Snow on Oct. 5th

It is the beginning of Oct & we made our 1st snow man! WOW!

All ready for ..... Snow. Unbelievable. Don't worry about Rips pink gloves, it is Oct. we are'nt ready for snow. :)

Sep 26th we had Junior Miss state. Our Junior Miss did SOO great! She made the top ten & won talent. She is an amazing piano player, & represented us so well. :)

Holy Cow!!!!

So the Sponenburgs , Brett, & I are sitting at the table enjoying dinner together as we like to do a few times a week, and suddenly we hear. CRASH, BOOM, BANG, & CRASH again.

This is what we found.

My wall of black & leopard drapes are on the ground. Then we see Pyper side stepping away like she had no part in it. Then as I walk in the room Maycee is stuck in the drapes twirled up. Frozen in fear. They were so lucky that the rod didn't hit them .

The culprits watching

I love how handy my husband is. I love that when the drapes fall I don't have to wait for the people to fix it. Brett & Brad jumped right on it :)

Mission accomplished.

The only good part of this experience is how cute my son Ripken is. He was sitting in his high chair still eating and had a perfect view of the accident. He just kept repeating over and over, HOLY COW HOLY COW, Maycee & Pyper & HOLY COW! Even now as I write this post he climbed on my lap and pointed and said it again. He is too cute . I love 2 yrs. old,

HOLY COW!

Rips B-Day

Ripken turned 2 & all of our neighborhood friends came to celebrate

We had to light the candles 3 times during the song, he loves blowing out the candles.

He loves everyone undivided attention

Silly string fight!

Everyone got in on the action

Ripken got a "Bouncy Castle" as he calls it

Rip loves Lightning Mcqueen, especially the one who has his tongue out!

The set up for the mourning, Trista helped me move all the furniture out of the from room so he would se the jumper when he walked out.

We have a HUGE collection of cars, I might be a little obsessed!

Rip had an awesome birthday, with friends & family. The night before his birthday I laid him down and said guess what tomorrow is? He yelled MY BIRTHDAY, I think his sister and brother prepped him but it was so cute. Thanks to all who helped make his B-Day super special.

1st day of school

1st Grade with Mrs. Ricks

Maycee & her cousin Pyper have matching outfits, you have to love hello Kitty

Maycee is such a beautiful and sweet girl. She also lost her 3rd tooth just last night (thanks to a lot of help from Aunt Trista)

Maycees little bros love her so much and have been so sad all day with out her around... Ripken really wants a backpack :)

All our neighborhood friends, the Kennedys, Eriksons, Mcwhorters, & Dixons

1st day of school 1st day of school... welcome back early morning and being a taxi... Get ready for a year of fun!!! Bostin starts pre school in 2 weeks.

Bear Lake

So we had another amazing reunion at Bear Lake! I love it there. My Mom has gone there since she was a little girl and now it has a big spot in my heat as well . We did all the usual, boating, mini golf, playground, video scavenger hunt, Jeopardy, dingelballs, corn hole, tennis, wacky 6, story time, diving off the diving board, & croquette .

Rip looking all studly

Speedo Day need I say more ;)

Me getting some air :)

Story time with nani, every night mom and dad would tell the kids stories from their youth the kids loved it

Grandpa and Ripken are best buds

Mini golf... It is the same course as when I was growing up. Needless to say I got 2.. hole in ones

Pickelville play house on mine and Bretts 9 yr. anniversary. It was a hot night...

Me and Jaymie... We were so happy her and Mark could come for some of the week

The kids and Nani found a butterfly while us big kids were playing tennis, Brett and I won... !

Ow the Mt.Dew that was consumed all week.

I think Bear Lake is my Fav. week of the summer. I love all the fun family memories we are making. Thanks Mom & Dad we love it!

Kesler Reunion 2009

In Early July we had another fun & kid filled Kesler family reunion . It is so pretty in island park I can see why they all love it there.

Every mourning it is foggy because it is so freaking cold there even the water is warmer than the air. When the boys take their early mourning ski run.

I know Hot right ;) It is so similar to how I really look .LOL

Every one in the family is in charge of an activity. Cameron and Camille did a luau

Bostin is such a joy these days

As you can tell I only had camera battery for one day so the rest is to be continued. But after a week, 18 grand kids 6 & under, and 15 adults we made it and it was fabulous!!

4th of July

The 4th of July was a little more low key this year for us. The day before we went boating with our friends from our neighborhood then meet up at the parade.

Maycee & her friend Morgan

Ripken & our neighbors. He loved the parade. He put as much candy in his mouth as he could fit. He was so cute running in the street in to on coming floats :)

Hurry for the candy!

The kids sitting on top of the car to watch the stadium of fire. We dove to provo because Bretts Brother Cameron was blessing his baby Jillian the next day. (she is so cute) . So we stopped at the side of the road on our way to a hotel and watched the show.. I know high class seats;)