Easter Weekend

Chad, Heather, Todd (Chad's brother)

I love weekends full of family get togethers. Over Easter weekend we were lucky enough to have Chad's cousin and her cute family come and visit from Wisconsin. We got to take care of her three little kids while she and her husband and older two kiddos enjoyed conference on Temple Square. Then we ended the evening with food, laughing, stories and good times.

MacKenzie, Raegan, Kylie and Kalli

On Sunday we enjoyed watching conference at my mom's house. We made the kids cute coloring packets to help keep them settled down and entertained. Plus they enjoyed an Easter Egg hunt in between conference sessions.

Raegan and Mom

Kalli and Sadie (grandma's dog)

Daddy and Sydney

Baby Nicholas and Uncle Kirk

What a great weekend!!!

Whats Been Goin On...

APRIL FOOLS
First of all I am not happy with the weather!!! We have had cold weather for so long. Seriously, snow on April 1st?? Mother Nature's cruel April Fools joke to me. I have been needing the sun so desperately this year. I guess I really am an Arizona girl.

POTTY TRAINING!!
Oh I despise potty training. You would think by kid #6 it would get easier. Nope! Max just doesn't get it. I think I may have to give it up until summer comes.

I love these two guys!!

CRAZY HAIR DAY
Well three out of my 5 elementary school kids weren't "too cool" for Crazy Hair Day. Tyler informed me that he is "too good looking to make his hair crazy" OH BROTHER! and Raegan is in 6th grade and I guess 6th graders just don't do crazy hair. I am happy that Kalli, Andrew and Sydney (plus their friend McKenna) aren't too cool for the
Crazy Hair Do!

Oh What a Beautiful Day!

Oh What A Beautiful Day!! Today it felt like spring. Andrew his buddy Parker, Max, Nicholas and I went to the park. Chad was even able to meet us there for lunch. The sun was shining, there was not a stitch of snow on the ground...It was Lovely!!

The Lunch

My birthday was last week so a group of my friends had a fun little birthday lunch for me. I think it is nice that we have birthdays so we can have excuses to get together and visit, laugh and EAT! The weather was beautiful so the kids played outside while the Ladies visited inside.
The Yummy Food!

Great Company!

Cute Kiddos!

And one Sweet Baby!

What A Blessing!!!

This little guy is a bundle of joy! He is so sweet.

Today is my birthday and I was lucky enough to have Nicholas blessed by his dad today at church. What a sweet blessing it was.

Crazy Fun in Utah

Hey everyone I am working on a new project, in my spare time ha ha! I am creating a blog all about the fabulous things there are to do in Utah. We are now a family of 9 and would have loved to have a resource on fun and inexpensive things to do in Utah with a bunch of kids in tow as well as opinions and suggestions to go along with it. So I am creating that. I will review parks, activities, events and whatever else I so desire to give people an insight on what to do while living here or visiting here. I will post when there are specials or coupons for places and in the mean time get to take my kids to many different places just to review them. I think it will be a lot of work but a lot of fun too. So please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions on places we should visit. And you can bet there will be lots of pictures of the things we do and where we do them. Check it out here or at www.crazyfuninutah.blogspot.com and please post a link from your site if you wouldn't mind.

Happy Birthday Tyler

Tyler turned 9 years old!

Tyler is our sports nut! He loves anything that has to do with a ball. He got a tennis racket, tennis balls and a new basket ball.

Then we took a few of his buddies from school to play Lazer Tag and then out to a pizza buffet.
Man can those boys eat!
Happy Birthday Tyler!

Hula Hula Happy Birthday!

Tonight my friend Heather and I threw an AWESOME surprise birthday party for our girls turning 12. Andra and Raegan. We had a Luau themed party in my friend Sue's basement.

Here are the girls hiding, waiting for the birthday girls
to come in the room

Seriously we had the cutest group of girls!

SURPRISE!

Andra, Sue and Raegan

McKenna and Kalli

We fed the girls Hawaiian Haystacks and Smoothies!

They had a Hula Hooping Contest...Raegan Rocked!!!

A Bubble Gum Blowing Contest

Then toward the end of the party we had some hula dancers come and they were awesome!!

Raegan and Andra were so cute and so gracious! They are so excited to start young women's together, they were also baptized together when they were 8.

What a way to end a great party!
Happy Birthday Cute girls!!

Hooray for Kalli

Kalli is in Ballroom Dancing through her elementary school. She loves it and is learning so much. This last week she had a competition and was thrilled to learn that her group made it to the next round.
Way to go Kalli!!!

Nicholas is 4 Weeks old

Nicholas is 4 weeks old this week. What a sweet blessing he has been in our home. He is the sweetest little guy. I can't get enough of his sweet smelling head and his big dark blue eyes.