I did not just turn 30!!!!!

So my hubby totally gets the award for best 30th bday!! He woke me up at 7 am sharp with kisses from kids and gifts. I got gift cards for a little shopping spree and lotion from my favorite bath store from the kids.

Then he said, Lets go! We love to play tennis together so we went over and played tennis. I LOST! Couldn't he let me win on my day for cryin out loud. He said it was because I was 30.

We stopped and got a Jamba and some Great Harvest for breakfast.

Then he said, "remember when you dressed up like Cinderella for Halloween? I need you to look like that at 5:00 tonight. Ethan (his bro) will be here to take the children." I was thinking "what in the world?" Now what. I totally thought we were going to a midevil restaraunt or something and that he was trying to get me back for making him go all over town on a treasure hunt for our anniversary, but no....


...he planned a surprise party with some of my friends. Apparently I was belle of the ball and he wanted to be king. It was so fun. I was totally surprised.

My cute little ones had to dress the part too. We had quite the royal family that day.

Her he is cooking up the meat. You should have seen that grill loaded with all that meat. I didn't know our grill could hold that much meat.

Here we are with some of the crew. Thanks honey for a great 30th!!

Last Game of the Year!!

Well my little/big girl Ambra loves playing soccer. I put her in dance with high hopes and it totally flopped. Apparently she is a sporty chick. That is fine by me (I guess) :) She really enjoys soccer and is good at it. We play it together as a family at home for several of our Monday Night family activities and she can't get enough. Here she is on her last game of the year.

Isn't she beautiful??

Ambra and her Coach - and her trophy. So cool.

St. George Trip

Our family vacation this year was in St. George. We had a blast! We spent our first day at Sand Hollow. This place is so stinkin fun. It is sort of like Powell. It's like the red rocks you love to take your kids hiking on - topped with water. You can swim out to the middle of the lake, and suddenly have a rock underneath you that you can climb up on and jump off into the water. We had a blast here.

We went hiking several times. Some over to Red Cliffs (totally awesome) and some to Snow Canyon (even better). The kids thought they were pretty special being able to climb those big old rocks, finding "the cave of wonders" in several different spots, and chasing lizards.

St. George has the neatest little water park in the middle of town. It has a little river the kids can run through and of course rocks to climb on and fountains to run through. We bought boats and the kids had races down the river.

Happy Bday daddy!!! We celebrated Adam's bday in St. George with his mommy. She did a great job at making it special for him.

Happy Anniversary!!!

We were married May 12, 2000. Nine years ago! On this day, I surprised Adam with a treasure hunt around the city. Each clue listed some traits that I love about him and corresponded with a certain place that he loves. It was a bit embarrassing for him to go into places like Home Depot, and Betos and Cold Stone and say "Hi, I'm Adam - do you have a clue for me?" We all need a good dose of embarrassment once in awhile don't we? I led him to nine stops (one for each year) and at each one he got another clue and a little gift. It was fun. I think he secretly enjoyed it, but would never admit it :)








We had a great night planned. Dinner and theatre and an overnighter just us two at Wolf Creek in Eden. ...... That got ruined with sick kiddos. We still got a little date but instead of an overnighter, we were...

adminstering this to EVERY child.

and setting these up in every room.

We didn't even get any sleep because of the constant cough cough coughing ALL NIGHT LONG!!! Oh well, romance is overrated anyway-----right?

Instead we went to dinner and a movie and went to a park and played tennis. I totally spanked him 7 games to 2. Yah baby!