Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Our fun filled weekend

June 2nd, Hadley turned 4!! This makes me feel old! She is such a big girl and was so excited for her birthday this year. We wanted to make her day special, so before we went to bed we blew up a bunch of balloons and put them in her room so when she woke up she would be so excited. These balloons kept popping so I was so nervous that they would pop during the night and scare her to death. Luckily they didn't.


I guess this is our birthday tradition, we met up with Lindsay and her boys and went to chuck e cheese. The kids loved it and got some fun prizes just because it was Had's birthday!



Brandon always brings Hadley a cupcake on her birthday. She made him put a candle in it so she could turn 4 she said. Right after he left, she was outside waving to him and turned around and tripped and her cupcake went under my car. It was very devastating!! Thank goodness he brings me a cupcake too, because it came in handy this year.

I swore I was not going to do a birthday party this year. I was taking advantage of the last year before she would be totally into it. But I like making my kids cakes on their birthday, kind of our tradition. So the plan was cake and ice cream and a few friends and no actual party. Well she wanted a tangled/barbie birthday cake. So I thought I'd make pascal cupcakes and a barbie cake. This cake kicked my butt!! What a pain. The cake fell apart when I put the barbie in it so plan B was just a round cake with the sun from tangled on it. Well drawing a sun with frosting was harder than it sounded! So plan C the round cake with an "H" on it!


She loves playing Rapunzel and I have to pin a long piece of toilet paper or anything long like that in her hair. So I thought I'd make this long braid for the decor and then she could have it to play with. This sucker took over an hour to make and all three of us! It was fun though, she loved it.

Her cute little friends. We got lucky that Chase and Connor were visiting from Salt Lake!

I love my family!! After the party was over they all showed up!! They came down just to eat cake and ice cream and give Hadley her presents in person! My mom stayed with us for a few days and everyone else went home that night. It was fast but so fun! Hadley loves her uncles and aunt syd! She was spoiled.


June 3rd:
Hadley had her last day of soccer! We made it through it! They had a pizza party at the park to get their trophies. A few weeks ago Hadley even scored a goal!!!!
We will miss the Sharks!!

June 4th: We had a lot of fun while my mom was here. We took her to see Kung Fu Panda 2 and went to dinner after. She got a birthday treat, and after she blew out her candle she asked me if she is 5 now.
June 5th: Grayson started rolling! He is liking being on his tummy now, and rolled over 3 times that night!

I love you mom, thanks for staying with us and letting me and Brandon have a few date nights!!!

Things to remember about Hadley at 4:

She is 37 lbs and 42 inches tall.
She was so brave and did not cry when she got her 4 year old shots.
I asked her a few questions and here are her answers:
Favorite color is Orange. Favorite food is watermelon. Favorite thing to play is princesses or swimming.
She loves any animals and plays with stuffed animals over dolls.
She loves barbies, dressing up and watching movies.
She has the best imagination and is so smart. She has such a great memory.
She loves to pick up Grayson or pull him around the room by his feet. ( I'm in trouble!)
She is a big helper at home.
Loves primary.
Loves music.
She loves to color now or cut paper.
She says that when she is 5 she will like more foods and will know everything.
She is a big tease.
She has an imaginary boyfriend named Danny Phantom.

Sunday, May 29, 2011




Last night we gave Grayson rice cereal for the first time!
You could tell he didn't know quite what to think at first with a spoon.
Did great after that, no funny faces so I think he liked it!

Hadley's first year of preschool!

Hadley finished her first year of preschool last week! What a fun year it has been for her. She has loved it. And it is so fun to see just how much she's learned!

On the last day of school Ms. Monaca did a luau and invited the mom's to come eat and watch the pinata. After watching Hadley and the pinata, I think its safe to say sports are not in her future:)




While we were waiting to go to the luau, Lindsay and Alex came over and we were preparing our stuff to take. Well, Ryan was climbing up my kitchen chair and didn't quite make it up. Lindsay picked him up and was cuddling him and when he lifted up his head we saw blood! His tooth had bit through his lip. This little dude is so tough! He stopped crying just after a min or so. We had Derek and Kristine, our very own house call Dr and nurse meet us at preschool. They told us to have it checked and he probably needed a stitch or two. Thanks to Megan and Alex for taking our kids so I could go with Lindsay to the urgent care. Needless to say, it was a long wait and no stitches!! They thought it would be more traumatic to hold him down for 1 stitch.

I'm bad luck for Lindsay, cause the next day we had a collision with Nate!

Monday, May 23, 2011

Who's Your Daddy?

So Kiley and I were watching the Billboard Music Awards last night and we noticed a striking resemblance between the rapper Pitbull and our son Grayson. So I decided to compare a pictures of Grayson with a picture of Pitbull and a picture of me. Who do you think this kid resembles more?



Sunday, May 22, 2011

4 MoNthS

4 MONTHS

don't mind that he's giving me the bird.

He's a great little shopping buddy when Had's at preschool! After we got home he crashed on the couch.

I love and hate that my little man is 4 months. I know I say it every month, but it is just going by way to fast! I'm loving this age though!

We weighed him on the Wii and according to that he is 14lbs 9 oz. I think its off a little though, we will find out in a few weeks at his dr's app.

*he has been an awesome sleeper, until now. He has been waking up 2 times a night for a few weeks. I think its a growth spurt or something. Last night he slept a straight 11 hrs, so hopefully its over now!
*he has found his hands and eats them non stop
*he is spitting up more
*he is finally laughing, although it takes a lot to make him laugh and usually his mamma to do it.
*hates tummy time
*starting to fight the car seat. Ugg, I hope this is just a phase! He arches his back and growls when we put him in it.
*he is my sensitive child. Things freak him out and scare him and there is no consoling him!
*loves baths
*starting to not like his binky
*loves looking at himself in the mirror
*is very ticklish


Here will be one of his black mail pics in the future. After the kids baths the other night Hadley wouldn't put on her jammies so we told her Grayson would wear them. Sad that these 3T jammies were not huge on him! And I had to throw in a cute bow! I miss the headbands, I'll be honest!

St. George

{ May 6th & 7th }

Brandon's sister Erin and her family were in St. George and my Sister in Law Sydney graduated college so we went up there to celebrate both!

We always have a fun time with Erin, Garrett and Sylvie! Went out to dinner, got our butts kicked in games and just had fun visiting and playing with Sylvie! The boys even found time to go golfing and next time me and Erin get to go do something:)
Hadley LOVES Erin and was her shadow while we were there! When she was helping her get Sylvie to bed, she asked where Sylvie was going to sleep. Then she asked where the flat haired guy with her was going to sleep at. When Erin told her in the same bed as her, she thought for a min and said, "oh, my mom and dad sleep in the same bed too!"


Little buddies!


Pizza Factory!

Saying good bye at the condo. Erin, we need to do this more often and meet in St. George!!

On Sat, we went to Cedar to watch Sydney graduate!! She is officially a teacher Woohoo!! I couldn't be more proud of her and all her hard work! It was so great being up there on her special day. We love you Sydney! You are a great sister and aunt. After the graduation we went over to her mom's for a yummy dinner. It was fun visiting with everyone, she has a great family. It was a great day!


I had to throw this in, he is so dang cute!!

Saturday, May 21, 2011

My 27th!

{ April 30th }




Had the best birthday!
Woke up to breakfast and a cake.
Hadley kicked the ball at her soccer game for my special day.
My kids were on their best behavior all day.
I got some beautiful flowers.
Grateful for all the cards, texts and love I got from my friends!
Went to dinner with Brandon and our friends Lindsay and Wes.
Met up with Alex and Pat and went to a movie.
Grateful for our friends who watched the kids.
Thank you Brandon for making my day so wonderful, you are very thoughtful! xoxo