Nine years and counting....

So a little late posting this fun weekend but better late than never...
For our 9 year anniversary, yes I just said NINE YEARS, crazy!! We went to Vegas for the weekend (with out the kids:) Ryan had been working like three jobs the last few weeks so we really have not seen him much and he was actually working on our anniversary so we had to plan it a week late but we still had the best time just being able to hang out and enjoy some time together. We stayed at the Trump Tower which was amazing and beautiful. The bathroom mirror had a TV in it, so cool. There was a little kitchen too but we didn't put it to use, we were are on vacation!!

Spent most of our time at the pool, you were either in the pool or in the hotel, it was 114 degrees out side. But we just relaxed and enjoyed every minute of it.

What a hottie!! (i do mean him:) hahaha

So the first night we went to the stratosphere and went on a couple of the rides...this one takes you off the EGDE of the building and spins around, by the end I was pretty sick, but it was SOOO fun.

And than the last night we went and saw KA (Cirque du Soleil) at the MGM which was amazing!! So worth the money.

I still cant believe that we have married nine years. We have definitely been through a lot in that time, some bad, but mostly good times. We have done a lot in these nine years...of course having our three beautiful children, getting into our first home, Ryan finishing school and getting his master followed by many career changes. But in all we have really accomplished a lot and been there for each other through it all. I do love this man for all that he has done for our family and for me. So here is too nine years babe..on to the next nine:)

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July!!!
First off I can't believe that it is already July. Months are just flying by.
So for the holiday weekend Ryan decided to take Friday and Saturday OFF, YEAH!! We have not had him home much the last few weeks so it has been really fun having him around and doing lots of fun things together. Friday we worked out, grabbed lunch, and then went to the Riverton parade. Brendan's karate class was going to be in it so we went to show are support. He had a lot of fun being in the parade, but he said the best part was getting wet and getting candy. Of course!! Besides it being a very long night waiting for the parade to start and being in the heat we still managed to have fun and we brought along some friends to keep us company. So thanks for tagging along Fishers:)

On Saturday we went to breakfast at Ryan's sister's and then went swimming for a little bit at my moms. We were just packing it all in!! We had a BBQ at the Fishers later that night and then West Jordan was having a little carnival and fireworks so we worked our way over there and played. We have had a busy weekend but we had lots of fun celebrating with our family and friends.

My cute girls!!

The Fishers. (Mike was getting really into taking pictures:)

Addison and her BFF Rylie:) Addison loved the fireworks.

Birthdays parties, Recitals, Father's Day and listing our house!1

Father's Day.

We had such a busy weekend with a birthday party, Mckaela's dance recital and even my brother was here from California visiting and then Fathers day. So I wanted to make sure that Fathers day was a fun day for Ryan and a day to relax. (which didn't get to much time to relax with all the running around from family to family)

Got up early, way early (6:30am) so i could shower and get myself ready before everyone else was awake, since we have 9 o'clock church, I wanted to be able to make breakfast in bed for Ryan. Then once the kids got up they were so excited to give daddy the things they had made at school for him. Which turned out so cute, a book from Mckaela and a Tie from Brendan. They worked hard on them and were so excited to finally have him open them, which he just loved!!

So this past year Mckaela has been taking hip hop and has had so much fun. She has been in dance for four years now but she really wanted to try hip hop and can I say this girl can move!! The one thing...I have not been happy at all with this dance studio...they have just been so unorganized, never knew what was going on, ect.. so we will not be going back there!! But I'm glad that she did have fun!!

So I'm getting her all ready for the recital and she wanted to wear mascara, she looked so grown up and her eye lashes were like two inch long, they looked fake. We are really going to be in trouble with this one:)
Some of her buddies!

Her biggest fan club:) Thanks for coming and supporting her!

My nieces had her 8th birthday party at Boondocks, which the kids had a blast!! I got to tag along and help keep track of fifteen little girls. By the end of the day we were all exhausted and ready for a nap! But we are glad Kaitlin had a good birthday.

Doing a little golfing...

The next Tiger Woods:) (He's even in the Sunday red)

They all got a little wet here.

Abby (niece) and Brendan also got to come and enjoy all the fun!!

And last but not least....

FOR SALE!!

It's official, we have listed the house and are ready to move.

We have talked about this for soooo long, and at one point we even just put up a sign "for sale by owner" which we didn't try very hard. But Ryans dad has his Realtors licences so we are listing through him and hope it won't be to long. We have not found are next house yet, but we are on the look out for that perfect house that we plan on living in until the kids are older and out of the house. We don't want to have to move again. We both love South Jordan so that is where are focus will be for now. We really have loved this house. Mckaela was six months old when we moved here, 7 years ago. We love are neighbors and the ward so these will be things that we will definitely miss, but we won't be to far away!

Primary's and short hair...

Never a dull moment around our house.
I was picking up Mckaela from dance when I get a call that I better come get Brendan (he was at a friends) because he will probably be needing some stitches. Of course I go into panic mode, call Ryan to come meet me at insta-care, my mom to come get the girls and I head to go get Brendan. I rush in side and find my poor little man in tears,blood down his face and a nice BIG cut on his forehead right above his right eye. So I grabbed him and off we went. He was running and tripped and slammed right into the corner of the kitchen table. It got him GOOD!! Surprised the table was still standing. Once in insta-care, which I have now asked for a punch card, they ask all the lame questions as my child sits and bleeds. Well the nurse comes out and takes a look at it and here eyes got all wide and she says...you better take him straight to Primary's. You will want a plastic surgeon to take care of that. So again we load up and head to Primary's. Luckily now Ryan is with me and my mom had the girls. And this whole time Brendan just sat back and was as calm as can be. He was awesome the whole time. So we get to Primary's along with 100 other people, by the time we finally got back to be seen, six and half hours later!!! They were able to put him to sleep and stitch up his little forehead with 16 stitches. Brendan has now experienced it all, from two broken bones, burnt hand, and now stitches but at least he comes out of it all ok and with a smile.

Here area a few pics from the fun evening...




So worn out:( from waiting for six hours!!!)
OUCH!!!the awesome team of doctors.

his famous smile, love this kid!!!

Well on a happier note...
Mckaela has been bugging me for sooooo long to get her hair cut and I have tried really hard to put it off for as long as possible. She has such long pretty hair that I was just not ready to chop it of...well I finally gave in. So last Saturday we went in and did just that...chopped it off. But because it was so long and she wanted it so short she was able to donate her hair to Locks of Love. She thought that was the coolest thing ever and was so proud to be helping out someone else. I must say though...she does look stinkin cute with short hair:)

Our Graduate!!

So we have ourselves a little Graduate, yes it is from preschool but preschool can be very hard these days:) We are so proud of Brendan. He has really come along way this past year and has really worked hard and I think he is ready for the big times, kindergarten!!! The question is "am I?" I can't believe I will have two children in elementry school this next year. Time is really passing us by.
They had a little program, sang some songs and then recieved their cap!


He had a lot of support from his family. We knew he could do it!!

This is Brendans teacher Mrs Gina, Mckaela had her too and we just love her.

Onto Mothers day...it was a great day.

My kids made me the cutest stuff at school and were so excited to give me them that I had to open them on Friday when they got home from school. I also got a new bike. We decided we want to be more adventurous. So we all have bikes and we are going to do a lot of biking this summer.

My sister Kristi, Tamra, me, mom and niece Jessica.


My mommy and me:)

I have the best kids in the whole world. I sure love them!!

Disney again???

So since it has been soooo long since we last went to Disneyland we thought it was time to plan another little vacation. So we tagged along with some friends that were heading to California, we hitched a ride and off we went:) It was a last minute decision but we had so much fun and we are really glad that the Fishers aloud for us followers to come:) We took off Friday night around six, grab some dinner and we were off. We drove until we came to Buffalo Bills and stayed the night so we wouldn't be so tired on Saturday. We wanted to enjoy Saturday and not have to sleep all day, after all, this was going to be a quick trip for us. Ryan only had a few days off and the kids had to get back to school. So we then shopped for a little bit had lunch and then continued are nice drive with eight people, four kids, ten bags, six pillow, three booster chairs, one tv, lots of games and junk food. We had plenty of room to spare!! NOT! But we still had a great time all together. Once we made it to our hotel ,right next to Disneyland, we all needed to cool off and stretch out so we went for a swim. It was perfect weather the whole time, so we got a little color on our faces:) We even got to watch fireworks from our room. That was pretty cool!! So then the next two days we wore ourselves out by doing Disneyland one day and California Adventure the other and the kids really did good for how much walking you do. But by the end of the trip we were all exhausted and ready to come home to Addison. Which again:( stayed with family and was well taken care of. Didn't miss us for a second:) Thanks again Fishers we had an awesome time with you all!!
The Fishers:)



This is the happiest place in town. We were all happy to have gone and I am sure we will be back soon.