29th Birthday!

This was one of the BEST birthdays I have ever had! The Tuesday before the BIG day, some of my awesome friends and I went out to dinner to The Olive Garden (YUM)!

The funniest part of the entire night was when they brought out my cake! If you cant tell, its a picture of Zac Efron (who I have a LITTLE crush on) with his real life girlfriend Vanessa, with my head on her body! My friends know me so well!

If only I really looked that good in a bikini!

My friends are beautiful, awesome, FUN, supportive, amazing woman! Thank you for such a wonderdul birthday!

Only 1 more year in my 20's! sniff, sniff!

Thanks to a really great friend, we signed the girls up for a FREE hockey clinic. The Phoenix Coyote sponsor it to try and get more people into Hockey in the valley!! It has been so much fun so far and the girls are doing great!

Don't they look so cute, I mean tough, in their gear?

The girls with their friend Ella!

We have just completed week 2, these pictures are from week 1 and the girls are learning so much and already getting so much better at skating! The head coach even told Travis last week that they might move Emma up to the next level because she is picking it up so fast! Thats my girl!

The second week they skated around pushing these buckets and Emma was flying! They kept trying to get the buckets away from her, but as soon as she would get close to one she would grab right on! Well, there will be no more buckets next week, so she is on her own! Its been so nice having something for the girls to do, that doesn't cost a dime! What a great program this is!

Trunk or Treat!!

Last Saturday was our wards Trunk or Treat! I am usually not a huge Halloween fan but I decided to do a theme this year for the kids costumes, I am thrilled with how well it turned out!! I had a good friend Brooke who sewed Paiges Bonnet and Kades vest, Thank you Brooke, you are the best!!

Some of my awesome friends. Me, Lacey, Michelle, Taylor and Brittany!

The whole gang!!

They had so much fun getting candy and seeing friends. They love Halloween!!! and I am getting better at loving Halloween :)

Trouble!!!

Anyone who knows my Paige, knows that she is not a shy girl! She is immediately friends with anyone she meets, she is almost always laughing, she is a caring, loving little girl! I love her so much! Yesterday, as I was picking the girls up from school, Paige walked out holding hands with a sweet little boy named Landon. Then as she was getting in the car, about 8 other kids are screaming "BYE PAIGE, BYE PAIGE", a few were even trying to reach her through the open passenger side window. It was hilarious! It was like she was a movie star, and boy, was she eating it up!! When we pulled away, I asked her if she had a lot of friends? She replied "Lot's of boys and a little bit of girls!" AAAAGHH!! I think I am in trouble with this one!

Paige's Birthday and the first day of school! (another post below!)

Paiges 5th birthday was on August 10th, which also happened to be the first day of school!! We had a friend party for her the saturday before and she had so much fun! Thank you to everyone who came, on such short notice! That day, she was able to bring cookies for her class and get sung to, which made her first day of kindergarten extra special!! After school, I made Pasta with white sauce (alfredo) per Paiges request. Then as a family we went to a nearby mall, got ice cream and played! It was a very good Day!!!

The kids all playing at the mall!!

Makeup! Every girls dream!

Friends!

Pizza, swimming and friends! Doesn't get much better than that!

My sweet Paige! All ready for kindergarten! Where has the time gone?

Emma on her first day of 1st grade!

Its hard to believe that my girls are both in school all day! Now its just the boys and I! They love school and they love making new friends and honestly I am really enjoying my time with my boys during the day!

Catch up time!!!!

So its been a long time since I have posted anything and I have way to much that has happened to post it all, so here are a few pics from our almost 6 week trip to Colorado. We had so much fun spending time with family and friends and to not have to squeeze it all in, in a short period of time. We did a lot of great things while we were there. We visited the Denver Zoo and the Colorado Springs Zoo, baseball games, lots of playing, Softball (for me), sleepovers for the girls and lots of play time!!
Addison, Taelyn, Emma, Paige and Kenna at the Cheyenne Moutain Zoo!

Chase and the gorilla checking eachother out! and cousin Joslyn at the Cheyenne Moutain Zoo!

The Zoo has amazing views!!!

The best part is feeding the Giraffes! All my kids did it except Emma!

A few weeks into our trip, Chase and I took a tumble down the stairs, which resulted in a buckle fracture in his foot! He was walking on it a day later. He is so tough!

Paige, cousin Tyler and Emma at the Denver Zoo!

Emma, Paige and Bella at their cousin Keegans baseball game! I'm not sure who the other girls next to Paige is.

I made a bunch of flower barrettes and sandals with flowers for my mom to take to our family reunion. Emma and Paige had both of their heads covered in them at one point! I can't remember why Paige is mad in this picture, but if you know my Paige, this is a classic face!

Making pizza at Grandma Newbolds house!

We had so much fun!!!! Emma wants to move to Colorado so bad, I wouldn't mind it either, someday!! I don't know if I will ever go that long again on a trip, especially with 4 small kids, but it was such a great way to spend a summer and escape the brutal heat of Arizona!!

What does your 2 year old do when you're not looking? Mine........................

pushes out the window screen and jumps out the window!! One minute I see him looking out the open window and touching the screen. The next minute I see he pushed out the screen, and I hear him playing in the rocks! Little booger!!!

I guess I should be grateful we were downstairs and not upstairs! No more open windows for us!