Some Family Fun

Just a caution for anyone who is looking, there is an overload of pictures here. We went 4-wheeling at my dads house and I liked a lot of the pictures so enjoy.

Keldon and Zoe on the 4-wheeler. She loved it.

Keldon took Jase and the dirt bike.

This is one of my dads dogs named Perdy. I loved her she is so sweet. And has huge ears.

My sisters boyfriend and Perdy. I just think this picture is cool.

Me and Zoe on the 4-wheeler.

Daddy and Jase.

Zoe and Daddy

I got brave and decided to try the dirt bike. It was scary at first but it's a lot of fun.

I like this picture. Zoes eyes are so pretty.

Jase and Zoe really liked Kitty. She was really good with them too. She would let them pet her and if she started to not like it she would just leave. She never even tried to hurt them.

TCU vs BOISE

TCU vs BOISE

When we went to Cali for Christmas my dad wanted to go to this football game. My cousin is the equipment manager for TCU so he was able to get us all tickets to the game. We were way up front just 14 rows from the very front. We were by all the students to the college and they were having a lot of fun. They even got Jase to give them high five and yelling with them. Zoe even got into it and was hitting the balloons together. It was a great game and TCU won. My dad was a little discouraged because he couldn't see the field because everyone around us was standing the whole time. He like to relax while watching the game and had to watch it one the big screen. About halfway through the game we found my cousins and went to sit up with them. They were a little higher than us and had a lot of empty seats around them. That made my dad happy because he could now see the field while sitting. Enjoy the pictures.

This picture is a little fuzzy but you can see Zoe's face and the huge smile.

Grandpa and Jase. Jase loved being with Grandpa they had so much fun.

Our view standing up from our seats.

Christmas with my dad

CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH DAD

Zoe coming out of our room Christmas morning

Jase and daddy coming out of the room after her.

Zoe opening her toys. She absolutly loved opening presents. She didn't seem to care so much what was inside she just wanted to rip open the paper. I didn't think she would be so into it this year but I was wrong. She does love everything she got, espically that stroller. She even sits in it herself and we push her around.

Grandpa and Grandma got her a big ride on bear. It doesn't move but she sits on it and bounces. Its huge I can even sit on it without breaking it.

This was Jases favorite Christmas gift, a pirate ship. He was so happy when he unwraped it.


CHRISTMAS WITH OUR COUSINS

So it's been 4 years since we've spent christmas with my cousins on my dads side. Jase was 4 months old. So we thought it was about time we went there again. It was a lot of fun. I was really glad to see every one again.

Jase and Huddy had fun boxing. Huddy got some hulk boxing gloves and him and Jase went at it.

This is my step-mom Liz, my dad, my sister Marissa and her boyfriend Erik

A picture from on top of the stairs of most of the people.

Christmas with Mom and the Sparks

Alright, I'm sorry I am very late on these posts. It was a very busy Christmas, even though we were able to relax at my dads. I've not wanted to put the time into uploading pictures, it takes so long on my computer, but I'm finally going to do it. I took a ton of pictures, so I'll only put my favorits. Enjoy.

Gifts from my mom and Gene. They always go overboard, but I love what they give us. Survival stuff. We got a pack, first aid kit, blankets, tent, bags for the kids and survival stuff inside the pack. It was awsome. Thank you.

Zoe also got a puppy from them, she loves it.

Jase got a sword and gun that light up and make sounds. He also loves it.

Christmas with the SPARKS

I was in charge of the nativity scene. It was fun but a challenge. It was little kids, Jase being the oldest at 4, and then older kids in highschool and up. The older kids were great I just told them what they were and didn't worry about anything else for them. But the little kids didn't want to do it. Jase and Scillie were pretty good but the younger ones were not so thrilled. It was a lot of fun though.

Great Grandma Sparks read her story and Jase and Scillie loved it. Grandma even said she thinks this is the first year anyone even listened to her. haha

I was also in charge of getting the little ones to sing a few Christmas songs. They kinda sang but we had everyone sing along with us so it was louder.

Horrible MOM

OK I am a horrible mom, or just horrible at taking memory pictures. I ALWAYS forget to take my camera with me whenever we are doing something memorable. So I'm just going to have to tell you about them because I don't have any pictures. On the second Sunday of every month we get together with Keldons family for birthdays (every month but Sept.). Well this month we also did Christmas. There are 3 families that wont be there for Christmas (including us) so we exchanged Christmas gifts from the kids. Each grandchild draws a name and they get a gift for their cousin. Jase gave to Bri and Zoe to Isabelle. Zoe got a hid-and-seek Care Bear and Jase got a spiderman book and a batman figure. All the grandkids were all in the living room with their parents (22 grandkids by the way). It was so much fun. We also did quilt squares to donate to an organization that puts the quilts together and gives one quilt to each family that has lost a soldier in the war. It was a lot of fun making those squares. And of course I don't have any pictures of them either.

On Monday for family night we decided to bundle up the kids (about 4 layers of cloths each) and took them up to Temple Square to look at the lights. Zoe looked like a big pink marshmallow connected to my side and Jase was bundled up in a blanket in the stroller. The lights were beautiful and they had many different nativity scenes. The most beautiful I thought was the one on the reflection pond. Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus were in the middle floating on the water. They were lit up by spotlights all around them. Their reflection could be seen as well as the Temple. It was so beautiful. The kids loved it. Even though it was very cold they had a lot of fun looking around at all the lights. I wish I could have remembered my camera because the pictures of how Zoe looked would have been great. She would barley move. She hates the cold, you can tell she was born in Florida.

Hopefully I'll be better with pictures and keep my camera on me. Wish me luck. I can't afford to keep missing out on these wonderful photo ops.