Spring Break 2012

For spring break we went on a little trip to Arizona. I hadn't been back in almost two years. Tiffanie, Josh, and Jaxon were there visiting as well. We showed up Friday night and stayed with them on the base where Josh was working. Saturday we went to see the Padres play in the spring training games. It was a super hot day. We survived by getting a huge shaved icee to share. Ryan got a ball signed. He was pretty excited since the last two seasons hes played baseball he has been a Padre. I am pretty horrible at taking pictures so this is the only one i got of us at the game..

Sunday we said good bye to Josh, Tifff and Jax. They headed off back to Utah and we headed to the Mesa temple.

The kids loved running all around. We enjoyed some new things they had in the visitors center.

Ryan Took this picture, he did a pretty good job :)

Monday night we went to FHE with our good friends, The Heywood's. Our kids haven't seen each other for a couple years so they didn't remember each other but it didn't take them long to become good friends again.

Ryan and Zach

Their family was doing an Easter egg hunt at a park, the kids couldn't resist the candy and ate most of it that night.

Lacy and Anna

We stayed with our good friends the Meyers. They were nice enough to put up with us for a few days. It was nice to hang out and relax with them. Between the two of us we have 6 kids so it wasn't quiet, but a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed playing in the cold pool while we chatted.

Lacy, Avery and Charlotte became good friends.

We even got a babysitter and went out to dinner with Kristin and Darcy. It was so much fun staying with them. The best kind of friends are the ones that you can not see for two years and come back and it be the same as when you left. People like them make me sad that we moved. But i guess all the more reason to visit.

On our last day we went to see my friend Shaun and her cute little family. She fixed us an awesome dinner and we just got to sit around and visit. I also got to cuddle with her cute new baby. Oh he was just the cutest.

Lacy and Abby

Me and Shaun

Our Trip also included eating at the many places we don't have here in Cali. Namely Paradise bakery. I have been craving it since being pregnant and it did not disappoint. We also had to go to Nielson. Oh the joys. Cant wait to go visit again.

Baby #3

 Just realized as i was going back to catch up on my blog that i never posted anything about the most exciting thing going on in my life.. ha ha

Baby #3

Due June 23, 2012

"There is a bun in the oven"

Maybe cause its baby no 3, i didn't feel like taking tummy pictures till there was a tummy to show. So here is the first one, i am 5 months. 

 ....and 6 months

 More to come later.

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Ryan's first kinder performance

'The Love Bug Show'

 You always wonder how your kids will do at these type of things. Ryan did nothing i expected, mostly cause he did nothing at all. Literally stood there yawning and looking bored. I sat there thinking okay something is totally wrong with him. But Brent assured me that he did the same kinds of things when he was a kid and so i guess that's just the way it is. Ryan is not the singing type..

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Valentines Day 12'

I love the day of Love

and so did the kids! Its amazing what small toys and candy can do to small children,

And then there was Brent... I got him a huge card just like he got me about 5 years ago for Valentines Day. I still have mine, lets see if he keeps his. Inside i wrote 9 reasons why i love him since this was our 9th V. Day together. It was pretty cute, i must say so!

He got me just what i wanted. A really nice body pillow! Very practical but i really needed it so it all worked out.

Trip to UTAH~ Dec 2011 ~

So for My Christmas present this year i told Brent that i wanted us to go to Logan Utah and stay with my sister. After much debate he agreed. ( I'm pretty sure he just figured it was a heck of a lot easier than shopping for me..) We haven't traveled at Christmas time since Ryan was a baby, it has a gotten a little harder since having older kids. It took some swift maneuvers to get all the presents transferred with out notice from small eyes. It was worth the long drive. We had a blast and were sad to leave. I wish all my family lived closer :( Here are the highlights of our trip.

To break up our 13 hour car trip a bit we decided to stay with our good friends in Cedar City where Brent and i went to school about 8 years ago. It was a great visit. Our kids got to play together and we even got a babysitter and went to a movie. Oh and while i did hair the husbands and kids got to go quad riding. A must in Utah. Haha

 Dave, Shelley, Me and Brent

After our visit in Cedar we met my sister and her hubby and kid at the Salt Lake city temple to view its beautiful lights. I could not believe how cold it was. My face actually hurt it was so cold. After the temple we met Brent's oldest sister for hot coco and cookies. Just perfect for that cold weather. It was nice to visit with her. We hadn't seen her in a long time.

We then drove up to Logan and settled in there. Here is some of our fun adventures while in Logan..

Christmas Eve

 Josh's cousins invited us all to go horse back riding. I haven't been since our honeymoon.And the kids have never been. I was a tons of fun. Although i think we all were a little sore for the next few days

Christmas Eve Night

We did our family tradition of opening one present and its ALWAYS pj's.

I love this tradition and so do the kids.

 Putting out the reindeer food

Good Night Everyone..

 Christmas Morning

 Ryan got a RC truck just like Dads

 Lacy got barbies and a play tent

 Their own camera's so they stop using mine :)

 And finally a wii. I think we are the last people on the planet to get one.. lol

 Church on Christmas Morning

 Skyping with our missionary brother

 And of course playing in the snow

 We actually had to drive to get to the snow. In the week that we were in Utah it snowed two times and just enough to put a little powder on the ground. Luckily we only drove about 20 min. The snow was so soft. We couldn't even make a snowball but perfect to eat. Yum yum!

 And of course we had to eat some yummy Ice cream at Charlies

And that was our trip to Utah fun and memorable. 

Ryan gets older

 Ryan turned 6 on December 1st. Its crazy how time fly's and how your kids are just all of a sudden older. Ryan has been wanting a friend party forever, so we decided this was the year and STAR WARS was the fun theme. He had his friends from church come over and there was a lot of them. 10 six years olds made quite a house full. We played some fun games..

 capture the death star

Jedi training obstacle course

and best of all fighting off Darth Vader!

We then had Ryan's favorite food of all time.. Pizza

Ryan had a blast opening presents and he got so many neat things, thanks friends :)

Then best of all.. THE CAKE

My friend made this cake for Ryan. It turned out so so good. All the kids loved it.

R2D2

The party was a great success. Ryan will hopefully remember this cause its not happening again for a long time!!