Had's big day!

{Sep 9th}

Hadley started preschool, I still can't believe it! She LOVES it! She's going to Flying Colors preschool with Ms. Monaca. Hadley loves her and her classroom is adorable! Its so cute when she tells us about her day and what they learned. That morning she was so excited. We ate breakfast and got all ready, then she wore her back pack around the house for 30 min before we left.

Here are some attempts of getting the "first day of school" pics.

I love this picture of her and her buddies! Nate-Harrison-Hadley

Then after school she got the best surprise, her papa was down for work and had an extra hour to kill. He came to visit, eat otter pops with us, look at her homework and let us play in the diesel which she calls "mac".

Labor Day Weekend

{Sep 4th-6th}

We had a great long weekend with the family! (To bad Kade and Sydney couldn't make it.) They were suppose to come down Fri night and Hadley was so dang excited. After a very long day for my dad and Kason, they decided to come Sat morning. When we were putting Hadley to bed Fri night she asked where grandma, papa and kason were. When we told her they would be here in the morning she said in a sad little voice, "you teased me." Which translates to " you lied to me!" It was so cute and so sad!

So once they got here, our friends Lindsay and Wes let us all come crash at there fabulous pool! It was wonderful, thanks guys!! We had a fun night at dinner. When we were leaving the restaurant, Hadley saw a lady with long very pink hair. When we were right in front of her table Hadley freezes and stares and says loudly, "mom, look! She has pretty pink hair. Like my ponies!" Oh man, I'm not ready for these innocent, honest comments that will embarrass me!

Monday we went bowling and out to lunch before they left us. Of course I take no pictures until the last day! And most of these pics turned out bad cause our camera sucks and Brandon will give me a hard time for not fixing red eye but I can't figure it out today, oh well.


Had and papa bowling.

Waiting so patiently for her turn.

Cheering everyone on.

She loved having the air blow her hair.

After she would let the ball go, and it took 5 min for it to reach the pins she would do dance moves or a head stand while she waited. This is all I could capture though.

6 years!

{aug 20-21}

I'm so behind on blogging! In August we celebrated our 6 year anniversary! It was so much fun! We decided to do a stay-cation. We live in Vegas, so we thought we'd enjoy it the way we would if we came here to visit!

A huge THANK YOU to my parents who came down to watch Hadley for the night.

It ended up working great because our good friends Kelly and Jenn were trying to plan something in Vegas that same weekend. So we ended up all staying at the Red Rock Casino, swimming and going to our favorite buffet at the Paris. While Kel and Jenn went to a show on the strip we ended up going back and seeing a movie. It was the best time doing whatever we wanted with no kids, relaxing and spending time with our friends who we miss so much!

And I am horrible with our camera, I had to steal these off Kelly's blog. I guess this is what happens when you are married 6 years you stop taking pics of your anniversary!

We weren't the only ones having fun that weekend. Hadley loves her grandma and papa and gets so excited when they sleep at her house. They took her to dinner and played a ton and even took her to see my dad's friend's fire truck. She thought she was so cool!

Its a....

BOY!!!


We couldn't be more excited and still in shock.

Our reaction: "Are you serious?!" "No way!" and maybe some happy tears!

Hadley's reaction: LOTS of not-so-happy tears. "Say its a sister" "I need a sister" "i don't want a brother"

We told her Heavenly Father gets to choose and her response: "Heavenly Father wants a brother but I need a sister"
Whenever one of us would tell someone on the phone she'd say to the other, tell mom/dad to say its a sister! Followed by more tears!!

Good thing we have til Feb! We need all the time to get her excited!

Our family of 3....

will be a family of 4!

Its true, baby #2 will be here Feb 3, 2011

I'm 11 weeks, still pretty sick but we are just so dang excited!

Wedding Time

{ June 19th }


These two love birds finally tied the knot!! We couldn't be more excited for them. The wedding was beautiful and they had so much family who traveled far to be there to share this day with them.

We love you Sydney, welcome to our crazy family!

(Unfortunately I took no pics with my camera, so these are just some I took from facebook that my cousin Justin took)

I love this picture of Hadley and her cousin Davis dancing! And props to Hadley for being the cutest flower girl! and actually participating!

He's Baaack!

{June 10th}

Welcome home Elder Prisbrey!!!! This was by far one of the coolest days ever!!!
He flew in at 12:30 pm and it seemed like the morning dragged on forever! Then the plane was late, then he took his sweet time getting off the plane. St. George is the BEST place to be to watch missionaries come home. Our airport is small and you can see them as soon as they step out of the plane.

For fathers day Brandon and I surprised my dad with round trip tickets to Salt Lake. So he could surprise Kason at his gate in SLC and they could fly home together.

Its so nice to have my buddy home again.
(brandon had to work so thats why he's not in any pics, their reunion happened the next day)

Hadley's party!

{ June 5th }

All she wanted was a "horsie" birthday. So we did a horse/cowboy party.
It turned out cute, she got spoiled by her friends, glad this only comes once a year!

3 years ago...

Dear Hadley,

Three years ago today, we were happier than we could ever imagine and loving our new baby girl! You came earlier than planned and the Dr.'s had prepared us that you were going to be little and not be able to come home right away. But you have to do the opposite of what people tell you since day 1 and you came out bigger than expected. You were 5 lb 14oz 19 inches long.
Daddy thought you would always have a cone head and a crooked nose, but mommy always thought you were so dang cute!

Had at 1 month

It has been so fun to watch you grow, learn, play, and talk. You bring us so much joy!

Had at 1 year

2 year

And today! Took her to Chuck E Cheese to play with a few friends. Then off to Cafe Rio and Nielson's! And to top if off, a little shopping!



She has the best daddy, he surprised us both by coming home early and bringing us our favorite cupcakes!!Had, mommy loves you! Hope you had a fun day cause I know I sure did!

A few things about Hadders at 3 yrs.

-you make us laugh
-you tell me that you are funny
-you love to play hide and seek
-you like to say prayers (finally)
-you said your name is not hadley anymore but "halle"
-you love horses, princess's, dress ups, cars, movies, playing outside, playing with friends, you love your grandparents, aunts and uncles, animals
-you think babies are cute but never want to touch them
-you told me to "shut up" for the first time yesterday and it broke my little heart
-you can be the sweetest thing always telling us you love us
-you can be the biggest stinker ever and throw a good fit
-you love to sound out words and have us repeat them, then you say "yeah, thats right"
-you went to a baptism and now you are so scared to get baptized even though its years away
-when you don't get your way and cry, you say something like "mom, i'm sad cause i want more m&m's"
-you pretty much don't take a nap anymore, but sleep in so much better now
-you are so dang tall, you are a lefty, and you have the funnest little personality!

Some FUN times!

I'm slacking off with the blog thing. We have been having fun though! We love that it is warm now!! We got most of our backyard done, been swimming a few times, getting ready for Hadley to turn 3 on Wed, and having fun with visitors!!!

Grandpa Craig has stopped by a few times lately and its been so good to see him!!!


Our friend Cassie is getting married so her and Riley, Crew and Mama Jew came down to shop for dresses and of course we all had to go to Cheesecake Factory!!

We love the parks in Las Vegas. There are tons to choose from so here we are exploring a new one with the girls from the ward. This girl loves snakes lately. Its freaking me out a little bit. I took her to the dentist for the first time (she did so good!) and out of all the toys she chose a fake snake. It scares the crap out of me constantly. I hate that thing even though its plastic.

Our good friends Jason and Sammy and their cute kids came down so we got to meet up with them for some shopping and dinner! Hadley loves London and had so much fun playing and dressing up with her!!

Here is cute little Camden. (I don't know why this picture is flipped sideways and it won't let me turn it.)