Harper J. turns 3!

FROM LITTLE BABY....

TO LITTLE GIRL!

On May 4th little Miss Harper turned 3 (although some days it seems like she has the attitude of a teenager)! My little baby is gone and has been replaced with a little girl. Harper is a sassy, silly, sweet, loving little girl and we really couldn't imagine our family without her! We love you Harper J!

**More pics from her bday celebrations on...yes you guessed it my facebook**

Ketchup?

At the end of April we took a quick little trip down to Southern California to visit family and "the happiest place on earth" Disneyland! We had a blast!

Our first night (April 26th) we headed to Keith's Grandpa's house for April/May birthday celebrations and some family time.

Atticus and his Great Grandpa Lee!

Harper was very excited to get to celebrate early!

Our second day (April 27th) was spent at Disneyland and DCA. Wednesday was a good day to visit, the lines during the day were extremely short and we went on a ton of rides before 6pm. It was a long, fun, and tiring day! On our last day we slept in and hit downtown Disney and then headed out of town. We always have a fun time when visit CA.

Harper was SO excited to meet Mickey. She was running all through his house looking for him. When it was finally our turn she ran with open arms to him! Atticus told us "I am too old to hug Mickey." They grow up too fast!

Harper's first time on Gadgets Go Coaster, and she loved it! I need to work on not cutting peoples heads off.

One of Atticus' favorites, Big Thunder Mountain.

In line for Gadgets Go Coaster.

*A lot of the other pictures are on my facebook if you want to see them.*

Being a Good Blogger is HARD!!

It really is! So, I am going to try out a new to me weekly thing that I found through the fabulous Aimee over at Thanks for That Info Aimee and I believe she found it over at Liegh Ashley. It is wee bit Wednesday.





{one} how often do you do laundry?I seriously feel like I have a terrible magical laundry basket that is NEVER empty and I am constantly doing loads of laundry! On average though I would say 2 days out of the week are laundry days.
{two} what is your favorite type of cookie?
chocolate chip macadamia nut .
{three} what would you do with an extra $2000 per month?Put half into the kids college funds and I would like to say fun traveling with the other, but most likely it would go into savings or maybe a little of both!
{four} what was/is your favorite subject in school?English and Newspaper.
{five} have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon?No, and I am not really sure that I want to.

{six} what was your high school mascot?I was a Vanguard!

{seven} if you had the chance to go into space, would you?I am not sure! Although it would be an amazing opportunity I am just not sure I could handle it! We will see though if it ever comes up ;P

{eight} how often do you go dancing?Haha, I dance around the house all of the time, but actually go out dancing? The last time I went out dancing it was 2003! So, not often at all.

{nine} would you rather drive or fly?It depends on how far, although I do love a good road trip. I am going to say both!

{ten} have you ever been caught re-gifting?NO! I really don't think I have ever re-gifted anything!

Maybe this will help me get back into the blog world (as long as life will let me, haha)! Did you learn something new about me? Haha, hope everyone is having an awesome week!

Kiss Me I'm Irish!

St. Pattys was a fun one this year! Atticus decided that he wanted to catch a Leprechaun so he could get his treasure! So, we built a Leprechaun trap (instructions here). Unfortunately that sneaky little Leprechaun got out of the trap before we woke up, left a tiny little note saying, "nice try, better luck next year", and created mischief all over the house!







That sneaky little Leprechaun left all of our Kitchen cupboards and drawers open, got into the Lucky Charms, played a little PS3 (he left a note about it ;p) turned the kids toilet water green, and turned our milk green as well. He did however leave gold candy all over along with his mischief so I think the kids forgave him for the craziness!

After mixing in the food coloring.

The inside.

That afternoon we made rainbow cupcakes(it seemed fitting) and topped them with cream cheese frosting and green sprinkles! Everyone is excited for next year!

It was also a certain beautiful young lady's 16th bday *cough* Aubreana *cough* I say it all of the time, but it is true every time. I can not believe how fast time flies! We love you Aubrey!

Silly and beautiful!

Sadly the day after also marked 16 years ago sweet little Anthony passed away. I remember him being so excited to visit his new little (almost 10 pound) sister! He was the smartest 2 year old on the block, and the cutest by far! I am so happy to know in my heart that we will see him again!

us with Anthony.
from back to front: Amber, April (Anthonys mom),Angie,me, Anthony and Allison

Cha Cha Changes...

The front of our house. I know, I need a better picture of the whole house.

I love our street!!

Don't forget your suit when you come to visit.

The private airport is right behind us and the kids love it! We really only hear planes on the weekends and they sound like motorcycles so it is not a disturbance at all!

Yes, we did it again! We packed up all of our belongings in a big moving truck and set our sights on Southern Utah. Decisions were made quickly and everything fell into place pretty much perfectly and made it that much easier to see that we were making the right move for our family!
We are almost all unpacked in our new house and the kids have already started making friends!! <3

Thanksgiving!

Cuties!!

One of the turkeys ready to be deep fried!

Some of the grub!

♥

Keith modeling his white elephant win! WWF belt and sour patch kids!

Lots of this went on!

some cousins!

Nerds unite! Haha! We ♥ apple and nerds!

Harper and John (Allison's little boy) enjoying my early bday present!

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun as always! We headed up to Utah on Wednesday evening. As soon as I got out of the car I seriously thought I was going to freeze to death!! We were sad that we were missing some family this year but hopefully they can make it next year! Thursday started with family pictures, and they actually went pretty smoothly! I have many fail family pics to post in the near future! Haha! We ate around 5 and all of the food was delish! Let me just say, if you have never had deep fried turkey then you are seriously missing out! SO GOOD!! Everyone did such an awesome job and it was definitely enjoyed by all!! That night we had our annual white elephant game and this year there were some uh, really, uh nice things wrapped up ;P. Lots of fun to see what you happen to unwrap. The rest of the weekend was filled with games, good food, shopping, more games, and Tangled! Tangled was really cute!! Harper was glued to the screen and her popcorn. I also got an early birthday present. My parents got me a new bike and a trailer to pull the kids in! I LOVE IT and so do the kids!! Thanks Mom and Dad!
We also decided to start couch to 5K I am excited! I am already looking forward to next year!!

Awesome Deal.

I have never used Shutterfly before but stumbled upon a blog offer and landed on their site. Holiday cuteness ensued. Besides all of the cuteness, they are offering 50 free holiday cards just for bloggers (check out the deets here)!! Hello awesome deal, it is nice to meet you! I will definitely be using them this year, but am having a hard time choosing a design as they have so many cute ones and I would love to use them all! I am pretty sure I will be using one of the designs that has one large picture though, well maybe...the designs with multiple pictures are really cute too (haha)! They also have other cool products that would make great gifts! They even have cards for other holidays! I can't believe I have never tried Shutterfly before, with all of their options and affordable prices they are the perfect place for all of your holiday card and photo needs! Will you be using Shutterfly this year?