Brian Head 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we love the dentist!

New year- new habits, right? Just kidding, we are actually pretty good about keeping the kids on a teeth cleaning schedule. we learned our lesson after 2 kids had to get 6 stainless steel crowns between them (gasp! dentist's children?) We are lucky to have some fabulous hygienists working at the office and my kids actually like going to the dentist. It could be the chance to see Dad- Or it could be the treasure chest they get to pick a prize from after. Honestly I think it's a toss up :)

Anyways, I snapped a couple of pics last time the younger 2 were in the chair:

This girl was awesome- not scared a bit! *do you like how her shoes are on the wrong feet? sigh...3 year olds ;)

This is where Jared ratted us out and said that we don't have any floss in the house. Don't worry we have some now- and I'm pretty sure Kerry's hygienist will make sure we stay stocked up ;)

Good patients and 100% cavity free!!

2013- the year I keep my blog updated, hopefully :)

So, with facebook and instagram my blog has suffered greatly this past year. And I have the folders and folders of pics on my computer to prove it. We really had a great year, and I am loving watching my children grow! The original purpose of this blog was to document said growth- but now with family and friends far away (sniff sniff) I really want it to be a way for them to see what we've been up to. Cuz, let's face it, we're always up to something lol
As we were making our new year's resolutions I reflected on how important relationships are. And how easy it is to let them fade if there is not a consistent effort to maintain them. I love reading all I can about what is going on in the lives of the family and friends that I can't just run over and squeeze anymore, and I thought maybe they crave that, too. I mean, phone calls and texts are great- but I love seeing the pics and hearing about the everyday occurrences. Anyways, my point is: while I am still maintaining this blog mostly for myself, I want to keep it updated more regularly for my loved ones to catch up with us at their leisure ;)

Here is the last photo uploaded from 2012:

It's Hannah and Sophee at our New Year's party


and the first photo uploaded from 2013

ummmm yeah, we've gotten into guns with the looming zombie apocalypse and all ;) and apparently I'm a pretty good shot (although, Kerry tells me that guns aren't really going to be practical and I should really focus more on my ax and/or shovel wielding skills- but i digress)

Life is good! Kids are healthy and happy- get ready to hear way more about us all this year
amber xoxo

OKLAHOMA!!

So, last week was fall break and since April has been begging is to come see her- we gave in and drove the 1000 miles (and back) Luckily, Mom decided to come help me drive and not go insane with a car full of 4 kiddos across 4 states :) (love her)

The week was definitely memorable! I need to figure out a program on my Mac that will let me load pics onto my blog faster than one or two at a time. but here are few highlights:

starting the road trip! Grandma is a rock star and drove most of the time (it may or may not have been so she could avoid dealing with the problems that arose frequently from the back seats)

Chester's pumpkin patch- we rode ponies, did a corn maze, rode a super fun slide, and pick a pumpkin- oh and karaoke!


I will post more when I figure out how to get more pictures on without me wanting to throw the computer through the window ;)

MHS homecoming parade and game

So, when we first moved back to Bullhead I was so excited about the Homecoming parade that I took the kids out of school early so we could get a good seat. Ha! Not necessary. I remember out homecoming parades being really cool and having a lot of floats. That year there were only a couple. SO the next few years we opted out of sitting in the heat for a lamesauce parade.

This year I decided for whatever reason to give it another try. I even tricked, I mean, convinced Carly to give it a try. We got a pretty good spot and waited for the parade to start. then we waited some more. and then just for fun we waited some more. Seriously, I don't know what the deal was but it finally started. Sidenote: it was 103 degrees I will never understand why we can't have our homecoming in end of October/November

The kids spent their time waiting finding rocks to throw ;) and Hannah just loves babies! Hopefully, she didn't love Bella too much.

It was disappointing to me, but the kids loved it! We don't really go to a lot of parades so they don't have anything to compare it to ;)

There was a total of 3 floats (maybe 4) Including one with this cute girl on it! Made the entire parade worth it as far as I'm concerned. and a whole bunch of trucks carrying the homecoming royalty and maybe the sports teams but I couldn't really tell.

Some groups passed out melted starbursts and tootsie rolls (i'm telling you it was HOT and we were seated towards the end of the parade route)

Did I mention it was hot? hee hee
Good times Mohave! Maybe next year will be awesome!!

I actually really like going to MHS football games. My kids are actually kinda fun to take now that they are a little older. Homecoming was against Kingman and Kerry's nephew, Skyler was playing. The kids asked if it was okay if we rooted for Skyler if we were sitting on the Mohave side. We did get a couple dirty looks but my nephew is awesome!! And I can't help it if MHS is not so fantastic :)

It was great to be with Kerry's family and the Youngs and even Kasia and little Moses sat with us. I do like living in the town I went to high school in and supporting my alma mater. I can pretend it's not sweltering and they sell nachos :) I'm not sure whose bright idea it was to buy all the kids these super annoying green things, though. I'm secretly hoping they might a sad demise before the next home game

Soccer! Or what our life is lately :)

I have so much to catch up on as usual. We did not finish our 104 things of summer vacation (big surprise there lol) but we did a lot of them and I have a ton of pictures and posts to write. But I'm just gonna jump in to where we are now. school has started

And this is where we are every weekend.

Kerry is coaching Hannah's team with his brother. He claims to know nothing about soccer but I love watching him get excited when the girls are doing good.

Zach is on super good team this year- and it has made him up his game. He scored 2 goals his first game. Zach cracks me up b/c he is so coachable. The first game his team was up by 12 so the coach pulled his stars back and Zach got to play forward I told him that he should try to score a goal or two b/c he probably wouldn't get many chances to play forward this year with the team he has. (he's been playing mid-field a lot an running his little butt off) So he said "Okay" and just went and scored 2 goals in a row! :) Then this last game he was on defense which means he got to stand around a lot since his team is that awesome! But whenever the ball came anywhere near him he made sure to get it back to the forwards. I told him that he doesn't have to wait for the ball to come to him- if he sees it he can run up and take it and he did. It's so funny- like he had just never thought of that before :)

Anyways, I haven't seen a lot of Hannah's games because they always seem to be scheduled for the same time as Zach's and someone has to watch Zach (truthfully I prefer watching his games they are much more entertaining lol) But I did manage to get a few pics with my long range lens. I sat between both games and tried to watch both lol

Zach's team has not come close to losing a game while Hannah's team is just super cute ;) but have not come close to winning a game! but Hannah is having a blast and has such a good attitude all the time.

I'm thankful for the family time and I am thankful our other kids are such great spectators. Becca loves to sit in her "soccer chair" and yell "go BUBBY" or "go Sister" And as long as Jared has an iphone to play with he's good :) SOmetimes it gets really hot- but for the most part we love soccer game days :)