Here shortly I will find my camera cord, and so there will be real posts! m But until then I will tell you I have lost 6.5 lbs in two weeks! I am so excited, this is the longest I have ever dieted so I am totally proud of myself!!
I just joined a Biggest Loser group!! Tonight I had to weigh in front of 5 other people. I did it!! Now the work begins!! What did I get myself into! But this picture is some of my motivation! Wow I look chubby!
The mountain in the middle of the culdesac! The neighbor rented a tracter and made a big hill pile in the center for the kids to play on! They loved it and played on it for hours and hours!!
Snow day!!! It was so fun for the kids to have school canceled. I had watched it snow and snow and snow the night before. While I wrapped and wrapped, and wrapped Christmas presents. I woke up wondering if they would cancel school and even thought I am going to let my kids stay home and play for awhile before I send them to school. But then they canceled school!! Yay! It was a really fun day, I had hot chocolate going all day and during lunch I put their snow clothes in the drier so they could go back out again! Really fun day!
Ryan- Last April he switched companies from Blendtec to Traegar Pellet Grills. He has the exact same job but for a different company! He is building Traegar's Costco program just like he did for Blendtec. Since this company is based in Oregon he was working from home for about 7 months until the opened there sales office here. It was soooo much fun to have him home, I still miss him going to work everyday (cheesy I know but I was about 1000 times better than I thought it would to have him home!)! He is so busy that his travel as really been cut down which has been a nice break.
Chelsi- I am happily unemployed! I quit working in January which was a very long and hard decision, but I really wanted to focus my time on Jaxsyn's last year at home and also taking care of myself (losing weight!!), planning trips and just making lists I want to accomplish. I am loving that ages of my kids right now they all seem to be in a good place.
Samantha-11 Has done a lot of growing up this year. She has made some amazing choices this year that has just shown me what a strong woman she will become. She is doing awesome in school and has found a love of soccer. She is a very good helper and is terrified of the basement!
Ashlynn-9 Is getting to the age where I think my kids should just stay put! She is a very smart girl and when she stops socializing (don't know where she got this from) she learns quickly! She is a very talented dancer and wants to try her hand at soccer this spring. She is boy crazy and seems to like a messy room (don't know where she learned that either!
Coleman-8 He is a charmer still. He can't help it, it is a gift. He is a quiet leader and an example to others. Is a inventor and builds new things and has big ideas all the time (wow, that reminds me of Ryan!) He is a very good athlete soccer, wrestling and in the fall football are his favorite sports to play. He has is very quick witted, and can't walk by a single piece of trash he doesn't want to bring home and make something out of it!
Jaxsyn-4 The princess still. We had a rough time for a bit teaching her that she is not in charge of the family and after about 6 weeks of tantrums, timeouts and lost privileges she learned who the bosses really are and has been a good girl since! She is a cute little dancer and loses to place house with all the boys in the neighborhood. She likes to play with the boys because they let her boss them around. She loves to tell us that we are the best mom and dad in the whole wide world and the neighborhood. She is a little cutie and a night owl who I am sure will be life of the party once we let her stay up past 8:30!
I am still looking for that camera cord! But when I do I will update you all!
Yesterday was a great day, our little Coleman mna got baptized. He was soooo excited for this day. He looked so hansdsome in his suit & tie. He told Ryan right after he was baptized that this was the best day ever. We had a great brunch after with lots of family and friends. I just can't believe that I have 3 kids that are baptized!!! They grow faster than you can even imagine!
We took a family trip to Hollister CA to visit Ryan's Aunts, Uncles & cousins. We went to Ryan's cousin's wedding reception in Gilroy CA and then the next day we drove to San Francisco. It was a fun place to visit and we did TONS of stuff.
This is at the Golden Gate Park Children's Quarter. It was the best park I have ever seen the kids loved it!!
We went to Muir Woods and saw some redwoods!! They were HUGE!!! It was a very fun & beautiful place I could have stayed there for hours!
And of course we saw the Golden Gate Bridge!! When we pulled up to the parking lot we saw a few dolphins in the bay area!! It was freezing by the way, 60 degrees!!! After 4 days in San Fran we drove to Hollister (yes it really is a real city!!) and did family time, visiting everyone, birthday parties, BBQ's, Gilroy Garlic Festival, & swam & swam & swam!! Thanks Auntie Ruth for the use of you pool!! We then left Hollister and drove to Manteca CA to see Mindy & Barratt and guess what we did? SWAM!! It was a really fun, yet long trip 10 days!!! I was sooo glad to be home.I can't believe it's back to school already!! We shopped all day long, but the kids are almost outfited!!!!
We are still here!!! 2009 was a great year full of many blessings, and highlights. Here is a few we would love to share!
Jaxsyn (3) started preschool, and dance this year. Coleman (7) is in 1st grade and plays soccer & wrestles. Ashlynn (8) is in 3rd grade and dances, dances, & dances. And she was baptized in July! Samantha (10) is in 5th grade and is in gymnastics & basketball. We are running like crazy in the evenings from 5-7:30 and then luckily we can sit down and eat dinner together. I am getting the swing of things with working a little each week. And Ryan is working at Blendtec and doing an amazing job!
We been so blessed this year with some wonderful trips to visit some fun places. We went to the Dominican Republic to see Ryan's Mom & Dad (they came home in July!). We also went on a cruise with Ryan's entire family (25 people!). Wow we were a big bunch! And then I got to go on a girl's trip to NYC right after Thanksgiving, with my Mom & 2 sister-in-laws.
We wanted to take a moment to say Merry Christmas to all we love and we hope you have a magical New Year!!!
Love you all,
The Crockett's
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Halloween was fun this year Ryan & I were Captian America & Captain America's daughter! Sam was a pirate, Ashlynn a witch, Coleman a skull biker, and Jaxsyn was Belle. This picture was taken at the Crockett Family Halloween Party. What occurred at this party needed to be written for posterity. Ryan dad is an amazing story teller, his Davy Crockett story is legendary, anyways Rob & Christy asked him to tell the story of Sleepy Hallow at the Halloween party. Let me set the scene spooky trees on the wall, lights out, fog machine going, and spooky music playing. Then Rod began telling the story of the Headless Horseman!!! The story was nearing the end and all of the sudden the CD player started the sounds of a horse galloping. My nephew started yelling "turn it off"! Then Rod yelled "look" and pointed to the window, and there stood the Headless Horseman on a horse with a pumpkin in his hand! The kids started running, screaming, crying, & hiding. The parents started laughing, crying (from the scene we where watching, and laughing so more. The Horseman left and we calmed them all down and then he came back and it started again! Rob & Christy had a neighbor with a horse come to scare us all. After, we took the kids out to see the horse and neighbor so they wouldn't be to spooked but it was one of the funnest memories of Halloween ever!
This is a classroom for the street boys (homeless boys).
This is a neighborhood of 3 LDS families we visited!
The Fiesta! This is the traditional clothing at CARNIVAL.
All of us at the resort!
They all piled into 1 truck to drive home, from church!
This is the Branch Pres. Home. It took 7 years to build. This is actually a larger home.
Rod & Kathy's classroom!
The Fiesta the Institute planned for us!
Rod & Kathy's Apartment 4th floor window is theirs!
For 2 1/2 days of our vacation to the Dominican Republic we stayed in a resort! 
A hike to a waterfall we had to cross 3 bridge's
Dinner in the clouds! This is a nice restuarant up in the mountians that overlooks the country!
A gorgeous river we stopped to look at!
Sosoua Beach!! This where we snorkeled & Ryan scuba dived! 
Coleman's team is the White Sox, and after figuring out that not everyone plays so hard core he has really had fun! He is loves to bat first so if he gets a home run it's just his home run! He really is pretty good at hitting and has gotten a few home runs! I think he will love REAL baseball (as he calls it) next year!
Sam and her best friend Drew had a summer camp of kids!! They charged $2 per kids per hour! They planned the entire thing!!! Clay making, coloring, finger painting, snacks, games, and a relay race! They were so cute, the whole 1/2 half I just sat and watched. They each made $7 for that hour and they are so excited to do it next week!!
The rodeo this year was so fun!! The kids were all great & actually were enjoying the rodeo! We had the whole big family!! My Mom, Dad & Great Grandma Hirst; Ryan, I & our 4 kids; Shaun , Tammy & Bailey; Nate, Ashley & Preslee. Ashley's Family & Chantelle my cousin we always go to Starwberry Days with her! Ashlynn sat with her all night and learned a ton about rodeo's!!
This is photo will always be one of my favorites! Look how cute the men in my life are? Ryan is a wonderful husband & we spend a lot of our days laughing together! He is truly my best friend, and when I saw him across the room and starting falling in love with him I could have never imagined how blessed I should have felt that day. He is such a great dad! He is there for them always, at their sport events, at their dance stuff, and taking them to BYU football games.
I have been neglecting this blog I need to get caught up before summer gets crazy!! So I promise I will be better! here are 2 back posts!!!
We put money in the eggs!!! Just kidding this was all for candy!! So funny!!
