A trip to the zoo

On monday we decided to go to the phoenix zoo, we really had wanted to go down to the Tuscon zoo, but since we had to take my sister to the airport that morning, we decided to save ourselves the drive and just stay at the closer one:) we choose a hot day! but we all had a great time. We havent been to the zoo in awhile and my kids were all soooo excited for every animal we saw. Brex was so great to watch, he would just jabber a hundred miles an hour when we would see a new animal.

Ive been tagged

Thanks Amber for the tag......WHAT WAS I DOING 10 YRS AGO? I was living in Blanding ut. and was married to my first husband "Don". Also I was like 5 months pregnant with Brittany. 5 THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST? 1. I need to shampoo my carpets 2. decorate my master bathroom 3. get in shape enough to run a marathon 4. one of these days I am going to make some great scrap books (we will see) 5. clean out my closet ( I mean MAJOR clean it out) 5 SNACKS I ENJOY? 1. frozen green grapes 2. cake, it has to be the middle cake:) 3. ranch rice cakes 4. string cheese 5. wintergreen mints 5 PLACES I HAVE LIVED? 1. Blanding, ut 2. Provo, ut 3. Salem, ut 4. Gilbert, Az 5. Queen Creek, Az WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WAS A BILLIONAIRE? 1. Lots more traveling with my family, we love to travel! 2. invest 3. help out some fam members 4. play more and work a little less 5. we would forsure move to some acrege and build, have fun with the decorating and yard designing 5 JOBS I HAVE HAD? 1. Subway artist:) 2. Patio (local hangout and drive thru) 3. Coldwell Banker secretary 4. Nail Tech 5. Hairdresser 5 THINGS PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME? 1. I love being home, I dont have to go places to be happy 2.I am doing nothing, never, I love to be busy 3. I dont like lettuce 4. I love doing yard work 5. I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers. I tag Tracy, Heidi and Jami good luck this was kindof hard for me

Easter pagent

Ok I know that tonight is probley an overkill with 4 new posts, but I have totally gotten behind. Today my sis in laws were giving me a hard time about not posting for to long. So I hope this redeems me:)

We went to the easter pagent last night (sat night) it has been several years since we have been. We usually are in ut for easter, but because of my bros upcoming wedding in april we decided not to make the trip 2 times so closely. My parents, little bro, and little sis were here to go with us. We left Brex and Londyn with Nana and took Brittany with us. She really liked it! oh and yes Angela you look amazing in your closeup with sleeping Blaine.

Hoppy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! A couple of these pics is of Londyn and her cute Bunny ears she made at Preschool, she looked adorable. The other pics are from the kids on easter morning, Londyn and Brexen got new tents and some other little things, and Brittany got a new dress and the movie "Enchanted" and a few other little things.

"POCCO" comes to visit

Our neighbors "The Reynolds" were out of town for spring break and needed a sitter for their pug "Pocco". We have watched their dog befor and my kids fell in love with it. So it was a no brainer to say yes to watching it again, I knew that my kids would totally be entertained. Poc was staying at his house but we were just going over to play with her and feed and water, however that was clearly not enough time with her, so we did get permission to bring her back to play at our house. The first morning we went over it was at the crack of dawn and my kids were still in their pjs, but they couldnt wait any longer. I wish that I was more of a dog person, I always tell my kids that if I was a good mom then I would get them a dog, but I must not be. sorry, but they are still working on my and I will be honest, I am close to caving, but shhhh dont tell them that:)

YMCA Basketball

Brittany is keeping us so busy! She is now involved in so many things. She is loving it and I think that it is so great she is trying so many different things, to really get to figure out what she enjoys and what she is good at. She has taken up basketball at the "y" , Tennis lessons, piano lessons, girl scouts, and just her regular day to day activities. These pics are from her first game. Nana, Papa, aunt Cassi, Madisen, & little Talon came out to watch and support her, Thanx! One of these pics are of Londyn and Madisen holding hands, ohh how cute:)

August Rush

I just watched a movie off of ppv called "August Rush" and I loved it. I havent watched many movies latley that I would totally recommend. However this one was fantastic! Has anyone else seen it? does anyone have any other great movie suggestions?

Howdy officer is there a problem?

So yesterday Brad and I made a quick trip to flagstaff for a doctor apt. We did take Brexen and Londyn while Brittany was at school. Not wanting to be to a distraction in the doctors office, Brad opted to stay in the expedition with the kids while I went in for my apt. we had been texting each other while I was waiting and apparently I left him alone long enough that while he was in the back seat and the kids were busy watching a movie he managed to fall soundly asleep. Infact, he was so asleep that when there were people peering through the darkly tinted windows and knocking he didnt hear them or see them. I found this out as I was coming out of the hospital and was following a security gaurd and two concerned women, I didnt really pay attention to what they were saying until I see them walk up to MY car and start peering in the windows, so I stopped and just watched them until the security gaurd looked at me and asked if I needed somthing. So I told him that it was my car and yes, my kids were in there and somwhere in there I was sure that my husband was there asleep:))) one of the women explained that she had noticed that our car had been running for quite sometime and she noticed children inside, when she had first gone up to it, she tryed to look in but the windows in the back windows were too dark so she just got concerned. I thanked them for looking out for things and then began my knocking. Of course Brad popped up with a smile and said " oh I must of fallen asleep" I had to start laughing and show him the others that were walking away and tell him that he had really stirred up some drama. He almost couldnt beleive that he didnt wake up with all of that. My Bradley is a hard sleeper needless to say. I love him and appriciate his willingness to make the long quick drive with me, this just added to the funny conversation on the way home.

Where is my super cool hat?

so this pic of Brexen is his super cute new hat. He was in love with this box because of the great reveiw that Londyn gave him. ohh, she thought he was just hillarious. This is one of the few things in my day that I get to see the kids doing that show how much they love each other. I am so glad that my kids love each other so much. So another quick thing I have thought was so cute latley, is Londyn has been loving to be called "Dorothy" from the wizard of oz (not that she has seen it) but because we jokingly have called her that because of her long cute braids. Well she finally got curious about why we were calling her that and she asked us why we keep saying that to her. We preety much told her it was a princess. well, that was all she needed to be in love with the idea of being Dorothy the priness. Infact we had asked her where Todoe (spelling ???) her dog was? so she quickly decided that Brex should be Todoe, for 2 days straight she no longer used his real name, it was only come here Todoe, etc.. Brex is the best, he totally just goes right along with it.

A little more fun in the sun

So after letting the kids play in the water on friday, we easily made the desision that on Sat while we were out doing yard work and the pool was being drained (to get it acid washed). we got it down to like 1 ft left and let the kids go at it. Because the pool was so empty, they were totally protected from the breeze and so the temp was perfect. I took a gazillion pics, they were so cute!

Bring on the sun!

I dont know about all of you that have children and pools, but my kids just dont understand why they are not allowed to swim. And I mean the first day that it becomes warm outside the begging beggins. I even paraded my children out to the cold water thinking that if I let them stick their feet in, that they would realize that moms are always right:) however this seemed to backfire on me. even after their feet went in and took their breath away they assured me that they didnt think it was to cold. So I caved in and atleast let them break out the swimming suits and run through sprinklers. Britt had one of her friends come home from school with her last friday since they always have 1/2 days on fridays. Brittany and Anna had a blast. Brex and Londyn couldnt get enough of it either. I got a bunch of really cute pics of them all enjoying the sun!

back to the gym!

Have you ever felt like you are in one of those kid story books were there is like an animal head and then a spinner middle section and spinner bottom half of the body that you can go through until you find the matches that all go together? Well, that is what I have been feeling like latley. I know that getting back to the gym will help me feel more like myself. So it is official, I am going back tomorrow:)))) I figure that it isnt so far until summer and I need to find the right matching body peices to go with the rest of me:) so that I can enjoy swimmingsuit shopping. Also I am really wanting to get back into running, Iknow that because I have had to take it so easy, that even with just walking for the next 2 weeks (until I get the dr's official ok to do more) will be a good start to getting back into my routine. anyways I am just rambleing, so I will wrap this up.

Cruise time!

It has been since our honeymoon that Brad and I have been on a cruise. We went to Belize and also stopped at Key west. We had such a great time! we totally have wanted to go on another cruise ever since then. So this weekend we booked a cruise with Royal Caribbean to go in Jan 09 we are going to stop in Jamaica and also Grand Caymen. I know it is early but we are big planners, and we know that if we dont schedule early that a million other things will come up between now and then. As of right now our only travel buddies are my sis Angela and her hubby Brian. If there is anyone else who would like to come, let me know I will see if you pass the "cool enough" test. just kidding ha ha, but I will get you the info to book with us.

Happy Anniversary!

Today is Brad & my 5 yr anniversary. I am married to a great man! let me tell ya why:
1. Brad never tells me no on anything. If there is somthing that I really want, he will always find a way to make it happen.
2. he is a great dad!
3. he is a very hard worker, he never stops.
4. Brad is always willing to help anyone.
5. Brad is a super great listener, well I think he listens? I do talk alot, sorry honey:)
6. I love that Brad can cry when things are important.
7. He always opens my door still! I know can you beleive it.
8. He is preety dang cute! always a +
9. Brad always puts his family before himself.
10. He can really get down when the mood is right, I have seen him dance on only a few ocassion and he is really good. (anyone remember the movie the burnams have of Brett and Brad totally dancing????) if you havent seen it you are missing out.
11. Ok I better say somthing good about his truck or that might hurt his feelings, so here it goes. Babe you drive a cool truck:))

The truth is I could totally go on and on. Love ya Brad