Life As We Know It

I can't believe my little guy is six. For his birthday, we had a pirate themed party, and invited a few of his friends over to help celebrate. It turned out to be a sunny day, just perfect for outside activities. We rented a bouncer/slide combo, and it turned out to be the greatest thing in the world. It entertained the kids ALL day long! I didn't have to plan any games, or extra activities...except the pirate ship pinata which I knew Kyle would love, as he could take a bat an hit the heck out of it and not get in trouble. :)

Here are a few pics from his special day!

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Good Times

(Picking Citrus at Grandma & Grandpa Rae's house)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Christmas

On our way up to Utah, we stopped in Vegas for a couple days. We spent quite a bit of time at Treasure Islands' Fashion Show mall. LOVE this place, and Ken was so thrilled to spend time shopping with us! :) We got some last minute Christmas shopping done, and also took the girls into Dillard's to get makeovers. As fun as shopping is, we were exhausted when we were done! A nap was definitely in order which is exactly what we did. Later on we walked down the strip, and hit a few hotels/casinos as well as the M&M factory; four floors of chocolate in cute containers! We took Jessica and Erika over to New York, New York to ride the roller coaster. Ken and I were all-to-happy to pass on riding, especially at $15 a ticket! So we hung out with Kyle while the girls did their thing. Vegas was fun, but we were ready to move on to Utah for the rest of our Christmas fun.

Below are a few of the fun things we did while in Utah:

The Polar Express (Heber, UT)

Made Christmas trees out of cookies!

Waited patiently to open presents from the cousin gift exchange

Ready-Set-Go!

Enjoyed opening presents from Santa, Mom/Dad, and Nana/Papa

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

How could I forget?

How could I forget to post the most important thing of all! I know my mom will call me just as soon as she sees this, so she can give me an earful about posting pictures and videos of her on my blog. However, I could not resist and will gladly take that phone call! My Dad was unable to go with us to Utah, so we had to make sure my mom was having a good time. I think she did :)

Love ya, Mom!

Winter Wonderland!

(Kyle and his cousin, Carson)

For Christmas, we planned a road trip up to Utah to spend time with my side of the family. My brother (Jason) and his wife (Jill) were awesome enough to let our entire family stay with them...there were close to 30 of us all together, so it was a house full! It was the most perfect time to be up there: the weather cooperated and we finally got a White Christmas which looked like a Winter Wonderland. Here are a few pics to prove it!

As you can see from the following pictures (and the 3 above), we were able to play outside on several occasions with my brother's snowmobiles.The kids had a blast!

Jessica and Josie being pulled.

Emma pulling Kyle and Carson.

Erika was definitely hands-on in everything we did. I think she is our little dare-devil! She is not afraid to try anything.

All Kyle was interested in doing was eating the snow!

This definitely was a Winter Wonderland for us desert folks!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Here I go again!

Well, it has been almost two month's since my last post. I seem to do this quite often! We have been busy preparing for the Holidays, and having a lot of fun doing so. I will post more when I can, but I just wanted to say Happy Holidays (a little late) to everyone! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and have a happy and safe New Year's. (I really slacked this year on sending out Christmas cards, so here it is!)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

All dressed up!

This is a rare occasion, having all of us dress up! Ken and I usually do not dress up for Halloween, however Jessica and Erika really wanted us to this year. I am glad we did! It was actually a lot of fun, and makes you feel like a kid again. I would recommend it to anyone! We did the whole trick-or-treating thing in my in-law's neighborhood. My brother's family (Justin) went with us as well, so it was fun for the kids. Jessica actually went off with a group of "guy friends" for a couple hours...I was really surprised as she is usually so shy. Here are a few pics of the night!