Song.

We are headed out tomorrow for sunny (better be) southern California. I changed my song so that while you are looking at my blog you can remember where we are:)
Hanging with lego's and Shamu and that wonderful ocean (tell me again why on earth I live in land-locked Utah?!)
We are really hoping this trip is better than our last one to California...so Devin, if you could please try to not almost die this time that would be great!

Pinewood derby.

Last year we moved out of our old ward right before they did the derby. and moved into the new one right after they had done it. So this year hadley finally got to do a pinewood derby. He didn't come in a top finishing spot...but he didn't come in last either which is pretty good for his (and peter's) first attempt at a car.

Lining up the cars for one of the heats.

Everybody watching the races.

The boys watching the finish line.

Hadley did not want his picture taken, but being the good mom that I am...I forced him.

they had built the track so that anybody who had put their weight on the bottom of the car...it wouldn't clear the track so peter had to put his weight on top at the last minute (as did many kids) but hadley wasn't happy about the look and is convinced that is why he didn't win...thus the sulking:)

And....one more time without the finger:)

Birthday fun.

We are heading out on vacation tomorrow and so the camera needs to be emptied. I only have a few pics to blog about thankfully because the house also needs to be picked up and I haven't even started packing. I am the queen of procrastination!! No, really, I am. And, I am really good at it! fortunately(?) I have yet to ever have a bad experience come from procrastination so I see no need to stop any time soon.

My friend, Tanya, had her birthday on st. patty's day. me and a couple other friends took her out for an afternoon of silly fun. and what do a group of 29ish yr old mormon moms do for fun on st.patty's day...we go bowling!:)

Now, these first pictures are a lesson. If you are one of those people who try to hide from pictures...just realize, that you will end up with so many more pictures of you than if you had just sucked it up and posed for one. So, this is Susan, who didn't want to get her picture taken. Of course they went out of order so the top one is her finally giving in and posing. (and for some reason my camera did not want to take a good pic at this place so sorry for the blurry-ness)

oops, sorry...got this one twice and I have yet to figure out how to delete pics from a post without deleting the whole post.

Tanya takes her bowling very seriously

Mandi with baby Brynley. poor thing had gotten shots that day and wasn't as happy to be there as we were:(

This is what happens when your birthday is the same week as the release of New Moon:)

I love these girls!!! seriously, I can't believe there was a time in my life that I did not know them. I have only been here one year and already I feel like I have known them forever. not many days go by that we don't see each other. we are all going seperate ways for spring break and while our hubbies are glad to have a break from all our "togetherness" we are definetely going thru some withdrawls. thank goodness for texting!!:)

Our scores...that's right...I got a 54. and I am proud of it so keep your mouth shut!

Craft Project.

I got together with a few friends on saturday and we made bows for our girls. we had gone out earlier in the week and bought flowers and ribbons etc.. I think I may be addicted to this!:) I think they turned out pretty good for our first attempt.

Grass.

For the sake of the kid's lives...and my sanity....we need it ASAP!!

This is what our yard looks like now...and with the warm weather, below is what the kids do all day. I have dark floors that show every bit of dirt and dust and I am going to go crazy!

I got the hint.

the emails, the blog comments, the facebook comments...I got it... I have neglected my poor blog:) don't worry, I told him it wasn't serious when we started...my blog knew what it was getting into.

Well, life has been busy. Busy...but not necessarily blog-worthy. Just lots of school and basketball and soccer. with alot of hanging out with the girls and movies and unpacking and garage cleaning and a few weeks of Strep Throat thrown in there.
Soccer is done. Basketball was supposed to be done saturday but we made the playoffs (mixed feelings):) we are done being sick...now I get a break...for a week or so.

Soccer starts up the 2nd weekend of April and baseball soon after...BOTH of those sports for BOTH boys...shoot me now! Hadley has always done both, but this will be the first year Devin also does both. should be lots of fun. I am still the uniform coordinator for the soccer league which means the next two months will be full of ordering and organizing and handing out uniforms. then, on top of that, at the last soccer meeting I somehow got roped into taking over the website too!
We are heading to San Clemente for spring break in 26 days (not that I am counting) We are so excited to go. it's going to be even more fun because some of our new friends out here are going to be down there for a wedding so we are gonna meet up and par-tay.
Anyway, that is my life right now. I finally got the boy's party posts done so technically I am caught up now. those and the picture below are the only pics I have of this year so far.

These are mine, Tanya's and Mandi's kids (minus baby bryn and lexi, cuz of course she was terrified of it...suprise suprise) playing in the hot tub. so there you have it...all my pics and summary of our year so far.

Hadley's Birthday Party.

We did Hadley's party Saturday, the day after their birthday. Our original plan was to go to Gorgoza Park in Park City. But, there was a big snowstorm that weekend. When we called up there Saturday morning they said it was a blizzard...so we had about 3 hours to come up with a new party idea.

We decided to go to Boondocks, and the boys had a BLAST!!! Probably more fun than they would have had tubing so it worked out great.





Hadley ready to do the Go-Karts.





All the boys, lined up and ready to go.

We did miniature golf...they have two 18 hole courses...the boys did both in under 5 minutes total. no score keeping. just hitting balls and lots of running. we could hardly keep up with them.

we did get them to stop and pose for a picture finally

and after being goofballs....

we got a decent one.

(L to R) Bridger, Hadley, Quinton, Ethan and Tegan.

When they got to the end, they tried to get the ball in the first time cuz it shot flames out of it's head if you made it (in the summer it sprays you with water). so they gave up trying to hit the balls in and tried to roll them...it didn't work.

Ethan even climbed under the gate to throw it in....he still missed:)

Then he had a hard time getting out.

Getting ready for some Laser Tag.

After several exhausting hours, we took the boys to McDonalds for dinner and presents, then headed home.

Happy 9th Birthday Hadley!!! Let's be completely honest here and just admit that you have reached a difficult age... you talk back and sometimes have quite the attitude, just to name a couple things:)...but you still have a big heart and will always be my Goober. We love you so much!!!

*Side note...I recently realized that my son is now the same age that I was when I went to live with my Aunt and her family....wierd! That seems like so long ago, yet I can completely remember being 9 like it was yesterday...which helps when dealing with hadley:)

Devin's Birthday Party.

Devin chose to go to Chuck E Cheese for his party. we went on his actual birthday, friday, jan, 22nd. we took Lexi with us but made Hadley stay at a friends so that Devin could have his own party with no big brother to bother him.
we only had room in the car to invite 4 people and unfortunately only two were able to make it...but he is 6...I don't think he cared if 2 people or 12 had come...they had a blast.

Aldren, Tyler and Devin (Devin wore that crown from school the whole weekend!)

Opening presents, Aldren got him Sea Monkey's...yup folks, apparently Sea Monkey's are still around:)

While the boys ran around using up a large quantity of tokens...lexi just rode this all night.

Happy Birthday Devin!!! You are such a sweet boy (when your big brother isn't around tormenting you) and we love you so much!!