Can our baby really be crawling?

Last Sunday (May 18th) we put the boys to bed and Cannon & I were just hanging out with Colter. Cannon set Colter down and came into the kitchen. A few minutes later and went to see Colter on the other side of the family room. I asked Cannon if he set Colter all the way over here. He said "No" and we were shocked to realize he got there all by himself. We went to get the video and this is what we saw. He had a blast chasing this empty water bottle that he just never could quite get a hold of. We love this little guy, 5 months old and crawling, times goes too fast.

Mother's day = Wonderful Husband = Lake Tahoe

Reno Nevada Temple

I am one lucky lady! I have the best husband and kids. For Mother's Day, Cannon gave me a trip to Lake Tahoe. He had it all planned out & even had the babysitting all arrange. We left the day after Mother's day, May 12 and came home late on the 14th. It was a much needed little vacation for just the two of us. My mom kept Colter & Bryson and Cannon's mom kept the older kids, so they could go to school. The weather was perfect and that country is beautiful. The ski resort called Heavenly is there & I definately know why they call it that. This whole place is Heavenly. We biked, hiked and swam (not in Lake Tahoe, way to cold), but our hotel had the nicest indoor pool we have ever seen. It was such a relaxing and fun vacation. We ate at one of the top 10 Steakhouses in the country called Ciera. It was delicious and very romantic. We had our own booth with a curtain surrounding the whole table. Thanks to our parents for keeping the kids. Thanks to my wonderful husband for planning such a wonderful few days away. I love you so much and love vacationing with you!!

P.S. Sorry for the cloudy spot on all the pictures. We are bummed that they are there, but we discovered that the lens had Bryson (our boys who loves to play with the camera) fingerprints all over it.

Monster Trucks

The boys were thrilled. They had just finished their piano recital when Cannon got a call from The Gutts asking if we wanted 8 tickets to the Monster Truck show. Well with 5 boys, who could pass that up. So the whole family went from Piano Recital directly to Monster Trucks. We were a little over dressed, but we had the Goodyear Suite pretty much to ourselves, so it was great. Ryland invited Cade and Coop took Casen. Everyone had a great time. We didn't get great pictures but here is one from the night.

First Piano Recital

It took us awhile to get our boys taking piano because of one minor thing- we had no piano. We finally took care of that last summer and they starting taking lessons in Sept. Their teacher is in our ward, Diana Brown. She has done a great job working with them and they are doing great. We are so proud of them. Needless to say, after much practice and many lessons they had their first recital on April 26th. Here are a few pictures. Way to go Cooper & Ryland!!!

Funny "Floyd" & Conference

Funny "Floyd" getting us to laugh again. We were in the middle of watching the morning session, when Cooper comes walking in wearing his church clothes. He KNOWS he is quite the funny guy.

Conference weekend is always fantastic. We loves being inspired by our Prophet and General Authorities. So far is has been great and we look forward to the last session today. This is baby Colter enjoying conference. (Actually mom & dad enjoying it with him asleep!)

The Conference pack that got sent around the internet has been wonderful. The boys have been enjoying it, but mainly Dane. This is Dad and Dane working on the word search. We love being able to hang out together, relaxed as a family, listening to the words of our Prophet.

Bryson- The Camera Man

Bryson Loves getting his pictures taken. I had to take this because I was cracking up when I saw that he put his chair on top of mine. The weather in AZ has been great lately. A little warm during the day, but we have spent several late afternoons outside on the lawn watching the kids ride bikes and enjoying an AZ Spring.

Bryson working on his camera skills. Sometimes he gets everyone in the shot and sometimes not!




Bryson loves getting his pictures taken and LOVES even more to use the camera & take pictures. It seems like I am always trying to take away the camera so it stays in one piece and does not get broken. I even gave him one of my old camera's with film, but after the flash going off several times and being dropped even more, it is now broken. Who knows, we may actually have a professional photographer in the family someday!

April Fool's Day

We have known we wanted to play this April Fool's joke on the Simonton's for almost a year. Yeah, the day was finally here. My friend Michelle Rigby found a rooster for me and one for her. She played this joke on her neighbor (The Loves') a few years ago. She wanted to do it again to someone. I met her at 10:15 Monday night (March 31st) to get the Rooster. I didn't want to touch the thing so she was nice enough to put it in the dog kennel for me. Then about 11:15 Cannon took it over to Simonton's patio so it would be right by their bedroom window. Well it worked, 4:45 on April Fool's day the rooster started Cock-a-doodle-dooing. Yes, we got awakened too, but it was well worth it. They were good sports and just started laughing. Tom Forese got word on this, so he wanted the Rooster. He played the trick on several people that night & had fun with it. Unfortunately about midnight, he decided to return the rooster to us and placed it by the boys window. It did not wake me up, but did wake up Ryland at 5:45 am the next morning. Ryland said let's take it to someones house. At this point I was actually feeling sorry for the Rooster being dropped off everywhere, but it had to make one last stop at the Forese's house. It woke them about 6:45 am and they started laughing. We all had fun with the Rooster. Kirk Williams now has decided he wants to keep it, lucky Shari. Now we will just have to see what next April Fool's day brings!!!