St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day was kind of fun this year. Tim went to Ireland for his mission and we got married around St. Patrick's Day. So it makes it a little more of a special holiday for us. It was of course an all out green day. Tim made our hot cereal, butter (for the toast) and milk green for breakfast. The night before I had the kids pick out what green clothes they wanted to wear for the next day and set them out. We had been talking about leprechauns for the last few days and how they are tricky and like to hide things to play tricks on us. Soooooooo when the kids woke up in the morning they found their clothes in really weird places all over the house. Emery thought it was hilarious and Kaven was a little confused at first but later started laughing along with Emery. For the rest of they day they kept talking about those tricky and silly little leprechauns.For dinner we had an Irish meal of Shepard pie, green kiwi, green salad, green drink and a rainbow jello.It is sure fun having kids to make some duller holidays so much more fun!

Spring Break and Anniversary

One great things about getting married during Spring Break is that we get to celebrate our Anniversary every year during Spring Break as well. This year our kiddos are getting older and pretty easy and we have a baby coming soon so we thought we would take advantage of all these things and take a night away and leave the kids at Tim's parents house. We decided to go to Beaver for the night and stopped in Fillmore along the way. We had such a great time getting away and spent two days just finding things to do together experiencing things around our world.

In Fillmore we stopped and visited the Pharmacy in town. Tim went to High School with the new Pharmacist there so it was fun to see both him and the pharmacy there.
We also stopped at a museum in town. Fillmore was Utah's first state capital and this was the building for it. We had our own private tour and bought a small gift for each of the kids while there.On the way to Beaver we spotted a car that looked exactly like the car we had when first married. This was the car that sparked my interest in Tim in the begging. Lot's of great memories with that car.
We stayed at the Butch Cassidy Inn, which was REALLY NICE for us!
We also went to a movie and had the whole theater to ourselves! It was a fun movie too called This Means War.
And just to throw it in, this is what I look like 36 weeks pregnant on our trip. We are really looking forward to our new little one coming in just 2 to 3 weeks.
It has been such a great 7 years. I look forward to spending eternity with my sweet heart.

Family Visits

A few weekends ago we went to Annabella for my nephew Hestons baptism. While there Tim helped Heston design and build a super cool derby car and we were able to see my mom and dad too.
My mom sometimes brings treats for the grand kids so here they are diving them all up. It is all very exciting for the kids.

Then......
Awhile ago my sister Jodi called and said she was coming to Salt Lake City with her daughter Casey for some gymnastic outings, so of course I had to have her stay with us. A few days later my sister Cami called and said they were coming to Salt Lake City as well. When I asked her the date it was the same time that my other sister was coming. Now it is not very often that we get family come and visit and here they were coming at the same time. I was thrilled. Not only that, but the day Jodi came she called my mom to see if she wanted to ride along. My mom jumped aboard and brought my other sister Erin with her. I could hardly believe it. We sure had a house full but it was SO MUCH FUN!
It always seems that when I am having the most fun that I forget to take pictures so I only got a few. We were able to take the shuttle to the University of Utah gymnastic meet and we almost filled up the whole shuttle. It was my first gymnastic meet and was really cool. We were able to get free tickets for all of us so we were sitting pretty far up, but it was still cool.
Thanks for coming family. We sure had a lot of fun seeing everybody!

SNOW!!!

It is kind of silly but I have figured out that I start to really enjoy winter and the snow when winter is almost over. We have been having so much fun in the snow lately. It is almost like we feel like we need to enjoy it as much as we can while it lasts because spring is coming soon.
We have a GIGANTIC sled hill in the village, right next to where we live and we have used it a few times (mostly when Tim is around). BUT I figured out a really neat trick. There are SO MANY other little hills around where we live and they are WAY more manageable for the kids. They can go down the hill and pull the sled up by themselves, over and over again. The big hill where everyone else sleds on is just too big for them to walk back up, so we end up carrying/pulling them back up. That equals not very long sledding.
They spend so much more time on the smaller hill and have some much more fun. And we get the hill all to ourselves, plus the snow lasts longer on this hill we use. Then I can also take them by myself, without Tim's help. It is always a fun activity to do during the day when Tim is gone.
We also found it fun to build snow forts with a pink bucket we got from the hospital when Emery got her tonsils out.
I think it was more fun for Tim and I but the kids did think it was pretty cool.
Though we have been enjoying the snow, we are super excited for Spring and these nice warm days we have been getting. I guess it is just important to enjoy what we have right now and not wish each day away.

Tim's Birthday

February is kind of a fun month for us with Valentines Day, Tim's Birthday and Presidents Day weekend. It is also pretty cool, because Tim's birthday will usually line out to be on Presidents Day weekend, so we get a three day weekend to celebrate it. I asked him if he wanted to do anything special or have a party but he said he just wanted to be with the family. He thought it would be fun to go swimming with the kids. I must admit that was probably the LAST think I wanted to do (being as huge as I am at the end of my pregnancy), but because it was his birthday wish I decided I would just have to deal with it. It ended up being really fun and actually felt really nice to get into the water. The kids had a blast too.Tim is a very good cook and when he has an idea of something he wants in his head, he can produce some amazing meals. So we actually made his birthday dinner and dessert together.
Here he is working on his cupcake invention with the best frosting I have ever had in my life!!!!
These are the sandwiches he came up with, also SUPER delicious. I do most the cooking in our house but when we cook together he is the head chef and I say I am his sue chef. I love having such a good cook in our house.
Getting ready to eat.
I sloppy picture of our meal, but tasty none the less.
One of the finished cupcakes (with the to "die for" peanut butter frosting) YUM.
Here's Tim sporting some of his Birthday gifts. We had such a fun day with the family. I just feel SO BLESSED to be married to him.

Valentines Day

We had a fun and simple Valentines day this year. We had a count down calendar leading up to it (forgot to take a picture). Each day the kids would open the slot and get a conversation heart, an activity related to Valentines day (like eat dinner by candlelight that night), and the star of the day (Emery drew a picture of someone in our family and fill in the calendar when we made it). If you got picked for the star of the day then you were able to choose what we had for breakfast and stuff like that. It was pretty fun.
Then on the 14th (Valentines Day), the kids found this instead of the Calendar.
Tim has a tendency to spoil them more than me. When we were shopping for them for Valentines Day I came back with the suckers and Tim had put this fish game in the cart. It is too hard to tell him no when he is so excited about it. But it ended up being the funnest game ever. We play it with the kids almost everyday and they just laugh and have so much fun when we play it. Tim always knows the best things.
I made stuffed french toast with strawberries on top for breakfast, and Tim made a super fancy dinner (I couldn't find my camera when it was time to eat and we couldn't wait to eat it, so I didn't get a picture of it). Anyway, when he put it on the table Emery said, "Whoa, it looks like Chopped." (a food network TV show we like).

I sure love my little Valentines (Tim, Emery, Kaven and Elsie). Yes the baby if VERY much a member of our family already. She was even included to be the star of the day a few times. The kids already LOVE her to pieces and are always hugging my tummy saying, "I love you Elsie!" or singing to her, trying to wake her up by shaking my tummy ect. I am afraid this baby is going to be mauled. But I guess she will probably be used to it because of how much they are jumping on her and hugging her already.

Hope you all had as sweet of Valentines Day as we had!

Ice-Skating

A few weeks ago, the Village (where we live) provided free Ice-Skating for all it's tenants. This is one of the many perks of living here. Twice a month they provide something for the tenants to do. Our place may be old but EVERYTHING else is WONDERFUL about living here. It defiantly makes it all worth it. I know it is going to be pretty hard the day we move. Not just because of all this place has to offer but mostly because of the people and atmosphere here. ANYWAY...... here are some pictures of our skating trip.
This was Emery's second time Ice-Skating in her life. She loved it just as much this time. Tim had to hold her up the whole time but she seemed to get the concept better and was trying to do what he told her to do. She always tries really hard to get things just perfect.

This was Kaven's first trip however. I was thinking that he would not like it as much because he is a lot more cautious about things than Emery and really thinks things through. Yet, every time we take him somewhere special he REALLY lights up and soaks it all in. These types of things really mean a lot to him. Did he ever LOVE it. I did not ice-skate however because of my pregnancy condition. I have a hard enough time with my balance lately just walking let alone ice-skating. So this left Tim to take the kids around one at a time. Kaven understood this but REALLY wanted to keep skating and kept saying, "MY TURN!!" while trying to walk out onto the ice by himself.
Tim, like always, was super good with the kids. I kept asking him if he was o.k. and if his back was hurting and needed a little break. Even though it was a lot of work holding the kids up while skating for two hours, he kept on doing it and loving it the whole time. He is the greatest dad ever! He was pretty sore the next day though. :) He sure knows how to make things fun and special for the whole family.