Sawyer turns 6!!!

Our sweet sawyer turned 6! where did time go? I can't believe he could even be six. This kid... so much could be said about him. He always keeps us on our toes. He is to smart of this own good. he is so funny, loves people seriously this kid loves everyone. he is just full of life and love. He is always making us laugh and making us want to pull our hair out at the same time. he is best friends with his brother. he loves school and loves learning. his favorite color is obviously green. he wants to change and save the world when he gets bigger... he has really large dreams and i know he will follow and succeed at his dream. He tells us everyday he loves us and gives the best hugs. his smile melts us and his laugh recharges us. he has a heart of gold and most people don't know how sensitive he actually is. We are so thankful that God put this magical boy in our lives. We love you so much sawyer and think you are such an amazing and special boy. Keep shining. 

I am grateful for the special bond sawyer and his sunshine have. They share a birthday and a real and true love for each other. we only wish we could have spent celebrating the birthday people together but face time... oh face time thank heavens for it. we sang to sawyer and sunshine. over his number 6 cake. after a day of visiting him and having chick fil a. 

And we found out on sawyer's birthday that our miracle baby was coming. i honestly don't take pregnancy tests until i'm a least 12 days over. and this time i just felt something different i get really bad nightmares when i'm first pregnant so i decided since i was having them that i would just take one. and it was positive. i was in the bath and got out and just sobbed and fell to my knees in prayer of gratitude. could this be real? i was so nervous because of previous losses, but oh so grateful at the same time. i went out and told braydon and we just cried. i wanted to shout it to everyone especially the boys but we waited since the loss last summer was so hard on them. we are over the moon excited about this new baby.

winter break 2015-2016

This poor sweetheart got hit in the face with a gate at the park and it totally sliced his face open. we are so glad that it wasn't worse and in his eye. we decided to have a silly string war to finish the 2015 year. it was a lot of fun. 

Our winter break has been so fun. we went geo caching. its where people hide things and you have to find them and the boys thought it was so fun. one was at the fire station and one of the firemen had to come out and help us find it. it was buried and we would have never found it. we've played in the sprinklers in December and January we have had some serious awesome morning bed head... we have done crazy faces on snap chat. went swimming at the ymca and just done our very best to entertain these crazies on limited funds. oh the residency life!

Christmas 2015

Christmas eve was spent with friends at airstrike and then leaving the lights on for santa to come bring us our presents because we were so good this year. I love the quote from elder bender "may the beautiful lights of every holiday season remind us of him who is the source of all light"

this was our very first christmas away from home. it was very strange and kind of hard. Our christmas morning was really nice. it went by really fast. our sunshine got up so early so she could face time the boys and watch them open their presents.  once that was over they played with their toys while their dad took down christmas it was all over very quickly. we didn't have any family to visit or cousin to play with it. it was really nice to be together and not have school or work, but we definitely missed being with our family. And not to mention it was 82 degrees on christmas day... so so hot. we went to the park and we were so sweaty by the time we went home. the boys were spoiled and went to be feeling very loved and happy.