Happy St. Patrick's Day

This last Friday we had a surprise visit.
Some old neighbors came to visit. The
two on the ends are twins 5 yrs. Yes they
huge . Logan id 41/2 Tanner will be 8.

Helping mommy make pans and
pans of green rice krispies for
St. Patty's day.

Paige helping mommy mix the

green marshmallow.

Every year the leprechauns find their

way here and leave chocolate clovers

gold coins and something green.

And they leave a trail of glitter.

Fun! Fun! Fun!

Logan & Paige being silly.

Every year we invite friends and family over for corned beef and cabbage withe potatoes and green jello green rice krispies. Green drink and Green dessert. We have fun.This year we celebrated it with the missionaries , my mom, the Hyers, the Lloyds. The Barrons and Willetts couldn't make it this year. Next year. Hope you all wore your green and didn't get pinched.

Tanner proud of his Lego's.

Logan helping mom make her famous

brownies and he gets to lick the spoon.

Tanner gets to take out the trash every night and

wants light because it is too dark so they all have to

get their Indiana Jones lights.

Paige is so proud of herself along with mommy for going poop on the potty for the 1st time.

Logan and Paige had so much fun walking grandma s dog Scout. So cute holding hands .

We're singing in the rain

Tanner started a new season of baseball.

This year we are the Padres. He he is with

Kyle and Benjamin. 2 of his best buds.

Paige and Logan taking advantage of building

Lego's without big brother Tanner.

Tanner received an award for Excellence in

attitude & citizenship. Always Happy

& anxious to please! We are Proud of Tanner and his

progress he has made in his schooling.

Go Tanner

As you can see the kids sure do keep us busy. The kids love to help cook and do laundry and take out the trash. So of course I take advantage of these opportunities to teach them now. So they can be more independent.

Logan's school recently help a grandparents luncheon and grandma went on Thursday and grandy & grandpa went on Friday. Logan loves to share his projects and school with his family. Paige is really into babies and cupcakes. She is improving dramatically in her speech and may not need any more therapy as of her 3rd b-day. Yes you read right my baby is going to be three. I've always had a baby on the way or here at this point. As we all know that won't be happening. I am very blessed to have three healthy smart & beautiful children.Tanner is getting ready also to turn the big 8 years old and preparing for baptism. tanner has decided along with mom and dad to have some friends come over and have a boys sleep over and let boys be boys! His 6 best friends are the Willett twins from church, school and baseball , Kyle from school soccer and baseball, CJ from church an school, Cade from soccer and Nick from school and baseball last year. We won our first game of the season 15-0.Sorry it took so long my life lately has been a little complicated. Thanks for understanding.!!!

My three precious jewels

I wanted to give my three children a little Valentine tribute. I want all 3 of them to know how much mommy loves them and that I would to anything for them. I am so grateful for these beautiful children that Heavenly father has given to me to teach, nurture, raise , help and play with a love. I have so much fun with my kids and love playing with them. Don't get me wrong there are days and times when I do need a brake. Normal right! Tanner has a new job where he takes the trash out every day and does the dishes after dinner. This was one night this week and I thought it was cute. I have often caught my kids with an open book a work book scripture and I try to capture those moments and let them know It makes me Happy. Logan went #2 on the potty for the first time in a while and I told him he would get a toy and since we had it left over from x-mas I gave it to him. This is the cars mountain race. Anyways there are definitely more pictures in this one. Enjoy and Happy Valentines Day to all you love birds!!!

New Years

This year since our Disneyland passes expired on the 3. We decided to go on New Years day and just enjoy some family time. It was pretty chilly there and we all bundled up and could not believe the wait to get into the park. Lucky for us with passes it wasn't that bad. We went straight to Space mountain and Scott took Logan and waited in line while I waited at the exit with Tanner and Paige for the switch pass. Tanner will no longer go on it , but he will go on California screaming. Go figure. Anyways we don't let that dampen our fun. We still have to wait for Paige . We decided to do and try new things this year when we renew. There are so many things that the park has to offer and we always do the same things every time. So this time we went to see the country comedy show and have lunch there. I realized I only got one picture. Then the next day Scott said we should go to Sam's and stock up again. So here we are. Then Tanner got a Lego helicopter that daddy promised he would help build with him. After about 15 min No one was interested anymore. Their patience isn't very long. Kids had a very long break and did quit a bit. Glad to spend quality time with them also glad to have them back in school Yea!! Scoot is back training for his Tri in April and I'm still at the gym working my way down. We are off to a good start this year I pray for love support comfort, patience, pain tolerance , good health, healing, Happy times .

Christmas at the Hughes home

Well this year I would have to say with the economy the way it is and Scott's line of work we are very blessed that we had a good Christmas. We have a roof over our heads with heat and 3 healthy children and family and great friends. We pause this time of year to give our time and talents and Love to our Savior Jesus Christ and enjoy this holiday season. We were able to see Santa twice this year and found out that Paige doesn't like him and wants nothing to do with him. Not even a little treat. Logan still isn't quit sure, yet. Tanner is really questioning him. We tell him as long as you believe he will come. Also along with the peeking of presents. If you peek or open it it goes back to the store. No more peeking. That was a quick fix.. We went to our small town Christmas parade and to a neighbor Santa party. It has been unusually cold this year for California. I know those of you reading this from colder states are laughing but for us here it's COLD... 45-47 .New years we hope for 69. Thant's warm. It feels so good to have the sun shinning.Tanner was excited as you can see with the Wii and even though daddy didn't want it he sure got into it. Grandy and Grandpa got Tanner stars wars costume trunk so they didn't hesitate to go change before they were finished with all their presents. They did wear them all day long. The 2 grown men on the ground would be Scott and his brother Darren on the ground something about dude your fat....and it was on. Grandpa or DAD had to come break them up because mom couldn't plus they were gonna knock the tree over. Idiots !!! We sure had fun visiting uncle Darren and his kids. The cousins don't get to play together enough. So it was great for them and then we played games all day and night.

As you all know Scott had gastric bypass last Dec and has lost quit a bit of weight. As most of you will see with the holiday picture we sent out. So if you have not seen him in a while hold on you might be shocked. He did his first Olympic distance tri in sept. and is currently training for his first 1/2 iron man in May. He weighs 147 lbs. And looks great.

Tanner is in second grade and is doing great.He is really good in math an Science. He loves sports and is very competitive. His soccer team went all the way to the finals this year and wound up in 2 place. and Tanner went to all stars . He was stoked!! We have a break before baseball starts up again. So we enjoy this break.

Logan is in preschool 3 week and love s his teacher and is doing great. He 's in a class with his best friend Cameron and he lives across the street so they play all the time and are very close. Logan loves to read and do puzzles and play batman and super heroes.

Paige is 21/2 and a real princess. but is very tough with 2 big bro. She can hold her own for the most part. She loves to read and do puzzles and play baby dolls.

Jessica is a busy mother between my church calling in primary and kids in school sports keeping a house and dealing with everyday life. I ran my first 5k turkey trot this year and beat my own time I put for myself. I'm proud of that and also the fact I've lost 2 dress sizes.Yea!!!

So this about sums up our life lately. Hope you enjoy the pictures and have a happy new year.