Holiday Update

I going to mostly post pictures of our holiday and the fun we had together as a family. This year all the Hall's were together and boy did we party. I think by the end of the weekend we were allwasted and ready for some sleep. Like I said in the last post that Christmas Eve we told our children about expecting a baby and so Christmas morning was even more fun, they kept asking questions and we had to explain that it was still a secret until we opened gifts with grandma and grandpa.

Santa brought Coaster Cars

The kids love getting dressed up for the Nativiy. This is Carson and Carter!

The whole group, Quinton was Joseph and Nova was Mary. They all had so much fun that they left their costumes on until they got to hot. Carson put on about 3 different ones. Singing Happy Birthday to Jesus.

Then the next day we spent playing at the gym at the church. Dart Tag, Basketball, Volleyball, and riding the Coaster Cars. Even the big kids liked them.

We had family pictures done by Heather B.'s sister (which I will post when I can get them) but we tried on our own to take a picture of the grandkids. We seem to always wait until the last minute and someone is tired and just not into it. I think this picture is as good as it gets with that many kids.

SUPRISE!!!!

Well, the big gift that was opened on Christmas at our house was telling our children and family that we are expecting baby #6! We have kept it a secret a long time and I am glad that the cat is out of the bag. The kids (especially Mckenna) are excited and all of our family members gave us a great reaction to the news. You see we really, or I really thought we were done. Or in other words I wanted to be done, but I couldn't hide the fact any more that somebody was missing. So we put things in the Lord's hands. I was really sick for 17 weeks, started feeling better then got a nasty cold, but things are going good now and I am 22 weeks along. Just wanted to spread the good news and will post pictures of Christmas later. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!

More update pictures

Last boating trip of the summer! We were only able to go twice this year.

Colton's 5th birthday!
Crazy Hair day for school

Halloween! Doesn't Carson make the cutest lion!!

Quinton- Plumber, Colton-Dragon, Kade-Football player, Carson-Lion, Mckenna-Pajama Fairy
Colton & Carson were in a preschool that the High School students had and this is them singing a song they learned, they really aren't picking their noses! Marcie's kids were in it also Sophie, and FisherKade had to have another bone graph surgery on Nov. 2, he did really well.

This is 4 days after the surgery and the swelling is actually alot better than it was.

He is up and running and back to our normal, rambuctious, and loud Kade!

Suprise visitors! Derek, Dylan, & Brooklynn surprised Kade with a visit,

it was the only thing that made him feel like going outside.

Derek, Dylan, Colton, & Carson playing in the leaves on the trampoline!

More Catching Up

Okay, I've gotten a new computer so we'll see if it can download pictures faster and maybe I'll enjoy doing this more. I spend all my time reading everyone else's blogs that I don't have time to do my own. This blog will be mostly pictures, some of our 1st annual Hall Family Reunion, it was alot of fun, my mother-in-law has not seen any pictures so those are for her. Then probably random pictures with some explanations. Hope it's not too boring!

In August we celebrated birthdays, Mckenna Aug.26, Brooklynn Aug. 31, my sister Angela Aug. 30, Derek Sept. 11, Colton Sept. 13. We went bowling and had a really fun time.

Mckenna's 11th birthdayWe went for a horse ride with some good friends and neighbors, Carson was in heaven.

Crazy face family picture, everyone but Dan is present!

We camped out in Margaret & Jerry's backyard and had a hotdog roast over the fire. I don't know for sure but I think Beau likes to pose for the camera!The kids went on a treasure hunt to find lots of goodies

Relay race, dress up, run, get candy, run back, this was hilarious!

Ty in his relay gear!

Maddie getting ready to go!

Carson's turn!

More fun pictures

Quinton was involved in two parade's this summer, Jefferson Stampede, and Menan's famous 4th of July. He loves playing the trombone and is actually pretty good at it. Most of the kids that played in these parades were junior high and high school aged kids and they played high school music. He said it was hard at first but soon caught on and will be forever hooked to playing.

Suzanne came home one weekend in June and we had a pink party just for the girls. It was a lot of fun. Grandma Hall with all her grandchildren, Mckenna and Me.

Kade played baseball again this summer and had a lot of fun. He is a good little hitter!!

Time to Update

Yes, I know shocking that you actually logged in to view my blog and I have put something on here. First of all I will post the pictures from spring that I ment to put on until Summer happened. So hang on this might get long!

Baby Chickens, Baby Kittens, and the Childrens watch'n.

Quinton line dancing for the entire school. And boy can he shake his hips. My video camera isn't digital so you will have to use your imagination and it will probably be close! He had a blast in this class at school.

This was one of my favorite things to do when I was growing up, Branding Cows with my dad and uncles, and now I get to watch my boys enjoy it! They however, do it a bit differently than we did, we always had horses involved and now they have invented things called chutes and that's what they use. Mckenna on the other hand doesn't care too much for the smell and preferred to look on from the fence!

Spring is Soooo... Here

I don't have any pictures to post right now but will hopefully have time to put some on in the next couple of days or so. But these are some of the reasons I have not posted for a month!
1. Violin recital - Mckenna
2. Going to town for shoes 3 times because someone forgot to tell me they are wearing a size 3 1/2 when they should be wearing a 5!
3. Science Fair Projects
4. Running to school because someone forgot lunch money.
5. Finding baby bird eggs- then the wind destroying them and the kids upset.
6. Helping take care of 24 baby chickens!
7. Kids finding 7 baby kittens - 3 have died but we are bottle feeding 2 (every 4-6 hours) and the other 2 are drinking out of a bowl now! What we will do for our children who have soft hearts!(I am not a cat person!!!!)
8. Trying to get Carson to understand the concept of going to the bathroom on the toilet!
9. Helping Jeremy with Bishop stuff and barn stuff.
10. I'M TOO TIRED!!
Now that I want to blog I don't have time to load pictures and we are in the last weeks of school which means more running around and helping the kids! So I guess I'm just being a mom who is TRYING her best and some things have to fall to the wayside! We are all healthy and doing good and I really will get some pictures on sometime.