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 :)

Family trip to SLC...

We decided to do a little family weekend getaway together in October! It was UEA wkd and we actually had Brooklynn which rarely happens so we jumped right on it and planned a little vaca! We headed to SLC Thursday and went straight to the Gateway Mall. There we went to the Planetarium! Kids had a blast -

Brooky is washed out but it was such a cute pic I still had to post it! After we were done at the Gateway we went and checked into our Hotel! Had dinner at one of my favorite places, Macaroni Grill, then back at the hotel we all went swimming together, very nice place! Friday we got around and went to the zoo! Spent pretty much the whole day there - kids were loving it there, big animal lovers in this family!

After the zoo we went and rested for a bit at the hotel before dinner. We went to a really yummy authentic Dominican place to eat in Sandy. Our friends from the Dominican Republic discovered it and we were going to meet them there but they had sick kids and decided to not risk it. But Brant came and met us after he got off work and it was a good visit w/him! I think it's more Porto Rican food but so close to the Dominican food it still felt like we were back there - Great place! It's been too long now I forget the name of it :( Then back to the Hotel again after a long day! The kids and Brian went swimming for a little bit but baby and I stayed back this time! Then we packed up everything Saturday morning and checked out of the Hotel, on our way back home we went to Lagoon which they call in October Frightmares! It was really cool to go during this time since we've never got to experience it before! Perfect weather - great fun and yummy food!! Once it got dark all the workers started coming out dressed in costumes and scaring people! All the haunted houses were opened up and we only went into the 'kid friendly' ones of course but they still got a little scare out of them which was fun!
Lately since being a mother I haven't been into haunted houses I've gotten wimpy but I think the old me kinda came out that night - I REALLY wanted to go to the Scariest one's and probably would have if the kids weren't there but that's what we do for the kids! I think it was better I didn't go though I probably would of had nightmares the rest of the week!!!
The kids had a great time on the rides and played lots of games! Brooklynn was barely short enough for the kiddy rides w/Spencer so it was great that they could go on all the rides together but for sure next year she will be too tall! Poor Spencer though he wasn't tall enough for some of the stuff Brooklynn went on he was very sad about not getting to go on the bumper cars...they had the kiddy one shut down to have the haunted house in for the kids so he was really upset but poor Brian and Brooklynn ended up in a car that didn't go at all and so they had to sit in it the whole time and didn't even get to enjoy it - just wasn't our year for bumper cars ;-)

Then we were off back to Logan - home sweet home! It was a great little trip but it's ALWAYS nice to get home and in your own bed!!! Especially when sleeping in the same hotel room as all the kids! Not the most joyful experience - but building good memories I guess :)