There's Snowbody like You.

Or...Snowone had more fun than they did! Or....Snow me the money!

Err....something like that...

In order to do some sledding....my dad took us all (minus mom, Jax and I....cause we are wimps Jax needed a nap) up the mountain....well, halfway up the mountain, since the road was closed further up.

The found a nice, partially wooded spot....and had some fun!
Emily and Bella.

Hannah had the fun task of taking Aube on a sled down a few times....until Aube decided to freak out about snow on her boots. But this picture proves that she DID have fun....look at that face!

Bella and Bubba (my youngest and only brother) are about a year and a half apart. They are the best of friends....and the worst of friends.They miss each other terribly and  fight like siblings when they are together. BUT they do love each other so much....so that's all that matters.

James looks like a vampire.
But isn't it the cutest picture??

One of the many cool things about my dad....he thinks outside the box.
They brought us back a present from the afternoon in the mountains....
A Snowman!

Bella, Emily and Bubba (and me) had a blast decorating the frosty fellow.

Dad joined in....making holes for the eyes, mouth and arms with a chisel.

We never named the cute fella...but he stuck around for the rest of the week! We proudly displayed the only snowman on the block for the entire week!!

Family Pictures

My picture taking family....my dad loves to take

pictures...but this was actually a momentous

occasion, its the first time we have ALL been together

(excluding the spouses) in a long time to get a

picture all together. We're not in order...but it goes:

Oldest is me...there on the bottom Rt, Laura is next up

at the very top, then pregnant Jen just below her on the Lt,

Emily is to the Rt of Jen, Hanny is at the bottom Lt and

Bubba John the one and only boy....right in the middle

where he belongs.

The picture of my mom and dad is posed, obviously...but

this is where I found them talking one night...and just had

to immortalize it :). They are such great parents....I

couldnt have been more lucky.

Enjoying the view....

This is the view from my parent's back door and yard. In the early evening hours, the weather was just so nice, and the girls loved to go out and play on the trampoline. Bella loved to make Aube jump just a little here and there.

Duck Creek on our last day in UT!

Today we spent the day at Duck Creek

It was a great way to end our trip.

The beautiful mountains and crisp, clean

air! I am grateful for the time I have been able to spend here....

I heart Utah

My mom is always trying to get me to move here to Cedar City, but I have a love/hate (thats a strong word-more like dislike?) relationship with Utah. I really do love it here in Cedar City, I love the view of the mountains from my mom's front and back porches. But I really hate that it takes 50 minutes to get to the nearest Target. I love that you can go outside in the afternoon, close to the time when the sun is fading, and you don't have to put on OFF to keep the mosquitos from sucking the kiddos dry! But I hate that the BLACKtops here are like super-black and make your shoes black, which in turn make my pants and shirt black b/c Bella likes to kick my in the thigh and belly when we're shoppin' at WalMart b/c there is no TARGET!!
OH...and DON'T even get me started about Walmart here...its like a menagerie (yes, I had to look that word up...and it completely fits). The women here are so well put together. It amazes me. I don't know if you can chalk that up to being LDS and the whole Provident-living thing or what, but I am definitely in awe of the perfectly colored and styled hair, very well applied makeup, skinny cute clothes...what is in the water here in UT? AND...the best part of all....each well-dressed lady is a mother, accompanied by minimum of 3 children, also very well-groomed and well-behaved. Then there is me....frumpy is the best word to describe it, really....frumpy and tired, no makeup b/c it takes too much time, hair in a ponytail b/c i get too hot drying it b/c I'm overweight :), which is a whole other problem in and of its self. And then I have my crazy 2 yr old who won't sit down in the cart and my whining 10-month old who just wants to be held. I need to take some lessons, find out where I am going wrong! :) I am always looking for ways to get my butt in gear, have some kind of organization...so WHAT are they teaching here in little Cedar City, Utah that they left out of the handbooks we were given in TX? We in TX get along fine...I think it would be horrible to have to put on makeup every day in the humidity, just to have it melt off! I actually know how to solve all my problems....DON'T GO TO WALMART. You hear that James?? I finally got my free Costco card today thanks to a GREAT brother-in-law....so hopefully the tide is changing and I can quit my WM addiction...turn it into a Costco addiction, right?
Sorry....it's 3:52 here and I'm rambling....

Families are Forever....thank goodness!!!

Have you ever had a moment where you just sit there, surrounded by family and think.....I get to be with these people for eternity and I am SO happy??!! My family drove in with their RV on Monday night and I have had about a dozen of those moments since then. They drove out today and it seems like the last 3 days have been the shortest of my life!! I am not sad....I get to see them again in a week in Utah.

Bella got horrifically sick on Monday night, she was throwing up ALL NIGHT LONG...which is odd and scary because Bella never ever ever gets sick....seriously...the last time she had been sick was in Las Vegas before we moved here 10 months ago. Anyways, I ended up sleeping on the floor with her that night. So, my family's first day here, Sunday wasn't full of too much fun, we just hung out and swam. Wednesday we went to the Zoo...which was fun, BUT totally not cool to go on a 1/2 price day, way too many people scarin' off the animals! Thursday we went to Hawaiian Falls waterpark in Dallas.....also not the best place to go....I was told that NRH2O was better...should have listened (sorry Rhea)! No fun places for the under 48" to play! But all-in-all it was fun because we were TOGETHER!

Above R to L: Emmalee and I, Laura and I, Papa John

Above R to L: Bella, Bubba John and Hannah


Those are some proud grandparents!
So...tomorrow night we leave and fly to Las Vegas, where we will stay for a night and then visit with family there. Then Emmalee, the girls and I are driving home to Cedar City. My parents will meet us there after driving to Memphis to see Grandparents Sargent and then to Sikeston MO, which is where we are all from. I am debating on driving the girls up to see my sister Jen in SLC, she works all day so I thought I might take the girls to Temple Square or do something fun like that. I dunno...just depends, I guess, I have a TON of people I need to spend time with in Vegas, too!!! Hopefully I will have some pictures for you along the way... :) Hugs!