Formidable Super Warriors

I loved watching Benji and Nieghboor friend Anson play formidable super worriors together. I just had to get a few shots of them playing.

Did I ever tell you how great a family I have?

Nanna Snugs-Grandparents Day in Kindergarten

Grandparents hug...All grandkids together!

Surprise Cortnie Happy Birthday!

Best friend cousins Ryelle and Benji

Fishing with Poppy

Hiking with the fam

Zion National Park Angels Landing Angela, Charitie Dan & Benji What an incredible hike!

Home made apple sauce for my homemade bread, with apples hand picked with Nanna & my sisters for family night!

Lots of pool time! i think this pic is hilarious!

Out door games with Dad and Benji

Going to Relief Society Conference in the Conference Center with my Sisters Cortnie & Chelsie and good friend Kristen.

Alpine Slides with the fam Benji is hitching a ride up.

Mini golf with the fam...Aunt Brisa, Uncle Robbie, Angela, Poppy, Dan and Benji,

Come on join us for some snuggle time and movie watching!

Benji's "hockey mini golf"

Poppa Lucki and Benji at discovery land.

100 and counting Family reunion!

Rock climbing with any one who wanted to try...cousins, aunts, grandparents and all!

Family out door games

Easter Celebrations
at our Utah cousins home.

Birthday party for cousin Ryelle at our house. I enjoy making birthday cakes Ryelle had a go fish party this year. She had her own mini cake too.

Dinner time with Angela's family.Thanksgiving

Hanging with my Bro's families. Game time.

Celebrating Grammy and Poppy's home coming from their mission presidency in Peru!

One big happy family in the back yard of Dans parents house.

It came to my attention that I have fallen behind on my blogging. I have been trying to catch up with some of the fun stuff we did in 2009.I have been slipping in back posts here and there...But... we had so many good times its taking a long time! I wanted to share some of the best family times we shared here as I continue to slip in the full updates as I go. So this post is a teaser of some of the great times we have had with our family in 2009.

Twister

As a family we love to play games one new game played in our home this year was

Twister. Its pretty funny to watch Benji to try and reach the colored dots. We played it for family night one Monday per Benjamin's request.

Once there was a Snow Man...In April!!!

Once there was a Snow Man, a snow man, a snow man....Tall Tall Tall!!!

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose And two eyes made out of coal....

Can you believe we had a beautiful snow man the first Saturday in April?

Well, WELCOME SPRING!!! Well even though I want to be out planting my pansies with Benji like we usually have by now, I was pleasantly surprised to find fine "snowman snow" (the pack-able kind) falling outside our windows early this morning! We have missed our snowman chances all winter. Benji and I were very bugged. Weather it was that dry powder snow or we were on the go the few times we had the nice "snowman snow" we had missed our chances this winter. Benji was so excited to see so much snow and ecstatic when I told him we had "snowman snow". Dad was a little less enthusiastic at first as it meant Benji was bouncing all over him while Dad was trying to get his "Saturday sleep in time". Well we made it out to construct the most beautiful snowman on the block just in the nick of time because only 2 hours had past after our snowman's birthday when there was no more snow on the block at all (except for our Frosty himself) and his head fell off...

Well in conmemoration of our Frosty (yes we were all singin that song all day) we had hot coco and cinaman rolls and a fire going as we watched General Confrence Saturday Session...

Sweet family memories!

Watch for our March Madness More posts to come!

More Summer Memories

Who's this cutie you ask...This little bright eyes is one of the latest additions to our family...My sister Chelsie and her baby Ryelle moved in with us the Aug 19th. We are thrilled to have some of my family here in Utah. Yes WE even Dan, he is the one who suggested Chelsie come live with us. And we have had many fun times together sense.

SO this is Benjis favorite chair...the first two weeks here Ryelle was really interested in it and would come up to Benji while he was sitting in it and make her way in it, Benji would just sort of get out of her way...Very polite like...Chelsie & Dan would affectionaly call her a bully. (not the best choise of words in hind site and we have sence stopped saying that) Then he fought back and we are trying to teach him to share and how babies really dont understand sharing. Its been fun to say the least for 2 first born kids to come together and struggle to share.
As you can tell they really do love eachother and do share well at times too!! We spent as much time as we could in the pool. Both Benji and Ryelle are little water babies-well I guess benji is a water big boy and Ryelle is the water baby. He would swim pulling her in the water behind him. Great times.

We went on a carriage ride at farm country together and visited all the animals.
We tried to get Benji to ride the pony-he said he wanted to but the ride ended early in tears.Received a package from Grammie and Poppy a small Peruvian bag perfect for holding chalk for his chalk board. And as always the candy nestled inside was a huge hit.

Im usually surprised when I upload our pics to find that Benji stole the camera a few times, actually every chance he gets he takes pictures...some of them are not that bad, heres one of his favorite subject, his best friend Nelly. Recently he discovered the zoom feature.

Two first born only child's lives collid- Benji is learning the wonders of having a sibling-sort of

They have some great moments together. Here they are playing the classic laundry

basket-boats. I love this memory, pirates, row row your boat or watch out for the crocodiles (mommy), the options are endless and the giggles are many.

We had a great day at the Dino museum. Our friends from our old neighborhood came up for 2 dollar Tuesday at to play at the park. What a blast. So nice to see our great friends, above Elizabeth and kari playing with Benji in the Dinosaur museum below Benji lines up all the Dino's and Ryelle soon makes a king Kong swipe (Im sure her attempt to play with Her friend) and knocks them all down greatly upsetting the Dino master Benji.
Ryelle loves other children and latches on to Baby Mathew my good friend Diana's second baby, Sammy's brother.

Amazingly huge!

Benji and Sammy pairing off discovering together. Zoi and Benji posing under the monstrous Dinosaur Skeleton.

After the Great Thanksgiving Point Adventure all the friends met over at our house for a BBQ. Even the Spouses came. It was so nice to have so many of our friends up to visit in our new home. I was really frustrated with this move because we had made such nice friends and we really had a good group to get the kids together with. I was worried the move would be to great a distance, as it had been with some other recent great friends moving. Sarah, Omel,Ethen, Asher, Oliver and Jessica,Laurence, Neal and Paul. This had been very hard on Benji and Me and note those great friends who moved were also about his only friends that were boys. That brings me to the object of the childrens play by the end of the night they each collected some toy of Benjis and morphed them into hair styling products.

But hey

if Dans Manly enough to have his hair and nails done by cute little girls then Benjamin is too.

Dan and I got out for a night of laughs with brian regan at the outdoor theater.

Benji became better friends with my mission comps son Benji. Yep same name two cute little guys.
Story time with Daddy Dan aka uncle Dan.

Two supper heros. Two good friends. Sammy and Benji
The Best Daddy Ever!!! I love my two boys.