My little girl is 7!

My bathing beauty.Devilish little grin!

Maz and her cousing Stryder playing on the fence.

I would often find Mazzy asleep like this.

Are there any words for this one?

Mazzy just turned 7 on Sept. 6. I can hardly believe it! She has been such a blessing in our lives and continually keeps us on our toes! She is full of life and smiles and giggles and I can not imagine my life without her! I am so proud of the little lady she is becoming and how kind she is to everyone! I just wanted to share some of my fav pictures of my little girl, I can't believe how much she has grown up!

Couldn't ya just smush those little cheeks!?

This was her blankie, she only sucked her thumb when she had this thing and would not take a nap without it! When I would wash it, she would sit in front of the washer and cry "my bankie, my bankie" literally until it was washed and dried!

Her 7 year old picture.

Kidless Vacation!

Above: This picture of Scott falling makes me laugh out loud!!!

Above is the "Water Weenie Incident" that tore my board shorts so my bum was almost hanging out! I think we all got banged up on this dump!

The pic above is at the Bear Lake Pizza, we ordered the "Old Ephraim"

Okay, so this was our last Bear Lake trip that we took I think the first part of Aug. I am way late to post this, but I had to....mainly for my friend Rachael's sake. I just had to post that I finally got "air" while wakeboarding and landed it I think 4 times!!!! It was the COOLEST!!! Ryan finally jumped the ENTIRE wake and was on cloud 9! At one point though he almost made it and took a nose dive into the water and knocked himself out! Scott circled him twice in the boat before Ry finally noticed him. And then he just got back up and kept trying again and again. Also it was so fun because my mom and dad kept our kids and we just went and played with my sister Misty, Scott, Kaden, Shadd, David and Gabe.

I put this picture on to show how glassy the water was, PERFECT conditions for playing in the water.

I finally got AIR!!!

Ryan doing his 180!

And landing it!

A Day in the Life of a Goth!

I have decided to become Goth!......Just kidding! I recently have been asked to serve in the Young Women's of my church as the Mia Maid Advisor. So for Mutual night the Young Women and Young Men did their annual Where's Waldo at the Gateway. They pick people from the Ward and ask them to dress up. Then they bring the YW and YM in groups to see if they can find any of us "not looking like ourselves"! I didn't want to be a lonely Goth walking around by herself so I asked some friends and Jaycee came through for me. Also THANKS Christi for the makeup, she was going to dress up with me but was leaving the next morning and had to get ready so she couldn't make it!

Holy Moly can I just say I felt like I was in a Documentary of "A Day in the Life of a Goth." I can not tell you all of the looks, laughs, glares, thumbs up that we got! There were people everywhere taking "discreet" photos of us on their phones. One guy was trying to be so sneaky about taking our picture, that when he did I told him.."Enjoy that" his mouth fell open and he had this scared look on his face and barely gave me the thumbs up! It was HILARIOUS!!! We were hit on quite a bit too, by "normal" looking guys....and some creepy ones too! And just full out dirty looks from girls, which was quite humorous too! Some people tried to walk by and not stare, just looking wide eyed. Then other people's eyes darted back and forth staring and others just full out gawked at us! I think we surprised all of the YW and YM.....It was TOO much fun!

Check out some more photos of us and some other people that were in this at my friend Paula's blog.....(just click on my link labeled Paula or go to sheridansix.blogspot.com Jaycee has some good ones too (just click on Jaycee and Brett Hammerstrom). Make sure to click on the pics to make them bigger, so that you can see the full affects of our faces and piercings!!

1st Day of Preschool for Bug!

My little boy is off to Preschool today! He was soooo excited to get there. When we arrived he started looking and getting a little nervous! Ryan and I went in with him until he felt comfortable enough for us to leave. We actually just left without telling him in hopes that there would be no tears. He sat with me for awhile while the teacher read the kids a story and then she had them go into the toy and craft room, which surprisingly he went in by himself, so that is when we decided to make our exit. Hopefully he will do okay when he realizes we are gone! It is so crazy having both my kids in school, not sure how to feel about all of this yet!

Here he is sporting the COOL outfit and backpack that he picked out ALL BY HIMSELF!
What a little stud!

Bangs!

I thought that I was going to be one of the few mother's who never had to deal with a child who cut their own hair! I was wrong! Friday night Mazzy was playing around with her hair and putting it into ponytails. Well the elastic got stuck in her hair and instead of asking me for help, she decided to get the scissors and cut the elastic out. Well when she did, she also cut a chunk of her hair out too! Ryan caught her and brought her to me, tears were rolling down her cheeks and I got "I'm so sorry mom!" My sister-in-law, Sarah, was there and was trying to contain her laughter! I wanted to yell at her but I knew that it wouldn't help anything and she was plainly very sorry, so I controlled myself very well! Oh well, what can ya do? Luckily Jane, our hairdresser neighbor, worked her in on Saturday to even it out and hide it with some bangs!

She reminds me of a little Flapper girl! She just needs a fringed dress and a head band with a feather, don't ya think? Mazzy REALLY likes her hair this way and I guess that's all that matters!

A Bruiser and a 1st Grader!

For those of you who do not know, Bronson has had some REALLY BAD luck with his front tooth since he was about 18 months old. He fell out of his highchair booster seat twice right on the same tooth within a matter of months of each other. He bruised the tooth pretty badly then and it died.
This past year (I think it was in January) he was eating some ribs with Ryan and bit down on the bone and completely knocked the tooth loose. (Ouch!) About a month later it started to miraculously firm back up, when Ryan was playing around with him and put his shirt over Bronson's head. When he pulled it off of him it snagged his tooth and ripped it forward and all the way loose again! (OUch!) So his little tooth was super loose and sticking out a little bit more than the others.
Now mind you the poor kid has not been able to bite straight down on ANYTHING for months now because of this tooth and because it is so loose and hurts to bite anything. So he has been eating everything off to the side of his mouth.
The end of June, this year, he was jumping off of our retaining wall out front and jumped off and his face hit his knees! Imagine this, he hit his tooth AGAIN. (It was just starting to firm back up again!) This time he knocked it up into his gums a little and back into place! (OUCh!!) This was REALLY painful for him! After a few hours, it finally popped out of his gums and looked fairly normal! It really wasn't all that loose anymore! A Miracle? Think again!
That VERY SAME week he was having a sleepover at our friends (The Hammerstrom's) house and there little boy was climbing over Bronson and just happened to knee him right in the mouth! (An accident, of course) So I had to go and get him! The tooth was so loose that it felt like it would fall out at any moment, but it doesn't! (OUCH!!!)
So yesterday he was playing with his cousins, now mind you his darn little tooth was firming back up AGAIN. Somehow Bronson and Kaden's mouth and head collided and this time FINALLY knocked the tooth out! (OUCH, OUCH!!!!!!) He cried for quite a while this time, blood pouring out of his mouth! It was REALLY REALLY painful this time! So after the color came back into his face and the swelling went down around his gums, he was excited to eat and not have to be careful with his tooth!
I told him the Tooth Fairy would come and leave him money for his tooth, and now he could eat however he wanted! So this morning he woke up to money under his pillow and a very Happy little boy! He will probably be toothless for 2 to 3 years until the grown up tooth comes in, but at least we don't have to worry about it absessing or anything like that anymore! The FORCES were against this little tooth, that's for sure! So now he is truly our little Bruiser! We told him to tell people, "You should see the other guy!" This morning my Mazzy face started 1st grade! She is in Mrs. Butler's class. She is in a 1st and 2nd grade split class! So when I took her over I realized she is in with all the 2nd graders in the 2nd grade area! She looked so little compared to a lot of them. The teacher is arranging it so the 1st graders in that class (which are not very many) can still go out to recess with the other 1st graders, so I was glad about that! She seemed excited and nervous at the same time! She's a smart little girl so I know this will be GREAT for her! I just can't believe my little girl is going to school ALL day now! Time sure goes by fast!

Here she is in her "rock star" outfit (as she calls it) and her new haircut she wanted to start school with.

Camping with My Fam! (More Pictures)

Here's the last of the pics from this vaca. It was so fun hiking, riding the 4 wheelers and the Go Cart. It was a nice relaxing get away from the real world. I love, Love, LOVE the mountains in Morgan, these pics do not do them justice!

Here are the munchkins on the 4 wheeler with Gramp.
(Mazzy, my Dad (Thayne), Bronson and Stryder.)The kids and me on our hike.

Mazzy being a monkey and climbing the quakie trees.

Like I said, these pictures do not do justice for how BEAUTIFUL it is up there.

Just a pic from the top of a 4 wheeling trail.

Camping with My Fam!

So I got home from our "kidless" Bear Lake Trip #3 (I will post later when I get the pics from my sis) and I was home for a day and left for Morgan with the kids. Ryan had to work so he couldn't come:( We went up to Hardsgrabble, which is the pretty side of the Wasatch mountains. It was so nice and relaxing for me and the kids had so much fun playing in the creek, the dirt, and hiking.

Here are the kids playing in the creek.

The kids were climbing up this really steep dirt part of the hill and they all took there turn falling or sliding down it. The picture does not do justice to how FILTHY and DUSTY they really were. They were not happy that I told them to quit playing on THAT hill!!!

Bear Lake Trip #2

Ryan's parents got in on all the fun at the fam reunion. It brought a smile to my face.Here we all are on the water weenie. Ry's dad Ray decided to give it a try after all the years he's pulled everyone else around on one. He made it for I think 6 rounds of dumping and climbing back on!

After the fam reunion we headed to a cabin at Bear Lake and met up with our friends, Brett, Jaycee and their cute kids, Bryce and Christi, and our good friend Rachael and her kids (she flew in from Colorado just to be with us), and Mark. We had a GREAT time!

Ryan was telling me something, when Mazzy jumped on his back and dunked him in mid sentence. It was kinda funny!

Jones Reunion at Bear Lake (Trip #2)

Ryan's "Jones" family reunion was up at Bear Lake this year. It was so fun! We stayed at the top of Logan canyon and left on Bronson's actual birthday. We went over to the Minnetonka Caves and went through the hour and a half guided tour. It was so cool. It is a constant 40 degrees in there. Also it is 444 steps in and 444 steps out.This is coming out of the cave.

This is Kermit the Frog's castle.

We brought up cupcakes for everyone to celebrate Bronson's birthday and sang to him. He thought it was pretty cool to have 2 birthdays this year.

Bronson through the Years

What more can I say...he is ADORABLE!!!! I can't believe how much he has grown and changed the past 5 years!

Here he is at a whopping 3 years old.

Brons (age 3) put on Mazzy's fairy wings, stood on the couch and said.."Me fly Momma" it was so cute! I'm sure he will love this pic when he's older!

Bronson's 4 year old pic that Ryan took.

This is his 5 year old pic that Ryan took, just a day before we buzzed his hair off!

Bronson through the Years

Here is my happy sweet little baby boy. He was usually ALWAYS smiling and doing something silly. He really was a good baby, he still is a good little boy!

This is one of the few pics I have of Bronson in his molding helmet. For those of you who do not know, he had a very bad flat spot on the back of his head, so they put this helmet on him for 3 and half months, 23 hours a day until it pushed his skull back to normal. He was a little trooper.