Conner, Shelby, Shaunie, Dallin and Shaylie hanging out at the CHRISTMAS PARTY

Cam, April, Carson and Hannah who even snuggled up with Santa though it took lots of coaxing

Shelby at her Christmas Choir Concert she is Loving Choir and this night was fun she got to sing with all the High School Choirs

Shaylie at her Christmas Choir Concert she takes lessons and ejnoys it but she still is a little shy to sing by herself Keep up the good work girls I love to hear you sing

Shaunie @ Reno

Shaunie had the opportunity to attend the NATIONAL HERFORD SHOW in Reno, NV last weekend. She had so much fun and Learned so much. She bought her herford at this show last year and has had so much fun with her. Now she has another one to show this year. While there she was helping out some friends and got lots of great hints to help her with her steers and heifers at home. She did so well in Reno she is now going to show in the NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW in Denver Colorado in January. We sure missed her while she was gone but new that she was on a LeArNing AdVeNtuRe indeed.

Shaunie Loves cattle and Loves showing them

GOOD LUCK SIS * KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

A Little BIt of Whats Going On!

THANKSGIVING!!!

What an awesome day we had.... LOTS of FOOD, FUN and FAMILY!!!

My side of the family came to our house for Thanksgiving.. It was the BEST DAY...We are so BLESSED to have FAMILY and have them close to us..

We ate dinner then we played the wii, did leg wrestles JAMIE WON, Isaac and Jamie did head stands ISAAC WON, boys wrestled, we ate some more, we played cards and ate some more it was a GREAT DAY

The beginging of NOVEMBER we went to Spanish Fork for the Western Trails Futurity Heifier Show. The kids did AWESOME!!! This is the end of year show for the earnings and points earned for the year. Shaunie recieved Grand Champion Breed and Shelby recieved Reserve Breed with hers they each earned $$$

Shaylie bought her a Heifer at the Auction that weekend and Mick (trigger hand) ended up buying one also not really sure his dad was real happy about it but dad needs to teach him not to keep raising his hand at the auction. Stetson came with us to help with shelby's heifer she was still in her boot due to her injury during fall ball. He was GREAT help and we had lots of fun. We love going to these shows we meet lots of new friends and get reaquainted with old ones. GOOD TIMES

Mick has been wrestling and LOVING it.. He loves everything about this sport. He first did little league for a month and now he is trying it with the BIG boys Jr. High He is up for the challenge, he wrestles boys at least 2 years and older than him but so far he is doing great. He was so excited to pin his man at MT. CREST. He loves the team of boys and the coaches. He is learning lots and says he" likes hanging with the big boys".

shaylie Bug

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR CRAZY SHAYLIE

Shaylie has turned twelve. I am a bit late posting about this oops my bad!! Shaylie is full of FUN and EXCITEMENT she had a fun surprise party for her birthday her bestest friend Kori helped me put it all together, we had nearly 20 girls here at the house. We played games, opened presents, ate pizza and of course had cake and ice cream.

Shaylie is BOY CRAZY, Shaylie has 2 darling dimples, Shaylie loves to be with friends, Shaylie loves kids, Shaylie loves to go shopping, Shaylie loves to text on her phone, Shaylie loves to LAUGH, Shaylie loves to be a kid, Shaylie is Sweet, Shaylie loves to give hugs and kisses, Shaylie always wants others to be HAPPY, Shaylie is a giving person, Shaylie is a special angel sent to our Family and we are so grateful to have her in our family.

Shaylie Bug is 12 and turning into a BEAUTIFUL young lady

TRIP TO NATIONALS

Pictures are a little messed up but you will get the jist of the story!!!

Our trip started off early leaving Salt lake City and flying to Chicago. We then toured the AWESOME Willis Tower (sears tower) It is HUGE.. I am very scared of EDGES so my stomach had butterflies but I was here and told myself I may never come here again so take the chance and enjoy the journey.. We went 103 floors in less than 60 seconds, we looked over the city and beyond the city, we stepped into the glass box to have nothing under our feet (SCARY I nearly threw up). It was an amazing building. We survived CHICAGO, though I thought it was a DIRTY city.

There was over 52,000 kids in attendance. It was a warm fuzzy feeling seeing all those kids dressed in ther ffa jackets and proud to be a part of an AWESOME organization. Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs was one of the speakers for opening session. He was so positive to the students and gave them lots of encouragement to better there lives through this great FFA.

Shaunie and Tyrell were partners in there AGRI-SCIENCE project they worked well together. They had interviews, an open house, a special luncheon just for the agri-science state winners. They were each told that they were winners because they were there at NATIONAL level. Each of our BR Chapter kids came home with SILVERS!!!

There was lots of time for FUN, and playing around. We liked the arcade, shopping, more shopping, the career center, the FFA Mall, walking, driving, walking and driving.

We went to a Hypnotist Friday night we were on the seventh row so some of us tried to see if it would work on us sitting there in the audience I think after that shaunie and I could easily be hypnotized CRAZY!! Before the show began they played music and some of the kids got up to dance. Shaunie tried to get some from her chapter to dance but they were all to shy so she drug Wyatt up there for one and then went and ask someone from Texas for a line dance.. I was proud that she would be brave and do that cuz I am not sure I would of done something like that at her age "You Go Girl" That night was LOTS of FUN!!

These are some fun pics at the arcade, at the Luncheon playing with the napkins or was they alligators, T.J. and Tyrell trying to make funnies to relax the kids before there interviews, Jake was always looking for a cute gal to be in a picture with him.

Indiana was BEAUTIFUL I loved the farming part of it. LOTS of corn and soy beans, Lots of trees, Lots of windmills and yes we were in a town called SHELBYville.

We also went to the INDY SPEEDWAY that was fun to see the race track, and the museum. We also went to FairOaks Dairy it was in between Chicago and Indianapolis. I felt like home other than it was the CLEANEST dairy I have ever seen. Mick would of LOVED this site. Hands on play farm, then they toured us in a bus around the farm it didn't even smell at all.

Shaunie was so EXCITED to see this cow she got a Little Homesick!

This is all of us waiting to watch the 4d movie at the dairy.