Christmas Day 2009

The Front Living Room tree ..

This year santa put everything in one box for each kid.

even the stockings are in there too !

Baby found her stocking ....

Sarah and her enormous box...

Bryan & Alan and their boxes...

All of them trying to figure out why everything was

in one big box.....

This year I decided to put everything in one big box for each of the kids ... that way there was mystery to what they got ... It was kinda like the " mystery boxes" on Farmville (facebook).

This year their lists were alot shorter than they have been in the past.. which was GREAT ! They all asked for games for the playstation 3 and some for the PSP and DS... Everyone was pretty excited that they got what they asked for and some little extras...

It was a weird year for me at Christmas.. I got Pneumonia so, it slowed me down alot. I managed to put the lights on the house (before I got sick) but I didn't get the reindeers and the sleigh out or any lights for the bushes and flowerbeds.. I did however bake cookies cause it just wouldn't be christmas without the iced sugar cookies , chocolate crackles and peanut butter ones !

Thanksgiving at our house ...

Babies tire you out ! Aunt Lisa & Abigail

This year we had Thanksgiving at our place. We had the family over , we got to eat lots of turkey and ham and we all played with the new baby ! We had Mom & Dad Ringel , Lisa and Morgan , and Brady & Cassie with cute Abigail... later Steph & Dustin came over with the boys and we had Kringel's and LOTS of pies ! we played Farkel and we also played Pirates of the Caribean Life... It was alot of fun !

I Love this picture !

This is Travis holding his daughter Tylee. . They were both really sleepy ! This is the best thing to be doing when you go camping !

Hunting for Minnows with the little ones.. .

Logan and Avery looking for minnows. .

Avery hoping to catch some . . .

Logan with the minnow collection .

He's so excited we caught some !

This is Mr. logan's fishy ..

This one is Avery's...

Getting ready to go put them back.

That was alot of fun looking for minnows with Logan and Avery. That was the only fish that Lisa and I could catch ! We were so proud !! we caught them with no bait, no pole and with our bare hands !! we so rock !

Logan wanted us to put them back so they could eat lunch . He thought that it was so cool that we caught them in the river. He's so cute ! I love is tiny feet ! Logan was worried that the water was too deep and not Logan deep. We walked up the river and he would ask " is this Logan deep ?" .. If it was really shallow I'd tell him yes and he'd get all excited ! Avery was really good at spotting them in the water ! she helped me catch her fishy . We went out to the river quite a few times to catch the minnows !

Playing in the River . .

Tylee looking for rocks . . .

Tylee and her momma walking in the river...

Mr. Logan and Mr. Matt in river on the log . . .

Logan and Avery looking for minnows . . . .

Miss Hallee in the river. . .

There's " B" (Braxton) in the river with Gizzy . . .

It was a pretty hot day so we all decided to go stick our "feets" in the river ! The water was cold and it felt soooo good on our feet ! It's not the deepest water so, you couldn't swim in it but it was enough to cool off in. Tylee liked the rocks and she thought they tasted good ! Gizzy was not too fond of the water so Braxton carried him a bit. Hallee went up and down the river .. Logan and Avery went looking for minnows with their minnow cups . .

Been along time ,,,

It's been along time since I have updated this thing ! There is so much to catch up on ... But I'll start ahead ... We went on a camping trip to North Fork, Ut . It's really beautiful there ! We went with Brett's family . Brett and I drove up with Kay and Lisa and they brought Avery (cousin Arron's daughter) . We got there on Thursday night and then , dad came up on friday afternoon. Travis & Venessa brought their kiddos and then Steph and Dustin brought the boys on Friday. Brady and his new wife Cassie came up on Friday night too. We put up all the tents and roasted hot dogs !

Under Construction ! !

Sorry !

We are under construction ... I will download some stuff on here in the next few days ! We have been really busy !
I finally finished all my vinyl in the house (for now) and I am working on mudding the walls in the boys' rooms . I have a ceiling fan to put up in Sarah's room and I am trying to put the shelf thing in Alan's closet. I'm still waiting to hear from the neighbors in back of us so, I can get my fence !
We have soooo many things coming up this month and next month ! There will be LOTS of pictures ! Bryan made the National Honors Society in school this week. His ceramony was on Tuesday night. Really proud of that guy !
Miss Morgan our neice is graduating on the 26th this month and Then she is turning 18 on the 30th ! SHe is making me old !

We are going to take the family on a trip to Las Vegas to see Uncle Neal and Aunt Kathy & Geoffrey too !! I'm really excited about that since I haven't seen them in 13 years ! Time really flies !!

Next Month Brady is getting married (June 20th) and on The 27th of June we are going to take the kids to Wyoming for their trip to Grandma & Grandpa's for the summer.

so many things !!! I am going to try to get the boy's rooms all painted and the bathroom done by the time they come back ! I hope to have it all done ! I also have to paint miss Sarah's room since she is kinda tired of the Hot pink and Bright green in her room... It's Scary !!

well, hopefully I can download some stuff for you to see soon !

I Love Vinyl ! !

This one is still under construction .. hee hee

Front Living room

I love this one ! it's my favorite !

This one is for Sarah .....

I love my cricut machine and the woman who thought of using vinyl for the machine is a genius ! When we moved in we had some vinyl sayings on some of the walls and we have changed a few.. I Still have to come up with a crafty one for the family room .. The one above the cabinets in the kitchen is still in debate .... it's going to be either .. Sometimes I actually cook ... or Sometimes this kitchen is clean ... hee hee ..

I love messing with the walls ! it's fun and if I change my mind I can peel it off and do something else ! Brett makes me laugh because it takes him days to notice anything ! it took him a week before he noticed the SOMETIMES in the kitchen ! he said it should say " sometimes I like my wife ! " ha ! ha ! sooooo funny .... anyway , Sarah and I are going to paint her room and then we are going to cut out some tinkerbell stuff with our machine and our tinkerbell cartridge that I got for Christmas . I bought the cursive cartridge and it's really pretty but hard to line up the lettering .. I just like looking at what I cut out... I have lots of things that I cut out with paper and I have no idea what I will use them for.

Spring Time is finally here !

Sarah in the Front yard

these white flowers are ???

Our front yard tree and stuff ..

Spring flowers and Brett's bunny

More flowers ....

Spring has sprung ! We have had too much snow and now we are finally getting some warm weather and the flowers and grass are growing good ! The front yard is looking very colorful and the grass is really green ! I have no weeds !!! whoo hooo !!! I mowed the lawn on saturday and it is a very juicy lawn ! I stained the concrete green .. It looks great ! I am trying to do some stuff in the back yard but is very hard when your neighbors dog is in your yard barking at you ! I have tried 3 times to go back there and mow but this is proving to be really hard to do. I need my tax money to get here so , I can have my fence !!!! I NEED MY FENCE !!!

So, when I do have a fence ... I am going to pull all the bark out of the flower bed and replace it with some better stuff ! I have alot of things that are still not in bloom .. I am excited to see what they are ! I found some pretty pink Hyciniths and some really big white tulips growing under my bushes in the back . I have lots of ideas !!! I am going to plant some tomatoes and zucchini's and some more cilantro again .. I want to make some salsa and some ketchup ! I am going to learn how to can stuff !

Some of the house looks normal . .

So now the house is starting to look more normal. Well, at least these 2 rooms !! hee hee .. I have been working on the garage and the family room. I am trying to move things to the storage room also. We have already put the sockets and new lights in the boys' rooms and we bought a HUGE bucket (62 lbs.) of drywall mudd so we can start mudding their walls so we can paint. So far Alan has decided that he wants his whole room to be green THIS COLOR GREEN ! We are trying to convince him or at least come up with a compromise because that is nuts ! Bryan hasn't picked any colors yet we need to take him out more and let him look at samples.

It's so crazy trying to move stuff around ! I still have to get all those flowers planted in the yard ! I'm kinda scared of my neighbors ... I need to plant stuff in the front corner by the street and I even thought about planting them in the dark. The little dudes next door seem to have been leaving my jeep alone now. but they leave their basketballs and candy wrappers in my front yard.. welp, I gotta go for now I have to help find cables !

pictures of the yard !

Winter time always makes lawns look sooo crapy ! I forgot to take pictures of the trees that are at the front and the ones that are along the back of the yard ! I will put those on next along with the ones that we are still taking of the house in it's "put together" state ! so far I have the living room done and 1/2 of the kitchen ! I did find all the pieces to the scrapbook desk so I put it together tonight . I have to find my fabric box and my sewing box so I can start on the curtains that I want to put in the scrapbook / office room . I'm also going to make a new cover for the window seat . It's so exciting having a new house ! There is so many things that I want to do but I am only human !! I am hoping to get my plants into the yard hopefully on friday or saturday after I get home from work !