Halloween 2011

The boys came over on Halloween to have some grub before they hit the houses for some loot. My girls love these boys. They act like they never see each other if it has been more than a couple days. We are so grateful they just live a a couple miles away.

Brad has been an awesome father the last couple of months while I have been a crazy woman with my new church calling. While I was @ an activity he carved pumpkins with the girlies. A couple days later he won our ward Halloween pumpkin carving contest!! He is such an amazing artist!!

Halle doing a fantastic job on her Jack-O-Lantern

Haisy carving out her pumpkin

Here we have "a mean witch" and "Tangled." These are their words- not mine!! Halloween was so much fun. This was the first year that we have actually stayed in our own neighborhood. The girlies LOVED it!!

Haisley's First Day of Preschool

Since Halle is in school everyday we had to get this girl into something!! She loves going to Mrs. Jennifer and Mrs. Jessica on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It gives me a little time to volunteer in Halle's class and sometime for just me:)

She is so cute!! We love our Haisley!! She is completely different from her older sister. She is constantly keeping us on our toes. You never know what she is going to do.

First Day of Kindergarten

Yes my little girl started KINDERGARTEN a couple months ago, but I am just now getting to this post. What's new?!! I can't believe she is already in school. A part of me is happy and excited for her but I am also a little sad- she will be in school for the next 20 years or so (depending on how long it takes her to finish college). Life will never be the same:(

Her momma and sissy miss her every morning when she is in school. After about an hour after we have dropped her off Haisy asks if we can go get her. I guess being home with just Mom is too boring!! Halle's teacher, Mrs. Knight, is awesome!! Halle loves her. She makes going to school fun. I was so worried that she would hate school, but she is excited to go everyday!!

8 YEARS!!

Can't believe it has been 8 years already. Man, time flies!! He's hotter today than the day I married him- never thought I'd say that but it's true. Love ya BRAD!!

Summer 2011 Vacation

For vacation this year our family went to California to stay with my (Melissa's) aunt and uncle. My dad and his other brother came along too!! It was SO much fun:) We seriously LOVED every minute of it.

The girls (minus Danielle- we missed you)


Family photo on the beach

Like mother like daughter posing for the camera:)

Summer 2011 Continued...

More FUN to be had on our vacation

Fish tacos became a favorite meal for the girlies. We are A LOT of them!!

Love the Pier:)

Catchin' some waves on the boogie boards.

Love me my sissy!! Isn't she BEAUTIFUL?!!

Too Cute

She had a BIRTHDAY!!

Halle turned 5 back in June, but we have been so busy this summer that I have neglected the blog. I wanted to make sure that her BIRTHDAY was documented though:)

She's a Graduate!!

Can't believe I have a GRADUATE; man that must mean I am getting old!! Halle graduated from Preschool a couple weeks ago. She made so many cute little friends. It's just too bad most of them will be going to another elementary school:(

The GRANDMA'S made an appearance:) Thanks for supporting her.

Halle's cute teachers: Mrs. Jennifer and Miss Jessica

We can't forget who supported her the most throughout this year- her family:)

-Birthday Girl-

Can't believe this cute lil stinker is 3!! Man, time flies.

McCleary Cousins

My lil brotha and his family came into town for a coupla days so we had a lotta family time. The cuzzins love each other!!

Komen Race for the Cure

A few weeks ago we walked in the Komen Race; such a great cause for a community to get together. Red Olive designed billboards and brochures for the event- good job Vince:)

The momma and her girlies in their first of many races together

Lets not forget the father and his girl- they walked hand in hand. How cute!!

Being a Saturday morning, it was extra hard for us to wake up early. The girlies were especially tired even to the point of being extremely grumpy!!

Finally a finish line to cross!!
I was truly grateful that I was walking in this race to help find a cure for such an awful disease and not as a survivor. I am so grateful for my health!!!! There were so many women there that had fought such a terrible disease and won, but there were some walking in honor of someone not so lucky to have won. Here's to finding a cure!!

Happy Easter:)

Hope everyone has/had an enjoyable EASTER!! We sure did. Halle woke up a lil too early to see what the Easter bunny brought (well, atleast the momma thought she did since she was up til the wee hours of the morning finishing the dresses). Although it was a bright and early morning we loved spending the day as a family. It is just wonderful to know that I can be with my family forever. I am so grateful for the knowledge the gospel brings me. My SAVIOR lives!! He loves me and everyone else. How awesome is that- when you feel like no one else cares for you- HE does:) HE died so that I can live again!!

-Melissa

J Dawgs!!

The RED OLIVE crew!!

A couple weeks ago we had the privilege of going down to J-DAWGS in Provo for some amazing food!! My awesome husband did Jason's (owner of J-Dawg's) site. So he invited all the employees and their families down for a picnic- how nice:) So here we are. If you have never been- YOU NEED TO TRY IT!! IT'S AWESOME!!

Let's Go!!!!!!

:St. Patty's Day:

So cute, but such a stinker!!

This year we had a GREEN dinner with my sister-in-law and her cute boys. Since my bro is working his busy season we like to hang out a lot so they don't get too bored. They came over and we cooked us up some delish grub which consisted of green noodles with chicken and alfredo sauce, fresh green beans, green jello, lemon lime Kool-Aid, chips and guac, and rainbow cupcakes. Aren't we festive:)

Will and Tate lovin it:)

Hal and Hais eatin' up some yummies

I made RAINBOW cupcakes. Will was excited to see the colors inside.

The above lil stinker ruined my surprise by 1) coming in on me while making them and 2)telling her cousins "our secret"

Can't get much cuter

SO YUMMY!! The things we have to make to get our kids to eat their dinner.

Can't forget that this cute lil boy was there too.

President's Day

Brad had President's Day off so we decided to do some fun things as a family. Since we bought the "Passes of all Passes" from Seven Peaks and Trafalga we chose to take advantage of them.

We went MiNi GoLfInG!! The girls had fun, but Haisley soon lost interest. Maybe the 18 holes was a bit too much.

She had her own way of golfing and hitting the ball.

Halle improved a ton through the 18 holes. At times she would get frustrated and pick her ball up and place it where ever she wanted:)

We "love" spending time as a family- especially taking family pics!!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year- from our family to yours!!!

This year I am feeling very positive about the changes I am going to make. I really hope I can say that later this week:) Every year I try to make resolutions and most of the time I really try to keep them. Here are some for this year:)
*Live on a budget; maybe my husband helped me with this one
*Exercise more; run 2 marathons
*Read my scriptures DAILY!!
*Spend more one-on-one time with my girls
*Live in the moment; don't live for the next BIG thing
***WISH ME LUCK cuz I'm gonna need it***