April Fun

April started a little rocky with another trip to the ER.  Lame kidney's.  However, the rest of the month totally rocked!!! 

I REALLY LOVE GOLF!

It's probably the only sport I have ever been good at...and when I say good I mean I always shoot below 100.  :)  

I love that it's outside and how beautiful the courses are.  I love that you get to do it with other people and socialize and just hang out while you are getting exercise and enjoying nature.  I love that Curtis loves it too and that we do it together.  My kids are taking lessons this summer and I hope it will be something we will do as a family the rest of our lives.  

I really enjoyed watching the masters this year.  

I love seeing movies with my kids at the "lay down" theater.  We honestly haven't missed a kid movie there since it opened.  I love sharing a seat with my kids and snuggling them both.  It's heaven to me.  

Playoff hockey is so much fun to watch.  The only thing better is Olympic hockey.  

LET'S GO PENGUINS!!!

Kylee has been struggling lately and as an incentive for going to school and not coming home I promised her a sleep-over with friends.  She met her goal and a party was planned.  Little did I know she would invite so many girls and all of them would say yes to coming.  I thought most families didn't do sleep-overs any more or wouldn't feel comfortable letting their kids sleep over at someones house they didn't know.  I was wrong.  The next thing I knew I had 6 kids in my house and just me to entertain them.  

Luckily they are all really cute kids and we had a way fun night.  

We made ice cream sundae's

Did a "photo shoot"

And watched movies and camped out downstairs.  It was a very fun night.  I told Kylee that next time the limit was 2 girls at a time though.  :)

More Summer Fun

Summer is going by WAY too fast.  I can't believe school is going to start in just 2 weeks.  :(  Both my kids will be in school all day...which is exciting and sad at the same time.  I am really so thankful for my two cute kids.

Even though summer is about over, we have really enjoyed every single second.  And honestly, I'm not even too sad about fall and winter coming around the corner because we have a ton of really awesome things in our future, and there are things about those seasons I love too!  (Hockey anyone?!?)  Life really is just about finding the joy in now...and we have a lot of joy to be thankful for.

Kylee and I had a girls day hitting all the outlets and malls we could.  We started in Park City and worked our way back home.  It was such a fun day.  I really love my Kylee.  It is so fun to watch her grow into her own person.  She has very specific tastes for herself.  She really loves being a "tomboy" and wearing hats and baggy shorts and converse shoes.  She makes me smile and I just love that she knows who she is and isn't afraid to be herself. 

We had a fun time with our shopping buddies.  

We seriously shopped til we dropped.  

Curtis is on nights right now so finding time together is even more difficult than normal.  It means so much to me when he sacrifices his precious sleep to do things with me.  And not only that, but that he is so fun even if he is so tired.  

We saw "Mary Poppins" at the Hale Center Theater and it was a great production and a wonderful night.  

This kid.....he seriously melts my heart.  It is IMPOSSIBLE to ever be sad around him.  

He always says the sweetest things to me and has the best manners and I just don't know what I ever did to deserve such a great little boy.  I took this picture after he told me that I make the "BEST TOAST IN THE WHOLE WORLD."  Yeah, I know, I've got mad skills.  It just proves what a sweet heart he is though.  He just appreciates everything, no matter how small, and it is so incredibly rewarding to be his mom.  

Another cute Cannon story...I was riding home in the carpool from work and he facetimed me on my phone.  I talked to him for a second and then he told me before he got off that he loved me so much and that I was the love of his life.  Of course everyone in the car heard the whole conversation and they all agreed that it doesn't get any sweeter than that.  Seriously love my kiddos.  

Kylee comes up with the craziest ideas sometimes.  I just love the way her mind works.  One day she just randomly decided she wanted to write her future self a book.  She had all kinds of cute things in this book but this page was my favorite.  If you can't read her handwriting it says:

"Kylee I just 

want you to 

know that 

your mom 

and dad are 

always right.  

But not 100% 

more like 

50%."

She is so dang smart!!!

I went golfing up in Logan with some friends and this was an incredibly frustrating coarse.  Lots and lots of hazards and you had to be right on target.  I won't lie...I swore a lot this day.  It was still way fun though.  

I am really enjoying all the golf I've played this summer.  

Golf is fun!

I was not going to put this picture on here but Kylee is sitting next to me while I write this post and she says it's too funny not to share.  One day we were just trying to stay cool and the kids were playing in the kiddie pool and I couldn't take the sweat coming down my back anymore...so I hoped in the pool.  As you can see, I fit perfectly.  Never mind the fact that the water totally overflowed when I got in or that the pool has to be in our front yard (we don't have access to a hose in the back yard) and never mind the fact that multiple cars drove by.  I'm sure my neighbors think I am a weirdo.  My kids thought it was hilarious though, so that's all that matters to me.  

We took a little road trip to Boise.  Curtis worked the whole night if you can't tell.  I really appreciate all he sacrifices for our family.  He is such a great guy and I am so blessed to have him in my life.  

This was me golfing one day.  

Hmmm...I wonder who my favorite team is?  

I'm really excited for the Hockey season to start.  Just 58 more days!!!  

Summer has been awesome and I have loved every second of it.  

Family Night

It's not very often Curtis and I are together with our kids.  :(  We often joke about being roommates and co-parents instead of husband and wife.  Sad...but it's true.  We do what we can to make the very best of our situation and it is wonderful for our kids to have daddy or mommy with them so much more now.  They just don't get the two of us together as much.  So we really value our family nights.  We recently went down to the South Davis Rec Center and took advantage of their fun ice.  Cannon got his first pair of hockey skates and it was fun to see him get so excited about getting on the ice.   

The rec center had these cool little "walkers" that the kids were able to use to help them get the hang of it.  Cannon didn't want to use the walkers, he wanted to just take off like dad did, and would get really mad when he couldn't just naturally skate.  He started to get the hang of it by the end though. 

After skating we make a quick trip to Pace's for some ice cream. 

It was a fun family night. 

Almost Perfect Weekend

I seriously just had the best weekend.  Friday night was low key, since Curtis now works every Friday until the end of time (at least that is how it feels).  So it consisted of laundry and Netflix, but that can be a fun time.

Saturday Cannon and I went to watch our favorite hockey game of the year...Guns vs. Hoses.  I have friends on the GUNS team and the past 3 years they have beat (actually, more like slaughtered) the Hoses.  This year was no different.  They beat the hoses 12 - 2.  I got to sit with one of my favorite families of all time and we laughed and cheered and chatted the whole game.  It was a great time and some good hockey.  Even as they get older, I will never tire of watching them play.  So much fun.

Later that night we went to the Grizzlies game and sat by our dear friends and again just had the best time.  Even though the Grizzlies lost, the company was so good it didn't matter.  

Not to mention....HOCKEY IS BACK.  My Penguins beat the Flyers in their season opener and the Red Wings lost 0-6!  It doesn't get much better than that.  

Sunday we went to church and then headed over to a friends house to watch the 49ers take on the Atlanta Falcons for the NFC Championship.  Of course Curtis was super excited about this.  So to show our support for him we all got our gear on and rooted for the Niners.  

This year they were able to pull it off, so the 49ers will be going to the Super Bowl, and I have one excited hubby.  :)

Monday was a holiday so there was no school and neither Curtis or I had to work.  I think EVERY weekend should be a 3 day weekend!!!  After we spent the morning together as a family playing games and cleaning the house, we got a sitter for the kids and Curtis and I headed up the mountains.  He got ski's for Christmas and he is still trying to figure them out and get back in the groove.  

I, on the other hand, am pretty dang comfortable on my board these days and hauled booty down the mountain multiple times.  I love that we have ski resorts so close to our house.  We headed up in the late afternoon and enjoyed the cheaper "night" skiing rates and the much less crowd.  It was pretty awesome and perfect.  

Sadly, the fun all came to a sad end when we came home to a sad little 6-year-old who wasn't feeling well.  She had a fever and said her ear hurt, so I bundled her up and took her to the doctor.  I'm super thankful that Wee Care is open 24 hours.  They have saved us multiple times.  

I was able to get Ky in to see a doctor and sure enough, she had a double ear infection.  Who knows how long she had been in pain.  The sweet little girl hardly ever complains.  So, we got her some antibiotics and some rest and she is already doing well again today.  

Other than Kylee getting sick, it was an absolute perfect weekend and one I would love to repeat sometime soon.  

Halloween Weekend

The Friday before Halloween was full of a lot of fun. 

Kylee had to carve a pumpkin for pre-school.  I thought she did a great job.  She was very proud of it. 

Her class had a Halloween party and I got the chance to go and help out.  It was a lot of fun and Cannon was very excited to get to go to school with Ky. 

We all put our costumes on and headed out to the party.

After the party the kids lined up and marched in a Halloween parade by the school.  It was so fun to see all the cute kids in their costumes. 

I may be a little biased, but I think the crayons were the cutest of the bunch. 

After the school party we headed down to my work and trick-or-treated around my office.

Kylee and Cannon got a ton of candy and it was a lot of fun. 

THEN...we headed to the Maverick Center to watch the Grizzlies play the Alaska Aces. 

Gabby's school choir sang the National Anthem before the game. 

They did a great job and it was so fun to spend a night with my family watching some HOCKEY. 

I LOVE how much Cannon loves hockey. 

He is so much fun to watch a game with. 

Nothing better than my babies AND hockey.  :) 

I will say I was very sad with how empty the arena was.  It was game 7 of the World Series and BYU was playing TCU - so maybe that had something to do with it.  I encourage everyone out there to go to a game.  It's fun and inexpensive and I don't want hockey to leave Utah.  Even if it is the AHL - it's still hockey and the Grizzlies are actually having a pretty good season. 

If you need someone to go to a game with...you know where to find me. 

What a fun day we had.