Gailey Group and Gamble Gang!

While we were in Arizona we met a family that became our best buddies!!  The Gailey Group - AvRee (their oldest) was in Will's school class and primary class and then Brooklyn and Dixon were in the same primary class also.  And Wynter and Titus were equally there and having a great time.  We celebrated births and birthdays, Halloween, family nights, movie nights, late nights, games nights, sports games, - they were our family away from family.  We were so blessed to have them in our lives at this crazy time . . . they were there for us when we needed someone the most and we will forever be thankful to them for being there!

Who knew that our family of crazy boys would love being with those crazy girls . . the key word here for both is CRAZY!  We loved every minute!  Here are just some fun pics with them.

Will and AvRee on their school field trip!

For one of our last "hoorahs" with them we decided to go all out and spent a night at Star Pass in Tuscon, which is an awesome resort!  We LOVED it!  We are so glad we decided to do that with them.  We had a great time and great memories! 

And for our last "hoorah" kid-less we went out to eat at our favorite Italian restaurant.  Good Friends.  Good Times!!! . . I look at this and say,  Man . . . I am short!!

Easter!

I am finally getting around to Easter!  We had a great time. Dying eggs . . and somehow I forgot to get a picture of their baskets . . at least there is next year! Ahh!  We did get a family picture though!

Lovin' me some boys!!

I sure do love these boys!!

There were four in a bed . . . and the little one said . . . 

I guess Will decided Turner was just too happy and gave him some Angry Bird "angry eyes"! 

Crazy . . .

crazier . . . 

what did I get myself into . . . 

at least I have them forever!!!

April craziness . . .

Our last couple months in Arizona brought craziness one after the other!  Near the beginning of April Mike had his jaw surgery.  So luckily we got Nedra to come visit us and watch the three older boys for a week while Mom and Turner were in El Paso, TX with Dad for his surgery.  Yes . . El Paso, TX.  We had to go to El Paso way too many times in about two weeks!!  The boys did great with Nedra and had a great time - they didn't even miss us - they did miss Turner however!

So here are a few pics before the big surgery.

Everything went very well, so the doctor said.  When Mom first walked in to see Dad - she wasn't quite sure what to think because he did look different - he was swollen a little but not too bad.  The first month was pretty hard on him - completely liquid diet.  I wish I had a picture but he had to eat all his food through a syringe and tube.  He cringes to this day when he sees one.

Some after pics

The boys chillin' with Dad while he was down for a while!  Dad had to sleep sitting up for about a month.

Before and After Pic!

During all of this  . . .the boys played baseball this year!  They loved it and they did a great job!  We loved going to watch them play!  Will was on the Red Wings and Dixon was on the Scrappers!

We also celebrated Dad's 34th birthday about a week after he got home.  Too bad Mom couldn't find a good recipe for blended up cake - so we had an ice cream cake.  We had the Gailey's over for the celebration . . and of course our favorite . . the missionaries - Elder Wardel and Elder Peterson!