Category: Nettesheim

Corn Belly’s 2011

October 22, 2011 admin No Comments

It’s that time of year… Thursday night we went to Corn Belly’s with some of the cousins – the Wrights and Falabellas. Each year they add to what they already had and it gets better and better. My only complaint is that it gets more and more expensive each year also. The weather was PERFECT and we had a blast.

Our Night went a Little Like This …

cute farm animals

our little piggy

Packer and Benji on the wagon

Benji and Rosie in the wagon

Diego and Lalo racing the ponies

This is when we woke Cali up so she wouldn't miss Cinderella... she's been wearing her new cinderella shirt from Brinlee and LOVING it

We all played in the corn!

Benji on top of the train

Cali and mom riding the cow train

me and ALL my kids - watching the PIG RACES!

next we rode the pedal cars!

all the girls on the spider web

The Hay Pit - Dad with his girls

The SCARY hay ride - Benji covered his eyes for all of the scary guys!

Packer Lassoing some bulls

Falabella's on the big wagon ride

Emily and her crew on the bumpy wagon ride

Rose entertaining everyone on the ride, she was plugging her ears and growling and just being funny

We spent the last 45 minutes or so on some really fun bounce houses. The kids ran and played and just kept on going. One of them was a little scary – I had to go on and pull Cali out but that didn’t slow any of them down. They loved this addition this year. And we did the big Pillow jumping at the very end.

We played hard from 7-10pm and 3 of the 4 crashed on the ride home.

Categories: General, Nettesheim

Fall Break!

October 21, 2011 admin 1 Comment

A Perfect Park Day!

everyone racing to the top of the slides

The kids didn’t have school yesterday or today and they are loving it. We are just taking it easy at home for the break but the kids are all playing hard. Yesterday I took them to the park in the afternoon for a couple of hours and they had a blast…

Packer, Cali and Brinlee in the berry bush

Brinlee posing by the FAST slide

Packer showing me his rock

Packer and a berry

Benji Posing for a pic

Packer wanted to pose by this slide like we did with family this summer

Cali getting her hair out of her face for the picture

Ta Da!

the big kids spent most of their time exploring the hill

Rose spent her time EATING

This weather has been awesome. It is perfectly warm and cool at the same time!

Categories: General, Nettesheim, Robertson

slip n slide, weekend fun and other updates

July 24, 2011 admin 1 Comment

hammock time

We spent a Friday evening at Matt and Jamie’s sitting around the fire pit and making smore’s and laying in the hammock with cousins.

ROSE loves Food - this morning she ate an entire orange! and She LOVED it.

Ryan had a few days off this week and he finished framing, installed plumbing and hooked up the electrical for our bathroom/laundry room!! I’d like to say that I helped alot but mostly I just ran to Ace or Home Depot and got things we neeed when Ryan needed them. Anyone want to come do the sheet rock? that’s the next step.

Ryan at work

On Friday Ben had the day off so we went up to the park with Ryan and Tara and their kids. We set up a slip n slide and brought a picnic lunch and had a blast. Here is the proof…

Packer - love the smile

Taylee could cruise down!

Kylee flying past Cali.

Benji trying to get some speed - he got braver and faster each time.

I like this one with Brinlee and Cali at the bottom. Brinlee LOVED the slide.

I took some fun video but I’m still not video savvy on my blog so you’ll have to take my word for how much fun it was and just imagine Ryan and Ben and I flying down and doing amazing tricks 🙂

lunch time

Friday evening Ben and I watched the last Harry Potter and ate at The Harvest at Thanksgiving Point. He actually received an award at work and part of the award was the day off of work and an evening out all expenses paid! So we enjoyed an evening with no kids and the next morning we took the motorcycle up the American Fork Canyon for a scenic ride. It was fun but we will need to upgrade the motorcycle before I go any further than that 🙂

21 miles into AF Canyon

Saturday evening we went out for Udine’s birthday. We had sandwiches at the Thanksgiving Point Cafe before watching Captain America (I know, 2 movies in 2 nights – both at the Â theater with NO kids! Can’t remember ever doing that – We were spoiled this weekend and it was awesome.) As tradition goes we grabbed shakes at JCW’s and then we came home and met up with cousins at Udine’s house for fireworks to celebrate the 24th!! Now it is Sunday… calm and relaxing. We are enjoying our down time.Â Summer is flying by – I really wouldn’t mind if it slowed down a little…

Categories: Nettesheim, Robertson

Remember that…

July 15, 2011 admin 1 Comment

Remember that… breakfast that I blogged about last week? that one where my brother was making it and I was excited – well he made it and…

the forgotten biscuits

luckily this picture is just of the biscuits that were an after thought to the yummy spanish potato omelette that I had already filled up on. He wanted me to try the omelette that the ladies used to make for him on the mission and it was yummy and filling. Then we started a game and left the biscuits in just a little too long.

Remember that… day we went to the Mona rope swing? oh yeah that was just this past Monday and it was a lot of fun. I had my 4 kids and Ryan had his 4 kids and Brady brought 2 friends. We grabbed some snacks and played at the rope for a few hours. It wasn’t kid friendly for swimming but they loved climbing the trees.

Brady got tangled in the rope and about ripped his arm off on his first swing.

The main platform. Benj and Pack just wanted to sit up there.

Packer and his cousins doing a little swimming.

Rose had a real picnic getting her hands on any snacks she could... and I took a lot of video so I don't have any good pictures of actually swinging.

Remember that… unfinished Laundry room in my house? well Ryan jumped in and started framing it this week! I am excited to get it all finished down there.

Here's what we have to work with after getting all of our storage stuff out of there.

Remember that… day back in February when I opened that Jewelry box and found a coupon for a soccer team inside?! that was awesome and we just finished that soccer team/league and we LOVED it! We dominated during regular play and lost one game in the tournament so LaNell talked them into giving us the champion shirts! I’m sad it is over but I am still on a women’s team so I won’t complain.

Our last Game - we had to play without Michelle but she should be in this picture.

Remember that… Brother I have that is on a mission? He comes home in 11 days! I can’t believe how fast that 2 years went. Sean and all of my siblings, parents and most of their families are coming out here in August – I AM EXCITED.

Remember that… week that my Brother Ryan and his kids were at my house and I volunteered to help Michelle and Udine with their kids? that was this week and it has been crazy. We have played with cousins non stop, had more cousins over, gone to movie day at the other cousins and just been non stop going. I am tired. But we fit in dinner out at red Robin last night, my brother Josh slept over on Tuesday night, and we played lots of Dominion and games to keep us all sane 🙂 and now Ryan’s kids are off to St. George and Udine picks his kids up in the next hour or two and all will be too quiet and Benji will beg for cousins! 🙂

Mia and Cali

Brinlee and Cali - - if these 2/3 year olds are happy then we can all be happy.

Categories: General, Nettesheim, Robertson

6/18/2011

June 18, 2011 admin No Comments

Strawberry Days Parade!! If you live in PG then you know what I’m talking about and there is a good chance you were also there this morning 🙂

all the kids waiting for the parade to start

Ben and Rose in parade position - what a happy baby!

After the parade we gave the boys a new challenge – 2 weeks ago was the freezing hot tub challenge and today was running in, through and around the sprinklers x-amount of times challenges. I guess we’re trying to toughen these guys up or atleast get them out and away from the computers. I don’t have pictures but I will note that Benji always made Packer go first and Cali insisted on doing whatever challenge the boys tried.

This evening we spent celebrating Ben’s Father at a family barbecue. We had a great time visiting and eating. The Nettesheim “over preparation” definitely comes from their mother – we had enough food to munch all evening and still bring home leftovers. We love having family so close and are grateful for awesome Dads that love and serve and help. Happy Father’s Day!

Categories: Nettesheim

6/16/2011

June 18, 2011 admin 1 Comment

An afternoon at the park in Cedar Hills with some cousins…

PJ, Benji and Packer, Pack is mid jump and wearing winter clothes and boots in the blazing heat.

Cali being pampered by all of the older girl cousins.

Rose and Anna playing catch.

My view from where I sat while kids played.

Everyone loves to go UP the slides - Benji is growing up fast.

Out of Control in a good way! Cali can be a crazy fun little girl when she chooses to be.

Categories: Benji, Cali, Nettesheim, Packer, Rose

My Baby has Teeth!

June 13, 2011 admin No Comments

Michelle came over today and showed me that Rose has two little teeth just barely cutting through on the bottom! I kept looking for them and thinking she should be getting them but they were not there and today THEY ARE!

I tried to get a picture but they are barely there and she was not cooperating.

Diego leading the skateboard Races!!

6 cousins in the hot tub - love it - and I love that I took Rose "swimming" just she and I, earlier in the day.

Categories: Nettesheim, Rose

Easter EGGS

April 25, 2011 admin No Comments

Posting our EGG pictures.Â We colored eggs on Saturday and hunted lots of eggs with the Utah cousins. Then we hunted some more eggs Sunday after dinner with the Falabella cousins. The kids had a blast and have Over Loaded on candy.

Dyeing our Eggs !

Cali and Anna!

Packer and Sam!

Benji and Packer helping Alessandro.

Rose wanted the candy so bad...

love this face

and this face

VICTORY!

CHeesERs

The End of the Egg Hunts for 2011

Categories: Nettesheim

St. George Fun

April 23, 2011 admin No Comments

It has become tradition to go to the condos in St. George every spring break… Benji has seriously been counting down since Christmas. We went Thursday night and came home Sunday. We spent all day Friday at Sand Hollow State Park playing in the sand and the cold water. All day on the beach is one of my favorite ways to spend a day. On Saturday we spent the day at the condo – we hit the playground and then swam ALL afternoon at the pool. I couldn’t believe how long the kids lasted. They loved the kiddie pool and then put their life jackets on and loved the big pool. The only downer was when we went to custard that evening and each if my 4 children decided to be whiny and loud and out of control. We discovered yummy salsa and queso at Don Pedro’s, Cali got her first real sunburn, and we just enjoyed our little vacation with family.