Visser Family

Happy Easter!

2011-05-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

Katie Roberts (Lampshade Studio) was kind enough to take Ollie's pictures for me. It was a few days before Easter so we thought it would be funny to get his pictures with all of these crazy stuffed rabbits and to have him crying. We thought this would be easy because baby's like to cry, but guess what when you want baby's to cry they won't. He loved the rabbits around him but most of all he loved being naked. He was so good the whole shoot (except when he pooped on me ). I wasn't planning on any pictures of my other kids so I didn't bother prettying them up, but Katie threw them in some of the pictures and I loved how they turned out.

I don't have any picture of the real Easter festivities because I accidently deleted them from my camera >:(

Oliver Dean Visser

2011-03-29T12:58:00.000-07:00

Here is our new baby boy born March 1, 2011. He has more hair than all of my kids put together. The kids all love him (a little too much). We are so happy he is here with our family.

Peter's 8!

2011-03-26T10:45:00.001-07:00

Peter turned 8 on Febuary 13th. He was baptized on the 19th. When it was time for him to be baptized everything seemed to go fine, except when Peter thought he could just jump under the water himself instead of having his dad lower him under. Justin was able to stop him in time. We all left the baptismal font and went into the primary room to wait for Justin and Peter. A few minutes after we got in there Brother Schwab came in and said we needed to go back and do it again. Apparently Justin was on the wrong side of Peter. Justin and Pete were already dressed so they had to undress and put the cold wet clothes back on so they could re-do it. The second time Peter's knee came up out of the water, so the third time was the charm.

Happy Birthday Henk!

2011-02-07T14:46:00.001-08:00

So I am trying to get caught up on all of the recent happenings. Henk turned 5 on December 29th. I can't believe he is that big. All he wanted was a giant cupcake for his birthday. He worried and worried about my sister Kris coming because she was bringing the giant cupcake pan and he thought for sure she would forget or else she wouldn't make it here. But it was all good in the end. He had lots of cousins at his party and got way too many presents. It's hard having his birthday so close to Christmas, but it doesn't seem to bother him any. Here he is with his cupcake. He still has that look that just makes you want to pinch his little cheeks and squeeze him.

Henk had a lot of help opening his presents. It's great too have cousins around.

Here's Grandpa giving him his b-day spankings.

He ended up with a lot more than 5, Grandpa's

counting was a little off.

And here is Gracey. She didn't get to open any presents.
It's got to be confusing because four days earlier she got to.

Christmas!

2011-02-02T09:10:00.000-08:00

We did have a Merry Christmas this year. The kids presents consisted of legos, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Legos, and PILLOW PETS. Yes its a pillow, its a pet, its a pillow pet. That is all Gracey wanted for Christmas. On Christmas eve she was walking around my room yelling at the ceiling "Santa I want a pillow pet". This is a pretty amazing sentence for her to say, because she is still working on the whole "speaking" thing. Justin spent his few days off putting together legos. Here is Peter and Justin with Pete's new Hogwarts Express Legos.
Henk is opening his Voldemort wand. Peter got the Harry Potter one too. They love those things.

I have a good video of Gracey and her pillow pet, but it was taking too long to download. So this is the only picture I have of her on Christmas morning, she'll be hating me one day for this. We were heading to my moms house for dinner and Gracey got these slippers for Christmas and that was all she wanted to wear to grandma's house. She was very sad because I told her she had to get dressed.

Oh and the other thing we got for Christmas was this hamster. Peter used it for his science fair project. His name was max but then we changed it to Hobo Ham because he has a little car he lives in. Justin and I were trying to clean its cage, but neither one of us dared touch it, so we finally just scooped it up into its little ball. We have gotten braver and the hamster has gotten nicer.

What happened after Halloween?

2011-01-31T16:30:00.000-08:00

We Moved!!! We finally bought a house and we are loving all of the room. we went from 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom to 4 bedrooms 2 1/2 bathrooms. We are loving it so far. We are right in front of a hill so the kids get to walk right outside to go sledding. Here is a nice video clip of the fun we get to have by our house. (pay no attention to my evil cackel)

Gracey (2) Having fun with Veldon (9)

More Halloween

2011-01-31T16:20:00.001-08:00

How lame am I? I didn't even post halloween pictures of my kids. So 3 months later, here you go!

Gracey was a witch (?)
Not sure what the wings were, but aren't they cute?

Henk wouldn't let me color his hair this time.

And I was having a tough time with the make up.

Peter was a werewolf. The hood was courtesy of my mom.

Halloween 2010

2010-11-20T11:43:00.001-08:00

This year we were sweatin' to the oldies! Justin was Richard Simmons and I was one of the work out ladies. Yes that is Justin's real hair. It took a professional 1hr of curling and a whole can of hair spray, but oh it was worth it. And yes, sadly that is my real belly. We held a party at our store and had a huge turn out. It was a blast! Check out Hayley Ponciano's blog for more pictures and movies there is a link on my blog list.

It's a Boy!

2010-10-14T11:35:00.000-07:00

Yep, number four (yikes) is on his way. Justin didn't want to find out what it is and to be honest I just figured we wouldn't be able to find out (I don't have the highest confidence in our hospital system). When we got there yesterday he said "we don't need to find out, I know it's a boy" so he kept saying no we're not finding out. Well, as it got farther into the ultra sound, he started changing his mind. And finally I said, lets just see if they can tell or not. And sure enough in plain sight you could see it was a boy, and not a shy one either. Gracey will be our only little girl, which is fine by me. I'm just afraid I won't be able to afford to feed 3 boys!

Gracey turned 2! (about a month ago)

2010-07-08T20:20:00.000-07:00

What a difference a year makes, last year when everybody sang to Gracey she cried. She is a lot more social than she used to be but she is definitely in the terrible two's. I am starting to see the difference between raising girls and boys. Gracey was easier to potty train than my boys (and I thought they were easy), but the boys were just easier all together. I just can't get used to the girly high scream, and that's saying something because Peter was quite the screamer.

Life has been HECTIC this summer. My poor kids are getting quite the run around. Justin decided to start a business this summer. We have opened a motorcycle, atv, and snowmobile parts and repair shop. We will be adding actual motorcycles, atv's and other things later on.

He is keeping his job with the Town of Afton for right now, so that means I have to fill in at the shop when he can't be there which is pretty much all of the time. And when I am there, my kids have to be there, this situation makes for one mean mom.

We are also remodeling the rest of the building. We installed 2,000 sq feet of laminate wood flooring in one night (this is for the zumba classes that take place in our building). We are also adding 3 offices 1 bathroom and a conference room which will be rented out to other businesses. Not to mention the remodeling that we have had to do in the portion of the building where our shop is. I have been impressed how much Justin and Lee have accomplished in less than a month.

Our car STILL isn't fixed. It has been over a month now. I am hoping it will be fixed in the next day or two. I was borrowing one of my parent's cars, until they decided to hit a moose in their other one and so they needed that one back. So it was back to my good old bike and trailer, until it decided to break down too. Yep, I can't even get a reliable bike. Luckily that only took about 3 days to fix so I am back in business!

I know things aren't going to slow down until August at the very least. My poor poor kids aren't having a very fun summer. I feel so bad for them. At least they have the trampoline and sprinkler. That has saved me.

What a fun trip to "California"!

2010-06-09T11:36:00.000-07:00

We were headed to california last week to go and visit my sisters and nieces and nephews. The kids were sooo excited. The morning we we going to leave we took our car in for an oil change and to have things checked out. We were told we needed a new AC belt. Of course they didn't have any here or in Jackson (which surprised me because our car is a volvo, you would think they would keep parts for those in Jackson). We then made the worst decision of our lives. We called Orem and they had the part we needed there. So we thought we will probably make it there, if not so what if the AC goes out. So we loaded up and we went. Well, needless to say we didn't make it there. We had just made it around the reservoir in Provo canyon when we heard a big clunk and our car quit. We figured it was just the AC belt and called the auto parts store to send the part to a mechanic who called a tow truck for us. We thought it would be like ten minutes to fix, no big deal.

The tow truck shows up and just as I had suspected, there is only room for one other person in his truck. So I thought, I can wait here until the car is fixed it won't take long. So the kids and I hike up this hillside and hang out by these thorny bushes where the kids found fun things to play with like sticks, glass, and rusty barbed wire. (See above picture) While I'm sitting there I called Justin and he said it might take a while so I thought "I'll call my friend Bridgett who lives in Provo she can come save us." Bridgett was more than willing to come and help so I called Justin and he said "call her back and tell her never mind we'll have this fixed in a few minutes" So I call Bridgett and say never mind. Well of course Justin calls back and says "call Bridgett back this might take a while." So I call her back and she says she would be there as fast as she can. Meanwhile the kids and I are still "hiding" up in the bushes because I was a little scared that people would stop and ask questions and I didn't want to talk to strangers. Bridgett did hurry up there I'm still impressed at how fast she made it. So after 1 1/2 hours of the kids and I playing with sticks, glass, and rusty metal (BTW there was a potty incident in there as well) we got in Bridgett's car and headed to the mechanic. When I got there it was BAD news. The guy wouldn't be able to get it fixed that night, so poor Bridgett had to take our family to her house and let us stay the night.

DAY 2: We waited until about noon when we called the shop and they were still working on getting parts, yes PARTS the belt wrapped around a bunch of things (so we thought) and ruined them. So we went to the park with Bridgett, had some pizza and went to Jumping Jacks to play in the bounce house things. The kids were sooo good the whole time. I am so glad we

we had Bridgett and her kids to save us. Well while we were at Jumping Jacks (this is about 5:00 pm) we get a call from the mechanic. BAD NEWS the engine is shot!! What? This was why we bought a brand new car in the first place so we wouldn't have crazy things like this happen . Our car is a 2007 and your telling me the engine is gone? Apparently it wasn't just the AC belt. The timing tensinor(sp?) decided to go out on us at the same time as the AC belt. This threw the whole timing off on our engine or something (blah blah blah car talk I don't understand) all I know is that we didn't make it to California, and we had to rely on another friend to haul a trailer down to load our car up and take it home. So, thanks to Lee Aullman for driving all night in horrible rain to get to Provo to pick us up and a Big thanks to Bridgett for saving me and my kids in the canyon and letting us mooch off of you for a couple of days :) We still don't know the full extent of the damage to our car, but the mechanics don't think we need a whole new engine just more parts. I am very scared of what this going to cost!!!

Happy Easter! (I'm a little slow)

2010-04-12T13:04:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful Easter this year. We attempted silk dyeing our eggs this year and it was quite fun. We went to D. I. and had the kids pick out some ties and they loved it. I think Justin was more excited about these eggs than anyone. He went right home and started taking the ties apart before the rest of us even got home. I am not a crafty person who thinks of these neat ideas, I saw this on a website, I can't even take credit for finding the website, my sister-in-law Jana showed me this website and it has become my favorite.

Justin's grandma did her annual easter egg hunt for the kids. She pays them a quarter for every real egg they find. I was amazed she was up for it this year but you can't keep that lady down.

The best part of Easter was that we got to eat two Easter dinners. Yumm!

Great Ambitions

2010-04-07T08:52:00.000-07:00

Henk informed me this morning that when he grows up he wants to be a dad, "Because I don't want to work". I asked how he will get money then. He told me, "I bet Leisa will still give me birthday money".

POOR GRACEY

2010-03-08T09:10:00.001-08:00

Saturday night Gracey was running in my bedroom when she tripped and smashed her face into my bed. She must have hit the metal mattress frame. Her nose swelled up right after it happened. After a long debate of whether we should take her to the Dr. or not and calling my dad a million times to see what he thought, we decided to take her to the ER. The Dr. said what we thought which was "yep it's broken, but there isn't anything you can do until the swelling goes down". So now we wait. I still can't tell if it is crooked or not it's still is a little bit swollen. Gracey has been so tough through it all, she doesn't even act like it bothers her at all. But it makes me hurt every time I look at her.

Happy Birthday Peter

2010-03-05T13:14:00.000-08:00

Peter had his first official birthday party last February. We did a pirate theme. I made the invitations to look like a pirate map. This may not have been a good idea because some of the kids didn't make it home with their invitations because they were to busy playing with them. I made these shark cupcakes that looked better far away then they did up close. They weren't too difficult, but they weren't as easy as I thought they would be. They were kind of tasty because, yes the sharks body is made of a twinkie. What could be better than a cupcake with a twinkie, a cookie, and candy?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

2010-01-05T11:01:00.001-08:00

We had a very good Christmas this year. Peter was soooo excited this year. He was wanting to leave the family Christmas eve party at six so he could go home and go to bed. Henk was way excited also and Gracey was excited because the others were excited. When I was little we couldn't get out of bed until six a.m. I remember being awake for hours waiting for six to roll around. Erin and I would also try sneaking out to see our presents, but my parents usually caught us. My kids had a hard time waking up at 8:30.

The boys got new snowboards and they love them. We just need a little more snow here. (Yeah I can't believe I'm saying that either.) They went a couple of times and Henk stayed up for quite some time. Peter is learning to turn. They are both already better than I am at snowboarding.

Gracey got a new baby. She was so cute with that thing. She was looking around all morning for a bed for her baby when she found the new dog bed Santa brought, she stayed there all morning long.

Yep my little Henk is four years old. He had a good birthday with lots of friends and family.

2009 was a pretty good year for us. Besides Pete's broken arm, we all came out in one piece. Justin still has a job and right now I don't think we could ask for much more than that.

2009-11-01T09:18:00.000-08:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

2009-11-01T09:03:00.000-08:00

Another fun Halloween has came and gone. I love too see the kids running around in there costumes. Peter always insists on being something scary, so this year we attempted a zombie. Henk wanted to be a tiger and we lucked out finding this costume at old navy along with gracey's. I just want to squeeze them in their little costumes they are so cute.

Justin and I attended a halloween party last week and dressed as Sonny and Cher. It was a blast.

The summer is ending and so are the bike rides:(

2009-10-20T08:23:00.000-07:00

Well, since we have had a couple of snow storms and we rarely get above 50 degrees, I think it is safe to say that summer is over. I think our family is going to miss the bike rides most of all. My boys love going to the BMX track to ride bikes. Peter has been learning how to jump his bike this summer and is getting quite good at it. Justin loves to ride with the boys when he gets the chance. Henk is very brave for a 3 year old. He can ride up and down most of the hills. One day when we were on our way to the track he told me he popped a wheelie on his bike. Sure enough he did, he can lift his front tire about a 1/2" off the ground. He thinks he's so big.

Back to School (so I'm a little slow)

2009-10-20T08:11:00.001-07:00

Way back in August school started again for Peter. He is in the first grade this year and is doing quite well. His competitive side is coming out. One day he came home from school to tell me a girl in his class already received her reading award. So he went to school early the next day to take a whole bunch of reading tests so he could catch up to her. I hope he stays like this.

Henk started school the beginning of September. It is his first year of pre-school. He loves it. He has been so excited all summer long for school to start. His favorite part is riding the tricycles outside. It is the cutest thing ever. (No he is not crying in the picture, the sun was too bright for him.)

So now for two and a half hours two times a week it is just Gracey and me. I think she likes the time away from her brothers.

This one's for you Kris

2009-09-24T20:05:00.000-07:00

I was loading pictures and movies onto my computer when I came across this video of Henk and Kris's dog Rex. Ah, they were both so cute.

2009-08-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

The time for the Jr. Rodeo has arrived once again.

Peter was too big to ride a sheep this year and technically he was to young to ride a cow (for some reason they don't have a class for six year olds) but he gave the cow a try anyway. Henk was going to try the sheep this year but he woke up crying this morning that he didn't want to ride the sheep. It's too bad because he missed out on his $2 reward.

Gracey's Birthday

2009-06-12T16:52:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was Gracey's first Birthday. She looked thrilled about the whole event on our way to Grandma Koral's house.

I was excited about the cupcakes I made. It took me 3 hours to make the butterflies for them but I think it was worth it, especially since Justin said they were the prettiest thing I have made in the 10 years we've been married. (It's true, I'm not very crafty.)

Gracey doesn't take too kindly to large crowds, but after the sugar rush from the cupcake sunk in, she was very excited at her birthday.

2009-05-30T11:28:00.000-07:00

My Gracey is almost a year old. I am not too happy about that.

She is running now, she went from zombie walker to full on runner. She is getting teeth way faster than my boys. She has her two bottom teeth and the top two Spongebob teeth are coming in super fast.

2009-03-31T13:20:00.000-07:00

2009-03-31T13:08:00.000-07:00

This last weekend we were lucky enough to get away from the cold and we headed to St. George.

Thanks to Bridgett and Josh Fawson we had a very enjoyable time. Josh's parents were kind enough to let our family and the veigels stay at their house, they are brave people.

We hiked around the mountains of St. George and we went swimming one night. On our way home on Monday we stopped and visited Zions park. It was nice weather it was in the 60's which was great since it was 5 below zero when we left Star Valley.

2009-01-16T15:26:00.000-08:00

During Christmas my sister Erin was in town and was kind enough to put her photography skills to use and take pictures of my kids. She did an excellent job even though she had to work with my rotten kids. One day she wanted to take pictures of Peter snowboarding. This was quite difficult considering it was 10 below zero. She rolled around in the snow and froze to death while I stayed nice and cozy in the car entertaining babies. It sucks to be her.

Thanks for everything Erin.

2008-11-26T08:16:00.000-08:00

Justin gets a little excited about the kids riding bikes. Here is Gracey at five months going for a spin. Henk has moved on to other modes of transportation, we'll keep you posted if he gets that thing to fly.

Gracey also has a new place to sleep. Who wouldn't want to sleep standing up?

A Spooky Family

2008-11-12T09:53:00.000-08:00

For all of you who have been waiting for the family halloween picture.

2008-11-04T09:58:00.000-08:00

This is our happy halloween. Gracey was our little kitty cat. Henk insisted on being this dragon even though the custom was too small for him. And yes that is Peter. His vampire costume turned out really well thanks to Debra's excellent face painting. Debra also did a number on Justin and me. I was a witch complete with the green face and giant long nose, Justin had his face painted like a pumpkin and his crazy hair painted green. I think dressing up for halloween makes it so much more fun.

2008-10-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

Henk will turn 3 years old on December 29. He already wants to ride his bike without training wheels. This is one of his many attempts. After he peddled a few feet and crashed, he hopped off of his bike and said "okay, lets go to the jumps". Is it possible that he could be more of an adrenaline junky than Peter? Yikes.

2008-10-14T09:45:00.000-07:00

Yes it has snowed. This is what dumped on us Saturday afternoon. Peter was so excited. This is the snowman he made all on his own. Of course it was demolished and he made about three more.

Gracey turned 4 months old on Saturday. She was born in a snow storm in June. I figure when she turns a year old, 9 of her 12 months of life will be in snow. Fun isn't it.

2008-09-19T20:37:00.000-07:00

I have not been very good at keeping up with this thing. Here is the latest with us. Peter is now in kindergarten. He loves it. It has taken him a few weeks to get used to getting up in the morning, but he gotten a lot better. They go to "all day" kindergarten here which means they start school the same time as everybody else, but they get out an hour earlier. Peter loves lunch and recess. He has a great teacher and he seems to be doing well in class. He is on the "green light" everyday and he is so proud of that fact. (That means he hasn't got into trouble yet.)

Our little Gracey has turned Three months old already. She is so close to rolling over right now and did her first little laugh tonight. The boys still absolutely love her and she loves them too. She loves to watch Peter.

Henk is acting more and more his age, which is 2. He is a very sensitive little boy and cries over every little thing. Yesterday he cried for over an hour because we went through the drive thru at Taco Time instead of going in.

2008-08-13T15:07:00.000-07:00

So I am new at this blogging, I just figured out you can add a video, so here is the clip of Peter jumping off of McCoy creek bridge. I was more scared than him I think.

2008-08-13T15:02:00.000-07:00

Last night (or this morning, not really sure when) Jake and Violet had a new baby girl. They named her Abbigail and she is so cute. She looks just like Callin only she has a lot of dark hair. Saturday afternoon Peter had a little accident at the Harmon's house. He was out jumping on the trampoline when he bounced up and hit his head on a basketball hoop. Of course he screamed like his head was just cut off; which, with as much blood as there was you might think his head was cut off. It cleaned up quickly and now there is just a small scab.

2008-08-03T16:15:00.000-07:00

Today we blessed our little Gracey Lou. Here is a picture of her in the dress that Kris was so kind to lend to us. (This is the only picture in which she wasn't sticking out her tounge.) After the blessing we had a delicious lunch at Grandma Koral's house. Grandpa Dennis made the yummiest brisket ever which everybody loved.

2008-08-02T12:45:00.000-07:00

Here are the big Wyoming Cowboys checking on their livestock. Peter rode his sheep for a mighty 4 second ride. He was cut short of the big belt buckle when his sheep took him head first into the rodeo fence. Henk was ready to go on his first sheep ride but when he was next in line he decided sheep riding was not what he thought it was. So they both returned their rodeo numbers and collected their Two Dollar Bills.

2008-08-02T12:23:00.000-07:00

Today they had the Jr. Rodeo at the Lincoln County Fair. Peter & Henk were both signed up to mutton bust. Henk chickened out because his sheep was a little eager and left the shoot before he could even get on it. He didn't want to try another one. Peter hopped right on with his motorcycle helmet and his goggles. He had a wild sheep that ran him right into the gate. It was a good thing he had his helmet. Callin (Jake's little boy) was a little afraid but he he eventually hopped on. His sheep was like riding a tame little pony, it just wandered around and could care less that Callin was on him. There was one famous person attending today's rodeo. Spiderman made an appearance and even tried a little mutton busting of his own.