The Hunt Family 5

Daddy/Daughter school dance

2010-04-14T17:23:00.001-07:00

Greenfield Elementary had a daddy/daughter Spring fling, and Kenzie was so excited to go dance with her daddy!!

Queen of FITS!

2010-04-14T17:14:00.000-07:00

This cute sweet little face can throw some massive fits! She is by far the most stubborn personality that lives under our roof. Heaven help us, 10 years from now!

2009 COMPLETE!!!!

2010-04-13T23:40:00.001-07:00

So, now I'm caught up with 2009...here comes 2010 to follow...slowly...but surly!

New Years in Show Low

2010-04-13T23:17:00.001-07:00

A family in our ward, the Gunnels, invited us to their cabin to spend new years with them in Show Low. Me and Julie decided to go up earlier with our 6 kids and little did we know,the roads were so bad with ice, snow, and wrecks...that it ended up taking twice as long to get there. Suprisingly though, our kids were amazing good! The boys got to pee out the window and make yellow snow, while freezing their b*lls off, literally!

It was worth the long wait, though. The ground was covered with beautiful snow all around the cabin. We went sledding, rode a 4x4 through the snow, drank hot cocoa, played games late nite, went (girlie) shopping, stayed in a gorgeous cabin, ate great food, and had great company to share it with!

Glowing with happiness! A great way to bring in the New Year! (Ha Ha!)
10.9.8.7.6..5..4...3...2....1.....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Crew and Makenzie racing on the boys new basketball game...

"TRANSFORMERS...More Than Meets The Eye"

2010-04-13T22:57:00.000-07:00

My little lover turned 4 this Christmas. I can't believe how time flies! No matter how old he gets, he is still my kind-hearted, giving, sweet boy. (And he better stay that way!)

Dylan, ever since he was really little, always seems to have an obsession with something, something that he just loves! A couple years ago it was tractors...this year...hands down...TRANSFORMERS! He can make ALL the same noises that those robots do, with his MOUTH! But, look out, you might need a rain coat cause that boy showers spit when he starts his shooting noises.

This little party took place at Grandma Hunt's house...

We had a TRANSFORMER themed birthday party for him and invited 6 little boys from his preschool, plus his sisters of course...and sister's friends!

Breakfast with dad and pajama day @ school! December '09

2010-04-13T22:49:00.000-07:00

Not only was it so fun for Kenzie to get to wear jammies to school, it was great for me too because it took no planning and no extra dirty laundry for me! And of course eating donuts with dad in the cafeteria was extra special too!

Friends...

Christmas Eve night, Christmas Day, Christmas parties

2010-04-13T22:15:00.000-07:00

Christmas morning...
This boy has an OBSESSION!

This boy also has an OBSESSION, with cooking! This year he got expensive cookware from santa's lil' helper!

We managed to put together a Trampoline on Christmas Eve in OUR backyard without the kids knowing! Who said parents can't still be sneaky! They were so shocked when they went outside, it was great to watch their faces. It makes it worth every penny.

The EVE night...they always get jammies from Santa!

Naughty or Nice this year, Brent??

We always enjoy going to Aunt Barbara's house for the Porter family Christmas Eve program and dinner.

The following pictures are from a night out at the nearby mall's outdoor play area and then dinner afterwards!

These following pictures are from a friend's neighborhood Christmas party...

Snow in December...in ARIZONA?

2010-04-13T21:58:00.000-07:00

We were driving home from dinner early in the month of December and happened to pass a parking lot with some mounds of snow! We were shocked, confused really!! It never snows in Phoenix, it was probably about 58 degrees that evening! We came to the conclusion that someone must of had a work party in that parking lot, and paid to have snow trucked in from who the heck knows where...Our kids were yelling "SNOW! SNOW! I wanna go daddy!" Even though 2 of them had no clue what "SNOW" was. I seriously doubt Kenzie knew what it was except from seeing it on movies!

They weren't really sure what to do with it, they actually started crying once their hands touched the snow...I think they thought it was torture! My poor deprived Arizona kids, haha!

Notice Brent's short sleeve shirt! Maniac! It was actually really cold, even though the snow didn't come from the sky!

Halloweem 2009

2010-04-13T21:47:00.001-07:00

I didn't get any really good pics this Halloween for some reason, but nontheless, we had a great time! First we had a ward party outside in the park area on Wednesday, then we had a festival at school on Friday, and then on Halloween night we went around our neighborhood trick-or-treating. The girls decided to change their costumes the last night...if that is a preview of life 10 years from now...oh, hell!

2010-04-13T21:37:00.000-07:00

Diane, Thank you for all you do! You will never know how truly grateful I am for having you in my life! I love you!!

Sept. 11th-13th '09 - Ruidoso, AZ / Grandma Hunt

2010-04-13T20:32:00.000-07:00

Brent had to work over the weekend in Ruidoso, AZ which is about 2 1/2 hrs. away from where we live, so we decided to tag along. We were planning on staying 2 nights at this beautiful hotel. Our room's back patio door opened to the golf course greens and we had ducks come straight up to our back door looking for a hand out. It ended up raining and lightening horribly for a couple hours, but the kids wanted to swim so bad...after all, what else do you do at hotels? So we swam anyways...all the old people looked at us like we were crazy and probably thought we were so irresponsible!

We had a blast the 1st day we were there! However, later that evening, both our cell phones started ringing non-stop...Brent's dad, John, was trying to reach us...along with his other siblings. Diane, my mother-in-law had a massive heart attack, had been rushed to the ER, and was taken immediately into surgery. I will never forget how it felt like my heart dropped to the pit of my stomach as I listened to the voice mail on my phone left by John. We never packed up so fast in our life...and the drive home, it felt like it took 5 hours instead of 2 1/2!

Everyone in the family, myself included, was suddenly about to loose the one woman in our lives that was dearest to our heart. Brent, working in the medical field and doing some extra research on the side, knew her odds. They weren't good, to say the least. Throughout all odds, she fought hard, and was able to keep her name off the Donor's List and was able to slowly strengthen her heart so she could go home. We pray for her daily. We pray that she will have many many more years with us.

Diane means so much to me. She excepted me into her family with open loving arms. She has shown me how to be a wonderful mother, wife, and sister-in-law. She has helped me be a better woman, and member of the church. She is an exellent grandmother, not just to my kiddos, but equally to all her grandkids. She showed me what it is like to be in and to have a great family.

Ward campout Oct. 2009

2010-02-03T13:33:00.000-08:00

Not only was this our first campout in our new ward, but it was our first campout EVER in our entire married life...and I have to say...I would definitely do it again!

We didn't get there until after dark. So needless to say, it was an adventure setting up our tent, unpacking the Expedition and trying to prepare dinner with no flash lights of our own and no where to park! Thank goodness for the Burkinshaws (mostly Janae ;) ), Greg Cauthen and Rory Lunt who lent a hand (or 2!).

We had our tent right on the outside edge of the campout and as the night grew longer, the skunks grew hungrier! I was in my tent and stood 2 feet away from the lil' thing, as it almost came in my tent! Once we were in our beds and had cleaned up the grounds, they began to come out in packs!!! Nasty! Thank goodness no one was sprayed (that I know of)!

Playin' catch up!...

2010-02-03T13:26:00.000-08:00

Sooo... I have been neglecting my blog for the last 5 months so the next few blogs are going to be me tryin' to catch up!

"Where Dylan mommie?"

2009-09-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

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My sweet, but wild and onry little man started pre-school today,(along with half of the nursery/sunbeam classes from our ward :))

And about every 5 minutes all I heard from his little sister (who's his best, and worst friend) was "where Dylan, where Dylan mommie?" Every time she said that I thought "Oh, poor Mrs. Aimee, I wonder if she is ready to return him to us yet?!"

I have decided that they are like having twins (at the ages they are now). They are 18 months apart, but now that Madison can do and say everything that her brother can, it's like having 2 of a kind! They fight over the same things, they want the exact same thing as the other one, and they're both still VERY dependent on me. Don't get me wrong, life is definitely easy now then when my 3rd was born! Nonetheless, it's still exhausting.

Eventually, Maddie got bored and decided she wanted to be spider man and chase me. However, I guess I wasn't as fun as Dylan is, so she ditched that idea after about 1 minute :)

A surprise from the very beginning!!!

2009-09-08T14:08:00.000-07:00

Today, I put Madison (who turned 2 years old, 3 months ago) to nap in her "big girl" bed and she decided to get out, take her pants and diaper off, and PEE on the floor. So I go in there to spank her & put her back in bed & she tells me she peed. So I put her on the pot to show her that it's not OK, after a few seconds she says "I gonna poop!", my reaction was "ya right, you've been sittin' on the pot for almost a year (just for kicks), and we've never seen a drop come out of that little hiney!" Sure enough, she drops a load, after a load, after a LOAD (of POOP)!!! I hadn't even started talking about potty training her! How'd I get so lucky?

But then again, she has been full of surprises. Some pleasant, like sleeping 12-13 hrs. at night when she was 8 weeks old till she was one year! Some NOT so pleasant, like being breached and breaking my water with her foot- down- out through you know where! She couldn't wait for the doctors to give my ANY medicine, nor could she wait for them to do an emergency c-section. Her reaction to the nurses pushing her feet back up inside me, was not what she had in mind so she just kicked further out. She is very stubborn and knows what she wants, that was a prime example!

She wanted to call daddy and grandma (both at work) and tell them what she did in the potty. Daddy thought she should get ice cream, but I'm not quite convinced that she "gets" it. We shall see...

Puerto Penasco '09

2009-09-08T12:55:00.000-07:00

Watering the bushes!
Playin' "survivor"

The Rhino Ride - I think they hated it!
Broken elbow in a bag!

Poser!

The Beginning

2009-08-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

We have recently moved to Gilbert, AZ. We hope that you enjoy reading about us and our adventures!