Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to Gracie, Chloe, Tatum, whatever your name is going to be from your favorite Aunt Nikki! My amazing, talented, creative, wonderful sister in law, Nikki, gave me and baby girl the best christmas present! Not only will she have a different colored bow to wear with every single outfit, she has the cutest bow holder that will go on her wall and match her bedding! Thank you Nikki! You're the best and baby girl will love you forever because she will always look cute with her hair accessories! :)

It's a GIRL!

We found out today our favorite color is now pink! We are very excited for our baby girl to come this June! :)

Santa Barbara

We spent the weekend in Santa Barbara so that Doug, Kari and Bart could run the marathon. We stayed in the cutest little town called Solvang.

It was a danish town that had blocks and blocks of shops! Loved it!

Doug, Kari, and Bart all did awesome in the half marathon and I proud of all them! Nice job guys!

We went to the beach on Monday and for some reason we were the only people there :). I guess November isn't the best time to go to the beach, however it was perfect weather to sit on the beach and enjoy the scenery, not nice enough to get in the water! We ended up seeing a pod of dolphins just hanging out in the cove we were sitting in front of. It was the closest I've ever been to dolphins and it was so fun to watch them all swim around with the seals. Love the ocean... why do I live in Utah again? :)

Orlando

We had an awesome anniversary again this year. We went to Orlando and a cruise with Jeana and Aubrey. It was so much to be in the warm sunshine for a whole week. We flew into Orlando and stayed there for two days. While we were there we went to Universal Studios and to Ron Jon (like 3 times, for Jeana and Aubrey). Then we headed to the dock on got on the ship. We went on a Caribbean cruise for 4 nights and it was a blast. When we got back from the cruise we went to dinner for my birthday at my favorite restaurant Benihanas and then went miniature golfing at the coolest miniature golf place ever!

The slides at Atlantis that Bart and Aubrey did while Jeana and I watched

The port hole

Our ship

Bart playing with the iguanas

Harry Potter at Universal

Mini golf

Formal Night

Thank you for this pic Bart

Crazy Week

We have had a crazy week in the Best Family this week! It all started on Tuesday... a happy/sad day. Tuesday morning Blake had surgery #2 on his heart. Unfortunately the surgery did not work once again, but we are happy to have our happpy Blake here with us and that everything ended up going ok in the surgery. He had to spend 3 days in the hospital and Jen tried everything she could to keep him occupied, happy and out of trouble.

Jen went to change her clothes for bed one night and Blake found some candy on the shelf. He was being so quiet that Jen thought he was asleep... NOPE! She came out to this! Naughty Blakers! The funniest part.. his shirt says

"Can't sleep, must eat candy" compliments of his favorite Aunt Jaclyn! :)

Who wants to ride in the wagon when you can push it!

Blake playing with his car at the hospital.

Blake playing with the coolest present from his favorite Aunt!

Tuesday afternoon.... We welcomed Jason's and Nikki's BATMAN to the world! Cutest little baby! We love him! He is so cute. Ok his name isn't really Batman, his name in Remington Tagg Best, 7 pounds 3 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. He is a mix of Jason and Nikki.

Bentley seeing Batman for the first time.

Baby Blake

Thank you all for all your prayers for my cute nephew Blake. He had his heart surgery on Thursday and he is doing better than ever! He's now crawling (we thought he was going to skip that step and go straight to walking) and he seems happier than ever. I know he is feeling so much better and we are glad to have this behind us, and if we are, I am sure John and Jen really are!

Bart and I watched the girls Wednesday and Thursday night to help Jen and John... they are good birth control! JK we had so much fun with them and enjoyed having them here. I don't think Kensie wanted to leave... ever! :)

The last month or so...

We've had a very busy last few weeks and got a lot done too! Bart was in Virginia for 4 weeks for some army training and it was the longest month of my life and I missed him so much. Luckily my mom was nice enough to come stay with her so I didn't have to be home alone, THANKS MOM!

We had some bad timing when Bart was gone and did some remodeling of our house. Thanks to all those who came to help. Below is all the fun stuff we did.

This is Bart with his hot bic hair cut at army training! How long does it take for hair to grow (luckily most of it is back now!) Bart in his cute army outfit!

Race for the cure with the family. My aunt Colleen has had breast cancer and most recently brain cancer, so we make a point to do race for the cure every year as a family and we enjoy every minute of it!

Our new fence... we have had this chain link gate since we moved in because the people before us had a salon in the basement and used the back yard for people to park at. It's been really hard to use the back yard with the whole neighborhood watching us.....

So now we have this and it is awesome! We love our new vinyl gate! (and privacy)



We tiled our garage enterance to the house, the bathroom and the laundry room

Before

After

And lastly we got new carpet AW! Finally new carpet!

Before

After

So anyway its been a long and very busy last few weeks. Thank you to all who came to help out with the house while Bart was gone, we really appreciate it!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

We all went to my mom's house for Easter in between conference sessions to eat lunch. We had a fun time watching the little kids hunt for easter eggs and find their easter baskets grandma left out for them.

Bentley, Destri, and Sailor all dressed up in their cute Easter outfits at Grandma Nancy's house!


Sailor with her favorite aunt

Bentley with his favorite aunt dying Easter eggs

Destri with her favorite aunts!