Whitney Turns 26

Well for my birthday this year Ransom and Katie watched the kids for a bit so Cord and I could go bowling. It was so nice, we havnt had a date in forever! Cord also set up a little party for me that night. We had sandwhiches and Emily made me a yummy cake and Molly gave me a really beautiful present. Cord got me a Compound Bow (which should be here tomorrow) and wrestled with the kids for about half an hour. It was great entertainment lol. All in all it was a very nice birthday! Thanks so much everyone for coming (and molly for wanting to be there!) and cord for planning it. It was great!








We also have had some nice weather lately and have been able to go tot he park. here are some pics of the kids there and just having fun!

Taryns Homecoming

My cousin taryn came home from serving a 2 year mission in Scotland/Ireland. im so proud of her for choosing to serve the lord and branch out of her shell. She did a wonderful job and loved every minute, but Im so glad to have her back. We got to go down for her homecoming and visit for a few days. I stayed with my brother and his wife, thanks Ry and Meg for taking us in! Im so glad I got to see my cousins! Nate and Jon have been gone to costa Rica for awhile and it was so nice to be able to sit and chat with them, taryn, Lori and Benny and Grandma. My parents CC and Tys came up too and the kids had fun jumping on the trampoline int he rain, feeding the bunnies, and watching peter pan. Tys and Ave got to play Cookin cookies with lori and my mom. they had so much fun it was great to hear them laughing. I cant wait til we all can get together again.

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Gage Turns One!!!!!

In January my cousin Wendy and I had a joint birthday for her daughter Sophia and Gage. It was very last minute but it pulled together nicely! Im so glad most everyone could make it and we had a great time! Thanks to my parents for letting us have it at theie place and for my sisters CC and meg and my Moms help in getting everything ready! Gage and Sophia loved their cakes, gage even dove right in like a piggy face first! it was so great lol. All the kids had fun playing together and the adults got to visit, it truly was awesome!

On February 4th Gage turned one. We had a little party at Emilys, where gage was really tired and sadly not so excited about cake. But im glad we got to see everyone and celebrate. The next day we got to bless Gage. We did it in the morning at our home. Velda and Steve, Jen and Nate, and My parents drove up to be there, even ransom and conrad came. It was truly an awesome thing to have so many people come to be there for gage and us. The blessing went great, Cord did amazing even if gage was a little squirmy. =) We did a bunch of family pictures and visited and then everyone headed out to Rylee's blessing. Her belssing was equally amazing, nate did awesome. afterwards we all went to emilys for some BBQ beef (yum!) and watching the superbowl! I didnt do much watching we were all to busy visiting, but it was a great day!

Christmas 2011

A belated post but Im finally getting to it. We went to Eagar this year for Christmas. We went down a week early and stayed a week after. It was very fun. We stayed with Cords parents the first few days and hung out with the family. It was great to see everyone, we havnt been down to AZ in over a year. Once everyone arrived, Cord and the guys played basketball and the girls wrapped presents and hung out, and everyone got involved witht he chess tournament. I got to go to lunch with my sister in law Ashley and her Sister Sal. It was alot of fun and a very nice change of pace for me. We also got to go to lunch with a couple of Sals friends and I had a blast! While there a big snowstorm hit. We got so much snow!! It was nice though, we got to drag the kids around on the sleds and Mike, Johnny, and Brian built a huge snowman with the help of Avery and Raylin. Johnny nad Melina came to visit us at Mike and Ashleys, it was so good to see them!! Their girls are getting so big.
For Christmas Eve dinner Tammy and Brando cooked up a feast. We all ate alot and visited, which is my favorite past-time =). Christmas morning was great. We all got upn(well Nate and I did) at 6:30 am and met at the Wiltbanks (where everyone was still sleeping) =). Cord of course got everyone up with Christmas tunes, avery had a rough time waking up so early she started bawling unitl I showed her the chocolate Santa had brung. Everyone came even Grandma Mary. Her bag had gotten left in Mesa so she wore Steves robe and big socks Christmas morning it was awesome. I heard Gma MARY and ave became close friends. Ave sat and talked to her late for like an hour asking her a ton of questions.
Christmas morning the room was packed full as we passed out presents. We got some great stuff, and were excited with the presents we were able to give. It was really one of the best Christmases. Avery got so excited with every present. "look mom!! A doll!!!" said while jumping up and down. "look its a flashlight!! and BATTERIES!!!" lol She LOVES presents. I wish I had caught it on video. Gage just tried to get down and play with the paper. We got to stay for the next week after and spend time with Jen and her kids and Emily, Nate, Tammy, and Brando.
I also want to say Thanks to Velda and everyone for helping with the kids while I was sick. Poor Gage had some stomache bug while we were down there and I got a flu not a good few days.
Well here are some pictures of the Holiday.

Thanksgiving

This year for thanksgiving we went to Vegas to celebrate with my family. The week before though, Ashley and Mike came up from AZ to visit. It was great to see them and hang out together. We all were hoping emily would have her baby a little early so we could all be there to meet her, but instead she came the day after we all left and Rylee arrived on thanksgiving day.

Thanksgiving was great this year. Cord and my dad got to go golfing a few times and went to a UNLV game. The ladies cooked all day wednesday and thursday, my sister CC especially getting a little fancy with her desserts. We went over early thanksgiving day to visit my Dads side of the family. It was good to see my family. My cousin wendy was there with her 10 month old little girl Sophia. Gage loves to mawl Sophias face, and she is very calm about it. This time he got too excited and just lunged for her and tried to eat her face.
For our thanksgiving my sister CC invited her friend and her kids over and my grandma and cousin came it was very nice. It was great to be with family, we missed my sister kennedy and her family though, they couldnt make it down from Nebraska.
That night we all geared up for black friday shopping. At 9:30 we went to walmart and got there just in time since people started ripping things open way before they should have. We started grabbing movies all we could. i ran for the back to find the WII's and TVs my mom wanted. Meg got there when i did and hse stayed in line while I ran to grab all the other items we had on our list. We ended up getting everything we wanted, with only a little violence involved. After walmart we went to target to get a playstation and a few more toys and such. We got home around 2:30 exhausted and loaded with gifts. It was a lot of fun! Cord had to leave saturday to be back for his final. The kids and I got to stay and hang out for the week. We got to go to the relief society christmas party and see my mom and sister sing. It was a great week.

I hope everyone else had a great Holiday!