Recital

So once again, bad blogger strikes. Katelyn's recital was a few weeks back although in my defense when I first downloaded the video it wasn't working right. So you can't post when it's not working, right? Well now it's fine, though I don't think I did anything to fix it. Hope you enjoy!
P.S. Katelyn is in the back on the right =)

My Mother's Day celebration

It's a darn good thing we did this trip early in the week, once again Dave has abandoned me on Mother's Day. He had an opportunity to go work on a fire in southern AZ so I sacrificed my breakfast in bed for a 2nd year in a row, what are the odds? Oh well I got to have a nice vacay with the family in San Diego and that's the important part. We took Katelyn out of school and decided to drive over to Cali for a mid week visit to Sea World before all the kids are out on summer break. It was great, not very busy and the weather was perfect. The kids really enjoyed themselves, Brody had no fear of the ocean. Katelyn picked up every seashell, piece of seashell she could find and a heck of a lot of sand. My car is in need of serious detailing :(
We had dinner with Shamu which was fabulous!! You could literally reach over and touch a whale you are so close. Of course they discourage this , but great photo ops for sure. Brody slept through most of the action but woke up just in time to not miss out on the buffet lunch. Highly recommend it !

tiny dancers

It's that time of year at the dance studio. Lots of excitement as the girls prepare for the annual recital, getting to try on their costumes and of course pictures of our cuties all dolled up.


This year they are attempting to perform 3 numbers, a tap, ballet and a jazz routine. I don't know the other two songs but the booty short outfit is to a Hannah Montana song. I'm sure they will do great whatever the song and I'm sure that I will have tears of laughter running down my face as they are so dang cute when they get up on stage. If they stop waving to the crowd and dance, that is!


Yes Mom, I'll make you a copy!

Brody Man!

My friend Megan is always laughing at Brody when he eats. She thinks he sounds manly. He is very noisy! Bordering on obnoxious! Especially if you are next to him and trying to have a conversation with someone, it's distracting to say the least. She tells me all the time I need to record it since one day he won't do it anymore, which is very true! So this is a post for Megan since he is eating one of her Vampire bloody cupcakes leftover from our Twilight viewing last night. Thanks girl, love ya!

Thou Shall Not Covet...

Thy neighbors food storage rack! Oh for sometime now I have been envious of my girl's food storage rack. I ran home and told Dave all about it, I drug him into her "secret room" to see how cool it was. Finally today I begged and pleaded for him to help me clean out one of our spare bedroom closets so we could buy some shelves to organize our year supply. Ya know just the metal wire racks, nothing fancy! I was happy just to have anything that wasn't under the kids beds,stuffed in hall closets... I think my exact words were " I promise we can be out in 20 minutes or less, let's go!" lol!!!! We find the racks I was looking for, but then we find oh so much more. : ) At Wally world no less! I am in love! It can not get put together fast enough, but wait. The only problem is I will actually see how much more food we still need. At least we'll have a great rotating rack to put it all on. Hurry up, babe!

Valentine's Day

We had such a great day, and it was jam packed let me tell ya! We started off bright and early with a little exercise. That's right! Nothing like a 5k to get the blood flowing on V-day. We have a family in our stake and also Katelyn's school that have beautiful twin girls. They are 2 years old and are a miracle to doctor's and family alike. They are conjoined and they share a heart and liver. Doctors are preparing to take on the daunting task of separating these girls and they each need a new heart since the one they share is diseased so the communtity reached out to support the Bailey family and help them raise money to take care of their needs. Their story has been on the Discovery Health Channel and if you want to find out more or help you can go to their blog at http://www.emmaandtaylorbailey.blogspot.com/ . So at the crack of dawn we drug everyone out of bed and off we went with my girl's and their kids! and Dave too! Did I mention it was 36 degrees that morning? Good times! I am so proud of myself number one, but also my sweet husband who really wanted to stay home, in our nice warm bed. Thanks for once again sacrificing to be together as a family. I am thankful to Megan for inviting me along and to both she and Amber for making it so enjoyable to do. I wont lie there was much more walking than running, but I did it and finished in 1:03 give or take. Remember we had 5 children with us, mouths to keep fed, body parts to keep tucked into blankets, arguments to referee...

After the race we enjoyed a yummy pancake breakfast and then proceeded to loose my children at least twice (Dave). Brody was not far off in the mud having a good time , Katelyn couldn't wait any longer to see the petting zoo and so off she went. In her defense she says she told a grown up, though no one recalls hearing her. We had balloon animals made, we bounced, we shopped (a little) and I got chewed on by a baby goat.

We all went home for a much needed nap and had a very romantic family dinner complete with homeade banana splits for desert. Not a bad day at all if ,ya ask meHope your's was just as great!

finally a post!

So things were crazy during the holidays and it took awhile to recover I guess. Sorry, no excuse really. I found Facebook but I'm not really good at that either yet. It's fun to find people I haven't seen or talked to in awhile but it's even more of a guilty pleasure than blogstalking! January was lot's of fun, we went to the snow for New Year's which the kids loved.

Dave celebrated his birthday with Katelyn's first cake in her Easybake Oven, & I made a banana cream pie- from scratch! Which would have been great but I read something about lemon juice on the bananas to keep them from turning brown, so I gave it a try. Not a good idea folks! tangy banana cream pie??? and they went brown anyway. But everything else was easy peasy so I just may try again some day as it's Dave's fave.





We met up with the Wright's, for a trip to the zoo. We don't get to see them as much as we'd like these days since they are on the other side of town. But the kids got along really well, usually they fight about everything until it's almost time to go and then cry and cry because they don't want to leave each other. Something about first borns I guess. The girl's had never been on the camel before so we tried something new. Poor Kenzie decided she didn't think that was a good idea at the last minute so it was just Kate and Megan, they loved it. And they have redone the children's area since we'd been there last- it's all done like the fisher-price farm set. Way cute! So if anyone is up for a trip to the zoo, we'd love to go just let us know. Gotta get our money's worth outta that membership,right?

I had been saying Brody needed a haircut for a few weeks now, but hadn't been able to make it happen. I think I was a little scared all his curls would go away. But never fear, they are here to stay I think. Kayla did an awesome job and cut just enough that he didn't look like a brillo pad any more. I am so sorry about the sand, though. She has this great backyard with a park-like playground, sand and all. So while she was cutting Katelyn's hair Brody and Brex were outside being manly men and having a ball. When I went to get him for his turn, his hands and clothes were dirty so I brushed him off and brought him inside. I missed the fact that he had dumped the intire sandbox on his head. Probably not so fun to try and give a haircut with all that sand, and more than a little messy in her salon, sorry girl! He looks like such a big boy now! I love it.