Easter Fun

Easter this year was a bit different than years past. Usually the boys wake up and come into our room to wake us up so they can find their Easter baskets. We usually take lots of pictures while they are looking for their baskets and when they find it. The problem this year was that the boys skipped the part where the come into our room and wake us up!!! I was so exhausted I woke up at 8:30 to a bunch of boys running around with their new cowboy outfits and guns with candy all over the place! So that is why I have no pictures of Easter morning.

We went to church and had an awesome meeting that focused on Christ, The Atonement and Ressurrection. I was really able to feel the Spirit and it set the tone for the rest of my day and helped me to remember why we celebrate Easter. I took a picture of Brig and Joseph with their new sunglasses on after church. Paul was asleep.

Later we went to my parents house for our big Easter Dinner and egg hunt! It was lots of fun. I love spending time with my family, they are all so fun and the kids love being with their cousins.

The little cousins

The three "prego's"

St Patricks Day

So for St Patricks Day I tried to be the fun mom that went all out for the holidays. I dressed them for school in green and told them if they didn't wear green everyone could pinch them (In the pictures Brig's wearing his b-ball shirt cause he had practice). For dinner I decided to make everything green, from food and drinks to dessert, but it kind of back fired on me!!! When everyone saw the green chicken and rice casserole they lost there appetite (and if I'm honest, so did I). I learned my lesson and next year we will not have a green dinner, but as you can see they loved there green cake!

Little Slugger

Brigham has started T-Ball again and I have to say that this year he really seems to be getting more into the game. I can tell he is a little more coordinated now that he is 6 years old. He catches better and hits better and a dad could not be more proud. Here are some pictures from his first game.

Boys Gone Wild

Warning: For all of you who have a bunch of sweet little girls and have no idea what raising boys is like...you might want to sit down for this!

This video gets a little long but it is worth watching till the end. This is my life....and I love it!!Mike and I were cracking up at how little Paul just hangs in there with the "Big Boys"! The kid is a brut! There is one part where Brig just throws him and he just gets up and keeps on going! I hope you get as good a laugh out of this as we did!

**Remember to turn off my music so you get the full effect***

The Video

Thankful Thursday

Things I am thankful for this week:

#1 Our Health. After being so sick for 2 weeks it really reminds you what a blessing it is to be healthy. It makes me want to make the most of each day! When I don't want to go to the gym I just have to remember what a blessing it is to be healthy enough to be able to go and by exercising I am being proactive about staying healthy. I am so grateful that our little family has good health and pray that we will always have good health.

#2 Spring!!! I love this time of year, just after the rainy season when everything is green and beautiful! We were driving to my parents house yesterday and Mike and I started talking about how beautiful this time of year is in California. We don't really get to experience the four season's here, but it is obvious that it's Spring! I love the orange and yellow wild flowers that grow along the roads and the green green grass.

#3 Snuggles in the morning! My favorite time of day is in the morning when all three of the boys jump in our bed and snuggle with us! Mike took this picture because we thought it was funny that they jumped in bed to snuggle with us and Joseph and Paul fell back to sleep.



#4 Girls Nights Out! We decided to get all the mommy cousins together once a month for a girls night out and we always have such a good time together!

January's Girls Night out- Pedicures!!

February's Girls Night out-Movies and dinner at

Islands.....mmmm mmmm mmmm!!!

I love how Dr. Phil compares mothers to bank accounts. He said most women do things for everyone but themselves. They make withdrawal after withdrawal and never make a deposit and then wonder why they are so overdrawn (exhausted, tired, stressed). I am a strong believer in a monthly mommy's night out because if mommy aint happy aint nobody happy!! I always come home so refreshed after a night out with food, fun and "girl talk"!!! Mike likes it too because then he doesn't have to listen to all my "girl talk" and I am happy and rejuvenated for another month! So if you don't have a night out get one or join us!

#5 The stork is on it's way!! I am happy to finally announce that baby #4 is on it's way! I am about 11 weeks along and feeling pretty good! Of course we are hoping for a girl, but we will be so happy for a boy too. Boys are so fun and I would be happy to have four of them, but it would be fun to have the experience of a little girl too! We'll find out in about 6 weeks and when we do we'll let you know! Hopefully our baby will be cuter than the on in this picture! Ha! Ha!

I'm back!

While I was sick I got really behind in my blogging so now that I am feeling really good again I am catching up! Here is about 2 months worth of posts. It's amazing how much you appreciate your health you haven't had it for a while! I finally got my house clean, my laundry done, grocery shopping done and dinner is ready! It feels so good to be back!!!!!

A beautiful day for a picnic!

Last Friday 2/29 was a really pretty day and I was tired of being in the house, so for lunch the boys and I had a picnic in the backyard! They were really excited, Brigham asked me if we could have a picnic every Friday that the sun wasout. Sounds good to me!

Grandma to the rescue!!!!

While I was sick my mom came to the rescue!!! My kids hadn't been out of the house in like a week and I was so sick I couldn't gt out of bed, so she came up and saved me! You should have seen my kids when they saw grandma! My mom brought me some food, cleaned my house and took the boys for 2 days!!! When I went up to Gavalin Hills to pick them up they didn't want to go home! What kid would, it is like Disneyland up there for them! Here are some pictures of the fun they had while mommy was so sick!


Brig and Joseph feeding the horse.


Joseph chasing the chickens!


Planting a garden with grandpa! Something
mommy remembers doing with grandpa at
about that age.


Petting the horsey!


Paul had a good time chasing the chickens too,
after he warmed up to them.


What a great place! My kids will definately
have lots of fun memories with grandpa and grandma!

Valentines Day

Valentines Day was really fun! Since we couldn't find a babysitter we decided to do something fun as a family. I went and bought a dozen roses, some cellophane, strawberries and chocolate. I seperated the roses and wrapped them individually then dipped the strawberries in chocolate and wrapped them. Then we took a rose and a flower to a few of the older ladies in our ward and our sweet neighbor Bettie. When we got home Mike had left a card and a stuffed animal for each of the boys on the table and a box of See's candy and a card for me!! What a great guy! I got him some stuff for Valentines but that stays between Mike and I! Hee! Hee!

Who wouldn't love to get a Valentine from these cuties!!

This is our sweet neighbor Bettie. The

boys just love her. They go and ring

her doorbell and talk to her all the time.

I'll even find Paul next door talking to

Bettie while I'm in the front cleaning my car.

He's learned from the older boys to go over

there and ring her doorbell! I hope she

doesn't get sick of us!!!

What a good daddy!!

Brigham's Birthday 1/28/2008

For Brigham's birthday I baked cupcakes and took them to his class, he loved being the helper and passing out the cupcakes and drinks and the kids loved the sprinkles! We had planned to get Disneyland passes and take the family to Disneyland but it was raining on his birthday, so we decided to call up all the cousins and do Chuck E Cheese again (our back up plan for the last 2 years)! The kids had a good time and we did go to Disneyland later in the week.


The cupcakes for his class. Of course I forgot
my camera in the car for all the cute stuff!!


Grandma Bettie!


Some of the cousins.


Blowing out the birthday cake!


Brig loves his cousin Kate.


His Disneyland Pass!


My cute boys! I just love them!!


Paul was lovin' the little Ferris Wheel!

Mikes Birthday 1/21/08

Ok so I realize I got way behind with blogging while I was so sick but now that I'm feeling better I am going to attempt to backtrack. Here are some pictures of Mike's Birthday! We went to Cheesecake factory with family, hot tubbin with some friends and met Ray (Mike's dad) back at our house for some birthday cake!

Mike and I

Party at the Cheesecake Factory!

I decided to be the entertainment with my

pole dancing skills!

Hot tubbin' with Cade and Heather

Back to the house for some Birthday Cake!!

I love this kid!!

Mike and I decided that we love this kid! He is by far the best singer on American Idol right now! This was one of my favorite performances ever on Idol! The only other performance that was almost as good was when Carrie Underwood sang "Alone " by Heart. I love the arrangment David put together of this song. I would buy this single if he put it out!! Listen to this and then let me know what you think! ***Make sure you pause my music first***

I was tagged by several people on this one!

Just so all of you know I have been sicker than a dog for about 2 weeks!! It started with a bladder infection (I know you all wanted to know that), then the flu/bronchitis, I can't wait to feel better. I have literally only been out of my bed to go to the bathreoom and eat for the last 3 days. My wonderful hubby has been taking care of the boys. I finally feel good enough to update my blog. I have been tagged a few times so you are all about to find out more about me than you really care to know.

RULES:
1. List the link to your tagger and also post these following rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird, etc.
3. Tag 7 people at the the end of your blog also leaving the links to their blogs
4. Let them know they are "TAGGED" by leaving a comment on their blog.

THE FACTS...strange or not ~

1. When I was younger I used to hate it when girls would pretend to be my friends just to get close to my brothers!!! I am the youngest of five kids and I have 3 older brothers. I remember when I was in 2nd grade I had a sleep over for my birthday and half way through the night almost all my friends were in my brothers room hanging out with them and flirting disgustingly!! I went upstairs to cry and found 3 of my best friends talking about how lame it was that all the other girls were flirting with my brothers. Those 3 girls are still great friends of mine to this day! Thank goodness for good friends!

2. When I was in the 6th grade I loved New Kids On The Block! I went to a concert with my mom, my Aunt and a bunch of my cousins. I was so in love with Joey! Sorry Katie...I have to tell the story! One night my cousin Katie spent the night and as we were going to sleep I told her that it looked like my poster of Joey was looking at me. She said she thought he was looking at her. So we started fighting about who he was looking at and who he liked more until finally Katie went home. Whenever we bring this up to each other we laugh so hard we cry!!!

3. I used to want to have 12 kids, until I had 1. Now I think we'll have 4 or 5.

4. Mike and I were engaged 3 weeks after our first kiss. What can I say....when you got it, you got it!

5. I can burp longer and louder than anyone you have ever met! No Lie! You can ask my family, cousins, or my husband...even my kids will tell you! They love it when mommy burps so loud and blames it on them. I got it from my dad, we have horrible stomaches and we blow up like balloons and then belch like a bunch of Irish drunks!!!!

6. I thought I was going to be totally cool in High School because everyone knew my brothers. Then the summer before my freshman year happened!!! I went to my friends house to get my hair cut and her mom gave me a total butch hair cut and a month later my parents decided to get me braces!!! I was soooo ugly!! If that wasn't bad enough 6 months into my freshman year my parents decided to move me away from all of my friends (and my brothers hot friends) to Utah where I knew nobody. For about 2 months Chad and I ate lunch together like total dorks. I met some great friends out there but had a serious "loser" curse! It's probably a good thing I moved away because if Mike had met me in High School he probably would have never married me. Needless to say I was NOT cool in High School!

7. I was on the Country Dance Team at UVSC. Wasn't cool in college either!

I tag...Aunt Kari, Marla, Tammy, Jenny, Jamie (Martin), Jaime (Thompson), Katie, Aunt Dawn

Tagged by Tammy and Marilee

So I have been tagged by Tammy and Marilee....
Read ahead, and it will explain.
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago.
I was working as a Home Health Aide in Provo, Utah and I had just met this super hot guy named Mike Davis that I was totally crushing on!! (my how time flies)
2. 5 things on my to-do list today
Not throw up, sleep, eat, take some Tylenol, go back to bed.
3. What snacks do I enjoy?
Ice cream, all fruit(especially peaches and oranges), popcorn, chocolate !!
4. What would I do if I were suddenly a billionaire?
Pay our tithing, pay of both our houses and all debt, go to Hawaii with our families, set up retirement and investment accounts, totally hook up our families (Pay off their debt and set both our parents up with a nice retirement) , set up college and mission funds for our boys, buy a small condo in Prague and donate money to cancer research. I'm sure there is alot more I would do but I can't think right now!
5. 3 bad habits? procrastination, poor time management, taking on more than I can handle!
6.5 places I have lived? CA, UT, WA that's it...pretty boring huh!
7. 5 jobs I've had.
Mc Donalds, Hogi Yogi, Brick Oven, Well baby Nursery at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center (by far my favorite job!!!) Home Health Aide (loved this one too).
8. 5 thing people don't know about me.
This one is hard because I'm pretty open about everything but I'll try...
1.I had horrible, horrible bloody noses growing up and finally when I was 18 had my nose caterized (I think that's how you spell it???). 2. I grew up on a farm with cows, pigs, horses, goats, chickens, rabbits, turkeys and dogs. 3. My favorite thing to do as a little girl was climb rocks and catch lizards.4. I used to want to have 12 children like my Aunt Karen until I had 1 and realized how amazing she really was. Now I think 4 or 5 is good enough. 5. Mike used to call me Felicity because he said I followed him to California like that girl on Felicity followed Ben to NY. Ha! Ha! It couldn't be that I missed all of my friends in Cali and wanted to get the fetch out of Utah! Although I was VERY happy Mike was moving back too.
I tag....Kimberly, Malinda, Heather, Mom, Candy.