Grammie & Pa Pa

I Have Eight Grandchildren Now!!!!

2009-01-06T18:28:00.000-08:00

Baby Jane was born today! Visit Binny and Kevin's blog to see the cute little girl!! Mom and baby are doing good. We are grateful all is well. I can't believe I have eight grandchildren, Wow! 4 girls and 4 boys!! What a way to start the New Year!! We will be going out there this weekend and so I will get lots of pictures!!

We spent last weekend in Salt Lake with Kevin's parents. We had a great visit and went shopping!! Yeah!! I love Park City Outlets!! We are grateful we made it home on Sunday because the next day was a huge snow storm. Thanks Mom and Dad for the nice visit!! We will come again!!

Oops

2008-12-16T17:35:00.000-08:00

I guess you can all tell that Binny helped with my blog before last and this time I did it all by myself. With the pictures so far apart and the double picture at the end. I just hate bugging the girls all the time. Of well, I guess that is how I learn. Have patience with me everyone.

Kansas trip with more of Braysen

2008-12-16T16:47:00.000-08:00

Just got him out of his car seat. Welcome home Braysen!

He is such a good baby.

In his swing for the first time.

Lizzy holding Braysen. She just loved holding him, can't you tell. Such a cutie.

Wide awake and notice the hand.

Braxton just loves to hold him any time he can.

Just got home from the hospital. He was so comfortable and we had to take him out of his car seat.

We had a wonderful time in Kansas. Having a new grandbaby is wonderful. We are so glad that we were able to be there. We had a lot of fun with Braxton and Brinlee and of course the new baby. Congratulations Lance and Kelli!! You are doing such a good job with your little family. I have to share something funny about Brinlee. She gets athlete's foot sometimes. Well, this trip she had a little on one of her toes. So, she is sitting on the floor looking between each toe inspecting them. She is saying," perfect, perfect, perfect, not perfect, I have athlete's foot. The funniest about it was the way she was saying it, because she can't say athlete's foot very well. So we had tons of fun laughing at the things Brinlee says and PaPa had fun teasing both of the kids. We are home now and miss them already. We look forward to them coming the end of next month. Carson did say that he didn't miss me, but he was teasing.

Baby Braysen

2008-12-08T18:13:00.000-08:00

Braysen Steven Leavitt born Dec 8th at 10:53 am 7lbs 14oz 20 1/2 inches long

Yes, he has hair and it is curly

I was so happy to be able to be there.

I love this picture of PaPa and the grandkids. Brinlee, Braysen and Braxton.

Brinlee was so excited and just kept talking to him and singing to him.

Braxton is such a proud big brother.

PaPa thinks he looks like Lance.

SOLD

2008-12-02T17:55:00.000-08:00

We sold our Denali!! Yeah!!! We parked it Thanksgiving weekend at the Christmas Boutique and got the check today!! We really thought we would never sell it because of the way things are, but the Lord always takes care of us. We just need to have patience. (Which I struggle with sometimes.) With the business as slow as it is, it is nice to have that payment gone.

Thanksgiving

2008-12-02T17:30:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Plenty of food and Binny would have been proud of my rolls. Thanks for the recipe Binny. Mike and Jake with all the guys! We missed Kevy and Binny and the girls and Kelli and Lance and the kids so much. We look forward to seeing all of them this weekend!!

The boys just love KiKi. Carson had so much fun with all the kids. Lucky KiKi, she got a hug.

It was nice to have both grandparents here. We had a great time. Thanks for coming down RoRo and PaPa. The boys always love to see you. We do too!! It was fun to go shopping. JoLene was here with her family too.

Kelli thanks for the little kids table. It was perfect for the day! I think that's a sticker on Conner's forehead. He just loved Ethan and it was so fun to have them here. Carson loved playing with Austin too.

Short Update

2008-11-07T09:53:00.000-08:00

I am sure as you have read the girls blogs that we had a fun Halloween. I loved looking at everyone blogs to see the cute costumes. We sure have a bunch of cute kids. We are happy to have Dave and Kristi home. (and Josie) We were at lunch the other day and I asked Conner if he liked having KiKi home and he said yes, but where is RoRo? All the kids love RoRo. Mike is working for a company here in town. He loves the regular pay check. All of the kids just love Mike. The boys really like to wrestle with him. Kevin and I are just hanging in there. Business is slow but we just need to stay faithful and do what we can to stay positive. The Lord always provides. We are just happy to be able to have family in Kansas to take care of things there. We are going to be spending Thanksgiving here ( at least that's the plan today) and then go to Kansas the first part of December for the new baby. We really hope he waits to come until we get there. We shall see. We sure have a lot to be grateful for and hope everyone is well and happy. Everyone keep updating your blogs, I just love to read them and see the pictures of the kids.

Pictures from Kansas trip

2008-10-30T20:16:00.000-07:00

I just realized that I don't have a picture of Braxton in here. Sorry, Brax I think most of these were taken while you were in school. I did love reading with you and love you tons!!!!!

Trip to Kansas

2008-10-25T20:59:00.001-07:00

Well, I am trying to do this with out the help of any of my daughters. So we just got back from Kansas. We surprised the grandkids! We met them in Salina for dinner. Lizzy thought it was the best "prize". Nellie just keep hugging Grammie. Braxton just kept showing us his game on his D.S. and he thought it was a great surprise too. Brinlee was excited too because she didn't stop talking. They are just the cutest kids ever!! We were so excited to see them too. On Sunday for church it was the primary sacrement program. My grandkids were the cutiest in the whole of primary (about 10 kids) Brinlee was a little scared at first to even sit up front, but she became more brave and sat up front and gave her parts. Braxton and Lizzy did all their parts and they didn't seem nervous at all. Of course I had tears in my eyes for most of the program. (Their daddy's did too) They sang so beautiful and they knew the songs so well. You could really feel the spirit. Thank you Binny for all your hard work on the program and thank you Kelli for going up front with Brinlee so we could enjoy her too. I am really grateful we planned our trip to go then. That is the greatest to be able to be with your grandkids on special occasions. It was fun too because they keep looking at us to see if we were watching them. (of course we were!) We spent a few days at Kevin and Binny's and then a few at Kelli and Lance's. We rented a uhaul and brought a couch and bed and stuff we had there back to Utah. We also brought back our white denali. We are trying to sell our other one. Things change all of the time around here and so here we are. I love being home but then I love being in Kansas too. My heart is torn. Well, I have certainly rambled on long enough. I will post pictures from our trip but will need help with that. Love you everyone and hope you are all doing well.

Making cookies together

2008-10-14T15:51:00.000-07:00

Grammie and the boys making sugar cookies. Fun Halloween cookie cutters, ghosts, pumpkins ( or as Carson says: Jack-o-lantern)

And a cat that the boys keep asking what is was.

Grandpa playing with the boys. They love to play legos with Grandpa and wrestle. And of course we always have to play games.

Disneyland!

2008-10-03T12:19:00.000-07:00

So we decided to take a little last minute trip down to California. We went to Disneyland, California Adventure and Newport Beach. We had a fun time and it was good to get away for a few days!

(For more pictures you can see Kristi or Sandy's blogs.)

Our first post...with a little help :)

2008-08-14T16:23:00.000-07:00

With encouragement from our girls, we have decided to start a blog site. We have had a lot of exciting things happen these past few years and decided we should share it with family and friends. Like moving to Kansas, and finally moving back to Utah. We have had some fun trips and will post pictures later.