Spring Fever

We have been loving the weather lately and are enjoying as much time outside as we can, before the summer comes. Last week we went out to the downtown water park with our friends the Brinkerhoff's. Ellie had a blast running around with the girls, Cooper loved every minute of the water, and Brook and I had a chance to get caught up!!and a few other things...

Cooper trying to get every small crumb out of his chair!

Brady has also been passing on some bad habits to Cooper, I should at least be thankful it wasn't the Dr. Pepper:)

and lastly here is an adorable pic of my newest niece Alyson!!!

March Madness

The end of March we spent a few weeks down in Vegas to see my sister, Kellie & Stephen's newest little addition Baby Alyson!!! She is so adorable and looks exactly like her older brother Ryker!!Ellie just loved her and wanted to hold her, which was totally the opposite with Cooper, I guess a few extra months makes a BIG difference.I love this FACE!!!and then just chillin watching Toy Story with Alyson!!

We also did a few other fun things while we were there....
played at Grandma & Papa's House!!swam at Uncle Shane & Aunt Amelia's!!

and went to the children's museum with my teaching
friends Bridget & Tammy
(i wish i would have gotten a pic of all the cute kids)

In My Red High HEELS!!

Back in January when we first got out flyer that she was coming I quickly called Holly to see if they were interested in coming down, especially since Hailey's birthday was just a couple days later. Of course they did and we got on to get tickets!! We ended up on the 6th row right in the middle!!!Then a couple of weeks ago, Brady was talking to one of the therapist at work, who's wife works many of the Tuacahn events to see if there was any way to backstage passes. After a few weeks of not knowing the day before Kevin said he thought that it was going to be possible to do the meet and greet. I think Brady was just as excited as we knew Hailey would be. So the girls got down Thursday afternoon and Hailey was busy thinking of how she wanted to word her sign, by then I knew what was going to happen and it was hard to not say much!! She also wanted to make one for Brady!! We told her the concert started about half an hour earlier so she wouldn't wonder why we had to leave so earlier. Luckily she was so engrossed in looking at the t-shirts, she didn't notice Brady sneak off to the ticket booth. As she was getting her shirt he came up and handed her the wristbands and said HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! She totally freaked out, jumping up and down and telling us we were the best Aunt and Uncle EVER!!!
We ended up only having 3 wrist bands so Brady tried to get a couple more and they said to just hang out with us and it shouldn't be a problem. After getting backstage Brady and Lexi were still without wristbands, but Marty from KONY country kindly gave them his 2 extras and all worked out well. We finally made it to the green room where we got our pictures taken, then a few autographs, and a nice story about how she CAN'T sew!! On our way back to our seats the nice Ivins police officer also let us take some pictures in front of her bus!!
The rest of the concert was great, she was totally hilarious!! Hailey had made Brady a sign that said KISS ME YOUR HOT!! So when Brady held it up she read it, laughed and said "is that your wife sitting with you! Men will be Men and Boys will be Boys." hahaha Then later in the concert Hailey held up her sign during a time when she was just chatting away with the audience, Kellie totally remembered her and invited her up on stage to sing Happy Birthday to her!!! What an awesome Sweet 16 Birthday!!!

The NEW DO!!

BEFORE DURING

AFTERHE NOW LOOKS MORE LIKE A LITTLE BOY AND LESS LIKE MY BABY

Standing Tall!!!

Look whose getting good at standingand getting stuck in sticky situations!!!Why go around when you can start here

then up on top
and finally over!!! More to come but Grandpa here is a sneak peek

and a Few More!!

I couldn't resist putting just a few more of my favorites of our trip to Disney.

Friday morning the parked opened at 8, so we went back for a few more hours. We were one of the first people into the park and the very first in line for NEMO!!
We spent the rest of the morning in Fantasyland riding all the favorites, Dad even joined us at Dumbo!!She got a button from City Hall that said "1st Visit"
not really true, but she loved it!!
We also saw Chip & Dale, well Ellie would only give one of them a hug, it was pretty funny and after I came over she hugged them both a couple of times. Ellie had a little allergic reaction to the sunscreen
that made her face of red and blotchy looking.
Here is Ellie's look of terror on her first
rollercoaster in Toon Town.
She feel asleep Thursday afternoon, so Brady and I enjoyed a quiet lunch at Tortilla Joe's in Downtown Disney!
We had our own boat on Small World
and us missing COOPER!

Disney!!!

We have been wanting to take Ellie to Disneyland for awhile now, so last week we packed up and headed down to California. We left Cooper with my parents for the week, where he had a blast playing, eating ice cream, and sleeping through the night!! We sure missed the little guy, but I think he was happy where he was.
So we got down to Cali Tuesday night, Ellie refused to take a nap until we got down the hill, so to help her burn off some energy we headed over to DownTown Disney. As soon as we saw the first Mickey head's Ellie yelled TOODELLE'S (from the mickey mouse clubhouse). We walked through a few stores, Ellie was in heaven at the World of Disney. We found a little band and Ell's made a few new friends and had a huge dance party. It was so funny watching all the kids getting down.The next morning the park didn't open til 10 so we had breakfast and Brady headed over to take back some motors and then we went to the park. Once in the park we first visited with Mickey and Goofy!! Ellie would lower her head and give the characters the biggest hugs. The only way he could get her to smile BIG was to tell her they were for Cooper.Ellie loved every minute... especially the Nemo Submarines, the apple outside of Snow White, Snow White, DUMBO, meeting Tinkerbell and Pirates. She also loved going to the jungle and meeting a ton of characters.
We stopped to enjoy the parade and of course the camera batt. died so I missed pics of Ellie dancing in the street and with Mickey Mouse. Brady did get a few of his phone, so I will have to post them later. The park closed early and the rain started so we headed out a few minutes early and ate dinner at Denny's. Ellie was so good after a long day and spent most of her time coloring at the table.
Thursday we headed to California Adventure and spent most of our time on Monsters INC. Ellie loves that ride and we love that their is never anyone on it!!! After getting a few snacks we headed back to Disneyland!! We decided to take the time to meet a few princess and boy did we luck out. The look on Ellie's face when she saw Belle was priceless!! She took off and we had to grab her, since it wasn't quite our turn, but then she got like a 3 minute hug!! We then saw Aeriel and Cinderella!!!That night we went in the store to take a look and Ellie went over and picked out these Pixar figures and said "I take these home!" She wouldn't give them up for anything, so that is what she got, she also picked out an adorable stuffed Sully & Mike for Cooper.
Overall we had the funniest time and we can't wait to take Cooper back and show him all the fun stuff that we love!! IF this pic doesn't show her excitement i don't know what does!!