FAIR WARNING!!!!

If one more person tells my husband they saw his wife driving "like a bat out of hell" Iam going to start driving around with my pellet/bb gun and shooting anyone I recognize!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There you go.

Love love love the Porters!! Thanks for having a great family picnic. We all had a blast talking and playing with family.What a coincedence that my lesson the next day for YWs was about loving our extended family. I felt truely blessed as I was teaching my class, that I have a wonderful family on both sides. Unfortunately my family doesnt really do anything with "extended" family very often. But my goal is to change that this summer when my parents get home. I love how Marks family is close to aunts and uncles and cousins. My whole life I have just had 4 brothers,3 sisters,spouses, grandchildren etc etc. There was always a full house. But now I think we need to branch out a little on the family tree. My mom always knew how much I loved family get togethers(being the youngest) so she would always have sunday dinners with everyone. I looked forward to it so much. As I got older and everyone started moving out I was lonely. I became an aunt when I was 7 and loved all the kids. I miss those days.... With 25 grandkids, its a little chaotic to get together now but I still love it. Why do we have to grow old to really appreciate your siblings and parents. My poor parents. I cant believe they have survived. They are really special. Blah blah blah Im rambling. Easter was good we went to Lacys house for dinner and did an egg hunt. Kids loved it. Im slacking big time with pictures so hopefully I will get better. Poor Owen is hacking sooo bad today so Im home from church with him. He is so sweet I hate to see him suffer.

Rage In The Cage

This is the video of our "Brother from Another Mother" fighting at Rage in the cage a few weeks ago. He was amazing and we had a blast. Good Job Cody!

spring break.........Whats next???

So I had parent teacher conference with Cadens teacher. He is doing wonderful in class. She said he is a math whiz and writing sentences beyond his grade. I am so excited. What a relief to know he doesnt have any learning problems. She also said he isnt playing as rough as often as he used to.Such great news. This week has been break from school and Im having an emotional break. Seriously these kids are sooo demanding when they are all together. I cant seem to get anything done around here. I figured if I can keep on top of the dishes and laundry I can make it until next monday and finally clean!! Caden wants some entertainment constantly and it makes me feel bad when he is sad after i tell him no about something. We were going to go to mexico for a couple of days but couldnt find a condo and decided to save the money for my new car. We sold my tahoe after 5 hours on craigs list. I couldnt believe it. So Im driving Marks truck now and that means the kids are all right next to each other,so thats a little annoying. But Targets open so now I dont have to drive as far for stuff!! Hooray! Grandpa is babysitting for us tonight and I cant wait to go out on a date. A much needed break from the little munchkins.

Happy 4th!!

Happy birthday to my sweet and feisty little princess Olivia. Four years ago today she brightened our lives with all shades of PINK. She was a wonderful baby from the start. But now I have to say she is a little stinker most of the time but we love her to pieces. She really enjoys preschool and dance class. Everytime we take Caden to soccer she asks when is it her turn to do soccer??? Its so funny. She loves playing with Owen and its so cute to watch them play pretend.She has a tender heart and likes to share with her friends. For instance, in our truck is a huge pile of the sonic mints because Mark goes 12 times a day and nobody but her eats them so she took one on the way to school and tried grabbing fists full for her friends. She totally loves Barbie and all makeup. She is my sunshine!!

Being sick when your not really sick is really sick ,you know ? really!

Wow life has just been a blur lately. Is anyone else sick of being sick?? My kids actually, I have been well. We didnt do anything that exciting on v day. My honey did get me some flowers and of course he got a massage. We picked up cheesecake factory to eat at home so it was a quiet evening at home. But friday we saw Jumper. We thought it was okay. Probably better as a rental though. I took Caden to see Spiderwick chronicles and it was good but pretty scary. I dont really think SOME kids could handle it under 6 years old but what do I know. We had a fun family get together at the Huishs. Christina made a ton of yummy homemade pizza and dessert pizza. It was delicious!They also got a new huge square tramp so that was a big hit with the kids. I enjoyed visiting with some cousins from california that I havent seen in many years. Over all a great day!! Back to school today hooray!!

Hooray!!!

My two super brushers have no cavities! (Well one super brusher and one lucky stinker!) Olivia is a pill about brushing her teeth but now she has a brushing chart and she is excited! I guess there are some advantages to having HUGE gaps between your teeth. We had a fun little super bowl party last night- Go Giants!Not that I really know whats going on in a game but I did enjoy the commercials. Mark liked the talking babies and I liked the gigantic pigeons. They were pretty funny! So Im reading the twilight books AGAIN and getting obsessed. Its so fun to read them but pretty soon you start thinking like Bella ( untouchable cliff jumping motorcycling Bella) It cant be good! My friend Melissa made me the playlists for the books and I love them. Except Eclipse, Im reading that right now so I need to make a cd. This is the longest afternoon of my life these 2 kids keep screaming at each other. Its too dang wet outside to play. Aghhhhhhhh what do I do to survive this time of day????

Thanks Brooke Eagleston Photography for these new pictures of my sweeties!

Happy Day for me!!

I had my birthday last weekend and it was great. I got to enjoy all my favorite things in one day, shopping,friends,ice cream, dinner with family and then a movie with my Mark! He really pulled through for me on this birthday. (i was a little worried after not getting ANYTHING for our anniversary) but he gave me exactly what I wanted ,money to go shopping and a sweet card. Thanks honey! Oh and he sat through a movie that was totally a chick flick just for me, thats love! This is a picture of my sweet Owen and his new favorite thing, After I get the kids off to school I usually try to get stuff done and so I put him in this spiderman chair with a cracker or something and he will sort of watch a show. Its so cute how he gets excited and climbs into his chair when I tell him to. He is one of my favorite things too!

Edward and Bella

I was disappointed with this choice for Edward but they both look smokin hot in this picture!!There is hope after all!! I cant wait for the movie!!

Seriously behind....

Wow Im so lame I have not even posted about christmas yet. Well it was great! The kids loved what they got. We had yummy brunch with my family at the Huishs and then we went out to Phoenix to Marks aunts house. Then we came home and played Rockband all night long. Its everyones new obsession,including Owen! We also played it on New years with Marks familia. Did I mention Owen is a full time walker!! Hooray! But he is a complete nightmare at church ( kill me now, yesterday) I officially dread it! I think we will do homechurching. Yea forget about all that other stuff we will just do all our church stuff from home. Do they do correspondance(sp?) visiting teaching???? Hahaaha. Oh and Mark and I had our anniversary. Holy crap do I feel old. We went to Flemings for dinner and then to see National Treasure. It was fun. Mark wasnt that impressed with the food but I liked mine. The best lobster clam chowder ever!! Happy anniversary to my eternal sweetheart!! Today we were back on schedule with school and everything else. Its great to get back on routine even if its not the greatest routine. New Years resolution: Be better at EVERYTHING!!!!!(COOKING CLEANING KIDS ETC) Iam really good at shopping though!

Christmas Eve

I just loved today. It was such a fun and exciting day anticipating the big arrival of Mr. Santa Claus. It was nice to just be lazy after breakfast and not have to rush off to anywhere. We played games and watched Elf(again) and made sugar cookies for Santa. It was a blast. Then when Mark got home from work we opened our first gift,Rock Band. All of us got into it even Owen loved the drums. We make up a kickin RockBand!!!! Then we went to dinner at Skip and Connies ( yummy) and opened some gifts from them. Finally we are home trying to put the kids to sleep so we can get to work. I cant wait to see their faces tomorrow because we got some cool gifts that they will love. Im going to miss listening to christmas music and the feeling in the air,its just a fun time of year.

What the Halo?????

Seriously, you know your husband has a problem when he puts the music from Halo on our IPODS!! I want to KILL xbox!!! Well I for one have never understood the reasons for sure why people want to home school there children. Is it so they will be smarter? Or to protect them from evils of the world as long as possible( really they are socially retarding them)? Or because they enjoy teaching them. I would if I was a genius and could teach them anything but more power to those who do it,but your kids are not safe any where these latter days. Today (a few days ago actually) marks the day my 6 year old asked us what GAY means. Yes from church, a little boy went to sit by another little boy and that boy said" why do you want to sit by me ,what do you think Im gay??"This is at church people. What the heck?? We just explained to him in simple terms and told him not to talk about it to any other kids. I dont want my kid to be THAT kid who tells everyone what it means. This parenting stuff is crazy. And kids talk like wildfire so everyone be prepared the GAY talk is coming to your block very soon! Oh yea NEWSFLASH Owen is so close to walking everywhere, he takes about 4 or 5 steps and then sits down. He is amazing I love this little guy!!

Olivias Christmas Dance

Pretty Funny!

Good times

Anyone that knows me knows I love movies. Its a given growing up in Rent a Flick. I have many fond memories of " working" with my mom( really I was just sitting there watching movies so she wasnt alone.) What I remember I truely treasure. I loved working with my brothers listening to all the latest music and watching the new movies before anyone else could.It was seriously awesome to be sick because my dad would bring home a huge stack of movies to watch. Oh the memories of watching James Bond when I was 6 are wonderful!! It was fun waiting for the roach coach to come and pick what ever we wanted because he just traded movie rentals for food. It was great! We pretty much traded everything for movie rentals-gymnastics,food,doughnuts,carpet cleaning and of course Dentistry. Anyways the point of this memory is my love for holiday movies. We at the oberly home love Elf and Jingle All the Way( sooo funny) and at the Merrill home we loved too many to name but we loved Better Off Dead, Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation. What is everyones favorite movies???? Here are some more pictures. Owen figured out he can climb in the cupboard and shut the door it was really cute to watch him.

Phewwww!!

I think I can finally catch my breath after thanksgiving and hosting Bunko this week,so I can finally do a post. Wow we really had a great time on thanksgiving. We were planning on driving up on wednesday but my husband decided is was not happening with these 3 rugrats so we bought tickets to fly up. We didnt tell anyone so we showed up on Kendrias doorstep and surprised them! It was fun. I have never gone shopping on Black friday before(super early that is) I usually go later in the day. But Shaunasey wanted to go to the Park city outlets so we were going and we called and found out they opened doors at midnight. So we were all pumped up to go so we all went to sleep at 8:30 to wake up at 10:00 and drive an hour to get there when doors opened. It was me,Emily,Sha and Kendria and 2 nursing babies. Oh yea did I mention it was FREEEEEZING!!! Seriously like 15 degrees outside. So we shopped around for a couple of hours and finally went home at 4:30.Crazy I know but I havent stayed up like that since Post high school days. It was so fun. All the grand kids did great together, nine kids under 6 in one house , not too bad. Kendrias house made a great hotel! We visited my sister Trisha and that was fun as well but we didnt get very much time with her which I regret but hopefully we will see them soon!Oh yea we went to the temple and saw the lights and had hot cocoa and made some great memories. Good times! Flying was a breeze,soooo worth it to not have any money for christmas presents!! The kids did great ,I think this is the perfect size family for traveling. I hosted Bunklast night and it was great and I think everyone really enjoyed the food and prizes. Im so glad its over. Now I can focus on all the other stuff going on!

Belated post

Well its been a long crazy birthday Week here for Caden. He turned 6!!! We started off with chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and then after school we went to my sisters house to play and do the slip and slide. Then Mark met up with us at Applebees(cadens choice) He opened up a couple of presents from us and on Monday we had his party. Us and 27 little kids at BounceU. Crazy but so worth the money for a little hassell and a fun time.Plus no cleanup!! Caden Mark Oberly was born at 8:30 in the morning and he was a little stinker coming out. Took forever and he was sideways or upside down whatever. He was so beautiful and this kid has smiled and held his head up from day one, no JOKE!!! He was a wonderful baby or maybe its just that I love the baby stage but he was a great sleeper starting at 3 months. He walked just before his first birthday and hasnt stopped running. Just to name a few things that he likes to do: We got him a quad last year and he is a pro on it and loves it!! Unfornately he loves ps3 and xbox like his daddy, he totally rocks out on Guitar Hero , its crazy he is so good, He has always loved puzzles since he was 3, he likes baseball and always tells me he wants to do football when he is old enough. Oh yea this kid can eat, just like his daddy but who am I kidding I can out eat anyone on ice cream any day! He likes shrimp tempura( wierd I know) everytime we get sushi he wants ours, and crab legs, buffanos(wings) thats what he always called them. Caden is a great student( I was a little surprised because he is so, well energetic) he is a good learner and picks up fast on things except listening to his mommy the first time!! And finally the one thing everyone and I mean everyone says about him is he is a CLONE of his daddy. There is no me in his looks ,its all Mark its almost creepy. But they are both cute boys!! I hope he had a great week!!!

Update

So for Halloween the kids and I made homemade pizzas and sugar cookies of course. Decorating cookies is their favorite thing to do. Then they got dressed up and Daddy barely made it home in time to take them around the block a few times. Then on saturday Mark had a few friends over and what do BIG BOYS do when they play??? Well HALO of course!! We had a few t.v.s as you can see and they all had a fun time. I went to hang out at Bob and Amys house so the kids wouldnt bother their tournament. I returned home at ten oclock and the party had just begun so they played until I think about 2 oclock. These are some other random pictures of my favorite people.