John and Karlee's Wedding

My brother, John, recently got married to a wonderful girl! We all love Karlee and are so glad that she is a part of our family now! 

Lacey especially loves Karlee!  She always wants Karlee to paint her fingernails.  Karlee has an amazing collection of fingernail polish and Lacey loves the attention Karlee gives her.

All the sisters: Larissa, Brittany, Brooke, Karlee, Briana, Bridget

Bridget, Briana, Brooke and Brittany

Karlee with all her new nieces.

John with all the boys.

We had fun going back to Arizona for the wedding.  We drove down the first weekend of November.  We were sad that Ben had to work, so he couldn't come with us.  So I made the trek on my own.  I with I had more pictures of John and Karlee at the Temple, but I was busy chasing kids around.  :)

Jared's Farewell

My brother, Jared, left on his Mission to Eugene, OR in September.  We all gathered to say good-bye to him.  We had lots of foods and lots of fun!

Carson enjoying his food

My niece, Mayley

My cousins, Wesley and Thomas

Grandpa and Grandma Reed talking with Aunt Bridget and Daisy

Sweet Daisy

Adam, Briley, Carson, Calvin and Caleb

Dayton, Tillison and Ashton

Jared and the food table

My little cousin, Mary

Little Lacey

Mary and Lacey

My brothers: John, Jared and James

James, Sam, John, Jared, President Solomon, Grandpa Reed and Wes

Jared and President Solomon

We are so proud of him and his decision to serve a mission!

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween!  We went to our Ward's Trunk or Treat party one night and then we went over to Uncle Wade and Aunt Shelly's house for Trick or Treating.  All the kids took home loads of candy and had a fantastic time!

Lacey was a Princess.  She loves to twirl!  I had to take lots of pictures because I made her dress without using a pattern.

Ashton was Spiderman!  He is super strong by the way...

I don't know what Caleb is...they kept changing costumes.

I think Calvin is Napolean Dynamite and Devin is Mr. Incredible.

As you can see, Devin has been working out as well.

I think Carson just got out of the shower and decided not to dress up for Halloween!

Isn't this just the cutest picture? Daisy was a bumblebee.  My friend let me borrow this cute little costume!

Family Hike

Last month Ben had a day off of work, so we decided to go on a hike.  We live at the base of the Franklin Mountains. So it only took us about 10 minutes to get to the hiking spot we went to.  

It was beautiful and didn't even seem like we live in town!  

Here is Daisy before our trip.  I carried her in a carrier on my back.  Ben had Lacey in a carrier as well.

Devin was so excited to go hiking!

Ben and Lacey ready to start!  We were all unloading from the van and getting ready.  We brought snacks and the boys packed their own back packs.

Here is a picture of the start of the hike.  Isn't it pretty?  We didn't do the full hike because it started to get dark, so we turned back.  But we will definitely have to go back and do the full hike!

It started to get dark fast!

Carson, Caleb and Devin

We had to hike back to the van in the dark. Luckily, it wasn't to far and it's a lot easier to go down the mountain than up!

Happy Birthday Devin!

We celebrated Devin's 6th Birthday in September!  He is growing so much!  He has started Kindergarten this past year and loving it!  He does all his homework for the whole week on Monday!

He has also started playing the piano this year also and he does very good.  He memorizes songs really fast!

Calvin and I made the cake for Devin.  He wanted balloons on the cake.

Now we have some talented wrappers in this family!  Funny thing, I went out and bought some really cute birthday wrapping paper just for his birthday and then the boys came out this the presents looking like this!  I think they took all the Christmas wrapping paper and tore pieces off and then pieced it together.  What in the world?!

White Sands

Last month we took a little road trip with Ben's aunt and uncle.  We drove to New Mexico and spent the day at White Sands.  I had never heard of it before, but it is a National Monument, and it is exactly what it says it is...a bunch of white sand!

We all had so much fun and stayed for hours!  There are large hills, where the kids spent racing down on "sleds".  They also built forts and buried each other.  Ben and Uncle Wade even built stairs into the sand to make it easier to go up!  And they worked great!

Calvin waiting for the trip to begin.

The famous sand staircase!

Devin and Lacey had fun burying Heidi and Calvin!

Here is our "campsite".

Carson and Alli building their fort.

Good times, good food, good company!

We had so much fun! And with it being just over one hour away, we will definitely be going back!  We had to pretty much drag the kids to the cars to leave!