Birthday parties...

It seems like someones birthday just passes and another is approaching, but I love the excuse to eat cake and ice cream. What's more fun then my own birthday? My adorable nieces having birthday parties and all the excitement that comes along with way too many fun gifts and of course the chance to catch up with the fam!

For Rozilyn and Brooklyn's 6th birthday we went to Heise and swam then went over for pizza, cake, and presents. We definitely got the Best Aunt/Uncle award for the pillow pets we bought for them... it's all they wanted and we called dibs :) I can not believe these little fire crackers are already 6, it feels like they were just born yesterday!

This picture was just a few days after their birthday it was National Walk to School Day so we rode our bikes :)

We celebrated Gaby's birthday a day early because I was leaving for Vegas on her birthday but didn't want to miss her party. She is growing up to be such a sweet and pretty girl! I am so lucky to be married into great in-laws and amazing nieces that I love so much!

This is a hard age to buy for... past the toy stage but not quite to teenage gifts yet... and the kid couldn't give us any ideas so she got money! Turns out we weren't the only one's without any leads, Gaby got a lot of money and hopefully she will find herself something fun!

On a side note (if you didn't know): I am going to be an aunt again!! David's sister Tricia and her hubs Cory are expecting!! Eek I can't even begin to explain how excited I am for a new baby in the family... preferably a nephew but we'll take what we get :)

What's new??

I went from this...

To this...

My new nitro which I love so much!!

It was hard to leave my little car at the dealership, we traded it in. When I bought my car brand new in '06 with 32 miles it was right before I started beauty school. There was lots of memories in that car from daily trips to Rexburg, late nights, early mornings, and lots of single life days. My car NEVER left me stranded in the cold... or hot for that matter, never blew a tire or had any side of the road experiences and most importantly wouldn't even let me lock the keys in her when I tried. It was a good car for me and to me, but I didn't expect to be getting married and maybe (one day eventually, not now) start a family and lets be honest... it was not a family car! David barely fit in it and definitely was not comfortable and liked to complain so he found me this great little nitro and we jumped on the deal. My only complaint is the head lights aren't automatic? Crazy for a new vehicle if you ask me!! And I haven't filled it with gas yet... but I am positive it's not going to get 35+ miles like my little car did! Other than those 2 small issues I am loving our new vehicle and am looking forward to taking trips... hopefully in the near future as I am in need of a vacation!!

Catch up...

This will be a catch-up post all minus pictures...

-we are completely moved and mostly settled, it was only a 2 mile move up the road but it might as well been across the planet it was so unorganized and rushed for my likings but good news is we made it. (the camera was still m.i.a along with a few other of my VERY important personal belongings) hence no pictures of the excitement!

-we went to the fair... and the Freestyle on Wednesday night, it was a lot of fun! I was afraid the entire time we were going to get rained out but only a few drops it was perfect! Speaking of the fair... what is it about that place that makes me eat a corn dog, fries, scone nuggets, and a fruit kabob and still long for (without giving into temptation because the concern on my hubby's face and our pocket book) corn on the cob, caramel apple, chicken bowl, baked potato and anything else I can get my hands on? Ridiculous! But secretly I hope Saturday is a nice day and hubs offers to take me back at least for lunch :)

-this summer we missed out on 2 of our all-time favorite things to do together...
#1. the drive in movies
#2 a baseball game
the summer flew by I swear I am wondering where it went as the air is starting to feel like fall but nothing beats fall smells, colors, and pumpkin treats :)

Shout out...

These are pretty much my favorite girls in the whole world. We were all the best of friends in high school and I love we can still get together after sometimes months of not even keeping in touch and pick up right where we left off! We are all so different in almost every way yet we get along amazing, I heart my quad posse :)

Swimming Lessons...

Rozilyn & Brooklyn had their first year of swimming lessons!! They love the water and are like little ducks :) After their first lesson Roz was very upset and didn't want to get out of the water because she "didn't know how to swim yet."

I finally got to go watch their 2nd to last class, they were so tired on the way there!

I am pretty sure this is their favorite part

And they graduated :) she was pretty hyper obviously



B was very excited too!

I can't believe they will be in Kindergarten this year, they have grown up so fast. It really feels like they were just born yesterday!

T.P.

Oh how I remember these days all too clearly!!

Someone, meaning one/some of my little brothers friend/enemies toilet papered my Dads house. My dad was out of town and obviously someone knew that and took advantage. My brother stayed at our house while he was gone and one night at about 1:00 A.M. (hence the dark pictures) we got a sudden urge for mozzarella sticks and knew there was some in my dads freezer. Being only a few miles away we headed over only to find the t.p.'ers had been there. I begged my brother to wait until the morning to clean it up, besides it was only a few short hours away and starting to rain! He insisted on starting a fire to burn it and picking it all up immediately so it didn't "look bad" to the neighbors and luckily he had 2 friends over to help :)

The Facts:

-there had to have been 3 cases of toilet paper Fred Meyer brand :)

-it must have been a girl because the toilet paper was tied and wrapped around things perfectly

-dad doesn't have many trees so they did the tractor, farm truck, trampoline, swing set, out door decor... etc...

-they left behind all the plastic wrappers

-Jeral was mad like mad, mad. I laughed the whole time and had to promised him I wouldn't post pictures on facebook

-most importantly we did get cheese sticks after the work was done!

2 years... and counting

We celebrated our 2 year anniversary this week-end, it was actually on Sunday but we chose to celebrate all weekend long! Starting with Friday...

David has been wanting to go here for a very long time, probably since it opened but I refused... until now! It was delicious and not too expensive like I heard it was. (our meals were $12 & $13)



David also had his heart set on seeing this movie... weird right? Ever since we first saw the pre-views he knew it was a must see... and it was :) I liked it. Good thing it was a special occasion, can we talk about the price of movies now days.

We had a fun enjoyable night together. I told David my favorite part was the corn bread, corn on the cob, and pop corn :)

I had to work Saturday... then we headed to Rexburg to Jeral's posse meet...

Spent the rest of the night there. Got home @ midnight and was up early to attend the Island Park Rodeo...

I was pretty excited about finding Play-Doh ice cream.. yum!

Dave was pretty excited about seeing his old car up there!

On the way home we stopped at Pond's Lodge for lunch and next to it was a small salon with this sign... how awesome!

Needless to say we had a great anniversary week-end! I sure do love my hubby, in ways it feels like we've been together for a long, long time and in other ways it feels like just yesterday we were married!!