.4th of July.

Every year my family goes to Carlsbad for the 4th. They camp, for an entire week! This was mine and Levi's first year going. We found out last minute that I had work off and that my friend had an extra site that we were able to buy off of her. We were quite a ways down from the rest of my family, but nothing a little long board ride couldn't handle. It is such a fun tradition that my family does every year. Levi and I already have a list of things that we plan on doing doing different and bringing for next year. And Levi is certain that we will get a beach front campsite next year:)

Our camp site

Wakey Wakey, 7am every morning bc it got so dang hot in the tents!

The wonderful 100+ stairs down to the beach

Miss Marley

Mykee went around doing Lady Gaga hair on all the girls one day, it turned out so cute!

Beach Games

Sunday Funday

Hayden and Marley

Davis.Rusty.Jason

Dad with 4 of the 12 Granddaughters

Our daily commute to the other campsites

Levi and I took the 8 oldest nieces and nephews out to the movies one night. It was a nice break from the sand and heat.

Sage.Mykee.Jayden

.They're HOME!!!.

My parents finally are home! Those 18 months were the quickest and longest 18 months, can I say that?? I am grateful to be their daughter. They have been amazing examples to all of us and I love them so much! 

My brother Spencer (who beat cancer while they were gone) his 4th, but 1st little girl Roxie who was born half way through his chemo treatments, and my parents!

.This is why I love her.

My sister and her husband showed us these 2 little clips for the first time last night. Levi and we laughed so hard, we about cried!
If you know Christy, these 2 clips will just be that much more funnier to you. But even if you don't know her, I can promise you'll still get a good giggle!
Love you Christy and thank you for letting me debut these!

(I couldn't figure out how to attach the link...so just copy and paste! Promise you wont regret it!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhIz7gUtrDg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YuJqCirEg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

.Newest Addition.

Roxie is here! {named after my Grandma Roxie} Born 2/17/11 at 3:30am.

Her and her cancer free daddy, my brother Spencer.

Congrats on #4 and your 1st little girl brother. And congrats on beating cancer half way through your treatments, 3 weeks before Roxie was born. A beautiful miracle. We love you!

.Take Me to the Park.

The board park that is!

After Susie and Bill got married, they rented out this massive home up in Flagstaff for the entire family to go up and spend some time together for a few days. I think this was the first family vacation we've done since I have been a Yeager and I loved every moment of it!

The adults (minus Scott and Jana, plus Jordan) went snowboarding on one of the days. It was a blast! The snow wasn't the greatest, ok it was horrible, but it felt good to go riding again. We spent a majority part of the day in the park. Less crowded and the snow was a lot better. Me, thinking I am still young and careless, hit the 2nd hardest box there was. And as I was coming to the end, I freaked myself out and wiped out so bad. I hit my shin, like a double hit. It's still tender and there is still a bump. In result to hitting my shin, for some reason my entire foot and ankle went purple, black, green and blue the next week and stayed that way for a few weeks.  

The trip was a blast and I loved getting to spend time with everyone in the same place, with no where to go. It was so great!

.Mr & Mrs.

My mother-in-law finally tied the knot with Bill!!!

.his and hers.

{i die...}

The Boys

The Girls...

and our giggles!

The Mister and I

Welcome to the fam Bill!! Glad to finally have it official ;) You are so great 

and we all love you and appreciate everything you do for Suzie. Love ya!

.She's my biggest inspiration.

As most of you know, my Christy and her husband Chris are on the quest of finding their children, through adoption. Just this past weekend they got their letter in the mail from LDS services that they are officially certified to ADOPT! I am overly excited for them. That process is sure a long one and they made it!  

If any of you out there know someone who is pregnant and is placing their baby up for adoption, please check out my sister's profile and contact them!!

.Annual Owens Christmas Party. {2}

I love traditions. Even if they are quirky and silly. One of the best traditions my family has is our family Christmas Party. You see, we always get 3 very very special guest that come and visit us alllll the way from Denmark {we're our ancestors are from}. It's the same every single year and everyone always looks forward to it. This year was a little different, with my parents being out of the country, us 8 kids+spouses had to get everything organized so we could carry on the tradition and still make it special for all 26 grandkids. It was not the same without "Grandma and Grandad" there to be the host/hostess, but we did ok getting things together. We missed my parents so much tonight, it was the first time we had everyone over at the house since last years Christmas Party. Crazy how fast time flew by!

For dinner, we always have posole {spelling??} Mmmm so good!!

Our 1st guest of the evening was the Dancing Doll. In order to get the doll to dance, you must have the Christmas Spirit. What's that you ask? Well, everyone has to be singing and clapping their hands. You see, the Christmas Spirit must have not been in the air tonight, because only my brother Raymond got it to dance without holding onto it. The little kids sure had a fun time trying tho!

getting into the Christmas Spirit

Our 2nd guest of the evening was the Dumb Baby. Why is it dumb you ask? Well that's simple, it can't talk! But she is best friend's with Santa Clause and knows what all the little boys and girls are getting for Christmas. Each child gets a turn, or two, to ask the Dumb Baby if they're getting a certain gift. The dumb baby then answers back with nodding her head yes, or no. To see the reaction on my nieces and nephews faces when they get a yes is the best part. {it also helps the mom and dads really know what the kids want for Christmas...wink...wink }

"raise your hand if you want to ask the Dumb Baby a question!"

The 3rd, and final guest of the evening was the Christmas Pig. It always brings lots of treats and candy for the kids. Each year there is always at least 1 child that goes running to hide, while freaking out. I mean, you would too if you didn't know what it was! This year, Bronson {who we all thought would run and hide} took one look at the Christmas Pig...then run up to it and started beating it up! Punched him in the face, kicked him in the side and the jumped on his back and continued to punch him! {Bronson is 3}. We were all laughing too hard to stop him and I didn't get a good enough picture of him in action. Soo funny.

Since my Grandma&Grandad were MIA this year, they had sent present for all the grandkids. They drove 3hrs to cross the border so the gifts would get here in time! Almost all 26 grandkids were in the picture. But they ALL loved them and kept them on for the rest of the night!

.kennady.sage.mykee.jayden.

The 10 oldest Grandkids had their first experience with White Elephant Gift Exchange. It was pretty fun to watch all of them fight over the best gifts.

The Adult White Elephant gift exchange. The rule: you couldn't spend any money on it, had to be something out of your house.

JaNae and Christy ended up with the oversize stuffed animals. Recognize the banana from a previous post??

{please don't mind the old family pictures on the wall behind you!}

 Mykee and Sage-Freshman's

Carson

Levi&Marley. Marley&Hayden

Cash.Brogan.Madison.Mykee

.Owens Missonary Adventures.

It's nice to know that my parents are in good hands while in Canada and being taken care of! Thanks Elders!! 

 How cute is this? One of the Missionaries put this on the back of their car.

.A Letter.

Love what you love and wrap yourself around it.

I was thinking to myself today of the things I really love and love doing.

Mister is obviously, without a doubt on the very top of that list.

Another, my Heavenly Father. He's a good man and so forgiving.

I don't think I take advantage of him enough. I can do better.

And as I said my prayers tonight, I had the want, that crave of being better.

Not only to Him, but to my Mister, my friends, my family and myself.

Him: I need to do a better job at attending the temple on a more regular basis and saying 

my prayers and reading my scriptures nightly and not making up excuses.

There should never be an excuse good enough to skip those 3 things.

Mister: He is my King, my Knight and Shinning Armor. He deserves the best and

everything I have to give. I get stressed sometimes, ok a lot, and he doesn't deserve it.

I keep trying to make it a goal to put my phone away once I get home from working 

all day, but I always find an excuse to keep it out. I need to do better at putting it away 

and leaving it there. The time I have with him is so short on the week nights and I want

to soak it all up with him and not have any outside distractions. 

So to my friends, family and clients: you may not hear from me until later in the evening

when Mister is doing his homework. I need to make the time more special and

precious with him. Thank you for understanding. 

Friends: I like to consider myself lucky with the friends that I have. The friends

who have never given up on me, the ones who we can go months without seeing

and it is always the same, no matter where we are at in our lives. The friends that I 

have made this year that have become some of my best friends. (even if it the first time we  

hung out/met and I broke my wrist and was a bum for the remainder of the weekend). 

The friends that let us stay with them when visiting out of town. The friends

who like to go on vacations with us. The friends that I have had since Preschool and

Elementary. I am truly blessed to have the friends that I have and will forever love you all.

Clients: A big, huge, Thank You from the bottom of my heart for being you. Thank you 

for letting me take that 15-20min to Glitz and Glamor your toes. Thank you for making it

possible for Mister and I to travel, because if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't

be able to go, see and so the things we do. I am so grateful and lucky to have this 

at this time of my life. Words can't express enough how much I appreciate you all.

 And the best part about it, I love what I do and I love being able to meet new girls

every single week, from young to old. I love it  because of you.

  Thank you.

Family: Being the youngest of 8 is a lot to handle. But it is worth every second. For

the most part, all 8 siblings+spouses get along AND we all live 40min from each other.

The relationships I have built with my siblings and inlaws as strengthened so much since I 

have been married and I love it. I love my parents and all that they do for me.

They have been gone 9 months and we as a family don't get together as often as we use

to, I look forward to them returning and having everyone together more often.

I am lucky to have such rad inlaws on the Yeager side as well. I wish we got

together more often, but everyone has their crazy-busy schedules. Someday soon, 

I hope, that will change and we will get together more often.

Me: I use to be the best journal writer. Growing up I wrote in it daily. It was my 

go-to vent book and my book that I got to be me. I didn't have to worry 

about impressing anyone and those 30min every night were my favorite. I

need to start writing again. It's something more personal than a blog.

Something that I can be me through and through. I also want to find that 

"nitch" as Mister and I like to call it. Mister has golf and I have, well...I 

am still not sure. But I am working on it daily to get there! (maybe my nitch

will be being a mother. Something I am very much so looking forward to. 

Maybe/hopefully next year, if the time is right.)

This was my first post ever that I just wrote what I has been on my mind. I know it may be boring

and I promise it won't happen often. It's nice every once in a while to get it all out on the table

and just say what your feeling and what you're grateful for. 

Now I have to be up in 5 hrs to go to work, so I will leave it at that. 

Love you all, goodnight!

.Across the Country.

Levi and I have been married for 14 months and I have never met anyone on his extended family on either side.

Until now.

Grandma Jane Yeager, Aunt Vicki, Uncle Tom and cousin Ty flew in from Flordia for my Father in-law Steve's 60th birthday.

Vicki and Tom are my Father in-laws only 2 siblings and Ty is his only nephew-no nieces-.

It is crazy to me because I had 40+ cousins on my dad side and since I am one of the youngest ones, I can't even tell you the names of the older cousins!

I was so happy to finally meet Levi's Grandma, Aunt, Uncle and Cousin. Grandma Jane is 91 and still as active as ever! Everyone is going kayaking today down the Salt River with Steve, and Grandma Jane decided and was fully convinced she was going to go...to her disappointment however, she's not.

We had a good time catching up and getting to know each other. I am hoping it won't be too long when we get to see them again. Hmmm...maybe Levi and I will just have to take another trip out to Flordia and stay with them...heehee.

Grandma Jane and Levi

Vicki.Levi.Ty

 and I know...I am a failure and didn't get a picture of Uncle Tom