I am in LOVE with the 4th of July!!

There is always so much to and it's warm. All the red, white and blue makes me happy!!

I totally want to make this. So cute!!



This is so fun and patriotic!!




Edible Firecrackers

Cute and easy... It's beans.

Might have to make these with the kids. They love Jello!!

I've really been wanting Strawberry Shortcake lately. This is perfect for a party!!

So fun for a party decoration.

Cute setup... I'm loving the white chocolate covered strawberries with blue sprinkles.

Maybe I'm hungry since most of my pictures are FOOD!! I love it all. Now if I had a place to put out my decor there would be more of those pictures.

I'm so so Excited for this weekend. Lots of fun things to do. And what's better then...

Sunshine*Parades*Family*BBQ's*Friends*Junk food*Fireworks

???

That's right, NOTHING!!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and enjoy the time with friends and family.

It's Been a While...

In fact a very long while!!


I wish that I could say we've been on a nice, relaxing, exotic vacation. A Daiquiri in one hand and the sound of waves crashing..... AWWW.... but we haven't!!


In the past 8 months we.....

**WARNING** Be prepared for an overload of pictures!!!

Spent our August evenings at the School playing.

This girl LOVES the swings!!

Our first broken bone!!
The trampoline was taken down as soon as we got home from the hospital.

She didn't hesitate at all when they asked what color cast she wanted. PINK!! She was so proud of that thing!!
Yes, we do have the trampoline set up this year. She's been asking for it since the week after we took it down!!

My Mom, Aunt Mary and I went to Witches Night Out in October at Gardner Village. Fun but WAY too many people!!



We also went for Breakfast with The Witches.

I think we might have to make it a Tradition!

ARGH Matey!! Halloween 2010

This is the first year I've dressed up with the kids. It was a lot of fun!! Now we just need to work on Steve!!

Such a fun night out for the Family. Our BFF's gave us a carriage ride to see the lights at Thanksgiving Point. We were cuddled up enjoying the lights.

**Thanks Cassidys'**

Christmas Eve

Karson really did feel the way he looks... not too good!

Happy New Year!!

I really hope she gets over her obsession with wine glasses!! Also, that she'll start wearing more then just panties!!

The kids had so much fun at the Kids Expo. There were a ton of different activities for them to do. They played in bounce houses, had treats, got their faces painted, Kaydance got her hair done and they got to enjoy it all with their cute cousins!!

In April the kids and I went to Terahzona (Arizona) to visit Shalene and Terah. We had so so much FUN!! We were busy doing stuff everyday.

She's so SASSY!!

At the Phoenix Zoo we fed the Giraffes...

Kaydance, Karson and Terah rode a Camel...

and took a ride on a Big Green Tractor!!!

So Cute!! Dancing at the Yummy Mexican Restaurant.

Phoenix Wet N' Wild.... I LOVE water parks!!!

Karson was totally outnumbered by all of us Girls!!

Thanks Shalene and Terah. We had a FABULOUS time!!

We Moved!! Hopefully our game plan will work out and we'll be back on Adventure Way next year.

Snow in April... UGH!!

Karson's class had a Hoedown. He was right in his element as you can see from the giant grin on his face!! I can't believe my little man is going to be in 1st grade...TEARS!!!

Quality Bonding Time... He is his Dad's boy for sure!! Steve has been super busy with lots of yard work. Poor guy does it all day and then comes home and does more. He's such a hard worker and Karson loves to help him.

We're enjoying the warm summer evenings. It's hard for us to be in bed before 10. It's nice to play outside. Yes, we know it's summer but I think she's making a fashion statement with the boots!! ha ha

Had to post this. She looks like TROUBLE!! She for sure gets into more then Karson ever did but we still LOVE her to pieces!!

I am so in LOVE with these two. Their smiles make me happy!!

The whining and crying doesn't do it for me!!

NOW.... I'm going to attempt to keep this thing updated again. I really enjoy doing it but finding the time is the problem. Working and kids pretty much occupy every waking minute of my day. If I had a couple more hours everyday I feel like I could get so much more done. It's probably not true but I'll keep thinking it.

Still to come... Craft projects and Before & Afters of all of the yard work Steve's been busy doing.

LIFE IS GOOD

Yes, we are still alive!

I have so so much to blog about but no time to do it. Hopefully tomorrow I will get around to it.

Happy Fall!!

Squeezing the last little bit out of SUMMER!

Sadly, summer is coming to an end. I don't want summer to be over but on another note I am super excited for Utes Football season. Yea!!!

The kids, my mom and I went to Cowabunga Bay. We've really wanted to go and I found tickets for half price so we did it. Karson LOVED it! He has asked me several times when we can go again. The slides were just his size. He was tall enough to go down all of them by himself (he didn't though).
Kaydance on the other hand does not like to get water in her face. I took her down one of the slides and she cried the whole time. She must be related to my mom!! My mom doesn't get in the water much when we go swimming. She usually leaves looking the same as when she got there - except for this day. So funny! They have 2 big buckets and a million little buckets (little exaggeration) that dump water periodically. She came over to take a picture of the kids and I going down the slide and she was getting wet so as soon as we got to the bottom she wanted to take the camera back to our chairs. She was doing a swift walk back and BAM she walked right into the big bucket of water. She didn't even know what to do with herself. She was gasping for air like she was drowning. I just laughed! I quickly remembered that she still had my camera that was sopping wet! All I could think was please please please not another camera ruined. That would only be 3 in the last year (Dang it!). I took the camera and ran back to dry it off. Good news.. the camera is fine and she didn't drown!! ;)

Kaydance really liked floating (like this) in the shallow part.

Time to go home.

Just for anyone curious.. Cowabunga Bay was a lot of fun. The slides weren't anything too fast or scary but perfect for Karson. We all enjoyed the Lazy River. It wasn't really that big but it was relaxing. The park is small but I actually liked that better. It made it a lot easier to keep track of Karson. We'll go back again (with discount tickets). A half day would have been perfect for us.

Love, Me

Kindergarten Kid

We have survived the first week of school!

Karson has started Kindergarten. I can't believe I have a child who is in school. WOW! We went to meet his teacher the week before school started. That was interesting! I was totally fine all morning. I hadn't thought anything about it but the very second we walked into the classroom his teacher asked, "Is this Karson?" The tears started! I couldn't even look at her. I just looked down at Karson like he should be the one doing the talking. I don't even know what she said to him. All I could hear was myself saying, "Get a hold of yourself!!" We were there for the regular Kindergarten testing so she had me sit outside the room so she could talk to Karson and I could fill out a stack of papers.

Since I had a hard time at 'meet the teacher' day I thought I would be a mess for the first day of school. There actually wasn't any time to be upset. We got there and he went right into class. Steve thought it was going to be a longer process. He stood at the doorway and watched. Karson wasn't nervous or anything. He just went in and sat down by the other kids like he'd been doing this for months.

First Day of School

After school we went home and had a mini photo shoot. It was fun! We'll have to work more on Karson's hand writing! ;)

And of course Kaydance wanted to do it too!!

He Loves School!! so far ;)

With him starting school we also started a schedule. We have never really had a regular schedule but it's been really good for the whole family (hopefully we can stick with it!). Both kids have done so good with waking up and we're all ready for the day when we take Karson to school. That is out of the norm for sure. I think I'll need to start drinking coffee daily. No more sleeping in around this house!

one BIG project

I had to post this. I'm actually pretty impressed with it. I was asked to decorate the wall at Storybook Nook in Gardner Village (where I work a couple nights a week) and thanks to the computer, cricut and my cousin I was able to put this together. I know it's a little early for Halloween but I guess not at Gardner Village since Witches Night Out is the biggest event they have. Here is how it turned out...

This is on the window

And there you have it!!

Have A Good Day!!