It's Birthday Time!!

Somebody just had his Birthday!! My Chance!! I can't believe he's 7!! Oh my!! He's getting too BIG!! The top pic collage is from his Birthday dinner at Wahoo's!

This pic collage is from the Sand dunes!! Chance celebrated a few days early out at the Dunes! He woke up to his trailer all decorated with balloons and streamers and ended the day with a big fun pinata! All the kids loved it!! Such a Fun dune weekend!!Happy Birthday Chance!! We love you!!

Our little Valentine!!

Happy Valentine's!! Our little Valentine was so excited for this day! She woke up to a BIG basket full of Surprises just her her!! She loves surprises!! She said..."thank you so much mommy! I really love you!!" Awe melted my heart!! She is just getting to big to fast!! She is just toooo sweet!! Such a fun day!! These special fun days just get better and better as she gets older! Love it!!

Watch out!!!!

That's right watch out! We just passed our concealed weapons license!! It was a long very informative class! The best part was the shooting at the end!!! Wha-hoo!!

 



Going to Glamis!

I've gotten behind on my posting! A few weekends ago we took our annual trip down to Glamis sand dunes! Such an awesome weekend! The boys love the dunes down there!!!

Some Exctiing News to Announce!

Yes we have some Exciting news!! Baby #2 is on it's way!!! Penny is so excited to be a little mommy! She's been telling me..."I'm going to take baby shopping, feed baby fatatoes (potatoes), read to baby, and change baby!" Loving my little helper to be! I figured I better announce this on my blog soon because Penny has been telling everyone we see..."my mommy has a Baby in her tummy and it makes her really sick!" and that is for dang sure! I'm 9wks! We are set to meet this little one on or before Sept 2! We can't wait!! Our little family is growing!! Yay!!

 

Our New Exciting Toy!

So my Honz came home with a New Amazing Toy for the Sand Dunes!! A Razor! We are Loving it! Now I have something to Drive my sweet little P around in!! Yeah!! Penny said it's her "new car!!" So we went out and got her all decked out for her "new car!" She thinks she's pretty much all that in her New Helmet and goggles!! haha! I think she is just adorable!! I can't believe they make those that small!! So cute!! The helmet is so heavy on her little head that when we put it on it's like a bobble head! haha! We can't wait to get back out to the Dunes!!

Penny's 1st Disney On Ice Show!!

Now this was a FUN Night! We took Penny to her very 1st Disney On Ice Show!! Oh my! She wanted to be all Dressed up in her "Princess Ball Dress!" That of course was her most favorite Princess Rapunzel Dress! She absolutely LOVED the show!! She Danced, Sang all the songs, and kept Waiving to all the Princesses!! So precious! We totally enjoyed the whole night ourselves because Penny was in Heaven!! Definitely a new tradition we will be doing every time they come!

Cinderella Ballet!!

Ballet class is back on! To kick off their 1st week back Penny got to be Cinderella!! She was so excited!!! She loves Cinderella!! Bipidy! Bopidy! Boop! (please excuse my spelling on that but you get my drift!)

All of Us Out At the Dunes!

Say Cheese! We took some Fun family pics out at the Dunes! It's so hard to get all of us together these days with Eryn in OK and Eryka up in UT so when the chance arrived we had to jump on some family pics! Ever year after Christmas we head to the dunes and stay till New Year's Eve! So we decided it would be so fun to do our family pics out there! So here they are! Enjoy!

 

This collage is some great pics of each of the families and the sweetest is the grand kids with Grandpa pics! Love it! My brother Ryan has his 2 boys! Chance 6yrs and Mav 3yrs! Eryn of course doesn't have any kids! Just busy in Ortho School in OK! and Eryka has 1 boy and 1 boy on the way! Yay!!! She is due the end of January! Zane just turned 3yrs and she doesn't quite have a name picked out for her 2nd boy! I'm getting so excited to hold a new sweet little baby!! Can't wait!

and here's our Fun little Family pics! Little Penny is just the cutest! Just little Penny for us right now! She is 2yrs old!

 

This last collage is candids of all the fun we had out at the dunes!! I love being with all my family! We always have such a wonderful time together! Wish we were all together more often! Just Love you guys!

The Merriest Christmas all Summed Up!!

We had another very busy but very merry Christmas! So here's the run down of each stop starting with Christmas Eve Eve at my dad's house! It's tradition that my dad and Janeen have their Christmas with all of us 2 days before Christmas! This way it kicks off the festivities! Such a FUN night! Penny was so Excited to get her Belle Princess and Pony!

On Christmas Eve we stopped over to Chad's Dad's house to drop off their Christmas Surprises and visit!! We went to Macayos for lunch too! Our Favorite!

Then it was off to Nanny Debbie's (my sis in law mom's house)! We have gone to her house every year that Chad and I have been together for Christmas Eve! Such a FUN tradition! Santa always stops in to give the kids their very first Christmas Surprise! Penny was so Excited! She got a Toy Story Book! Her Favorite!!

Merry Christmas Morning! and Yes SANTA found our sweet little P!! Oh my!! She was so Spoiled by Santa! She must have been a very good girl this year! She said "Santa found me and gave me surprises!"so funny! She also couldn't stop saying "ooooo....ahhhhhh!" Se was just beside herself! So many surprises! Every present she opened she would say "this is my favorite!" "i love it!" So appreciative! We just love our sweet P! Eryn and Tauna came over to spend Christmas morning with us! They loved the excitement from little Penny! So fun! Chad got a Gun Safe! Now he needs to fill up! and I got my usual Coach Bag! Yeah! Such a Wonderful Christmas!

 

It was off to Grandma DeeDee's house for her amazing Scones! Such a Huge yummy breakfast! And more Presents!! Yay! We were all so spoiled!!! Penny got a Camping Trailer for her babies to match mommy and daddy's! So Hilarious! and Auntie Lynn got her a Barbie Guitar that she just loves! She's our little performer! She loves to sing and dance! She will make up her own words to songs too! haha!

 

Our final stop was out to my brother's house! We ate some more and opened more presents!! Such a fun busy day but worth every second! We had the Merriest Christmas ever! We can't wait to see what next year brings!



A Quick Trip to Salt Lake!!

So the weekend right before Christmas a very last min adventure...I decided to hop in my sisters car to head up to Salt Lake! They were already going up to go ride the Polar Express! I didn't have tickets but I thought it would be so fun to ride up with all my sisters just for some sister bonding times! Plus Penny could get a chance to play in some Snow, see Temple Square with all the Beautiful lights and get some last min shopping in at the big City Creek Mall! and that's exactly what I did! Penny LOVED the Snow! We both Loved the Christmas lights at Temple Square! Absolutely breath taking! Never seen anything like it! and of course I got my shop on! Such a Fun quick trip! My poor Chad had to stay home because he was so busy at the store! This was his last big weekend to finish those last min items for his customers before he was closed for the Holidays! Thanks honz for making it all possible!

The Fun Polar Express to see Santa!

On Saturday we went out to Boulder City to ride the exciting fun Polar Express Train! Along the ride Santa came out to greet all the kids! It was so Fun to see the Excitement on their sweet little faces! Just priceless! Penny loved getting up on the BIG Train and riding along too! When Santa asked her what she wanted for Christmas she said "all kinds of toys!" The funniest things come out of her mouth! Just love it! We had such a Fun Adventurous day! We loved the Train! A new tradition for us for sure! Can't wait till next year!! 

Christmas Ballet!!

It was Christmas time in Ballet class! So Penny went to her class all dressed up in her best Christmas dance outfit! The whole class was all Christmas themed! She danced to all kinds of Christmas songs! Miss Katie read a cute little story about Raggedy Ann! Penny then got to dress up like Raggedy Ann! So dang cute! This is the last class for the fall session! Penny has had so much fun! Class begins the beginning of Jan and we can't wait! In the mean time I'm sure she will keep singing and dancing around the house! Just love her!!!

Disneyland here we come!!!!

Oh my! What a special surprise we got!! My boss Dr. Griffiths took the whole office to Disneyland for our Christmas Party! Lucky for me...Chad and Penny got to come along too!! Seriously the best Christmas Present ever! We had a Blast!! If you notice the Hoodies we were all matching Dr. G had Chad make them for all to wear while we were at Disneyland! People were stopping us to ask where we got them! Great job Honz!!! 

This was the 1st time Penny has ever been to Disneyland!! It was the most Amazing to see Disneyland through her eyes!! It was so Magical! She had so much FUN! SHe would "ooo and ahhh" over everything! She kept squealing out with so much excitement for all the Characters! She loved all the rides too! Not afraid of anything! That's what made it so perfect!

We played and played all day! We did both parks in one day! Boy were we beat! That was way to much to do in just one day and on a Saturday! It was packed..body to body! So we will definitely be going back and I hope real soon! Little Penny was a trooper! Didn't make a fuss or a whine all day!

We were so Proud! 

So we are pretty sure the highlight of the whole adventure was when she got to see Buzz, Jessie, and Woody! Well 1st off she saw the Jessie Hat in the gift store and had to have it so we had just purchased it and when we walked out of the store there was Buzz! She had to go see him! Once Buzz was done then Jessie came out! She started yelling for the line "All a body hee who!" (yodale hee who!) over and over! As she got closer to her she said "Oh Bulls eye!" and then right before she gave her the biggest hug of her life she said "Ride em Cowgirl Boy!" She was quoting lines from the movie as fast as she could! Talk about a proud, chilling moment! Tears were in our eyes! To Penny here favorite friends came to life! Oh my! So precious! Then we hear that Woody is coming out next so we stayed in line and soon as Penny caught a glimpse of who was walking up she yelled "WOODY!" When it was her turn to see him she ran up to him almost knocking him down and gave him the biggest hug and didn't stop hugging him for what seemed like forever! One of the most priceless moments of our lives! We are truly blessed to have such a Happy, full a Personality Angel!

Thanks Dr. G for such a Wonderful memory!

The Lion King Ballet!!

Another great dance week!! It was the Lion King!! Her favorite! She loves Simba! She got to dance around and sing along to all the Lion King songs!! This is just the cutest little dance class ever! She is just loving it!!! We will see what next week brings......

Sand Duning it up!!!!

So much FUN at the Dunes! Not to many pics this time cause it was pretty windy all day and didn't want to get sand in my new camera!! haha! So in the pic you will see my 3yr old nephew Mav for the 1st time driving the little 4wheeler! He was so Proud! We were too of course!! He did great! So cute! Now it will be a fight of which brother gets to ride the little 4wheeler 1st! :) We will see who wins in a couple of weeks! We will be back out again! We just love the Dune season!

Hawaiian Dress up Ballet!

 

A Really Fun Ballet class today! The story was Lilo and Stitch and they got to dress up like Hawaiian dancers! So Cute! Penny was really shaking it today!!! We just love our Monday morning adventures!!! Until next wk....

A Masquerade Quinceanera!

Yes! You're reading this right! Penny was in her 1st and probably her only Quinceanera! The sweet lady Dulce that watches Penny while I work....her daughter Pam turned 15! So in their culture they get to have a huge party when they turn 15! A very Entertaining and Fun night! Ir was a Masquerade theme! So we were all masked when we arrived! Really Fun! I love dressing up! and so does little Penny! Penny was even in the program! She got to hand Pam her "last doll"! It's a symbolism in their culture of being a "young adult now"! Chad and I just sat back in awe of the whole night! We couldn't believe the amount of money that was spent and the time and prep to put on this Amazing Party! WOW! Just for a 15th Birthday! Penny don't get any ideas! hahaha! Such a memorable night for all!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Such a Wonderful Thanksgiving! We went up to St George, UT to visit my Family! My Grandma will be turning 98yrs in Jan so you just never know what life will bring her so we want to cherish every moment just in case it's the last! Penny just loves her little Grandma! and my little Grandma sure loves her sweet little Penny! So precious! So excited we got to see our Eryn! She flew in from Oklahoma for the weekend! We have loved every moment with her! Sad to see her have to go back!!

We got to visit my momma's grave! This is who little Penny is named after! She kept pointing at her name on the tomb stone...saying "that's my name...me"! She just knew that was her name! I'm so thankful for my momma! She truly was the most amazing person I have ever known! I'm grateful to name my sweet little angel after my mom!! We are so happy we brought her name back! It will be 15yrs on the 29th of this month since she has passed! Can't believe it!! We love YOU momma! You are truly missed everyday!!

And of course if we have Eryn in town then that means photo shoot! So we snapped a few! Enjoy! Another wonderful Thanksgiving! So grateful for Family! We love YOU all!

Santa Clause is Coming to Town!

We were off to see Santa Clause early this year! We went on down to Townsquare! We think he is the Best Santa!  It was really nice seeing him early because there was nobody in line and Santa was so Sweet and really just talked to the kids making them feel so special! Penny still wasn't very sure about him! When he asked her what she want for Christmas she said "Surprises!" So cute! but she wouldn't sit on his lap at all! In fact she wouldn't even get to close unless Daddy or I was holding her! After we left she said "Santa looks like a papa and is nice!" We said of course he is all of that...now why were you so scared! She said "Don't know!" What a silly girl! So we will see the next time she sees Santa if she thinks he's so nice!! I can't wait for the time when she will go right up and sit on his lap and not be scared!!