Family Pictures

We did family pictures on Saturday and considering that Brooklynn cried for about the first 15 minutes. I think they turned out pretty good. I love Cam's big smile. Brooklynn is kinda making the "don't smile" face. She is still gorgeous no matter what.


This picture turned out cute, even though Brooklynn was still sad. This is Cameron's new face. He reminds me of Zoolander. "I am ridiculously good looking."

MTM- Thanksgiving/Thankful

This was last weeks Muffin Tin Monday. The theme was food you are thankful for. Brooklynn loves pizza, bagels with pink stuff. A big carrot with ranch, any kind of cookies. Grapes and crackers are a favorite snack. And Brooklynn would eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'll bet she would eat cereal in her sleep.



Although I am not always able to do Muffin Tin Monday, Brooklynn loves it when I do. She eats so good too.



Yum, she loves big carrots. What a silly girl. She walks around like Bugs Bunny eating them.

Little Zack

My sister always says that our nephew Zack Dennis looks like Zack Efron. I never saw it until recently. It's not super close, of course my nephew has darker skin. But I think it may be the beautiful blue eyes and the wispy hair. Either way I sure have a cute nephew.

My baby doesn't need me anymore...

Cameron is no longer nursing. He has always been such a mamma's boy and would not go to bed with out nursing. I got him down to only once a day, just before bed. My plan was the end of the year to stop nursing but I had to stop a little early. I thought it would be really hard and he would cry all night or at least wake up for me. Um... no!



The first night he didn't cry or even make a peep. He slept 9 1/2 hours. The second night he cried for about 15 or so minutes, but this time he slept 11 hours. Now a week later, he had no memory of our time together. He's all grown up.

64 years!

Last Saturday was my grandparents 64th Anniversary and this week is my grandpa's 90th birthday. On Halloween we went there and my grandpa was on the roof, cleaning out the rain gutters. He can be stubborn and takes joy in doing his own yard work. He told us that he can still do it, because he isn't 90 yet. But only a few days away now. So the Budd family had a big party to celebrate both. We were in St. George for part of it, we got home around 6:30 and the party was at 7pm. Cameron was exhausted and I knew he would not get back in the carseat. Ryan stayed home with him and Brooklynn and I went. (sidenote: Cam really needed his sleep. He slept 11 1/2 hours)


Whoo woo! My grandma is a babe and gramps is quite handsome. I am not going to say the whole story, but they met very young and fell in love. (g-ma 13 g-pa 18) Unfortunately Grandpa got drafted into WWII and their engagement was put on hold for one year. While he was in training Pearl Harbor was bombed and things changed.


Four years later my grandpa returned home and they were married 7 days later. They are truly in love and so cute to watch. What great examples to me of how to be and just love each other no matter what.


My grandma had asked me that she needed a nice picture of her and Grandpa. So last fall we went to the park and took some pictures. Aren't those two just so sweet? I love when they talk about the war years or their wedding. They just love each other so much. I love you guys.


What I wrote last year.

Half Marathon

After we dropped Ryan off at the Marathon, I found a front row parking spot. So we ended up staying the whole time. Since we already had our car packed up. The kids watched half of the Dinosaur Ice Age movie in the car. Then we decided to get out and go cheer on the runners. They had two heats going, the women started an hour before the men and there was a 5K. So we got to see a lot of runners finish and the first place finish. The kids loved playing on the bleachers.


Ryan's parents were down in St. George also. They came to the race to watch him finish. Cameron had fun with Grandpa and really liked playing with his glasses and ears.


The race started 15 minutes earlier than we thought and when Ryan's parents got there Ryan finished about 2 minutes later. We are lucky that Ron saw him so I could get a picture. Wahoo! Go RY!


There is my cheeser! Brooklynn found a friend that she was playing with for awhile. It was cute, everytime people clapped and cheered she would turn around and clap. Then get back to her ponies.


Because it started earlier and the 5K and women runners, I really didn't know where Ryan finished and what time. Of course he did great! He finished one minute longer than his goal time at 1 hour 22 minutes. And he was 2nd place in his age and 8th place overall. I am very proud of Ryan and his accomplishments.

Even though it was a very short trip we had a lot of fun. Thanks to my cousin Sara and her hubby Eric who let us stay with them.

I ♥ Faces - Balloons

Just an old picture I took of Brooklynn last about a year and a half ago. To see more I ♥ Faces go HERE.

Halloween Happenings

Sorry the pictures are so grainy. The real pictures aren't I don't know what the heck happened once I loaded them to the post. Enjoy anyways.


"Lions, Tigers, Bears. Oh my." My cute little munchkins.


Dennis cousins, some of the Oldroyd Cousins and our family. I couldn't decide whether to be a good witch or a bad witch. I am really pink.


Brooklynn went to a fun Halloween party with her friends. They were so cute. I love her friends Thing 1.


When the hubbies were gone hunting my sis-in-law and I took the kids to Gardener Village to go on a witch hunt. They had fun and we found all the witchy poos.


My neices and nephews Katie, Abbie, Tyler and Chase. Or as Brooklynn says it "AbbieTylerChase" (one word)


Another cute picture of the kids at Gardener Village.


After Gardener Village we went to my mother-in-laws house and the kids decorated trick or treat bags. We let them color one side and then my talented neice Katie drew a picture on the other. Berkie's has a cat making her sassy face and Cam's is Superman.


A few weeks ago we went to the Thanksgiving Point Cornmaze. It was so much fun. It started out cold and I was worried about the two babies, but we all had fun. Cameron loved playing the the cornbox.

I ♥ Faces

I ♥ Faces challenge this week is Halloween Dress up. Well this is obviously last years picture. But I just love my cute little characters. Cam wasn't due until November 5th and I so wanted a Halloween baby. I asked my doc to enduce me just a few days early and he said "NO WAY!" But he was meant to come early. I guess be careful what you wish for, I had toxemia and they enduced me 3 weeks early. Thanks to Grandma Ann who knows I LOVE Halloween she bought the cute Tigger costume. So here are my cute Halloween kids. See more I ♥ Faces click HERE

Muffin Tin Monday- Halloween

Muffin Tin Monday the theme was Harvest/Halloween. First Brooklynn colored some paper and made a cute little ghost out of scrap paper. She loves crafts and would do it all day long.


So we read this book we got from the library and made a monster face. The eyes are made of sandwiches, the nose an apple. The mouth out of carrots and fangs from cashews. The curly hair is made from chocolate covered pretzels. And the ears are ranch to dip the carrots in and applesauce. YUM YUM!


She really enjoys her lunch. Especially her "Pink" Sandwiches. (Since she was little she would call her jam sandwiches pink sandwiches.)


She can be a little cooky sometimes. But I love my girl.