To all out there that don't have Facebook. Her is the up date on Tonya. She was 30 wks on Friday Nov 13th and all is still well. Ashley I wish you had facebook I post more there but I keep ya updated. How is everything in your part of the woods? Good I hope tell your family high. Thanks for all your concerns

Matt and Tonya are having a boy, due in January. They are going to name him Trey. Braxton is so excited. Stay tuned for updates

New family picture. Matt seems to think this is the last for 5 years, not. He will be having a new addition to his family in January so there will be more to follow. Fall is in the air and i'm hating it. Don't want to see winter, hopefully it will go fast. More of family pictures to follow.

It's been a while since i have posted on my blog. Call it lame, call it lazy, or just to busy. Whatever the cause it is no excuse. I look on peoples blogs all the time and they are posting things all the time. When I started this blog I told myself I was going to be the same way... wrong. Recently the other night, I and one of my good friends decided we would update. I posted pictures, we went on her blog and posted... We are both slackers, sorry Tawhnye, but we are and we will get better.
This last year we have had some trying times. I lost a brother last July, a niece in November and a truely great friend in a bad fire in April. You can not turn back time, all we have our memories. Memories that are so bad sometimes that it hurts. Why things happen like they do, we don't know. I recently went to a bridal shower and my cousin said to me "why don't you have anything new on your blog. They live in Logan and I realize now that is really the only way you keep in touch with family. July 20th 2009 was the 1 year anniversary of my brother passing away, we went up the canyon where we spread his ashes, my dad mad a headstone with his name and we just sat around and talk about things that had gone in this camp ground growing up as children. MEMORIES!!!! you can't take them away. I will miss my friend, I will my niece, I will really miss my brother. I wrote on my friends blog this same thing I am about to write on mine, not quite in the same words but means the same.
Some times in life, you stop to think about things... We grow up, we grow old, we lose friends, and we gain more. True friends stay with you all your life... What we gain from them keeps us strong. We will never know why the people have came into our lives is for a purpose.
They stop on our door steps, they drive down our streets. You see them in your dreams and you hope they never leave. I wrote this on my friends blog a couple of days of ago.
A year ago July 20th 2008, I lost someone close to my heart. My BROTHER, my FRIEND, Wade, but I gained some friends close to his heart. I don't know what I would ever do without them. They have helped Dan and I threw the last year. Without them, and they know who they are, I don't know what we would have ever done. I lost a brother but gained a sister and brother. Someone whom I will be so ever greatful for. I hope I never loose the special friends, the person who went away, sent to me. Wade always said to her, "that's where my sister lives." And her promise to me is to never ever forget. Luv ya till the end Thelma!!!!

What we've been up to (just for Ashley)

I'm not going...I'm stayin' in the mountains

Playing kick ball

Lovin' my shelby girl

The boys "discussing" how to load the wood trailer

dirty cheese!!

Camping

Brax's birthday present

Brax turned four this month

Fishing at Scofield

My new Helmet my Unlce Randy and Aunt Tawhyne bought me

Granny Greats Happy B-Day

Well it has been a while since I have told about our lives. Recently we had our family picture taken. One which we posted a while ago, but I will post more. It was a great day doing this. My niece took them and she done a great job. Last year we had dam fam pictures taken it was so hard to get the fam together. I think we even started in September, and I wanted to make a family tradition and do it every year. I remember looking at my family pictures and I was a baby the first time and 14 the next time, boy did I change. But anyway I did not tell the kids (the boys anyway) until the day before so they could not come up with any excuses. Until the day of pictures they said Melissa could probabley just scan our faces and take a picture of our shirts and she can put that in also, yea right no way I'm the boss. We have had a lot go on this year with Braxton having surgery, the passing of my brother and my Dad's 12 years of having a new heart. We are really thankful for all the good. My dad is doing great and we had a party for him, oh and yes I do have pictures and will post them at a later date. We had a really good time and a lot of family and friends came. Uncle Clint and Aunt Denise and Ashley and her daughter was there. It was really great. Dad was really excited to see everyone. Melissa, Randall and Jess and Jason and his family came also. Our great friends Tawyhne and Randy and the kids came. Hailee was here and Jake wished he could have been here. We also decided to go camping on Labor day weekend, and yes of course we only took one trailer, mine, but it was fun and I would not have given that weekend away for anything. It was Braxtons first time of finally trying to pee outside and finally was completed, now we have a hard time getting him to go in the house. (just kiddin he is doing really great).

Today was Braxton's trip back to the hospital 6 months after surgery. He is doing really great the spastic team (that's what they call the doctors who done the surgery) was really excited how great he is doing. They said he far above what they thought he would be. We are so thankful that everything turned out as good as it did. We really want to thank Jenny and Kent. Braxton had never been blessed, and Kent did this. He also gave him a blessing just before he had his operation. I am not a go to church every Sunday like I should do, but did in the past. But I really feel like this helps. I was really nervous about the surgery before this, but after the blessing I felt like everything would be o.k. And I am thankful it was. Anyway Brax does not need to go back to primary's until June of 09, this is wonderful. It is really sad when you go this place and see the children that can't talk and can't walk, they are in wheel chairs and we are so grateful that we have what we have, and not anything worse. No matter what we would love him to the full extent. Well I hope this posts and I don't mess anything up because the girls are usually helllllllllllping me.