Schneider's Skink:

Ryker and his new pet lizard
Checkerboarded orange and gray on his back.

Mauls this thing for hours

After hours of research on which lizard would make the best pet, this is the one we chose. Ryker has been dying to get one so this is his early birthday present. It is a skink and very friendly. It is a lizard made just for kids. He has been mauled for the last five days and hasn't hissed or bit anything or anyone. His diet is easy, pellets, vegetables, fruits and crickets every other week. My favorite part is the tank, we got a big one from Petsmart and I have to re-decorate it everyday from little hands knocking things over to catch the lizard. He doesn't have a name today Ryker says. It has been Gollum, Randall from Monsters Inc., Orangie? and Talon...if anyone has suggestions we are open. Just what we needed another pet to add to the Memmott zoo, luckily this one is very easy maintance. We just hope it survives two little boys and sissy's friends.

Christmas Day...

Christmas day is so fun when you have three kids. I love getting ready Christmas Eve, I think I was more excited than the kids. We put our cookies and milk out, sprinkled reindeer food on the lawn, and had a fun Christmas Eve party over at papa and julie's house. Lots of eating and a fun game of spoons for THREE hours! Uncle Matt=Ledgie's best bud!
Ryker with his best bud, papa.

My fairy girl with Julie, nice camo coat Jules!
Sissy got a barbie doll house from Santa!
She loves to organize and decorate for hours, she is her mother's daughter.
(Trying to keep Ledgie out of it has been a joke)

Ryker got a microscope (that is tipped over) and bug slides to view!

He wants to go out and catch bugs now so bad. Melt snow, melt.

We had a wonderful Christmas with lots of family to be with. What a awesome year it has been, Ledger growing from baby to boy, Hallie getting baptized, Ryker being dad's shadow with a love of animals, Shane working hard at the buisness and we love that he is always home (if not hunting). Hope 2010 will be another wonderful year!

Winding Down...

I don't know why I feel the need to update, but I do, after 9 days of no posts. Busy, like everyone else this time of year, it seems to take over your life. From Releif Society Christmas dinner, to one year check up doctor apt., to finishing up Christmas, wrapping until midnight, to neighbor deliveries, to on, and on. I know I am not the only one who is busy in this world, but I finally feel it winding down ready or not. Finally it is time to take a breather and remember the true spirit of Christmas. Papa and Julie did the 12 days of Christmas for our little family and what fun that has been, taking time to read the scripture passage on the outside of each package and then the reveal. What a great reminder of why we do the things we do for our loved ones this holiday season. The love, the giving, the service, the reminder. I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and hope life is winding down, that you will be able to take a minute next week and do something fun and traditional with your little ones.

The Big One Year Boy!

It is so hard to beleive that a year has gone by. But boy, what a year it has been. A beautiful six pound boy was place in my arms on December 9, 2008 at 2:45pm. He was such a good baby when he was little, then started to get a personality of his own. He has always been a mama's boy, attatched 24/7, even toys don't entertain this guy! After waking up five times every night for the last year, I finally hit my boiling point. We (me) have given him an awesome birthday present of crying through the whole night without getting him out, first night on Sunday and needless to say it is Wed. and we (shane, me, hallie and ryker) are still camping out downstairs hopefully this last and final night. What a wonderful little spirit he brings to our home. Hallie constantly mothering him and Ryker trying to get him to wrestle, until he cries. We are so greatful we have our little Ledgie to keep us on our toes. Happy One Year Birthday my Boy!!!

Weekend for Hallie...

The beautiful baptism dress
New set of scriptures from mom and dad.

Proud parents

Hallie here with her dad, feeling very nervous right before we left for the church. She did great and it was a very special day. Lots of wonderful family and friends that supported her. Confirmed by her papa who did an outstanding job, and then the bishop sprung on me to bear my testimony. You can imagine, what a boob I am. Sunday she got to go up in front of everyone to show off her beautiful dress, and a glutten for punishment I got up again and shared my testimony. What a great weekend we had with family and our special event.

Miracles

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving in our home town of Pleasant Grove, Utah. We spent five days visiting friends and staying with Shane's family. Had an awesome Thanksgiving feast thanks to Ma, Janalyn and Laurie. Tons of shopping done and christmas bought the weekend was winding down fast. Saturday morning I received a call from Julie saying my dad has had a heart attack and is now in surgery. My heart sank, as I pulled off the side of the road from getting a pedicure and said a little prayer asking heavenly father to let him stay with us. He was out and in recovery within a couple of LONG hours. He is doing great, even though he is weak he is here with us and that is all that matters. We are so blessed to have all of our family members living and enjoying this journey together. What a wake up call for me...I need to say I love you more often, to speak kinder every day and enjoy every moment I have on this earth with the family I love.

Birthday Tribute to our Hallie Bug...

There is just something about your first born coming into your family and changing the way you look at life and how you live your life. I look back on the last eight years you have been in our family and tears come to my eyes at how much you have grown. When you were little, you were chubbier than Ledger, and people stopped to tell me you looked like you were going to pop. When you were a toddler, you always said MYSELF! when wanting to do something on your own. You have always been a little nervous when it comes to new things, (you get that from your mom unfortunatly), but when you do it, you love it. You are our happiest princess, a very big helper to me and dad, and the peacemaker of our family. There will always be a special place in my heart for you as our first baby. I thank our heavenly father every day for you and your spirit in our home. I love you, Hallie with all of my heart and wanted to wish you a very Happy Birthday on your special day! Love, Mom

Happy 8th Birthday Hallie! (Friend Party)

Hallie decided for her birthday party she wanted to go to Skateland and rollerblade. She invited 12 friends and all but 2 made it. We had a lot of fun, Papa came and was the girls entertainment for 2 hours playing "tag your it" on skates. He was a hit, the girls asked if he could come to their birthday party. Thanks dad for making it fun! Hallie got a lot of great gifts, she has some great friends. Today she wanted donuts for her treat at class, and then dinner at Gerdie's with the family. More celebrating to come... Papa and Hallie

The lovely guests

More lovely guests

Tinkerbell Flower cake of course

Friends skating at Skateland

A Good Deal!

This is kind of silly to post, but I love getting a good deal!
This week at Target they have wii games buy 2 get 1 free. Which is a great deal if you have ever priced them. At the front of the store they have their fun kid ones for 14.99 ea. So I bought 6 games, printed 3 coupons from Krazy Koupon Lady online the night before for a 10.00 off coupon purchase of 2 wii games only at Target.
Long story short, buy 6 games at $14.99 (the cheaper wii games, but my kids love them), this means 2 free and then 30.00 off in coupons which makes each game $5.00! I was a little sceptical of this offer, because I am not a coupon clipper, but I thought this good of a deal was worth a try. I handed the cashier all three of my coupons and without question she scanned all three, and handed me my receipt...$29.95 for 6 wii games! SCORE on Christmas gifts.

Baptism Preview...

The big day is Dec. 5th, but we were so excited I had to post these, the invitations are on their way. I can't beleive my little girl is going to be 8 this year!