Tulip Festival

I took Azzie to the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival on Saturday. She kept saying pretty the whole time. It was beautiful. I love gardening and flowers. I can't wait to get my garden growing but until then I will have to visit other ones. The tulips were perfect and they were everywhere. One of my favorite flowers. Thanks to my dad I have a great appreciation for the outdoors!

Easter at the Dunes

Camping in the snow!















Azzie loved riding the wrooom wrooms.













This year was colder than most but we still had a great time. I have been to Little Sahara Sand Dunes 4 years in a row. We rented a lot of movies and brang a lot of food.

Kaden enjoyed riding around sand mountain

When we got home on Easter we colored eggs and had a Easter egg hunt for Azzie. She got a Zhu Zhu pet!

One of the Best Weeks of my life!

So we did so many fun things and had such a great time its hard to summarize it all. No major catastrophes or meltdowns so that was good. I was worried about flying 3 kids across the country but they did great! I have so many great pictures so I made a slide show.

Day 1

It was a cool only about 68 degrees so we stayed inland and went to the Everglades safari park and got to go on an air boat ride. We saw a ton of alligators because it was cold and they were out of the water lying on the grass. The kids got to hold an alligator. Then we drove to Fort Myers and checked into our hotel. It had a kitchen so we made a few good dinners.

Day 2

We woke up early and dropped Kaden and Trevor off for their 1/2 day fishing excursion through Captain Tony's. They had a great time and caught 13 fish! Snapper and Grouper. The boat captains fillet the fish and put them on ice and for dinner we took them to a local restaurant and had them cooked. They tasted great!

While they were gone me, Azzie, and Carli drove up to Sanibel Island to hang out on the beach and collect seashells. We also saw a dolphin swimming around just a few feet off the beach!

Day 3

The third day we went to Captiva Island and hung out on the beach. Such a pretty place. Very low key and laid back. I loved it there. We played some football and threw frisbees around. We also stopped at the Sanibel Sea shell show and learned all about all the types of shells found on the beach. Later we walked on the beach and watched the sun set at Fort Myers Beach.

Day 4

We woke up and drove from the gulf side of Florida to the Atlantic side and stopped at Lion Country safari. What an awesome place. You get to drive your car through a safari full of animals. Lions, Giraffes, Rhinos, Turtles, Monkeys, Elephants, and a whole lot of animals that I have never seen. Then after the drive through they have a few kid rides including a camel ride and giraffe feeding. Then we checked into the Embassy Suites in Deerfield Beach, my new favorite hotel ever! Free full cooked breakfast and happy hour every night with pina coladas and strawberry daiquiris.

Day 5

Stayed at the hotel and hung out. Lots of swimming at the pool. The waves were big so we went to get boogie boards and when we got to the beach the lifeguards had it closed due to sharks in the water. You could see them jumping around so we just built sand castles and walked to the pier. Later me and Carli went to dinner at the Mai Kai which is a Polynesian restaurant with a live show. Fire dancers and hula girls. We had a great night out.

Day 6

Went to Gumbo Limbo nature center in Boca Raton. They have a great boardwalk through the trees and then live animal exhibits with sharks, sea turtles, and sting rays. Then more swimming at the pool and the beach was open today (no sharks) I was still nervous and did not dare to go more than knee deep though. Then as the sun set I took great pictures of the kids with my new toy Nikon 3000.

Overall a great trip and I can't wait to go back again!

Love, Love, Love

Since it is February I have been thinking about things that I love. I love the days where there involves no work and the biggest kids are in school and its just me and Azzie. She lights up my day! She is in love with babies. She wraps them in blankets and puts them in the stroller and takes them for a walk, and brushes their hair. I love her and glad she brightens my day.

Santa brought her about 10 babies for Christmas

Here is another highlight in my day. She is getting big and independent where she wants to feed herself. It must be exausting!

Happy New Year!

It's New Years Eve! Time for a great dinner including my favorite tradition Alaskan King Crab. Accompanied by little smokies, cheese ball and crackers, swiss cheese fondue, shrimp, and a veggie tray.

We had family and neighborhood friends over at our house this year. It was such a fun night.


Azlyn lasted until about 11:00PM. She even loved the crab and walked up to peoples plates and snatched some with her little fingers.

Kaylee and Carli having some apple cider.

The Stuffelbeams enjoying their crab.

I even got my new years kiss!

Happy New Year! May 2010 bring hope and joy to everyone!

Merry Christmas

Every Christmas Eve that I can remember was spent at Aunt Raylene's house eating soup and opening white elephant presents. Its my favorite Christmas tradition. My oldest kids are starting to enjoy it too. Here is Kaden with his army recruiting kit. Carli got a natural bubble bath aka (bag of beans) and I actually got a white elephant.

We also enjoyed spending time with GREAT Grandma Glover

Spent some time with Tanna and Tayton, cousins from Nevada

We then went to bed and woke up at 6:30 AM to open presents. "Santa did come" Carli said!

She brought the girls lots of Barbie dolls, barbies, bratz, moxi girls and their favorite 3 story barbie home!


Kaden got his touch screen phone and Azzie got more babies, babies, and babies

Merry Christmas and looking forward to a great new year!

December Highlights

This month has been great! I got most of my shopping done on Black Friday so I was able to spend most of my time just enjoying the Holiday season. Some of my favorites were: going to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Natalie Cole and seeing the Temple Square lights with my mom, dad and sister, the ward Christmas dinner, 2 company holiday parties, and 4 family Christmas parties, and going to the kids school watching them sing.

Carli's gingerbread house she made at school

Usually we go to the winder dairy country store to get scones but this year I decided to make my own. Yum eggnog and scones!

Another family Christmas party

People that know that I have a real tree ask me if I love the smell. This year I have to laugh due to a funny story. Every year my dearest dad always goes into the mountains and cuts me a tree. I tell him how tall and narrow I want it and he delivers it to my house for free! I love him. When he got here we threw it in the backyard and about two weeks later I went to go put it inside the house but my dog decided to mark his territory and urinate all over it.

So after a few ideas we hosed it down, let it dry, brought it in the house and I sprayed urinating deodorizer and fabreze all over it. Needless to say it does smell nice but not like a real tree. Note to self: DO NOT place tree in backyard with dog next year!

Merry Christmas to All!

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

We had such a great Thanksgiving! First we went to Grandma Debbie's and had Thanksgiving with Trevor's side of the family. We had a great time eating and looking at the newspaper adds.

Here is Azzie feeding her cousin Riley carrot sticks. Then in the evening we got to go to another Thanksgiving at my cousin Chad's house. It was so fun to see all of my cousins that I have not seen in a few years. I really appreciate my entire family. Also that night we finished the Broncos vs Giants game and we WON!

I went to bed early because I woke up at 3AM to wait in this line:

Here is my sister in law Leisha who got there a few hours earlier to save me a cart. I ended up getting some really good deals and had a ton of fun. I love Black Friday. (Craziness, but when you actually get that deal in the add home, its a sense of pure accomplishment). Bring on the Holidays!