Date with Livy

Olivia and I had a nice girls afternoon and gave ourselves pedicures. She had a ball! She is so girlie already and loves makeup and nail polish and anything else that's feminine! She was very insistent that we had a picture of our matching toes.

Jake leaves for basic

I wish we would have gotten pictures of Jake, but I'm a slacker and just got pics of the cake we made for his farewell! He is at basic training right now and I hear it's killer! We are so proud of him though and wish him well!

Beaver Santa

My monkey on the table!

Sleding in Beaver

Olivia basically sat in the sled the whole time and ate snow, that was her idea of a good time. Asher loves to sled down the hill though. He would wait patiently for Grandpa to take him up the hill on the snowmobile and then sled down by himself, he had a blast! Avaree was held almost the whole time since she could hardly move in all those snow clothes that were a bit too big for her!

Christmas

The Sheriff Christmas party was really fun, Asher and Olivia Loved Santa this year. Avaree needs some coaching still but she loved opening presents! Grandma S. made the girls tutu's and the boys super-hero capes with their names on them. They were in heaven!

Pizza night!

Asher and Olivia got to help Aunt Mindy make pizza. They had more fun playing in the flour than actually making the pizza! Avaree was just enjoying herself with the toppings! She loves pepperoni!

50 mile relay!

Back in December Brandon ran a 50 mile relay race. We were so proud of him. The kids love to see him run and cheer him on! Good job daddy!

Asher riding his bike!!!

I can't believe how much he is growing up!!! He's so big! Ever since he learned to ride his bike he has been on it from sun up till way after dark, basically until I tell him to eat or sleep. He is already being quite the dare devil! He likes to pop wheelies and stand up while riding. He said to me this morning, "Mom, I can ride standing up with my tongue out and my eyes closed!"

Marathon

So I really hope to get some pictures of Brandon running the marathon, because he did amazing! I just didn't get any on my camera. My kids had a good time waiting for daddy to run by so they could cheer him on. He looked great for running 24 miles at the point where we were waiting to see him. He ran the whole thing in 3 hours 35 minutes! We are all so proud of him! He's amazing!

Pine Valley

We've been so busy lately and haven't had a chance to blog so now I'm catching up. and there's more to come! I just have to wait for some pic's from other people. We spent some time up in Pine Valley before it got cold and Elsie (Brandon's sister) took some great pic's of my kids, these are just a few.

Halloween turned out to be a really fun day for the kids! Brandon taught Asher how to ride a bike without training wheels and I really wish I would have gotten some pic's of that, but I got it on video, I just don't know how to do anything with it on the computer. But we carved pumpkins and made pictures to put on glass jars with candles in them. We went to Grandma and Grandpa C's house and went trick or treating with them and they were all asleep by 8:30. They had a blast! Asher was Spider man, Olivia was Tinker Bell and Ava was a Ballerina with her cute cousin Berkley. Thanks Aunt Lexy for the cute Tutu!

Grandma Sheriff's house

We went to Grandma Sheriff's house and made fudge with her. The kids had so much fun! They ate more than they helped, but that's the funnest part of making fudge with grandma! We also had a lot of fun playing outside in all the places I played when I was little. Asher thought that was so cool that he got to play where I used to play, and was really excited that his grandma Evertsen grew up there too! We made lots of memories!

Grandma S.

The kids had so much fun playing at Grandma Sheriff's house. We had a lot of fun spending the weekend with cousin Berkley and Aunt Lexy. Oh and I'm not getting fat, for those of you who don't know, I'm pregnant again. Big surprise eh? We're excited though!

Panama

Brandon went to Panama for almost 2 weeks and I thought I wouldn't miss him too much. Next time he does something like that I am going with him and leaving the kids home:) He went with his dad and friend Dave to go paint the Panama Temple. They didn't have a ton of time to sight see but what they did get to go see was amazing! One night they got lost going to dinner and ended up driving across the bridges of the America's and ended up on another continent. They all seemed to have a good time but were glad to finally be home!