October Visit to Utah

In October we were able to go home for a long weekend. We left Thursday night and spent the night in Mesquite and then headed on the rest of the way Friday. We met my family (minus dad) at the scarecrow festival first thing. They charged for a general admission and then all the games and rides were free.

Here is Kay and Tay and their cute babies Kaden and Kenzie.

My brother and his fiance Stacey

Our family

My cute mama and her grandbabies.

Me and my siblings

Kaden and Kenzie got to go in their first bounce house, our family had one all to our selves.

Kenz was a little un sure!

We took turns racing down the bounce slides and Kaden and Kenzie had their first experience going down the slides.

Taylor and Trena climbed the tower

All the girls

Uncle Brent and Kaden

Playing games

Ava and Aunt YaYa (Karey) We all won these hideous hats and Ava declared that we were the "Ladies of the Earth"

The next morning we woke up and my parents came and picked up me and the girls from the Norths and we headed to my favorite breakfast place: Einstein Bagels

Complete with Kenzie pooping on Katrena!

After Breakfast we went to Gardner Village to walk around and look at all the Witches.

Here is Grandpa with his favorite witches and a warlock too.

Grandma and Grandpa with their grandkids.

We then had dinner with the North's, and Brent and his sister and her family headed to a Haunted House while the rest of us just hung out.

First stop, Kenzie and Kaden...

When we arrived in Salt Lake we had to take Trena to Scott's and head to the North family reunion, but we made a quick stop at the cemetery and then to see the babies before getting to our responsibilities :)

We hadn't seen the babies since they were exactly one month old at Christmas time, and now they are 6 1/2 months! They are so beautiful and my Kayleigh and Taylor make great parents.

Ava and baby Kenzie

Ava felt like such a big girl!

Katrena and Kaden

This was the only chance we had to get a picture of all the cousins together, I really hope Kay got better ones on her camera. I put Brent in charge and he only took four!!! And none of them are very good.

Trena wanted a picture with her aunts before she left, she thinks of them as her sisters more than aunts : )

Pizazz

Lucky for me I was home for my sister Karey's year end dance show Pizazz. This is the big send off for the drill team at her High School, the Excaliburs. It was really fun for me because I had missed all of her competitions this year and hadn't seen her team dance once.

Here she is with her escort, our dad



Ava and Taylor danced to all the fun music

Her name sign

This is one of my sister Kayleighs best friends Danielle, she danced in the alumni dance. Kayleigh would have loved to have danced too, but teaches kickboxing on the nights they practiced. These are Danielle's little sisters and two of Katrena's best friends in the world, Caroline and Charlotte.

Karey with my parents


The Kirk/Jex family came to watch her and their son brother who danced in the flexcaliburs, back in my dad's day they were called the sexaliburs. Anyways a bunch of boys picked by the girls on the Excaliburs are taught one number by the team and perform it at pizazz. The number always has kicks, and things taken from the girls competition piece. Its always a lot of fun to watch.

Rosalie, Kaylee, Emily, Karey and Jordan and the little one down front is .


Karey and Ava


Kayleigh, myself, Karey and Ava (sure wish Trena was in this photo), did I mention I am the only lame o girl in my family that wasn't on the drill team. Now there were multiple reasons why, A) I am the oldest my parents couldn't afford dance with me growing up and B) lets be honest I've always been the fatty in the family. Some how I didn't inherit the same skinny gene that the other three possess. Now if you really know me and life story, you would find this extremely funny. Did I mention I'm a carbon copy of my dad (I love you daddy) :)


Ava loved Aunt Karey's colorful flowers


Karey with Kayleigh's other best friend Chelsea (also another former drill team girl)


Afterwards we went to Five Guys Burger and Fries, super yummy

And Ava discovered just how yummy fry sauce really is

Randoms from our Spring Break trip

My husband lives to get things for free, and both of our parents homes had multiple things he'd received for free. So while we were there we had a "bingmas" and opened all of daddy's free stuff.

While we were at Tai Pan trading they had baby chicks there for spring. Ava really wanted to hold one and was upset that she couldn't

Aunt Karey had some friends over for a movie, and one of her friends works for a movie theater, so they brought over this huge bag of popcorn.

Aunt Karey also got this huge lamb as present while we were there, Ava thought it was quite wonderful.

Playing with our puppets from Quilted Bear "hop hop cheep cheep" is what Ava says as she bounces them up and down.


When Ava was born my dad and Tyler bought her her first camo shirt, it finally fits her.


Exploring Grandma and Grandpa North's backyard, Ava loves the bridge



And what would a trip to Utah be without snow, the lovely two days of snow ruined our plans to go to Wheeler Farm and see the baby animals, we were definitely bummed about that.


Ava loved Great Grandma Hansen's baby doll


and playing with all of Grandma's little guys

And Uncle Taylor was definitely giving Daddy a run for his title as favorite, but Daddy always wins in the end.

And poor Grandpa, Miss Ava had the hardest time warming up to him, I truly believe its the mustache, he's the only person she knows with one. He really had to work hard for his "yuck yuck" kisses.