Our New Arrival

Baby girl Raevyn



Our sister Brandy had Raevyn Moore on the 23rd of June 2009.
She's the main reason we went to St. Louis. To visit our beautiful niece. And she was so worth the trip.

Here's the proud Mommy (Brandy) and Daddy (Curtis)



While we were there, we spent time with the Family and of course had to get our BBQ on.


















Here is Marvin's immediate family (with spouses and kinds)
Kaia, Marvin, Vernice (MOM). Lamont (BRO), Jada (SIS inlaw), La Monica (niece), Beelyn, Deion,
Brandy (SIS), Baby Raevyn (niece), and Brandy (niece)







Brandy, Jada, La Monica & Lamont












Uncle Frank & Aunt Louis
& Cookie




MOM with her 3 kids

& the cousins

ST. LOUIS


We went to St. Louis Missouri this summer to visit Family. Now we go to either St. Louis or Chicago every year, but I have to say that this time was the Best. Usually it's so hot and humid that we stay inside in the AC all day everyday. But this year the weather was perfect. We could actually go outside and site see.


















This is The Famous Forest Park. There's so much to do here like the huge museum ( the guys wouldn't go in) and the Huge ZOO, which is FREE admission & 50 times better than our Utah ZOO.



















We had a fun day site seeing with Uncle Lamont (Marvin's older brother) and cousin Brandy ( Marvin's niece)

Happy
Independence
Days

We just love this time of year. The 4th of July (the US independence day) & The 24th of July (UTAH's independence day). Two sets of parades & carnivals and two sets of Fireworks.

Kaia and Deion love the Parades, I don't know if it's the colorful floats & cars & musical bands OR all the candy that gets thrown to them. My guess is the candy.

So we ended up going to 3 different parades & 3 different Firework shows. And loved them all. Kaia has always loved the big fireworks shows (except the big boom ones), but Deion did better and was more interested this year.

This is us at the Centerville and West Bountiful parades. An old fire truck broke down in the parade right in front of us. So Marvin jumped up and was one of the guys to push the truck off the road and out of the way. It was funny.

Summer fun
For Kaia

Ok...so...we went to the Salt Lake City Arts Festival for the first time this year, and we had a lot of fun. I had no idea all the things there are to do and see for kids. I thought it was just a bunch of booths with weird art and spicy food. Those were there too, but I saw cool art as well. When I am rich and need to decorate my house, I'm gonna go to the arts festival to buy, not just look.

But anyway, there was this whole section just for kids. We didn't even get to half the stuff, but Kaia was able to paint on a wall, (which she loved) and played a tiny violin just her size, tried a trumpet and other neat art stuff. Deion was there too but strapped into the stroller.(no way was I gonna let him loose in there.)

So anyway next year we are defenatley going again and this time we'll spend more time there.

Summer Fun

We visited Hill Aerospace Museum


With Grandparents, Great Grandma & Cousins

Happy Easter

Easter was fun this year, the weather was great & we sent time with Family.

Kaia and Deion are sporting their Easter outfits
their Aunt Tee Tee got them.

They had a couple of Easter Egg hunts.

Kaia was a pro.
















Deion wasn't too interested in the eggs until he discovered they had candy in them

Kaia and Deion just love their Grandmas.

Spring is finally here!

It's been a long and cold winter here in Utah. As you can see I haven't been updating here, mainly because there hasn't been much going on with us. We've been stuck inside most the winter. Some of those weeks were spent being sick. On occasion when Marvin would shovel the driveway the kids would get all bundled up and play in the snow, but sorry I didn't take any photo's. Here's a couple of things in the last few months that i did take a few snaps of:

January

The Inauguration
Kaia and Deion can say they watched
the First Black American become
President of the United States.

February
We had a few weeks when the kids or Marvin and I were sick with colds or flues. This is Kaia sick with a cold
but still looking cute.

March
Everyday I open the blinds and the kids look out the windows
watching the snow or rain fall and
making plans for when the warmer weather comes.
Kaia likes to sing her 'Snow or Rain go away song'





















April
Spring is finally here!
The last few days we've been having around 50 degree weather.
We've been able to Finally go outside and no one is sick.
Yesterday Kennedy and David Taylor came over to play, have a picnic and jump and slide.




The boys were easily entertained with M & M's, while the girls played on laptops and with lipstick.