ABOUT CARLEE

This is my play Midsummer nights dream and these are some of my best friends Christien,in the purple,Jericha with the green dress,Hailey is in the pink dress.I was a fairy,Christien was the queen fairy,Jericha was Hippolita queen of the forest,and Hailey was a narrator.I had alot of fun but the one thing that scared me the most was singing I was so scared.

I only have a couple of months of school and then i will start middle school at Elk Ridge Middle School.I already sind up for class that was hard to choose from there were so many.I'm kind of nervous but it will be fun.

Today we went to nannas house for Dresdens birthday. You can see the girls had fun eating and drinking.

I wanted to show everyone that Brandt has done so good on losing weight. He has lost 30 pounds in 3 months. He has so much fun walking and having energy again. Im so happy because he doesnt snore anymore. Im getting alot more sleep and not waking up wanting to hit him with the pillow. I just wanted to let everyone know how proud I am of him. It has changed him for the good.I think this was the best pictures of all . It was a fun day.

Shannon tagged me to put the forth picture from the forth file. This was the picture. This is Tayler in her little tuto. She loves dancing and singing. Brandt and Tayler will dance together. Tayler will put her hands out to you when music is on and want to spin around and jump all over. My grandparents will always have music on in their house, she will come in dancing when she hears it. Donna now I tag you, pick the fifth picture, fifth folder.

Is it Spring Yet?

It's almost March, that always sounds like Spring to me.

We are doing our best to survive the winter. Carlee and Tayler are going a little stir crazy, but a few more months and they can get out of the indoors and enjoy the sun. We are looking forward to doing more camping and fishing and spending lots of time with our girls this summer. Below, are a few pictures from the past week. We do not have anything too exciting going on right now, but we would like to say hello to every one and hope everything is going good.




Tayler and her favorite dog Dazie. Mollie, our other dog will not get close enough to Tayler to take pictures. Dazie is much more patient. We think Tayler believes she is a dog. We are constantly bringing her in the house after she has snuck out the dog door. She also loves to get on all fours and drink the dogs water and eat their food.

Carlee loves horses, and would love to own one. Maybe when she is older she can have one of her own, but right now she will have to keep taking lessons, and riding other's horses. She has been riding for the last couple of years and is very good. If she could help talk her mom into moving out to the country I might be able to find a way to get her a horse (hint, hint).

Carlee and Tayler feeding the ducks along the Jordan River. We have been enjoying getting out each weekend to walk, enjoy the outdoors and feed the ducks. The ducks here are pretty aggressive, and take the bread out of the girls hands.

We are also very glad to have Creed arrive safely in the family, and Nikki do as well as she did. We look forward to seeing our California family soon, and want to again congradulate them.

We decided that Tayler needed a new bed after jumping out of her crib on her head too many times. This girl has no fear in her at all.

So Brandt and she went to IKEA to pick everything out. I think they did a really good job.
Talyler loves having a big girl bed.


Over the past week our family has had the whooping cough. We have had to stay in the house the past 5 days. Carlee couldn't start school, she was actually sad. I think she was sick of me and Tayler more then anything. One of my Dr's got the cough and gave it to everyone in the office. Carlee finally did go back to school on Friday.
Brandt and I are starting to walk 3 miles everyday. We are hoping that we can lose some weight before Mexico. Actually before Mexico. We are trying to show Carlee and Tayler that you can eat right. Hopefully we can do this. Wish us luck!

WE ARE SO EXCITED TO BE BLOGGING!

We may be late, but hopefully we are not too late.

We took the Wife/Husband test that everyone else has taken, and we found out that Soupie is a Poor wife, while I am an average husband. Something must be wrong... ..There is no way that I am only average. Actually, Soupie is the Best wife and mother, and average is a bit of a stretch for me. I tell Carlee that she has a free pass to Heaven for having to deal with me, and that should go double for Soupie.


Soupie and I are very lucky to have such great girls.

Carlee just turned 12 in December, and is a very good daughter and sister. She is beautiful, smart, and talented at many things including art, dancing, and horse back riding. She has also mastered the art of manipulating me to do about whatever she wants. She is our strong minded but sensitive hearted pride.

Tayler is now 21 months old. She has the spunk and attitude of diva. she also has Soupie and I wrapped around her little finger. Her favorite past time is teasing all of her adult relatives with a kiss, and when they lean in she gives them a smack instead. She loves to dance and sing, and copy her sister. She is also our strong minded and loving blessing.

Soupie is the heart of our family. I am so lucky to have her raising our girls. She has the strength and love to bring up strong and loving children. She is able to somehow balance working, maintaining a spotless house, and babysitting her husband. I owe everything that has been good for our family to her. She is also a great wife, and it is no exaggeration to say I am very lucky.

I am trying to do what is right and good for our family. In the past I wasn't the best at this (lets call this my 20's), but my family never gave up on me. I hope to one day succeed at being a father and husband like my dad. I am very proud to be his son. My mother is also a great strength to me. We have over come many trials as a family and individually, and I am sure we will have many more, but with the example of my parents I am confident we will be fine.

We look forward to a new year and to strengthening and rekindling relationships we have missed in the past.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!