Girls weekend in St. George

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

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!

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

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

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!!