HIRSCHI PLACE: Cousins

Thursday, November 3

Life always revolves around TIME...

Since time is the reason I never post on my blog then I obviously don't have time for a LONG catch up post so I'll try and just keep it to a couple pic's per month as much as I can and give the 'short' version of this past year since I've posted last - here it goes!!
February~

Happy Birthday 1yr old! (He wasn't so sure about the cake as you can tell)

Happy Valentines Day! And Brian and I celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary too :)

March~

James became famous, he/we got interviewed for a fundraiser on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia's!

Happy 4th Birthday Spencer!!

Zaxton, Gracie & James at their combined Birthday party!

Had a combined party for the 3 cousins all born w/in weeks of each other!

April~

BYU Women's Conference - Stayed at my beautiful friends place in Park City, good times!

Spring Break in Las Vegas - took Brooklynn & Ezzy to The Lion King - amazing!

Girls Weekend in Arizona w/my besties from High School and forever!!

Spencer on his bike w/out training wheels for the first time like he was a pro :)

Happy Easter and General Conference Weekend :)

May~

Spencer graduating his year of swim lessons!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Graduated his first year at All Academy Preschool :)

June~

Spencer @ 11mths

James @ 16mths - at least James gave me 5mths longer till the terrible two's started...

Spencer's 1st season of Soccer - and he played T-Ball as well all in Bear Lake!

July~

All the Penning grand kids w/their gifts from Grandma & Grandpa from Italy!

Exactly what me and my 3 girl cousins would be doing when we were growing up in the summers :)

Happy Birthday Mommy!

Good times at the Hirschi Hideout...

August~

Ice Skating in the middle of summer :) Brooky missed out :(

Hooley's visited us in Bear Lake - Awesome family!

School day's & carpooling begins...

Lagoon day - very hot day but FUN!

The new 'official' McCracken family, got 3 new incredible niece and nephew's!

September~

Bear Lake Heritage Day's - 'Fish Catch' poor Spencer was super scared of doing it for some reason...

Sunday Hike w/Randi and the kiddo's up Limber Pine Trail in Logan Canyon!

First day of his 2nd yr of Preschool for Spencer - James REALLY wanted to go too!

Our awesome friends Becky & Eric, he rode in Lotoja and I got to be a cheerleader at the Montpelier stop :)

October~

Traditional pumpkin carving FHE night!!

Boo at the Zoo - Grandpa Hirschi took them while sitting for us during our trip!

Traditional Fall picnic at Green Canyon w/fishing and hiking!!

Pumpkin Walk at Elk Ridge Park!

We got the opportunity to go to Cancun, Mexico in October as well so I'll leave that for the next post b/c there's so many great pic's and this is already full of so many - so to be continued :) Hope you all had a great summer and just recently Halloween now onto Thanksgiving and the holiday's I just can't believe there already here - soooo crazy but lots of fun to be had :)

Friday, October 22

Arizona Memories...

This year General Conference was quite different then I'm used to - usually we spend it at the hideout w/Brian's family in St. Charles or here at home and sometimes w/my family from Washington! But this year I had the opportunity to spend it in AZ w/all the Hirschi women - aunt's, cousins, sister's, mom's, sis-in-laws and NO kids! Well other then the 3 nursing babes of course but they were so good the whole time it felt like it was still 'just the girls'! It was James' first airplane ride and my first time in Arizona, well more then just the airport anyway! Made so many fun memories and got to meet and get to know people in Brian's family I've never met or seen much! Some came all the way from Canada, Colorado & Oregon! We had a lot of funny stories to tell, yummy food, swimming at Krista's pool, fleet markets, more food, General Conference in between everything else and getting to see Aunt Colleen's new house and witness her pure gratitude and happiness to finally have a place close to her kids! Such a beautiful moment :) Some of the hubby's came but stayed w/Grant at their new place and only crashed at Angela's house on Sunday evening but fun to have them there! Then at the end of the trip Brian's cousin Laura decided to shave her head!! Some thought she was crazy and some scared for her but she is so adventurous and has always wanted to and thought it would be cool to do it in the midst of all her family! So she did it and it was definitely great entertainment and will always be remembered! Fun times!! Oh ya and I think I offered my home for the next one since everyone decided they want to make this a tradition every couple years! Sorry babe but it looks like it's happening - It will be lot's of fun though and I love hosting things and having a house full - that's what homes are for to be filled w/good people, good food and good times! Thanks to Angela for hosting it this year and I can't wait till we do it again - at my place :)