Happy Easter!

He is Risen!

For the record:
I officially declare it impossible to have 6 kids stand in one place and look at the camera at the same time.  Impossible I tell you!

The not so happy

I have to say, the end of February/beginning of March------not my favorite------to say the least.  We are feeling really grateful to be on the upside though.  We are outta here:

Hoping to never return even though it was a brand new hospital (open for only 2 weeks before Alexia's surgery).

We are also grateful that the mass she had removed was NOT cancerous.  We still have things to deal with but a cancerous tumor that size wouldn't have given us very good odds.
Thank you to all of our friends, family and co-workers, who called, visited, texted, emailed, brought dinner, watched kids, sent cards, sent many many gifts and who just simply cared what was going on in the Whetten family!  I can't believe the kindness we were shown.   Even by perfect strangers at the hospital. We will never forget it!

The Amaezing Merlin

Ever had a hotair ballon drop down right in front of your next door neighbors house?  No?  Well now we have. 

Early one Saturday morning, the Amaezing Merlin fell out of the sky and landed right on our doorstep.  Fine, so it was in the street in front of our neighbors house.  Close enough.

We got to walk around inside of the deflating balloon

And the kids got help put it away.........and Conal may or may not have been just as excited as the kids to help......

 

Other news: the Whetten family streak is broken.  BOO!  Conal got stung by a scorpion last night so we are no longer a scorpion-sting free-family.  I wonder if he will still walk around outside, barefoot, in the dark.  hmmmmmmm.  Any bets????

hmmmm.....where to start

Where do you start when you haven't blogged for 5 months???  I guess at Christmas.  So here's the short story.  We went.  We partied with the fam.  We had fun.  Here are a couple of pics:

And once again.......I fear this is the last year that I will have cute matching pj's for the kiddos.  But I thought that last year too. So we shall see.

The Little Monsters...........I mean Superheros

It sure is nice to be trick or treating in warm weather again!

5 and 10

My Boys are 5 and 10.  What can I say.....besides WHERE DID THE TIME GO? 

Oh, and thanks boys, for choosing a place the whole family likes to celebrate your birthdays. 

You two are the best!

I ran 12 miles today.

That's all I wanted to say.  Cause I'm a pretty big wimp.  So 12 miles is a lot for me. And I've never done that before.  Well not all at one time anyway.  And that's all.

White Sands

Man I love Saturdays.  Especially Saturdays when we just get to hang out and do something fun.  So we headed out to one of our favorite places out here.  White Sands. 

It's easy to see why we love this place. 

And the weather was perfect this Saturday.  Not too hot, not too windy.  

And the fact that Dad plays like a kid doesn't hurt either. 

It almost makes the endless amounts of sand in the van, house, bathtub, and washing machine worth it. 

 Ok fine.  We'll go back.  Probably next month.  Until next time...............

The Whettens and the not bummer summer

The only bummer about summer is that it is over.................and here we are..........back at school. BOO! (1st, 3rd and 4th grade)

But BEFORE that, we had a very busy/fun summer.

In a nutshell:

Sienna turned one:

Macy turned 3:

Who knew that a 3 year old would be afraid of Rapunzel hair that lights up?????

Hailey was baptized in Utah with her cousin Jamison:

How nice was it that the Farnes drove all the way down to the baptism to have to turn right around and go back. Thank you Farnes!

We went to the Whetten Family reunion in Bear Lake.

And many many more things that aren't pictured............because some forgot to take pictures.................that person will remain nameless (ME!)

Not pictured:
2 trips to Lagoon
Planet Play
The Mayan
Hollywood Connection
A couple of birthday parties
Bowling
The Lemonade stand
Numerous family parties/dinners
The nasty Diet Shasta Rootbeer drinking game
Miniture golfing
Cousin sleepover
Swimming
Trips to the park
Tons of cousin time
"Spy school"
"A Taste of the Past" theater night
Wow, what did I forget????

Man I love summer!!!!!