24th of July in Good O' Snowflake

The 24th of July is always really fun for us! I thought I would post some pictures of us! We had family pictures taken and this is one of them from my camera! After the 24th we went for a week to California! I will post some pictures of that soon!

At the Parade

Me & My Sisters!


Family Picture

Brayden Kay, Jett Smith, Branson Mills

Cousins!

Summer

For anyone who was at some point following our blog I am sure you are long gone due to my lack of time for blogging its been since April that I last updated I am not sure where to start… we are good, we are happy, we are busy, my boys seem to be growing like weeds and I am loving every minuet I get to spend with them! Jeremy is super busy but his new company NewMark Capital it is now up and running (he manages assets). I have been busy with stake primary stuff and keeping up with the house! My boys run circles around me, I run from one mess to the next! Jett is really turning into a fish! He has been swimming in our pool all summer and is doing really good! Kannon is out of control and making it really hard to want any more kids! He is super curious and wants to get his hands on anything and everything but we love him! He is starting to talk and is a super daddy’s boy! All in all we are good, happy and very blessed! These are some pictures of us camping and Kannon with Grandpa Smith!

Brayden and my boys at Jeremy Ball game!

Kannon

Jett

The Family Camping

Grandpa & Kannon mowing the lawn!

April

April has come is almost gone! Time goes by so fast….sometimes too fast! This week in particular has been an emotional one for me. On Monday we laid to rest my Grandpa Mills he was an amazing man who loved his children, grandchildren, and his country. On Friday my parents flew down to the Valley we met them up at the airport and while we were there we got to go on the plane that my Grandfather flew in World War 2 (a B24). I have to say this was one of the most changing experiences of my life! I can’t even image flying in one of those let alone being a nose gunner of one! This was the last known B24 and B17 that fly in existence today! One of the pilots was talking to my Dad and let him go up into the nose gunner area where my grandpa was, my mom and I just cried, he was the only person allowed in that part of the plane! Tears of love and respect fell as I saw my dad trying to squeeze into the nose of the plane! I felt like my grandpa was watching and I seem to think I was watching from somewhere as he flew into combat those over 30 times in the south pacific. It is a miracle after seeing that plane, he made it home safe….I hope I can make him proud when I see him again!! Here are some of the pictures of us on his plane! And a few others some of the other things we have been up too!

Looking towards the back

He had to walk down a 5 inch walk way with really nothing to hold on too and had to turn his shoulder in two spots to the side to fit...if the bomb bay doors were open witch they usually were it was like cat walking down this 6 to 10 foot space with the earth below him open! One trip or bump and you are falling to the earth...then he had to crawl down this little space to get to the nose. His stories are amazing!

Easter with the Boys at my Parents house!

I used my cake at another wedding!

We went to the Gilbert Fire Department for Jetts field trip! We had fun!

Kannon is busy!

One night we went with the Abbotts and the Ballards out to a wash and built a fire and made smores my boys were so dirty....But they had a blast!

Almost every night for the past two weeks we have been getting pizza and have been eating in the car on our way out to Queen Creek to see our horses we have them both down here! Did I mention that we bought another horse?? Lobo is his name! I will post some pictures of him soon! Jeremy has been learning to Rope....yeah Jeremy he is actually pretty good! It has been a fun adventure!

We finally did it! We bought Jett some spurs Ah that kid wears them all over the place! I love it!

My First Wedding Cake!

Jeremy's sister Mindi got married this last weekend! I thought I should post some pictures of the cake I made her! White on white! White fondant with White piping! I was really happy with how it turned out! I was going to do the flowers on top and ended up not doing them and looking back I wish I had I was not in love with the flowers on top but I thought it looked okay! I will try to post more pictures of the wedding soon!

Good Luck DAN and Mindi we love you!

Ice Pickles!

This last shopping trip Jeremy came with us, Jeremy was pushing Jett in the cart they were speed racing all over the store and found some Popsicles so on the way home he asked us if he could have a

"ICE PICKLE"

he has been calling them that all week!

I love it!

Yes we are still HERE!

Yes it has been months since my last update on our blog! I really have just been doing a million other things! So tonight I am playing catch-up! Christmas was awesome we got to spend most of the time with the Mills family so that was fun! And then it was on to the New Year wow 2010 is going to be GREAT! I have been so busy just crafting, cleaning (my goal this year is to be more organized) playing with my boys, shopping, working, cooking and most of all just being a MOM! My boys are so much fun right now….I am having a hard time doing anything else but playing with them all day! Jett is so smart and funny, he is all into super heroes and pretty much anything Jeremy is into! We build forts and work on our letters and pretty much everything under the moon with this kid! Kannon is such a sweet little boy he will be ONE on the 18th WOW time flies! He started walking at 10 months and is now running from me! He is pretty smart too…I have been using sign language with him and his favorite sign is MORE! He says a few words like Mom, Dad, and Ett. He is super friendly to everyone and LOVES FOOD!! He is so sweet! As for Jeremy he has been so busy with work, but doing really well! He is working out of three offices in Tempe, Mesa and Scottsdale so he is always on the move! He will finally graduate in July!!!! So he will be able to test for his CFP I am so excited to see him more! We have been so blessed! I am going to post a few pictures of our life in the past few months! I will try to post again soon and post all my fun crafting projects!

Life is so busy with two boys!

Yeah so last night I got on my blog and yeah it has been since August that I have updated! I thought I should add a few things that we have been up too! Jeremy has been super busy at work and doing really well in July he became an independent advisor and now is working for two companies Alliance Financial Group and company called CSA. We added another addition to our family! Poncho he is our new horse and he is awesome Jeremy and Jett have spent a lot of time with him this summer! We also have Miss Mindi Sue living with us right now and the boys are loving it! As for me I have been pretty busy I just finished a cake decorating class and now starting a volleyball league. With so little time in my life I really just wanted to be a MOM so I quite my job with my beloved KS and now have my full attention on my boys! We have been so blessed the last few weeks I have wondered why I didn’t let go sooner! Jett is super busy he loves to dress up! Every day is Halloween at our house! He is a hunter, cowboy, football player, baseball player or super hero almost everyday! He is so smart and can spell his name and say all is ABC’s! Kannon is almost 8 months this month he is such a sweetheart!! He is everywhere and can crawl and stand up to almost anything! And of course he eats everything he can get his hands on! We have to keep all shoes out of reach!! We are loving life and very happy!! We hope everyone is doing well and hopefully I can stay better caught up on this blog thing!!

These are some of our pictures!

Mr. Kannon

My Boys!

Some roses on my final cake!

We took Aunt Dani with us to the Zoo!

Me & Mindi

More of my Boys

Jeremy, Kannon & Poncho

Poncho

We are still ALIVE!!

This summer has super busy for us...as you can tell it has been like 4 months since my last post! But we are doing really good!! The boys are getting so big, and I am loving every second of being a mom! I am often reminded of a talk given by President Monson he said, “Nothing is as constant as change.” "Be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will—to your surprise—miss them profoundly." One day I asked my Mom if she could go back and change anything about raising us what would it be, she simple said, "Play more and stop worrying about the house so much!" I have tried hard this summer to play more with my boys and it has made all the difference!

My Kannon Bear

Brayden & Jett are two Pea's in a Pod they get together and get into lots of trouble I love it!!

Update!

A few weeks ago, Jeremy, Jett and Joseph went to fathers and sons, they had a blast! (I went to the Olive Garden and played with my girls!) A few of the families had boys that were really sick! And of course Jett came home with it!! We have been down and out with the stomach flu for the past two weeks!! Ah it has been super long for me!! Lots of laundry! But on the bright side of things I just got my NEW VITA MIXER!!!!! I have been wanting one of these for a really long time!! If you know anything about eating raw foods you know about these!! They take any fruit or vegetable back to a cellular level so your body can absorb the nutrients! They are amazing machines!! You can leave the stems on and even put the seeds in ( it will take a whole apple seeds and all to apple sauce in like 10 seconds!) I am in LOVE!! We have been making smoothies and shakes like its going out of style!