A Crazy week with our Cousins

The Mohlers came up to visit us for a few days last week. Since their last trip to Coral Pink was filled with SNOW, the boys went back for a few more days and Kellie came and stayed with us. We had so much fun and can't wait for them to come back again.

We took a trip to Wal-Mart...
complete with rides on Pumba!!We fed the ducks at the park...then spent some time on the swings and playground!We also played in the pool,
rode bikes and drew with the chalk.
And snuggled this little cutie!!
Hopefully it won't be to long before
we get to see this smiling face again!!

Once Upon a TIme...

A few weeks ago Brady had to make another trip down to Cali for work. Me and the kids were lucky enough to go and spend a few days at Disneyland. It is all Ellie has been talking about since our first trip in February, so we didn't tell her where we were going until we got there. We also brought Cooper along for the fun!!
We headed out Sunday morning and made pretty good time, the entire way we told Ellie we would go swimming when we got to the hotel, since we were surprising her. Well, that was exactly what she wanted to do when we got there, which was nice because it was pretty warm. After swimming we went back and got ready to head over to the Happiest Place on Earth. We took it pretty easy that night and mainly rode a few rides, watched the parade, did the Tiki Room, and waited around for the fireworks. We also found a new favorite ride, the Casey Junior train ride. That night Ellie loved seeing Tinkerbell fly across the park and Coop loved the fireworks. I forgot my camera this day so sorry no pics:(
The next few days are kind of blur since it's been awhile,however, here are some highlights!! Ellie now sings Small World, she was pretty concerned that pirates were scary?? but we kept telling her no, they are funny, and she meet her dream princesses Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
Cooper's favorite was the Buzz ride, flirting with all the cute older girls in line, meeting the characters, especially Snow White, I think we was in LOVE!!and the free churro we scored in line at the jungle cruise.
Brady and I both ran into some friends from high school which was fun.We also had a few first in the park, we rode in the front car of the monorail, saw many of the characters we've never seen before, ate BBQ, and took things nice and slow!!

But truly our kids loved every minute in Disneyland!! They both did pretty good waiting in the lines, Cooper took awesome naps in the stroller, and Ellie continues to talk about it and wants to take Ryker back with us the next time. I am so glad that we have been lucky enough to make the trip a few times and can't wait to go back in the fall when it's cooler and less people!
Every night as we got ready to leave the park, we would get out Coop's blankie and he would lay his head down on the tray and be out within 30 secs. I loved it, he was so adorable!!With 2 kids it was harder to get more pics, I noticed after getting home, so hope you enjoy the ones we took!!

THE Routine

So I had never really thought of comparing

Evan Lysacek &
Ross Gellar but after reading I Heart You this morning I can totally see it.
What about you????
That was one of my all time favorite Monica and Ross moments!!

Lets Go Fly a KITE!!

Our last trip to Vegas, Stephen took the kids out to fly kites and ever since Ellie has wanted to fly kites. So a few Saturday's ago, Brady planned to take the kids out to the kite festival. They apparently got there a little to early so they left and headed to Home Depot instead. Later that night when the wind kind of picked up, we headed outside to fly our kite. Ellie loved every minute and Cooper even got in on the action!

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!!!