Rees Family

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

~ Ballin' around~

This is Carson's second season playing with the Collierville United Methodist Church. He's been with this same group of boys and had these same coaches for two years now. They have a great sense of teamwork. This is the one and only sport where I have seen Carson telling his coach he needs a timeout. That boy runs and runs until he's red in the face and can't give anymore. We've really seen him improve on his talent the past two years. Unfortunately the season here doesn't last long. Baseball and Football are a religion down South and basketball tends to get over looked. So for now it's shootin hoops in the driveway :)

Tubby Time

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

PHEW!!!!~finally done with Christmas pictures. I took way too many, but it's so hard not to capture all of the memories. Grandma Shauna loves buying clothes for her granddaughters....Most of our eyes light up when we walk into Nordstroms or Banana Republic, but hers light up when she walks into any Children's clothing store. Natalie and I love it!!! Aren't they beauties!!!!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Home for the Holidays part 4

Rees Family Christmas continued.....

(I promise I'm almost done with Christmas posting)
Here's the Rees boys-never a dull moment. Take Dave and times him by 5...a laugh a minute!!!

My sister in laws--I completely lucked out. All three of them are perfect!

Evan and Charleigh...the newcomers! Their dads look the most alike out of the brothers, yet they don't look a thing a like. Their mommas genes must be a little stronger.

Left:We had dinner with a few of Dave's Sigma Chi friends-(Casey on the right may be familiar to you who live in Utah...Casey Scott on KUTV 2 news in the a.m.) He's a great friend of Daves...brothers for life haha :)
Right: We spent an evening with our old neighborhood friends, the Smith's and Lowders, celebrating Marc Smith's 40th. I can't believe it's already been 6 years since we shared memories in Bounty Cove.

Pirates Cove in Orem-We found out that the 40 slice pizza still wasn't big enough for my Hooper family. Don't ever underestimate us...We can definitely put the food away!!!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Christmas with the Rees Family

This picture pretty much explains itself....It's all about competition when you have 5 brothers in the house. Lets just say my big, burly, very strong husband won the arm wrestle.

The girls with their Grandma MaryAnn....hmmm Cara doesn't look like her Grandma or anything!!!

We got a little snowman building in. It was FREEZING though so it didn't last long. I have not been that cold in a really long time. Gotta freeze for the kids though.

Carson's Grandpa Jim is just so kind to him. Carson is a big board game player like his Dad and Jim is just so patient and helpful with him. Carson really enjoys being around his Grandpa. Jim does a wonderful job of making Carson feel very very special.

Christmas Morning 2010

Score!!! The room was filled with presents for 12 grandkids...it was so fun to see all of the presents wrapped and ready to go. The adults were just as excited as the kids.

I don't think there was one thing that Santa forgot~He was a busy man this year. The biggest gift at our house was Carson's baseball bat...or should I say biggest bill :) He was pretty excited and I am still so shocked at how much baseball bats cost. Cara loved her D.S., Ryleigh was thrilled with her Barbies, and Evan well lets just say the Dollar Store still works for him. It was a great morning and all 12 of these kids were very blessed this year.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Home for the Holidays Part 3

Christmas Eve with my family

My Dad and Mom~The two very special people that are at the head of this chaos~okay so only their kids and grand kids cause the chaos!!!

My very handsome, talented, well-mannered, funny, sweet, smart,....

Well you get the point.....anyone have a younger sister??? He's really a catch and look he can even play the ukulele...what a super talented guy he is. haha!!!

Evan's first Santa experience~He didn't even blink. He's the most chill baby!

My Mom's neighbor played Mr. Claus and did a great job. He gave each kid their "Children's Place" jammies....I love checking Christmas blogs because almost each one has pictures of their kids in those warm fuzzy jammies. "Children's Place" must make a killing on those!!!

My Mom and Dad are taking all of us on a California Summer Vacation. We're so excited and it will be here before we know it. It will be so much fun to be all together again as a family, only this time the sun and beach will be joining us too...yippee!!! Thanks a bunch Mom and Dad-We truly are blessed.

Of course you can't have Christmas Eve without some sort of reenactment of the Nativity Story. It was so funny because as we looked around it was only in-laws in the play (as far as adults go)...see what ya gotta do to get in the family, how easy is that!!! Reiley all you have to do is find an angel...pun intended :)

Producer-Abigail Warnick