Jed & Maegen's Wedding

Adi trying to get some shade while waiting for Jed and Maegen to come out of the temple. It was SO stinking hot!!!

We decided to go up Friday morning to help decorate the church. We got there about 1:00 and they had been there since 11:00 and can I just say we didn't even leave the church till about 7:00 and they still had a little left to do. That is how much decorating they do!! It looked so amazing tho. Her family goes all out and it looked so great, you wouldn't even know you were in a church gym. They had a huge tent set up with tables under it for refreshments. On the tent they had lights strung up all around it and all around in the inside too. After the lights were up we had to wrap tuelle around all of them. It looked amazing, but was kind of a pain in the butt!!

This is what the inside of the tent looked like.

This is what it looked liked from the outside. (We had to tie tuelle bows with a flower stuck in the middle around all the chairs. Looks good tho!)

Here is the cake, it was yummy!! It had coconut on the frosting to give it "the look" she wanted, and Jed is allergic to coconut, but she had already ordered it and wouldn't change so they were very careful while feeding each other the cake. It was a beautiful cake, loved it!!

Jed and Maegen right before the reception started. The backdrop they stood in front of was so pretty. I don't think the pictures do it justice, and it took them so long to decorate it. Her dress was also so amazing!!

Adi in her "princess" dress. Adi, and Maegen's 2 nieces all had the same dress. They looked so cute!!

This is what Adi looked like the morning after. We used alot of hairspray to make her hair stay so pretty!!
We left the house at 7:15am and didn't get to bed till after 10:00pm. It was a long day, but wonderful day, and the kids did great with having little naps and running around all day.

Swim Lessons

Last week Brayden, Adi, and Devon started swim lessons. They are taking them at Julianne's aunts house in Draper. We tried signing them up at the pool here in Lehi, but the sessions fill up so fast we could never get them in, so Julianne got this set up and it works out great. They love swim lessons!! They even get to go down the slide, so much fun!

Tag

What were you doing ten years ago? Just graduated from Box Elder High School. Enjoying the summer and getting ready to attend Utah State University.

What were you doing one year ago? Contemplating moving because BJ was working in Provo. (Guess we went for it huh?)

Five Snacks You Enjoy: Peanut Butter twix, trail mix, Chili's chips and salsa, Dr Pepper, and peppermint stick ice cream

Five Songs You Know All The Words To: Sexy back(I rock!), and all songs on Disney's Greatest Hits volume one cd.

Five Things You Would Do If You Were A Millionaire: Pay off mortgage, buy me and BJ new cars, travel, save for kids future!

Five Things You Like Doing: decorating my house, shopping, being outside with kids and neighbors, gardening, and reading blogs.

Five Things You Would Never Wear Again: anything spandex, bikini, stirrup pants, and I am sure there are many more, but I can't think of them right now.

Five Favorite Toys: my ipod, computer, and I want a boat, fourwheelers, and a new car.

I think everyone has been tagged, so I don't know who is it now!

Monkey scoot

I had to capture this before Jace quits doing it and is walking. He has mastered crawling and is quite fast at it, so he moved on to this monkey scoot thing. I really don't know how to explain it, except that he looks like a monkey while doing it. Everywhere we go and he does it people just start laughing, they think it is hilarious. He mostly does it at church and serioulsy people just stop and laugh, he is quite the crowd gatherer. He can walk, but he is so fast at this that he drops and monkeys it around. I am hoping soon he will just walk, but for now it is pretty funny!

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Zoo day!

Friday my sister took the day off and we took my kids to the zoo. We had a pass and it expires this week, so we thought we would use it one last time. We knew it would probably be crowded with it being Friday, and the end of the school year, and we were right. When we pulled in the parking lot I was ready to turn around, but we went right in, and it really wasn't that bad. We only had to stand in line for about 15 minutes to see the white alligator, and that was the worst, everything else was not crowded at all. The kids were really good and we had a way fun time!


Aunt Bean, Jace, Brayden, and Adi, getting ready to ride the train.





How do we measure up?

After the zoo we were going to go to the mall and eat, but on our way to the mall we saw Olive Garden and since it is Brayden's favorite restaurant we decided to go there my sister wanted to treat him for his "graduation". Hi, can we say spoiled! Oh well it was fun and yummy anyways! After lunch we went to the mall to try and find Jace and Brayden outfits for my brothers wedding. We were successful!! I even found a dress for my niece, Kyla, for the wedding too.




Jace's little suit $8.47, Brayden's shirt and tie, $16.01, how cute they will look at the wedding, priceless!! (when we saw the tie we had to get it, it was just too perfect for him!!)

Preschool Graduation

Last Thursday was Brayden's last day of preschool. He was glad to be done. He was getting bored with it and is so ready for kindergarten! They got little graduation hats and they got to throw them up at the end. Brayden's blew off before that so he actually didn't get tot throw his. They sang a few songs and then did a short little program where everyone had a part, it was cute. When Miss Lacey presented them with their certificates she said a little thing about them, and I bet you can guess what she said about Brayden. She said he brought the love of animals into the classroom, and at times there were eight little elephants in the room because he taught them all how to make elephant noises! I wonder when he will out grow that? I still can't believe he is going to be going to kindergarten!!!



My little graduate and Miss Lacey!


Brayden saying his part in the program. He was so nervous(that is why we have one t-rex arm going on!)

Strange(but cute)kids!

I was transferring all the pictures from my camera to the computer and came across some cute ones I thought I would post.

Jace putting the whole cookie in his mouth. Note he only has 2 teeth!!

What is it with my kids and Dr. Pepper? Does she has to have it in her sleep too?

Not really sure how he got his leg up there, pretty bendy tho!

Just singing in the tub!

Mother's Day weekend

Well nothing too eventful happened it was basically just another weekend. Friday night I invited BJ's parents over for dinner for Mother's Day and as a surprise I also invited BJ's brothers, they were both able to come, so that made a nice Mother's Day present for Patty. I cooked dutch oven for the first time and it turned out pretty good. We had chicken, potatoes, and peach cobbler. I have never even started a fire or coals before, but I had to since BJ wouldn't get home till 6 and it takes an hour to cook. But I did it and it is so nice to have the fire pit to cook and do all that in! While his brother was here he helped BJ plan out the sprinkling system so that was nice(thanks Mike). Then Saturday I wanted BJ to work in the yard, but he went fishing instead and said he needed to do some shopping too. I think it was just an excuse to go fishing!! Brayden had a primary activity in the morning and later that afternoon Julianne and I planted our gardens! I am so excited! I just hope and pray something will grow in my garden!! I planted green beans, corn on the cob, green peppers, potatoes, zucchine(sp), cucumbers, squash, and watermelon. You would think with all that something will grow. I sure hope so!! Then Sunday after church we went up to Grandma Bus' for dinner. We plan to put the sprinklers and sod and finish up the yard over the next few weeks so it was nice to have a slow weekend.

Cheerleading Showcase

Last night was Adi's cheerleading showcase. After Tuesday-Wednesday's incident I wasn't sure she would be able to perform, but the dr said as long as she didn't do any somersaults(sp) or tumbling she was ok to perform, and boy was I glad she did!! It was the cutest thing ever. I totally tought she would be shy and possibly not even go on stage and oh I couldn't have been more wrong!!!

She did so good. She did all the cheers, and the dance. She was so loud we could even hear her in the back. On the camcorder you can even hear her! I was such the proud momma! She just grinned her little head off the whole time. When they do some of the cheers they bounce and she was so into it she wasn't paying attention to where she was bouncing. I about had a heart attack when she did that because she got so close to the edge of the stage. I was just about to have my brother go up there when one of the teachers saw and went over and stood in front of her. It was so funny!!
Brayden got a little bored towards the end so he started taking pictures of things, including himself! Why didn't his turn out blurry?

Skull Fracture

The past 24 hours have been quite traumatic at our house. It all started Tuesday evening about 5:30. I was in the back yard and Brayden came running around and said Adi fell off the four wheeler. Now this isn't a big people four wheeler it is a power wheels one, and it has a trailer attached to the back where you can pull someone or something. We think Adi was either trying to get in or get out and Brayden didn't see her and started going and it flipped her out. Anyways I go around to the front of the house and Adi is just lying on the side walk. She wasn't screaming really loud, just crying and there was no blood so I got her up and I assumed she was ok. I took her in the house and put her on the couch with a movie so I could finish making dinner. I figured she would go to sleep since she had not taken a nap, and she did. When BJ got home from work, about 6, he tried waking her up so she would still go to bed at a reasonable hour. When he woke her up she was just screaming that her head hurt, so we let her go back to sleep, still thinking she just bumped her head. Well during dinner she woke up and threw up then went right back to sleep. She continued to do this till about 8, and we figured something was wrong. I figured probably just a concussion and they don't do anything for them at the ER anyways so we debated taking her. I went and looked at her again and she looked awful. She was so pale and a little green looking so we decided it was worth taking her to the hospital. So my wonderful neighbor, Julianne, came over to sit with my boys. We took her to American Fork hospital and since she had thrown up about 7 times at this point they decided to do a CT scan. Turns out she had an ocsipital(sp) linear fracture. The ER dr,and our doctor thought she should stay overnight for observation because she wasn't really waking up. So they checked with the pediatricians at the hospital and called primary children's hospital and they both thought it best if we take her to primary's since there is no neuro surgeon at the AF hospital and if there were complications she would have to go to primary's anyway. They said we could take her ourselves rather then in the ambulance since it woudl be faster, so we headed up to Primary's. We got there about midnight and she was still throwing up. We had to go through the regular emergency room, even though they knew we were coming, and it was about 4:30 until we got to our room. Adi was still throwing up and the dr told us he wouldn't let us go home till she stopped throwing up and ate something. Well she ate something, but couldn't keep it down. So about 1 the next afternoon they had to start an iv and they gave her zofran for the nausea. They said it would take about 8 hours for the zofran to wear off and if after that she had stopped vomitting we could probably go home. So about 8pm we got her some food and she ate half a piece of french toast and at 9 when they came to check on her she had kept it down and he asked her if she wanted to go home and she quickly answered YES! So he made her walk around and asked her some questions, but she did so good he said we could go home, but that if she started to vomit or loose speech or anything we had to bring her back. I guess because she was vomitting so much he was afraid that she had started to bleed and that the CT scan hadn't caught it because it was taken right after the injury. We got home about 10 pm and she was so happy to be home. Her brothers had tried to stay awake and wait for her, but they fell asleep. Julianne had brought her over a baloon and a dress and that made her day she was so excited. She immediately put the dress on, when she did that I knew she was fine and back to her normal self! She hasn't thrown up since and is acting and talking normal. We are so lucky it wasn't anything worse and that she is ok and going to make a full recovery. The lesson here tho is ALWAYS wear a helmet. I was so bad at making my kids wear them. I would make Brayden when he was on his bike, but I never did when they rode the four wheeler, but now they will!! That was just too scary not to!

The Dr!!

It got real quiet the other day while I was downstairs folding laundry, so I come out of the laundry room to see this!! Jace had seen me throw the can in the garbage and got into the garbage and got it right back out. He loves it, not that I give it to him in his sippy cup, but he must remember the taste of it running through me to him while I was pregnant!! All my kids love Dr Pepper, maybe that is a sign I drink it too much? Whenever we are out Adi orders it, we quickly change her order, but you can't blame her for trying! I am however tyring to cut back so maybe we won't see this again!

Brayden and Devon

The other evening I looked out the back door and saw Brayden and Devon running around the yards with these hats on. I was dying I couldn't stop laughing they are so cute!! These 2 are so funny and have such a good time together. It is such a blessing to have such wonderful neighbors. We are so lucky!!



This is from our dinner with the Olson's. We had to try out the fire pit, so we fired it up and the adults had foil dinners and the kids had hot dogs. It was so much fun!! Did I mention how much we like our neighbors?!

Easter & Vegas

I know I am a little late getting this Easter picture up, but it has been a crazy few weeks. BJ's work sent us on a little vacation to Las Vegas this last weekend and I had been trying to get the house clean and stuff ready for that. It was so nice to get away with no kids, however, I will admit that I was ready to come home I missed them. I was most worried about Jace it was the first time I had left him. Brayden and Adi were fine and happy to spend the weekend with Nana, but at nights little Jacey was not so good. And I think he must have been mad at me for leaving him because when we got home he would have nothing to do with me!! I felt so bad. He would crawl right past me and go right for his dad, and that is sweet and all, but he NEVER does that. But good news(I think) he has forgiven me and is back to wanting mommy for everything and me doing everything for him.

All in a day's work

What a day, but what a good day!! We have been on the go, busy, busy since about 10 this morning. We started working on our yard today. This is just phase one, of many to come, concerning the yard. So today was phase one of the fire pit phase. Today my wonderful, great, cute husband(with the help of his brother, thanks Mike) built a fire pit!! It is so cool, and it looks so good!!


I am so excited about this, I can't wait to use it, I think we will really enjoy it!We went and picked up all the material this morning and it took them only a few hours this afternoon to do it, and I think they did a great job. BJ is really happy with it too. BJ's parents also came by to visit, so we had them here for a few hours today too. Once the work was done and visitors were gone we decided to go to the Lehi Legacy center and swim. (No pictures, I forgot my camera) It is such a cool swim area, with a big slide and lots of little ones and play areas, just a really cool aquatic center. We had a really good time. Once we got done swimming we came home and ate dinner. After dinner we got the kids bathed and ready for bed and colored Easter eggs!! It was so much fun! Last year we colored eggs and I don't remember it being fun at all. Infact I remember thinking I had boiled too many eggs and also one of the kids knocking over one of the cups of dye. So this year I only boiled 10 eggs and thought that will be more than enough. Well to my surprise it wasn't enough and I was the one wishing we had more to color. We had no spilled dye, and the kids had such a good time. So I vowed next year I am going boil 2 or 3 dozen eggs, even tho I will end up throwing them away!! It was just fun to spend time with the kids and BJ swimming and coloring eggs. Brayden told me this was the best day ever, maybe not the best, but definitly one to remember!!

The kids with our colored eggs(not the best picture of them, but the best one I could get)

Happy First Birthday to Jace!!

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Today is my baby's birthday! I am so sad that he is already 1, and I can't believe how fast the past year has gone by and how much has changed. Today, April 2, is his actual birthday, but since BJ couldn't get the day off and it was easier for everyone to come yesterday we celebrated it yesterday. I made dinner and we had one bbq spareribs w/ rice, rolls, and jello. This may be hard to believe, but it really is one of Jace's favorite things. He loves rice and meat, how he eats meat with only 1 tooth I don't know, but he does it pretty good. He was pretty grumpy he is working on getting another tooth, so all he really wants is for mom to hold him. It gets old really fast, but then I start to think how big he is getting and soon he will not want me to hold him at all and so I stop complaining and just snuggle him!

My mom and dad, Jed and Maegen, Shalene and Jef all came over for dinner. We were sad the others couldn't make it, but understand the drive down with Kyla probably wouldn't have been too fun. After dinner we opened presents.
Jace among his presents just having fun! Side note: This is Adi's Easter dress and my mom brought it with her and so of course Adi had to put it on, she thinks she is Belle from Beauty and the Beast.


We got him a hokey pokey Elmo(which is so annoying, but he loves it). Adi has a dancing care bear and he is obsessed with it, so I thought he would like Elmo, and I was right he just sits and stares and smiles at it. It is so funny! I was going to get the Elmo t.m.x, but I was afraid the way it goes on and on it may frighten him, so we went with hokey pokey elmo instead.

My parents gave him this Winnie the Pooh train thing. It makes so much noise!! The one good thing is it makes so many different sounds and songs that you don't get annoyed hearing the same one over and over. It was a fun day, and I can't believe he is already 1!!

Having fun with dad

We put the tramp up a few weeks ago and the kids have had a good time. Jace absolutely loves it. BJ decided to take the kids out for a jump while I was making dinner last Sunday. Jace loves to be out there with the kids and he doesn't get to very often so he was eating it up! Brayden and Adi think it is so fun to bounce him, sometimes they get a little too wild withhim on it, but he is tough and thinks it is great to get to play outside with the big kids!!

Caught Orange Handed: Take 2

Well here it is again, Jace getting into something that will make his hands messy and leave a huge mess for mom to clean up, courtesy of sister! She decided to get into the cheez balls and leave them out for Jace to have a hay day with. It was such a mess, but he so enjoyed himself, thanks Adisyn!

Farm Country

Last Thursday I took the kids over to Thanksgiving Point's Farm Country. It has changed since the last time we were there, which was probably 2 or 3 years ago. The weather was so nice and warm and it wasn't to crowded so it was the perfect day to go, and what is even nicer is since we have the pass I didn't feel like we had to stay that long cause we can go back whenever we want! The kids had a good time feeding the animals and riding the horses. We got 4 tickets to either ride the horses, or go on the wagon ride. Brayden and Adi decided they wanted to ride the horses, and since we got 4 tickets they both got to ride them twice. Adi said she didn't want to ride the second time and that Jacer could ride, so she sat and waited in the stroller while Brayden, Jace, and I waited in line, but once it was our turn to get on the horses she had changed her mind and wanted to ride. So Jace didn't get to ride, so we'll get him next time. He did however enjoy looking at the animals. We were looking at the goats and the baby would come right over to the fence. While we were standing there a bigger goat came over and jumped up and put its hooves on the fence so its head was above the fence. That freaked Adisyn and me right out!! She started screaming and I tried to quickly get Jace and the stroller away, but while I was trying to do that I ran the stroller into the fence and gave Jace whiplash! Oops! Animals kind of freak me out when they come at me or jump or anything. And I wonder where Adi gets it from? Anyways it ended up being alot of fun and we look forward to going back. I think next time we go we will go to the gardens. I have always wanted to go there I hear it is beautiful!

A good week

It is only Wednesday, but so far it has been a good week. I say that because the weather has been so wonderful, and so the kids have been out almost all day everyday!! All the kids are outside and they all play together riding bikes, or digging in the dirt, or whatever they can think to do! There are so many kids in the neighborhood, we just love it. I taught Brayden how to ride his bike with no training wheels!! BJ had tried once, but nothing and then Monday afternoon I asked him if he wanted me to help him. So we put Jace in the stroller and parked him in the driveway and Brayden and I went down to Juliann's house and back and he had the hang of it!! He was so proud of himself, it was so cute!! Tuesday we were gone all day and didn't get home till about 9, and the first thing he asked when we pulled in the driveway was if he could ride his bike. Um no it is too dark!! So of course the second after we got home from ball this morning he got on his bike and cruised over to Devon's and I haven't seen them for awhile. I did go over and see if the boys wanted to go to the park before Adi's cheerleading, and of course they did. So they hopped on their bikes, and Adi and I got the strollers and pushed our babies over to the park. We didn't get to stay too long but we had fun, and I promised to take them back Friday.



Adi had cheerleading this afternoon and she did pretty good today. All week she has been practicing her cheers and so when it was time to do them she did a good job. They learned a new dance today and she doesn't pay too close attention so mom has to so I can teach it to her at home so she knows it for next week! Oh well only one more month and then their showcase is in May, then on to gymnastics.

Firsts

This past week we have had quite a few firsts for everyone, well for the kids, not so much me and BJ. Last Tuesday I had to register Brayden for kindergarten. I about had a heart attack!! It is just hard to believe that he will be going to kindergarten, blows my mind. He is really looking forward to it. He loves school and loves to learn so I think he will like it. It will be so strange to have school everyday!

As for Adi's firsts we went and met her new preschool teacher today! I have been worried about not getting her into a good preschool, but I found one that I liked and she had room, so we got her a spot secured. I am a little worried about Adi and preschool, but it will be so good for her. She will go 3 days a week, which means 3 days a week for 2 hours it will be just me and Jace!! Seriously, that I am looking forward to!

Now for Jace's firsts. Finally, finally his first tooth broke through yesterday!! He is 11 months old and I was starting to wonder if he was ever going to get teeth. Poor kid has been gumming everything for months now and seems to be doing just fine at it, but it will be nice to have some teeth in there. And that has been our week of firsts!