Happy Birthday Kyler!!

Happy Birthday Buddy! You turned 3 today!! We love you so much! You are a blessing to our family! You are growing up so fast!! You are still a mama's boy! And suprised us all by having a grandma sleepover last week for 2 nights in a row with Grandma Ronda! You are talking and talking! You love your family!

Today was a busy day! You were sick over the weekend, so I was really happy when you woke up without a fever and ready to go birthday shopping! You have grown out of your shoes so fast and told mommy that you wanted to go buy new shoes today! You also decided when you woke up that you didn't want to wear diapers!

We went to two different stores and finally found some tennis shoes and church shoes you liked! After that we took you to lunch and then went to pick up your cake and ice cream! We went home and cleaned the house and I wrapped your presents. Then we met Grandma Ronda, Grandpa David, Kenzie and Caden at Chuck E. Cheeses! You played lots of games!


We headed home and Uncle Jordan and Christy, Grandma and Grandpa Great, and Grandma and Grandpa Ryan all came over for cake, ice cream and presents!



You were sitting with Papa David at the table..
Papa: Kyler, are you going to eat the tractors?
Kyler: HAHA! No Papa! You don't eat the 'fractors'! You eat the 'take'!

You sure are loved! Mom and dad got you some dinosaurs and a train set, a Max and Ruby DVD, some PJ's, shoes and your helmet and pads to use on your scooter! Grandma and Grandpa Ryan got you some cool monster trucks! Jordan and Christy got you a dinosaur monster truck!




And your other grandma's made you the most awesome gift ever!! Your super hero cape!! I love it so much! I've been eye balling it online for monthes now! I was going to order one, but then decided I would try to make it... but thankfully, my mom and grandma made it instead! I turned out AMAZING!!!!! Its two sided! One side had Superman on it and the other is SUPER K!! I love it!

It was a great day! We love you so much! Enjoy being 3!!

We Love The Cabin!

Oh Utah..How I love you!

Last Wednesday we headed to Cedar Mtn. for a nice needed break! We left around 1 in the afternoon. We stopped in St. George to eat at Cafe Rio. Then we headed over to the temple to walk around. It so beautiful. I love the spirit we felt there.



We were going to go swimming at a place called Sand Hollow, but we just decided we wanted to get to the cabin. So we drove to Cedar City and then up the mountain to the cabin!

My parent's had already been there for a week. So they were very anxious for us to get there! It was so nice to just hang around in the nice cool weather!

We went on lots of walks. Took lots of naps. Watched lots of movies, and had lots and lots of laughs with family.




Dad had to go home for a couple of days to work Friday. The next day (Saturday) we were meeting MacKenzie on her way down from EFY. We did some shopping in Cedar and ate lunch at Cafe Rio again! I think my husband is a little obsessed! We decided to head to Beaver where the Cache Valley dairy is. We got some yummy ice cream, cheese, chocolate and Utah made honey! Yummy!!


On Sunday, we drove a few miles to this really small town called Alton. We went to sacrament meeting in the smallest chapel I have ever been too! It was a really good sacrament meeting, and we were glad we got to sit in 1 of the maybe 20 soft benches in the chapel. No joke!

Dad came back up Sunday afternoon. Its been so fun for the kids to get some quality Grandpa time!



The rest of the week Kenzie and I made many trips to Tod's Junction. They had free WI-FI, and endless amounts of DP! :)


We made smores and got to actually see stars! Tons of beautiful, bright and huge stars! And it was awesome to have to kids see their first shooting stars! Kelsi kept telling us about all the wishes she was making on them! :)

Tuesday was the sad day we had to clean and pack up! Kenzie drove down to St. George with us to end our trip at Sand Hollow Aquatic center. The kids had a blast!



My parents met up with us after we were done swimming and took us to dinner at Pizza Factory! It was so delicious! Their salad bar is the best!

We had such a great time! We thanked my parents over and over! And we laughed about how good the kids were, there was no drama and that the kids didn't break anything at the cabin!! I love my family so much! And I'm glad we can spend our vacations together and still love one another afterwards!

Happy Birthday Kelsi!

Kelsi turned 4 today! YAY! We are so happy and blessed to have you in our family! You are such a joy to be around! You are constantly singing, dancing and flipping that golden hair around! Anytime you meet someone new you tell them your 18! HAHA! You're such a smart girl! You love to practice writing your numbers and you're working on writing your name! You're mommy's big helper and love your brothers!

It feels like this has been the nonstop celebration of your big day! Last week on the 4th of July, we had a party with the family. You got lots of fun presents!


And then of course we had to stop by 7-11 to get the free Slurpee!!


As soon as Jason got home we headed out to Kelsi's "SURPRISE". Chuck E. Cheese of course!! We were a little weary of taking her there..but we were totally pleased with our time and money spent! The food was decent and we got a great coupon on their website, so we got like 120 tokens! Jason and I even had fun playing a few of the games. It was a nice night!







When we got home we sang Happy Birthday and let her eat her cake that's been in the freezer for a week! :)

Happy 4th of July!!

We spent the day at my parent's house! We swam and BBQ'd! And celebrated Kelsi's bday(more on that in a different post). It was such a nice day! We ate and ate! Then we headed over to my uncle's house for homemade ice cream and fireworks! It was so awesome! Their neighborhood overlooked Aliante, so we got to watch their firework show as well!


My dad bought all these shirts months ago! I'm so glad he did! Because we got some great family photos!! Love him!!

If I Said My Heart Was Beating Loud....

Saturday night I went to the Britney Spears concert with my sis Kenzie, my friend Becky and Jordan's girlfriend Christy. I had a seriously awesome night!! Totally much needed girls night out!! We went to Olive Garden for dinner. It was so nice being able to eat a meal uninterrupted and not having to get up or clean up spilled juice! Haha! Anyway, seriously though, you forget how crazy people are down on the strip. After we parked, literally the first lady we see has nothing but little stars on that barely covered her nipples! And that really was just the beginning! These women are crazy! Wearing the tightest, shortest things they could find! And not all of them had the figure for it. And I'm all for extremely high shoes! But some of these girls looked as if they were in some serious pain!!

Nick Minaj opened for Britney. And since none of us were really fans of hers, we took our time getting there and arrived when she was already on stage. This girl definitely has a strange outlook on the world! She had crazy dancers with really scary masks on! And girls giving girls lap dances. Not to mention she is a rapper, certainly not my taste of music. Although, she did have a few songs that she did a colaberation with other artists that were catchy songs that I knew.




After she was done with a long set list, it was after 9. A sign came on the big screen that said Britney will be on in 45 minutes!!! Say what!!

That's right folks! She didn't come on until around 10!! But she was worth the wait. She did a lot of her new songs and a lot of her old ones! There were lots of cool dance numbers and special affects. She even had some fireworks and very awesome acrobatic men that put on a great show! I walked away an even bigger Britney fan!





And I had a great night with all the ladies!! We will surely be getting together again very soon!!




And I learned that I'm getting very old! ;) Getting home after midnight sure had me dragging fir the rest of the next day!

Thank you to my husband for watching the kids while I had a much needed break! I love you babe!

Yup, It's Summer!

My Aunt called me a couple days ago and said since her hubby and 2 of 4 kids were going to be out of town for a week, we should hang out. She was trying to plan out activities to keep her occupied to make the time pass. So made a plan to meet at my grandma's house to let the kids play and have lunch. Other than it being super hot outside we had a blast. But slurpees,popsicles and the sprinklers cured all! It was a fun day! Kelsi is having a cousin sleepover at Grandma Great's house! She was so excited she kept asking if it was time for me to leave yet! :)



Grandma gave Kyler a much needed haircut! My handsome boy! As you can see from the pic above...it was much needed! Everytime we cut his hair I swear he looks so big! I can't believe he's going to be 3 this year! Love him! Thanks Stacey, Grandma and Kenzie for a fun day! Love you!

Answered Prayers

So, since October we have been dealing with our credit union being bought out, then our loans being transferred to another institution. We've been one of the many small business owners affected by the economy. And by October we had finally gone through our savings trying to keep our business afloat. Filling out 3 sets of modification forms and playing the stressful waiting game. So we were relieved when our loan officer got in contact with us with some really good news! Without going too much into it he basically said we were going to have a modification that will consolidate our debt into one lump sum. And lowering our payment!! I am most excited that we will be able to have a savings again! And next year we should be able to pay both our vehicles off! I'm so thankful and relieved!

On another note, Jason took some time off this weekend and had 4 days off. Unfortunately between the stress we've been under and him working in the smoke all day, he woke up sick with a cold he said he'd been fighting back. After a day (yesterday) of him being real grumpy, as soon as I woke up today and heard he wasn't feeling any better I called our family Dr. We made it a family trip since it was in Henderson. The kids were pretty good in the waiting room but they started getting bored so we went outside and played on the grass until Jason was done. The Dr. said he had an inner ear and sinus infection. Poor guy! After that we went to Panera bread or lunch! We all grubbed!! So yummy!! After that we headed to Discount Tire.

----A little back story. One morning last week, when Jason was leaving for work he noticed one of my tires was almost all the way flat. He was running late and I didn't have anywhere to go that day, so he just aired it back up when he got home. The next morning it was low again. So again he aired it up and told me to take it in to Discount and have them look at it. So I did. I pulled up and explained to the guy what had been going on. He kind of looked at me like I was a dumb girl and told me that because of the heat the tires sometimes do that.. So I was a
little embarrassed, because no matter what I said he just had a reason for why I was wrong. So I left and called Jason and told him what he said. So fast forward to Sunday when we have everyone in my truck and ready to go to church and I look over and the dang tire was flat
again! I was so mad!! We would have been onetime for church too. So back to today, Jason gets out and they immediately pull us into a stall
and take the tire off and put it in the water machine thingy- and sure enough! A bunch of dang holes! You know my big mouth couldn't wait to
tell them how that big guy looked at me like I was a dumb girl and honestly I was so mad because I have precious cargo!!! I could do
nothing but imagine something bad happening. Anyway, long boring story, they fixed it.

After that we went to Walgreens to get Jason's antibiotic, then we headed home. We just hung out. We waited until the sun went down and went out back to grill up some steaks! The kids played in the dirt, on the trampoline and on the swing! It was a long on the go day! And everyone but me ofcourse, were in bed by 9! I love fun filled family days like these!! :)