Country Nights and Carnival Lights!! Fair Days Here We Come!!!

The Logandale Clark County Fair is here! My Honz and the whole board have worked all year to plan and put on a spectacular Fair!!! We can't wait for our fair days! Here's Wed-Opening fair day for Penny and Honz! My honz was already out there for many days before the grand opening! Penny was able to sneak out to Logandale opening day with my Bestie Shayla and her family! Penny sure had a blast and Honz sure loved spotting Penny having fun!! 

Day 1: Thursday! We headed straight out to Logandale right after school and work! We couldn't wait to get to the fair and rodeo! Loved having bff Jackie meet us out there too! First stop was to start eating all the carnival food! lol 

Got our cotton candy and kettle corn! Then is was Rodeo time! 

We love the Rodeo! The American Stitch buckin shoot was back! We would scream out every time the announcer would announce our buckin shoot! Wahoo! 

After the Rodeo we were back eating! lol The girls got their annual henna's When you're at the fair you must do all the fair things! lol

Day 2- Friday! Annual breakfast at Grandpa Jeff's and Grammy Vicki's! Gramps knows just how to make us happy! We love starting our day off with Gramps!

Over the the fair grounds we go! We love to shop around at all the booths! Eat of course! lol Play the different games! Watch the shows! Face painting! Airbrush tattoos! All the things! Fair life is the best life!

Next up was Carnival time!! Once we get our wrists bands for the day we do not stop riding the rides!

Love the carnival rides! Piper was tall enough for everything but the zipper! lol The teens were off riding and I stuck with Piper and Cash! We had a blast! 

Love lounging under the big trees! We always plant ourselves under the trees by the big white tent to rest through out our busy day! We had our usual amazing families with us! My bro Ryan family and our bff's the Facers! We even got to have Penny's bestie, Addie stay with us the entire fun filled weekend! We have the best times together! We had a ton of other friends and family that trickled in throughout the weekend but this is the core that stays in their trailers for the whole weekend with us! Great memories together!

Pig Races, Bmx tricks, and Seal shows kept us busy having the best day! 

It's Rodeo time!!! Friday night lights country style! We enjoyed fresh delicious baked cinnamon rolls compliments to Kip while we watched the cowboys ride!! lol 

Pics at the Rodeo! Such a blast!

As you know... after the Rodeo we shut the place down! We head back to the carnival and ride rides until the lights go out! lol 

The carnival night life is the best! Love these pics! My absolute favorite!

Day 3- Saturday! Breakfast at Gramps was delicious as usual! We grabbed our shade spot then headed straight to the carnival before it got too busy! Saturday is the busiest day at the fair! 

Had a blast riding and riding! The carnival rides never get old for us and we never get sick riding them! lol

Jake and Bre family came out too! Cousin time was on! lol

These besties had an absolute blast! Navy brought a checklist of all the things that her and Piper were going to do at the Fair! They would check things off as they did it! So freakn cute! They completed their list and had so much fun doing it! Love these bestie cousins!

Brigham and his friends even came out and surprised Penny! That was so much fun for Penny! They had a blast riding rides and hanging out!

Rode those rides until it was Rodeo time! Wahoo! The animals were wild this night! It was quite the Rodeo!

And you know it... Rodeo ended and we hit that carnival up! 

Of course we shut it down! Rode the rides until lights out! lol I seriously love the carnival light pics! My favorite! 

Day 4- Sunday! Sadly all the fun has to come to an end! Honz stayed to work  the last day of the fair and I packed the kids up and headed back home! Unpacked and got my week ready! Then because I'm crazy and don't ever like the fun to end I took the kids back out to the fair to surprise daddy! lol Got to see more family! Enjoyed our last fair meal! Went through the shops one last time! 

Enjoyed the last night of the Rodeo! We even had our bffffffffffffff's Chad and Madi come meet us at the Rodeo! We love being with them! We had such a great time together! One last fair night hoorah! 

As soon as the Rodeo ends the fair starts coming down! Can't believe it! Penny and Cash helped daddy start to take down the banners! Then Monday, Honz picked up Penny after school! She got to go out there and cont helping taking down the fair with daddy! She's a worker bee! She loves to help with set up and take down! And just like that the fair fun has come to an end! Now Honz begins to start planning for next year! :) We absolutely love the Clark County Fair! We can't wait to get back out there next year! Thanks Honz and the entire board for putting on the most incredible fair days!

 

Total Solar Eclipse!

Total Solar Eclipse!!! Such a memorable day!!! A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the  Earth and the Sun! We brought our safety glasses to school and enjoyed the amazing view right outside our school! My eyes had never seen anything so cool in my life! Easy to please I guess! lol No really it was so freakn awesome! Where we are located in Las Vegas, the Moon only crossed over the Sun at 50%! We were able to  check it out at it's peek! Which was when the moon crossed the sun at it's fullest capability! That's the pic I was able to get from my phone! So amazing! My kids loved it! I loved it! We sure had fun taking pics too! lol Such an Epic day! 

 

Leader of the Month!

Cash has continued to crush 4th grade! He was selected Leader of the Month!!! Wahoo! Way to go Cashy! He got to have lunch with the Principle! Was given his award and even got to take a pic with Mrs. Ellis and Ms. Jones for the Sky Pointe Leader wall!! His bff cousin Noah was also selected leader of the month too! Cash spotted both their pics together on the wall! He was so proud! The Bierstedt boys are killing it! :) So proud of my Cashy! He works hard and is a leader! It's definitely paying off! We love you Cashy!!! Keep up the amazing work!

 

Reaching Goals!

This week began their testing weeks to come! This week all the kids did their MAP tests!! I'm so proud of all my kids! They had high goals to reach and met them with flying colors! Wahoo! I love the center pic of Cash walking Piper in and giving her a pep talk on how to test successfully! Well it worked Cashy! Piper did amazing and so did you! The bottom pic is of Penny receiving an award! They don't make a big deal over in middle school but I sure do! She was like mom I don't need a pic! Ummm yes you do! lol Way to go Penny! lol

After the testing days were over Grandpa Jeff had us out for dinner! BBQ ribs that were falling off the bone and dutch oven potatoes just like my dad would cook them! Yum! It was a delicious dinner! Such a fun way to celebrate their hard working testing week! Thanks Gramps! Then grabbed ice cream at Inside scoop on our way out of town! Penny stayed back to go to YW's and then had another day of testing she wanted to get prepared for! Love my family! Great job kids! You are all so smart! Mama is proud! 

 

The Happiest Easter!

Happy Easter!!! He has Risen! I love Easter! I love the real reason for the season the most! Because of him we will live again! Beyond grateful that because of my Savior, I get Eternity with these beautiful humans! I love my eternal family!

We had a beautiful Easter day! Woke up to the Easter Bunny baskets! Man did the bunny spoil these 3!!! Even the Bff Decker's across the street spoiled them with 50 hidden Easter eggs for them to hunt! Then Honz cooked up an amazing breakfast before church! The kids had a blast going through their giant baskets of surprises! 

Off to church we went! Such a beautiful Easter Sunday centered around our loving Christ! The primary kids sang! That always is a special treat! Piper and Cashy did so good! After church the kids did new fun church activities while we watched church videos! Then the kids did another egg hunt! This time it was centered around Christ! Resurrection Egg Hunt! The kids loved it! Such a special egg hunt! 

Then is was off to Grandma DeeDee's for Easter dinner and tradition egg hunt! The food is always yummy when we are with Grandma! This year Tara hosted it so we got to see her lovely new house! She also planned out and stuffed over 400 eggs for the kids to hunt for! Each kid gets a certain egg to hunt for ! This makes it fair and fun! Honz added $2 bills to the eggs too! So that was extra exciting to get money in their eggs! 

Hunting for eggs! The kids had a blast! Such a fun Easter together! 

It was a great day to be with family! The kids have the best time with their cousins! Thanks Tara for hosting and Grandma DeeDee for planning! Love our family! The Happiest Easter! 

 

Easter Weekend Fun!

Easter weekend hear we come! Couldn't think of a better way to  Honor  our Savior on this Easter weekend then to go to his house! The Temple! We made the long drive  up to Manti, UT to see the new renovated Mani Temple! We met my fave cousin Angela and her family  and my bro  Ryan and his family along the freeway in St George! Then made a quick gas station stop in Cedar City and randomly ran into Chad's Uncle Troy! It was such a surprise to see him! We had to snap a pic! What are the chances we would see him at that gas station at that time! o  crazy! Perfect timing! Wow! I call it fate! :)

We made it! The beautiful Manti Temple was absolutely gorgeous inside and out! Love that it sits high on a mountain top! It had just snowed through the night too! White snowy grounds for a beautiful white temple! Such a wonderful time with family! I love taking my kids to the temple open houses! Such a blessing!

After walking through the beautiful temple we ate at the only pizza place in that small town! The ambiance was a little sketchy but man was the pizza delicious! So freakn good! We worked our way back down to Santa Clara! Got all settled at my Uncle Jim's house! The girls colored eggs! For dinner we ate at the Habit! That was delicious too! Penny, Mav and  Chance ended their night with the girls they met on our Soring Break Cruise! Love that they got to see each other and hang out again! They had a blast! 

Did Easter nails on Piper and Macey! They were lovn their life! Getting all pampered! Cash had a blast with the boys! 

Lunch time! Aunt Debbie put on an amazing luncheon! Sandwiches and all the sides! Yummy desserts too! The best times just chatting, laughing and eating!

We went shooping! WE went to a fun taffy shop! Penny had a blast with her cruise friends this day as well! Piper got to hold the chickens! Gross! lol 

Egg  Hunt! Thanks Aunt Debbie for so much  fun! The littles had a blast! Penny got to help hide  the eggs! She loves doing that too! 

The rest of the pics from our wonderful Easter weekend with family! Be Real selfies! Love those! lol We headed back home Saturday night so we could be home on Easter Sunday! Love being with my family! Thanks for such an amazing time together! We missed my Honz! He had to stay home to work and do fair prep!

Here's the pics of Honz! Such a hottie! He sent them to me while we were apart from each other! Love this one! Always working so hard for his family! We love you! 

 

March Monthly Pics!

And just like that we are in our last week of March! Thought I better post up the monthly pics for March from my phone before Easter hits! I'll have more pics just from Easter weekend to come! lol So here are the rest of the fun things we did in March!!!

Had to start with this collage! My oldest nephew on my side of the family got his Mission call! My bro Ryan's oldest - Chance! Can't believe the time has come for him to be old enough to go on a mission! It's so wild how time flies! Last week Chance opened his mission call! We are so excited to announce he has been called to serve in the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission! Wahoo! He leaves July 1st!  His mission is all of Louisiana and half of Mississippi! He is going to be an outstanding missionary! I'm so proud of my #1! He is going to touch and change so many lives just as he will be touched and changed by the deep southern people! Can't wait to see him spread the gospel! He will do amazing things!

Next up! Comp Basketball for the school has come to an end! They hussled and played hard every game! Didn't take very many wins but Cash improved individually and that's great! Coach did a fun little banquet for the team! Cash was awarded most outstanding player of the team! He was also awarded best team captain of the season too! So proud of my boy! He works hard and plays hard! Way to go Eagles!!! The other pics are of me at the school with my co workers and couple students that jumped in out pic! lol Cashy reading in the hallway after shopping the book fair and Penny and Pilar at the book fair! The book fair was so fun this year!

Church fun!!! Sunday fun day pics! Cash and daddy at their father and sons Book of Mormon day camp! and Piper going to activity days at Jackie's house! 

My old ortho work bestie had a birthday! Happy "twenty twice" Bestie Holly! Chad and I sure had a blast at her 40th Birthday celebration! Yummy food and lot's of catching up! Such a great night! We also had ortho with our favortie Dr!!! Dr Auntie Eryn! She is the absolute best! All of my kids beg to get in her chair! Braces or no braces! They all want their teeth checked every month by Auntie Eryn! 

It's becoming pool season and we are ready for it! Since our spring break cruise the kids have been outside working in the back yard pulling weeds and laying out! We have heated the hot tub almost every night since getting back from the cruise too! Bring on summer! We are ready for hot sunny days and pool swimming days! Also cute pics of my Ruby! Also sneaking into my car and ready for a ride! :)

Always a teen hang out over here!!! I love these friends of Penny's! The last couple hangs outs I haven't snagged the pic of the big group early enough and by the time I remember most the kids have hit curfew and have gone home! lol But there have been some awesome hang outs! Nothing but chatter and laughter! Pool tournaments! Shoot the Hoops tournaments! Slime making! The last hang out they combined 2 friends groups and there were over 15 kids here at the house! Love it!!! I also love the selfies Penny takes with her and her friends! I dropped one of her selfies in this collage of her and Brigham! These 2 are the cutest! I also love when Penny and Addie play the piano, guitar and sing together! They are both so talented! Put that talent together and you have a master piece! lol Beautiful!