The Halls

New Family Pictures!!

2009-11-21T21:48:00.000-08:00

These wonderful new family photos are courtesy of Ashley Gammill Photography! Thanks again Ash we love them! I am glad we were able to get some good ones even though Bella wasn't sure she wanted to cooperate! (Terrible 2's here we come!) I figured it was time for an updated family photo since Bella is going to be 2 soon and we are still sporting a family picture without her in our living room! (Bad mom!) Give me your input so I can decide which one to blow up to replace the old one! I have a hard time making decisions on my own!If you want to check out more of our photo shoot click here!

Crazy Kids!!!

2009-08-19T21:08:00.000-07:00

The other night I stopped by my sister Tori's house to get something and we ended up being there a little longer than I thought! Davis found a new toy to entertain him for a while! It is a program Tori has on her computer called photo booth! Davis could have spent all night taking pictures and making videos of himself! He kept saying just one more mom, just one more! I was laughing so hard I think I got my ab work out for the night! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Thanks for making Davis' night Tori!!!!

Here's the happy couple!!

2009-07-27T14:54:00.000-07:00

Check these amazing pictures out! This is my baby brother and his beautiful wife to be! These are from the bridal/groomal session! There are many other awesome pictures! Check them out and leave a comment http://www.momentsbykellee.com/blog/leslie-and-tyler/ . I am excited for the big day! Less than 2 weeks! Congrats you two!

Seriously!!! It is raining marbles!!

2009-06-02T22:30:00.000-07:00

So tonight on my way home from Lewi-town after picking up the kids, I pondered all the many things that I could do when I got home! Maybe finish watching the bachelorette from Monday night, maybe make a bracelet for Bella, maybe exercise, maybe many things! One of those things however was not sucking water out of my basement all night long! I did learn how to use a pump though! Jake was at work and I had no choice but to suck it up (literally!) and do the best I could to take control of the situation! Davis called Jake without me knowing and left the cutest message! He said," Dad could you hurry home? We have a problem, I am sick and it is raining marbles!" I had noticed that it started hailing marble size hail, so I decided to check the basement and found water gushing in through the french doors! The rock retaining wall around the french doors was doing a good job of retaining all the water and hail on the patio! The water had no choice but to come into the house! We had our very own ice freezing cold pool! I wish I could have taken pictures of it then but I was a little busy Freaking Out! It was interesting to say the least! Isabella was crying wanting to be held, Davis was puking!( apparently he wasn't feeling well! ) And my house was flooding! Needless to say we survived with allot of help from many great and selfless neighbors! A BIG THANK YOU to all the terrific neighbors, friends and my dad who came by to help me! Many neighbors were experiencing the same situation, some houses were way worse than mine, so I am grateful! Jake told me later that a few houses the street above us had windows shatter from all the pressure of the water! At least our basement isn't finished yet! Well sorry for the novel it was just an eventful night for me! Thanks again to all who helped save me during this crisis!
This is our basement after most of the water was sucked out and things calmed down!

This is our patio that was acting as a pool! And is now drained thank goodness!

This is a plant covered by the hail!

This is my deck covered in hail! And by the way, isn't it June? What kind of June weather is this?

This is one of the marble sized hail!

Go Boomers!!!

2009-05-24T22:05:00.000-07:00

It seems like I am always blogging about Bella so here is one for Davis! His soccer season just ended! It was a great one! This was his 2nd year so he knew more what was going on! The whole team made great improvements! One kid wouldn't even get off his mom's lap the first game and by the end of the season he was out there with the best of them! It is amazing how much growth you can see in kids in such a short time! I love the confidence and courage the kids get through sports! I love watching him play and I am sort of sad it is over but now I guess we can gear up for T-ball! Sorry there are a lot of pictures and you can all be proud because this is my 2nd post in one day! I am on a roll! And get ready there is a lot more to come because my camera is fixed and I have been taking pictures like crazy!

Davis and Braden!

His Coach gave out awards and he got the great hustle and a fearless attitude award! He had a great coach! Thanks Kurt!

Davis in action!

This was supposed to be the silly face picture but it was actually Davis' best smile picture!

Davis, Trey, and Hayden

Davis had a lot of support from family, but unfortunately this is the only picture I got of him with some of his fans! Thanks to all who supported him and cheered him on! He loved having you all there! I think he had the biggest cheering section! What do you expect when you have a big family!

Brinlee, Davis, and Brooklyn

Happy, thirsty, hot, and tired! The end of a great season!

Just for Becca!!

2009-05-24T18:28:00.000-07:00

So this post is for my sis in-law Becca! She keeps telling me to post this but what can I say I am a slacker! So one morning I was trying to blog and Jake was in our room watching TV! Davis was watching cartoons and Isabella was creating her own entertainment! Jake started yelling," Traci come here and bring the camera!" This is what I found!

She was quit proud of the mess she had made! You sure can't get
mad at a grin like that! She didn't even think she made a mess!

Got Bedhead? Bella does!

2009-05-03T22:55:00.000-07:00

Davis absolutely thinks this is hilarious! We have been talking about posting these pictures forever! I am just the world's slowest blogger! And seeing as how my camera, that is barely a year old is getting fixed for the 3rd or 4th time,( I am starting to lose track!) I don't have any new pictures to post! So these are from awhile ago! Now that Isabella has more hair she wakes up with some major bedhead! One morning Davis and I were laughing about it and she started to cry like she truly understood and her feelings were really hurt! I too wake up with some good hair styles in the morning but I won't be posting any of those pictures! Sorry! I am sure you are all disappointed by that!

Pictures at last!!!!!

2009-04-14T21:38:00.000-07:00

So we finally had good enough weather to get my kids pictures done! Thanks for all the prayers for good weather! Thanks to our bet Jake is now $100 richer and I am $170 poorer!( cost of paying Jake and for the pictures!) For those of you who don't know, I have been trying to get pictures for at least 6 weeks and the weather hasn't cooperated! Jake thought this time would be different and I didn't so we made a bet! He won! Needless to say I am happy to finally get the pictures done! Melissa did a great job! Davis is quite the little model! He has love to get his picture taken since he was born but Isabella on the other hand isn't quite as fond of the camera! She did pretty well but she had a few moments! It is just hard to photograph a 1 year old! You can't really tell them how to stand, pose or smile! You just have to hope that they will be happy and cooperate! Well I am just happy they are over and hopefully I will get some good ones! You can check some of them out HERE. Sorry I am computer illiterate so there is probably a different way to do that but I don't know how!

Ever seen a Bum Scootin' Ballerina?

2009-04-05T12:18:00.000-07:00

Well many people ask if Bella is walking yet! This video may help answer your question!

So to clarify, she isn't walking yet but she sure can bum scoot and she can crawl! One of these days she will realize how much better walking would be! Oh well she gets into enough trouble as it is!
I have been trying to get my kids pictures taken for the past month or so but the weather has not wanted to cooperate with us! I was trying Bella's tu-tu on to see what everything was going to look like and this is what we got! My sis in law Jill made Bella her cute tu-tu for her birthday! Thanks Jill! The pictures are supposed to be Bella's 1 years photos but they may end up being more like her 18 month if the weather doesn't get better soon! Please pray for good weather on April 13 that is our next scheduled time! I am sure it will snow! Jake and I have a bet on what the weather will be! It will be a win win for me though! If it is nice I owe him $100 but I will finally get my kids pictures done! But if it is bad weather then I get $100 but no pictures!Bella has also been sick a couple of the times too so I hope she isn't sick either! There are no pictures of Davis on here because he is not excited about getting pictures! He says it is because he has to wear those things around his neck! (A collared shirt is what he is refering to! Boys are so much harder to find cute clothes for so he usually ends up in a polo of sorts! And he is not a fan!)

This is a picture of a skirt I got her at the childrens place and she will be wearing a shirt with it but I was just checking it out for size and Davis decided to take her picture! He did a pretty cute job!

These are some other tu-tu shots!

Silly Kids

2009-03-22T22:21:00.000-07:00

Triplets in potty training!!!!

Many people know that my sisters and I are very close! We often help each other with our kids! I think our kids are more like siblings than they are cousins! The kids aren't always sure what to call me! I am anything from Mom, Tifani, Tami, or Tori, once in awhile they get it right! It can get a little crazy once in awhile but I love them as if they were my own!

1st official post....from stalker to stalkee

2009-02-22T21:48:00.000-08:00

I am not much of a writer but I guess I will give it a shot! I guess it is officially time to become the stalkee instead of the blog stalker! This weekend was fun! My baby sis brought a beautiful , and I mean beautiful little baby girl into the world! She was such a trooper! She had a shorter labor than I did with either one of my kids! She was nice enough to allow my other sisters and I, my parents and her mother in-law in on all of the excitement! It is truely amazing to see those sweet babies born! They named her Bergen Jo Andersen! I still catch myself calling her Pammy so hopefully it won't take long for her real name to catch on!