The Daley Review

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

2009-10-09T15:22:00.001-06:00

Happy Halloween from the Daley family. I thought this was fun. It's the only time I'll ever see Aaron dance, me skinner, and my kids with small ears.... ;0)

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Family photo's

2009-09-04T16:37:00.005-06:00

We went down town SLC for our family pics this year. It was a scorcher the day we did these,... seriously it was so hot! Thank goodness we had a great photographer, she did an awesome job. Sweaty or not she got some good shots.

Pics of our summer fun

2009-08-16T23:16:00.002-06:00

Kade and Aaron chillin' at the SF 24th fireworks Ellie and Dex

The Zoo

Aaron, Kade, and Friends at BBQ

Aaron working while we enjoyed the 4th of July Parade.

Summer Fun

2009-08-16T21:57:00.005-06:00

It has been such a fun and busy summer. The 3 months the kids have off school always go by much faster than three months spent in school. I can't believe it's over. We had tons of fun this summer. Every Wednesday we put the house work aside and did something fun together, me and the kids. Kade didn't join us every time because his friends are more fun to be with. But, there were times I could get him to tag along with me, usually if I let a friend come with. :) I understand, I remember being that age. I'm always happy though when he comes with us.
We went to the childrens museum a couple times, the last time we went with my cousin Jamie and her cute kids and my aunt Joan. It was so much fun. Ellie and Sophie had a sleep over after, and enjoyed their time spent together. We went to the splash park, did the slip and slide, spent a day at the cabin, went to the zoo, went to the Kimball's cabin, did 4th of July festivities, 24th of July festivities, had BBQ's with friends and family, went camping to Flaming Gorge,river rafting in Flamin Gorge, went on walks, bike rides, visits to the park, etc etc, all the fun summer activites. Here's some pics of some of our events and I'll post more later. It's been a fun one!!

I love car rides like this!

2009-06-19T13:37:00.006-06:00

We drove out to a family members house last week for a birthday party. It was perfect timing, all three kids were out 10 minutes into the hour drive. Usually I listen to bickering kids, a very gabby girl or a crying baby. But not this time, it was so peaceful.

Girls weekend in St. George

2009-06-10T19:38:00.003-06:00

Me and a few of my high school girlfriends went to St. George for the weekend. OH MY GOSH! ...we had so much fun. And If you look close at the pics you can see that one of them is not like the other. ( Can you guess?)

We got very little sleep, but plenty of eating, talking and laughing. I would post some pics of our other events, but I would be totally humiliated, and I'm sure I would have a hit out for my murder by one of my friends. We went to the mall and tried on slutty clothes and laughed our guts out. Now usually I barely have time to shop for what I need, but not this trip. We wasted time doing whatever we wanted. We laid out at the pool, and we were entertained by Shalon and Charlie's synchronized swimming routine, and cannon balls. We told secrets, that I'm still shocked about. We met up with Yvonne, who I haven't seen forever, and visited. We would chat till all hours of the night, and go from laughing to crying in a matter of seconds. When we were all loaded up and ready to come home the vehicle wouldn't start. Imagine 5 women standing there with NO clue what to do. Charlie headed out in search for some help. She woke a man up in the neighborhood, and he was nice enough to come give us a jump. That's why I love girl time. It's so fun to have no where to be, no one to take care of, and plenty of time to eat, talk, laugh and cry. I'm so lucky to have so many good friends.

Our memorial day

2009-06-10T19:18:00.002-06:00

After visiting Aaron's dad's grave for memorial day we went to Liberty Land with the kids and played a round of miniture golf. I was pathetic at golf. It's amazing that a little white ball can be so difficult to hit with a club. Ellie came in last and her mother was right behind her by 2 points. The boys didn't do too bad. Zac enjoyed watching the game of golf from the stroller, and loved the little rides after.

Bon Voyage!

2009-05-26T20:16:00.003-06:00

Aaron and I just returned from a week long Caribbean cruise. It was so fun! We got to go to bed late, sleep in late, eat when we wanted, and be entertained for a week straight; without the interruption of children. We love our children, bless their little hearts, but sure enjoyed the time alone without them. A few things I learned for my next cruise (hopefully soon). 1. Pack t-shirts, shorts, and capri's. Almost every day I had a swim suit under my clothes and I ended up wearing a couple t-shirts twice because I had packed dressier type shirts and bottoms. 2. Take hats! I don't think my hair was done the entire trip. It was either windy, rainy, humid, we swam, snorkeled, or played on the beach every day. Needless to say my hair looked horrendous the entire trip.....I wish I would have taken some hats. 3. If your wear capri's and sleeved shirts for relgious reasons ( ;) wink, wink ) or for weight reasons ( or both in my case). Be prepared, you will only fit in with the seniors on the cruise. Every other woman my age wore short shorts, tanks, sundresses, and bikini's. And 4. when you win Bingo you will have those seniors, that you fit in with so well, very angry that you even dared play "their" game of bingo. :)

BINGO BABY! The lucky card!

Aaron's favorite part of the cruise, 24 hour, unlimited frozen yogurt. Yes, that's one in each hand.

St. Martin & St. Thomas

Dress up night in the dinning room. LOVE YA BABE! I loved the towel animals, they were so cute!

OK, so I lied

2009-05-25T19:25:00.009-06:00

So my attempts at being a better mother and wife and journal our lives has failed. I'm such a slacker. My last post of Zac is of him sitting up,... and he'll be one next month. In all honesty I don't have the best computer, and camera system. I feel if it were easier to download pics and post I'd probably be more diligent. But, by the time I've downloaded my pics it's taken all the spare time I have, and posting them on my blog gets pushed to the back burner. Then more and more events occurs and before long I feel overwhelmed in where to start. So, hhmmmm... where to start. I guess I give a brief run down of our house lately. Zac is a busy, busy boy. The busiest kid I've yet to have. He's so dang fun though and I love him every minute of the day. He's a maniac, crawls like a speed demon, stands by himself and I'm sure he'll be walking soon.

This is him after taking my eyes off him for a max of 2 minutes. The pantry tore to shreds, and a box of rice spilled all over and played in.

And him eating the left overs of a half a cantalope I cut up and left on the table. He pulled it off and was sucking the juice with all his might, it was so cute. He is a good eater and loves all food.

Ellie is excited for suumer. We have 4 school days left and I think all 4 days are pretty much fun, play days. Ellie just had a piano recital and did well. She enjoys piano and practices daily without me having to remind her. It's so nice. She's a trooper and puts up with a lot being the middle child between 2 brothers. Both brothers are at selfish ages, sometimes I think Kade (14) is worse than Zac (11 months). She deals well with having a big brother antagonize her, and helps so much with her baby brother. I don't know what I'd do without her help with Zac. She really is a life saver. Recently Ellie and I went to the broadway play "Wicked". It was fabulous. She loves going out for "girl" dates.

Kade is also looking forward to summer. I think he thinks it's going to be a 3 month free for all, and I'm going to be at his beckon call for rides, money and fun. He's sadly mistaken, but I think he'll have fun. It's so fun to watch him. 8th grade was my most memorable fun year and I watch Kade hanging out with friends and doing the same things I did and it brings back such good memories. Currently we spend every saturday at the baseball field for Kade's double headers. He plays on a super league. He enjoys it and likes staying active and involved. He's a busy kid with sports, school and friends. He's a good kid. He shows so much brotherly love!

Zac's sitting up

2009-01-07T23:07:00.004-07:00

My baby is sitting up! Although he's not that happy in these pics, I had to post to show off his mad sitting skills. He's growing up so fast. Lately he's been sitting up, doing the "army crawl", and getting on all fours and rocking back and forth. He's so fun, I love him, it lights up my day when he smiles and giggles. He can get around pretty good by doing the army crawl, but I know it's a matter of days before he takes off crawling. It's been 8 years, I better get baby proofing my house again, ...uggghhh!!

Another year over

2009-01-05T22:39:00.006-07:00

It's hard to believe that another year has past. Especially when I think back to the beginning of 2008 , and what has changed since. I was a mother of 2, now I'm a mother of 3. I worked in a busy ER, now I take care of hospice patients in their home. Kade is in 8th grade and Ellie's in 2nd. We had barely moved into our new home and now it needs a deep clean. The years fly by and so much changes in a year. I feel very blessed to have had a safe and healthy year, and I pray the coming year will bring the same. Here's a few pics of what we did over our Christmas break, friend and family get togethers, christmas sugar cookies, sledding, and visits with Santa, and some of us even relaxed. Happy new year.

My boys are growing up.

2008-12-08T21:19:00.003-07:00

Kade turned 14 today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY! Kade's growing up so fast. He's such a good kid, he really is. He just does what he's suppose to be doing. I hope he continues to bring me so much joy.

And I hope I've done my job as a mother. I feel like time is running out. It seemed like he was just a little boy, and I had plenty of time to teach him all I needed to. Then I blinked, and now all of a sudden it seems like he's almost on his own. He now spends more time with friends without me by his side to intervene when needed (or at least when I think he needs intervention). I've got 4 more years before he graduates and heads out into the world to do whatever it is he chooses, I hope I've prepared him. It really is a scary thought that I'm the mother,... the one who's suppose to have the answers, teach him right from wrong, and be a support and guidance to him, and my other kids. However, I love this job as a mother and wouldn't change it for anything.

Zac's also getting so big , I thought I should post some updated pictures. I love him, he's so fun.

Christmas trees and sunshine

2008-12-01T19:23:00.005-07:00

I just had to post this because I thought it was funny. Ellie is outside in short sleeves, the end of November, drawing Christmas Trees with sidewalk chalk. The weather's been awesome, but my kids are dying for snow.

Ellie's 8

2008-12-01T19:15:00.003-07:00

For Ellie's 8th birthday we went to a play of Beauty and The Beast, and then had cake and ice cream at home. A couple days later I took her and a couple friends to get their finger and toe nails painted, and to Cold Stone for ice cream. She is getting so old. It's so fun to have a girl to do "girl" stuff with, she's my little friend. Happy Birthday sweetie!

14 years and counting

2008-12-01T17:26:00.005-07:00

Aaron and I celebrated our 14th anniversary a couple weeks ago. Aaron was so sweet to bring me home roses and have dinner reservations. I love being married to Aaron, he is the best husband and father. It's been a wonderful 14 years. Yes there's those time that aren't as fun as the other's, but the good definetly out weighs the bad. I can't wait to celebrate many more anniversaries. I'm so blessed in my life, and my husband is just one more blessing I have received. I'm so lucky!! Love ya babe!

Friends

2008-12-01T17:18:00.005-07:00

Aaron's friends from high school, Wade and Kevin, recently called us to go out for dinner. We hadn't seen either of them forever, it was so fun! We enjoyed them so much we had them over a week later for sunday dinner with their kids. Wade's wife was unable to make it because their baby was sick, we were sad we didn't get to meet his cute little girl. Kevin and Debi's kids sure are cute though. All the little boys had fun playing basketball and video games, the little girls had fun putting make up on, and we had fun visiting. Here are the 3 friends, and their families (minus Wade's wife and child) quite the group...huh?

Vegas Baby!!

2008-11-13T23:06:00.006-07:00

This past weekend Aaron and I went to Vegas with some fun couple friends. I have to admit it was a very uneventful trip, yet totally wonderful. (I guess that's what you get when you take a 4 month old, and two pregnant women to Vegas). However, we all were fine with how "boring" we all were. And had a great time together. These couples are great! How many people play cards in their room, and not down in the casino while in Vegas? We are such NERDS...and I love it! We really did have a fun time, and laughed ALOT. I think that makes a great trip, don't you?

Halloween 2008

2008-11-13T22:30:00.006-07:00

This year Kade dressed up, with a friend, only for a family Halloween party. I guess he's now offically too old to Trick Or Treat. It's so fun to have a teenager, but it's sad too. I hate that he's too old to Trick Or Treat, among many other holiday past times. However, every Halloween I make a pot of soup, and get cute little pumpkin colored and shaped bread bowls to eat it from.( I think it's the only sugar free thing the kids put in their mouths all day). The past few years Kade has a group of boys over for soup, so I guess I'm learning to celebrate holidays in a alternative "teenage" way.

Many of you will recognize Ellie's costume. She picked it out of a closet back in September, and couldn't wait to wear it. I have to admit it was very nice not to have to shop for a Halloween costume this year, and very cheap.

Zac was my little 3 eyed monster. He looked so cute.

I'm a little disappointed because I dressed up this year, which is unusual, and I didn't even get a picture with my kids. Oh well, maybe next year.

Football

2008-10-16T08:56:00.008-06:00

Football season is a fun one around our house. I didn't grow up with older brothers or a dad that was a sports fanatic. So, needless to say I don't know much about sports, but with a teenage son I'm quickly learning. I have to take crash courses on football each week when Kade has a game. And I must admit it's more complicated than it appears. Most of you will laugh, but I didn't realized it had such strategy. I didn't realize they planned out their plays. I just thought they flew by the seat of their pants and did whatever they could in the heat of the moment. :) I'm starting to learn each players role in the game, and that where they stand in a play defines what position they are playing. And although I don't know squat about sports I enjoy watching Kade play. And, I know I'm his mother who knows nothing about sports, but I think he's pretty darn good. This week he earned "the hammer", which is given to the MVP of the game.
The two sports Kade enjoys the most are football and wrestling. And although I love to watch him, sometimes it's hard. Football is brutal. Right now his thumb nail is bruised, his bottom thumb knuckles are twice their original size, he's bruised up and down his arms, his ankle hurts and the list goes on and on. And when wrestling season comes I hold my breath the whole time he's wrestling as it looks like he's being choked out and is fighting for air. I'm glad he loves it....I guess?

My BYU Boys

2008-10-12T21:35:00.004-06:00

As a mother I love to watch my husband in action as a father to my kids. As Kade gets older it's fun to watch him and Aaron enjoy time with each other. They have good talks about what's going on in the world and life. They talk sports, politics, cars, future plans and life. Every Saturday, when BYU has a home game, they enjoy the day out together watching a good game of football. It makes me happy to see them spend time together to bond as father and son.

Girls night out

2008-10-12T21:13:00.008-06:00

This past year some of my best friends from high school have reunited. We now get together every other month for a girls night. This month we had a girls overnighter at my cabin. We had so much fun, talking, eating, painting nails, looking at old photo's, eating more, laughing, reminiscing, and just enjoying each others company. It's always refreshing to be in the company of good girl friends for a night away. It's been so much fun to reunite and catch up on each others lives. Although all our lives have taken many different paths, we still enjoy each other, and give each other support and friendship. I'm so blessed to have so many great friends in my life. I love my gal pals.

It's Autumn Time

2008-10-10T11:06:00.004-06:00

Fall is one of my favorite seasons, I know there are only 4. So, I actually think it's the change of seasons I enjoy so much. It's always refreshing to have change after a blistering summer, or bitter winter. There's such a short period of time you can enjoy the changing leaves and good weather at the same time, and we did it. We made it up Tibble Fork Canyon in perfect timing. It was beautiful.

Ok I'm giving in.

2008-10-05T16:12:00.000-06:00

I've tried to hold out and not be a "blogger", but I'm giving in.

No in all seriousness , I've always thought blogging was a fun way to keep in touch with family and friends. And, most of all an awesome way to journal. I'm horrible at journaling like I should, and I feel like a slacker of a mom and wife when I see others scrap booking so diligently. (Scrap booking is not for me. It is way too creative, and overwhelms me. I have Kade's scrapbook up to age 2.... only 12 years behind, if that tells you anything). However, I love taking pictures of my kids and sharing our events with the ones we love. So I'm committing to try harder at journaling our family events.

A brief introduction to our family. Aaron and I have been married 14 years next month. Aaron works as a police officer, and I work as an emergency room, and hospice nurse. We have 3 busy, and spread out kids. A 13 year old son, Kade. A 8 year old daughter, Ellie. And, a 3 month old son, Zac. I must admit it is much harder parenting a newborn and teenager at the same time. I drag my poor newborn around to all the teenage events, because currently I'm still the taxi, and Kade's become much more active with needing to run around. Football practices and games, to and from friends houses, movies, dinner, parties, fishing, boating, 4-wheeling, high school sporting events, and the list goes on and on. I don't think Zac will ever get an uninterrupted nap.

So, now that I've taken the step to set up a blog spot I will hopefully keep it up to date. And I hope I can learn to operate such a technical site :).