SNOW!!

It snowed!

We had a lot of fun playing in Grandma & Grandpa's yard.
Enjoy the photos!

Jocelyn is quite the make-up artist
(To Kal's defense, she told him she was making him look like a super hero)

Too Cute!!

6 Years ago today . . .

We were sealed in the Bountiful Utah Temple for time and all eternity.

Since Brandon is back in Ohio, I celebrated with our little sweeties.
We went to the Bountiful Temple.
It was fun to talk to them about the temple on the drive over.

Here are some photos:

There was another couple there getting their post ceremony photos taken. A lady gave Jocelyn the bouquet to hold for a minute and after chatting, pointed at us and told the couple, "Ok--6 years from now, guys!"

Afterwords, we went to IHOP for lunch.

Bugga met us there and gave River a fancy hat
She thought sitting in the high chair was the coolest thing ever.
River just wants to be where the big kids are and she loves it when she can do anything they are doing!

Jocelyn and Kal had choc chip pancakes with funny faces.
In talking about her pancake (above), Jocelyn said, "My pancake's eye is kind of lazy."

River and Candice and their afternoon nap

Watching "Tinkerbell" with Grannie Tannie

After kiddos went to bed, my parents toasted to us with sparkling grape juice.

I love being married to my best friend. I cannot believe it has already been 6 years and that we have experienced so much in this short time. We have added 3 kids to our family, graduated from BYU, lived in 6 places in 3 states, made several wonderful friends, had at least 10 jobs between us, almost finished med school (Brandon graduates in May!!), started massage therapy school (I graduate in August), flown over 15,000 miles each in trips to Utah and Texas, driven 6,600 miles in trips from Utah to Missouri/Ohio, have seen several Church history sites in Missouri, Nauvoo/Carthage, and Kirtland, and have had many ups and a few downs. We are really enjoying our life together. Marrying Brandon is the best decision I have ever made. I am filled with joy every time I experience the consequences of that decision--the best of those are Jocelyn, Kal, and River and being with my best friend forever.

I love you, Brandon! Happy Anniversary!

More Utah Fun!

We celebrated some birthdays while we were in Utah!

Grandma, Lindsay (sorry--I didn't get a photo of you!), Brandon, Jocelyn, Ian, and Kal!

29 and holding

Happy Birthday Grandma!

(Beautiful and delicious cake made by Britany)

Here are the birthday kiddos: Jocelyn, Kal, and Ian

(Mae is there to make the photo more aesthetically pleasing)

Jocelyn loved all her presents!

Kal loved his cars, trucks, books, dinosaurs and treats!

And Will loved Jocelyn's babies!

(shhh! Don't let his dad know!)

Uncle Buck.

I think Buck spent a lot of time enjoying all the children.

Here he is with Jaden and Kari

Jocelyn and Kari putting candles on the cake

Helping Dad blow out the candles!

Some other moments . . .

Brandon was very pleased with Kal's sticker jewelery (thank you, Grannie Tannie). Hey, he likes to do whatever Jos does!

After I took this photo, he looked at it on the camera and realized there was a triangle on his forehead and immediately took it off. I think he looks more like a bouncer than a girlie-boy!

Sleepy girls.

Thanks for the late night chats, Mom.

Kal was one sick kiddo for a couple days.

Here he is at 103.5! Poor guy!

Sure! We can get a great photo of 10 kids 6 years old and under!

An hour past their bed time made the photo even more precious!

We missed you Ashlie and Tessa!

We went up to the condo by Pineview.

River was very excited and let us know it!

Trevor took his first trip down "The Falls"

(aka an hour long walk/swim down the stream and small to medium waterfalls in glacier water wearing crazy clothes)

We don't know how he married into the family without doing this first! We must really love him!

Brick, Brandon, Cass, Nancy, Tannie, Mark, Burgundy, Trevor

Jocelyn's birthday and River's blessing will have their own post.

Almost normal . . .

For those of you who care

(I know you are just dying to check my blog daily to see the progress--wink)

This is by no means a flattering photo of myself (keep in mind this is not an acne treatment, but a treatment for acne scarring) but I look almost normal! I don't think I scared too many children at the grocery store today!

Good 'ol Kal

Just playing around this morning

Kal's sheer joy in showing off his gloves, hat, and shoes with silly faces for the camera was very reminiscent of a certain Flammer uncle . . . any guesses???

Kal's toes were poking out of Jocelyn's old crocks (which they both enjoyed wearing on the wrong feet). He was super excited about trying on all sorts of shoes. There were very few shoes that fit his gynormous (and super thick) feet, luckily they were shoes he liked that he can put on and take off all by himself! He likes to stomp around in these because they light up!

Day 3

Getting better & better! Just super itchy!