Happiest Place on Earth

We got back from our Disney vacation with the Mitchell family late Sunday night. We had so much fun and are exhausted! It was priceless to watch the kids faces as they saw all that Disney has to offer. Savannah loved seeing all the princesses.

Samuel rode on all the big rides and loved them! He went on "Screamin" a few times which made most of the little rides a big disappointment...or as Samuel would say "boring" He did get to dance in the High school musical parade, which was a hoot!

Splash Mountain is always my favorite and one of the only rides that doesn't make me motion sick. Savannah loved Splash mountain and mini mouses house. Kaitlen loved all the parades and music, she was so good I was worried that she would have a hard time but she was a champ!

We loved the food!! Samuel was always up for a churro and we got a delicious funnel cake by the "bugs life world". :)

Great Grandma and Grandpa Epperson went with us and did awesome walking all over the park. Here is Savannah Beth and Granna Beth in Tarzan's Tree house.

Champions!!

Anthony has helped coach the Rich Rebels Girls Basketball team for the last four years and every February we spend a week at the State Tournament. The team works all year with the hopes of winning the state title. Last year was a heart breaking year, we were the team to beat and lost in the final game by 1 point. This year we were once again the team to beat and everyone new we could do it. For those of you who have never lived in small community you may not understand the amount of pride and support that our team has. High school sports is what we do here, it is everyones "night out on the town" If we want to go do somthing fun we go to a high school game; football, basketball, whatever is going on. The tournament is 4.5 hours away and yet we always have hundreds of fans who travel to support the team. Are fans are easy to spot everyone from 2 year olds to 70 year olds wear bright blue shirts sporting there "Rebel pride" We all know each other and look out for each other. It is pretty awesome! Anyway the team played so well together and they won!! The girls that are seniors are the girls Anthony started with as Freshman so he has been with them from the beinging. We have won 14 of the last 16 state Volleyball titles but this is the first ever state basketball title boys or girls for Rich High so it was a pretty exciting night!

The kids were little troopers at the tournement. They are just taking it easy in Kaitlens stroller. Sometimes it gets long watching game after game but they did so good.

There favorite part was all the swimming they got to do at the Hotel. We are all glad to be home for a few days before we head to Disneyland on Tuesday.

Heat Wave!!!

Yesterday was so gorgeous it got up to 20 degrees (positive :)) and we all felt like it was a heat wave. Anthony chipped some of the ice off of our drive way and built a snow fort for the kids in the front yard. Me and the kids had so much fun playing in it during the sunny afternoon.

Snowbird

Last weekend we went to Snowbird for the night. I have been going up there since I was a little girl but havn't gone the last few years because it seemed like to much of a hastle considering we have to drive 2 hours down canyons and turn around and go back up another canyon so that coupled with having babies and being pregnant we just havn't made the journey. This year I decided to forget about the hastle of it all and just go do it. We had such a great time, I'd forgotten how much I love it up there it brought back so many fun memories with my grandma and grandpa stewart. My kids loved swimming in the outdoor swimming pool while it is snowing and loved playing in the arcade. So I have to say thanks to my brother for keeping it in the family we hope to continue going for years to come!!

FREEDOM!!

Just one week shy of 10 months Kaitlen has learned to crawl. It has been so fun to watch her the last week and how happy she is with her new found freedom. She crawls down the hallway and pauses at each door and looks in it is almost like she is thinking "anything good to play with in there?" So far her favorite room in the house is Samuel and Savannahs....they are learning to keep there door shut otherwise Kaitlen tears all the books off of their shelf and they usually are the ones who get stuck putting them back. :) I wish I had a picture to post of her crawling but I haven't been able to find my battery charger since we got home from Christmas......I'm hoping it just got left at my moms.

Routine

After 1 day of unpacking/organizing, 2 days of laundry, and a day at the grocery store I am hoping that by Monday we have recuperated from our 1 1/2 week vacation with family and can get back into a routine. Samuel & Savannah are in shock, no more grandmas candy, present opening has ended, no late nights playing with cousins, no grandparents to bail them out of discipline, basically they are in kid prison.....stuck with there mom 24 hours a day!! We are surviving though and hope to be back to normal soon.
Kaitlen however couldn't be happier she has her mom all to herself again, no more running around. Life is good as a baby in "kid prison"

Christmas Vacation

Like many of you we also had a great Christmas we always come home in awe at how generous our families are to us. The 9 day break was filled with many events from snowmobiling, sleding, movies, shopping, and late night game nights. It was so much fun! Santa found the kids at Anthonys parents house, they were so happy that santa remember what they wanted.