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!

Happy Mother's Day --- Finally!

I love my children so much. I always knew being a mother would be wonderful and rewarding, but I never realized how much so. They are so darling and precious and sweet and I can't get over how much a mother can truly love her children. Ariah with her curls and busy little sweet self, Cole with his generous, spiritual and caring personality, and Ambra with her in charge, I can do it all - bring it on attitude. They are my babies and I am the luckiest mother in the world.

Adam was soooo cute in preparing for Mother's Day. We were blessed to have my mother and his with us and he was in charge of the whole day. I was awoken by 3 sweet children jumping on my bed and begging me to read thier card first. Adam fixed my MP3 player that I have never been able to listen to, and got me a cookbook. He had a gourmet breakfast waiting, table set, and all (he did all this before we even awoke.)

I had a scavenger hunt to go on - Cole made the cutest little clues. They were just letters on paper - hidden all over the house. He would say (it's under the bed) when I found that one (the next one is on your pillow) etc. Cute.

It doesn't get better than this.

I love mother's day because it is the begining of nice weather. We get to plant these.

Read books in this.

Anxiously await spoils from these.

Gather fruit from these.

Watch the kids spin on this.

Have BBQ's on the patio shaded by these.

and find that a bird laid her eggs in your door decoration. Love it!

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mothers out there that inspire me to be a better, more patient and loving mother. Happy Mother's Day to my mom who is a wonderful person who loves me dearly, and to Adam's mother that raised the most wonderful man on the planet.

Preschool Graduation!!!

Ok, so I know it has been a month. I have been teaching myself how to play the piano so it has taken all of my blogging time. You need to understand that this is coming from someone who didn't even know what the lines that held all of those funny little circles that were colored black was called. I am learning so much and it has been so fun. I am doing a teach yourself keyboard course and they are just starting to want me to play with TWO HANDS - AT THE SAME TIME. I never knew you had to be so talented to play the piano. It is totally wild. Holy cow. Learning to read all over again.

Anyway, this is not what I am blogging about - it is just my excuse and will be for some time I'm sure. It is sad when you have to download 119 pictures since the last time you downloaded. Prepare for postings.




My handsome little Colie graduated from preschool. (He actually still has another year. He misses the cutoff by 3 DAYS!!! All of his little friends are going to kindergarten and he is not. Very heartbreaking for mom. Not so much for him. He really doesn't have a clue.) We had such a great group for preschool this year. I loved it. I do a joy school with my kids and it has been so wonderful.

Arent' they cute in thier daddy's church shirts. Coles shirt is short sleeved but looks long sleeved because his daddy is so tall.

I was the lucky one to MC and present diplomas. Lucky me!

Each of the children brought thier favorite snack to share. Cole's was gold fish (that day).

The dinner spread.

Congrats Colie. You have come so far this year. I am so proud of you. You came from being so shy and clinging to mommy's leg to being confident and excited. You came from barely holding your pencil, to writing very well, knowing all your letters, numbers, sounds and writing them all. You are so smart and such a special little boy. I love you so much.

Easter Sunday!!!

My mom made these cute little dresses for the girls. They have little pantaloons and all. Thanks mom for spending so much time and effort and money on these Easter dresses. You are so talented. Happy Easter everyone.

Bunny Day!

Oh darn, I forgot these go on backwards. Ok, here is backwards bunny day for us.

The Easter bunny comes on Saturday for our kiddos so that we can focus on the Resserection Sunday. We had so much fun on our bunny day. Here we are at the Brown's house. They were so nice to invite us over for a little Easter egg hunt. The had awesome eggs packed full of cool stuff. Way cooler than the stuff I packed.

All the kiddos with thier finds.

Isn't she darling.

Ok, so when we got married I made sure that Adam knew that the Easter Bunny visits me every year (along with Santa). I cannot give up stuff like that just because I'm over 10. Here is Adam's Easter Bunny loot (how did EB know he loves homeade bread?)

Sweet the EB remembered me again. I sure love that bunny! - and yes I got Cadbury mini eggs (purple bag) and girl scout cookies (samoas) in my basket. I can't get enough of those things.

Cute little Colie and his present.

Holly Hobbie. Ambra thought this was pretty fun.

And of course my little Ariah. She got a "rella bawbie" (cinderella barbie). She loves it. The bunny hides the baskets along with the eggs. They had fun finding those.

Egg hunt baby!!! That crazy bunny hid 122 eggs. It was awesome. We had glow in the dark eggs, eggs stuck to walls, hanging from pictures, in every room. That bunny is nuts.

We also hit a egg hunt at Albertsons. MY kids have wayyyyy to much candy. No kidding like gallons and gallons. Must get rid of - before I gain gallons and gallons.

Spring Break

Our spring break wast the week before Easter. We filled it with fun Easter activities and friends. We made these cute little nests to put on the plates for our Easter morning breakfast.

Coloring Easter eggs. I love that I have kids so that I can have an excuse to do stuff like this. I love it. Of course I make Easter (or any holiday) last like a week with all the fun stuff you can do.