Christmas is coming!

It's been a long but yet fast year! I can't believe that next week is Christmas already!! I have finished my christmas shopping early this year and I am so glad I have the time to sit and just look at everything going on around us. We have been so blessed this year and yet have had some really hard times as well. It will be a hard christmas for us all without Grandpa and Grandma but yet it will be a good christmas knowing that it's our Saviour's birth. Christmas is my favorite holiday and I hope everyone else has a very MERRY CHRISTMAS this year!! Here are some pictures that my friend April took for my in laws and I. It was so much and I love how good she does!! As well more pictures to come of my family as well.

More Crafts!!

It's my sister in law's wedding tomorrow. So I decided to make her a little scrapbook that she can put some of her wedding pictures in. It was fun!! I keep saying I am going to make me one each time I do a different one! Here it is.....

Canyons!

Yesterday for family home evening we went up little cottonwood canyon and went on a hike to find a cave. We found one but it wasn't the one that we were hoping for. It was so much fun! I forget how beautiful it is at this time of year and enjoyed looking that the colors of the leaves and just smelling the fresh mountain air. Spencer had a good time until it was the time to hike back down and he kept saying "This is boring!" Here is some pictures from our hike. Yes I know the dates are wrong on my camera. I always forget to change it!

Lots has been going on!!

Last month has been a doozie for our family. We got back from California and were trying to prepare for another vacation to Marysville UT. My grandma got sick three days before so we didn't get the chance to go. On Saturday Sept 5th things turned for the worse and grandma didn't get better. It was around 3 pm that she returned to her sweet heart of 67 years. We miss her and the atsomphere around here is so different now that Grandma and Grandpa aren't here. It's hard to think that they are gone. It seems like they are just on a vacation. It's been two weeks almost since Grandma has been gone and we miss her and love her so much. The funeral was very nice and at the same time it seems like a repeat since we just did it three months ago. So grateful for the gospel and what it teaches us with being with family for all eternity. We love you Grandma and Grandpa!!

Grandpa May 2009

Grandma September 2009

San Diego!!

We had way to much fun in San Diego. We went to Sea World and it was so much fun!! Spencer loved watching Shamu and touching th star fish. If you ask him though this would be his most favorite part of the day which is getting his face painted. He is suppose to be half hulk half human. It was fun watching the process to the final project.

One night we went to Belmont Park and let the kids and kids at heart run wild! It was fun to watch Spencer get excited about the rides this year and see him go on the rides. It's always fun to be close to the beach as well.

Spencer thought it was fun to dig a whole and stick his toys in the sand. The fun part was when he didn't remember where he barried them. So it would be fun trying to find them! He also got used to the water and loved swimming with his life jacket. He thought he was big stuff when he could go in the deep part of the pool.

Fun times at the beach. Bethy and Kyn showing of there smiles!! We had way to much and can't believe it's already been and done as well. We miss you California counsins!!

NeW pRoJeCt!!!!

So my friend asked me to make a rememberance book for her boss and this is how it turned out!!

I think it turned out pretty good! It was so much fun to do and I think I might make one for myself!

4th Of JULY!!!!

My friend Marie that came to visit me from Oregon. She is so much fun and it made the 4th even better!! Thanks for coming!!

My three nieces that are monkies and my spencer monky as well. They were getting mad at me because I kept telling them how to pose.

Spencer and I at Trav's grave with Grandpa's grave behind us as well. It was nice tender moment to watch his great grandkids put an american flag on his grave.

After they put the flag down for grandpa. Auntie with almost all of her grandkids.

This was my cake I made. It was a strawberry blueberry cheesecake.

It was a really nice day. Better then I thought it would turn out since Grandpa wasn't here. We had a nice BBQ and then played some games as well. We played a puzzle game that ended up being a huge flag, bingo, penny game and a water game. It was a eventful day.

At the end of the water game somehow my son got to be king of the hose and wasn't letting anyone near him to get into the house. We had no joke three adults outside that were stuck. I was down the street one way while my brother was getting chase the other way by Spencer. My mother in law wasn't fortunate like us and ended up getting pretty wet since she was standing right behind Spencer before she realised why we were running away from him! I am sure it was a funny sight and man did Spencer have FUN!!! After that it got dark and the night sky's lit up with does of Fireworks! I am so glad to be living in a free country and it always gets me teary eye to hear the Star Spangle Banner. Happy 4th Of JULY!!!!

Another Father's Day Gone!

So I have been thinking about today. On my facebook I wrote something about it being the worse yet to come. It wasn't all that bad. I do miss my Husband more then anything on days like this. I have always hid from the world on Father's day. I hated watching Spencer trying to figure it out at times. Today in church I was very impressed with my son. Since it has been 4 years that I haven't gone to church for Father's Day i was alittle iffy today. So rambling I know...But Spencer got up with the primary during Sacrament and sang "I am so glad when daddy comes home" and I was worried about it. Then he was a CHAMP!! Didn't even phase him like I thought it might. With Grandpa not here anymore I thought that would bother him just a little. Well fine it was bothering me a little so I just assumed. Anyways, I learned from my 4 year old that the world still goes around and things don't have to be the worse just because of what day it is. As Spencer says "Daddy is here on earth mom. We just can't see him because of the viel is in the way but we will see him again!" It amazes me how smart they are and I am so grateful that he is already gripping on the most important thing and that is being with our families through all eternity! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY BABE!! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY GRANDPA!! I love and miss you guys so much!!

A new member of our family!

This is Patrone! He is three years old and is a Sharpei. We found him through ksl.com. He is very good and already trained and is just a well rounded behaved dog. Spencer loves him to death already and is so glad that I let him have a dog. He looks tough but is just a big teddy bear!!

A long last couple of weeks!

As some of you know my grandpa/dad passed away alittle over a week ago almost two weeks. He had gone in the emergency room because he was throwing up blood due to a whole in his eshopgus. As time progressed they took him to xray and while he was down in radiology he aspirated the dye and was put on a breathing tube. It was down hill from here on out. We rode this rollar coaster for two weeks and poor Grandpa was exhausted as well. They had put him on a breathing tube and he wasn't breathing on his own anymore. So as a family and grandma we decided it was best to take him off the ventilator. He then passed away on May 31st 2009. It was a peaceful thing to watch. I am so proud to be known as his granddaughter and his daughter. He was a very good gentle man and I miss him so much. The times we had teasing each other and the long talks we had about anything and everything. I know he is in a better place and Travis is with him and they are having a good time talking about everything. I love you grandpa and I will always remember who I am and where I came from!!! God be with you until we meet again!!!!

Craft Time again!

So I went to this store in the District called Hobby Lobby and it's amazing! It has so much stuff that was half off and way to much stuff that could get me in trouble as well. These letters were there and I have seen my friend do her kids names as well so I thought I would try it out. They turned out fairly good. Spencer thought they were pretty awesome because they get to go up on the wall so everyone will know it's his room.

Grandma and Grandpa!

Grandma and Grandpa Koelliker

I was just sitting her thinking how we have all been blessed to have Grandma and Grandpa in our lives in one way and another. Only time will tell the day that we will not have them here with us physically. Just wanted to take a moment and ponder all the fun times we have all had with each one of them whether being at family reunions or just visiting. Without them here none of us would be here today! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for all you have done and for starting this family of ours!

EASTER PICS ARE IN!!!

We went and did some Easter Pictures today and Spencer was amazingly pretty well behaved! He had his moments and was pretty much done at the end! But these pictures turned out so well! He is growing up way to fast and these pictures make it so realistic!!

Later on tonight Spencer was chewing on some ice in the car. All of a sudden I could hear someone trying to talk and it was Spencer. I look back and his face is going white and turning a little blue and he is gagging! Scared to death I leap back to the backseat and smack his back. The Ice cub them proceeds to fly out and hit the seat in front of him. I had never been so scared in my life! After words it had scared him so bad that he was crying and said he doesn't want to ever it ice again!! So we will see how long that lasts!