Bend Photo Shoot

So a couple weeks ago I drove with the kids to Bend OR, thanks to my Amazing Aunt Kathy. The kids had a great time playing with their cousins and having the freedom of running outside. It was fun to see my grandma and grandpa Moss. My grandma helped me look threw a big bin of old photos of our family and told me about who the different people were. I took my camera with every intention of capturing our trip on film but of course i left the memory card in our laptop back in bozeman...dang it! Anyways it was a great extended weekend of shopping, dinning, movie watching, chatting, ZUMBA (my aunt Amanda teaches and shes A-mazing!), and family time. My Aunt Kathy is a fabulous photographer with such amazing props and costumes to die for! So of course I could not leave Bend without my kids getting in front of her camera. Here is a little taste of the pics!

Opinions PLEASE!!!

Ok so its official! Im going to start an Etsy shop, but I need a name for my line of whimsical girl clothing. I have narrowed it down to a few but i REALLY need your input!

1. Mi Chelle Belle
2. Chelley Pai
3. Miss Chelley Belle

OK now comment and tell me which one you like, try to take into account, something catchy, cute and memorable!

THANKS!

Car Ride

Every since Huggies (i think) came out with that new commercial of a little boy riding his Lightning McQueen threw his house, Chris and i have REALLY wanted to bust Nehemiah's out of storage and let him finally ride it again. So we did, the weather wasnt great, the wind was blowing like 100MPH and it was COLD but Nehemiah didnt care. We took him up to a gravel parking lot on campus, that doesnt get used much, and let him RIDE.

He was so excited he wanted to take his sister for a ride...

VERY cute but Michelle wasnt too much into the cold wind so her and I headed to the car to eat some left over chips from lunch

It was a fun little family trip, glad we took Nehemiah, its been way to long since he last got to ride his car.

the wind was pretty intense you can see from his face LOL. Now he is CONSTANTLY asking about his "big car". Hopefully we get some better days to make these trips a little more enjoyable for the rest of us. But, until then we'll suck it up for our boy!

Bozeman "Beach"

We have had a few AMAZING days in Bozeman so one one of thoes days (when chris didnt have to work) we took the kids to the BEACH!!!! hahaha well thats what the locals call it anyways. We had a great time soaking in the sun rans we havn't felt since we left San Diego, while the kids played in the "sand". While we were there a local news crew showed up, and because we were the only ones there asked us to do an interview....thank you to my husband he let me take the spotlight (I did NOT want to). Then they filmed the kids for a while as they played. The story played that night and luckily the edited almost my whole interview out because i sounded so dang stupid...haha. Anyways it was a really fun family trip, with our PB&J's, waterbottles, bubbles, sand castle molds, buckets, and shovels. Thank you for the fabulous day Bozeman, please bring more!

The Rocks Blessing

Sunday was a very special day for our family. Not only did we get to celebrate our Moms, and think about all they have done and sacrificed for us to be where we are today, but it was Rocky's blessing day as well. Since Chris is stuck working Sundays and can't make it to church we got special permission to do it at home. Thats not the only special permission requested for the day, Elder Butler also got special permission to be able to come over and be apart of the blessing. So Chris, Elder Butler, Elder Senior, and Brother Pulsiver (our home teacher and new 2nd counselor in the Bishopric) stood in the circle and blessed the baby. Chris did a fantastic job on the blessing, I couldn't be more proud...



Brock was also able to skype home from our house on Mothers Day. So amazing we get to have these experiances!

Bowling

It was snowing yesturday so we decided it would be fun to take the kids bowling...something we havn't done since we had Michelle. So we took them down to The Bowl and enjoyed some good ol' bowling. We of course got a bumper lane (for chris) haha, picked out some balls and got the little ramp thing for the kids and started bowling. Nehemiah ran out a couple times onto the lane, thus falling flat to his back, and Michelle did it one time but quickly learned her lesson. There was an Senior Tournament going on so the kids got alot of attention.

Michelle had a good time. She was always jumping out of her seat in anticipation for her turn (believe it or not).





Nehemiah was always excited for his turn, he couldnt wait to pick a ball, toss it down the ramp, and watch it hit the pins. VERY CUTE!





Chris showing some skill...

Elder Butler for dinner....AGAIN!!!

I feel so lucky to be able to see Brock while he is out on his mission. He has truly grown into a spiritual giant out here and its only been a year. Brock and his companion come over for dinner on Monday again, somehow Brock got that set up. We ate one of his favs, Stoffers Meat sauce lasagna. The kids were excited to see him again, it was nice that they remembered him because Brock really hasn't been able to spend time with my kids hardly at all since I've had them. Weird I think he's seen them more on his mission than before he got called...lol. Anyways he's doing really well, he's very happy, and his knitting skills have drastically improved! Here are a few pictures i snapped.

Sunday Photo Shoot

I had initially sat the baby up on the couch so i could snap a few pics of him before i changed his clothes, but its not always that easy when you have Mr. Hollywood always wanting in the pic...


So I decided i needed to take pics of all the kids, they were still dressed cute from church, I'm sure glad I did!

LOVE

BIG SIS



BROTHERS

The Rock himself

Aren't they the cutest!? I love my babies!

Happy BIrthday Camille Rosa!

Today is my spunky little sisters bday, so i thought i would just write a quick blog to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTER! I hope it was a happy one! I love you and wish i could have been there to celebrate!

This picture is when my mom chaproned camille with her Show Stoppers (and my prego self tagged along) at Disneyland in December.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Ok so im a couple days behind, but better late than never right? I was thinking out St. Patricks day all morning and I didn't really have the energy to do a big craft mess or anything with the kids so i just decided to change the color of lunch. I bought the Annie's brand of Shells and White Cheddar cheese (so i could succesfully dye it green) and added food coloring to the water that the shells were cooking in, then i also added food coloring to the milk before i poured it in the mixture. So they had green mac and cheese and i dyed thier ranch dressing green, dyed their milk green, and seved them some yummy green grapes (and orange oranges and carrots). They both ate it! I was certainly supprised considering Nehemiah doesnt eat anything thats green! It was fun and the kids enjoyed it!

The Mask

We have this ski mask in our house, not sure where it came from, but its black and we figured how scared Michelle was of it one time when we went sledding Chris grabbed it to wear and Michelle freaked out, so Chris didnt wear it. It is well known in our house that the ski mask is scary and Michelle doesnt like it.

Today, our instigater (Michelle) got Nehemiah spanked, we figured out after the fact it wasn't Nehemiahs fault, Michelle just knows when to scream to get him in trouble. A few minutes after the spanking we here Michelle screaming followed by Nehemiah laughing. So Chris peaked around to corner to see what was going on, come to find Nehemiah putting the infamous ski mask on and standing with it on in front of her till she was blue in the face from screaming, then he'd take it off and laugh.

This is Michelle just looking at the mask on the floor...


This is our scary boy wearing the mask ******Michelle already had gone to bed******* He and Daddy were having a good time scaring eachother.



SCARY HUH? Maybe....just maybe Michelle learned not to mess with her brother. I'll keep my fingers crossed but i wont count on it.