how bad I sucked on updating it. So here is an update. It has been snowing like crazy here and I am loving it. We took the kids sledding and had a blast. We were up in Heber putting a Christmas tree on my Dad's grave and my brother Ryan invited us to go sledding. We got in a little trouble for trespassing but it was worth it. We had so much fun we decided to go again to a local park. I took the sledding pictures with my camera phone so they didn't turn out so well. I'm really glad my kids dive into stuff like that and not just stand at the top and cry about how scary it looks. The baby had a blast and she even went down by herself on the little hill with her dad running right behind her. I can't wait to get her on skis.
We are putting our house up for sale and LaRell is going back to school. He really wants to become a Physical Therapist. I'm excited for him and I hope we can sell our house soon. The kids are all doing really great and seem to be happy if we could just get our baby to sleep at night. I don't think I have had a full nights sleep in over a year. If anyone knows any sleep trick I am pretty desperate and will try almost anything.

I'm reading a great book right now that is called "The Five Laws That Determine All of Life's Outcomes" by Brett Harward. I would recomend it. It has opened my eyes to a lot more possibility.

We took the kids sledding!

My baby is a year old now. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. We had a fun little party and took some really cute pictures. I just think she is the cutest baby ever.

Time

I have learned in this life that you can count on one thing, that is, time changes everything. I have been thinking of my own childhood and how simple it was. The excitement of the first day of kindergarten, or the fun I had roller skating with my friends. The anticipation on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa Clause to come, or smelling freshly baked banana bread coming from the kitchen. I remember as a young girl looking at my mothers hands hoping that some day I would be just like her and that my hands would look just like hers. Now as I look at my own hands they remind me of my mothers. I hope that I can be that kind of mother to my own children. I look at my sweet baby and how much time has changed her since I first held her in my arms. I try to breath in every moment with her, memorizing every detail. With every tick of the clock time is changing the world around me, babies grow up, life turns a corner and the moments and the people of the past are gone. When I run into an old friend I have not seen for years, I always hope they are the same person they were when I left them, but they too have been changed by time. I just hope that I can live in every moment that I have been blessed with. I hope I can enjoy every moment with my children and I hope I can really enjoy all of the doing, and not just the getting it done.

Family Pictures

This is my cute family. We all got together to get pictures and it was freezing cold! I was worried the baby was going to get too cold but LaRell had her tucked away in his coat until picture time. What a good Daddy.

This is what happens when your parents raise 9 children.

I can't believe I live so close to these beautiful mountains and I can go play whenever I want. I'm pretty sure this is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I love it. These pictures are taken right above some killer jumps where I ate it trying to do a 360.

Baby Laina

I think I might just have the cutest baby ever.