Whitney and Lance's Birthday at Hop 2 it.

This year we had a joint Birthday for Lance and Whitney at HOP 2 IT. Lance turned one year old and Whitney turned 3. It is a fun play place that has big blow up toys that you can jump on and slide down and do all sorts of things. This was the special birthday chair. All the kid watching Whitney open her presents. Grandma Debbie, Papa, and Grandma Brauburger all came to play.
Aki and Tristen. We had a party room and we got Pizza for everyone.
Shyanne, Victor, Lance and Grandpa.

Whitney got a lot of really fun presents and she really enjoyed opening them.

Now its Lance's turn Yahoo.

I had to help him a little.

I was glad that he would have some boy toys because we have so much girl stuff from Whitney so he really needed so good cars and boy stuff.

Birthday cake

Lance's cake, he would blow out the candle, oh well :)

Lance is getting ready to eat his big cake. I set him in a pizza box so that he wouldn't make too big of a mess.

yummy!!

Lance was Mr. Popular.

All done

Instead of ice cream we got cream sickles. It was the best idea, Berny thought of it, there was no extra bowls or mess and everyone really liked them, especially Whitney.

Now he is all done. He had to get cake all over Grandma Debbie first.

Maddie play on the bounce house.

They had a bounce obstacle course that Julianne and I raced through. I beat her the first time and the second time we tied.

This was the car track that Grandma Debbie and Papa gave Lance. I likes to climb in it and spin himself around.

Wesley's Baptism and Birthday

Yahoo for Wesley, he was able to be baptised. It was such a cool experience to start a new thing to celebrate in our family. We have been doing birthdays and baby blessing for quite a while and now we are starting on the baptisms. I am so proud of Wesley that he is such a good boy to set the example to all his other little cousins and show them that being baptized is the right thing to do and that they can start preparing for it.
Leejean is looking really good lately too. She has lost a lot of weight doing the HCG diet. Mollie, Johanna, and Shannon have all been doing it too.

We had a birthday party for Wesley after his baptism. It was really fun and the cake was yummy.This picture almost made me cry. I felt the spirit so strongly as I saw all the younger kid there with Wesley and the example that he was setting for them. Wesley is a very special boy who was given a very important stewardship, to be the leader and example of so many important souls including my Whitney and Lance. I will always be grateful to Wesley for being that light for my children. Leejean said that she felt very strongly that Zeke was going to be a guardian of Wesley especially after he was baptised and I really felt Zeke's little spirit there that night. And considering Wesley's special stewardship it make me feel comforted that Zeke will be there to help the one that will be so influential to my own children. After Whitney saw Wesley go under the water she started asking questions about her own baptism.
Wesley was baptised by his daddy.

Thanksgiving

This year we had Thanksgiving with my side of the family and we went to Mark and Aki's house. It was really yummy, Heath and Mollie made a turkey with their Nuwave oven. It was really yummy. I was in charge of bringing the rolls, I was promoted from green salad :) haha! This a picture of Mark playing with the boys. He was wanting to see who was heavier Lance or Tristen. Tristen has always been so little and Lance was always bigger than him but the past few times they have been about the same. But Jared is way bigger than both of them.

Harmison Family and Mark Ellis Family

These Pictures were some that I got from Aki's blog. They are beautiful, Shannon took them.

I took these pictures at Zoe's Birthday party. They were posing so that they could have them for their Christmas cards and I took them.

Heath, Mollie, Preston, Brian, Zoe, Lynn, Dave, and Jamie

Halloween Trick or Treat at the Gooding Library

Aki invited us all to her Library time in Gooding. They had all the kids dress they read some books, then we took all the kids trick or treating to the other work places in the building. Whitney and Leiloni went off by themselves once they realized they were getting candy. Tristne and AkiNo speeding my little man will catch you.
I got Lance's costume from my friend Jamie Buttler, she saw it and thought of us, I wonder why. hehe!They were reading books and doing some dances. I had not gotten Whitney's costume yet so I put her in one of her Sunday dresses and put my old tiara on her, and called her Snow White.
Julianne and Adimae
Adimae trying to see me behind my camera.
Leiloni and Whitney.

Lance and Tristen

Gracie and the others eating their candy and watching Dora.
Cute kidos

Halloween Carnaval

The thing that I love the most about living in Jerome is that we are so close to so many cousins. This was a really fun day because we were able to get together with Gracie, Adimae, and Leiloni, and we all went to the Halloween Carnival together, they were all princesses. I had a great tithing experience with finding Whitney's costume. She told me that she wanted to be a Snow White, so I went to Wal-mart. There I found a Snow White costume but it was $12 and it was really thin cheap materiel. So I just couldn't bring myself to bye it. Late that day I went to DI with Aki and I said a prayer before I went in that I could find a Snow White costume that I could afford. We went in and looked for a while and didn't find anything after being there for an hour or so Aki found these a Snow White top and an Aurora top. Then we found some pretty dresses to go under them. It was then that Whitney decided that she wanted to be Aurora. So I bought them both just in case she change her mind. Then Leiloni got to be Snow White and I had two pretty princess dresses for Whitney to where any time she wants and two pretty dresses that she can where to church. Guess how much I payed for both...... $16. I was really blessed.


Whitney and Leiloni playing a Carnival game.
All the girls playing the duck pond game.