Christmas Eve

Genna and her Grandma.

Making Santa cookies, according to Gen he was going to eat them all! Since there was about 2 dozen he only ate a few.


Neighbor Jessica brought over her snake, Genna was a little hesitant, Jake kept trying to grab it, lol. And the dog was like freaking out.


What Aunt Tiffany gave her to play princess in. She had to 'nip-n-tuck' it in a few places. Now that I think of it I never asked her if she washed it. And that's me under the blanket on the bed that was in the living room. That's about all I did when I was there, it was pretty nice.

Utah Trip

They both like that horse, there goes all my quarters.

Uncle Zach playing music for the kido's. Jake loved Grandma's house, everything was within reach. He could climb onto every bed and even the short couches!

Playing in the snow, Grandma had the jacket waiting for her at the airport, since she doesn't need one like this too often at home.


Playing at the USO in Denver, they had a ton of leftover Halloween candy. Jake walked around with a sucker and kept bothering the guys playing the wii. I guess you can say this is about when he officially gave up on crawling.

Daddy doll

After a long night of pizza makin, and cookie eating she went to bed pretty well. This is a pretty rare occurrence in my home. Usually the night consists of constant, "Go back to your room" "There is nothing to be scared of" "Fine you can sleep in my bed as long as you go to bed" "Go to bed Genna or you can't go to school tomorrow" You know stuff like that. I gave her, her daddy doll that I made for the kids at super saturday. She misses her daddy so much. Well she just held on to her daddy doll and fell right to sleep. I couldn't miss the opportunity of this picture. She's just so peaceful. She always talks about when her dad comes home, and she prays about him. Saying she loves her daddy and misses him, and she wants him to come home and be safe. My husband is in the process of recording a message for each of the kids on a voice box so I can put it in there. I really hope she'll just fall asleep pushing that listening to his voice.

Pizza Makin

I like to buy the premade pizza crust from the store, it's so easy and fun for the kids to make their own toppings. They are pretty good too. We had a fun night making pizza for dinner, then I cheated on the cookies, and bought the premade precut stuff. It was great. So we had pizza and sugar cookies, uhmm I think it was a school night too. Oh well... My kids could eat cheese all day, just to let you know.

2 years and counting

December 16th, 2006.

I can't believe we've been married for two years now. I just wish he was here to celebrate with me. :) It seems like only yesterday we met, but it's been four years now that we've been together. I guess we would of been married longer by now, but separation from the good ol' army is at it again. It's been a stressful, happy two years. We've had a new little boy to add to our bunch, and now a new girl soon. We're just movin right along.

We were married at a friends house, I went to church with them, and they graciously offered their home for anything, so I asked, and they said yes. It was a small wedding, but it was nice. The funniest part of the wedding was probably during the ceremony right when I was about to walk down the stairs the door bell rang. Everyone got a good laugh. I think the most shocking part was when he did not tell me he'd be using his teeth to take my garter belt off. He just flung my dress up and stuck his whole head under there. The funny thing was the missionaries were standing right there watching, I'm sure they turned their heads. LOL. It was great when he threw it, it just landed on the ground, and all the guys just kinda stared at it. Then Peter was brave enough to pick it, he still hasn't asked my friend to marry him...

I love this picture, Genna was our little flower girl, and since my cousin decided he didn't like the fact that I was getting married on his birthday he did not want to be the ring bearer. So Genna was our little flower girl/ring bearer. We sang happy birthday to my cousin later, that made things a little better.

Everyone together.

Matt was soooo nervous, when he was trying to put the ring on my finger he was like shaking, and his hands were so sweaty. With all those people watching, who wouldn't be. My bishop married us, he was great, totally supported our marriage, and that really helps so much. Just can't wait to go to the temple.

The happy couple. How do you rotate pictures?

The cake was so much fun, we both got each other pretty good. Everything was very beautiful. The cake had strawberry stuff in it, it was good. The honey moon was good too.

Playing Cinderella

Genna found my old veil and slip to my wedding dress, which she thought was the dress its self. But it works for a little girl wanting to play wedding. She kept wanting me to pretend I was dad, and walk her down the aile. When I told her it was time to go with her husband now and go on a honey moon, she said she wanted dad to come with her. LOL. Even made her knew husband sit in the back. Oh how I'll laugh when things change. She talks now how she never wants me to leave her, even when she's all grown up and is a teacher. She wants me home when she comes home everyday. I tell her she won't want me around when she's older, but she gets real emotional about it. She wants me around for ever and ever she says...

December 16th, 2006.

Maybe this is where she got the idea. I don't know if she remembers our wedding, but she always talks about when mom and dad got married. I always try to stress that college is first, then the wedding, then a baby. I hope it just stays in that head of hers. When she was playing wedding, she pretended to have a baby the night before the wedding. Lol. I told she couldn't do that.

I finished Twilight!

I finished the last book of the twilight series. Thanks so much to my friend for letting me borrow them. I think it's the fastest I've read four books in such a short time. I finally feel like I can stop ignoring my kids and house and move on with my life. It's time to get ready for Christmas, and r/r! I loved the books, probably the I have to say the best I've read. I could not stop reading them, the author does a spectacular job writing it so you never know what is going to happen, you just have to keep reading, you cannot stop!!

He's just so cool

Home made jerky

So since one good thing the guys down range really like is jerky, which I refuse to buy because of the price my good friend came over and made my husband some jerky and gave me the recipe. It is sooo good. I am so glad she gave me this alternative, yay!

2 lbs of deer meat, or beef

brine:

2/3 cup wosterchire sauce
2/3 cup soy sauce
2 tsp. ground black pepper
2 tsp. onion pepper
1 tsp. liquid smoke
1 tsp. red pepper flakes
1 tbsp. honey

Place meet in freezer 1 hour(makes it easier to cut) against the grain into thin strips. Mix up the brine. Put in a plastic bag and add meat. Put in fridge to marinate 3-6 hours. remove meat and drain on cooling rack. once meat in dry place on oven rack, still on the cooling rack on a pan of course. cook on lowest setting overnight with oven door wedged open. She just a bundle of foil. enjoy, store in zip lock bag. YUM

Flour Power

Last night when we were making cookies for dad Jake really wanted me to hold him so he could see what was going on. Instead I put him in the high chair right next to us. He still didn't like that. So to keep the peace during our cookie making I plopped some flour on his tray, of course he attacked it, eating it. LOL Genna tried it and of course the normal reaction came from her of spitting it out in disgust. But Jake kept eating it while he played with it. It was pretty funny watching it turn all doughy in his mouth and watching him smack his lips like it was magic food. It transforms in your mouth! The mess of flour every where was worth it. They both had so much fun.