"The Blissfest" !!

What a success...............There were so many people there supporting Stephanie and Christian. It was a pretty hot day but remembering the reason for being there made it totally worth it. We also enjoyed seeing people that we hadn't seen for a while. Scott and I were so glad that we could help. It wasn't much, but it was something, and we will continue to help in any way we can! They played a video that was made of Stephanie and Christian and their family........ and made snow cones and cotton candy........
Spencer selling the magic tickets..............
PART of the crowd shopping..............

I loved the balloons with Stephanie and Christians silhouettes on them! What a CUTE idea!
My parents helped Scott and I work the beverage booth! And being so hot outside, we were BUSY!!
The Silhouette Booth!
balloons were everywhere................. Here are some more HAPPY volunteers! I loved their aprons!

and Posh supporting their fabulous jewelery...........

and more HAPPY volunteers with dang cute aprons!!

"RICH" and " WHITE TRASH "

Today I got a call from my friend Sam! She called at just the right time, I needed a good laugh! She told me that she was at Old Navy looking for some socks for her baby girl "Bella Rose" and remembered something funny that Presley ( my 8 year old) had said to her a few years ago. Presley had a pair of Deisel shoes on (with NO SOCKS) and she said to Sam, "did you know that if you don't wear socks with these shoes it means your RICH!" I'm not sure where she got that from, did you know that RICH people didn't wear socks with their tennis shoes? Me niether!

Sooo.............. then she remembered the time that one of my kids left one of their dresser drawers open and Presley said to her, " my mom hates when we leave our drawers open, she says it's white trash"!

Ok, I probably did say that! I was just trying to teach them not to be SLOPPY! I refer everything sloppy, messy, dirty, etc. to WHITE TRASH! Sometimes I can get myself into trouble because of it. For example, at the gym I train at one of the trainers were training one of her clients and they were having a conversation about body piercings and they asked me "Holly would you ever get your belly button pierced and I said "NO, THATS SO WHITE TRASH!" But what I really meant was that I personaly would feel like white trash! " Oh so you think i'm white trash!" Her client said. Oh my gosh, I tried to explain but it didn't do me any good! The guy
owns a piercing and tattoo shop!! OOPS!! Like I knew!! (he got over it, we laugh about it now!)

THANKS FOR THE LAUGH SAM!!
P.S. remember when we went up to Pinetop and we stopped to get gas and Joe drove away with the pump still attached to your car!!! It ripped that thing apart! Oh my gosh that was soooooooo funny. I have a picture of it somewhere, maybe I can find it to add to this post!! (and the hotel we stayed at! Pretty fancy!) Talk about WHITE TRASH!! I'm sitting here at the computer laughing to my self as I remember this stuff! LONER!! Oh, and the park, we had more fun on the swings than the kids!

"Why we are Mormon"!!

Tonight we were driving home from my nephews football game and out of the blue Gracey said"Mom, I know why we are Mormon." and I said "why"? And she said "becuase you dont want us saying bad words"! Well thats one reason I guess! She must have heard some kids saying bad words at the game. I thought it was funny!

"Yellow spray paint, my 2 nephews = my furniture!!" And Tyler and Presley's Birthday party!

Tyler and Presley's birthday's are 2 days apart and normally we don't combine their parties but this year was CRAZY so we had ONE big party! For Tyler(12), Presley(8) and Boston(5)! Kim put it all together and it was GREAT!! Thanks Kim!!

Stress.........

Not to be negative,but I just thought I would share this........We have moved, AGAIN! With the economy the way it is, Scott has lost his job and has decided to go back to school. Sooo....... we have had to cut back on EVERYTHING, and thats why we have moved. Things have been incredibly hard and very unsettled. But we have managed to stay calm and ride it out the best we can. Some days I am fine and other days completely freaked out! I sit and wonder what the heck has happened. Scott has some job interviews this week so hopefully something will happen! Our kids are all in school now so I can get some kind of a job part time to help out. BUT I have never worked before, besides doing nails at a salon. Every job I come across wants experience. The only experience I have is changing diapers, potty training, wiping snotty noses, and everything else that every stay at home mom GETS to do! It's alot of experience but not the right kind! I may have a job at a periodontist office but not sure yet. I'm crossing my fingers! Anyways, we moved into my sisters house for a week and a half untill the house we were moving into was vacant. My sister has a huge garage so we stored all of our furniture in it. Well, two of my nephews were playing in there one afternoon and found a can of YELLOW SPRAY PAINT! So they decided to spray my furniture yellow! When I found out I about died. My stomach and face got REALLY hot!!! On top of everything else, I now have yellow furniture! Fun HUH?!! My brother-n-law got alot of it off with gas but there is no way to get all of it off. So, I will get to think of my nephews everytime I dust!! I still love them but have to admit, I was ticked!! I'm over it, there are WAY more important things to worry about right now! I know everything will work out, I haven't prayed this hard in my whole life! It's just extra scary when you have 4 kids! It's a hard time for everyone right now, all we can do is pray and stay close as a family. As long as we have eachother we will be fine! Besides, it has slowed us down and that's a good thing! I have definately learned to be PATIENT!

Our week at Newport Beach!

1...2...3.... JUMP! Gracey and Addy must be counting to 100.....
Gracey, Halle, Presley and Addy! Going for a walk down to the beach to see if the waves were glowing! Nope, but when they do glow, it's so pretty! Maybe next year!
Gracey......
Scott and I! Too bad we weren't alone on the beach! We took 8 kids with us on our walk! Not too relaxing. What were we thinking?
Tyler and Scott!

After a LONG day at the beach, Gracey was exhausted. She fell asleep on our ride down to the Balboa pier to eat dinner! So sweet.....
Tyler was the only one of my kids that would do the bungie jump this year! Usually Blake and Presley do it too. Maybe next year.....
Presley and Gracey!
Tyler and Blake! Our STUDS!!!!
The girls AGAIN!! Cute!!

Addy and Gracey being CRAZY!!
Blake.......
Gracey.......
Presley.......
Tyler.......

Looks like they must have found something INTERESTING....... I love these pictures of Gracey and Tatum! It shows how close they really are. They love each other so much. It's sad that they both started kindergarten this year because they played together all the time! Now it's just weekend play!!
Best cousins!
Oh..... they have gotten BRAVE!! They had so much fun!
Grandpa Allen and Gracey at Mutt Lynch's for breakfast! She sacrificed a donut to have breakfast with Grandpa! Tyler, Blake and Presley had the buiscuits and gravey, they loved em'!!

Blake and Bailey!
Eric (my oldest brother!) and his boys Landon and Parker! We're so glad they come to the beach with us now. Love you boys!!
Addy and Tatum hangin' out!
Justin, chees'n it! I love my neices and nephews like my own kids! I always want to stay close to them no matter where they go, as they grow up!
Searching for Sea Shells.....

Kyndal and Gracey! Im so glad my kids have gotten so close to Kyndal, they live in Kansas so we dont see them nearly enough. We love when they come visit!! And REALLY love that they come to the beach with us now!! Love you Kyndal!! Gracey Mae!
Boss and Blaine! Having their own little conversation! Presley, Addy and Parker making a SAND CASTLE!
Presley and Halle!

Blake took an "annoying" picture break from his digging!! Thanks for your time Blake!!
Tyler spent hours catching crabs on the rocks!
Presley loved boogy bording, she gets BRAVER each year! It's FUN and SCARY to watch! I've been sucked under a wave before, I thought for sure I was going to drown. Thats why it's scary to watch!
Blake and Presley with their STAR FISH!! They spent hours on the rocks and caught a ton of them! Big and small! They put them in their buckets, showed them to everyone and then let them go when we were done playing at the end of the day! Some where still alive , but then some weren't so lucky!
Kennedy had an interesting idea!! What a DORK!!

Gracey likes the beach more and more each year!!
Kennedy, Presley, Tatum and Payton! Getting ready to go on a bike ride down to the donut shop!
Kyndal, Grandpa and Mel. (Kyndals friend!) Grandma Lynn brought her antique waffle maker all the way to the beach because it makes the best waffles! YUM!
Gracey wanted to do the splits in every picture! It got to the point that I would just pretend to take the picure, otherwise I would have had 20 of the same pictures!! She's so dang cute! She is so shy for everyone BUT the camera!
It was so funny watching the girls play cards! Gracey had no clue what she was doing! She had a huge stack of cards, which isn't good when playing GO FISH. She thought the MORE she had the better! Presley and Halle tried to explain to her but she wasn't buying it, she thought they just wanted her to loose! By the end of the trip, she had it down! She loved playing cards with Grandma Lynn! Thanks Mom!! You have more patients than I do!!