First Day of School

Wow, here we are almost a month into school and I am just getting to my First Day of School post...for me that's almost like on time! :) Brenten is officially OLD which makes his mom incredibly OLD and is in 3rd Grade!! I cannot believe it so cah-ra-zee!!! But we love him and he's off to a great start this year. He was a little skeptical about his teacher, someone told him she was "old and the meanest teacher in the whole school" yikes! But as we quickly found out at Back to School night, she is not infact old, unless my younger sister is "old" (they're the same age) and it is rumored that she is one of the best teachers in the school. He was more than a little relieved, and has had a great couple of weeks. As for Miss Lexie I had much mental anguish trying to decide her fate this year, I just didn't feel good about any of the preschools I was looking into. None seemed to be the right fit, believe me a summer spent stressing over preschools and finally I decided to teach her myself. I love having our own preschool time, and hopefully I'll be disciplined enough that she'll actually learn a thing or too! So that's us and since I'm sure you'll skim the babble but really you're here for the pictures...right???? Here they are!

Lady A....oh yeah and Tim McGraw!

So this weekend, Nick semi-surprised (he had to tell me early) with tickets to the Lady Antebellum/Tim McGraw concert at USANA! I was pretty excited because I do love "Lady A" It ended up being a fun girls night out with Mom, Ashlee and Holly...I had never been to USANA before, well actually I haven't been to a concert since Metallica in HS, so it was a new experience for me. I did however love it...I love huge crowds and millions of different people/personalities. I confess I am a people watcher and there were many people to watch! The most important of course being the singers of Lady A and that "other guy" (just kidding Ashlee) I do love Tim McGraw as well! In case you are curious, no jackets needed in the July night air at USANA, it was HOT! But so much fun to scream, shout, sing and dance along to the great music! Thanks everyone for a fun night!

Happy Father's Day

To the amazing Dad that lives at our house.....

And to Fathers everywhere...happy day (on Sunday-yes three days ago)

Finally some updates...

So here I am again...on track for my one every couple of months update! We've been good...I'll let the pictures tell the stories...but I have been having a little trouble with Blogger getting my photos to load in the right order so we'll see how it goes...

Okay up first...Little Miss Lexie had a birthday in December and had been requesting a Little Mermaid Birthday since about March (she likes to plan ahead) I was a little unsure of how to have a Little Mermaid party in December, and as it turned out she ended up not having a "friend" party, and I found it somewhat difficult to find ANY Little Mermaid decor in December...but she got her mermaid cake, so she was pleased!

Lexie's actual birthday happened to fall on the same day we had our Family Christmas party, so the lucky lady ended up with another birthday cake! This one a little more holiday themed...oh how we love these birthdays so close to holidays...

Fast forward to February when my friend and I made a Wedding Cake...yes that's right we made a Wedding Cake! It was so much fun--alot of time, and definately alot of work---a few mishaps along the way-but the end result...pretty fantastic if I do say so myself!

check out the inspiration cake here and then check out out cake below...didn't we do good??

Next thing we knew, it was March and St. Paddy's day! Now you know that is a popular holiday around here...and we had alot of fun! Sneaky Leprechauns turned all the water in our house green..we celebrated with lots of green food, and Lexie got her ears pierced! What does ear piercing have to do with St. Patricks Day you may wonder? I don't have a good answer..sparkles and shine, and granting the wish of my little one I guess!

After St. Paddy's it was time for another birthday at our house...My not so little guy requested a Mario Cake...

Brenten had lots of fun celebrating this year...we brought treats to his class at school, he invited a friend to go see Diary of the Wimpy Kid in the theatre, and he was spoiled rotten with a new skateboard, new clothes, a new Wii game, new Basketball and the clothes to go with it and thanks to my sis the lovely Captain Underpants books as well as totally gross cd!

And now we are at April...my kids couldn't wait to pull some pranks on April Fools, we decided it would be fun to have "Dessert for Dinner" and "Dinner for Dessert" They loved their "cupcakes" and "sushi"

Our "foolish" cupcakes...Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes on top

Our "sushi" = Fruit roll ups, Rice Crispy treats, Gummy worms!

As you can see even though I haven't been posting, we are alive and well and hoping for sunshine! I do have some more pictures to put on my computer to catch up the rest of our adventures, but for now...this has been a pretty long post so I'm signing off!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hilarious

So the last little (long) while, I feel like I am so far behind on life I'll never catch up, I saw this comic today and it made me laugh...I can totally relate!

Winterfest

So I should definately be doing other work and not blogging, but I needed a break so here I am at my computer posting some cute pictures of Lexies latest dancing adventure!! :)

I'm not sure I'm crazy about this years costume (I loved last years way better) but I do love my little dancing girl and she sure loves to boogie!! The other night her class performed two dances, one was "My Little Umbrella" but as you can see the umbrella wasn't so little, it was quite a workout for some of those little ladies, but they were adorable and did a great job! Her next dance is to the song, "Its in his kiss.." not sure if that's the correct title but maybe...anyway here are a few photos and I guess I'd better get back to work!

This is why we didn't go to Kaitlyn's Birthday

So I think that we are destined to have our plans not work out this month....but oh well I guess we'll roll with it! Last weekend we planned on going to SLC to visit the Temple Lights but it snowed and snowed so to Salt Lake we did not go. This weekend Brenten and Lexie were anxiously awaiting Saturday to go help Kaitlyn celebrate her 7th birthday, and we woke up to snow...and then at lunch, it was still snowing, and as the day progressed it snowed still....So again to Salt Lake we did not go.