Missing Teeth, Birthday Wishes, & Getting Ready for Summer

This little girl is adorable!

Her dad pulled out her first two teeth and I cried.

I'm not ready for big awkward teeth, it instantly changes them.

I love my birthday boy!
I love celebrating May 4th with him!

May all his wishes come true!!!

We are counting down the days until summer.
15 more busy days and then we will be homework and schedule free!

Jason gave the neighbor boys their summer hair cuts in the garage.
Now we just need the sun to stay around!

Moab

Another year of fun memories at Moab!....

Playing with cousins, staying in the condos, swimming in freezing temps, "trespassing" while playing basketball, yummy breakfasts at Grandma & Grandpa's condo, watching movies, the car show, park, and lunch in the street, sunglasses, fun rhino rides, stopping for lunch breaks, Taylor and Jason wanting to "nudge" it down Wipeout, seeing snowflakes and freezing, Jason telling us that every ride was Tusher tunnel, Lucy wearing her new Sunday Easter sandals for the full trip of hiking and playing in the dirt, Pasta Jay's and ice cream cones, bundling up with blankets as we watched the cars down main, flying kites, and having the best weekend together!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Miller!!!

Track Star

This year Emilee ran track for the first time. She ran on her Junior High team and I'd have to say that she was pretty amazing!!!! We had SOOO much fun cheering her on over the past couple months even if we did freeze for most of it. Em is FAST!!! She ran the 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, the 4x100, and the 4x400.

She also did the long jump and threw shot put.

Her favorite is the 4x100. Her team ROCKED taking first place at Alpine Days. She placed in almost every event each week.


Check out that lead!

She may have inherited her dad's speed but I'm pretty sure she inherited her mother's nerves. I hope she didn't get ulcers from her meets. She would start getting worked up the night before each meet and would make herself sick all day at school. I could always count on several texts from school telling me how scared she was.


But she felt the love and support form her favorite people at every meet.

She had a lot of fun with all of her friends... riding the buses, getting out of school early, and all of the down time between events.

I'm not sure I can wait until next year. We sure are proud of you Emilee!!

A Spring Break to Always Remember!

Ever since Emilee turned 13, I have had this panicked feeling inside that time is moving to quickly and that we need to take advantage of every opportunity to make memories as a family. This spring break I was determined to getaway as a family! We had sick kids the week before spring break so I was hesitant to make any plans. The Monday Spring Break started I woke up and saw that everyone was starting to feel a bit better. So I started packing us up, called Jason at work and told him that I was booking us some rooms at Disneyland. By 4:00 in the afternoon everything was booked, he got home from work around 5:00 PM, we loaded the car and off we drove. I was more excited than the kids to have a full week away and best of all... together!!!
We told the kids that we were going to St. George for a couple of days. They were asleep as we drove through St. George and when they woke up we were in Vegas. They were so confused. Emilee even said, "Wow St. George is a lot bigger than the last time we were here." Once they realized we were in Vegas, they were a bit disappointed. Abbie said that Vegas is "scary and stinky". So we told them that we would go back to St. George in the morning. Of course we headed the other direction to California. Emilee and Max slowly started to figure it out as we passed several California signs. But Abbie and Lucy had no idea until we actually pulled into our hotel.
They were SOO excited!

We didn't get into Vegas until about midnight, but Jason and I were ready to party. After all, in Vegas the party is just getting started at midnight. So we pulled into the Belagio and woke up the kids to see the fountains.

Then at 1 o'clock we headed into the sugar factory for an early breakfast, ice cream cones and suckers.

We spent the rest of the week enjoying the happiest place on earth and we loved every second of it!!!

The Nelsons flew down and met us for a few days. My kids loved having their friends to ride all the rides with.

It was a perfect week! I'm ready to go back.