Jana Rose

Jana loved having her pictures taken. She did so good while my cousin, Ricci, took these pictures. She is such a beautiful little princess and everyone in our home just adores her!

One of my very favorite! She is such an angel!

Also a favorite!

Love this pout look on her face!

I love this too!

LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE ONES TOO!

 Jana and her cousin Sofie. Sofie lives across the street. These girls are best friends. Its so cute!

Little miss attitude! I didn't realize how different our home would be after having a girl. Its a whole new world. She runs the house and all her brothers bow down to her...lol. She is so sweet though!

This picture has special meaning. Jana has to be sucking on a soft material to comfort herself or to fall asleep. I love that Ricci got this picture!

This was a lot of fun. Jana is growing up so fast. She will be 3 in July! But she is still our baby. Jana loves to sing and dance. She sings all day. Sometimes random made up songs. Its so fun. She will be starting dance classes on Monday. She loves princesses, Dora, and anything PINK. She is very smart and sometimes uses words that I don't even know! She loves to talk. She has a special place in her heart for her daddy. She lights up when he is around. She loves to play mom to her brothers. She will tell them to buckle their seat belt or to go to bed at night. She even counts! We love having her in our family. She bring so much joy to us!

Young Family Pictures 2012

We have been so busy lately. I can't believe it's almost June! I just downloaded all my pictures and will be posting tons in the next few days. I will just start from Feb and work my way through the missed months. We just got some super cute family pictures done so I'm posting those now! Can't wait to show off my amazing family! :)

 This picture has special meaning to our family. Our Motto is "No Empty Chairs"

 My Cousin Ricci took our pictures. She does such a great job and has so much patience with my kids! It was so hard getting everyone to look, smile and hold still but we had a few laughs and tons of fun!

Love these pics! We had them done at Dry Fork. So beautiful!

Caden has such big amazing eyes!

 Titan is getting so big and handsome...crazy how fast time goes by.

 Titan has those broad shoulders just like his daddy. Good for football!

 Corbin has been known as "the monkey" in our family. This picture is perfect!

 Ricci brought these awesome lollipops. As you can see we had a ton of fun. Ricci was laughing so hard she said she couldn't hold the camera still.

 My awesome kids!

 Jana Rose is so sweet and beautiful. She had other pictures taken in her Easter dress. I will post them soon.

 Corbin the stud!

 Orion is growing up. He looks like a young man...I guess he is a young man! Such a good looking guy!

 The couple pictures are always tons of fun. Love being married to this man!

 

This picture was so funny. Do you see Corbin's face? He was kneeling on a rock and it was killing him. And Shay was smiling but yelling at Jana to smile through his teeth. It was hilarious!

 Titan is so funny. ALWAYS joking! We were taking pictures and looked over and he had his pants hiked up with a piece of straw in his mouth. lol! Before we moved to Vernal he would do that and joke about moving to a small town. Here we are. Officially Hill Billys!

 He drew in the rest of the crew...handsome aren't they?

What a lucky girl I am! We had a blast...thanks so much Ricci, you did a great job once again!

Our Wedding day!

14 years ago on Valentines day, Feb 14th, Shay and I were married in a small LDS Church in Sweetwater, Texas.

I was so nervous that day but I knew Shay and I were going to be so happy together.

My beautiful dress! The photographer that was taking picture of us was going to make us a wedding video and accidentally erased all of our wedding pictures so all we had were the ones that our family members took. I was glad others took pictures!

Shay with his brothers, Craig and Cole (Richey was on his mission) and Grandpa Bennion.

Shay and I have been married for 14 years now. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing. We have had so many challenges along the way but they have made us stronger and closer. I love the way he makes me laugh and his soft heart. He is a romantic guy and is always surprising me with flowers or little gifts and notes. We still hold hands and date every Friday night. We are best friends. I love being married to this man. I know we will have many more obstacles in our path as we move on into the future but I also know as long as I have him beside me I will make it through just fine. He is my strength. I love him more than words can express.

Sealing Anniversary

Feb 7, 2004 we were sealed for time and all eternity in the Monticello, Utah Temple.

I can still remember when they brought our two little boys into the room. The Spirit was so sweet and so strong. I was kneeling across the alter from my husband, both of us with tears in our eyes. We were sealed as husband and wife forever...our feelings of love were so strong in that moment... As soon as the boys entered the room we began to bawl! Pure and innocent all dressed in white. So amazing.

Orion and Titan just after being sealed as a family for all eternity!

Our sweet little family. Shay an I with our two little boys...I was also pregnant with Corbin so three little boys. :) This is one of my favorite pictures. I scanned all the photos so everything is a little blurry and not as clear as I wanted.

Me and my sweet husband. He adores me and I am so thankful to be married to a man who loves and cherishes me as much as I love and cherish him.

I have so much gratitude in my heart for the blessings of the Temple. That I have an opportunity to be with this man and my children for all eternity. Shay is my best friend. We have a very special connection and I have no doubt that we were made to be together. I love him so much and I know he loves me. We are so blessed to have each other forever and ever!

Imaginations

Jana and Caden are becoming really close. They love each other so much. I had to blog about this incident that happened the other day. They have big imaginations...it's so fun. They were pretending they were dribbling a pretend basketball. They were passing their imaginary ball back and forth. Caden started dribbling the imaginary ball in place when Jana came and stole it. She ran off with it and he started screaming and ran back and grabbed it from her. Then she began to cry and ran and grabbed it back. He fell to the ground screaming "Jana give it back". I couldn't help but laugh. Seriously they were fighting over an imaginary ball. It was so great! I finally went and grabbed an other imaginary ball and gave it to Caden. That solved it. They both had a imaginary ball to bounce. WOW...I love being a mom!

Finally Corbin lost a tooth!

Corbin finally lost his tooth! He is 7 years old and all of his friends have been losing their teeth. He has waited and waited. Finally a few weeks ago he felt a loose tooth. He has been begging Shay for the past 2 weeks to pull out his loose tooth. Shay would try and try but the tooth just wasn't ready. Corbin was devastated each time. On Dec. 27th Shay was able to pull it out! Corbin is a whole new man now. The coolest kid in class...lol.

Bring on the New Year!

We had our own little celebration on New Year's Eve. We had a blast playing Mario Kart Wii. We watched the Ball drop (at 10:00...lol) and let off our confetti and blew our noise makers. The kids loved it. Shay and I put them to bed and went out and grabbed a shake. We came home and watched a movie. It was a nice night. Orion spent it in Arizona with friends. He had a great time down there visiting with family and friends. We missed him.

It's a new year...time for goals! We are making some healthier choices in each area of our lives. Physically, spiritually and emotionally. We have already taken big steps and I am so pleased with our progress so far. The kids are working just as hard as we are. I love a fresh start!
Happy New Year!