Snow Day & ect...

Sami and Lily playing in the snow,

I love Trevor's devilish look in the background ready to get them.

Brock and Trevor were out for hours.


The classic snow angel!

My house covered in snow!!!!

Trevor at FIRST thing in the morning!

Trevor at 11:30 PM the night before.

Sami and Quincy at gymnastics!
They are doing so good, I am so proud of them!

Sami on the bars!

Sami and Madison at there little dance recital.

Sami's cute little dance group that the fanstastic Mckenzie and Jancyn teach!

Trent has lived in St. George his whole entire life and he swears he has only seen it snow like this 2 others times in 34 years. We are so lucky! My kids had such a blast! I took Trevor to Forgotten Carols on Wenesday night and we came out and it was snowing hard. We got home and tons of the neighborhood kids were out playing still at 10:30. The word got out the school was cancelled. So we thought what the heck, Trev have fun! He stayed out until about midnight. Than of course they all played most of the nexy day! How fun we get a little taste of snow for a few days than it melts and we get back to the St. George winters we all love.

Sunday Afternoon's!

My Trevor the avid reader!

Cortney and cute baby Jack!

My mom with my sister Pam's baby Nathan.

I saw Justin kissing Santa Clause!

Zac, Easton and Sami's Kung Fo Panda moves!




Zac and Trevor will always be Best Buds!





Hangin out on a Sunday afternoon!


You never knew when you were young and you thought your family was boring or not cool that your favorite thing to do as an adult would be to just hang out and be silly with them on a Sunday afternoon.

My handsome baby!

Trev is getting so old.


Justin and his buddy!

Yikes! That was our best picture that day!

Sami with her mouth of missing teeth!

What a crazy day! I don't know how other people get a good family picture with 3 young kids. I know they do, I have seen a lot of them. At least we didn't spend money on them. I just wanted to get something half way decent for our Christmas card. So, I will just be content for now. I love my oldest son but he was the hardest one. Sami was an angel, and Justin was a 2 year old. Taking individual pictures are fine its just the whole family ones that are hard.

On a nicer note we are excited about Thanksgiving and we hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving weekend with there families.

Soccer is Over!! & Reflections!!

Sami proud of her medals!

Trevor and Sami posing happy!

Sami, Quincy and Janey on there rainy soccer day!

Trevor with a VERY supportive grandma and grandpa on the rainy soccer day!

Soccer is OVER! Don't get me wrong, I loved it for the fun and the exercise for Trev and Sami but I won't miss 3- 4 hours of my Saturday mornings gone. They both had so much fun and had great coaches. They both had friends on there teams and except the crazy rainy day that AYSO decided to not cancel all the other games were beautiful outside. Justin really liked being there running around too.

Reflections were about 2 weeks ago so, of course I am just getting to it. That had been my timing lately. Sami and Trevor both did Visual Arts and than Sami also did Dance Choreography. Trevor didn't place but was a GREAT sports about it which I was nervous about. I was so proud of him still being happy for his sister. I was more happy than if he would have placed. Trevor of course thought I was nuts telling him that but he will get it later. Sami got 1st in Dance and 2nd in Visual Arts. We knew only 3 people did Dance so she was excepting winning something in that but a bunch of kids did Visual Arts so that was surprising. I already had gave her the talk about being a good sport because nobody places in 2 categories, than they called her name it was kinda funny. Sami did work really hard and took it really serious. We are proud of her.

Halloween

Trent and the boys get to hand out the candy!

Sadly this was Justin's costume he wouldn't wear the Hulk one I had for him!
We threw on a black cape and called it good!

My little super Hero!


Sami loves to show off her flexibility!

Spongebob Trevor Pants!

We had a fun Halloween with all our family and friends. Trevor went Trick Or Treating by himself with his friends for the first time. I was a little nervous but he had a blast. Sami didn't understand why she couldn't, but the great thing about Desert Hills is within minutes of going around the neighborhood we ran into her friends. Justin went to two houses and told us he was done, he much preferred handing out the candy! Hey, whatever makes it easy!

A quick look at the last 2 weeks!

Sami lost her two front teeth!

The 3rd grade had a writing display of their work!

This is what Justin thought of being in Trevor's class room!

I am sure Mrs Rick's appreciated us! =]

My Mother-in-Law making everything a little more special for our dinner after General Conference yesterday!

I thought the center piece for dinner was so pretty!

I was more then happy to take the picture, because it was a PJ day for me!

I enjoyed General Conference so much!

We have a had a busy two weeks with nothing special going on. Just like all of you, we go from morning to night without a break. I love my kids and husband so much. This year seems to have doubled on how busy we are from 3:30 up until we crash at night. Trent has totally stepped up to the plate and helps me with everything so much! With all our dance, gymnastics, tennis, soccer, piano lessons, and Scouts, not to mention the kids homework we stay extra busy. I used to be able to handle it on my own, but then I started coaching gymnastics Tuesday night and I now have a calling in Young Womens. I love both, but I needed HELP! Trent has been my knight in shining armor! Thanks hun, your the best!

Grandparent Day and My Little Rocker!

My Mother-in-Law Norma went to Sami class for Grandparent day!

We love you Ms. Gardner

Sami and her grandma.

Justin rocking out like he was raised on MTV.

Sami drumming away!

Trent on vocals is a real treat!

OK! The funnest thing we have done in awhile was play rock band. It's awesome because the whole family can do it together and just throw caution to the wind and rock out. My kids were totally digging it. Trevor at 8 years old is amazing on guitar. Justin was so funny singing. I have no idea were he learned to move like that but he was sooooooo in to it. If you havent't tried it I really think you should give it a try!

Kisten's 30th Birthday!!

Kisten, me Sarah, Casey and Mandi took her to dinner on her B-day!

Me and Kisten has been friends since we were 17 years old!

Kisten getting a little wild and crazy on her Birthday.

(They are Salt and Pepper shakers, I won't start rumors)

My Favorite Friend Kisten turned 30! Kisten is the funnest person ever. She is so upbeat and always in a good mood. She has great kids that my kids love to hang out with. She would do anything to help a friend out! I hope you had a fabulous Birthday Kisten. I love ya!

Kickin' Kids!

Sami looks so cute in the pink and black outfit!

Not to shocking the outfit is too big!
Trevor warming up!
Trev has his friend Brooks on his team and his dad Justin Downey as a coach!
The cutest soccer fan out their!

Soccer has began!! The kids are having a lot of fun playing soccer. I love that they are out running around getting excercise staying active. We aren't future Beckham's here or anything but they have a lot of fun! The outfit's are so dang cute too!

Daddy/Daughter Overnighter

Sami learned to pitch a tent!

My little tree climber!

Sami caught her first fish!

MMMMM! Smores!

Trent took Sami on a quick overnight camping trip. They had a lot of fun! Sami went fishing, made smores and her favorite thing ever CLIMBED TREES. I love Trent for wanting to spend one on one time with his kids. He is such a good dad!