Winter Overload

We got another new niece in February- Allyson Kathleen Egan! We love her, Ben thinks she is pretty cool, the best part about her is she lives about a mile away so we get to see her all the time but I still get to sleep through the night!
Our family keeps growing! We got 2 new nieces on my side and now we are getting 2 new nephews on Danny's side! Lots of fun with cousins
Drake & Ben, need I say more, cutest little buddies!
Heading over to the park for a little sledding


So much snow, this is why we still have a mound of snow in the front yard!
Family ski night, we were planning on taking turns with Ben in the lodge but once he figured out he could be out on the slopes there was no going back in
Will and Drew tore up the slopes, very brave and good little skiiers

Winter Get-a-way

Before this trip the longest I had ever left Ben was for about 4 hours. I couldn't even get excited for the trip because it made me sick to think about leaving Ben. Well thank goodness to my AMAZING sister Hayley who took Ben for almost the whole time. This was right before we left. I went and put him to bed at Danny's parents and cried. I did pretty good until about Thursday of the trip.

Rock climbing in the Gulf of Mexico!
Roatan, Honduras - this was such a beautiful place. This was probably my favorite stop of the trip.

A little snorkeling, it was great and right off the beach


Cave Tubing in Belize. We were a little nervous when we got off the ship in Belize, it's kind of a dump. Well we took a tour about an hour outside the port up to the mountains. It was beautiful. We went through the jungle and up to a river. It took us through these amazing caves. It was a really great experience and I'm glad we got out of the port.

Cozumel was a little disappointing. We were planning on going scuba diving but when we got off the ship it was really windy and a red flag day so they canceled all the dive trips. It was a little heart breaking to look at that turquoise water and not get in. We ended up having a nice relaxing day at the beach sitting in hammocks. I guess we will just have to go back. (Last time we went to Cozumel I had just found out I was pregnant so I couldn't dive, I think I'm cursed to not dive here)
Enjoying a great dinner,Danny hated the dress up nights. He kept saying don't they know I'm on vacation!
Hard to say good bye to that, but I had a pretty cute little kid waiting for me at home!

ELDER JT is home!

Elder JT is home! I made shirts for all the kids, so when he came down the stairs they were all standing there. Little Ella has a "T" on but she was sleeping. Sarah's family made it by about 30 seconds. We had to leave Logan at 5 am to get down in time. The roads were the worst I have have seen them, but we were all there!
The whole family! What a wonderful day!
I wish I had a picture of my mom when Jeffrey started coming down the stairs, (I have it on the video camera) she went nuts, she stared screaming and jumping up and down.

It didn't take long for all the kids to recruit Jeffrey into help them build their legos. He's the best Uncle ever. We are already feeling the blessing of having him back home again. He has such an incredible spirit. I can't believe want an amazing kid he is. Being around him makes me want to try harder and make some real New Year's resolutions to really improve my spiritual self.I can't wait for him to move back up to Logan next week to start school. I'm excited to have a good babysitter for Ben! When Jeffrey meet Ben he said, it felt like he already knew him and forgot that he hadn't actually ever seen him. He fits right in!
Jeffrey we love you so much and are so happy that you severed an honorable mission and have set such a great example to all your nieces and nephews!

Merry Christmas!

I made this little construction apron for Ben with Dave's construction logo on it! It is stinkin cute!
Santa really spoiled Will and Drew this year, they got a go cart! Oh wait was is Will and Drew or Josh that got spoiled, I don't know who was more excited
We went over to Hayley's for Christmas breakfast and Ben spotted Santa's left over cookies by the fire place and helped himself
A BIKE! This has to be one of the best Christmas mornings I can remember. Ben was so excited to see that bike sitting there. Every time we go to the store we always have to go over to the toy department and let him ride around so we were so excited to actually have one of our own.
Gingerbread house! I think this might have been more mean than fun for Ben, he wanted to eat all the candy and I wouldn't let him. Now its sitting on the counter and he keeps trying to get it. He's like 'hey mom there is candy sitting right there and you want let me eat it'
My mom took all the grandkids and mom's on teh Polar Express up in Heber City. Ben thought it was great to go on the train and especially liked looking out the window at all the lights.
Ben wasn't a huge fan of Santa. I think it was a mixture of being exhausted and a little scared
Pretty cute group of kids! Thanks mom for the memories!

24 hours left!

THIS KID WILL BE HOME IN 23 HOURS AND 58 MINUTES! I can't sleep I'm so excited, so I figured I better post about it! He will come home to a new niece and a new nephew and an 8 month pregnant sister! I just hope this storm isn't to bad so that we can all make it down to the airport in time. I've made some pretty cute shirts for all the kids to be wearing to welcome him home!

The Whole Adams family at Temple square! The last time we all went, Danny and I were dating and we were minus Paige and minus 4 1/2 kids! PS Paige just found out she's having a BOY! Yeah for boy cousins!
A nice little winter blizzard! To bad all the snow is melting now, of course we have snow for Thanksgiving but maybe not for Christmas!

Wynter's 1st birthday party, Pretty stinkin cute Owl party!
Ben really enjoyed Thanksgiving, lots of food and lots of messes! Pretty much everyone was sick on Thanksgiving in the Thompson home so we had it a day later, I wouldn't depress you all and tell you were Danny, Ben and I spent Thanksgiving!

Next post, all of my Christmas crafts, I am a crazy person, for some reason I just keep crafting away, you might ask why I don't post them now, well the Advent Calendar that I've been working on for the last month still isn't done and I keep finding more things to do!!!

Happy Halloween!

Our Lil' Monster BEN! I got a little ambitious this year and made his costume. It turned out so cute and he actually wore it.

Of course Danny wouldn't dress up, he's an Adams and they all hate Halloween, I am trying to change that slowly but surly!
Wynter and Ben, Wynter wanted to check out Ben's horns so we never got a picture of them looking at us, but pretty cute little cousins! We sure were sad we didn't get to see Halle and Madi that were witches and The Pattison's were Star Wars!
Trick or Treat!
At Will's school carnival! Drew was a Dragon and Will a Ninja!
Pumpkin Walk, Ben thought it was pretty cool this year
A fun Halloween party at Hayley's house. We had some fun parties this Halloween but of course I forgot to take pictures of the other one. Let's just say Whitney Watts out did her self yet again.



Gardner Village

Cute cousins!