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. :)