Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Summer Time Catch up!

Finally just this week I have the GREAT pleasure in going to girls camp with our ward. The girs where great and they are all so special and sweet. I had to leave early but I sure enjoyed the time I got to be with them

Hiking Fossil Creek with Kiersten, Marie, Katie, and Cody. I was so proud of all of them... It was a rocky 4 milie hike down hill and then another VERY hard 4 mile rocky hike up hill. Girls I was so proud of you... Sure love you!

7/15-7/25/08 At the last minutes I decided to jump in the car with my parents and endure a 10 hour car ride to California to see my friend Lindy and her adorable family and to see my grandparents in Ventura. Seth and Tessa didn't great in the car,it was Mommy who was starting to feel and little crazy.


Seth and Lyric enjoying their slip in slide. That was the best 8 dollars I spent... They where out there for hours.
We also went to a very fun water park. The mom's felt a little crazy because it was hard to watch everyone but I am so glad that my mom came with us.. she was so much help. Seth loved going up and down the slides. It was a blast..
Oh and here is my sweet LITTLE 18 month out baby girl who would have nothing to do with help. She wanted to go down all by her little self. Can you tell she is a little spit fire? She probably went up and down at least 15 times by herself... I am in so much trouble with her!!!All the kiddos after the swim park... Anyone tired?



One of the fun things about Lindy's and my relationship is that our parents are really good friends too. This picture is Pam (Lindy's mom) and Julie (my mom) with their grand babies swimming and Pam and Mike's house.My Dad (Scott) and Lindy's Dad (Mike)


Finally Lindy with her kiddos Paxton, and Lyric, and Me with mine Tess and Seth. I can't believe that we have four kids between us. We had such a great time... Thanks Lindy for having us! Your turn next to come to AZ... he he


At the end of the week we stopped at my Nany and Papa's house in beautiful Ventura. My Nany is pretty sick and fighting cancer right now so we all felt like we needed to stop and have visit. Nany looked just a pretty as she always does and has a fighting spirit about her. My grandparents have a turtle that they have had since my Dad was a little boy... Seth and Tess loved him.
Quick picture before we left... Seth didn't want to (can you tell) Sure love you Nany and Papa... hope to see you soon!!

6/30-7/4/08 For Fourth of July Spencer's Family and our little clan went to the D-backs game. It was nice because the kiddos had a blast and it was a nice cool place to be for the fourth. The game was a little boring and Tessa started to get a little restless but all in all it was pretty fun.This year was the first time Seth was not completely freaked out about the fire works. We got to go down on to the baseball field and get a better view of the show....
Seth and I also had the great pleasure to see High School Musical in Broadway form. I do have to say it was very entertaining and it was fun to see all of the kids singing a dancing around. I told Seth that this was a date for just Seth and I and that Tess and Daddy where not invited. The rest of the week Seth continued to tell everyone that Mommy and Seth went on a HOT date. Can you tell that is what Spencer and I call ours?

Thanks Seth for the HOT DATE!!!




During the Summer we try our best to stay inside and find new hobbies to keep us busy... This is Tessa's new hobby... we will just leave it at that!!!!



6/20-6/30/08 So the last time I blogged we had just returned for our California Trip to Oceanside. This picture is us at Disneyland during that trip. The kids had so much fun and where very well behaved.
My cute boys havin a blast
When we got home we celebrated Father's Day in a very fun way. Aunt Linda rented out a big slide and the kids had a blast.... Oh and the adults did too.Tessa of course had so fear and wanted to go down the slide all night
I love this picture... Seth has pure joy all over his face
Shortly after that Seth had his first dentist appt. He did great and now we get to go back for 1900 dollars worth of work. I was really concerned with his two front teeth and the fact that they are a little discolor but of course there is nothing wrong with those. His back teeth are crumbling due to the face that he is a major grinder in his sleep. In most cases they won't really worry about them because they are baby teeth but in this case he will have his back teeth until he is about 10 or 12. Can you tell I am a little bitter??? Needless to say we haven't taken him back yet... and of course the longer we wait the worst they will be come. Anyone got 1900 dollars growing on their trees?... because I surely don't!!




Friday, June 20, 2008

Oceanside Cali Trip


So I am finally Blogging again... I know I am so bad at it! Our vacation to Oceanside California finally came at the beginning of this month. The Theme of this vacation was centered around our husbands volunteering at the US open. They had so much fun working with the pro's and had a very fun time working together. Here is Spencer, Tim and Tyler at the golf course lovin life.While the boys where out playing the mom's and kiddos went to the beach about everyday. Seth was such a big help and loved the beach!! Our beach house was just across the street from the beach so it made it so easy to just go when we wanted to.
Seth playing it up!
Tessa loved the sand. We couldn't keep it out of her mouth, nose and other place we won't mention. She couldn't get enough of it.

We also got to go Disneyland with the entire gang. We had so much fun with everyone and the kids had a blast. Here from left to right.. Me, Molly, Cami, Alyssa (my niece and babysitter, and Kylie aka Tree Molly's babysitter. Yes you heard right. I took my wonderful niece Alyssa to help out with the kids. Specially while Spencer was at the US open. It was totally worth it... Thanks Alyssa your the best!
At California Adventure... Group photo!! You can barely see Seth he had my big Diet Coke bottle in his face.
Molly was nice enough to take our family picture while we where there. There are a lot more that I will post later. I loved how the turned out. Thanks Molly!!
This one is one of my favorites.... I love the kids faces in it
My sweet baby girl...... We had so much fun and are so sad that our vacation is over. Stay tooned for some more pictures..

Thursday, May 15, 2008

T-ball

Seth had so much fun this season playing with T-ball. At first he was not quite sure but now he is a pro. Today is his last game.... I am secretly excited that he is done. I am so proud out of my sweet boy.

Look at me... I made it to first base
Tessa watchin on the side lines making her cheese face !
Spencer and Seth, aren't they cute!!

Father and Sons

Spencer took Seth on his first Father and sons camp out. It took a lot of encouraging on both their parts but when they went they had a great time together. Here Seth is all cozy up in there tent. Good job hon...... he looks really warm Three legged race... Seth was not to crazy about that
And of course... what little boys do best when they camp...
Tug a war against the Daddies
The sons won!!

Saturday, April 12, 2008

My wonderful Birthday!!

I know, I know I haven't blogged in over a month but I am doing it now. I am going to start blogging where I think I left off and I think it was around my birthday. My sweet sweet husband decided to give me the best birthday present ever.... 24 hour break from my kiddos (who I love very much) Thanks to my parents who watch our kids we where off to have some much needed RNR. We found this really good resort in north AZ and just had a blast. We went out to dinner without kids, we went to the movies without the kids, we went shopping and more shopping with out the kids, and we went out to breakfast without the kiddos. Sorry can you tell that I needed a break. Here I am with all my bags of goodies... I just love to shop.. It can be a problem :)
Spencer and I acting like a bunch of kids... we had so much fun together
Breakfast the next morning.... Thank to babe for such a fun Birthday.. I love you so much!!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Biggest Loser!!

My husband and I decided that we both wanted to lose some weight before our summer's vacations that we have planned. So knowing both of our personalities we realized to achieve our goal we would need a little competition in order to say motivated and lose our goal weight. Couple of times last year we and a group involving our family and friends all got together and joined our own BIGGEST LOSER contest. It was very successful and we all felt a little better about ourselves. The rules are that we all put in 100 dollars in the beginning of the eight week contest. If we lose 10% of our weight we will get 50 dollars of our 100 back and the rest of the money will go to THE BIGGEST LOSER!! Our weight is calculated by percentage of our weight so it is fair for everyone. Well fair if you don't consider that MEN lose weight faster and have a slight advantage over us women in the competition. You can't take pills or any kind of weight lose supliments.There are about 12 people in the competition and it ends on June 1st. In last years contest my husband Spencer won one and I won the other. Take it that I had just had a baby but it seemed to work to my advantage.I am really excited to lose some weight and feel motivated to do so. Right now I am completely starving and my stomach is growling at me. I have worked my butt off at the gym the last couple of days and am feeling quite fatigue at the moment. If I can make it through this week I will be just fine. Stay tuned for update...... Let the Biggest loser win!! Bring it on ......

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter

We had a great and crazy Easter Sunday.... We woke up and the kiddos enjoyed there Easter baskets and then went quickly on our way to church. After church we headed to my parent house for dinner around the corner from there house the reception house my in law family works at t had a Easter egg hunt for all of the kids in the neighborhood. The kids had a blast and we got some pretty cute pictures out of it. After dinner at my parent house, which was delicious we went to our second Easter meal at Spencer's family house. We had a great day and are so grateful for the opportunity to reflect on how much our Savior has done for each one of us.Two very cute kiddos... Seth was mad that I made him wear a pink shirt.. he he he
I got some eggs mom!!

I couldn't get this picture to rotate... Seth posing for the camera
Pretty in pink.....
I think I want to get in that water
Seth searching for egg with his cousin Emma Dying Easter eggs in underwear... Can you think of anything better?
That morning, Tessa with her basket... She got a new silky bunny, new dress, and candy

Seth with his Easter basket, I can begin to tell you what he got..... New Tom and Jerry DVD, Diego stuff, candy, candy and more candy