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Her name is Lynette and she is an amazing Photographer. She took my sister, Bethany's family pictures and they turned out Great! She is doing her 1st ever giveaway!! So go check it out and you can win a free photo shoot!

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My little Boy is a year older!

Jack turned 4 years old on October 27th! (Better late then never, right?)

Here are 4 of my most favorite things about my Jack (in no particular order):

1. His eagerness to learn new things! How excited he gets for preschool & church!

2. How gentle and sweet he is to his sisters & how helpful he is!

3. His AWESOME dance moves & the expression on his face when he dances!

4. His hugs, laugh, smile, blue eyes, jokes, prayers, silliness, how happy he is...

Ok so I couldn't name just 4 :)

His Birthday Banner!!

His Transformer cake!

Isn't he handsome?!

With his daddy and their Seahawks hats!

He chose to have Pizza for dinner and to sit on a blanket to eat it while watching a movie (Ice Age 3)

Having a dance party to his new Phineas & Ferb CD!

My parents took him out on a date a few days later. They went to Cici's for dinner, to the store so he could pick out his present & then got some ice cream (you can see his ice cream mustache)! THANKS mom & dad, he had a BLAST and talks about it often!! :)

One of my FAVORITE pictures of my boy. It says SO MUCH about his personality!

I love you Jack!

What have we been up to?

Pretty Much the same old stuff!

We are just hanging out, enjoying life and taking it one day at a time!

Trent finished 4 years of school and then had to take his mechanics test. He PASSED and is now and Elevator Mechanic! He even got a truck, which is nice because his car is pretty beat up and sad :) I am SO PROUD of him and I am SO GRATEFUL that he works so hard so that I can stay at home with our kids! He is AMAZING!

Trent & I celebrated our 5 Year Anniversary on Sept. 18th!

I can't believe how FAST the past 5 years have gone by! So Much has happened in the past 5 years, some good, some bad but I wouldn't of wanted to go through it all with anyone else! I LOVE my Man!

Jack & Lily started Preschool! Actually, Lily just does it when it's my turn to teach. But so far it is working out GREAT! We are doing a Joy School with 2 other moms and their kids. All together, there are 5 kids (including Lily) and they get along so well! It's been FUN!

Lacy is getting big! Well, she is still very little but she has already learned some new tricks!

Trent has done this trick with each of our kids!

Sitting up in the Bumbo, She has to have a blanket in there to hold her up still. But she is also starting to grab toys and she LOVES them!

Look how LONG her hair is getting, It's CRAZY!

Lacy's Blessing Day!

My little Lacy was blessed on Sunday! It was so wonderful to have family and friends there to support my little lady and our family! Her daddy gave her a beautiful blessing where she was promised to receive all the blessing heavenly father has in store for her as long as she lives a righteous life and follows the good example of those around her. She has been such a blessing in our lives, she gives the BEST smiles and she has brought so much happiness and joy into our home! I look forward to see her grow both physically and spiritually, I just hope it doesn't go by too fast. I love you Lacy Marie!

Her Blessing dress! She looked so pretty!

My mom made this BEAUTIFUL blessing blanket for her!

My brother in law blessed their baby boy on the same day!

Trent and his brother with their babies!

Matix & Lacy!

4 Generations!

Grandma & Grandpa Penrod

Grandma & Grandpa Tippetts

Grandma & Grandpa Larsen

Mom & Dad Tippetts

Mom & Dad Mann

My kiddies!

My family!

:)

Hahaha!!

We were supposed to be posing like models, I do not know what my mom is doing! Ha!

It was a long and wonderful day! :)

Take A Deep Breath!

Get ready for a LONG post!

 I have taken so many pictures it was so hard to choose which ones I wanted to put up! 

We have had SO MUCH fun the past few weeks! The Mann Family Reunion & my sister was here for 2 weeks! So, as the title says, Take A Deep Breath and we will start with the reunion!

We went to Williams, AZ and we stayed at a fun KOA. 

We stayed in a tent and everyone else stayed in cabins.

 We were there from Thursday night to Sunday morning. 

We went to this FUN place called Slide Rock, to the Grand Canyon (AMAZING), had a dutch oven pizza cook off, sat around a fire, made S'mores, ate yummy food, rode bikes, the kids had a scavenger hunt, had the candy fairy come and we had a Dad Competition (Trent Won this year, whoop, whoop!) It was a very successful reunion! :)

The whole Mann Clan!

My parents and all 14 Grandchildren! Ages 6 1/2 and younger!

 We have 2 more coming in Dec & Jan!!

Jack, Max & Grant at slide rock!

Lily Bug LOVING the water!

Lacy & Kahle, hanging out in a little tent. Lacy's has a white girl afro! :)

My dad with Lil and Kelly

Trent taking Lily down the biggest of all the natural rock water slides, she liked it! 

I LOVED it, I went with my sister, Danalin, the 1st time and we were screaming and laughing the whole way down! It was very fun!

Jack & Kelly eating food!

Lily and Delaney, just good friends! :)

The girls obsession SHOES!

So many kids! They had a blast together!

Lacy being CUTE!

They had these fun bikes we rented at the KOA and they were fun! Jack & Lily ready to go for a ride. (Oh my Jack, you make me happy!)

Trent taking them off the rode, I love their faces and Lily being choked by her helmet that they HAD to wear even though they obviously wouldn't do any good if they fell off.

Jack giving his dad five (Lil is on the back of the bike)

Lacy and I at the Grand Canyon! It seriously looks fake even when you are there staring at it! BEAUTIFUL!!

Trent and Lily

Jack checking it out from the inside observation area!

Us!

Will, Gentry, Lily & Delaney blowing bubbles!  (All are 2 year old cuties) 

Trent with the "trophy" from the Dad Competition! We get to have this baby at our house for the whole year until next years competition! So look for it next time you visit our house :)

On our way home I took pictures of my kids making funny faces in the car and they all 3 must think sticking out their tongue is the best of all the funny faces! 

Slumber party at my house! Kelly, Lily, Jack & Max

Watching a movie at my parents house!

We did not plan this! Cole and Jack

She is SMILING! A lot too!

Last Monday Trent hurt his eye at work. He was working on an elevator and had hold of a rope in his hand, his safety glasses slipped off and soon after the rope slipped out of his hand and hit him in the eye. The damage was 2 scratches on his cornea and one in the corner of his eye. It hurt him pretty bad and he couldn't keep his eyes open for about 3 days and he didn't get to go back to work until a week later. Looking at him now you would never guess he had hurt his eye, but it is still a little blurry. I am so glad he is better!

We went with my sister and her kids to the temple to walk around the grounds

After the temple we stopped at 7-11 to get some Slurpees!

Jack and Max also have shirts that are the same! But look behind them. They took ALL the toys off the shelf (check out the empty shelfs that are also behind them) and out of the buckets and "cleaned up" by putting everything away between the 2 benches. As you can tell they were proud of what they did!

Lacy's 1st time swimming!

Trent and his brother Brandon holding Lacy and Matix!

Are you tired yet? :) 

We have had fun but it is always nice to get back into a routine!

 Thanks Beth for planning an AWESOME reunion! 

Dana, Thanks for staying for 2 weeks, we miss you guys already! 

It's My Mans Birthday!!

I am such a lucky lady to be married to such and amazing man and today I want to wish him a HAPPY 27TH BIRTHDAY!

Thank You for working so hard so I can be home, for playing with our kids even when you are exhausted, for making me feel loved and beautiful, for ALL you do! Have a GREAT birthday you deserve it!

I LOVE YOU FOREVER!

Fishing, Reunion, Friends & Fun!

This past weekend we took a trip to Utah for the Penrod Family Reunion. We left Thursday night and stayed the night in Cedar City. The next day, Friday, we went fishing for a little bit before going to Elberta for the reunion. We went to a beautiful lake, but no one caught any fish. We had fun anyway and took some pictures!

On the road!

Getting ready to fish!

Lil Bug!

Jack with a worm!

Trent & Jack fishing!

The teeter totter log! :)

Jack would use the log as his drum and the sticks in his hand as drumstick. See the weed sticking up in front of him? He would hit it and say "ching" after a rockin drum solo! I love his imagination!

Me and my little man!

After fishing at the lake Trent went down to this little stream for a bit, isn't it beautiful? If you look close you can see Trent in his blue shirt.

After we left the lake we drove up to Trent's grandparents house for the reunion and we lost our camera in the car and didn't find it until late Saturday night. So, sadly, I did not get ANY pictures of the reunion. But we had lots of fun! We played games, visited, went shooting, the kids rode horses, played with the animals (the kids especially loved the cats), played with cousins, got rained on both nights in our tent, got leaked on in our tent, went fishing again, caught some fish, had a TON OF FUN!

We left Sunday morning and on our way home we were able to stop and visit with Trent's mission companion Seth, his wife Leslie and their 2 CUTE kids, Sophie and Trent. They were awesome and even made us dinner! It was so good to see them, I wish we could of stayed longer and see them more often!

Seth, Leslie, Sophie & Trent

Trent & Trent! :)

We had so much fun and it was so good visiting everyone! But it always feels so good to come home! Now we have the next 4 days to get ourselves ready for another camping trip, this time with my family, I am excited!