The Idaho Falls Visitors Center

Donovan trying to be like Dad and give himself a haircut

Rebekah trying to be like Mom and fix it!!!

Donovan is not so sure he is ok with this idea!!

Rebekah and Lainey wearing Bryan's pants.

A visit to Bryan's Grandma Fillmore

Bryan's family reunion pictures!!

Little Emma is sooo cute!!

3, 2, 1.... lift off!!!

Swing batta batta swing!

on your mark, get set.......

stretch!!!

Take me out to the ball game...

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks!!

awwwww......so sweet

Digging for buried treasure!!

well...I gotta keep up with my dad's good looks!!! (see picture below)

I took this one for her curls!! I just love them!

The Amazing Team Race!!

The winners!!

second winners

third winners

fourth winners

Last winners!! AKA...Losers!! :)

Chalice trying the slip n slideo out!!!!! YAHOO

Help mom, she touched my swim suit!!

Awwww...more love

Ryan going commando!!

YEEHAA

X-Man taking a nap!! See his son does have to hold up the reputation!! Nice Chops!!

The pie eating contest!!

AND THE GEORGE STRAIT CONCERT!!!

Tia (my cousin), Tana (my sister) and I decided there are 4 loves in a country girl's life!! You're husband (if you're married, daddy if not), George Strait, John Deere and Chocolate!!

I text this picture to Bryan and he text back: Well excuse me, but I think he has 'My Chair'.

That got a fun laugh out of us girls!  We had so much fun! My friend Tabatha and Bryan both asked me if I was taking my drool bucket!!! 

And here are pictures at the rodeo

My cousin Tia and I

'Sitting Bull'

Tana and I

Her beautiful long hair kept blowing in my face while Tia was trying to take the picture!

You go cowgirl!!

We are getting a kitty when we move to our new place on the 5th!

This is Trouble, but looks just like our kitty Spud. Lainey calls them all 'Chubble' (trouble), so we'll see what sticks when we get him home.

Here is Spud

AAAAWWWW

Spud and Smokey spooning!!

Spud playing

"Hey Lainey...you're choking the kitty!!"

Lainey tubing on the cabin deck!

This is me and the kids down at Hell Creek in MT. Rebekah was NOT excited about such an adventure the first go around, but warmed up after awhile.

I had to leave Lainey with my aunt Mary Ann while I rode the tube and she didn't know Mary Ann, so I told her to get out the skittles and everything would be ok. I think she ate half the bag. But she quite crying and enjoyed her "kittles".

We found Donovan asleep like this the other night! Couldn't have been comfortable!

Our visit to Honey in Missoula

Lainey and cousin Janey with their curly hair!

weed pulling adventures!

So, I wanted to get a tan! Sooooo being the smart person that I am, I decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I would tan while working pulling weeds. I only planned on a hour or so. But I got into the "weed pulling" mood and just couldn't stop! (yes, it was that much fun) So this is the result 4 hours later. Notice on my shoulder where I stopped the sunscreen! Hey at least my shoulders didn't get fried! 

A little Sunday afternoon trip to the falls by the Idaho Falls Temple

Come back, come back!!! She kept calling them 'gucks'

picture perfect

So this dude was playing his guitar and singing as loud as he could

just sitting next the water! It was pretty cool. The falls were so loud that

you couldn't hear him singing but he was getting into it!!

And I couldn't resist taking these 2 pictures. This chick looked like she just 

stepped out of the 80's. Only close up it was worse than the 80's. She even has a rope around her neck!!??!! Notice the shoes and the hot pink flower in her crimped hair. Bryan had to tell me to stop staring.

Bry loves this one!

And we all loved this one!!

Say What???

MMHHMMHHMMM!! Way past nap time and time for bed!!

Branding in MT. This is Bryan, Lainey and my brother Travis and his son Payson

Donovan with my Uncle Clyde

This is a great picture I think!!

Bryan after a pie eating contest with my cousin, Tyrell

My Uncle Tony

Oh, I love this! Poor little Katie! These are my nephews & neice and of course Lainey, Jace (stethescope), his twin Jaxon, then Payson holding his baby sister, Katie!! I just love her!

Isn't she so beautiful?? A little distraught at the moment though.

And I just love these next couple of pictures!! This is Lainey with Jace! I think

they will be great cousin friends. They played so well together!!

And my favorite! It doesn't get any better than this!!

But this is pretty good too!!

pucker up

Hey Elvis

She's not officially potty training, but she does like to go 

on occasion when she gets the urge! Bath time works best for me!!

These are so cute of her brushing he teeth!! Notice her crazy and

 beautiful curly hair. We love it.

And these asleep with daddy pics are always my favorite too!

Just enjoying the cookie dough that Daddy made!

He forgot to see if we had any chocolate chips before 

he started a triple batch, so the chocolate was sparse 

for the time being. He had to wait till the next day when he 

could get more chips to finish. But she didn't seem to mind!!

The Idaho Falls Zoo!

the protective mother hen!!

Ok, I am only about 3 weeks behind!! So we have Easter and Bryan's graduation on here plus the last couple of weeks! And at the end I posted 2 videos of Lainey! The first one is cute, the 2nd one is hilarious!!! 

He's handsome, She's gorgeous

Rebekah and Donovan with my cousin Tia

                                                 My Mom's 50th birthday party!!!!!

                                                        Pot Head @ age 6! :) 

                      Actually she was supposed to be putting the dishes away. 

Pot Bumm!!!

Once she realized that she was stuck, she was not a happy camper!!

But oh how she loves the watermelon!!!

And Donovan loves the babies!!

This is my brother, Travis's, little baby, Katie. She was born on Lainey's birthday last year!

Too much love!!!

Isn't she so beutatiful?

Here Lainey had just woken up. and she was very sick too.

So she got lots of love!

And of course we it wouldn't be our blog if we didn't have a picture of Bryan or Donovan doing something silly! Looks like it was Donovan's turn!!!

What a monkey!!

Lainey was "helping" me make apple pie!!

And here she was making bugger pie I guess!!

And she loves the frozen blueberries!

She will eat 3 little bowls of them at one time!

And make cute faces while she's eating because the berries are so cold!

She'll eat frozen raspberries like this too.

Easter!!

This is Lainey with Bryan's brother, Scott's, baby, Anne! I love the way they are "checking" each other out!!

pinching her chubby little cheeks!!

Got Hair?

And the Highlight of the year is that BRYAN GRADUATED!!! YAHOOOOOO!!!

Congratulations Sweety!!

So I made him a carrot cake because it is "healthy" and decorated it with celery and carrot sticks because he graduated in health science kind of stuff!! But of course we all know Bryan and he can't resist chocolate chip cookies, no matter how many are set in front of him!! And the RIP is for letting go of school for awhile and resting in peace w/ no homework!!

A very happy ending! Let's just say it was a day of relief! 

I Love this picture!!

Lainey comforting Donovan when he was sad!

Donovan fell asleep on the back of the couch!

Lainey running from me after her bath!

She thinks she found a good hiding spot!

Rebekah eating her mashed tators!

Fun Fun Fun

Bryan cleaning up the aftermath of Donovan spilling his milk! AGAIN!

He did this face on purpose! And the next one too! I tried to get a "good one" of him, but this is the best I could do! Oh well, it's him!!

Donovan loves to use Bryan's electric razor to "shave" his face!

Such a doll!

This is Lainey after eating a bowl full of black beans! She loves them!

ok, so I know that Donovan and Rebekah just had their birthdays, but throughout the whole month it seemed that I mostly took pictures of Lainey! She just does the cutest things, if you can imagine that at her age!!

I love these pictures of her with this huge bowl of popcorn! It's priceless!

        It's picture perfect!! 

  This is Lainey with her cousin Anne and aunt Chalice! 

 

This is my first attempt to put Lainey's  cute curly hair in little pigtails!

And here, she brought all these clips to me and wanted me to put them all in her hair, so I did!

So fun!!!!

And here she is having her first taste of licking a beater!!!

The Birthday Party!

Donovan turned 4 on Jan 31st.

Rebekah turned 6 on Feb 6!! Her and I went and had pedicures done! When we were done, I asked if she had fun and she said "ya, that was fun and tickily"!!!

Donovan rarely goes anywhere without his John Deere cap, including sleeping!!

Merry Christmas, Happy Anniversary, Happy Birthday to me!!

Grump and Grumpa!

Bryan and I have been married for 7 years on Dec 20th!

Rebekah was once again our photographer! Not too bad huh?

Christmas Morning

Donovan loves his shovel! He was so excited about it!

Lainey in her cute purple crocks that Grandma and Grandpa Fillmore got for her! Aren't they so cute?

Bryan after snowblowing our driveway and the neighbors!

Lainey with her cousin Carter!

I love these pictures of the girls by the Christmas tree early in the morning. It reminds me of when I was little and would do the same thing ever morning in December!

Someone from our ward did the 12 days of Christmas to us and on Christmas Eve they all came over and Santa gave the kids lots of stuff!

He even made Bryan and I sit on his lap!

Lainey did really well for seeing "Santa" for the first time!

Ok, so I attempted to take some portraits of the kids. Donovan did not cooperate as well as I would have liked! Rebekah was all too excited with her cheesy grin and I got a couple good ones of Lainey!!

I just love her beautiful little curls!

 The way he really felt about having his picture taken!

This is the response I got when I tried to get her to stop the cheesy grin!

I permed Rebekah's hair finally. Sorry, these pictures are a little out of order!

Grapes in his mouth!

Lainey is enjoying a red chocolate covered pretzel!

She did really well for the most part! I only had to tell her to hold still 35 times or so!!

Rebekah and her best friend Rebecca!

A little kiss under the mistletoe!! So cute!!

November/Hunting/Thanksgiving

Beauty

And the Beast

Or should I say Gaston? 

(Rebekah took both of these pictures. Can you believe how accurate she was?)

Playing with the heart!

A beautiful sunset here in Rexburg!

Bryan setting up Christmas for our Landlord!

Rebekah snug as a bug!

Lainey wearing Donovan's jacket!

Dopey!

This is our Landlord, Larry!

Lainey in Rebekah's green dress!

Again!

Pose of the dancer!

Cute!

Before........

After!! 

(Lainey with my mom!)

Still cute!

At Pizza Hut for Rebekah's first 'book it' reading certificate.

She loves to read!!!

And to pose!!

A Natural!

And again!