Happy! Happy Birthday To Me!

It's great to be Alive!!!! Happy! Happy 45th Birthday to me!!! Wow it's been the best Birthday Month, Week and Day! hahaha You all know how to make me feel so special! Thank you all for the texts, the videos and the voicemails! And don't even get me started with all the Social Media love! The wall, the tags, the feed, the reels! It was incredible to feel so loved on my special birthday! Not to mention the showering with gifts, treats, flowers and cards! I can't even express how loved I feel! Thank you! 

The top collage is from my annual birthday couples dinner! I love my people so much! We went to the Mexican restaurant at the Durango! It was delicious and the ambiance was incredible! Such a wonderful night eating, chatting and laughing all to celebrate me! Love it!

All my fun Birthday Surprises! Completely spoiled and felt all the love from my Honz and beautiful kids! I'm the lucky one! 

My Birthday landed on Fri-yay this year and I of course couldn't wait to spend my birthday at school with all my co-workers and students! Oh how I felt so much Love!!! When I stepped into each 5th grade classrooms my students sang to me!!! Each different homeroom class! :) Then at carline end of day the whole 1st grade sang to me too! Omg my heart was full! I love all the attention! haha My amazing co-workers surprised me with flowers, bundt cake, a basket of goodies, monster water, and decorated my desk area! Wow! I love my work besties so much! The best birthday!

All the birthday surprises! Wow do you know how to make a girl feel so special and loved on her birthday! Thank you!!!!

To end my Extra Amazing Birthday my Honz took me to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory! Then we gathered back at my house with the bestie teens, bff Jackie and Bestie Shayla for cake, cookies and ice cream! The cutest part was when Baddie Owen gave "Baddie mom" a birthday card and surprise! lol I love being the teens "mama em" and I love being Baddie Owen's "Baddie mom!" haha Seriously the best birthday! 45 never felt and looked so goooood! lol 

Well if you know me you know that once your birthday is over you still celebrate through the weekend! hahaha Sunday Fun-day!!!! So to end April wk 4- my Birthday Wk my sister Eryka surprised me at my door with all her littles to wish me a happy birthday and it was actually her birthday! lol They were down for a basketball tournament! It was such a fun surprise and I loved seeing her on her Birthday! We had a quick little visit cause we had dinner plans at the bff Facer's! Mel's homemade pizza! It was delicious and we cont the birthday celebrations at their house! We even stopped by to give Penny's friend Miles a get well surprise! He broke his hand in 3 places colliding with Baddie Owen at their flag football game! We just felt so bad for him! Dang it! Broken anything just sucks! Praying for a speedy recovery! 

It was a perfect and the best Birthday Month, Week, Weekend and Day! haha Wow! Thanks for showering me with all the birthday love! I definitely felt it! Here's to 45!!!!

 

April Wk 4 of Amazingness!

How are we already almost done with April!! Here's the weekly recap for April wk 4!! My Birthday Wk! Wahoo! We had the missionaries over for dinner! We have absolutely loves our missionaries and have really connected with them! Another amazing week at work and school! Can't believe the school is almost done too! Wow! The rest of the pics just fun car selfies!! 

It was take your child to work day for CCSD! So Penny got to go with Daddy to work! Yayyyy! 2 peas in  a pod! Business minded and always finding ways to make the money! hahaha They had so much fun together! Not sure how much work they got done in the warehouse but they made a lot of deliveries and multiple food stops! hahaha The rest of the pics in this collage are the carline high school pick up pics and more school pics for me!! 

Busy week and Mid week fun for Penny! She got to see her Baddie Owen twice in the middle of the wk! This never happens because they are both so busy after school but Penny had a volleyball game to go to at Palo so she convince her besties to go! We actually ended up not going at all because we couldn't get the tickets to pull up so there ended up not even being a game at Palo but we already had all the friends with us so we ended up going to dinner and then getting ice cream! Yayyy! Then of course a" killing time" at Tj Max run with Joaquin! lol Penny's whole fit went straight to Baddie Owen! lol The other mid wk fun was when Penny had to work at the school for Art Festival Night for Stuco! Her favorite baddie bf surprised her at her school! She was so excited! She even had a piece of art on display from her ceramics class she got to show him too! Her art piece was awesome! So proud of you Penny! It made it on the art show! lol They had such a fun night together!! 

More just chilling!! Love Piper and her tricks!

Cashy and his bruzz! He has been having a blast with his neighborhood bros! They go back and forth between houses and communities just having a blast! Love the random selfies he sends me too with the bruzz! Cash is always full of life living his best life! Love my #1 boy!

A weekly recap is not complete unless we recap Penny's social life! haha! She supported one of her besties and went to her play over at Faith! It was the play Grease and Penny absolutely loved watching her friend up on stage! Watched her Baddie Owen play flag football! and then hung out with the whole crew at Joaquin's to finish up the weekend! :) Penny is loving her bestie friend group! They are a ton of fun and such good kids!

I had my big Stake Primary family event at Warm Springs this weekend too! You know it never stops over here! Always got something going on! The event was a huge success! We had a great turn out with just the right amount of food! Wahoo! Beautiful day to spend with beautiful church families! I absolutely love the ladies I serve with! We are an amazing team! Let's gooooo Stake Primary! lol

Now that's another weekly recap! April wk 4 in the books! Next up my Birthday Celebration!!!

 

The Happiest Easter!!!

Happy Easter! Here's our Easter recap! Woke up Saturday and headed to Santa Clara to be with my cousins, aunts and uncles for our traditional Easter gathering!! It was such a lovely day! Beautiful day to hunt for Easter eggs!! Yayyy! I love my family and love our traditions together! 

All the cousin fun!!!

and the hunt begins! haha Go get those Easter eggs! Piper had a blast! She made out good with so much money too! $28 was her grand easter egg hunt total! Wahoo! Goooo Piper!

Cash always has a blast no matter what he's doing! He even got to the do the egg hunt too! He ended with $18 total found in the eggs! He wanted as mauch as Piper but it's all in the luck of the egg! hahaha 

Your'e never to old to hunt those eggs! Penny even got to hunt a little! She ran behind the little kids and picked up what they skipped over! She eneded with $7! hahaha Such a fun day for all! Loved seeing my sister and her family! Loved visiting with my Uncles and Aunts! Love my Santa Clara peeps! 

My Honz had to hang back and work while we played but we were able to get back to Vegas in good tome to spend the evening with him and go to dinner!! We took the littles to Sapparo! The revolving sushi place! One of our fave places! The littles love it!

Penny was back into town and already off with Baddie Owen and her bestie group! She got to go watch Baddie Owen dominate in his flag football game! Way to go #1! Then they hung out the rest of the evening with all their friends! Best friend group ever! She even surprised her boy with an Easter surprise! He loved it!

Happy Easter! We made it to Easter morning! Yayyyy! The kids were hyped that the Easter bunny found them! Love my babies!

I love that my kids are trained to set up all their items and take a pic like we do on Christmas! hahaha They are the best!!! The Easter Bunny did gooooood! They loved all their new fun things!!! The Easter Bunny sure knows how to spoil them!

Easter Sunday Fun-day!! Penny was asked back in December after she sang if she would sing on Easter Sunday and here we are! Can't believe how fast time flies! She of course said yes! She absolutely sang beautifully! She sang "The Miracle." Such a beautiful song about Christ! The perfect song choice for the perfect Easter Sunday! Love my Penny! She sings absolutely amazing always and brings the spirit rushing in! So proud of my girl! Love when she sings!!

Even Piper and the primary sang too! It was a musical Easter sacrament! Piper did so good too! I love my forever family because of Christ we will live again!!! He has risen! 

Best surprise ever!!! Penny's Baddie Owen surprised her by coming to our ward to hear her sing! About 3 mins before sacrament started in walked Owen's whole family! WOW! It was so special to my heart and I know Penny was beyond excited! The love and support they showed her was special! She has never had a boy come listen to her sing at church! It was cute to see them together in a church setting! She was on a complete high all day with him surprising her and being able to sit with him at church! He is such an awesome great boy! We also loved that Uncle Ryan and fam came out to show their love and support to Penny Pie too and they got to hear Piper sing too!!! That was a fun bonus! :)  It was such a beautiful Easter sabbath day! 

After church we were off to Grandma DeeDee's annual Easter gathering! Auntie Lynn hosted and it was a wonderful time! Love getting together with family! Yummy food, playing with cousins and lots of hunting Easter eggs!

A great tradition to be together for Easter!

The annual hunt was a huge success! Each child gets s certain egg to hunt for! It's always so fair and so fun! This year Gma added a store! So in some of their eggs were raffle tickets that they could spend at her store! It was a blast! Gma had a popping store too! Great prizes to get! Yummy snacks and treats too! The kids loved the new store! 

Thanks Gma DeeDee and Auntie Lynn for a wonderful day! To end the night we had a lovely Easter dinner at the Decker's! We forgot to snag a pic dang it but we had so much fun! Delicious food as always and lots of laughter! We had such a wonderful, amazing and happiest Easter ever!

 

April Wk 3 Fun!!

April is flying by! Here is the weekly recap for April Wk 3! We are coming into Easter! There will be a separate post just for all the Easter fun! This recap I'm starting with Cash! He has extremely excelled in in his Jt Light House role! He was selected to be a part of the our school certification with the state board of directors! Wahoo Cashy! He of course presented the WIG wall during the school tour and then was selected to be apart of the student panel when the state board asked questions about our school sevens habits and being a Jr Light House member! He did amazing! He spoke with confidence! He rocked it! Our admin was so proud of him! Way to go Cashy! The other pics are from outdoor basketball with Coach Channel! It's been beautiful outside so they hit the hoops outdoors! Cash loved it! He also had his golf lessons which he dominates in!! His golf coach places fun games and he beats out everyone pretty much every wk! haha Wahoo!

Next up this wk is Penny! Still doing our daily pick up car slefies! Love it! and she also had a bracelet appt! So if you're needing to get linked up hit her up or me! lol She will get you on her books! It's the perfect season for those anklets too! 

Piper and Cash and all their cute besties!! The kids absolutely love hanging with their neighbor besties! All their awesome friends live in the community right next to us! It's the best! They pop back and forth between the houses! Cash has had a lot of state testing at school and Piper surprise him with the cutest hand written note to gear him up for his tests! She loves Cashy and is so thoughtful and sweet to her big brother! 

Penny's been cutting the boys hair!!! Say what! Yes she has! lol The confidence Penny has! I'm way to worried to do anything like this! So she has been telling all the boys she want's to cut their hair for a few wks and finally they said yes! haha but she first had to cut Baddie Owen's first before the others would commit! lol The things you do for your girl!! So first up was her favorite boy of them all....  Baddie Owen! He is such a good sport and totally loves her! and when you don't have a cape you take your shirt off then jump in the hot tub after your cut! haha! She actually crushed it! She gave him a modern mullet! He loves it, all the boys love it too and most importantly Penny loves it! haha Next up was Miles! She did awesome on his too! Love the adventures these teens do when they hang out! haha You're bored??? Let's cut your hair! hahaha Penny crushed it and I'm sure the boys will be back for their next fresh cut! Awesome job Penny!! Mama is so proud!

A Walk with Jesus event was Incredible! My stake primary presidency was in charge of a couple parables of Christ so we had set up a couple days before but I could not wait to get my kids back to walk through the whole thing! It was so unbelievable and chilling! The spirit was so strong! You couldn't help but tear up! Even Piper was touched and dropped a few tears! Such a tender soul! It was such a beautiful display of Christ! Tis the Easter season! It was such a beautiful experience to do this before Easter Sunday! To truly remember him! He has risen! Loved having Penny's friends come along too! It was a great time!

Cashy gave Janie her Easter surprise and she surprised him with an Easter surprise! So dang cute! Love these two! He ended up spending the whole day with her and her family and friends! He had the best day! Love it for him! Piper had a birthday party for her bestie Remy! They even hired Penny to paint all the girls nails at the party too! Well while Penny was off painting nails I took the boys to Tj Max! It's what we do when we need to kill time! We did this the other wk when the Penny, Blake and James got the camo pants and matching tee outfits! Well it was this crews turn to shop  TJ Max while Penny was painting nails at the little girls party! lol They picked out matching pink cheetah swim shorts and eyelet white button downs! lol These were a hit! Penny and all the girls loved it!! I literally love this friend group! They are such a good time! So much fun! To end the night they made crepes and hot tubbed in their new suits! hahaha! Another great hang out! 

To end this recap we have me stuffing eggs! lol You know that Easter post is next!!! Cute little fur baby Ruby! Piper always in a funny pose doing a trick of some sorts! lol Last in this collage I got nominated by Penny's friend my new Bestie Blake to do  the ice bucket challenge! hahaha and if you know me... "Don't mess with pretty!" lol So Cashy took the ice on him! hahaha It was an absolute hoot! That was fun!! It was a hit on Insta!! Now that's a weekly recap wrap!!! Always doing the most! Everyday is a new kind of busy! Easter post up next!!!

 

Carnival Lights and Rodeo Nights!

Carnival Lights and Rodeo Nights!! It Clark County Fair Time!!! This is out highlight of the year!!! The kick off to my birthday month! haha It has been Honz and I tradition for 16 yrs!! This was Honz 4th year as a board member for the Clark County Fair and Rodeo! They meet, plan and work on the fair for entire year! It comes down to this 1 wk every year and man are we ready for it! The count down was on and we are here!! We love the Fair and Rodeo! Best times making memories ever! 

This top collage is from Day 1! Thursday! We of course hit the food first and the cotton candy!! Then it was Rodeo time! We had Penny's bestie Lizzie come with us which was so fun to have tag along! She is always so much fun! 

Rodeo  fun for night 1 - Thursday at the fair!!! Ww lover our core! Ence's and Facer's for the Win! lol

Rodeo was so much fun! Night 1 amazingness in the books!

Day 2- Friday! Woke up ready to have some fun! lol First stop McDonald's for breakfast!!! lol We always squeeze together and go in one car no matter what we are doing! lol It's the best! and we always take a selfie in the car! hahaha 

We were off to a great star! Found our shady tree and planted our selves there! lol The Johnson's  came out to play! That was so much fun to be with them all day! 

The baddie girls! Gorgeous!  haha It always calls for a baddie photoshoot when all the baddie girls' are together! lol Seriously how beautiful are these girls!!! Absolutely love them all and love their photoshoot! 

Up next Henna Tattoos!!! This is a tradition for my girls to get the henna! They each picked unique ones that totally go with their personalities! 

Now it was time to hit the Carnival!!! Spent the rest of the day over here! Riding till we die! hahaha! Piper was finally tall enough to go on every ride! Wahoo! and even road the Zipper with Uncle Ryan 2 times in a row! Wahoo! So brave! All the kids had a blast! and you know I did too riding with them! 

In between riding the Carnival rides we would go sit in the shade at our spot and hang with the peeps that don't do the rides! haha Loved all the peeps that would find us and pop over to visit with us! Just relaxing, chatting and eating! haha!

and back at the Carnival! Piper and Penny on the Freak Out! haha Cash running with cousin Noah! and me with Ty and Isla! Having an epic time! 

Once her bestie cousin Navy arrived we never saw Piper again! haha She ran around Navy and her friend all day doing all the fair things! Petting zoo! Airbrush Tattoos! and lots and lots of Carnival rides! 

Just a few more rides in before it was Rodeo Time! :)

Rodeo Nights! Love it!! One of my favorite traditions is when Kip orders a dozen fresh baked cinnamon rolls and brings them warm to the Rodeo! Delicious! Jeff and Stacie came to the Rodeo too! It was so fun to have them with us!

Cash even had Clown time at the Rodeo! lol Justin the Clown had Cash on the big screen! That was the rodeo highlight for us in the crowd! Cash was feeding him Nachos! lol It was awesome! Cash was loving it! Then it was back at the Carnival so we could shut that place down! hahaha!

The Carnival lights is the best!! Loves riding all the rides at night! No lines and much cooler! It was a perfect night! We spun around! Went up then Dropped down! Flipped! Screamed! and shut that Carnival down! Rode the rides until lights out on the rides! haha It's the freakn best!

Day 3- Saturday! We were back up ready and over to McDonald's for breakfast! haha More tired today! hahah! Early mornings, out playing all day and late late nights! Best times ever! hahaha

Nothing but non stop fun!!! Back at our big shady tree! Set up camp! lol and jetted over to the carnival! We had to get riding! haha!

Piper and Mav were the dynamic riding dup today! Cash and I were paired up today! Penny popped by here and there! She was mixing and mingling with her friends! :) Mav definitely met his match with Piper! Now that she is tall enough Mav had her on every ride upside down! Never told him to stop! Never was scared! Never got sick! lol We had a blast whipping around! lol

When we got tired from running from one ride to the next we were back under our shade spot to visit and eat! lol Honz being busy would pop by to chat and eat too! lol and if you know my Honz he always has some sort of fair food in his hands at all times! lol That's my man! 

Oh Penny! Always living her best life! and life gets even better when the bestie bf group arrives! :) She had the absolute best day with her friends! They literally are so much fun! and of course we had to snap all the pics! The carnival rides in the back ground is iconic!!! Love it!!! We sure do love that Baddie Owen and all his friends that come along! She had the best day!!!

Then it was already time for the Rodeo!!! We had our friend the Reynolds come out to enjoy the Fair and Rodeo life this evening! and they of course loved it!!! 

As soon as the Rodeo ended we hit the Carnival back up! This was out last night to shut the Carnival down so we bolted! hahaha The lines were longer this night but that didn't stop us from having all the fun! Penny, Mav and the bestie teens were off riding and my littles stuck with me! We had an another amazing night shutting the Carnival down!

Day 4-  Sunday!!! No!! How is it the last day of the fair!! Honz had Mav and Cash out in the water truck working! I packed up the trailer and headed back home with Piper to regroup and get laundry going!! lol Penny, Cash and Mav stayed with Honz to help him work and play!!! We loved that Mav got to stay with us the extra day!! 

Then I headed back out for the afternoon and evening! I can't miss the fair fun ever! haha! Cash got called on the stage to be a part of one of the shows! lol He is such a hoot! Then we walked the little booths and did some shopping! Lastly we picked our favorite meals as our last fair food of the year!

Lounged around, ate some more and enjoyed the last day of the fair! 

Hate when the fun has to come to an end! Penny and Honz were back to work and began taking things down! Sad to see it all come down! Penny has been such an amazing helper for daddy this year! She absolutely loves to help her daddy too! It's the best! Honz even had Cash and Mav working on taking down signs and rolling them up! Wahoo! Honz' dedication and hard work toward the fair shows! It was another Clark County Fair success! 

Now that's a Clark County Fair and Rodeo wrap! We had an amazing time making amazing memories! Until next year.......Carnival Lights! Rodeo Nights! and all the Yummy food!!!