Fun Weekend

Well this past weekend we had the chance to bless Anastasia. We were also lucky to have Mark's two sisters fly in town and share it with us! We had a fun filled weekend. We did alot of fun things and got to spend alot of time with Kristi and Kimberly! It was so much fun to have them here and we look forward to seeing them again soon.

The first thing that we did on Saturday was go up to Portage to visit Mark's grandparents and had a huge family party up there. Then Sunday we had the blessing and then went and saw the lights on Temple Square. The lights sure are pretty this year. It was amazing to me that someone has the patience to put up all those lights!

Here is Mark and His Mom and Grandparents with Anastasia.

Leona holding Anastasia with Kimberly and Mark's other grandmother

Me and my cute little girl!

Mark and Liz

Zach and Eli

Adam, Mckenna, Sophie and Alyse singing Jingle Bells

Here is her cute blessing dress

Part of my family eating after the blessing

Us with my parents

Our new little Family!

Almost the whole Chandler family...

I love this picture of the temple.

This weekend was alot of fun and I am grateful for my cute little angel that was given to me. I am also grateful for my families that I have in my life! They are such good examples to me and always are so positive and willing to help anyone. I am really blessed and lucky to have such great families. The one thing that I am so grateful for is Mark, he has been so wonderful and great to me and I am really lucky to have him in my life!

I was sad to see Kristi and Kimberly go, but I can't wait to see them again soon! We love you guys and had a blast while you two were here!

Thanksgiving

Well I can't believe how fast the holidays have come again! It is wonderful, but man where does the time go? This Thanksgiving we went up to Kamas and spent it with the Hirst family. It was a lot of fun and it was so much fun to spend time with my family and just relax and hang out all day long... So i took a few pictures and thought i would share them.

This is the normal craziness that goes on in the Kamas house when we gather!

She looks alot like Grandpa PJ

This is my Brother Jeff holding Anastasia and I'm holding Anna!

Here is Cute Anna and Anastasia, they are only 5 months apart. This is the first time in Hirst family to have two girls the same age! We are low on the girl count, it is 9 boys to 4 girls.

She loves her Daddy!

All the kids wanted a turn holding their new cousin!

Her cute thanksgiving outfit!


She loves her bouncer!

I can't believe that Anastasia is now a month old yesterday! Time does fly, and i have loved every moment of having her in our home! She is such a good baby and she is always happy and never cries! She is getting very big and more alert every day, it is great to watch a baby grow and develop! Thanksgiving was alot of fun to have another person in our family, we are very grateful for every thing we have and I don't know if I could ask for more! I have been given so much and I'm very thankful for it!

Almost three weeks...

Well we got some cute pictures taken, Jan(my sister-in-law) came up from St. George and paid us a visit and took some pictures of Anastasia. I'll put up some pictures that she took and then pretty soon we will have more to put up as she grows more.









I can't believe how fast time has gone since she was born. It still seems like I just had her yesterday, she is a wonderful baby. She never cries and just is a sweet and happy baby all the time. We are so grateful for her, and to be able to be given such a wonderful gift. The whole pain of having her and going through labor wasn't that fun, but I'm very glad it is over and she is here.

Anastasia

She is finally here. Anastasia Chandler finally made it on October 30th. I know this is a short post, but here are the pictures that have been requested. Enjoy.

More will be posted later as the adventures continue.

Fun day at Lagoon

This past weekend we went to Lagoon and had a blast! Even though I couldn't really ride the rides, it was still fun to go and walk around and watch Daniel and Liz have alot of fun on the rides. I did go on some rides to try and attempt to get this baby out, but don't worry it didn't work! Lagoon is fun at this time because of Frightmares and seeing all the cool decorations and having it alot cooler when you walk around.



Here is all of us except for Mark because someone had to take the picture!

Here is Matthew and Nicole and Daniel and Liz.. It was amazing we got them all to hold still!

We were waiting to go on the Train

They had so much fun in the Boats!

We were waiting for another ride... We were getting pretty tired at this point!

Can you tell how excited Mark is to go on the Merry-go-round?



Now this is true excitement to be on the ride! haha

Nicole and Liz, Liz thought this was the coolest thing in the world!

So that is a few pictures from our fun day at Lagoon. It was alot of fun, I can 't wait to go back next season and go on the real rides and not all the little kid rides! Little kid rides are fun, but not as fun as all the roller coasters!

Dan and Laurens Wedding

I finally got some good pictures from the wedding. So I will get those on here. It was a beautiful day and we all loved it.

Cute little Anna, hanging out with us while we wait for them to come out!


The whole family without kids of course!

This is a another cute picture that i love of me and my favorite brothers!

I can't believe how big my family has gotten!!







I LOVE THIS PICTURE!! He is so Wonderful!

They think they are so tough! haha.




Dan thought he had his car hidden good enough, but he should know better! My brothers were out the WHOLE night looking for his car and sure enough they found it!

It was a wonderful day and we all had so much fun being together as a family and also welcoming Lauren into our crazy family!!

A few pictures before Nate left on his mission...

These were last two nights we had with Nate, I can't believe how fast time has already gone since Nate left! He gets to leave the MTC on the 13th and go out to EL Savador. We are very excited and he is also! So far Nate has loved being out and learning and now he is VERY excited to be leaving the MTC and getting out to the real world!

Saying his goodbyes to Jill and Lauren

All the Kids sure miss Uncle Nate

All the kids got to say goodbye to Nate on Sunday! They were very sad!
This is the night we set Nate apart as a Missionary, we all had dinner together and hung out like good old times!

Naughty Nate using a computer after he has been set apart! haha..

We were all hanging out watching the Olympics together

Well I guess not all of us were, Matt was nice enough to stay up with Nate so he didn't have to be alone



My Dad didn't want to stand outside with the rest of them and so he sat inside and worked on his computer at 11:30 at night.

It was such a fun night to go up with all my brothers and my Husband and just hang out all night. We didn't get home that night until about 1 am. My brothers just talked and talked and talked like they weren't going to see each other for a couple of years and they talked like they hadn't seen each other for a couple of years. It was so much fun, but at the same time I was so ready to go home and get to bed! Everytime I thought we were going to leave and go home my brothers would say okay lets go find Nate and they would move into another room and then talk for another hour. After that they would say again okay lets go, and you could probably guess what happend. They would go into another room together and just chat and chat! Even though I was very tired the next day, we had SO much fun just talking and talking! It was like old times when we were younger and would stay up all night talking to each other. I'm so very grateful for my brothers and my husband. I wouldn't be the same person without them! I love them all SO much! Even though being the only girl while growing up was very hard to be picked on all the time, I wouldn't change it. Families are wonderful!