PRAYERS PLEASE!

There was an accident with my little nephew last week. They had to take him to the emergency room and he ended up at a larger hospital in PICU for about 4 days and then regular Pediactrics for 2. They were released on tuesday only to find out that they weren't getting to take him home. They are investigating child abuse and so they are staying with my older sister and Their parents aren't allowed to stay the night with them or make any decisions for them. I will be the first to tell you that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ABUSE GOING ON! This is crushing my sweet little sister and her husband to pieces. I have been so sick the last two days and I am having such a hard time with it. I am asking anyone and everyone to pray for ALL of us! We need to be able to focus so that we can be supportive for my sister and her family. Please pray and ask everyone you know to pray for us also! My sister has a 19 month old and a 2 1/2 month old and they are trying to take them from her. She does NOT deserve this. Thank you to everyone in advance for the support and prayers!

Mostly April + a little May

 Kyzer started his 1st year of Soccer at the beginning of April and he LOVEd it! His 1st game didn't go great, but after that game they got the hang of things and did pretty darn good. The 1st game they played a team that was twice their size (it seemed) and they just pushed and shoved and pulled them down to get the ball.  They held it together though, and played right through the whole game! It was only for 5 weeks, but he enjoyed it and can't wait to play next year!

His 1st Game!

 He tried so hard!

His 5th and final game of the year! 

Look at him go!

 The last game was quite the competition! They worked really hard and WON by several points though!

WE WON!!!!!

Planting some raspberries in April

SpiderMan is quite the builder

So, funny story! I decided it was time to start watering the lawn and trees, and I forgot to turn the water off before we went to bed. (Which it should have been ok, the weather hadn't been very cold and it was the end of April.) When Kyzer got up the next morning he hollered "Mom, theres ice on the tree!),  I then looked out the window to find this...

I believe this was the beginning of May...

I stepped outside to check on the boys one day and found them like this. 

They LOVE their Darla!

We welcomed our New Nephew Hudson Neil Olt on May 3rd 2013.

 The boys sure do Love their Cousin!

Look who's 2!!

Korben's Birthday was April 7th, but due to it being on sunday and over General Conference weekend we decided to celebrate on friday the 5th.
 We went swimming @ Roystone Hotsprings and then came back to our house for a BBQ and cake. We had lots of friends and family over and Korben had so much fun playing with everyone, but by the time we got all cleaned up and him ready for bed he said to me " Mom, i'm so ready for bed." Yep, completely wore him out, and he slept so wonderfully all night too!

His "Bunny Butt Cake in the Carrot patch"

 Friends & Family

 He LOVES frosting!

 Ruby thoroughly enjoyed her cupcake

 AnnaRosa & Shannon

 Oh, that Hawkin Joshua

 Jackson & Cole

 His favorite present

 His Awesome cowboy boots!

Happy Birthday, Korben Thayn!

We sure do love our little man!

Our 2012

Since I wasn't able to keep up on pictures and updates for the last year i decided to put together this little video to catch everyone up on how it all went.

I love how this turned out and it brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. 

I love that we are here and I love that we all love it here so much.

Hope you all enjoy this as much as I do!

Nearly a year already?

Yep, its been almost a year since my last post. Sorry folks... we barely just got our internet hooked up today at home. I'm loving it already!!!
I have been working on putting together a video of all the pictures from this past year, and I am hoping to be able to post it on here for everyone to see, but just in case i will post a few pics with this post.
hmm...I really don't know where to start...to sum it up...
We celebrated Korben's first birthday (on his birthday 4/7/12) with family and it was great! He loved it! His auntie Marisa made his cake and it was a Radio Flyer Wagon with a baseball bat and ball in it. So Cute!

Easter was a blast! The kids had so much fun and it was great to actually have green grass instead of snow. It was a beautiful day!

Lets see... Oh course more family get togethers...BBQ's, potlucks, swimming, valleyball, and this is just an ordinary day here.

We had a great garden this year! We canned corn, tomatos, salsa, sweet N sour sauce, peaches, plums, and tons of Jams and Jellys. And of course we ate so many fresh fruits and veggies it was heavenly!

We went camping a few times which the kids loved! Kyzer was so excited to move to Idaho and guess what he was most excited about... Catching a catfish... well, guess what!... HE DID! He was the only one in our family to catch one all year.

For the 4th of July we went to the Island here in Emmett and watched the town fireworks show after our family BBQ of course. The kids love Fireworks! We always have Ben's Family reunion over 4th our July weekend and so it was a couple days after and sooo much fun! Races, games, swimming, EATING, visiting, learning about all the different cultures, its a wonderful thing to have all this family around. Every year we have a Theme, this year it was "Indian Pow wow" (I Think, lol) so each family was assigned a different tribe, ours was Nez Perze.

All the little Indian Braves

Our Little Kyzer man turned 4

 We now have a Gold Dredge, its fun to use and yes, we did find some gold with it!

 Our little guys are growing up too fast. They love each other so much!

 Adorbs!!!

 Our Hunting trip to Orofino in October. Ben got a Trophy WhiteTail.

 No Words

 We Attended Uncle Eran & Aunt Jen's Wedding here in Emmett.

 Kyzer was so excited to be a part of it.

 This little man decided to go as his Uncle Devan for Halloween

We have two new nieces, both born in November, and they are ever so Adorable and sweet! We have two more on the way and a nephew also, and we are so excited to meet them!

Christmas was great ( besides the part where Kyzer was puking)!

New years, and all those other family get togethers were of course also great!

We got moved into our own house place in July, and we are loving it. It's tiny, and cramped, but we are happy and always find room to squeeze family in when they visit. we have lots of fruit trees and lots of room to put in a good sized garden this year and we are super excited about that. Our little Mr. Korben will be turning 2 ( I know, crazy right?)  in a few weeks and we are working on planning something fun for him to do. We are enjoying our time here so very much and are so happy to finally be out of the " all the time cold" of Fairbanks Alaska.

We have seen and done so much in the past year that I would be here for two days strait writing it all out for you, but I am happy to have summed up some of the more major things that have happened.  I hope to keep this updated more often now that we have internet again.

So, until next time... TAA TAA for now!