much needed update

These are a little back wards but thats okay. :)

Father's Day in Dewey/Prescott

Family Reunion

Rocky... spoiled?

Tobin's Farwell

Hunter and Kael

Tori and Danette

Amber, Braiden, Tori, and Hunter

Graduation 2009

Colten and Mitchell's Prom

Colten's Birthday

Kevin and Danette dancing

Grandpa and Kael

Mitch, Danette and Hunter

Jamie and Jarom's Wedding

Danette and Rocky at the park

Kael and Grandma sleeping

Kael, Grandma and Aunt Tori

Kael and Shalyse

St. George Temple

Tori and Danette in Idaho at the temple. Tori was moving up there for four months.

Colten and Mitchell

Rocky (the other baby in the family)

So yeah, this is Shalyse, since my mom doesn't update her blog EVER since I set it up for her I figured I would do it for her this time and hopefully I can train her better and get her blogging. Anywho, I haven't done anything since Christmas so A LOT has happened since then. In January Mitchell turned 18, it's crazy he will be able to turn his papers in so soon for his mission. He is growing up so much my baby brother. (sniff, sniff) Hunter got surgery on his shoulder and is doing pretty good. He will have to do physical therapy for a while and not much with sports till he's in prime condition. Tori is single and searching for that perfect major hunky dunk. Ha, ha just teasing Tori. Love you. She is starting college. She still not quite sure what she wants to major in but figured she better get the pre recs out of the way since they need do be done anyways. Me I'm just peachy, as you can tell I actually update my blog. Ha, ha. Mom has been crazy busy with girls camp and her spoiled kids (us) and her spoiled rotten grandbaby. She has been missing her sister Cyni who officially moved to Texas with her family. They had an opportunity with business out there and they took it. They are doing good as far as I know. We miss them so much but are lovin hanging out in their pool. ha ha. (even though we hung out in there pool when they were here) Dad as been workin hard on Houston Trucking. That's basically the scoop on us. Birthdays, Weddings, Family Reunions, Traveling, Packing, Saying Good byes, Graduations, and Swimming. Hopefully it won't be another six months until I get her to update her blog.

ta ta for now,

Shalyse

So we've had a lot happen. Christmas was great and we got to go to a ton of family parties. Santa gave everyone awesome goodies this year!

Shalyse and Chase blessed Kael on January 4th.

Then the very next morning I drove Tori to Idaho. (sniff, sniff) She is living in Rexburg by BYU. She isn't attending school but her cousin is. She just wanted some change so she moved up there close to where her cousin is and living with three other girls in an apartment. She is freezing her butt off, but enjoying her time there. I'm so proud of her!! Love you babe! 

Me and Shalyse took Kael to the Wildlife Zoo for the first time with his cousins. I think me and Shalyse had more fun than he did. :)

We are enjoying being Grandparents and seeing our lil' Kael all the time. We miss Tori (even Hunter and Mitchell) hehe. Mitch just turned 18 on Jan. 14th, only a year to go before his mission. He is also getting close to graduating from Mesa High Hunter is getting close to finishing his last year in Jr. High. So crazy my baby is going to be in High School!! Hunter is pretty bummed about his shoulder though. He played football this year for Taylor and hurt his shoulder. His is going to have to have surgery, so this possibly means no baseball this year. He is doing track though and has been practicing for that. 

Well "Life is Good" in the Houston household.

That's all for this month's update

Busy Thanksgiving Week

So We had a really busy Thanksgiving week...

Shalyse had her baby! I'm a GRANDMA!!! They names him Kael Nicklas Rogers, he was 7lbs 3oz and 20 and 3/4 inches long. She had a long 24hr labor that ended with a C-section at 9cm. Bummer. Kael's head was turned sideways so he got suck. She did good though and is recovering really well. We are just loving having a grandbaby!!

We had Thanksgiving over at my brother's house with all the family.

And the boys went hunting the next day so Shalyse and Kael stayed over for the weekend and I got to play grandma. :) We gave him his first semi-bath cause his button hadn't fallen off yet.

And he got sleep all cozy in my bed, between mama and grandma. :)

Picture update!!

So here is the much needed picture update that I promised. We went to Lake Powell this summer will some of our family and had a blast!! I can't wait until we get the opportunity to do it again.

We had a girls getaway weekend. We went to the beach to just chill, have lots of fun, and relax. Last minute we decided to go to Disneyland. It was so much fun!!

Hunter had his 15th birthday and we had cupcakes, strawberry shortcake, and homemade ice cream.



I shaved my cat Princess because she is really fat and can't take care of herself very well anymore. She had a bunch of rat balls that needed to be cut off so we just shaved her whole body. The poor thing is so ugly now but she probably feels so much better with all that weight gone. Mitchell asked someone to homecoming this past week and this was his idea. He got a really big box so he could fit inside it, cut a slot out of the front so he could slide notes out of it. It has a touch light on the top of it as the "button" and the front says (if you can't see it in the picture) Push my button to recieve your note. He went to the girls house and had his cousin Tanner ding dong ditch the house. He sat inside the box and waited for her to push the button. Then pushed out a note that had a picture of a music note on it and said push the button again for a special letter. That note had the letter M on it and said push the button again for your reminder. That note said the Mesa High Homecoming Dance is coming up, push button again for your mission. That note said Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to go to the dance with MITCHELL HOUSTON. Then Mitchell pushed another note out that said this package with self-destruct in three seconds. 3... 2... 1... He shook around in the box for a second and then stood up and ran away, jumped in the back of his truck and they drove away. It was really funny to see, he got help from Chase, Shalyse and Tanner and it turned out way cute.

So I know this was a really long post but this is what we've been upto lately. Hopefully I will try and stay on top of it so they won't have to be so long anymore. We will see. :)

Hunter's had a birthday, shout hurray!!

So my baby boy turn 15!! Holy cow. Hunter wanted steaks for dinner so Sunday we got together and grilled up some yummy steaks. I have to say I did a really good job at making them, they were delish! Then we had the rest of the cousins, aunts and uncles come over for some yummy homemade ice cream. We were all so stuffed by the end of the night. I'm so glad Hunter had a good birthday, I love him to pieces and he will always be my baby boy. :) Sorry no pictures I'll put some up a little later.

My babies growing up!!!

I was going through my picture discs the other day and found this. My baby boys shaving for the first time!! This was back in 2005. Mitchell just started his senior year in high school and Hunter just started ninth grade. Next year Hunter will be my one and only left in school. Can you believe it!!?

what we've been up to....

So we haven't updated in quite a while so this post will be a little long. I'm a YW leader so I got to go to girls camp and I had so much fun with all the girls.

Hunter got second place in his baseball championship

We were able to make a trip to the lake with whole family except Tori. Hunter and Mitchell brought a couple of friends.

Mitchell Chase

Hunter

Hunter lost his shorts when he was riding the tube! :)

For Father's Day ALL the family came over for dinner. Shalyse made a cute Houston dumptruck cake for all the dads. The kids had fun playing around.