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!

Update Anyone?

Ok, so I know I'm a month late on the update, but hey, we've been busy.
So, from the beginning...
Everything went through with the house great! We got everything shipped, and taken care of just in the nick of time.
Unfortionately our vehicles still have not sold. They will though, one way or another. So if anyone knows of anyone looking for a truck or car, let us know.
We flew out of fairbanks saterday, January 28th @ about 10:25 pm. We made it to the airport just in time (@ -50 degrees i might add). We got there, got checked in, got thru security, got to the gate and there was no waiting, they loaded us up and closed the doors...wheeew! We made it on every flight with no problems at all. Sleeping wasn't happening for me though at all, with Ben sleeping and me having to hold both the boys most of the time, it wasn't working. But we made it sunday morning at 9:00am ( it was 50 degrees i might add, yep 100 degrees difference!!! it was so warm!!!). Amber picked us up from the airport and took us to her parents house. Everyone made plans for us really quick to stay with Lonnie & Jenifer until we found our own place. I HUGE thank you to them, and Adam for bunking up on the couch so we could have his room :)!
I had told Simone that she needed to not have her baby until we got here cause I wanted to see her brand new. It worked! She went into labor the morning we got in and had her that afternoon. So yes, I got to see her brand new, and she is just so precious! They named her Challis Ember Elison, and she is so fun!
OK, moving on...
Needless to say I had SERIOUS jett-lagg. And it took me a good 3 days of napping and sleeping a ton at night to get over it. But I did get over it :)
Being here has been great! Lots of Mommies in the Fam are homeschooling and we get together about once a month or so to do little fieldtrips and such. In February we went to Ben's Aunt and Uncles to see their sheep. They have TONS! It was the perfect day to go too. The sun was out, they got to feed some of the lambs, round them up, watched while uncle Ray docked the lambs tails, marked their ears, and castrated the little male lambs :(, and they even got to see one be born. The kids loved it!
We are loving it here. The kids play outside all the time, they have wonderful little cousins to play with, wonderful family who are willing to babysit, and we have family get togethers all the time. We go shopping, fishing, sight-seeing, and wistle-pig shooting. We have BBQ's all the time, play dodge-ball, soccer, go swimming, work in the gardens and yards, watch movies, and just hang out. It's been so great for us to be here, we have truely missed our sweet, kind, and most generous family members!
We are still living with Uncle Lonnie & Aunt Jenifer for the time being, but will be moving into my Grandpa & Grandma Pulleys old house at the end of April. We are so excited!
The Kids our doing great.
Kyzer plays outside almost 24/7 and is already turning brown. He loves it here, and sure enjoys having his cousins to play with all the time. He takes good care of his little brother, is very protective and loves to tease and play with him. He loves the Animals and loves to ride Ponchy* or Boots ( the pony ).
Korben loves to be outside too. He loves the trampoline, the animals, and balls! He has been walking since 9 months and you can't keep him out of anything. He is so smart, I  always think he is older than he is, and I'm not the only one. He will be 1 year on April 7th (:( where has my baby gone?) and is doing wonderful!
Ben has been working for his Cousin Nick mostly and his Uncle Lonnie when Nick doesn't have anything going. I just stay home and take care of the kids and play and visit with Family.
We are doing great and are looking forward to the coming summer ahead of us!

The Update you've all been waiting for...

Well, Kyzer is watching a movie and Korben just went down for a nap, so I thought I would get this update done.
As I think most of you know, we have been thinking about moving to Idaho for a while now and knew that we would eventually end up there, we just weren't sure when was the right time to go. For a year now we have been feeling that we just needed to hurry and get the house finished and up for sale. So, all last year we worked really hard on getting the house all finished up and finally got it up for sale in november( about a week before thanksgiving ). We weren't looking to make any money off of it really, but because we got the First Time Home Buyers Credit, we had to pay that back. (for those who don't know, if you received the FTHBC and sold your house before 3 years of living in it, you had to pay back a portion of it, in our case we just had to pay any extra that we got out of the house. So after paying the realtor and all the closing cost and anything that was required to be fixed, the rest goes back to the FTHBC). So, in order for us to walk away without writing a check from our own pocket, we set our asking price to 149,995. In 3 weeks we had our first showing on the house, and everything went great! They loved the house and put an offer in on it within 2 days of the showing. We did have to counter offer because we would have had to write out a check for 1,600 out of pocket with their offer. Within a matter of a few hours our realtor called us and said that they had accepted the counter offer and signed the deal. YAY!!! We really could not believe how well everything went. Things got rolling right away. They got the engineers report done before Christmas, the appraisal done right after Christmas,and our well and septic test done about a week later. There were a couple routine things that were required by the engineer that we got taken care of and one miner thing with the well head that we fixed. Easy breazy! So everything is done and ready to close. Ben's last day of work is the 25th and we just set the closing date as the 27th. Yes, its all just one week away, crazy! We sold our truck, couch,and dining table set, we have just a couple other big things to get rid of and we should be set to go. My Aunt is shipping all of our stuff for us and we will be flying down. Our friend will be selling our car for us after we leave because Ben needs a way to get to work until then. So, a big THANK YOU to Julie and Jason for helping us out! You have truly saved us.
We are very excited to get to Idaho and be warm again! We will for sure miss Alaska, but NOT Fairbanks by any means. Yes, we will miss a few things like, friends, family, and TURTLE CLUB! ...But, we have never liked Fairbanks and are very excited to be getting out of here :)I'm sure it's not the most horrible place in the world, but it's not for us.
So long Fairbanks!!! HELLO IDAHO (AKA...HOME)!!! :)

Cutting back on blogging

Since I started this blog, my Journaling, scrapbooking, scripture reading, exercising, and excessive cleaning have gone WAY down hill. This is bugging me more and more all the time. So here is my solution... This is no longer a picture blog. I thought about getting rid of it all together but didn't really want to do that, so I thought maybe I could just up-date it once a month but then the dumb thing is telling me that I have used up all my picture space so I either have to delete a ton of pictures or pay for more space. We are working on becoming more self-Suffitient (will write more about this in another post) and spending more money once a year is not helping in that department, so I will not be paying for more space. I will simply be updating the blog once a month with a written post...simple as that. We may eventually be getting rid of it all together, but for now we will keep it open and see if it is of any interest to anyone.
On another note: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Let's keep our New Years Resolutions this year!!!

Our Precious Boys

The Jewels of our life!

We will do whatever it takes to make sure these boys are safe and treated as they deserve. As everyone deserves to be treated decent. 

They will NOT get in trouble for defending themselves, PERIOD! As I don't think that anyone should get in trouble for defending themselves from them. 

FACT: We ALL make mistakes.

FACT: We all need to be loved.

FACT: We all need to be treated equally.

Ben & I strive each and every day to do this, and YES we often fail, but the Lord knows we are trying and that is all that really matters. I LOVE my family as well as Ben's. Each and EVERY one of them. They have all taught me things in my life and I am so grateful for that.  I never have and never will disown them (regardless of what some may think). I know I don't say "I Love You" as much as I should and that is something I am working on every single day. 

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

My Husband and kids will always come first!

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Thanks for being a part of our lives!

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