Playing with the leaves!

Yes, it's been forever since I last posted, and I plan on posting a full summer-fall update this weekend, but until then, check out these fun pics I took of Carly in our massive leaf pile in the backyard!

Livin' it up in Vegas!....

Our Beautiful Hotel-The Venetian!

We weren't originally going to stay at the Venetian, but in the end, we ended up treating ourselves to a week full of luxury(and probably the last time for the next 20 years!) I have never seen (nor stayed) in a hotel so nice in my entire life!! WOw, the Venetian was absolutely gorgeous and worthy of each of it's 5 stars! I think Ryan and I felt like too little kids being treated to the worlds largest ice-cream Sundae and were ridiculously giddy about it the entire time! We had debated whether to stay there or in it's newer addition(The Palazzo) but they are both the same rooms now, same style, and are both connected to eachother so it made no difference! It was so cool-the night we went to phantom, we literally took the elevator down 28 floors, got out, took a left, and walked right into the Phantom of the Opera Theatre! THe show by the way, was AMAZING! The special effects, the atmosphere, even the lighting was spectaculor. It was awesome. We basically just walked around all week, did some shopping, ate some really yummy food, watched movies and sports-center on our flat screens in the same room at the SAME time(one for each of us!) stayed up late, and slept in even later. Doesn't get much better than that, does it?! Our last night there, we saw Jersey Boys. Now, apparently there are a lot of contraversial oppinions of this show....I'm sure I could say a lot of things about this show, but if I am going to say one thing it would be this: So FUN! Yes, there were a lot of things that I could have done with out-blah blah blah,but I don't want to talk about that-It was amazing! The singing was phenomenal, you know all the songs from growing up no matter how old you are, and personally, I'd say if you get a chance to go see it, DO it!! So so so much fun!








Of course I went straight for the room service menu!


And I swear Ryan played with the remote control blinds/shades/curtains for 10 mins!

..................so-fascinating-

Ideal reading spot!(you know I gotta have one of those!)

My "luxurious" pose!LOL(This will only be humorous to a select few of you, but I couldn't resist!)~








These are pics of inside the Venetian Hotel, where their shopping and restaurants and are. It's so gorgeous and it feels and looks just like you're in Venice!





THese are some of the Palazzo which is attached to the Venetian! So pretty!


We had such a great time, and I'm ready to do it again already!.....(*sigh*if only!hehe!)

Vegas Cousins!

When Ryan and I were on vacation in Vegas, we were able to first have Sunday dinner with his cousins that live there!! We love them tons, and haven't been able to see them in quite a while, so it was so great to catch up, and just have a good time!It was a fun Sunday!

The Boys!(L-R> Geoff, Ryan, and Mike)


The Girls!(and baby Colton!)L-R> Aleena(holding Baby Colton), Kate, and Angela- the new and amazing looking mommy of Baby Colton!)

My girlie!!!!.....

Some of you may know the the Rose family(Judy and Jerry Rose) have been and always will be a second family to me. They all have played such a huge and vital role in my life since I was 12 yrs. old, and I could not love them more if they were of the same blood! The two youngest of their family, Ashlee and Alicia(aka. "my girlies")who are twins, are just as much my little sisters as Karen and Annie are. Ashlee was just married this past September and now my little Leeshy has just recently gotten engaged! She was out here in Dallas in April visiting her (now) fiance's family who live about 15 mins. away from me, so she got to come visit me and the Waltons! I was super sad that we didn't get to hang out and play as we had originally planned to but I ended up having a terrible stomach flu most of the time she was here, and was lucky enough to get well enough before she left! It was soooooo good to see her-I love her so much! Definitely wasn't for long enough, but I guess it's always that way with family no matter how much time you get huh?> Anyways, I'm so excited for her and her upcoming marriage! She's so much fun, and such a beautiful, wonderful, talented girl with an amazing, incredible family! I was so glad I was able to meet her hubby to be! He's a wondeful guy and one lucky man!(but I'm sure he knows that!)
p.s. No worries, I'm very aware that one of my girlie's talents is making me more fully aware and confident that I must have Albino genes in my blood! I mean, how else could I have all of these tans sisters, and be whiter than a Giesha doll!hUH?!-LOL)

Nope, that's not my car......LOL


L-R...Josh, Alicia,(Walton Kids)>Katie, Sydney, and Peter......and then me on my tippy toes! I WISH I was that tall!

Auntie Karen comes to town and saves the day!!!.....

My sister Karen has just finished her sophomore year at BYU and she had a week off before summer semester started, so she came to visit!! She and I are nearly 6 1/2 yrs. apart, but she is one of my best friends-both of my little sisters are. I think I was already crying about her leaving before she even got here!(That probably only makes sense to my fellow "sisters" out there!)Anwyays, we had so much fun, and unfortunately, our last 2 days were spoiled with Carly and I coming down with the most violent stomach flu I have ever seen! Ryan was working all night at the hospital, and it hit me at about 5pm, and Carly around 10pm, and if Karen wasn't there, I don't know what we would have done! She definitely saved the day, and she and Carly became real close pals after the all night hours spent together over a pink mixing bowl, and a sippy cup of gatorade. Karen stayed up all night with her, and luckily Ryan was able to steal home around midnight and play nurse to me.It wasn't how I pictured spending our last couple days together, but we were sure glad she was there!
I love and miss you Karen!!!

Easter egg hunt at the Waltons!

It is so fun to have our dear friends, The Waltons, only 3 minutes away from us here in Dallas! They're also in our ward, which is tons of fun! I grew up with them in my ward in Louisville Kentucky, and used to baby-sit their kiddies, who now baby-sit Carly! Crazzzy! They've kind of become our family away from home-Anyways, we love them tons and Carly always loves going over there, so it was a treat to have Easter dinner and our Easter egg hunt with them and their family.

Braids for Carly!

Her hair is getting so long, and she looked so old when I braided it that day! My baby's not a baby anymore!! = (

Carly and Grampy!

This was all the way back in March, but hey, I'm trying to catch up. Grandpa Williams came to visit over Conference weekend, and Carly was loving it! I think her brains are still bogging around her head from all the "Hoarsey-hoarsey" she and Grampy played on his lap! Up and down and all around!

Bows anyone?!

Carly is crazy about her bows! I kid you not, the girl gets terribly upset if you put her hair up without putting a bow in it! Well, if she ever finds a random bow anywhere in the house, she expects it to be put in her hair immediately! Well, these pics were taken when I was sitting in Carly's room the other afternoon, reading, while she was playing in hers and the other upstairs bedroom across the hall. Well, she got into one of her bow boxes, and one by one, she'd bring them to me and ask me to put them into her hair. It took me quite a while to convince her that there was no more room for anymore bows!! Aren't kids suppose to NOT want things in their hair?! I'm sure many of you out there are saying, "Only your child, Katie!" LOL- What can you do?!

How bout' some bloggin'!????

Yes, I know we've been off the radar for over HALF a year!!! Trust me, I know-I don't intend to let happen again, even if only to keep the relatives happy!!! I have spent all day "recapping" the past 7+months, so I'm not really feeling up to writing anymore today. But there are tons of posts below now to catch you up on us! I just returned from out of town, so hopefully this week, I can get our blog site updated, and add/update lots of blog addresses! I haven't even seen anyones blog in forever, so I plan to visit you all soon!!
Hope you enjoy!!>.......Thanks for caring! We love you all!!

Holiday in Indy!

Carly and I went to Indianapolis(where my parents now live)two days after Christmas.(Sadly, Ryan was back to work at the hospital already!)It was so much fun to be home with my brothers and sisters! It was a special treat on top of that to have my brothers' darling girlfriends with us there for the first half of our trip! I took a bunch of pics,(mostly on the same night)so I'm just going to post them all on here-random and all. Oh, and just so you know, we Moyes' like to make lots of "pretty" faces!!!Seriousness is SO overrated!!



Settin' up to play a good game of Rummikub!!



This actually feels GREAT!

Lauren doing Karen's hair-LOL-I told her she looked like a lion!





My parent's are going to kill me for putting this picture on here, but it's all I got with them! But I'll explain. My mom was super sick with pluracy when we were there, and she and my dad were camping out in one of the guest rooms watching movies when I came in and snatched a pic!


Lauren (Nick's girlfriend)is a hairdresser, and was kind enough to do our hair for us that night(New Years Eve)!!! She colored and cut Karen's and Annie's, but wimp that I am and always have been, I went for a basic trim. Lauren hopes to eventually work me up to highlights in the future-we'll see....Hopefully someday I'll have the guts do something about my boring hair color! First for everything!

Aren't my sisters the coolest?!^










This is by FAR our best "pretty" face!

I LOVE my sisters SOOOOOOOO much!!!

Family picture time!

So my parents were determined to get ONE picture of all of us, since we weren't going to get professionals done this year without Ryan. Didn't matter what we were wearing(apparently-Half of us are in our sweats!) as long as we were all in one picture together-Sounds like an easy task, right?! Well, unfortunately, this picture included myself and my brother Devan, and we are not so good at being serious when the time calls for it-Well, the rest of the fam wasn't too pleased with us(understandably so), because instead of taking a couple of simple pictures, we had to do quite a few, because I couldn't keep it together! I'm sorry, old habits die hard! Once you get me laughing, it is sometimes hard to stop! Especially when I'm NOT suppose to be laughing or being silly! You can always count on me to mess these things up! Yup, I gotta work on that- Anyways, I thought I'd post a few of those "candid" pics (I'm ashamed to admit how many "candids" actually exist)that resulted in my dad having to take a few too many trips back to the camera to reset the timer. Whoops!! Sorry Mom and Dad! Just thought I'd give you guys a flash of the good ol' days! But hey, we got 3 semi-decent ones!Right?

I tried, I really did~!





Carly and I went to Indianapolis(where my parents now live)two days after Christmas.(Sadly Ryan was back to work at the hospital already!)It was so much fun to be home with all my siblings. It was a special treat on top of that to have their darling girlfriends there with us for a little while! I took a bunch of pic while we were there(mostly on the same night) so I'm just going to post them all on here-random and all! Oh, and just so you know, we Moyes' like to make "pretty" faces!!!Seriousness is SO overrated!!

Christmas morning!

Aren't we a sight to see?!!Yikes-From the looks of it, I'd say Ryan and I are not lookin' so much like morning people that day! Not such a great pic, but what can you do without an extra hand?


Carly on her way to the family room to see what Santa brought her!!!



This year, we had our own little Christmas here at home! Just the three of us! It was fun, but a little quiet, and we obviously didn't plan out the picture and video thing too well. I guess we're so use to having everyone around on Christmas that we don't have to worry about lack of photos!! But, unfortunately, I was a little caught up taking video that I didn't even take pictures of Carly doing Santa(Which we did in the Family Room, before presents in the front room by the tree) So here's the ONE picture we do have of Carly opening presents. She LOVES "horsies" right now, and she had just opened this one from Gr. Grandpa Williams!

Just some holiday pics of Carly....

It's a wrap!

Though many of you may or may not share my enthusiasm in this subject, I love wrapping presents! Ryan was making fun of me for all the different bows and paper I get, but I have so much fun making them pretty!(Well, trying, anyway!) I think I'm obsessed with ribbon-I can't get enough of it!! Anyways, this year, I was in love with some of the new wrapping paper I had found, so I thought I'd show you a few of them!

Oh Christmas tree....

For the past four years, we have yet to own a christmas tree. Well, this year, we decided that we couldn't go on having a beautiful bay window in the the front play/sitting room without displaying an awesome christmas tree in it~!! So one day, I decided to go buy us a tree, brought it home, and got out all the fun ornaments I bought with Aunt Sharon in Houston! Ryan was working late at the hospital that night. When he called at 11:30 on his way home, I had just finished the tree. I hadn't told him about the tree because I wanted it to be a surprise. Well, right after he said he'd be home soon, he ended saying, "Honey, I've decided we need to get a Christmas tree!" I just said, "Okay, we'll see." That made it that much more fun to see Ryan's reaction when he pulled in to the driveway and saw our sparkling new tree in the window!! I love surprises!!
SO here are some pics of our very first Christmas tree the ni!!
P.S. The star was MIA in these pics. I hadn't found one yet, at the time!

NOvember.....

I wish I had pics of THanksgiving day, but my camera battery died, and we didn't bring the charger! But, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We went to Houston, where we visited Ryan's aunt and uncle!! They are some of most enjoyable people to be around, and it seemed like every night my stomach was sore from all the laughing we did!! We love them so much! We're so glad they are so close by, and look forward to many fun times ahead~!
Here are a couple of that weekend, when Ryan and Uncle Gordon took Carly to a petting zoo.

Halloween!!

Carly was a fairy this year for Halloween-And a darn cute fairy, if I do say so myself!! I had a mini 3min. photo session in the backyard before we went trick-or-treating, and then we headed out on the town!

Carly was about to take this witch DOWN!

Rose/Conder Wedding!

In September, Carly and I flew out to Utah, to go to a wedding! The Rose family is basically my 2nd family, and their daughter Ashlee, was getting married in the SLC temple. It was so neat to see my girlie get married! She was such a beautiful bride and her new hubby is the sweetest. Later that day, after being married at the temple, the had a ring ceremony before the reception that they had me sing for. The whole day was amazing, and Ashlee and her Mom did an amazing job putting the wedding together. It definitely was one of the most gorgeous receptions I've ever been to!
It was so much fun to see old friends, and of course to spend time with the in-laws, and my sister, Karen, and brother, Devan(who are out there for school). It was an added bonus to be able to spend my birthday there as well!!Here are some pics from the wedding day~!

The new married couple! Shay & Ashlee Conder!


The Rose Family!~


All of us grew up in the same ward in Louisville, KY! It was so fun to see everyone!











Isn't she the cutest little bride you ever saw? I love this girl so much!

Goodbye to Residency!....

~June 2008~
After 3 yrs. at Stanford, Ryan completed his Internal Medicine Residency! We actually took this picture on our way out to Texas!

Breaking Dawn!

~August 2008~
So this summer, I became a HUGE Twilight fan(who isn't?), and so a few of us girls went out to dinner, and then to the midnight "party/release" and Barnes and Noble. We felt pretty lame because we were seriously the only ones there above the age of 16!!! We had a pretty good laugh about it though! Luckily we didn't have such a miserable wait because my friend Jana, got the book at the library that day! SO we were reading it out loud in my car, while we waited for Midnight to roll around!

I miss my MP Girls!

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to give my dear friends from Menlo Park my deepest thanks! These ladies not only have been wonderful friends to me, but were such a huge help while I was sick. They all lined up and took Carly everyday after I got out of the hospital, right up to the time we left Cali. I could not ask for better friends or support!! You girls have a special place in my heart!! Thank you for everything, and I plan to hear from all of you, often!! Miss you tons!...Really-I do.

We bought a house!

These pics are with the owners stuff still inside so we haven't moved in yet, but yes, we bought a house! In just about 6 weeks we will be leaving our beloved California and moving on to Dallas Texas where Ryan will be doing his Cardiology training/fellowship. We basically bought this house online(through our realtor of course,) but I was able to go down last week and make sure we didn't want to back out during our option period!! It turned out great, and we have lots to do with it, but it will be a great home for the next three years. There are three bedrooms upstairs/two bath-including the master, and downstairs is a full guest room/bath as well-So you all better come visit us-there's plenty of room!! We're ready for you any time! We feel blessed to be able to have a home, and are so excited!

Some video(again not a temporary post! SOrry, I'll get to redoing this later!

This is terrible video, I was super sick and nauseous, and I didn't even make through the rest of the house!! But this is a quick peak for the fam, and I'll take it down soon!

Liz comes to visit!

So a few weeks ago one of my bestest friends came to visit!! She is a morning news anchor in Augusta Georgia, and I have not seen her since my wedding!!(yeah, it's been a long time!) Anyways, it was so fun for her to finally meet Carly-she just LOVED Liz! It was so fun to have some girl time out on the town with my best pal of 10 years!!
Lizzy, I'm so proud of you and the things you've accomplished!! You're awesome!!! Miss you too!

Happy Easter........

Okay, it's official-I've won the award for worst Blogger of the year! To any of you left that are still occasionaly checking our blog in the wild hopes that something new will actually be posted....thanks for hanging in there!! I would go on with excuses but it's not important right now, and I know you'd much rather see pictures than words!! So enjoy the following 3-4 postings below this and maybe later I'll get to what's been going on in our lives! For now, I'm just proud of myself for getting a few separate very much belated posts and pics up!! Thanks for bearing with us!
Here are some of the goodies that the Easter Bunny left behind! We're hoping the Easter Bunny will upgrade our falling apart baskets next year.
Carly was excited to get her Backyardigans coloring book, and a her little pink duck(which surpisingly lights up!! Ooooooh, awwwww!). Carly loves ducks right now and her impression of their sound is quite hilarious!

Our first Easter egg hunt!!!

We had a great time the day before Easter! We went to a farewell party for some friends of ours, the Mosinski's(we sure are going to miss you Jen!), and there was an Easter egg hunt for all of the kids. We didn't know if Carly would understand it all, but she caught on fast! As soon as she got on the grass, she was cruisin' to any and every egg she saw!! We had to put a lot of eggs back on the ground because she got a little carried away(luckily she didn't see us), but she had a great time, and was sooooo cute!! We love our little bunny!!!






Carly thought she'd get some opinions on her findings....





A triumphant hunt!!!

I love my baby...../little girl!

Doesn't she look so grown up?!

Gal Pals

Here's Carly and her dear friend Vivi. As you can see, they're very close!! Hehe-It's so fun to see them together. Carly just loves Vivi, and she acts so old around her-giving her hugs and patting her head like Vivian's a little child and Carly is so grown up!! It's pretty funny. We love having Vivian and her mommy Natalee around!! Many days we don't know what we'd do without them!! Thanks for being so great Natalee!
I'm going to miss so many of you mommy's when we leave here in June!

And we're back!!!.......Again....

So I realize that it's been a month since I last posted-horrible I know. Although this is going to sound a bit familiar from my last excuse a month ago, I swear it's the truth!!.....Well, about two weeks after I got better from the flu/cold, I started coming down with the same symptons-AGAIN! Within days, I was about as miserable as I could be. Within days of that, Carly started coughing pretty badly as well-yeah great! She started to get so bad, that at times, she was having a hard time getting air! It was getting pretty scary, and she'd had a 102 fever for days so I finally took her in to be seen. Sure enough my daughter had the CRUPE!!! It was so horrible, and she was so miserable. I felt so bad for my baby. It definitely distracted me from how miserable I felt! They gave her an overdose of steroids, and before I knew it, I had a sick raving lunatic running around the house(besides me)! Carly was still horribly sick, but she was so emotionally unstable(like her mother), agressive, and out of control!! OF course Ryan was on-call that day, and wouldn't be home from the hospital till the next afternoon(lucky me!). All I could do was pray that this chaos would pay off. The doctore told me that this behavior was "normal" with steroid treatment, and that it's common for even kids to get "roids rage!" Sweet-....Within three days, she finally was going off the steroids-I thought the worst was over......but apparently not! I don't know what was wrong but she was going through withdrawels or something! I have never wanted my baby back more than I did that week!! It was so nice when things started to finally calm down within a week or so. She and I were still sick, but we were both able to get more rest. So there you have it. It has been a crazy past month, and I feel I am entitled to at least one more month before getting sick again!! Is that too much to ask?? Let's hope not!!
I took this picture last week. I was playing dress up with Carly and trying on her new Easter dress(from the one and only Target!). Oh, and the black leggings are not part of the ensemble! I was just too lazy to take them off! Try to ignore the tornado that came through the room! Her laundry was literally everywhere!!

Not a fan of the vacuum

These were taken last week. Carly is deathly afraid of the vacuum, and what had happened here is Ryan had started it in the family and Carly booked it over to her little corner, grabbed all of her animals and blankets, and did not move a muscle until the vacuuming was over! It was pretty funny. She does this whenever the vacuum starts! The rest of the pics are just her in pure relief that the vacuuming is over!! Yea!!

Some cute pics of my baby before church!

These are over a month old, but hey, at least I'm getting them up, right?! heehe

just 4 fun

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We're alive!!!!!

I am back and am no longer MIA from the blogging world-I do, might I add, have good reasons for my absense!! We went to Indianapolis for Christmas where my family now lives. We had a great time having all of us kids together under one roof! We got home on the 4th, and soon after Carly and I caught some nasty cold/flu and after a week of that I got a stomach flu on top of it all. I have been sick as a dog, but while I am "recooperating" I decided to let the world know that we're still alive!
So, for all of you who have been hasling me for the lack of posts, just remember you asked for it! There are TONS of pics, so scroll away!!

Oh, and BTW, we didn't get a Christmas card out this year, so don't worry, we didn't forget you!

Us crazy Moyes kids.......

We get a little carried away when we're together.....yup, we're not so normal, but we do have fun!!!

SOooooo pretty!


I love my sisters Annie and Karen!


The Moyes girls!


4 of the 5 Moyes kiddies!


Kate and Annie-


.....a not so photogenic moment


Carly loves Uncle Devan!




Playing some tunes with Auntie Karen and Uncle Nick!


Mom and Dad hard at work in the kitchen!!


The end of Christmas Eve dinner!!

FUn with Uncle Nick...

Our Christmas Angel.......

Here are some pics of Carly in her Christmas dress in front of the "family" christmas tree, and her favorite-the piano!

Playin' some tunes...

Carly loves to play the piano. Whenever someone is playing, she wants to get on their lap and play along. She's now Mommy's little duet buddy!

Feed the baby!!

Aunti Annie found her way to Carly's heart......food!!! Carly loves her snack time!!! Annie had surgery on her knee during the break, and Carly loved to keep her company!!!

Story time with Uncle Devan

It was so fun to spend time with my brother Devan who just got home from his 2 yr. mission in the Tallahassee FL mission. It's so great to have him back!! He and Carly became good buddies!!



Looks like someone's had enough time on the slide!!