Swimming at Grandma's

Cousins & BFF's forever!! A day of swimming, PB&J sammys, orange creamies, riding bikes, laying in the sun snuggled in a towel, and lots of giggles and fun!


Teyah havin fun in the sun with the girls!


Addi jumping in the pool!


Mini Valerie, Meredith & Hope!!

A video of the girls playing ring around the rosies :)

KOHEN

Look how big he is getting already! 5 weeks today and full of smiles :0)

Happy 4th of July!

Look how cool this is! Kyle made it today from old fence wood to hang on our house. I love it! Happy 4th ya'll! Time to BBQ!

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day to Kyle! The best Daddy in the world!

And Happy Fathers Day to my Dad! I Love you Dad, you are an amazing person!

Kohen has arrived!!!!

Our little man has finally arrived! Born June 2, 2009! 8lbs, 8oz, 19"! What a handsome and sweet 'lil guy, we just love him! He has been so much fun! Here are a few of my favorite pics.

Few things we did in May ....

Dressed up cute and goofy,


Put big frilly bows in Gracies hair,


Played with a frog that Dad brought home,


Played on the swing set,

Finger painted,

Took the dogs for a walk at the park,

Pretended to play baseball,

Hung out at the playground,

Went swimming at the community pool!

I thought Kohen would join us at the end of May, but now I'm not so sure! He is due tomorrow, but no signs that he will be here that soon! We can't wait to meet him and I sure can't wait to get this baby out!! I have taken the last few weeks off work and it has been fun to spend time with Grace and get things ready for our new baby. This will be a great summer for our family!

Mothers Day =0)

I sure love to be this cute little girls Mommy! Grace and Kyle started my day off with some pancakes. Grace added some yellow food coloring just for me =) And then we headed down to the Jordan Parkway to have a little picnic and feed the ducks! I forgot my camera, or I'd have pictures of that instead. Later we headed to my sister Valeries for a family BBQ with some yummy eats! It was a fabulous day! Oh and Kyle made my truck sparkle, thanks babe!


Here is a picture of my beautiful Mom! Although I must say that this picture is not current. She has cut her hair short and it is super cute! I need to get a photo and post it! Happy Mothers Day Mom! You have inspired me to be the Mommy that I am today!


I love this picture of me and Gracie! I just love being a Mommy and can't wait for Kohen to be born! 2 1/2 weeks and counting!

Camping Over Easter Weekend

Here's Tatum looking cute in her gear, coloring eggs!


Addi thought it was way cool, she had a lot of fun coloring eggies!


Grace had fun coloring eggs (for about 3 whole minutes) and then just wanted to eat one!


Kyle loving on a bud light in the great outdoors!

Its not very often my picture is taken, I am always the one taking them! Here's me and my belly asking Kyle for the camera back!

Kyle helped the kids make this bench, they had fun with it!

Grace liked to give this doggie kisses! He was soaking wet from the rain! My dogs were whimps, they wanted in the trailer once they felt one rain drop hit!

Grace thought it was pretty cool to stick her mitten in the rain puddles on the chairs and suck on it. Silly girl!

Grace loved finding eggs all over the trailer Easter morning when she woke up! She was a lot of fun to watch!

Grace & Addi on the eggie hunt! They had so much fun running around our camp looking for eggs :) and had a blast together all weekend long with each other! I'm so glad she has girl cousins her age to play with!

Its starting to become tradition to camp over Easter weekend with Hope & Scott and their friends Wade & Mary. Its the perfect time to camp. Not too hot, not too cold and NO bugs!! We LOVE to take our trailer out camping all year long, its something we can enjoy together as a family. The dogs too! They were in heaven!

MY Prince

I just have to share a Grace moment. She has totally been into the princess thing for more than a year now. Loves to dress up and watch all the Disney movies. Not to mention, any girl we see in a skirt or dress she says, "oh look, there's a princess"!! So anyway, she now realizes that the princess marries the prince. She always talks about it and how they have true loves kiss and live happily ever after. So now, she wants to marry her prince ... her Dad!! We sat down and showed her our wedding pictures and told her how we are married and had a true loves kiss :) and she is just so amazed! I told her how she would find her prince one day and marry him. Well that really upset her. She wants to marry her Dad! He is her prince! She doesn't want to find her own prince, because she already has one. She said that I needed to find my own and that Dad was hers!! She is such a daddys girl, I love it. Kyle is such a great Dad and they are the best of friends. We came to the conclusion that we could share him, and she is happy with that :)

Gracie's Birthday Party

We decided to have Gracie's Birthday party with all of her cousins at The Aquarium right by our house! She absolutely loves to go there! Her sitter Jackie has been so good to take her many times, and I finally decided to get a membership. Unfortunetely I missed the party :( due to pinching a nerve in my lower back the day before. I cried my eyes out for missing the party, but I couldn't even get out of bed. I was down for 10 days! SUCKED ... but anyway, back to the party!! She got tons and tons of fun presents! My sister said that the money presents were funny ... she shouted MONEY and threw it in the air!! Thanks to everybody for coming and helping out! Kyle did a great job pulling the party off w/o me. Love you babe!

The party was in a "ship" .... so of course we had to do the pirate thing! Looks like they had a lot of fun with it! Pictures turned out cute! Thanks Val and Hope :)

Jayda

Kaden

Grace blowing out her birthday candles. Costco cakes are the bomb! Kyle craves Costco cake all the time. We ate cake all week long and even sang happy birthday (with candles of course) a few more times. Grace insisted!

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Tatum, Breanne, Jax & Teyah ... argggh matie!!

Grandma Stephanie and Teyah

Addi, Teyah & Grace

Birthday girl :)

Teyah

Jax ... oh yes, we had pirate tattoo's too!

Teyah, Jax, Tatum, Makayla & Addison