Oh How I LOVE Matchy Dresses!

I think my weakness in life is...Matchy Dresses! I really have a hard time containing myself when I see 2 outfits that are the same in Sunny & Elle's sizes!!! Since the odds of me having twins are very slim, this is the next best thing to twins: Matchy Outfits!!!!

Our BYU day!

Riley is offtrack, Regan was out of town all last week, so I decided to take the 3 kids to my parents cabin for 2 days! The first day, we relaxed at the cabin and played tons of games {You have to be very creative when you play hide & seek with a 3 and 5 year old in a 2 bedroom cabin!} I loved just being away from our phone, cleaning the house and the stresses of the last minute details of selling our house and just being on the ground playing with my kids!! We all fell asleep in the family room watching the Olympics! Shawn White was amazing!!!

The next day, we all got ready in our BYU colors and headed for BYU campus! Regan and I really want our kids to absolutly LOVE BYU and have great experiences there since we both graduated and met each other there! We started at the Wilk for a game of bowling! Pretty pathetic that Riley beat me! I even took a bowling class with my roommates at Ricks! I'll blame it on being preoccupied watching the girls!

We then went to the Cougareat to get some lunch, along with tons of students! It was so funny to look at all of the students at their tables, while I was sitting with 3 kids under the age of 5! No longer a student--but still in my 20's!!

From there, we went to the Art Museum for an hour. The kids did a great job not touching and being quiet in the museum! Then, Riley really wanted to walk up the circular ramp up to the Bean Animal Museum, so thats what we did! The kids always love the Animal Museum! We listend to the Bell Tower Chime, we looked at the Cougar in the wilk, and I showed the kids all of my stomping grounds {I used to work at Jamba Juice inside the wilk when I was first married!}

We ended our BYU experience by getting an ice cream cone at the good old Creamery! I told the kids about how my dad used to work at the creamery filling huge buckets up with Ice cream and sticking a cup underneath every once and a while to get a treat! They loved those stories!!

What a fun day at BYU! The kids honestly did not want to leave! They especially did not want to leave the cabin, so I am glad we were able to get a fun getaway for 2 days at least!!!

A Dream Come True

Most of you who read this will think, Andrea is totally crazy! But for me, what I am about to blog about was simply a dream come true! I was able to do a 24 hour scrapbook weekend with my friends! My friends sister was the organizer, and so she rented out a hotel banquet room for 55 ladies to scrapbook! We had hotel rooms to sleep in, and a huge scrapbook room to do our thing! I started scrapbooking at 5:30 Friday night until 2:30 AM! For those of you who know me well, you know that I am a 10:00 girl! I am usually hammered at 10:00, so the fact that I made it until 2:30 AM was pretty much a miracle.

Our table decided to call it quits at 2:30 and head to bed! My mind was racing with tons of ideas for scrapbooks, so I didn't even get to sleep until 3:30! I was the first one to wake up in my room at 8:15 am! I got dressed and headed down for more work! On Saturday, I scrapbooked from 9:00am-4:00!! Let's just say with 16 hours of scrapbooking, I was able to produce 112 completed scrapbook pages!!!! For every page you finished, you could put your name on a paper for a drawing of a really cool scrapbooking bag!!! With 112 pages done, I was the WINNER and I won the bag since my name was chosen!!! With only 5 hours of sleep, I have no idea how I was able to function for our Valentines Date, but somehow I made it!! I am ALMOST caught up with my scrapbooking which makes me feel SO GOOD!!!

Valentines Weekend

So we had a great Valentines Weekend! My brother came home from College to open his mission call on Thursday night--he is going to Mexico!!!

On Friday, I took the girls to Riley's kindergarten class to do the craft for the Valentines Party! The girls were so cute in their matchy red outfits!!! Afterwards, we made the rounds and visited family to deliver our chocolate suckers we made for Valentines Day!

On Saturday, it was my turn to plan Valentines Day. Regan and I take turns every year-one of us is Valentines Day, one of us is Anniversary! This probably sounds lame to everyone, but one of our favorite date nights is to simply get dinner and see a movie, so I thought it would be a great idea for our Valentines Date. We went to our new favorite place to eat: All you can eat Sushi! Seriously, that is the name of it! Sounds gross, but it actually is the best sushi--and all you can eat! What is there not to love about that? Regan has converted met to sushi and I now absolutly LOVE it!

After our fabulous dinner, we went to see the movie, Valentines Day! How appropriate was that? It was super cheesy, but we loved it! Hope everyone had a great Valentines Day!!!

Fun Girls Trip!

I just came home from the funnest girls tip with my mom and sisters! We went to Las Vegas to see the Donny & Marie Show! We stayed at Caesars Palace, ate amazing food {My favorite were the crab legs & crepes} and did a lot of shopping! Believe it or not, we actually had a missionary experience as well {The blurry picture is of my sister Ashley talking to this guy who was totally talking about Utah like it was this horrible state-don't worry, the McKell girls set him straight!} Amongst the smoke, and evil things all around the strip, we actually had an amazing Sunday morning where we each shared a story out of the church magazines and had a great spiritual uplifting! We even felt like movie stars when we got our pictures taken at a makeup runway show! Our hotel had these wax people that looked so real, so of course we had a picture with them! We had a wonderful time and I cannot wait for our next Girls Trip! Regan was awesome to be the Mr. Mom for a weekend! He actually admitted that it was hard to manage the kids, keep the house clean and not have Riley just play the wii all day!!! Thank you very much!

The Bellagio

We went to the beautiful Bellagio Hotel and got some pictures of the beautiful flower gardens. We also LOVED watching the water shows outside of the Bellagio! I liked this hotel because it was the least smokey of all of the strip hotels!

Donny & Marie

On the 2nd night in Las Vegas, we all went to the cleanest show on the strip...
The Donny & Marie Show! It was so good and as my sister said, surprisingly entertaining! We were the youngest ones in the show by far, and it was so much fun to see these 2 Utah Performers put on a wonderful show! Donny sweats so much and Marie was wearing some outfits she probably shouldn't have worn, but other than those, I would recommend it to anyone!

Beauty & Shopping

What does every Girls trip need? A beauty night and a lot of shopping! We did both very well on this trip! the first night we got settled into our awesome hotel room at Caesars Palace. I brought my foot bath and did pedicures and massages on everyone. We all put mud masks on! The mud dried so hard that we couldn't even move our faces! The next 2 days were full of shopping! I found my new Favorite store {and I am safe to say Favorite because we don't have it in Utah so I cannot be tempted!} H&M is the coolest store ever! I can say that for certainty because we went back 5 times!!! I got some cute outfits and had so much fun shopping with all of the girls {and no kids!!}
As we were shopping, we were looking at this booth that said, "Eyebrow Threading!" This lady from India comes out and tells us that we have to try it! What is it you ask? I guess it is very popular in India-it is where they take Thread and pluck your eyebrows with it! So wierd, I know! So what better people to try it out than my 2 little sisters! They were brave and tried this wierd Eyebrow Threading Trend and surprisingly, it looked SO good on them!

Paris

We went to the Paris hotel to eat some delicious crepes for breakfast! I tried my new camera out on this trip for some practice-the eiffel tower was a great structure to practice on! Crepes made right in front of you are the BEST! I was a little disapointed in Ashley though. Last time we ate at the Paris when we came to see Celine Dion in 2005, she ate 6 huge crepes! This trip, she could only muster the strength to eat 1!

South Weber House

Pictures of our new house!!

Here are some pictures of our new house! I have been drooling over these pictures for quite some time now, so now to think that it is ours is pretty EXCITING!!! Things are moving fast for us, and it looks like we could be out of our old house in 1 month!!!

SOLD!

Our house finally sold on Saturday!!! I am so happy to not have to clean the house daily to look like a model house even though there are 3 kids who live in it! To me, it is an answer to a prayer-our family has been praying to sell our house for a couple of months and now we have finally done it!! We have to be out in March, so now we need to get a new house! We put an offer on a house in South Weber, Utah. It is in Davis County and is 1 hour away from our house. We put an offer on it, and are waiting to hear back to see if they accepted it. When the price has been determined, I will post pictures of the gorgeous house!! We actually went to South Weber on Sunday and drove around, attended the church there, and Regan and I had such a great feeling about it! It is 10 minutes away from Regan's office too!

GO BYU!

Regan and I are determined to train our kids early to LOVE BYU and to LOVE to go to basketball and football BYU games! We got all of the family dressed in our BYU clothes and headed down to Cougar town for the bball game on Saturday! It still is a little hard to keep them contained, but we are certainly training them young!

Ice Skating!

We went on a date night to Downtown Salt lake! We went ice skating at the Gallivan Center & it was SO much fun! Ice skating is pretty much like roller blading so it was pretty easy for us!! I love date nights and I am really going to miss our friday night co-op when we move!!!