A Little Update

VISITORs FROM THE FAR NORTH

The last week of March we were lucky enough to have my parents
come out and visit us in AZ for a full week. They loaded up the truck
and drove all the way from Star Valley, Wy with Bailey, the monster
truck (what Grace calls a 4 wheeler), a dirt bike, roller blades, a sewing
machine, Bill's dog Tanner and a soon to be pawned off, adorable black
puppy named Ashes. Here are some pics from their week here..............



My dad meet a friend out at the Canyons Motocross Track and
competed in a Grand Prix race. It was a combination of motocross
track and desert trail. We had a blast watching him and he did
awesome taking first place in his division. Who cares that the only
other racer in his division was 70, had training wheels on his bike
and had to stop 3 times during the race to use the bathroom!
He still won! : )

We also had time to catch a spring training game. It was a great day

to sit in the sun, watch a little baseball and let the kids run around the

grass behind left field.

Bailey celebrated her birthday with us while she was here too. I'm

so happy we got to see you turn 11 and celebrate your big day Bailey,

you are growing up so fast. JK, Happy Thirteenth.

And this is the little furry creature my parents brought down. They had

every intention of this being a one way trip for this gal. She is super

cute, really smart and of course now a part of our family. Grace and

Crew are loving their new little friend.

And since my husband didn't make the blog, here's a pic for him! : )

Crew's Birthday Party

Our little man has grown up so fast. On the 27th of March he turned 1 and we had friends and family over for a great birthday party that included great food, a bounce house and a really big cupcake! It really is scary how fast time seems to be flying by. Here are some pictures from the party and a few pics of Crew growing up.


Crew's First Year

Gretchen Wilson Baby!!

So tuesday night Me, Spring, and Brandy went to Toby Keith's Bar and Grill for a FREE Gretchen Wilson Concert!! She was awesome live and put on a great show.. It was a ton of fun! and its always good to get out for a night with just the girls! We might have been the youngest and only sober ones there but that was half the entertainment... Right girls??

Photo Tag :)

My friend Chana tagged me to do a photo tag -
Here are the rules:

1. Open your 1st Photo folder.
2. Scroll to the 10th photo.
3. Post the photo and the story behind it.
4. Tag 5 or more people.

This is Crew enjoying his first whole apple.... He LOVES them :) He has been such a little sweet heart!! We love our little man!! :)

I tag- Loreli Caldwell, Kristy Denney, Jess Mortensen, Meg Meis, Andrea Jardon :)

Landscaping

This past weekend Tyler and his younger brother Justin worked on
our landscaping and took our ever evolving yard a step closer to
being a front yard we like. We still have to plant flowers and "HOA"
approved plants and then we'll fill in some areas with bark or mulch
to finish it off. Thanks for the help Justin. Here are pics of the first
3 stages, stage 4 to come soon...............hopefully!

Christmas... Random...

Kissey kissey

Pappa and toad muggling aka snuggling :)

Pappa and Crew

Gingerbread houses.... What we thought would be a fun family activity, well it wasn't not for our family anyway.... lets just say kids eating all the candy, frosting EVERYWHERE, and perfectionist parents not a great mix!

I love both of these pictures with grandpas hat on the kids... They are both pulling kind of cute funny faces!

Grace was so helpful feeding the dog..... Cat food :)

Crew was busy eating the dirt out of any plant he could find!

Slackers of the Blog....What we've been up to.

Well once again it's been too long since we've updated our blog so here
it goes.


We had our good friends Adam and Andrea and their little cutie
pie Amelia up for a weekend just before Thanksgiving. We went
to the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Anthem Outlets.
They had a concert with Dueling Pianos, Choo Choo Soul (Grace's Favorite)
and a new, amazing singer Savannah Outen. It was a great weekend
with the Jardon's and we can't wait til we have another one.


For Thanksgiving Tyler's whole family came out and spent the week
at our place. Spencer and Carly came up and Grandma Sally even made
the trip with Ty's parents. We had so much fun and of course ate way
too much food. We played lots of games, watched alot of movies and
just enjoyed hanging out with everyone. And we'll excuse Kristy and Brett
since he had business to take care of putting the Utes in their place that
Saturday.

After Thanksgiving we went and found this beauty of a Christmas tree
at a local lot. We brought it home and got it all decorated, kids under 2
provide unbelievably good help puttingup ornaments. It finally brought
the Christmas spirit to our home in snowless Arizona. We also put lights
up on our house and have really enjoyed that. Our neighborhood has
more houses decorated than any neighborhood we've ever lived in. It
must be the warmer weather that gets everyone out and willing to put
lights up. It has really made this season fun driving home at night with
the kids and slowly winding through Anthem looking at all of the lights.


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Last we went and had our family Christmas pictures taken so we can
send out our Christmas cards this year. Alli does such an amazing job.
so that's what we've been up to. Next week I head out to Wyoming to
spend two weeks with my family for Christmas. Ty will fly out the
following week to join us. Grace has loved Christmas this year and is
hooked on Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and Santa Clause is coming
to town. It has been so much fun seeing her excitement and we can't
wait til Christmas morning when she gets to see what Santa brought her.