Santa Claus

This photographer in Spanish Fork was doing a special with Santa Claus. She would take your picture with Santa for only $3.00. I thought WOW what a steal. The mall wants way too much money to sit on Santa's lap. I knew Wes would be a little scared of Santa. He doesn't comprehend who Santa is or what Santa brings. Needless to say he was TERRIFIED of the big man. He would not sit on Santa's lap. So mom sat next to him and he would not look at santa or the photographer. As you can see in the picture below in order to get my $3.00 worth it had to be just Wes and Mom. Oh well maybe next year! Merry Christmas!

I Heart Shutterfly

I am so in love with Shutterfly!!!! I started using Shutterfly about 2 years ago when Wes was born. I had my pictures printed through them. Then I moved on to photo books and Christmas Cards! I have been so impressed with their quality and turn around times on my projects! One Year I did a photo book of our Lee Family Reunion and every one LOVED it!!! It was fun to create and its a great way to keep and preserve our memories. And their Calendars make the perfect Christmas Presents for Grandparents, Great Grandparents or just about anyone on your list. Their website is super easy to use and cute, fun designs. Check out their Calendars here. I am also a Fan on Facebook. They post coupons & Sales and they also post helpful information. Like how to set up your photo books, or how to take pictures or what to dress your kids in for family pictures.

This Year I will be ordering my Christmas Photo Cards from Shutterfly. Here are a few designs I have come up with:


Believe me there are many more to choose from. (Its a tough decision). Click here to see the Christmas Photo cards or here to see Christmas/holiday Cards

Shutterfly will email me coupons and promotions. I always try to take advantage of these promotions or coupons. Most of the coupons are for FREE Products all I pay is tax and shipping. Like this post for Example I can get 50 FREE (yes I said FREE) Christmas Cards!!!

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See for yourself and you will love them too!!! Merry Christmas!

Birthday Part 1

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I can't believe my little guy is 2! Wow time sure does fly. Wes was sick on his birthday. Poor guy so we moved his party to Sunday night with the Hickman family. He loved opening his presents and loved the Remote control fire truck. Wes had gotten very independent, and talks A LOT! He has to pick out his own pj's and clothes, put his shoes on by himself. He loves to watch movies, His new saying is "I need that". It cracks us up everytime he says it. We love you bud!

Lee Reunion

We had the chance to spend 4 awesome days at my grandparent's cabin in the Uintas. It was our annual Lee family reunion. And oh it was fun. We had a birthday party for Jaxson with fun games: fish pond, pinata, and swimming pool filled with treats. There was a horseshoe competition: Congrates to Cole & Eric. We made purses, flowers & magnets out of duct tape, watch bands for crafts. Went for 4 wheeler rides and just enjoyed being with our family....

George & Jean 1st Annual reunion

The Hickman family got together up Starvation in Spanish Fork Canyon and spent 3 days in the sun & dirt. We had a blast. It was so fun to get everyone together and just relax and visit. the kids enjoyed playing together and getting dirty. We had some awesome dutch oven food Thank you Joe and Jamie for cooking breakfast & dinner. We played in the water, the dirt, rode 4 wheelers (well some of us rode 4 wheelers while others rolled their 4 wheeler....)We had massages, played hand & foot and yahtzee with grandma Wendy, played horseshoes, bad mitton, football and ate some HUGE YUMMY Marshmallows, listened to trucker music and laughed as the brothers all sing along, hot 100 Deg temps and scared ourselfs with the creepy axe-murder-in the car camped next to us. All in all it was a great weekend. A special thanks to Jamie for her planning and stressing we had fun and it will be memories we will always be able to share.

This was Wes's favorite place to play. A soft pile of dirt. It entertained him for a while.

Yes Wes is driving the 4 wheeler. He was so excited!

Yup he loves GUNS! he is such a boy....(it was only a BB gun and the safety was on)

Siblings cooking us some yummy dutch oven Ribs!

Wes eating his HUGE marshmallow. They made the best Smores

His little battery powered 4 wheeler just didnt go fast enough :(

Here we are in the water. He loved to throw rocks. The water wasnt very warm and his teeth would chatter and he would shake but he STILL would not get out. Crazy kid

Lake Powell

We took a family trip to Lake Powell. It was a blast! We headed out saturday afternoon and stayed in a little tiny (and I mean TINY) town of Hanksville, UT. Sunday morning we got up early and headed to Bullfrog to pick up our house boat. We spent a couple days on the lake fishing, floating, playing in the sand and sliding down the slide on our house boat. oh yeah and of course we ate lots of food! But all in all it was a fun trip. One we would definetly do again next year......

This ia a picture of where we were beached....

Victory playing in the sand.

Victory & Wes floating in the lake.

Wes loved the sand!

Fishing with grandpa

Our First Camping trip

So we finally had our first camping trip of the year. We went over Memorial Day. Saturday was really cold and windy but the rest of the weekend was perfect. We had lots of fun. Sitting around the campfire, riding the 4 wheeler and enjoying our time in the mountains with friends.