Car pictures

So here's the pictures of the car from our wreck. I'm not possitive but I think this dent in the back is from when we spun into the fence. I'm pretty sure its totalled but I won't know for sure until the adjuster can get out and look at it at the tow yard.

Tea Party lunch

So, I'm still trying to catch up on my pictures. This was a few weeks ago. Shayne and Gabe had a tea party for lunch. It was so cute they even had a rose in the little vase. They really were so fun to watch. They had applesauce, chicken noodle soup, nilla wafers, and fruit snacks.

Birthdays Part 2

I threw a surprise party for Matt this year and invited a few of his friends. He isn't huge on his birthday but I could tell that he was really excited. We combined Payton's party with his that night because Matt had to leave town for work the following morning which was Payton's birthday.

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY PAYTON!!!

Here he is unwrapping his presant. He thought it was so cool that he could rip the paper and not get in trouble.

....and here he is trying to get his birthday presant back from his BIG brother. Sad, huh. I rescued him, just after I caught the moment, of course.

This was a cute car that Matt had found for a good price at Big Lots last minute for Payton. I didn't even know about it until he brought it in at the end of the party. I have to give Matt props for it though.

Birthdays Part 1

November 12th was Matt's Birthday and I had planned to take some pictures of the kids and I to frame for his nice desk at work. However, his company merged with another just weeks before his birthday and he was moved into tighter quarters for a while. Meaning he had to share a desk. Well, I finally decided to go ahead with the idea and here are the pics that we did...
Oh the black spot on my knee is from some funky fruit or something that fell out of the trees. When I knelt down to set up the camera on the timer I must have landed in it and didn't even know it was there till I saw the picture. It was hard enough to get them all to sit still, not to mention smile for one picture I wasn't gonna try another.

This picture is one of my fav's now cause its one of all three and when you have three as close and little as these its rare to get them all in one spot at once. I even put this on a mouse pad for Matt's shared desk too. :) oh well.

These two have become so close. They still have their moments where they fight but they really are best friends right now and I'm so grateful for that. It took very little coaxing for them to huddle together for the "cheese".

Shayne Elizabeth. What a pretty smile. (ya I know I'm biased)

You'll notice there isn't a picture of Gabriel by himself. He decided he wasn't gonna take one! He's very decisive like that.

Payton Michael. Yep thats a leaf he's eating, but it stopped him long enough for me to take a picture so I overlooked it momentarily.

Fall and Halloween slide

So I decided to put all the pictures from the Fall and Halloween together on a slide show. Perhaps I'm just not all that bright but I still can't put slide shows on my blog. I did it when I first had my blog but for a while I haven't been able to. Oh well, I have the link if you wanna see the pictures:
http://www.slide.com/r/lBZcjvEs6T_rchRygnOC2r66FRUHVH1s?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

Hope you enjoy!!
Ahhh its good to be back! ;)

What a life...

Ok, so I thought I was back before and then I wasn't. We finally got the Internet thing worked out at our house so I can get on and post on my blog now. However, it may be a week or so before I'm back in full swing. Allow me to explain the chaos in my life lately.
We went out to California for Thanksgiving and brought back all the rest of my belongings from when I lived there and on the way home I got in a car accident... UGGH!! So far all I can say is that I'm very grateful that we're all ok. I had Shayne and Payton with me and Gabe was with Matt in the moving truck. We'd split up so I could drop off a package for my cousin in Kearns, UT so Matt had gone ahead towards home. Well, I dropped off the package and was leaving the neighborhood when a car full of teenagers came speeding toward me. They had lost control of their car on the corner and they "fish-tailed" until they collided with my car! It was probably the scariest thing I've ever been through. Our car spun till we faced the opposite direction that we'd been coming and stopped. The airbags deployed and the kids were screaming! They were so scared! Now here's the kicker, at least 3 of the 5 teens in the other car got out and fled the scene. I was hurt bad enough that I couldn't move to even get to my kids and I was naive enough to think they were running to get help. This was not the case. The police later tracked them down and they were arrested.
As for us, nothing was broken and we were all very lucky, very sore but very lucky. I was in so much pain when we first crashed that I couldn't move. I was so sure that my back or hips were broken. It was pain to rival childbirth for sure! It turned out to be badly strained muscles thank goodness but the first 24 hours were a trial. Other than that I only suffered bad bruises and bumps. Shayne and Payton also only had bruises and bumps which was so fortunate. They were my greatest concern and I couldn't even get to them to make sure they were ok or to comfort them. The car is totalled we're quite sure, though we haven't heard from the claims adjuster yet. Overall, like I said before, we were so blessed. It was an eye opening experience and all week I've been so grateful to be able to hold my kids every day.
As for my house... well, we unloaded the moving truck and I've slowly been trying to go through boxes of things as much as my poor body will allow. So it is quite a mess here and I'm so eager to get things back in order, at least as much as possible, so that life can go on. I have pictures from halloween, fall, some from Thanksgiving, and now from the accident (for those curious) to post. My goal is to get all caught up with everything by Christmas... so wish me luck!