Holt Family

Family photos

2011-09-09T17:26:00.007-06:00

It's so nice to have the Family Pics done in August. Thanks Jill for the great photos! We took them at the Provo boat harbor!

Birthdays

2011-01-09T15:33:00.004-07:00

Haylie just had a birthday at the end of December. I can't believe she is already 4! Well, maybe I can because she acts like she is a teenager! She keeps right up with her older sister and brother. She got a DS for Christmas and she has to show Mark and I how to use it. She is one smart cookie! We love her so much!

For her party she had her little cousins over for some sleigh riding down Grandma Raine's hill in her back yard. It was I think the coldest day of winter break but it didn't stop the kids from playing in the snow! She wanted a donut cake and hot chocolate, so it turned out pretty fun!

Ellie's birthday was at the beginning of December and she turned 1! I can't believe how fast this year has gone. She is still pretty small weighing in at a whopping 16 pounds 13 ounces which is again in the 1%. She was in the 48% for height and then the 90% for head. She is not qalking yet she just started crawling at 11 months. I guess that is true with your baby they get carried everywhere so she has never learned how to do it yet. She got a little stroller to use that also works as a walker so hopefully she will start to walk soon. She is my picky eater; well she will eat anything as long as it is not any baby food or regular milk. She loved her formula but she will not touch regular milk, hopefully that will change too. We all love her so much! Here are just a few pictures my sister took for her 1st birthday, Thanks Jill!

Ellie- 9 months already?

2010-09-22T14:51:00.003-06:00

I can't believe my baby is already 9 months old! I think with each child the time goes by faster and faster. I took her to her 9 month check up and she is definately the runt of the family. She weighs a whopping 14 pounds 7 ounces and is 26 3/4 inches long. This puts her in the 1% for her weight and the 28% for her length. Don't worry her head is in the 90%. She is a little spit fire with a lot of attitude! She is so spoiled and if her mom is in the room she has to be holding her if anyone else tries to hold her she screams. She is now sitting up really well on her own. She has no desire to crawl yet; I think she is content just to sit there and scream until mom picks her up. She loves her sisters and brother; they can get her giggling just by being by her.

We love her so much and wouldn't change her for anything!!

Hard Core T-ball

2010-06-25T17:39:00.003-06:00

It's ballpark time! It's crazy I feel like we live at the ball park. Albie has been playing every Tuesday and Thursday night and Garrett plays every Wednesday and Friday, can I just say that I am glad that June is almost over! I guess in Payson they make you be already in Kindergarten to play t-ball and well since Garrett could have gone to Kindergarten this past year I thought he was ready for t-ball. they didn't have emough coaches so they call me last minute to see if I would be able to coach, of course I said yes because I have a hard time telling people no so basically Mark has been the coach even though he swore he would never coach again until the kids actually know how to play (he coached Albie her first year of t-ball). We have been a good team, the kids are just fun to watch, Garrett though is quite the ball player, he is the youngest (not yet in Kindergarten) but he is one of the better kids on the team. He lives and breathes sports which ever is in season at the moment is his favorite!

His favorite thing to do is SLIDE I think he would slide at every base if the COACH would let him!! Maybe he just likes to get dirty because if your pants are clean at the end of the game that means you didn't play hard (his coach must have told him that too). We've had fun at the ball park but I am really glad we are almost done until next year!

* I'll have to post some pictures of Albie playing her last game, I guess that means I need to take picture huh?

Classic Skating

2010-06-24T18:02:00.002-06:00

Okay, I have to tell everyone, Classic Skating is the place to be and NO, it's not the 80's. My sister asked if I wanted to take my kids to Classic Skating, I told her no because my kids don't know how to skat and I didn't want to have to hold all 3 of their hands adn take care of a 6 months old (impossible for most). Then she told me it's not like it used to be when we would go there, now they let you take your kids scooters, ripticks, skateboards or skates and they turn the lights out and let them ride to the music! It was so much fun my kids loved it, they even had little games for the kids to play while they were skating (or scooting like my kids).
This is Haylie after all the fun on the ride home, she had won some tickets and bought some vampire "bangs" as her prize! It was so cute I had to get a picture!

They also had video games the kids could play for a token and tokens were 10 for a dollar (can't beat that!) Garrett wasnted to play the games as soon as we got there, I kept telling him after 20 times around he could play games, that lasted about 60 times around before he got too tired and realized I would let him play the games later if he stopped asking me!

Albie had fun, she loved the when they turned the lights out her clothes glowed in the dark!

Even Haylie got to ride her scooter around, we only had a minor bump when Haylie started going the wrong direction and ran into a ripstick, she quickly learned to go the right way.

Anyway, it was a great idea for something to do on a summer afternoon, everyone needs to try it! Have fun!!

More photos of Ellie

2010-03-21T20:31:00.002-06:00

Ellie is now 3 1/2 months old and I can't believe it! She is growing so much (I still think she is little) but she is getting some personality which is fun! She loves to smile, so I;m glad Jill was able to capture a smile in one of her photos! Thanks again!

Here is Ellie on her blessing day. Here she is with her Grandma Jean and Grandpa Roger. We had a wonderful day, Mark gave her a wonderful blessing and we all celebrated with a lot of yummy food! Pork nachos! They are delicious and are a great party food!

Here she is with her Grandma Raine and Grandpa Brant! I'm not a photographer if you can tell I had Jill take these photos also, I didn't get any other photos of the day, but these are great! We want to thank everyone who supported us and shared this wonderful day with Ellie and our family!

Ellie's 1 month photos

2010-01-27T13:59:00.002-07:00

Thanks Jill for the wonderful photos AGAIN!! Ellie is one month old in the photos (I know she is almost 2 months old, but at least I'm posting right?) She is such a god baby, she is for the most part sleeping through the night some nights hse sleeps until 7:30 thenn the other nights it is between 5:00 or 5:30, I can't complain about that!! She is starting to smile and it lights up her face. I love her so much it is so fun to ahve a baby in the house again! We all love you Ellie!!

Haylie is 3

2010-01-27T13:44:00.003-07:00

Haylie turned 3 this December and loved her birthday! She got these cute jammies from her cousins and she wears them every night, she loves to twirl around and make the skirt spin.

She just got her first haircut and had to have her picture taken. Every day when I comb her hair she says, "Comb it how Shanna did it k?" Thanks Shannon for the cute haircut, she loks adorable.

Haylie loves to dance around the house, sing any song she hears, her favorite right now is Jesse's Girl (an 80's song), she loves to color, loves princesses and her new favorite love is High School Musical (I think she got it from her older sister). Haylie we all love you, enjoy being 3!!

Ellie newborn 12/15/09

2009-12-19T17:05:00.001-07:00

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She's here!!

2009-12-19T16:44:00.003-07:00

Introducing Ellie Jo Holt! She was born December 9th and weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 18 1/2 inches long.

Here is big sister Albie with baby Ellie. We are all so excited to have here here!

Garrett with baby Ellie, he is so cute with here, he always has to whisper when he is around her.

And here is big sister Haylie holding Ellie, she loves the new baby! We are all doing good, sorry it has been a VERY long time since an update, we will try to do better!!

You Have to See This!

2009-04-26T17:59:00.002-06:00

Okay so get ready for this...

We got home from church today and while we were pulling into the driveway I said, "Mark, what is that on our door?" He responded, " It looks like a birds nest." I told him that it couldn't be, that just yesterday I pulled a bunch of stuff off of the wreath that the wind had blown up there, but when we went inside and opened up the door, sure enough there was a full blown birds nest in the middle of our famous "pink" (it used to be red, the sun bleached it pink, but everyone asks me where I got a pink wreath from). Sorry for all of you bird lovers, but I had Mark take it down, I couldn't have birds being hatched on my front door. What would have attracted them to my front door? I thought this was crazy I had to get a picture of, I know I haven't posted for quite a while, but what a perfect post to start back up on.

Catching up...

2009-02-12T09:41:00.007-07:00

Mark turns 30!! I can't believe we are 30 already!! Where does time go? Mark turned 30 back in December and I am sneaking up on that day rather quickly, I have 3 more days to enjoy my 20's. Well, all I can say is we have been blessed. We have 3 amazing children and we are happy. Isn't that all that really matters anyway? Happy Birthday Mark, I love you!!

TAVACI Albie is in a singing group called Tavaci with her cousins, Alayna and Mailee. Albie just loves it, this calss is so up her alley, she loves singing and dancing and this group puts it all together and they have a blast. Thanks to Marcy, the kids love you!!

Christmas 2008 We had a great Christmas this year, it seems Santa found us and spoiled us!! the only think that brought Christmas down a little bit was the fact Mark and I both ended up getting the flu on Christmas Eve so we were out all day Christmas. We still were able to have a great Christmas, thanks to all the help watching our kids!! The main thing Albie wanted for Christmas this year was an art set, she must have been good this past year because she got her art set along with a bunch of other things. She seemed to have a great Christmas.

Haylie got a dream kitchen! All the kids were so excited to see it, Santa had the kitchen all put together so when the kids came downstairs they all ran to that and started playing with it. Santa knew just what they wanted. Since then Haylie loves her kitchen and she plays with it every day! I love all the details to it, it even ahs a wood floor and a table that came with it.

Garrett got a basketball game, a Lightning McQueen race track, and some other toys, he just asked for a "Suprise" for Christmas, so he was so excited.

Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for coming over Christmas morning and watching the kids open presents. It makes it fun to be around family during the holidays!!

This was Christmas Eve and Grandma Raine's house. Each year we open up one present on Christmas Eve which is pajamas.. This year grandma picked all the pj's out by herself, usually she gets help from atleast one of us, but as you can tell all of our pajamas are onesies.... yes, I said onesies, I think that for next year one of us better step up adn find some cute pajama's before mom finds some "Cute" ones again!! Now, why didn't the guys get onesies? Maybe next year!!!!

Haylie Turns 2

We were just recooperating from the holidays and being sick so on Haylie's actual birthday (DEC 29th) we went to Brick Oven for dinner then had cake and ice cream with the family, then a week later when we were all feeling better we had the cousins over for cake and ice-cream and more presents!! I can't believe my baby is already 2, she is getting so big, I love her so much!!! I think she rules the family, whatever Haylie wants, Haylie gets!! How can you say no to those big puppy dog eyes??

Here we are doing the spatting machine, it used to be a tradition in the Tuttle house, so we are trying to bring it back, the kids love it!!

FIRST NIGHT 2009

Mark had to work on New Year's Eve until 9:00 pm so I packed the kids up, grabbed some pizza and had our party at the office. GREAT FUN! Then our friends from work said they were going to go the the First Night at the mall and watch fireworks. We thought that sounded fun so we headed to the mall where Mark and Brent stood in line for the kids to have a balloon animal made for close to 2 hours. the crazy part was the girls wanted a necklace when they got up there which took the guy about 10 seconds to make because he blew up one balloon then tied in a knot and called it a necklace. Only dad's would stand in line for 2 hours for one balloon. Thanks Mark!! While they were in line we watched the fireworks and had the kid's faces painted. After they got their balloons we played games and danced the night away. It was quite fun, I can't believe I've never really heard of First Night before. I would definately do it again!

Haylie was a princess!!

Garrett was spiderman!!

Albie was a BYU cheerleader!

It's about time!!!

2009-02-06T08:58:00.005-07:00

The Disney Cruise...what can I say, it was the BEST vacation ever!!! thanks to the Burtons and Alexanders for letting us come with you. We loved every second of it!!!
(I'm sorry I don't really know how to work my camera very wel so some of the pictures have glares on them, and I uplaoded them wrong so it starts at the end of the vacation and ends at the beginning of the vacation, oh well, at least I'm blogging, I know it's been a while!!!)

On the BOAT HOTEL the kids get to go to KIDS CLUB, it's where the kids would go and have games and activities so that mom and dad come have their own time together. Garrett never wanted to leave it, befor ehe would go to bed he would always ask if he could go to KIDS CLUB tommarrow. Albie liked it too, but not as much as Garrett. IT was open from 6:00am until 12:00 midnight. Have fun parents!!!!

The characters were all over the boat and DISNEY"S VERY OWN ISLAND!!! By the end of the cruise Garrett was wanting his picture taken with every character he saw, the only one he wasn't ableto get was with DAISY, I don't think he ever knew who DAISY was before this trip.

This was part of CASTAWAY CAY which is the DISNEY ISLAND, it was the best part, perfect beaches, perfect food, (all you could eat cookie dough ice-cream!), perfect entertainment (snorkeling, bike rides, massages, KIDS CLUB, soaking in the sun on the beach, hair braiding).

Dressing up for dinner was always fun, one night we had a "DRESS UP" night where the girls wore their PRINCESS dresses, another night we had PIRATE night where Garrett wore his PIRATE costume. Every night after dinner there would be a big show in the the theatre. All I can say is that DISNEY knows how to put on a good show.

NASSAU- our 1st stop, we went off the boat for a few minutes to look at the shops, but then got back on the boat and lounged by the pool and ate!!

There was always a party going on, the kids liked to get in to it!!

We had a PRE-VACATION before the cruise. We spent a day at BLIZZARD BEACH one of DISNEY'S own water parks, and the another day at ISLANDS of ADVENTURE and UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. The perfect PRE-VACATION!!!

This is us at the airport before we left, we were so excitied. We had the best vacation, we missed our little Haylie, but know she was well taken care of, so thank
you to all those whose watched after her, THANK YOU!! All I can say it that if you can ALL of you should try to do this vacation sometime, it was so fun for the kids and the adults!! I beleive it is safe to say that the HOLT clan is officially DISNEY FANS!!!!

Who Ever Said White Women Can't Jump?

2008-11-15T09:25:00.002-07:00

Preview of our Halloween Costumes

2008-10-25T17:14:00.003-06:00

At first Mark didn't want to wear a costume this year, but he came through in the end, what a HEART!! I am his hippie partner, but not shown in the picture!!

Haylie's costume is the cutest! She even has the cutest boots to match!!

Albie has wanted to be a witch ever since last year. We found this costume and thought it was perfect for her since she loves PINK!!!

RRRR!!!
And Garrett also has wanted to be a pirate since last year, oh wait, he was a pirate last year too!!
He just looks so cute!!!

Thanks Jill for having a Halloween party so my kids can wear their costumes more than once (who am I kidding, I love to dress up too and see all the other adult costumes!!)

Halloween Traditions

2008-10-25T16:59:00.002-06:00

I remember when I was little around Halloween we would make sugar cookies in the shape of pumpkins and ghosts. It was always so fun. Since I've started a family of my own I've tried to do this every year. We even expanded our shapes into cats, witches broom, moons, tombstone, and of coarse pumpkins. The kids love this, don't worry, they have their own dough and they keep rooling out their own while I make the cookies that we give to people. Same with the frosting, the kids frost their own and then I will frost the others. If your kids are anything like mine, they like to lick their fingers alot, (the frosting is delicious!!)

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-20T14:35:00.003-06:00

Every year we try to go to the Pumpkin Patch at the Red Barn in Santaquin, this year was no different. I gathered the kids and headed down the road to the Red Barn. We met the Torres girls there and headed out on the wagon to find pumpkins. It was a great day, the sun was out andit was warm. The kids loved it!! Garrett had already gone to the Red Barn with his preschool class so he helped Haylie pick out her pumpkin. He is such a great big brother, he carried her's the whole way. We had a lot of fun!!!

Here are the kids hanging out at the Red Barn while we were waiting for the hay ride!

New background

2008-10-09T13:46:00.000-06:00

Can I just say that I am so proud of myself. It only took me 3 days of all day long to figure out how to change my background!! When it comes to computers I am really quite stupid. Anyway, now that I know how to change the background, hopefully I will change every now and then. Enjoy!!

New Post......FINALLY

2008-10-06T14:48:00.001-06:00

Garrett Turns 4!!!

I can't believe my little guy is already 4. Where does the time go?

I haven't been the best bloger since Garrett's birthday was back in

August and it has taken me this long to get a post on it. I will try to

do better. Garrett had a spiderman party, well he had his cousins over

for pizza, cake and ice-cream, but they got spiderman goodie bags, doesn't

that count as a spiderman party??? We really haven't been doing much since school is back in session, so there really isn't much to take pictures of. I will try to find little candid moments to had to the blog.

First Day of School

2008-08-22T14:46:00.001-06:00

Albie just started first grade, and she loves it. She is quite the confident little girl. She marched in class all by herself and picked a seat. She ate school lunch and she said she loved it. I am so proud of her.

Garrett started preschool the next day and I have to say I wondered how he would do because he is quite shy, but he amazed me, he was so excited all day and kept asking when it was time to go to school. When I took him he walked in with his teacher very excited to be there. When I went to pick him up he came running and didn't stop talking and telling me about everything he had done. He loved it. I am so proud of my kids, now I need to figure out something for me and Haylie to do!!

Introducing Baby Luke

2008-08-18T19:32:00.001-06:00

This is Luke Anthony Marostica. Proud parents are Jake and Kellie, and proud sisters are Asay and Samantha. Isn't he so cute? He weighed in at a woppin' 8 pounds 6 ounces and was 20 1/2ish long. Kellie said it went good, she wished the epidural worked a little better though. I'm sure there will be more photos to come!

He as already learned how to suck his thumb!

Arizona trip

2008-08-17T10:10:00.000-06:00

Mark had a conference in Arizona for a week so the kids an I decided to go with him. We loaded up and left at 3:00 in the morning and made the drive. It actually wasn't too bad of a drive. the kids did really well, thanks Jill for letting us borrow your car DVD player!

I'm sure you all know that Arizona is HOT! Well, I didn't realize that even at 8:00 in the morning you would sweat just walking to the car. It wasn't too bad though, we spent our days in the pool or in air conditioned stores. We met up with our friends that live in Arizona and had dinner with them one night and then the kids and I went down the next day and spent the next day shopping and swimming in their pool. Thanks Catie and Colby, your place is very nice, thanks for keeping us cool for a couple of days!! The kids are still talking about how fun it was with their kids and wondering when we can go back!

I also was able to meet up with some family friends from when I was younger. It was fun catching up with the Holts and seeing how Arizona is in the summer. Everyone that I ran into kept telling up to come back and visit between October and May, we might have to try that sometime.

All the kids just became the best swimmers. Albie no longer needs a life jacket and does really well swimming across the pool. Garrett was a cannonball maniac. It took him a couple of days to get use to it, then he was jumping in and swimming all over the pool all by himself. Haylie even would jump in and swim to me then turn around and sim back to the steps, of course she had her life jacket on.

When we weren't swimming we were trying to find some place with air conditioning. HAve any of you heard of Dave & Busters? It is so fun it is like a Chuck-E-Cheese but for adults. You eat dinner there and then you can play different arcade games and they even had a bowling alley. We played here a couple of nights when Mark would get home. The kids absolutely loved it, I enjoyed it too becuase it was located in a strip mall, so I would go shopping while Mark took the kids there to play. It was so much fun! So it was hot and dry, but we had a great time. Thanks to everyone who let us come and visit. I feel like I could get around the Pheonix area pretty well now!

Orchard Days

2008-08-01T08:41:00.000-06:00

Can I just say that I have never done a children's parade before, after that said, Albie wanted to go and she wanted to decorate all of their bikes for it. Look really close in the picutres, Albie's has a few crape paper strings hanging from her bike; Garrett's spiderman fourwheeler has crape paper wrapped around the handles; and Haylie's wagon was the firt one done so it has a few more strings hanging on it. The parade lasted two blocks long, but the kids ( I should say Albie) loved it!

Albie wanted to dress up in her cheerleader costume for the ride!

Since Albie was a cheerleader Garrett wanted to be a football player, but he didn't want to wear his helmet so who really knew what he was dressed up as. We had charged the battery to the fourwheeler the night before, but when it came time for the parade it really wouldn't work so Garrett hopped in the wagon with Haylie.

We rode the two blocks and then had popcycles at the park. Thanks to the five people who sat along the parade route to cheer on the kids in the parade!

Tuttle Campout

2008-08-01T07:44:00.000-06:00

Sorry, I don't know how to post a lot of pictures in the order that I want them; anyways, this is Grandpa and Scott helping with all the fish that we caught! Thanks, the kids loved it!

Jill is always the creative one and she brought stuff to tie-dye shirts for the kids, they loved it. It was so much fun to see th edifferent creations that you can make; not two shirts looked the same. Way fun Jill, thank you so much!!

The finished product! Aren't the shirts so cute!!

I think the kids favorite part was riding the rino and the fourwheelers! I know that every second Garrett was trying to get someone to take him for a ride on the "Blue" fourwheeler. Albie and mom loved the rino. Haylie would take her naps when you would take her for a ride, and Mark I think wants to get one for himself.

The annual Tuttle campout this year was in Fairview, it was so much fun. All but one of my dad's siblings were there, everyone in our family except Kellie and Tracey, and then my cousin Eric and his kids were there. We had a lot of fun. I think the best part is the food, you can't beat dutch oven food, thanks dad and brothers! We started off without Mark, I was braving tent camping with the three kids, Mark was gone to Idaho for the week for work. On Friday afternoon we were getting ready to tie-dye shirts and Mark showed up out of the middle of nowhere. What a surprise!!! We were so excited!

We went fishing the first morning and the fish were biting good! Rainbow sparkle powerbait was the best. As soon as the kids were put their poles in the water a fish would be caught. We kept grandpa busy loading the poles! I think every kid caught at least one fish!

When it was Garrett's turn he decided he didn't want to reel it in, mom got to help him!

When it was Albie's turn to reel her's in she said it was too hard, so mom stepped in again to help reel it in, you would have thought the the fish in this lake were huge by the way they tugged on the poles, but when you brought them out of the water they were little minnos. Still, so much fun for the kids!

Even Haylie was able to reel in a fish with the help of Ashlee, thanks! Haylie loved every part of fishing, she even wanted to touch her squirmy fish after she caught it, that was the cutest thing ever, she touched it then jumped back, so cute!!

The successful day of fishing couldn't of been possible without the help of Grandpa and Uncle Scott! Thank you so much, too bad the second day of fishing we didn't catch a thing!!

Great Scenery at the Golf Coarse

2008-07-21T15:38:00.000-06:00

The Golf pro at work, he's the best thing to look at.

We ran into a few friends at the coarse. We saw about 5 deer. The kids thought that was just so cool to see all the deer.

This was my favorite scenery. Out of the middle of nowhere we see this little boy peeing, Where are his parents!!?? (Like father like son, I didn't think I should post the picture of Mark doing this.)

Family Night

2008-07-21T15:21:00.001-06:00

The kids have been asking Mark to take them golfing for the longest time and he agreed to take them if we all went for family night. The kids had a blast and they had the best teacher. Mark was so good with them, he was teaching them how to stand, how to hold their clubs, we all had a great time.

Here is Albie showing off her great putting. With Mark being so into golf he got the kids their own clubs. Albie's, of coarse, are pink!

Garrett didn't quite get the hand of holding the clubs the right way, but he sure had a great time. We couldn't find Garrett's clubs, so yes, he is using Albie's pink clubs. He didn't want to use "girl" clubs, but if he wanted to play he had to use them, so he got off his "boys can't use girl stuff" kick and played with the pink golf clubs.

Haylie loved the scenery. She rode in the cart with mom and just loved being outdoors.

Here is me and Haylie watching from the golf cart. I did hit on th efirst hole, bu tmy first hit my ball got lost in the trees and Mark didn't bring any more balls so I was out of luck. It was still so much fun spending time with the family enjoyin gthe outdoors.

Swimming Lessons

2008-07-13T21:31:00.000-06:00

The kids had swimming lessons for the past two weeks, they started at the old Payson pool and then got to finish at the new Payson pool. The kids loved it. Albie is the best little swimmer, she now can swim a little bit by herself. I am so proud of her!
Here she is doing her back float!

Here is Garrett doing "motorboat", it was his favorite.

Haylie was just so happy to go to the pool everyday for two weeks. She only tried diving in the pool twice!

Albie's Birthday Bash

2008-07-08T15:18:00.001-06:00

With Albie's birthday being on the 4th of July she has always had a fun water party and BBQ for her birthday party. She had a friend water party on the 3rd and then the annual family party on the 4th. I can't believe she is 6 already. Time flies by, she'll be grown up before I know it.

We got a couple of pools out and put the slip and slide on the hill and the kids entertain themselves. It is the easiest party to plan, the kids just play.

It was a perfect day, the weather was nice and it was overcast so the sun wasn't baking us all day. It came out every now and then, but for the most part it was perfect. We had burgers and salads and was perfect. The only thing we missed this year was the firework show at the end. Happy birthday Albie, we love you!!!

Stadium of Fire

2008-07-08T15:00:00.000-06:00

It was Albie's birthday and we had tickets to the Stadium of fire so we took her cousins Mailee and Necia with us. We had amazing seats, thanks Katie, we were in the North endzone on the third row from the field. They were great seats.

When they were bringing part of the flag on the field it came down the north endzone that we were sitting and the kids had a blast helping bring it onto the field. It was pretty amazing to watch!
The coolest part was watching the skydivers come in. They flew right over our heads and when they were landing it looked like they were going to land right on us. It was amazing!

I think the highlight of the evening was watching Miley Cyrus on stage. We weren't that close to the stage but we had binoculars to get a good look at her. The kids were standing on the bleachers cheering, my favorite was Mailee who would scream, "Miley Cyrus, I love you!!!!" She just kept saying that over and over again. It was so cute! She mostly sang her new songs which the kids had never heard before, but they didn't care they were up dancing to all of it. Then came the fireworks. They were great!! We left a little early so we could beat the rush and we could watch the fireworks from the walk to the car. Overall, it was a great time at Stadium of Fire.

Sister's Weekend Getaway

2008-07-08T14:48:00.000-06:00

We went to St George for the weekend with my sisters and mom. It was so relaxing and fun we had no kids and no worries! We shopped, ate and most of all relaxed getting pedicures, massages, taking in movies, and laying by the pool, what else could a mom of three little kids want? It was so fun to spend it with my 4 sisters, sister-in-law and mom. The only sad part of the trip was my picture taking abilities, I took my camera, bu tthis was the only picture that I took. It captures how much fun we were having and who spear headed the whole trip. That's mom!! You will have to check out my sister's blog to find out the rest of the details, she is much better at the blogging thing. Thanks Tami for capturing all the memories in pictures.

Gallbladder gone bad

2008-06-19T18:32:00.000-06:00

Just yesterday I had to get my gallbladder removed. I was a little nervous, yes, me the nurse, I did get nervous, I have never had surgery before, but let me tell you I didn't feel a think. I remember Jared, the anesthesia guy giving me some versed and then the next thing I knew I was in recovery trying to cough and I had to use the bathroom. Since I work wiht these anesthesia guys they said I would wake up with a tatoo and my toes painted bright blue, well, when I woke up I didn't have either. They took really good care of me, I was really impressed. I have an amazing family and friends that take such good care of me. I love all of you so much!! I'm still on pain killers so some of this might not make any sense, but at least I am updating my blog right?

8 years down; a lifetime to go

2008-06-19T18:24:00.000-06:00

Mark and I just had our 8 year anniversary on the 16th of June. The time goes by so fast. We spent a couple of days at Wolf Creek up Ogden canyon, it was very relaxing and a lot of fun. We have three beautiful children and eight years of great memories and many more to come. Mark, I love you very much thank you for making these past eight years the best ones yet!!

Fun Run 4 Kids

2008-05-04T21:00:00.000-06:00

The Torres girls and Albie, Garrett and myself all decided to fun in a fun run 4 kids fundraiser race. Albie and Mailee were talking about it for weeks and had to do their training. Albie would go outside and run around the house to get ready for the race. Leesa and myself ran in a 5K first thing in the morning. We were a little nervous because we only trained two different days and that was two weeks ago, but we were able to do it and ran in at 31 minutes. We thought that was pretty good. Following our race the kids races began. Auja ran first, she had to run 100 yards. She wanted Leesa to hold her the whole time, so she wasn't able to finish. Garrett was next, he ran 1/4 mile. He was great I ran with him, and he was passing people like crazy. When he got done he wanted to do it again. Albie and Mailee ran next and they had to run 1/2 mile, which was two laps. Albie said she only wanted to run one lap, but she did it and did great. Finally the older girls Tia and Necia ran. they were duppose to run 1 mile, but after they finished the judge man said they had miscalculated and they actually ran 1.47 miles. Tia was the first girl to cross and Necia took 3rd for her age. They all did great, the kids seemed to have a lot of fun and said they want to do it again next year, maybe we can talk Mark into doing it with us next year!!

Hogle Zoo

2008-05-04T20:41:00.000-06:00

Albie had her 1st field trip on friday, her Kindergarten class went to Hogle Zoo. We were able to meet her there and then she was able to come home with us. The kids loved it. Garrett loved the penguins and the train ride, Albie loved the monkeys and elephants. Mark and Haylie loved it all. My favorie part was spending time with the whole family. You'll have to check out the zoo when you can't think of anything to do.

St George

2008-04-27T20:16:00.000-06:00

I know this is late, but we went to St. George a few weeks ago with the family, it was a blast. We spent most of the time in the pool. The kids are water ducks!!! Garrett wanted one of those body boards, but he would call it his snow board. He was so cute. He is a maniac in the water, as long as it is the baby pool. (I don't think he ever got in the big pool!) Albie and HAylie couldn't get enough. It was so fun!!

Stadium of Fire Tickets

2008-04-13T16:57:00.000-06:00

I'm excited to say that I was able to get 4 Stadium of Fire tickets this year to see Miley Cirus!! My wonderful sister-in-law, Katie, was able to get me the tickets. We went out of town the weekend they went on sail so I left my order for Katie to get if she could, and she was able to get 10 tickets!! Yeah!! Anyway, I thought since July 4th is Albie's birthday she would love to see Hannah Montana in person!! So, that means we will have to do Albie's birhday a little different this year!! We will still have a blast, but I wanted to let you know that we got tickets!!

Soccer!

2008-03-27T14:15:00.000-06:00

Albie started spring soccer this past week. She had her first game on Tuesday. She looked so cute in her uniform with shin guards and cleats. she definately was the cutest soccer player out there. Her team lost, but they seemed to have a great time.

Haylie's Walking!!

2008-03-27T14:05:00.000-06:00

Just a couple fo days after we got home from Florida, Haylie started walking all over the place. For the last month she had been taking a few steps here and there, but now she has to walk all over. She is a little wobbly, but when she falls she quickly gets back up and takes off again. She walks with a little attitude, if you've seen her crawl (she sways her head back and forth) she walks the same way. I think she is going to be a little diva! We are so proud of her for being able to walk. It only took her 15 months!!!

Second Honeymoon

2008-03-27T13:49:00.000-06:00

We ate at a place on the beach called "Le Tub" It was on Oprah's 25 best places to eat last year. It was decorated with toilets and tubs; it was kind of crazy, we had to wait an hour for our food, but it was really good!

Mark and I were able to go to Florida for a whole week without kids (thanks mom!) Citi Financial sent us out there for Mark's work. We had a great time. Our hotel was right on the beach, it was a 5 star hotel and it was beautiful!. We spent our days soaking in the sun by the pools and shopping a little. It was a lot of fun. The only bad part of the trip was the day we came home. We were suppose to land in SLC at 10:30 am and instead we got home at 11:30 pm. Let's just say we were glad to be home. the kids didn't even miss us Albie and Garrett said they wanted to sllep at Grandma's for 100 nights!! Thanks again mom, I know they were taken really good care of.

Valentine's Day!

2008-02-17T17:00:00.000-07:00

Valentine's day was kind of sad because Mark was across the country in Baltimore, Maryland for work so we spent the day without our valentine. But he had a few suprises up his sleeve. He had asked his buddy at work to send us girls some flowers. They were so beautiful. Albie, Haylie and myself were so excited to get flowers.

Haylie's new tricks

2008-02-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Haylie has finally learned how to do stairs YEAH!!!!!

Haylie's favorite thing to do is help me do the dishes. She loves climbing in the dishwasher.

New Blogger

2008-01-17T19:45:00.000-07:00

A new year brings new goals. I'm going to try to become a blogger (for Tami's sake). I am a true believer in starting fun projects and new things, but sometimes I don't seem to keep up with things. I hope I keep up with blogging, because it is so fun to see what other people are up to.

These are my beautiful kids. Albie, Garrett, and Haylie, they are the best kids a mom could hope for. It's just fun to hang out with them. We had a great Christmas and New Year. IT was so fun to have all of our family around for the holidays. It is so fun having a house now, we actually had a New Year's Eve party at our house.

New Blogger

2008-01-06T13:46:00.000-07:00

This is one of the mark and natatlie holt family members. Garrett is a crazy man. Mom calls him "Squints" (has anyone ever seen sandlot?)