Memorial Day Weekend

We spent Memorial Day weekend at my parents cabin at Vivian Park (up Provo Canyon).
It was so awesome to be in the canyons and to be away from yard work! Regan and I rollerbladed with the kids in the stroller from Vivian Park all the way down to the River Woods Shopping Center. (8 miles). Luckily, my brother Robby picked us up at the bottom to drive us back to the top. My back was pretty much broken by then! What an awesome workout and activity though! THe kids just loved it!

We hiked down to Bridal Veil Falls, and Regan and Rily hiked all the way up to the falls! Riley was such a big boy to do it because it is kind of a hard hike; especially coming back down! What a great weekend at the cabin!

Happy 2nd Birthday Sunny Girl!

Our Little Sunny Girl turns 2 years old today! WoW-what a big girl she is turning out to be! The word Girly Girl describes Sunny exactly! She is very concerned about the necklaces, shoes, dresses and accessories she wears. She pushes her baby stroller and grocery cart around the whole house like it's nobody's business!

We are so happy that she is a part of our family! She is just so cute and brings smiles to our faces. Hopefully those terrible 2's don't come our way! Or have they already come? Happy Birthday Sunny Girl!

Elder Fackrell in the MTC

Regan's little brother Jordan entered the MTC today. He is going on a mission to Taiwan and we had the opportunity today to go to the MTC with him today. We brought Riley hoping that he would remember this time and have the missionary flare; of course this plan did not work that well! He just wanted to play around instead of watch of all of the new missionaries. What do you expect, he is 4! Someday, he will be one of those missionaries though!

We went to breakfast beforehand and really got to spend some time with Jordan. He is so awesome and he is going to be a great missionary! I am glad that we got to see him enter the MTC today! It was an incredible feeling of missionary work!

Trouble I tell ya!

Just when I thought the kids were reading books, I hear a bunch of giggling. Riley had snuck into Sunny's room, put all of her bows on him, and one on her, and were playing in Sunny's bed together!
Trouble! Just when you think as a mom, "yes-they are in bed, now it is my time!" Nope-it still takes a little more work to get them down and not giggling in bed!

BYU Women's Conference

The 1st weekend of May, I was able to attend my very 1st Women's Conference at BYU. I only got to go to 2 classes, which were excellent, and then I had to set up a booth (sharing station) all about Family History. My Aunt Linda from California did all of the research and electronic handout (google in womens conference/then go to sharing stations to get some really cool packets) and I was in charge of the display. The night before, I was taking all of my home decorations down and packing them up to display. My house started to look very bare and it made me happy that my decorations in my house really do add to the home.

Anyway, thousands of women came through the sharing stations and viewed the booths. A lot of people asked me about family blogs and how they help to keep family members connected together. It was a great opportunity to talk about how they keep family members updated on each others lives!

The last picture is of a lot of my Aunts and cousins who attended Womens Conference. We all helped out with either the Sharing Booths or the Humanitarian Projects! It was a great experience and it really energized me as a mom!

So Excited!

I look at these pictures of when I had Sunny, and I get SO excited to have this new baby! I am almost 20 weeks along, almost half way, but that seems like an eternity until this new little baby comes! So I will be strong, and not find out what the baby is!! Next week (May 15th) is when I go in for the ultrasound, so I will keep you posted when I go to that!

Awesome Car for Sale!

We are selling our 2007 Tahoe so I decided to post some pictures and specifics about the suv if anyone is interested! Regan and I both felt like we don't need a huge vehicle like this when we only have 2 kids, so we have decided to sell it and get a smaller car!
-Leather Seats (Heated Seats as well)
-DVD player (controls are in the front on the radio so you can control the movie whie you are in front!)
-Reverse Signal (will beep if something is behind you)
-7 seats (you can lift up the 2 pilot seats in the back for more room)
-Hitch
-CD player (Bose sound system)
-Wood Trim inside
-Plastic Mats all over the car (to prevent staining on carpet)

If you, or someone you know is interested in our Tahoe, please email me at: suzukiviolin@hotmail.com or Regan at rfackrel@amfam.com

The Tulip Festival

I went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point with my kids, my mom and my Aunt and Grandmother who are visiting from California yesterday! I have never been to the Gardens before (just the children's gardens) and the Tulips were beautiful! The waterfall that they have on the Gardens property is amazing as well! Sunny got so many cute comments on her outfit! She fit right in with the flowers because of her flower dress and matching pink hat with a flower on it! She is the cutest girl ever and I have so much fun dressing her up!

Riley had a blast rolling down the grass! In one of these pictures, Sunny is wearing my Papa's (grandfather) boots! She loves to wear other people's shoes, even big leather boots!

American Family Las Vegas Trip!

Well, all of Regan's hard work with Insurance paid off for us this week! We went on our very 1st American Family Insurance Trip that Regan won! We went with 5 other Agents and stayed at the Mandalay Bay Hotel! WOW! It was such an awesome hotel! The pictures of the pools below is a view from our hotel room! We went to the "Beach" which had a wave Pool (no salt water in your face), a lazy river and sand all around! We hung out by the beach for a while and got the start of a summer tan!

The highlight of the trip though was going to the Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian Hotel! We had 4th row seats and saw everything so close! It was the best Broadway Phantom that I have ever seen! The special effects were AMAZING! WOW-what a night! WE even got to see the Jazz Game afterwards on a huge big screen at the Venetian afterwards!

Thanks Regan for making this trip-we both needed it and it was amazing!

Las Vegas Trip!

On our trip to Las Vegas, we went to the M&M Factory, to the Coca Cola Factory and got a delicious Caffeine Free Diet Vanilla Coke! YUM! REgan went with the boys to a place called Game Work and played Video Games for hours! We had a blast!

Violin Family

My 2 younger sisters performed in a violin Mozart Recital and I did their hair for it! They looked SO cute in their beautiful dresses and done up hair! They played some really hard Mozart pieces and they sound AMAZING! These sisters of mine are so talented and really work hard at the violin! Thanks to my mom for making us practice every day growing up and never giving up on us! Too bad Ashley isn't in the picture, because then all of the girls in my family could be seen that play the violin! I am able to use my violin talent every day of my life thanks to my mom! I teach violin every day to my students, as well as my brand new student...Riley Fackrell! I am getting him ready to attend Suzuki Institute in June! Thanks mom for developing our talents!

The Dinosaur Museum!

The Kids just love to go to the Dinosaur Museum, and it is great because Regan's mom has a grandparents pass to Thanksgiving Point so they go pretty often! I was surprised that Sunny didn't get scared from the huge dino's, but her and Riley sure did love the wet erosion table and digging the dino bones out of the sand!

Our Pirate Night

Regan and I went to BYU with our friends the Seethalers to pass out ice cream to all of the BYU students for their closing social. Our friends have a ice cream van and they call themselves the Ice Cream Pirates! It was So much fun to be out at the good old Wilk and see Regan act like a pirate all night long!