Wow!! It's been awhile. Ready for this one? It's a dooozy..

I realized today that I haven't posted since August, so I'm updating all at once. In no particular order. I wish I had pictures for all the great times we've had from August until now, but I've been a little lax with my picture taking. I'm glad I at least have these pictures. 

Got to go shooting the day after New Years. Got to roast some hot dogs, shoot some guns, and visit around the campfire. It was a lot of fun.

Uncle Dave, Aunt Cindy, and Melissa joined us this year. We really enjoyed their company.

Showed Melissa how to shoot my 4-10. It's such a great little gun.

Ron was nominated the pigeon thrower. He's just so good at it.

Camrie's 5th birthday!

Camping up Ophir canyon, going for a jeep & four wheeler ride to look for deer.

Camrie left Grandpa with the flowers. haha.. cracked me up. Had to take a picture.

The girls had a lot of fun. Jamie loves shooting her bow and arrows.

Yay for family pictures!!

Colby, Hunter, Jamie, Julie, Camrie, Ron, Nancy, Logan, JaNae, Kiptyn, Zach, Lilly, Abby.

Nancy's family. John, Nancy, Chipper, Afton, Bob (Jimmy)

Barbara & Rust. Colby's cousin Barbara had a beautiful wedding and let us take a ton of family pictures, it was great.

Busy body

Thanks Aunt Cindy for taking so many pictures

Had a blast with this game. Don't know the name of it, but it was so fun.

My Dad dressed up like Grandpa and started going through the junk just like my Grandpa would have. lol. I thought he was going crazy, but it made a couple people teary eyed. It was sweet.

The kiddo's couldn't get enough of the big rocks at the Fail reunion

The kids got bored, so they decorated cups, put flowers in them, then sold them. It was pretty funny. They made some good money.

Aunt Molly made Colby and Me be in the little skit she had planned. I tried to get Colby as messy as possible. It was fun.

We fell over and couldn't get up. I was laughing so hard.

Movie night with popcorn and all at Uncle Earle and Aunt Betty's trailer. Love it.

Jamie is getting so big. First day of school. Seven years old.

Hunter was so mad he couldn't go. Couple more years kiddo.

Cam's first day of school. She was so excited. Last year of pre-school. Five years old.

Camrie is decorating her name tag at school.

Carving pumpkins at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

The girls wanted to taste the pumpkin seeds baked just like in their book, so Grandma toasted them up and added some yummy flavors.

This was our yummy Halloween breakfast. The girls laughed when they saw them. The pancakes are orange.

Mermaid, Spider girl, and Spider man.

They got to go to Grandma and Grandpa's ward party.

My little man turned two. So sad, he's growing up WAY to fast.

Everyone came out for dinner to wish Hunter a Happy Birthday! Thanks!

Jamie's science project from school that didn't goes as planned, but was pretty fun anyway.

We had SO many praying mantises this year. We found out that you shouldn't put them all together in a bucket. They don't like it, or each other very much.

Pile on Daddy

Fun at the Farm. Jamie will ride any way she can, even bareback.

Hunters trying to be a big helper.

Oh Christmas Tree.

Can't take him anywhere.

Jamie with Santa at the Fail Christmas Party, she asked for a king cobra stuffed animal snake, and she got it.

Hunter with Santa. He loved it.

Hunter was so cute when Santa was coming out, he waited so quietly for Santa to call his name.

Camrie with Santa. She asked for a Lalaloopsy doll and got it.

Hunter tried to put on his own tie. What a stud.

Camrie did such a good job at her Christmas program, she knew all the songs.

I told Hunter he needed to get his bum changed and he laid down head first, so I put it on his head, and he let me. It was so funny, he was jumping around and laughing. He made us laugh pretty good.

Here Comes Suzy Snowflake.

Daddy needed Hunter so that he could get on Santa's lap. Must have had something really special to ask Santa for.

Jamie, Hunter, and Cam with Santa at Camrie's preschool.

I got to build the grahm cracker house and Camrie got to decorate it. So much fun.

Just chill'n in the gym.

Whenever the kids see me going downstairs they run to get into workout clothes and they create they're own little workouts. It's cute.

Thanksgiving dinner at Zach and Nae's.

Say cheese!

The girls painting the homemade ornaments for everyone for Christmas. It was so much fun I think we'll have to do it again soon.

Finished product.

Christmas morning. Merry Christmas.

Family pictures, The Zoo

Haven't been able to get family pictures in a long time. Thanks Barbara for letting us take them on your special day. Love ya! 
 

Jamie 7, Hunter almost 2, Camrie almost 5

 

 Give your brother a kiss.

The girls discovered they DO like make up. 

 This was our only summer trip to the zoo.  We had a lot of fun. We got to go with the whole Holmes family. The kids loved the dinosaurs because it was the Zoorassic park this year. We also got to ride on the Carousel, and the train.  Good times.

 Jamie, Abbie, Hunter, Camrie, Lilly, Logan. Just missing Kiptyn.

 Abbie, Jamie, Logan, Camrie, Lilly. Look at all those girls.

Always say I love you

I really need to post some recent pictures, but I haven't downloaded them from my camera yet. So today I'm just writing.

Today we went to the pool in Erda/Grantsville, Desert Peak Complex, for my girls softball pool party and while I was walking around the water holding Hunters hand I saw a little boy about four feet away from us and about 2 years old that I thought was playing in the water and I thought to myself "when is he going to come up for air", then I realized he was stuck face down, and just as I realized that the lifeguard came crashing by and snagged him up out of the water. He came up with wide eyes gasping for air.  I grabbed my heart and realized what could have just happened right in front of my eyes.  I told the lifeguard over and over "good job, good job, oh my gosh good job", and she handed the little boy to his mother and grabbed her heart, looked at me and said, "so scary". It's 4:00 in the morning, I've been rolling back and forth since about 1:00 and I have SO many things going through my head.  What if I had to save that little boy?  Hunter was about chest high in the water and I wouldn't want to leave him, but this child is someone's little boy. I'm sure I'd try to take Hunter with me, but then I think these ugly ugly thoughts. Could I sacrifice my child so that someone else could have theirs?  It makes me cry just thinking about it, because I don't think I could. My biggest biggest fear is losing another person that I love.  I could try to save him, and I could scream for help, but I couldn't leave Hunter alone. I remember a story about a man that had his daughter and his daughters friend and they crashed and the car went under water and he had to grab one and come up for air and he chose to get his daughters friend. What a choice to make.  Makes me tearing thinking about it. I just hope and pray that I'll never be in that type of situation. I am so so thankful for that life guard today for doing her job.  I haven't been able to shake the image of the little boy face down right in front of Hunter and me.  I hate all the thoughts that come with it.  It also makes me think of the scriptures. I can't quote names, but a man that tried hard to have children finally had one boy and Heavenly Father asked the man to show his faith by sacrificing his own son.  The man that loved his son so much and knew he couldn't have any more children put his son on an alter and was going to kill him. Just as he was about to an angel appeared and told him he had proven himself and he didn't have to kill his only son. What faith he had. I feel like my faith is pretty strong, but I don't think I could ever sacrifice one of my children.   

Love what you have while you have it. Show them how much you care.  Don't go one day without saying I love you!