24 years! Wow... were does the time go???

1985... this is the first picture we had taken together... Lec had the sweetest mullet ever!!!

This is around 1988 or 1989... right after Lec got into the Ironworkers Union.

This is around 1998 or 1999. Notice the mullet is all gone!

Kristy took these pictures for us on our 15th anniversary!

At Disneyland... On Bailey's 8th birthday, thanks Mom!

By the ocean at Newport Beach.

Harman's Halloween Party... this is the ONLY bull I will EVER ride! Lec, as always is a CLOWN! It's not every day you see him in high tops!!!

By the Mississippi River in Nauvoo. FUN trip! Even though Lec had to drive for me & my Mom... "shade, shade, shade"! LOL

Biker nigt @ Harman's Profit Sharing... Lec is that a REAL smile??? Must be a biker fantasy!!!

By Grandma Holmes' house... right before Joey went to boot camp.

Awww... sweet! Harman's Picnic

In front of Grandma Holmes weeping willow tree.

This is a few years ago at 80's night, Profit Sharing. Lec still packs the big guns! A lady there told me that he looks like an ice cream cone! LOL - Yup, he's still got it!

Heeeeeere's Charlee...

Miss Charlee K... FINALLY!

It's a little blurry... but yes, it says 8 pounds 8 ounces!!!! WHAT??? Can you say chunky monkey??? and she is 18 inches long.

Mommy and Charlee

Charlee and her Daddy

Grandpa & Charlee K

Grandma Great & Charlee... Grandma Great, Aunt Brandie, Aunt Shelby & Grandma Byrd waited VERY paitently out in the hall for Charlee to be born!

She has her Mommy's ears!

Halloween

Brandie & Sydnie... don't worry, Sydnie really IS having fun... she was just mad for a second that she couldn't use the knife! LOL
We started Halloween off by carving pumpkins in the garage.... but then the costumes came out and all I can say is "Lec! Look what you started!!!"

Whitney & Jeremy... dressed up like a happy little redneck couple... Whitney even borrowed a beer to carry around (you know, to go with her 'beer belly' - she likes 'rockin' the beer gut') And YES, that is her bare pregnant belly you see, with hair drawn on.... she is her Dad's kid FOR SURE!!!

You'll have to go watch my video on Facebook to see Wace in his costume... he was a pig in a tutu - riding a bull, OF COURSE! He went to the Utah game on Halloween, after the game he called to tell us he was going to be on the news... live. So we turned on the news and watched him jump up & down waving through the window behind the anchor man... where do these kids come from? I guess Kristy's kids were right to call them the 'wild kids'!

Shelby & Mike... Shelby is the good witch (of course), but Mike... not so nice, he & his brother in law rode around in the back of the truck scarring little kids... at least they didn't smash pumpkins! LOL

Bailey Kruger... he doesn't really need a mask to be SCARY!

Chelsie 'vants to bite your neck'! There is some serious drama going on here... Bella has nothing on her!

Sydnie the scarecrow... 'don't worry, I only scare birds'! LOL - I have one of her whole costume (way cute) but I LOVE this close up best!

Lecsie aka: Witchie Poo.... she LOVES to pose for the camera!

Jasie aka: Little Bunny Fufu.... don't worry, we did NOT bop her on the head!

We are hoping for Halloween pics of Joey, Ashley, Jordan & Ally on their blog or Facebook! We miss them A LOT!!!!!!

The Last 'official season' Game!

Bailey in the striped socks that Whitney MADE him wear. He made the first tackle of the game! Sorry, I was fighting with the camera and didn't get a picture... Then he went and took off the socks... (he is WAY to afraid of what other people might think!) but Coach T made him put them back on LOL!!! Lehi played an AWESOME game!!!

this one is kind of fuzzy - it was dark & the camera was trying hard... but if you look close, you can see Bailey in the striped socks sacking the quarter back!!! Good things DO come in small packages!!!

and here he is scrambling to recover PG's fumble! Bailey was the MVP for sure!!!! Maybe it's the socks... Thanks Whitney!!!

July to October.... what??? Sorry, I'm a slacker!

Football pics.
Bailey #76... GOOOO LEHI!

Bailey is the guy on top... black socks... SA-LAM!

Bailey in his purple socks (#21)

Chelsie & Lecsie watching Uncle Bailey play football...

Sydnie just likes to run... she chased some little boy all over the park! muuhahaha...

I think Jasie is hungry! LOL

Grandma Great's retirement breakfast...

Grandpa & Grandma Great

Chelsie, Brandie & Grandpa Great eating breakfast!

Chelsie loves her Daddy (Jason)!

Shelby & Whitney go crazy for food! LOL

Best, best buddies Sydnie & Lecsie & Jasie Nicole...

Some of us got to go to Grandma Great's retirement breakfast...

top row: Kim, Whitney, Brandie, Sydnie, Jason

bottom row: Chelsie, Shelby, Lecsie, Granpa Great, Jasie, Grandma Great, Bailey

Then we went on a tour of the Motion Picture Studio... Bailey loved this hat (among other things)!

Grandpa Great turns 75... Happy Birthday to you...

This is our Grandpa Great... we love him so,

We made him a banner and...

put 75 balloons in his yard so he wouldn't forget how old he was on his birthday! He LOVED it!

Camping on Labor Day weekend...

Jasie & Sydnie go along for the ride... and to give Mom some time to get done with morning sickness!

Chelsie & Dad took Sydnie & Jasie fishing in their little red wagon...

Whitney & Jeremy LOVE to sleep in... in their tent condo!

Bailey is good a entertaining himself...

Baby & Jr. like camping too.

Down on Grandpa's Farm... there is a little brown goat.... (or 2 or 3..)

' Nakie baby' Lecsie & Grandpa feeding the goats...

" Eat it goat"

BULLRIDING...

YEE HAW! Rodeo in Herriman.

Sa-weet 8 second ride...

Alpine Rodeo (RMPRA)

Sometimes we get some good shots that Wace does NOT think are good shots... HOLY CRAP!

Nice get off Wace!!! At least he has his hand up there to pull his rope so he doesn't get hung up!

This is Lec's favorite place to watch bull riding.... he just climbs up on top of the chutes & walks to the best spot to see all the action... and yes, he IS on the phone again or still!!!

The Bullriders... Wace, Bill (Justin Anderson) and Tim Bingham... yes, he as a broken neck... yes it is a bull riding injury! At the Hot Spot in Vernal! LOL

Jeremy's birthday...

Chelsie, Jeremy,Lecsie & Jasie looking at the pregnant lady cake.... who's belly frosting got scraped off when they were bringing it out.... hahahahahaha I'm not sure if Jeremy is happy about it or not... maybe he would of liked a bikini cake better LOL!

Bailey, Whitney & Charlee... almost looks like she swallowed a basketball huh?

Grandpa Holmes made rootbeer... Bailey, Lecsie, Sydnie,? and Chelsie are sucking up the dry ice fog!

Lecsie snuck back to slurp more fog!

Jason & Brandie... and baby makes 6 - what the? Pretty soon she'll catch up to us!!!

Mike & Shelby.... awww sweet

Whitney & Charlee's babyshower

Grandma Byrd & Whitney (& Charlee)... opening presents... Lecise is helping too.

Miss Chelsie checking to make sure the food is all good... she worked hard with her Mom & Aunt Shelby to make everything just right for the shower!

Aunt Marlo, Brittany, Raelynn & Jeremy's Grandma Byrd and Jr watching to see if anyone will give him a treat....

Grandma Great & Aunt Shirley... aww cute sisters! Kinda makes you miss Gramie Pete huh?

Some of our favorite cousins! Lexie, Michelle, Haley, Deb, Aurora,,Gma Katie,

Melanie, Annie, Katie & Lecsie

Laci, Whitney & Charlee at the baby shower... by the yummies of course!

Bailey & Jaden all dressed up with somewhere to go...

Bailey & Jaden all dressed up to go to General Priesthood meeting with Jeremy... cool shades dude!

They had to take turns with the cop glasses!

This is how Bailey & Jaden normally act!

Lec had a birthday, shout hooray! He thought he was a year older than he really is... I guess it's just old age!

Grandma & Grandpa Great brought Lec a cherry pie for his birthday! Shelby & Lecsie made him a cherry cheesecake too... I guess you figured out by now that cherry pies are his FAVORITE!

Lec told my Mom that all he wanted for his birthday was his 2 front teeth... so that's what she got him! LOL

Wace at the High School National Finals Rodeo in Farmington, New Mexico

Here is my boy... he LOVES to ride bulls! It is all he has wanted to do since I can remember. He told us he wanted to ride when he was younger (around 7 or 8 I think). So Lec told him that if he could save enough money for his vest & chaps he could ride steers. It took him 2 summers working with Uncle Ty doing cement curbing, but he saved the money... and he has been riding ever since! Wace getting ready to take on the Nation....

1st go round bull ... yes that's Lec in the back ground, always!

Can you say CRAZY? A 2000 pound bull & a rope... and he thinks it's fun! I asked him once if he got scared in the chute before he rode, and he said "NO, why would you ride if you were scared!" It's OK, I am scared enough for both of us!

2nd go round bullAnd the short go.... GOOD JOB WACE! 2nd at State & 9th in the Nation!!! You ROCK!

Texas to New Mexico to home, OH MY!

First we went to Texas to meet our sweet Ally J...

And to visit Jordan.... who LOVES his Uncle Bailey! He says that Grandma Great, Grandpa Great, Grandma YeeHaw (that's me) and Uncle Bailey are all his cousins! LOL

Jordan and Bailey had too much fun playing dinosaurs and legos! One night Jordan did a singing gig for us... hopefully Joey will post the video, it was too funny!

And to see Miss Ashley, who is looking pretty as ever after having cute little baby Ally!

And Joey... who as you can see still acts like a monkey! (He is the one at the top of the picture!) Joey, Jordan & Bailey went to jump with the sprinkler... too much fun!

This is Miss Ally J, all ready to go to Corpus Cristi to the Texas Aquarium and the beach! She turned 1 month old while we were there!

Jordan & Bailey 'under the sea'... at Texas Aquarium

Bailey & Jordan by the dolphin tank, after the show...

This is Bailey touching a sting ray... he says it was "gooey"!

Then we were off to the beach....

This is Jordie bug playing like the big kids at the beach! I think he really believes that he is older than 3! Ashley said that he refuses to go to nursery with the "babies" so they had to put him in with the Sunbeams, then when they go sit on the front row for singing time, he scoots his chair back with the older kids! He is a hoot! Bailey had fun playing in the Gulf of Mexico, even though.......

he was stung (for the 2nd time this week) by a jelly fish! Don't ask what we used to stop the stinging on the first one (on his calf) because he does NOT want to talk about it. LOL!!! At least Ashley was smart enough to bring ammonia on this day, to take the sting out!

We had WAY too much fun in Texas with the Stones! We missed them the minute we left!

On to New Mexico...

And now... what you've all been waiting for... how did Wace do at National Finals???????????

This is Wace's first ride at the High School National Finals Rodeo in Farmington, New Mexico... he scored a 72 on this bull, a 58 on his dud of a bull in the second go round and got bucked off in the short go... he finished 9th in the Nation!!!! YAY Wace... We had 3 bull riders finish in the top 10! Our boys ROCK! I will post more pics when I get the disc that I bought from their photographers!

And finally, it was time to go home...

To top off our vacation, 1/2 hour after we got home, we rushed over to the church so that Bailey could get his Tenderfoot rank for Scouts!!! Good Job Bailey!

So, we have had a BUSY 2 weeks... and it's GOOD to be home... I am going to sleep in my OWN bed right now! -Guts!