Busy times Busy weekends.

I interrupt my "catch up" posting to blog about the current events in our lives. Our weekends this month have been jam packed and last weekend was no exception. I had a chance to go to Time Out for Women with some friends so  I left my family behind for an overnight trip to Orlando to see David Archuleta and hear some inspirational speakers.

I came back into town for a half and hour to get ready and head back to Orlando with Doug to chaperone the Mormon Prom. Since Doug is the Bishop now we get to do fun things like this. 

Tuesday was my birthday. I turned 41. Yippee I love growing old.  To celebrate I took Thomas to the zoo for the first time. He was mesmerized by all the animals. His face looked like this for most of the time. I think I expected more of a reaction from him. His favorite seemed to be all the birds we saw.

I did a little fabric shopping at my favorite huge quilt shop and had Chickfila for lunch. That night Doug brought me home Mexican food from Tijuana Flats and we had key lime pie for dessert. I got a new drill, sunglasses, replacement drawers and shelves for the fridge, and a food dehydrator which I'm really excited to use a lot this week.

A couple weeks ago I dropped my phone in the toilet, it fell out of my pocket while bathing Thomas...who had just woken up from a nap smothered in poop with his diaper off. It was not a fun day. It's a long story but after a couple of trips to the Orlando Apple store I came home with a brand new replacement phone for just $100. I'm loving all the empty space on my phone and my kids are filling up my storage with photos.

 'I love these faces.

This weekend Max and Doug went camping and the rest of us stayed home and had a girl party with some friends and watched the new Cinderella. Saturday Jack and Luke had the chance to run in the Final Mile run for their jog squad. They were supposed to have run 25.2 miles and then finish off their "marathon" at this event. Theya had a lot of fun.

Thomas is so fun he loves to play the piano and Mer doesn't like it when he begs to play along with her because she has to watch that he doesn't fall off. In this pictures we put him in his highchair, but she still didn't want him to interrupt her session. 

Oh and Jack brought home this referral from school.  

It was his april fools joke on us.  He couldn't hand it to us with a straight face.

Bye for now.

February- Luke's Birthday Baptism Weekend

A couple of weeks after we flew to Colorado, Luke celebrated his 8th birthday and was baptized. We had some special visitors come to help us celebrate. Ya Ya and Pa flew in on Thursday evening and got to watch Mer's Lacrosse game. This was the second time they came to visit in February, they flew out the week before we went to Colorado to be there when Doug was ordained as the new bishop of our ward.

Saturday was Luke's Birthday and he woke up to a pile of presents and Birthday Crepes.

Luke spent most of his day playing but in the middle of the day we stopped over to the mall to visit Max who was being judged at the District Science fair.

After Max came home we zoomed over to see a movie, Kung Fu Panda 3. And brought home Pizza for dinner.

After Dinner Doug, Max, and Pa headed out to Max's Science Fair award Ceremony where he won First Place in his category.

For Dessert Luke wanted a layer cake.  He drew me a picture and I did my best to make something like it.

Okay it wasn't exactly like the picture but he was happy with it and we had fun making it.

On Sunday Luke was baptized.

Pa and I gave the talks. We were surrounded by a ton of great friends that are like family to us. We are so glad YaYa and Pa were able to come for it.

Sunday evening we went for a walk and enjoy the beautiful February weather.

Happy Birthday to a smarty, funny, happy, adventurous Luke. We love him and are so glad he is a part of our family.

February - Quick Colorado Trip

In the end of a January I found a smoking hot deal on airline tickets to fly to Colorado for $85 round trip. So Jack, Luke, Thomas, and I hopped on a plane and flew out to see some snow and hug Grandma, Grandpa and Rachel.

Human Burrito

I don't think the boys expected it to be quite as cold as it was.

Or how much time it takes to put on all your gear just to be able to go outside.

We were lucky they had a great snowfall just a couple of days before we got there,

Even though Tommy didn't get to play outside as much as the other boys he had a ton of fun playing with all of Grandma's toys and showing off how could take a few steps all by himself.

Rachel gave them a tour of the best spots in the yard to make snow angels.

Luke was brave and stuck his face in the snow.


That afternoon we met our cousins  at the par to go sledding. The boys were hooked. They sledded everyday we were there,

 Cousin James is only a little younger than Thomas. They were in twin snowsuits.

Grandma gave the boys an art lesson and let them play with oil pastels and mineral spirits. This was Jack's.

The next day I got to take them sledding while Thomas took a nap. We had so much fun snowball fighting.

Ben and Elizabeth came to join us as well. Though I don't have a great picture of them. I got some great movies of the sled runs though.

See the scratch on Jack's face? He got it during this wipeout,



The next Day we had a birthday party for Elizabeth. The boys didn't get the memo that it was supposed to be a dress up party so they rummaged through the dressup box for these silly outfits.

She had  Balloons all over the floor to play with, so fun!

Baby James

Then it was Sunday. We went over to Ben and Brea's house so Elizabeth could show us her room. She's so cute!

It also happened to be SuperBowl Sunday and we were in Bronco country so we HAD to get shirts,

They won!! So of course we had to eat Bronco breakfast with Grandpa. McDonalds gives free breakfast from McDonalds the morning after the Bronco's win in Bronco country in case you didn't know.

Pure Joy

Thomas learned how to point

Rachel told an action packed story

The kids got in some last minutes sledding before we had to fly home.

They built forts on the tennis court all weekend. By Monday a lot of snow had melted.

 Then it was time to say goodbye so we hugged and took pictures.

And said goodbye to our home in the snow.

We had so much fun. here is one last video to prove it!!