'Stands with a baby'~Kandace's Indian name...

We went to dinner last night to celebrate my darling sis-in-laws birthday!

Her actual "Birth" was on the 27Th, but Troy was out of town (I know rare?) so we had to postpone the party to last night...

Happy Birthday Dear Kandace. We are so thankful to be home and able to celebrate with you!

We love you!

So before I get too far away from the picture above, let me explain...

Our beautiful daughter Hallie has been reading a Biographical book about

Sacajawea. She has to give a report 'as her' tomorrow at school. She will dress up as Sacajawea and tell about her life. I wish I could be there to watch her, she's going to do GREAT!

So anyway, at dinner last night we sat in a room that was completely painted in wilderness, trees, cabins, ships, tee-pees etc. So I felt it only fitting to take Hallie's picture in front of the Indians...

Here's the birthday girl and her favorite sis-in-law...

A shot on the stairs. I don't know why my husband is not standing by me? But our little son is definitely acting just like his father!

Input construction worker whistle...

Just the gals...we took some much cutter pics on other cameras...

there's no goofy stuff on mine.

And of course the "couples" shot... the pic is a little blurry but still very cute!

We hope you had a nice birthday Kan... we just love you so much! And we always have such a great time when we're together!

And thanks again to Nana and Papa for dinner...

The search for the "Golden Egg"

My husbands Grandpa is an old cowboy. He grew up with horses and has a million stories about them. I could listen to him talk about horses all day!

And usually, when we're with him, that's exactly what he talks about!

So the other day, we drove by this horse pasture that was home to about seven horses.

Two of the horses were laying down and they looked dead! We were on our way to have brunch with Grandma and Grandpa and some other family members.

So I asked Grandpa if he thought the horses could be dead? He said we should go check on them after we ate.

When we got there, only one horse was still laying down. I thought for sure he was dead! So Grandpa gave a big cowboy whistle and the horse got right up! We were all so happy!

The darling horse pictured above just let me play with her hair and loved to be scratched on her neck. What a cutie!!!

Earlier that morning (before brunch) we had taken the kids to an Easter egg hunt at a huge farm. Avery and Jett loved it! Here they are sharing their loot!


Avery and Daddy at brunch, eating a Belgian waffle...



The next night, Kas and Avery colored eggs. Kas didn't want me to post her picture from that night because she didn't think she looked good? Hummmmm, wonder where she gets that from???
Anyway, the eggs looked great! I can't wait to make deviled eggs with them!




Usually on Holidays we split our time with my fam and with my husbands.
But this year, due to a time conflict, we spent all of Easter with Troy's family.
One of the "Doezie" Easter traditions is to go to a park for an Easter egg hunt. Ty and Nico go a few minutes before the rest of us and hide toys, money, and candy.
Then the kids run around the park, and load up yet ANOTHER basket!

This year Nana and Papa added a hunt for the adult couples. So Ty, Nico, Tyler, Kandace, Troy and myself ran around looking for eggs. One of the eggs held a "Golden Egg" which was the grand prize. Of course Ty found the coveted Golden egg because he CHEATS!
He and Nico won movie tickets, popcorn, drinks and candy!
Congrats NICO...




Avery and Jett are so darling!






And what would a party be without a very competitive game of Ping-Pong between brothers?
Troy just spanks Ty over and over again!
Ty just can't seem to find his rhythm when he plays Troy! Oh well, better luck next time TY...



Here's the fam after a wonderful day of food, fun and games!
(Of course Kasey and Jaylyn are no where to be found?)
We love you all and want to again thank Nana and Papa for sharing their beautiful home with us and our messy, rowdy kids!

And just one more thing, about the Ping-Pong game...........................Ty beats Troy almost every time they play!
There are you happy now TY!

Four Weddings and a lot of dead deer...

Okay, so it was only one wedding but you get what I was going for......right???

Try and stay with me here... My oldest brother Grig is married to a beautiful woman named Paula. One of her daughters got married this weekend.

So the above picture is of my brother Grig and two of my three sisters, Cara and Colby at the reception...

And it was a beautiful reception. Her colors were lime green and turqoise and it was GORGEOUS!

The bride (Brooke) tied a lime green satin sash around her dress and wore turqoise stilletos, she was beautiful!

I also need to mention that her wedding photos were some of THE VERY BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN! I don't personally know the photographer but I picked up one of her cards...

http://www.lindsayjanephotography.com/

If you know of anyone looking for a great photog, in Utah, I would recommend checking her out!

Here are a couple more pics from the reception. I have to take pictures of Kas and Jaylyn by themselves, because they are way too cool to sit by their family???

Good thing they're so cute!

left to right
(Jake, Cara, Mike, Colby, Paula, Grig, Troy, Avery, Me, Mom, Dad, Hallie)





So today we went to the Outdoors show.
For all of you that are unaware of the fact that my Dear Husband, his bro.Ty, bro-in-law Tyler, and Grandpa Hinckley are all COLD BLOODED KILLERS!

Yes, I married into a family of HUNTERS! So we spent the day looking at dead animals, guns, boats, lab puppies, safes, tents, and of course every White, Black, or Hispanic 'trashy' person that inhabits this great state! I made all of my family wear whatever camo clothing they had and we fit right in!

But really, it was a lot of fun. Anytime we get to spend with family is fun!

Kandace, your face in this picture is TOO DANG FUNNY!

I laugh everytime I look at it!

And last but not least, Avery and Jett have the best seats in the house! They are watching the 'Dog-Splash' show and loving every minute of it!

Happy Hunting!

This family has gone to the DOGS!

February 28Th marked the 57Th Wedding anniversary for my Mom and Pop!

We celebrated with a dinner party and of course my Mom's very favorite

CAKE!!!

If throwing a party at her house means there will be cake, she will do it!

A few days later my Mom saw yet another opportunity for cake, my sister Cara's birthday! We had her and her family over and my Mom made another cake!

As a matter of fact, I just took a small break in writing this to eat a piece!

I'm trying to limit myself to one piece a day...
Anyway, happy Anniversary and Birthday

We have also kept busy going to basketball games. I have even started playing again,

CHURCH BALL... it's been brutal!

I'll post more later on that subject!

We were driving around looking at homes the other day and stopped over at Kandace and Tyler's house. Or should I say 'Diesel and Turbo's' house!



Diesel and Turbo are Kan and Tyler's two HUGE Great Danes!




When I look at our dog Kain, when he's not around these two giants, I think he's pretty big. I mean he weighs 85 pounds! But just look how tiny he looks next to them!
Kain can literally walk underneath Diesel (the black dog)
It's just crazy to me! And they are the sweetest dogs you could ever meet! They might knock you over and whip you with their tails, but it wouldn't be on purpose... They just want you to scratch them and love them!

Then we took a break from the dogs and played with Kandace's tummy!

Then it was back to the dogs! This is Troy's brother Ty giving his little baby

'Roxy' a bath.

And here are Daddy and Avery getting ready to wash Kain. This place was AWESOME!

It's called "Dirty Johnson's Dog Wash"

You wash your dog in a tub that is raised off the ground so you don't have to bend down or get on your knees. Each tub is equiped with a high pressured warm water hose. They have all types of shampoo and conditioners, ear cleaner, polish for nails- you name it!

After they're all clean you blow dry your dog with these giant hoses, that blow out warm air and then you brush them and spray them with doggie cologne!

Avery absolutely loved it! Kain, however didn't! But he's so clean and smells so good!

A call to GREATNESS!

My parents have officially replaced my husband! Yes my DH is out of town AGAIN!

So in his absence, my darling parents hang out with me, and truly

I LOVE IT!!!

So we went to another basketball game last night, only this time it wasn't to see my niece Canada, but to see Dylan and Chase play... Dylan is my niece Nikki's son. She is pictured above with me. Chase is my niece Danya's son. She is pictured below next to me.

(I'm not exactly sure what that makes their children to me?)

My Mom just told me I'm their

GREAT AUNT and they are my GREAT NIECES and NEPHEWS

I had always felt that I was great and now it's official!

(Danya and Nikki, please inform your children of my new title)

GREAT Aunt Megan...

(Tami, Nikki, Danya, Me...)

Here's a very long story made not so long...

These two people just happen to be two of my very favorite people in the world!

Steve and Susan

Throughout my terrible, horrible, very bad teenage years they witnessed first hand the truths of that description of myself. They are the parents of two of the most handsome boys, me and all of my girlfriends had ever seen. Therefor we were constantly over at their home vying for the attention of their boys!
We must have driven them crazy! Nikki and I even apologized to them last night for our wicked teenage years!

So it was absolutely delightful to spend the evening with them,

(as a somewhat mature adult)

catching up and reminiscing about days gone by... I love them so much! So anyway, they were at the game because they have a grandson that plays on the same team as my GREAT nephews...

The beautiful blonde, in the above,above picture, is their daughter in law (Tami)

She married one of their very handsome sons, Bryon

Hopefully we will all be able to get together again soon so we can create some new memories...

My very pregnant niece Nikki, made me promise not to post this picture of her! She said she looked as fat as a whale. But I made an executive decision, because this is my site and the pic was in my camera and posted it... Personally, I think we look the same size, which is not very funny being that I am not pregnant!
But actually I think whales are darling so whatever! Whales we are...


(Susan and my Mom)
Looks like I need to get my Mom some 'UTAH' gear! So she can stop pretending to like ILLINOIS!



(My Dad and Steve)

Together at last...

Finally, after living in the same city as my girlfriend Chelsea for over a month!, we got to see each other!
Chels threw a little bridal shower for a friend of ours named Jaylyn. She's sitting next to me in the yellow shirt, then next to her is Shalain (sp?) and then the little angel baby that you can barely see is named Kacey (She didn't make a peep the entire time we were there!!)
She's Shalain's niece, her sister is sitting next to the babe, but I can't remember her name???
Then Stefanie and of course Chelsea...
We ate at a restaurant at the Gateway mall and I can't remember the name of it but I know it starts with a 'Z'
The service was pretty bad and the food was ok, but it was still a wonderful time with friends...
Although my night was cut a little short. I had left my daughter Kasey to babysit Avery. My parents were home with them too, but they had to run down to the church for a sec
(you can see the church from their house)
So long story short, someone came to the door while they were gone and it freaked Kasey out so she called me and said she was scared???? So then my mind starts going crazy and I felt I needed to go home... So I got home in 12 minutes from downtown Salt Lake and of course everything was fine. My parents were already back and that was that!
I have only left Avery THREE TIMES in his entire THREE years of life! So I was a little bummed that I couldn't spend a little more time out, but I'm sure in another year or so, I'll get out again!
But seriously, it was so good to see you again Chels! I have missed you and can't wait for another date! Love you

Let's play dress-up...

So yesterday I was going through the closets downstairs, just trying to make a little more room for our clothes, when I came across my niece Nikki's wedding dress...
I don't think that there's a single person in this family that doesn't have something stored here at Grandma's house.
So anyway, Kasey was working on the computer and I asked her if she wanted to try on the dress. Of course she did (we were very careful Nik) and it fit her perfectly!
My daughter Kasey is about a size 1, if that! She is so dang skinny! My niece wore that dress when she was 20! Nik I can't believe that you were that skinny!


So of course I had to put on my wedding dress and have my mom take a pic of us! You can always tell when my mom has taken the pic, because someone will always have their head cut off! Love ya mom...
And of course Avery had to be in the picture.

So Kasey is all excited now about getting married??? SCARY! Maybe it wasn't such a good idea, but it was still fun...