Brynlee was born back in November! We were so excited to finally get her here after a long 4 years. She is so much fun. We all love to hold her and snuggle her. She smiles a lot and is starting to talk. It is so much fun having another little baby in the family. It is also so much fun having another little girl. She is so much fun to dress up.

Brynlee Bean

Our Family Trip

I haven't made any new posts for the last year.....We are still alive and I will post pictures of our Cruise later!

SPRING BREAK!!!

SPRING BREAK !!!! We had a wonderful Spring Break!!! We went to Grandpa and Granny Kunz's to color Easter Eggs with Brody and Macayle, and Burke and Rachelle. The kids had so much fun!!!!

While we were there we were planning on going skiing at of course the best ski resort in the world!!!! Targhee!!! But the weather was so bad and it was so cold and windy.... So we made our own fun.......







We made chocolate chip cookies!!! Somehow, they always taste sooooo delicious at Grandma's house!!!! We played the WII game 'Just Dance.' The kids loved that game! And it's so much fun playing it on Grandpa's TV!!! We went to the Teton Valley Museum in Driggs! It was a lot of fun seeing Grandpa Bean and Great Grandpa Bean's pictures from Pierre's Playhouse!!! The kids were excited to know that their Grandpa Bean and Great Grandpa Bean were famous!!! Their pictures were in a museum!!!

There are lots more that we did. I will have to post the rest of the pictures later. This is just one day and night! We had a lot of fun. Greg was able to take most of the week off. We had so much fun together!!!

We had a wonderful Christmas. Greg had the day off and we had so much fun playing together as a family. Greg also took New Years Eve and Day off. We headed up to my parents in Victor where we went snowmachining and rode the sleds behind the sleigh and horses. I love going up to my parents house. It was fun to see all of my brothers and their wives, and my parents!!!

One of my High School friends(thanks Nellie) put this on her blog and I think it is wonderful to remind us of how we need to be. I know it's how I would like to be! We all have bad days, and I guarantee, if I was in a grumpy mood and said something that I didn't really mean to the person I was saying it to, because I was having a bad day, I would love it if they just smiled at me. That would really make me stop being so grumpy and smile back!


One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
-This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... 'Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.' Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

We never really know why somebody is having a bad day, we don't know what is going on in their lives. But if we try to be more like Christ and love everyone no matter what they have done to us, all of us would be so much more happier.

Is it Thanksgiving or CHRISTMAS!!!

This is honestly my favorite time of year! I love putting up my decorations and I LOVE LOVE LOVE putting up my Christmas tree as a family and decorating it. And yes....our tree is up!! We don't have our lights up outside yet........who knows if it will get done this year. We'll see.
But we do have our house somewhat decorated, and our tree up. Although we seem to have misplaced half of our tree decorations. I can't seem to find them anywhere, so either we have a mouse that LOVES Christmas decorations in the house, or my children went through them and seems to have misplaced them. Oh well, our tree is still pretty.
I love sitting in the living room at night, drinking hot chocolate, in front of the tree, reading a book!!! My absolute favorite thing to do with my family!!!