Holy crap! I have a 3 & 5 yr old!

(I love how their invites turned out...I used the same girl as last year and she always puts my thoughts together perfectly.:)
June was filled with lots of birthday celebrations! Well Noah's birthday is on the 4th..which fell on a Saturday. Adam had to work, so we had an easy day and he helped me make cupcakes. We let the kids decide something they want to do, and Noah chose the zoo. So when Adam got home, we went to the zoo in Idaho Falls and then to TGIFridays for dinner. We had lots of fun and I can't believe my baby is 3. He is so much fun and such a joy to our family. He is my easy going kid, with a temper at times! he is such a love bug and will cuddle with me any time of the day if I ask him to. :) Love this kid.



This was the same weekend as Beer fest apparently...and it took forever to get our food. Noah even fell asleep. We did however get our entire meal for free plus a dessert. :)

we still let Noah come home and have one of his cupcakes. :)


Mady's birthday is on the 20th. Her birthday was on a Monday...and of course Adam had to work. lol. So we went to the park with my steps sister and niece and nephew, then out to ice cream. Mady decided she wanted to go bowling. So we did a little get together at Fat Cats and bowled and had pizza. She had tons of fun and got lots of barbie stuff she wanted. :) She is definitely my girlie girl. It's so crazy to think that 5 years ago I had her. time has gone too fast. I tell her all the time I want her to stay little and she tells me she can't because she want's to be big like me. :) she is HUGE mommy's girl and my drama queen. That certainly hasn't changed. ha ha. She will start a pre-K program this fall and that is just crazy. She is such a sweetheart and we feel so blessed to have her in our family.

Aunt Brigitte put pink and purple extensions in Mady's hair, which she loved. :)




Mady lovin up her barbie stuff. :)

We did their big party on Saturday the 25th. It was nice that Adam had Friday off too and that jamie came over to help. I literally worked on their cakes from 9 a.m. to midnight or so. We did take a break during the day to go have pizza, and we stuffed bags for the kids, cleaned the house...and in between i baked, frosted, froze and repeated on like a million layers. I think I used 4 boxes for mady's and 2 for Noahs. I have a neighbor who does amazing things with cakes...I don't know how she does it. It requires way too much patience! Saturday turned out good. Mady was so tired and kind of crabby. She fell asleep right before everyone showed up so I had to wake her up. She had FITS about the wind blowing her balloons and presents away...what would a birthday for Mady be like without the drama? lol. I will just sum it up with pictures.
The awaited cakes! lol. Noah's was a double layer chocolate with peanut butter cream filling. It was way yummy.

Mady's was red velvet with cream cheese filling....and LOTS of decorating. I had to re-arrange my fridge to put them both in over night...then we put a child lock on it so it wouldn't ruin the surprise. Mady was so excited and Noah just thought i was the most awesome mommy ever! :) At least I only do it once a year, but 2 in one day is a lot of work! glad that part's over for now!

We got the yard all decorated.

We had an awesome lunch of BBQ chicken and lots of sides thanks to everyone who brought stuff! and then the kids did the piniata's. Mady's was a princess crown and Noah chose a basketball.


we opened presents...my kids were SOOO spoiled!...we battled a little more drama over the wind and mady having fits about putting all the tissue paper in the garbage before she would open the bags....sheesh! But they got tons of presents and were super excited to get their bikes at the end. Mady got a barbie bike and Noah got a Cars bike. They even got helmets and bells that match their bikes and have loved them this summer!


and this is what I get when I leave my husband in charge of the camera...and then you put Dal and Jamie in front of it...:)

We sang happy birthday, the kids blew out the candles...which I missed on camera AND video camera...sad. :( 1st year that's happened.

then we demolished all of my hard work! ha ha. but it was a great day. we have amazing family and friends and it was so nice to celebrate that day with everyone!

A very neglected blog....Easter? YES!

What a neglected blog I have….sheesh! I’ve never been this bad! Is anyone even reading this anymore???? Ha ha. I’ve even been behind reading everyone else’s…but it’s been fun to catch up! Hopefully someone will care about mine too! lol. If not...I use this for journal purposes so I'm going to do some little posts to catch up. Although I'm pretty mad at myself for getting so behind! to start where I left off....after we got home from vacation in the spring...Mady had her dance recital. She did absolutely amazing and we just love her dance teacher! she is great with the little girls.
They did their 1st dance in their cute little T-shirts!

Mady and her teacher Michelle!



It was awesome to have so much family come watch her!
This was also Easter weekend....so it was a busy weekend!!! Saturday morning we woke up and went to the Easter egg hung in St. Anthony! There was tons of eggs and the kids loved it!!
All ready to go!

Mady was so distracted by all the kids running around she was going so slow! lol. the parents of some of these little kids are super competitive!
We went to McDonalds for lunch and then to Mady's dance recital that night. After the dance recital we went to my step sister Brigitte's for dinner and to color Easter eggs. We had lots of fun and had some seriously tired kids by the end of the night!
Coloring easter eggs!


Some cute bunnies!

The next morning the kids were super excited to see that the Easter bunny came! It's so fun this year because the "get it"...and I love it.

We went to church and then had my family over for Easter dinner and an Easter egg hung in our yard. It was actually a beautiful day. Brigitte and I had stuffed a TON of eggs. Our kids ended the day with more candy then they needed for sure.

The kids were ready to run!

Collecting their prizes!



Then we had an amazing dinner and all crashed around on the couches! ha ha. It was a fun and busy weekend!
Other then that...I will up date a little on how we are all doing now! Mady is doing great! both she and Noah did gymanstics this summer...and they've loved it! She also did swim lessons over at the new pool here in town. She literally cried every day when we had to leave. Every day after swim lessons we ate lunch at the park with brigitte and the kids. Mady has loved it. We also have gone to lots of movies and played at the spray park a bit! It's been busy! mady will start pre-school and dance here in a couple weeks! I can't believe how fast it has gone!
Noah also loved gymnastics. no swim lessons for him. I figured he wouldn't do well and I'm glad I didn't sign him up. He is such a boob butt at the new pool. He just wants to sit in a chair on the side! lol. He is going to do pre-school this fall also! I think he will love it. and on Monday-Wednesday-Friday I will not have ANY kids for like 2 1/2 hrs...what ever will I do with myself??? ha ha. :)
I'm doing good. working more then I should probably...but at least I'm getting hours. That is a change from Madison. I've only worked like 2 shifts at madison since May. I'm liking Mtn. View more...it's just taken time. I do still hate the driving though....Adam is doing good. Working lots also...we're just trying to fit some playing in between all this work! :) anyhow...I'm going to try to post again tomorrow the kids birthday stuff...it was LOTS of work for sure! but so worth it. :)Anyhow...hope everyone else had an awesome Easter...if you can remember that far back...cuz that's how long it's been since I blogged! AAAAH!

Park City, Utah

So we haven't been to Park City for almost 2 years! Crazy cuz we usually go every year. We've missed it for sure! Plus, I can't believe how good of a deal we get on clothes for the kids. Especially for a certain little girl named Mady whose went from a size 3T-4T last summer to a size 5 in girls this year! sooo nuts. so basically she had nothing. We had a lot of fun, spent a lot of quality time with each other and just relaxed. I think we stayed in the nicest condo yet. Every night me and Adam just watched a movie by the fire...it really was nice to get away. We've been so busy and just haven't made this time for each other. Here's some pics of the condo:




The first day we got there, which was Saturday, we met our friends Chant & Kara and had dinner at the condo. It is SO nice to have them closer. We've been friends since before we all had kids... I can't believe how much has happened over the lenght of our friendship! They're amazing and we're lucky to have them!

Ainsley and Mady..they're only 2 months apart. crazy huh? (hence Mady's clothes not fitting!)

Sunday we were lazy... we took the kids to dinner and a movie and enjoyed the hot tub. Monday we decided to do some shopping and then go to Salt Lake and see Chant's chiropractic office that he will be opening any day now. It will be amazing! can't wait to see it all done! Then we took the kids to Temple Square in the rain! ha ha. but the kids enjoyed it with their umbrellas. It was lots of fun and a great learning experience for our kiddos.




Tuesday we did most of our shopping, enjoyed the hot tub and just relaxed.
Just some pics of us hanging out....




Wednesday we headed home. On the way home we stopped in Ogden and took the kids to the Dinosaur Park. It was ok...I think it's better for older kids, but our kids enjoyed the playground! lol. Good thing someone gave us free tickets as we walked in!

It was so funny: when Noah saw this slide he went RUNNING for it. he climbed the stairs, went down and caught air off the last bump! he hit the slide and then the ground with a huge thump! as we caught up to him he almost cried, but he just looked at Adam and yelled, "DAD! you were suppose to catch me!" Well duh, why didn't we know that? ha ha! how trusting little kids are. Like we were suppose to poof out of thin air at the bottom! ha ha. dang little boy! :)





Anyhow...it was great to get away. I think we've definitely had a busy/rough year and it was well deserved! ha ha. Anyhow...I was going to add Mady's recital and Easter to this post, but it's gotten long so I will make it a separate one. maybe tomorrow! We had lots of fun in Park City and already can't wait to go again. The kids still talk about our "Park City house" ha ha!