HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!

On the 29th Chris turned 31! That's the day we came home from our trip so that kinda stunk. But Chris' parents had dinner all ready for us when we got back and we celebrated with brownies and ice cream.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY! I LOVE YOU!!!

Rocky Point- Memorial Day Weekend

I love it when my kids play so nicely together!

Sweet Ellie! She was so fun and happy half the time and the other half she was aweful! I swear I think she is bipolar sometimes! My mom says I shouldn't say that cuz it runs in our family...nice huh. I'm sure it's just a 3 year old thing AND the fact that she is a girl. Dang do those hormones suck! In my opinion girls are emotionally harder to deal with and boys are more rambunctious and that's hard to deal with sometimes too.



Everyone looking for sea creatures

Chris almost instantly found a tiny sand dollar! It was so cute we put it back.

Taylor fished and caught a few too!

Chris and our friend Randy fished from the shore and everytime they cast they would start reeling it in and catch a fish every single time! It was amazing! Chris alone caught nearly 100 fish in 2 days. And that's not fishing the whole time either! They ranged from about 5 inches to 20 inches. So many people came over to see and were amazed at how many they were catching. Even the locals were coming over and talking about it and wondering what they were using. They weren't using live bait, just a shiny lure. I'm sure Chris would laugh at my discription...aren't all lures shiny? Maybe not. That just shows you how much I know about fishing. Anyway, we were told that they were catching Corbinas and Pumpino, which is basically sea bass and a tuna like fish. Randy caught one Needle fish and it was interesting looking. It was obviously skinny and the head looked like a lizard head. It was pretty cool.

This is when they were all looking at the first catch. Little did they know they were going to be catching a TON more!

Chris' first catch. I didn't get any pictures of the big ones. I swear he did catch some big ones too!

Preston and Taylor playing in the waves and continuously getting knocked down.

Silly Preston posing with his pop-tart. His necklace had a shark tooth on it for about a half hour after we bought it. Do they not know about super glue?!

My sweet Peyton boy! He was sooo dang good and happy on our trip! He had so much fun! I am so glad he was out of that eating the sand stage! Such an annoying stage! And more annoying when they have sandy poop and you can't wipe it away so you have to rinse them for like 2 days before it's all out of their system. Sorry...tangent.

My only REALLY fair baby!

Taylor enduring some pain for her braids that are so cute and worth it to keep the hair back out of the eyes.

Ellie was so funny. I asked her if she wanted to get her hair braided and she said, "NO! I will scream at them!" She has a tender head and it's so annoying! Even when I KNOW I'm not hurting her she cries about it. When she saw Taylor getting her hair done she changed her mind and said she wanted braids. Here we are picking out the color of beads to match her swimsuit. She whined and complained a bit and I had to talk to her and try and keep her mind off of it. She did pretty good. At the very end it was good she was done cuz she was about to freak out and not let the lady finish.

Isn't she a beauty?!! That's her purse she picked out. She is such a girly girl.

One of my very best friends came with us and we shared a condo. This is Melodie and her family. Just her and her 3 boys came down cuz her hubby had to work. We had soooo much fun together! On Monday we rented a jet ski for 30 minutes and the guy let us have it for 45 min. It was so much fun! It was her first time ever on one and it was my first time being a driver on the ocean on one. We caught so much air on the waves! It was awesome when we landed nice and smooth and sucked when we came down hard! We laughed so hard and had the best time ever! We were so wobbely when we got off from gripping so hard. We both were so sore the next day. My thighs hurt so bad! I had to hold on to something everytime I sat down and squatting down was a joke! And getting back up was an even bigger one! I so can't wait to go back!

Korean Birthday Gifts!

My friend, Annelise, and her husband are in Korea teaching English and for my birthday she sent me a package of Korean candy and super cute slippers! I was so surprised when I got it in the mail. I love the slippers! They are so cute and comfortable. Taylor wishes she had a pair for her. We had fun trying out the new kinds of candy. Most of it was really good! Better than Mexican candy I might add.

Thanks again Lise! That was really sweet of you!

Grad night!

I graduated Friday, May 25th! It was such a great feeling! Unfortunately our cameras battery died and Chris was unable to get a nice clear picture! I was so bummed! Oh well. At least we got what we got. It had been a week since I had seen all my friends from school so that was so great to see everyone all dressed up! While everyone was out partying and celebrating, we went home and got our kids in bed and then I massaged my mom while Chris went to Best Buy to get a portable dvd player then we went grocery shopping for our trip to Rocky Point the next day. Needless to say, we stayed up late, not exactly partying though. We aren't exactly the partying type anyways. We throw our own party :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

I can't believe I am 28 years old! I don't feel like it and I don't think I look like it either, do I? I ended up having a better birthday than I thought since it was on a Monday (the 21st). Thanks to my sister-in-law Melissa who watched my kids while I went shopping for a swim suit and for some other things for our Rocky Point trip. After all my shopping I met up with her and we went to Ned's for lunch and my other sis-in-law came and my mother-in-law. It was fun to go out with them. After Chris got home from work we went to see Spiderman 3. I was excited to see it, but wished Pirates 3 was out instead! After the movie, which was kinda disappointing- deffinately not as good as the other two, we went to Red Robin and got take out. While we waited for our food we entertained ourselves by being dorks and taking a bunch of pics of ourselves. It was so fun and I felt super dumb when I looked over at the hostess just staring at us! She didn't even try to hide it!

Then of course when we were done with dinner we went and got our kids from grandma and grandpas and went home and had my beloved CHEESECAKE!!! YUM!

As you can see from this picture my arms hyperextend so nicely and attractively so I could never be a cheerleader even despite my amazing dancing abilities.




I got this cute Elvis tshirt from Target for $2.98!
I love it!

Still so in love!

Last Night of School!

WE DID IT!!!!

Class picture with our favorite instructor, Dave!

April, Karen and Me (Such dear sweet friends!)

Shamecca (or Mashecca as Taylor calls her) & Me

Me,Samantha and Bree! (Love these girls!)

Sam, Alana, Buffy and Me (Even some staff showed up to the party!)

Ashlyn, April, Me, and Kiesa (Kiesa just found out she's preggo! Congrats!)



Well, it finally happened! The very last night of class! I still can't believe it. I do still have one more clinic shift on Saturday so I am not completely done with school, but at 1:30pm tomorrow I will be officially done! All the hard work has paid off! Other than getting an education is Massage Therapy and becoming an LMT I have made some awesome friends! This past year has been a HUGE growing experience for me. I could not have done it without my number one supporter, my hubby, Chris! He has been cheering me on every step of the way! I love you babe! You're the best! Thanks for encouraging me and believing in me from the very beginning! There were some who had their doubts and opinions about me going into massage therapy, but most of you have been awesome positive supporters and I thank you for that!

I so look forward to having my evenings and Saturdays back with my family!

I also look forward to growing my clientel and getting out in the massage world and start getting paid for all my massages dang it! No more freebe's! I have a student loan to pay back! :)

Tackle it Tuesday

Before

After

This cupboard became a collect all (not the only one in our house). It drove me nuts for the longest time and I finally organized it and got rid of some stuff thanks to my new blogging obsession! So some good has come from starting a blog!

Poor kid....

Poor Preston has inherited the swollen allergy eyes from Chris' side of the family. His little brother, Aaron, suffers the same fate. Their eyes will itch and itch from allergies and they will rub and rub till they look like this. This is the worst it has gotten. His left eye got so swollen that the tissue on the inside of his eye started to swell and come across his eye ball. It went down some what quickly once we got him to stop rubbing it. Not a fun thing to see on one of your babies! Makes my eyes water just looking at him!

Happy Mother's Day!

Lisa and Taylor

Taylor was such a sweet heart and wrote a little note to her grandma, all her aunts and both great grandmas for Mother's Day. Each one said something different pertaining to that individual. The funniest one was the one she wrote to her aunt Lisa. Sorry the picture is a little blurry. At the bottom she quoted a line from Nacho Libre, "Do you not realize I have had diarrhea since Easters?!" She is the BEST 7 year old movie quoter I know! She has the accent down and everything! It is so hilarious to hear her! She and her aunt Lisa always have the best time quoting. She is such a funny girl!

We have the best ward ever! All the mother's got a CD called "For the Beauty of the Earth" after sacrament. Then in relief society they served us lunch. We had a chicken wrap, pasta and a chocolate dipped strawberry. It was all sooo yummy! It was the 3rd year that they have done this. The next relief society presidency better keep this up when it is their turn! It's such a great idea and special treat for all of us women!

For Mother's Day Chris got me exactly what I wanted...The Work and the Glory lll!

I love those movies! And I love it when he remembers things that I have said I want!

Taylor wrote me a sweet note. Your hand is NEVER too big to trace! Chris and I still trace our hands if we have room. And it's always fun to add some jewelry!



Gifts from Peyton, Ellie (made at church) and Taylor (made the lai at school)


Envelope by Preston

Preston made this card in school! Isn't it so cute?!
After he gave this to me he said, "It's ok if I eat some too."
I'm not a candy person in the morning so I let the kids eat it all up.



I had such a great Mother's Day! I got to sleep in and Chris gave me breakfast in bed! He does that for me every year and I love it! Getting ready for church wasn't fun and I yelled at the kids to hurry and get ready cuz they just ignored me. So then I felt like a crappy mom, especially after all the cute gifts they gave me. Church was nice. The primary age kids got up to sing a song for all the mothers. So everyone, but Peyton went up. It was a special treat and a bitter sweet moment to see 3 of my kids up there! They are just growing up way too fast!
After church we came home and I called my mom and chatted with her for a bit and then I got to take a nap! I slept so good! I needed it big time! Then we went to Chris' parents house and had dinner and played a game called Imagine Iff. It was a fun day and night.
I just want to say I have the most wonderful husband! He made my day so special and forgave me pretty quickly for yelling before church. He's so great and makes me feel so loved and like I am the most beautiful woman! He puts up a lot from me and I appreciate him so much! I'm so blessed to have him as my husband!!!

Girls Night Out!

While the boys were gone on the Father and Sons Campout I got to have a girls night out! My friend Amy is moving to Utah at the end of the month so it was perfect to get to go hang out. I sent my girls to my sister in laws to spend the night cuz I had to go to clinic early Saturday morning. Me, Melodie and Amy went to Red Robin for dinner and then went and saw Blades of Glory. It was hilarious, even for the 2nd time for me! After the movie we went back to Melodie's, her house was empty too, and chatted till 1am. Then Melodie drove me down the street to my house and we talked even longer about all the times we have peed our pants just a little bit. We about peed our pants then laughing so hard cuz we could relate so well to eachothers annoying and unfortunate pee problem! Then she drove home and called me and we layed in our beds talking till a little after 2am! It was so much fun, but I paid for it when I had to get up at 6:30am to get ready for clinic! It was all worth it! I had such a fun night with no kids. That was the first time I had ever slept in our house with nobody...kinda weird. I'm just sad I didn't get to sleep in.

Father and Sons Campout

This past weekend Chris took our boys on our ward Father and Sons campout. It was Peyton's first time. Chris said they had a ton of fun! Wish I could say more, but I didn't get a ton of details except that they saw a fire on the side of the road on their way home!