What a month!

May has been quite the busy month. Today (18th) is Madison's last day of school. And last week there was an awards assembly. I had gotten an email from her teacher saying that Madison had received an award, and that we were invited to come. The award was for Citizenship. There were 4 kids in the whole first grade who received this award. Her friend Passion (wearing purple) also received it.


That same day (Friday 13th) Madison was recognized by her teacher for being a leader and making right choices! That meant that she was the last VIP of the year. This was her second time being VIP!! So after the awards assembly we went and picked up a pizza to take for lunch. Madison get's to choose 2 friends to eat at the special VIP tables.

She chose Jada and her best buddy Dana. These kids are hilarious! They were so excited. Two girls in 2nd grade who were on her basketball team came and gave her a hug and congratulated Madison! It was pretty cute!

After the VIP lunch we went home for about an hour then we took Brynley for her 4 month well child check.

(It's not the best picture but it does show her two rolls on her legs!!)
Brynley Grace @ 4 months
15.1 lbs (75%)
25 inches (75%)

I thought the scale was wrong!! She weighed only 8 lb 15oz at 2 months!! She sure did make up for lost time. She now wears a size 3 diaper, and 6-9 month clothes!! She loves to play with her hands and suck her thumb. Which Travis hates!! She has just discovered the toys hanging from her car seat and she will now grab at them. We tried rice cereal this morning for the fun of it, she really didn't like it, but she ate it!

She has been sleeping through the night for a while now. So Zachary and I put the crib up in his room. Brynley will sleep from 10p ish - about 8am. Zach loves to have a roommate. If he wakes up and she is still asleep he will come out quietly. But if she is awake, he entertains her until I come and get her.


This is her other new trick. She get's completely uncovered and turns sideways in her crib! She loves to be swaddled at night and some how she wiggles out! Yesterday her legs were hanging out of the bars!!

Also on the same day Zachary had his singing class recital. It was a busy day to say the least. This is the 2nd time Zachary was in the singing class. Our friend Janelle does it our of her house one day a week and the kids love it. This time around she focused on instruments and body movement.

This was one was about listening and they had to balance a bean bag on different parts of their body while marching in a circle.

This song was called Tambourine Kid. Zach is one of the older kids in the class and the tallest by far!

This month is almost over but now we have the summer ahead of us! I hope everyone had a good May! We did and it was a busy one!

Mother's Day bandwagon!!

I too, better post about the wonderful Mother's Day that I had. Travis got up a little earlier on Sunday morning and made my favorite breakfast............waffles! Real waffles. We have the box kind in the freezer, which I like too but real waffles are my most favorite!

We have Church at 11am, and Brynley usually eats and takes a nap towards the end. So after she ate Travis kindly took Brynn and put her to sleep so I could enjoy Relief Society. Two weeks in a row he has done this and it's a nice break!

When we got home the kids surprised me with new Pyrex dishes!! I have a track record of breaking my 9x13 or smaller pyrex's. I have blown two up in the oven, and one on the stove top because I left a burner on and set a 350 degree casserole on the burner! We both agreed that since I haven't broken any in about 2 years, I needed some new ones! I got a 9x13 and an 8x8, which I made lemon bars in!!

A mother's day tradition that I always look forward to is a DQ ice cream cake! I have gotten one every year for a while now. We all enjoyed a piece last night. I hope this tradition last forever! Or as long as DQ makes the ice cream cakes!!

I also got a Paula Dean recipe magazine. Which has all of her favorites! Like chicken pot pie!! There are a few recipes I am going to try! YUM!


I made dinner, and I am okay with it. I like to cook!

All in all it was a nice day. The kids made some cards at Church and I got a bag of candy treats. Jordan Almonds are my fav! I hope you all had a great Mother's day as well.

Fishing Derby and Family Time!

Today was the Rotary Club's Fishing Derby. Madison brought the flier home from school and was very excited about going fishing. It was $5 per kid, and they got a lunch and a participation prize. Travis went and bought stuff for bobber and worm fishing (aka white trash fishing!) Anyway he picked Zachary up a CARS pole so he could participate as well.

We got there early to register and find our spot. They assigned each kid to a number along the bank of the Indian Creek.

Checking out our spot!

Madison is ready to fish!

Zach and his new pole!

Brynley slept on and off. She loves to be outside!

They were ready to fish! The derby was from 12p-3p. There was no way the kids were going to last that long! They made it an hour and a half! Which was a lot longer than we expected!! Now as you can see, there was not a lot of room. From bank to bank it was maybe 20 feet!! So there were a lot of tangled lines with fellow fishermen. People were catching fish above us, below us and right across the way. But we didn't catch any at all, not even a nibble.

The first casts of the day!



Zachary told me tonight, that part of fishing is not catching any sometimes. And that he had a lot of fun and can't wait to go again!

I just love this one of Zach. He was so cute with his little pole. He stood on this rock the whole time!

Madison's one catch of the day! A piece of plastic!

Travis helping Madison with her bait!


After Madison would cast she would sit on her little rock chair!


And one last kid shot before we left!


We had a pretty fun day. Time well spent with Family!!

The Dentist!

Well Zachary has been spending a lot of time at Dr. Lloyd's office! All the ladies know him by name, and say hi every time we come in.
We had an appointment this week and he was so excited to go. However as soon as Dr. Lloyd began he totally freaked!! He was soooooo tired and didn't want to be there any longer. Dr. L is so incredibly patient with Zach and will do anything he can to make that boy happy. Including 2 toys out of the treasure chest!!
So not much was done at the appointment. We got as far as the "magic wand" aka numbing shot and nitrous. I always forget the camera but this time I remembered.


We brought the DS the last two times we went and it was a great distraction. Dr. L lets him play while he is working!! I don't know how he does it but it works. So Zach is playing while the gets numbed up and a little loopy! The game must be funner when your are on the laughing gas!!!
Oh Zach also likes to get comfortable while in the chair!! No shoes and "soft clothes!"

After we left the office and no work was done, he promised me and Dr. L that he would be a good boy and let him do the work next week. We live less than 5 minutes away and he was asleep before we got home and slept until 7:45p! That was an almost 4 hour nap!


Here is a picture of Brynley! She is getting more fun! She loves anyone who talks and smiles at her. She get's so excited to eat, and absolutely LOVES Zachary! I can't believe that she will be 4 months next week!!

So Excited!

Zachary was very excited for me to bake cookies a few weeks ago. He went and got the stop stool and sat in front of the oven and waited for the first batch! I haven't done a lot of baking since Brynley was born mainly because she wanted to be held so much and I couldn't bake and hold her at the same time. I have started baking more, probably not enough by Travis' standards!! If he had it his way I would have fresh baked goods every day!!


This is his spazy smile. He is afraid that he will blink when the flash goes off!!

This video of Madison is hilarious! She wants to be included when Travis and Zachary "play" baseball. Zachary has some talent for a 4 year old, and we are hoping that sports will be his thing. Madison has tried her hand at soccer and basketball and we have discovered that her athletic bone is small to none! However, she does try her best and that's all we can ask of her.

What a Week!

We had a pretty fun week. There were deliveries from the UPS man and mail man with Easter goodies for the whole family.
Zachary opening up his bag from Papi and Grandma Karen!


The weather was somewhat decent so we had playgroup egg hunt. I think Zachary was the oldest kid but only by a little. They all had a blast. We "hid" the eggs in the grass for the under 2 bunch. For the3+ kids we actually hid the eggs on the play structure and behind the big rocks! It was very windy and cold that day so everyone had a runny nose. Ryleigh kept licking her lip trying to catch the boogers!
After the hunt I tried to get a picture but Ryleigh was too excited about her eggs and wouldn't look at the camera.

Also, Brynley has found her hands! Well she found them a while ago, and as you can see in the picture she favors her thumb if it gets anywhere near her mouth! She was napping on our bed one morning and she started fussing so I went in to give her her pacifier and she had already found her thumb! She went back to sleep and woke up 2 hours later!!

Brynn got a puppy and clothes from her Great Grandma Vickie.

Now the big news for the week. Shannon (sister in law and Ryleigh's mom) went into labor here at the house after her doctors appointment last Wednesday. I was timing contractions from 5 mins apart down to 1 minute apart in the 45 minutes that she was here. She barely made to the hospital (30 min away) and delivered little Bailey Dakota 4lb 13oz 4.5 weeks early! She is sooooo cute and tiny!
I just noticed that she is wearing the shirt that she wore to work that day! She didn't have time to change!! I just talked to Shannon and she said that Bailey gained a load of weight over night and is doing well! I got to hold her last night and she felt like holding a ball of blankets! Sooooo tiny!

Also this weekend we had really good weather, and Travis and the kids were playing baseball out back and Travis ask me to take a video of Zach. Enjoy!

Brynley is 3 months and I turn 30!!!

Brynley turned 3 months on Sunday! And as you can see in the picture above, she just keeps on getting cuter!!! She has changed so much in the last month! She has put on some more weight and is quickly growing out of her clothes! Today I finally packed up the rest of her newborn and 0-3 clothes! She now wears a Carter's 6m (12-18 lbs) and some 3-6 m stuff depending on the brand!!! She is also quickly growing out of her 1/2 size diapers from Costco! She is sleeping all night!! She goes down anywhere between 10p-midnight and sleeps until anywhere between 7a-8am!!! We are setting up the big crib this weekend!!! No more bassinet!
She is still on her acid reflux medicine which is a good thing! She still spits up a lot, which means that I do a lot of laundry.


She looks sooooo good in red! Travis of course hates the flower but I think it's cute! I love her big brown sometimes green eyes! And those kissable cheeks!!

Taking her evening nap! Those jammies are a 6m from Target! I can't believe how fast she is growing!

I almost forgot..............I turned 30 today! Yahoooooo! To tell you the truth I don't feel any different! It's weird to think that I have had a best friend for 15 years! I love you Heather! It's cool that I had 3 kids before I turned 30, and I had a great birthday weekend!

First we went to dinner with our awesome friends Gary and Veronique. We went to Red Robin because I joined the birthday club and my meal was free! However it came at an embarrassing price! I had to stand and hold my ice cream, with balloon ears while they announced that I was turning 30 and sang incredibly loud!! But hey it was fun! Sorry no pictures, and I am glad that there aren't any!!!

On Saturday after Madison's basketball game, Travis bought me the New Super Mario Brothers game for the DS!! I have wanted it for a long time!

Then on Sunday after Church, I made my birthday cake! Yes you heard me right! I like to bake and my mom suggested this recipe!

It's a 2 layer chocolate cake, with mini chocolate chips and peeps to look like a sun flower! It turned out pretty cute and tasted even better!
Later in the day we had Shannon, Devin and Ryleigh over for my birthday dinner! I chose to make enchiladas! They are my favorite! We had a fun evening watching the Trek DVD.

Then today (Monday) my actual birthday, Zachary and I went out for a fun birthday lunch! I let him choose and he picked Arctic Circle. We had a fun day of lunch and errands! I only had to feed Brynn in the car once in the Albertson's parking lot!!!!
Oh, and the kids got me the Easy Feet foot bath for the shower!! I love to have clean feet in the summer especially after wearing sandals all day!!!

And to end the evening, Madison and Zachary went to bed without a fight and are now asleep!!!

All in all I feel good for being 30!!