The Spunky five year old turns 6!

You know it's Katelin's birthday around here when we are eating frosting covered pancakes with sprinkles and whipped cream for breakfast!

Today Katelin is turning 6. It seems like yesterday we were just getting done digesting our Thanksgiving feast when we arrived at the hospital and welcomed our 6 lb 2 oz beautiful bouncing baby girl into the world. Now 6 years later Katelin is just as spunky as ever. I've knicked named her Punky Bruester. With a character all her own and a colorful wordrobe to match her personality, our family just wouldnt be the same without her. Happy Birthday my Sweet Katie! We love you with all of our hearts!!!

A Twin Girls Baby Shower for Chad and Cherise

Due to Cherise's expanding healthy belly she can't do much traveling anymore. So we are going to have a baby shower up here for any family and friends that would like to participate. We will be recording it and sending it down to her along with her gifts. Please bring your gifts unwrapped so everyone can see what cute and adorable gifts we are sending her. We will have wrapping paper and gift bags at the shower for you to choose from. Please call me if you have any questions. 509-855-1203

Thanks everyone for your love and support!

Mishelle

The Best Stuff on Earth Just Got Better

Being away from the Blog world for a while was sure lonely! It's crazy how life just gets away from you for a while. As you may all know my time at Great Links came to an end on October 11. I said good bye to five years of hard work and dedication. I am still running a few rentals from my home so that keeps me a little busy and doing a few Pampered Chef Cooking Shows here and there but other than that I am experiencing something I haven't experienced in a long time. I have become a stay at home mom. And I can honestly say I am busier now than I have ever been!! This past week I was running the miles on my Sewing Machine trying to finish the last minute details on our 2009 Halloween Family Theme: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Kyle of course was Willy Wonka and the only Oompa Loompas I could find that wanted to participate were Weston, Savannah and Me. Katelin was Wonder Woman and Cody was "Scary Pop Up Face" (?)

Night of excrutiating pain uncovers family secret.

So yesterday morning I went to pick Savannah up and I heard a pop in my lower back that brought me to my knees. Once I got up enough strength I stretched it out and went along with the rest of my day. I had no other choice...I had 4 check ins. So by the time I got home I was in the worst pain of my life. I would compare it to labor pains in the lower back. So Kyle lovingly fixed dinner and took care of the kids while I laid on the living room floor kicking myself for not going to the Chiro earlier. Kyle made me a nice bed on the floor where I would be spending the night. The kids thought that was the greatest thing ever. So we all had a slumber party in the living room. About 10:30 I was awoken by a bunch of noise. Weston was up walking around in his sleep talking and mumbling. Then I noticed Katelin was singing at the top of her lungs in her sleep and 5 seconds later Savannah was crying. I leaned over to console her and realized she wasn't crying she was yelling in her sleep! Oh my heaven's it lasted all night! If Weston wasn't up walking around he was laying there yelling at Cody or roping a cow in his sleep. Katelin never stopped either! At one time I swear they were having conversations with eachother...in their sleep!! Needless to say I didn't get much sleep but I did get I very good laugh! Oh and I got into the Chiropractor early this morning and got a well deserved Crackin' and Poppin Session. I can walk now!

Our Road trip to Utah

We left Moses Lake at 10:30 on the evening of July 29th and at 6:30 the next morning we arrived in Twin Falls Idaho to stop and get breakfast. The kids slept the whole way I was so thankful! It was such a fun trip! As soon as we arrived in Utah is was non-stop fun and excitement. We did a lot of shopping and eating that's for sure! On Thursday we went to Temple Square, Friday we spent all day at Lagoon Theme Park where I rode on all of the rides with the kids and Kyle and the boys rode all of the roller coasters. Our first ride was on the wild rapids where of course I was the one who got soaking wet! Saturday was the family reunion and that night we drove up to Roosevelt Utah for a yummy BBQ at Shaurie's house and then drove to Vernal to stay with Jarred and Annise. Vernal is the DinosaurFossil capital of the world and where they do alot of the countries oil drilling. That was an interesting little town! Smack dab in the middle of nowhere and it has a Temple and Walmart! Sunday Rylee brought his four-wheelers over so we spent all day riding around the hills. Monday was spent catching up on laundry and packing and then it was time to head home. We did a little bit more shopping on the way home and ran into a really crazy wind storm about twin falls area so we got to Boise and decided to spend the night. When we woke up we realized we were surrounded by more shopping so we went to the Super Cabellas store and the Dessert Book store. We finally got home at 5:30 on Tuesday night. Just in time to get a babysitter and run into the music store to get my guitar fixed and to Tsunami Sushi for Tyson's birthday! All in all it was a good trip. There were a lot of good times and we won't mention Kyle's speeding ticket in a construction zone!

A tribute to my brother

Yesterday was our 30th birthday! I know, I can't believe it either! So I took a moment and looked at all of my scrapbooks and realized there is no one greater I would have wanted to share my childhood with. People always ask me what's it like being a twin. And I like to tell them "Well you always have a best friend." And it's true. I rememeber hours and hours of games we would make up, going on adventures into the sagebrush, and as we got older it stayed that way if we were bored we would just find something to do together so childhood was never boring. But it got better as we grew up. Shortly after high school I went to college in Rexburg and he would make special trips up which meant a lot because I was really homesick! When he got his mission call my mom threw her life into high gear so I could be married before he left and he could be there. Kyle and I even snuck down to see him on his mission. There are so many memories of us together. I am really grateful for Michael. He is a strong valiant spirit! I believe we were best friends in Heaven and Heavenly Father just knew I couldn't make this trip alone. So he let Michael come with me. He has been there through so much of my life the good and the bad. Even though we couldn't be together for our birthday celebration I just want him to know there is no one I would want to celebrate it with more than him. Love you Mikey!! Happy Birthday!

Savannah Turns Two!

I can not believe my baby turned Two on Friday! It seems like she was just born. Anyway, we had a small gathering of friends and family to celebrate the occasion. The theme was Strawberry shortcake. I picked this theme because I came across this amazing cake that I wanted to make her and it turned out so cute! It was Kyle's Dads birthday too and Shana lovingly volunteered to make him a cute cow cake you can kind of see in picture #4. I'm hoping Shana posts a better picture because it was sooo cute!