Flashback Friday!!!

I haven't done a flashback for a long time. This picture was taken during one of many "Circus Circus" adventures in Vegas. As a child, our family would drive to Arizona for Thanksgiving. Most of the time we would stay at "Circus Circus". So this is us (The Mason kids), with the stuffed animals we won and our faces painted. We got progressively better at the games as we got older and would come home with more stuffed animals and bigger stuffed animals. The tradition of being with my family in the room afterward was fun for me but as for the casino itself and the circus act; all those did for me were produce major anxiety. I was a pretty nervous kid.

Happy Birthday Sage!

Sage's birthday was on Sunday the 7th but this post took a long time to assemble since we didn't have a digital camera when Sage was a baby and I had to find and scan pictures.

Sage had a rough start...


After she was born she had to stay at Primary Children's Hospital until her lungs were strong enough. (2 wks.)


She was the most easy going baby I ever had. (9 mos.)


A first attempt at getting things herself. These days she always wants someone to get everything for her. (2 yrs)


(2 yrs.)

Sage has adored Ashley from the start. The easiest way to get her to do something is to talk about Ashley doing it. (3 yrs.)

(4 yrs.)


(5 yrs.)


6 Year Birthday Picture!


I'm so thankful to have such a sweet little girl as my daughter.

Redemption...

Luke and Jacob have redeemed their masculinity. The next week when the Larrabees and Noyes' came to see us Jacob had a new cowboy costume from Grandpa Tom and Grandma Ruby so they dressed up like cowboys this time.

Jacob and Luke...

Jacob and Luke loved to dress up from the time they could walk. They always have some extra thing on pretending to be an animal when they were younger and progressing to superheroes, police, firemen, military officers, detectives....you get the idea. I guess being together again sparked a dress up overload and this is what they came up with. Meet Miss Kiki (Jacob) and Miss Mary (Luke). Sorry Rob it had to go on the blog.

Visitors...

I thought I would post pics of some of our visitors we've had lately. (How did I miss Wesley?)

Adrienne Macady and Andrew


Berlyn


Macady, Adrienne, and Alex


Chandler


Stephanie



Sariah and Jacob


Alexis


Chanelle


Kylie and Jordan

Church Leaders preparing us for the 2nd Coming of Christ

Back to School!

First Day of School!

I can't believe school has started already. I guess it's just Noah and I now. I took alot of pictures so I'm just going to add a slideshow to fit in all of them.

Noah's Haircut

Noah got his hair cut. I wish you could see his curls in the back on the "before" picture. He doesn't look much different in these pictures but in person he looks so much older. My baby's growing too fast. Thanks to my cousin once removed (haha) Randi! I don't know how she did it so well with all his wiggling.

End of Summer...

We had several occurrences to officially end summer that I still haven't had time to blog. Nichelle came home with us. It was really fun to have her here. She fit right in with the other kids. She and Cole acted just like siblings. They would have so much fun together then in the next moment would start into some argument. I was glad she came. We had a great ward picnic. It was in Pine Valley. I love Pine Valley. One day I'm going to have a cabin there and I'll escape to the mountains at least 4 weeks of the summer. Alex and Adrienne came to stay. He was here on his birthday so we had a barbecue with the Rainey's and all their family (I forgot to take pictures!). And for one last hurrah before school started I spoke in sacrament, which I ended up loving (who would've thought I could actually enjoy something like that).

Here are some Random pictures to go along with these activities.