St. Patty's Day!

St. Patrick's Day is my favorite un-official holiday. My family has always done a big to-do for it - so I got up early to make a nice green breakfast for the fam, but I couldn't start before putting on my green. We're serious about pinching! :)

Hailey was my good helper, mixing the green food-coloring into the pancakes, eggs & milk.
Grub time! Derek was so excited that all the food was green - especially the milk! He kept telling me - "The milk is gween!". IT was very cute!
Hailey got all decked out in her greenest gear.
Derek got to play with Cambrie for a few after Corned beef & Cabbage dinner. They are so cute together.

Girlfriends & kids!

This weekend I had my girlfriend Tearsa in town from St. George. She had come up to take her girls Avery (5) & Adrianna (3) to Princess on Ice. Anyway - she came in late Friday, so Saturday we hung out & did some running around. Later on we had our other girlfriends come over so we could have a big shin-dig. We had a great time!

This is Tearsa & her older daughter Avery - So cute!
We had high hopes of eating at PF Changs, but we had too large a party, and the wait would have been an hour & 20 minutes - dang! So, we ended up at the Old Spaghetti Factory, and had the worst waitress ever - she spilled a drink all over Avery, and then ignored our table the rest of the night - lame! This is Carrie (Right) & Cyndi
Here are all our monsters - we made them sit down for a few pics.

Adrianna, Avery, Sara, Braxton, Olivia & Derek. The kids had so much fun terrorizing one another & running around the house.
Here is Cyndi & her little Sara - don't you love the red locks? She's so beautiful!
I'm so glad to have great girlfriends - even when we only reconnect from time to time!

One more reason to hate the snow!

So for Christmas - Santa brought the kids a trampoline. It has been up for a while, but today Dave just got the net up around it. It took him a few hours, but it was up & steady. So - around 4:30 a nice storm rolls in big winds & all. The next thing I know, the tramp has moved from one corner of the yard to the other, so I run outside & unhook the net, so it won't catch the wind. My efforts were in vain though - only 30 minutes later or so, our neighbor behind us knocked on our door to tell me that he watched our trampoline fly over our fenceposts into the neighbors yard. Ugh! So, Dave went & met him out back to pull it to the side of the yard. Now, here's the worse news - EW - the trampoline broke! For those of you that already have heard the story are aware of the dilema we've had (Dave really) with putting together trampolines. So now - who wants to take a whole tramp apart (for the 2nd time) to exchange it. Ugh!

Anyway - I am just counting down the moments until this aweful weather stops blowing things away, and making our power flicker. <>

Animal Farm

Friday my friend Amber & I took the kids - Derek & Cambrie - to the animal farm at Thanksgiving point. It's so cute to see their excitement with the animals. They got to see cows, and horses, chickens, goats, ducks and other fun animals. They got to pet a few of them, and feed some others. They had a really fun time!
Feeling the love - they were holding hands in front of the donkey/alpaca spot. There was a nice sign above the donkey that said "beware - I bite". Yikes!
A friendly horse we got to see, and pet. Look out for the snotty nose!
Derek & Cambrie got to go for a pony ride. At first he was terrified, and didn't want to let go of me, but once I forced him on, he had a great time.
They really don't have jails for two year olds, although sometimes it would be very helpful in getting things done. The kids had fun checking out the "little" jail.
I'm glad Derek has such a fun friend - he and Cambrie have fun together, and get a rise out of each other. It's great!

Girl's Retreat

I went on a girls retreat with some ladies in my neighborhood this weekend. We had a great time. Here we are at dinner, where we ended up getting a table for our whole group only to leave & go somewhere else - Oops!
Here are many of the ladies - Annette, Mindy, Lisa, Stacie, Teah, Melanie, Amy, Sharonda, Bonnie, Misty, Cortney & Mia. We had a great group up there, and had a really fun time!
Mindy was showing of her rocking out - dance moves, don't you just love the 80's!? :)
Rise and shine - someone had the bright idea that going to bed around 4 & waking up before 8 was a good idea. Here is Melanie & Annette - trying to make their way to getting up! I love having a ladies night from time to time, and this was a really fun time. We went up to Huntsville to Stacie's cabin, and just hung out. It was great~

It's Valentine's Day!

These are my two favorite little people! I love them so much, and they bring me so many smiles. Derek & Hailey were cracking me up with the wiggle heart headband this morning.

I hope you all have a wonderful V-day!

Our weekend at the Cabin

Friday afternoon my brother Steve called to invite us up to his wife's family cabin up near Kamas. It was a fun last - minute getaway. There was TONS of snow up there, but it was peaceful & very beautiful.

Here is Derek Dave & I in front of the cabin
There is a tall swing in the yard that all the kids wanted to play on, so Dave & Steve shoveled tracks out underneath so the kids could enjoy it.
I asked Dave to carry me accross a snow bank, but instead, he thought it would be fun to body slam me. I got stuck, and couldn't get up :()
Steve & Dave did a little roof-shoveling, which quickly turned into roof jumping (into snow drifts!)
We had a great night playing Cities & Knights - Jenny was the victor - way to go!

We had a really fun overnight, and Derek had SUCH a fun time playing with the cousins.