19 years

19 years ago we were blessed with this sweet angel baby the day after Christmas. She is one of the sweetest, most kind girls that I have ever known. I am amazed every day at the things that I see in her. I sure love you Whitney, Happy Birthday!

 

 

 

 

Family pictures

Here is just a sample of our family picture outing. She took tons so it makes it hard to decide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look Ma-no braces!

My beautiful daughters both got their braces off yesterday, they were so excited.
Now you see them--

 

Now you don't!

 

In some ways I think I will miss having them in braces that might have meant less hits by the boys. They sure look good though, I have some beautiful girls.

I WON!

I went over to Maceys to do some grocery shopping on Friday and they were having a tailgate party for BYU. They were doing some paper shredding and I had several boxes of stuff from work that needed to be shredded so I went back to the office to grab the boxes and stopped off at home to get the two younger kids to come with me. While the kids played on the bounce house I went and entered the drawing for 2 free tickets to the BYU vs. San Diego State game. I went over to let the kids get their faces painted and I thought I heard them say that Bonnie Ross must not be there to claim her tickets. I went up to the booth and sure enough they had called my name. I had to either do a cheer or sing the whole BYU fight song--I opted for the cheer and basically I just yelled 'Go Cougars'. I won 2 free tickets and I decided that I should take Hayden since I have been having somewhat of a struggle with that kid lately and I felt like he needed some one on one time. The kids also got some cute balloons and they had a good time. Hayden and I enjoyed the game--he especially loved to stand up and shout the rah, rah--go cougars part and all the junk food that I bought him. I took a couple of pictures but nothing really turned out--this was our best attempt. Final score BYU 24 SDSU 21--Go Cougars!

 

 

 

 

McQuivey Family Campout

This will be one of the longest posts you might ever see. When we went camping with the Ross family earlier in the Summer my camera battery was dead and so I didn't get any pictures. I made sure to remember to bring the camera with the battery charged for this one.
Over labor day weekend we went to my mom and dad's property by Bryce National Park. For the first couple of days it was just our family (most of us) and Cameron's family along with mom. We decided on the second day that since we were so close to Bryce Canyon that we would go and do a couple hikes and check out the beautiful scenery. We had such a fun time and Bryce Canyon was beautiful.
On Saturday night Cam and Julie ran back to Kanab so they could go to church on Sunday and Sunday morning my mom went to get dad so we had a little outdoor church service by ourselves. Mike's family and Ryan's oldest three kids joined us on Sunday night--along with Grandma and Grandpa of course. We rode four-wheelers and and did some crafts and just sat around and had fun.
We had too much stuff to try to pack in our Suburban so you can see from a couple of the pictures that we converted our trailer into a camp trailer in luxury. We had to go out to use mom and dad's bathroom but we had a real king sized bed and the kids slept on camping cots and air mattresses--that was the best camping bed I have ever slept on. We took our old carpet (with padding) from the family room and rolled it out in the trailer and we had a sweet set-up.
The kids played so cute together and I caught just a few of the fun moments that we had. The kids will hopefully remember this for a long time and we hope to make this an annual tradition in the McQuivey family.