Let the Mario Games Begin...

Riley wanted a Mario themed party this year, so I researched all of the fun Mario games I could! All of the boys received a Mario or Luigi Hat and goody bag.

Then we had a Mario Kart Tournament

And of course pin the mustache on Mario!

And an old classic...the cottonball game-who can get the most cottonballs in the other pan in 1 minute! We used to play this when I was little!

And a Mario Party just wouldn't be complete without playing Musical Mushrooms {Musical Chairs with Mario mushrooms on the chairs!}

And the Party was a hit because the one and only MARIO actually came to visit the boys! I had no idea Regan was even home while I was playing games with the boys. Out of nowhere, Regan appears all dressed up as Mario and he says in his Mario voice, "di di di da da da {Mario theme song} Hi, I'm Mario!} The boys all loved it except the birthday boy! All of the other boys were cheering for Mario, and all Riley had to say was "Daaaaaad---Daaaaaaaad!" in a I'm embarrased right now voice! It was hilarious! Good job to Dad of the year for dressing up like Mario! The party was a hit!

Birthday Cake!!!

I made 2 cakes for Riley's birthday this past weekend! The first was of course, Mario themed! I thought it turned out cute, but fondant simply does not taste good! It is only for decoration in my opinion. Who would want to each sugar flavored play dough? Anyway, Riley LOVED his cake for his friend birthday party, and also his cake he shared with Aunt Angie since their birthday's are a day apart! Happy 7th Birthday to Riley and 17th Birthday to Angie!!!

GNO {Girls Night Out}

I look forward to this every year now! The 28hour scrapbook overnighter!!! Some people might think this is a bit crazy, but for me, it is called catch up time! I am able to sit down uninterupted for hours and hours and catch up on my families scrapbooks!!! This year, I started in at 3:00 Friday afternoon, made it until 12:45 am, woke up at 6:40 and was scrapbooking on Saturday from 7 am until 4:30 pm! Needless to say, I got a lot done! 120 pages to be exact! AND I won the big prize again this year! This year it was a cool paper cutter-you know, the ones they have at school that you can cut your finger off with! Oh-if I could choose one activity to do, it would be scrapbooking for hours and hours!

Can you even believe that I have a U on my face? I can't! My friends made me do it! Actually I had such a fun time with my Herriman Friends at the U of U gymnastics meet in February! We took our girls out to dinner, then to the meet. It was just fun to catch up with them! When I got home, Riley was VERY concerned that I had turned to the DARK side! He told me that I shouldn't had let my friends do that to me!!! Don't worry, I am still a true blue BYU fan-especially this week with the tournament going on!! Go Cougs!

My 2 sisters Angie and Chrissy were able to spend a few days with us while my parents went to Hawaii! It was SO much fun to have them hang out with me and the kids all weekend. On one of the nights, we went to the Utah Symphony with Ashley and out to the Blue Lemon! It was a great night! I love spending time with my sisters!!!

Great February so far...

             These 2 little girls are seriously the CUTEST little girls EVER!!! They are such Best Friends!!

 This was my 1st big event as being the Young Women President: New Beginnings {all of my cute YW}

                        and these are all of the ladies in Young Womens with me who help me SO much!

                 We brought a sign for Riley when we went to the BYU vs Utah game!! He loves Jimmer!

My cute BYU clan! Am I brainwashing them early to think that BYU is the greatest school on earth? YES!

 Happy Valentines Day with a smile from the Cutest girls on earth again! Sunny wanted to wear a big pink frilly dress to her Preschool Valentine Party, but they asked all of the kids to wear their preschool shirt so we had to dress her up a bit.

                                                 This little Elle Belly is the Sweetest little girl!

                                                   This Sunny Bunny is so Beautiful!

                  For Valentines Day, we had a great day. We had a wonderful dinner from Zupas in our own home {Pina Colada Salad and Wisconsin Cauliflower Soup with chocolate strawberries & Martinelis}, played some fun family games, then used our fire pit for the first time to roast marshmellows for smores! Regan surprised me 2 times this Valentines Day! I receieved a dozen beautiful roses from the UPS guy after lunch, then got a beautiful diamond bracelet when he got home from work! Having a family valentines Day was actually perfect!!!

January Happenings

                                   Regan & I at the American Family District Manager 70's Party!

              Some of the Young Women & Leaders at Prom Fest supporting our laurel who was a model!

                                  My latest everyday craving: Diet Caffeine Free Coke with Vanilla!

                                          

We had 2 days off of school this month, so I took the kids to a really cool place in Ogden called the Treehouse Museum. It's just like a smaller version of the Gateway Children's Museum. We were there for 5 hours and that is after I asked the kids if we could go! They easily could have stayed ALL DAY LONG! I am glad to finally figure out some cool places to take my kids in Davis County! 

January has flow by...the beginning of the new year was nice to have Regan home for a few days to play with us. We went to some movies, spent a lot of time with family, played a lot of Wii games together, and Regan took the kids skiing! Once life came back, and we had to go back to reality, I was sad to have it end. I immediatly took the Christmas tree and decorations down-I never thought this would happen, but I actually got sick of them since they were up since the beginning of November! It felt good to have a clean, uncluttered house again.

Riley has been doing SO well in school! He comes home every Friday with 100% on his Spelling Test, his reading has sky rocketed and he is so smart in math!! He is also doing so well with Violin. He finally passed off Suzuki Book 1 and started Book 2 with his violin teacher and has been going so fast! You can tell that he truly loves to play music. he is in the friend phase where all he wants to do with extra time is to play with friends. I finally had to make a rule that we can't play with friends except on Friday and Saturday's. By the time he got home from school, it was 4:00, then we practice the violin for 30 minutes everyday and then do homework and reading. By the time we are done, it is already time for dinner and dark outside!!!

Sunny has told me that she wants to live with her preschool teacher, Teacher Viki. Some days, I think that is alright with me :) She is a funny little girl and keeps me on my toes everyday! Elle is still the sweetest little girl I have ever seen! She follows Sunny and me around all day and eats tons of yogurt and fishy crackers!

We are having a .....

May 12, 2011 We will be having a new little Baby BOY!!!!!
We are So excited to have 2 girls and 2 boys in our family pretty soon!

Family Time

I was SO proud of my 2 little kids playing Christmas Songs at the rest home this holiday season! It has been a long road to get Riley to graduate from book 1 and for Sunny to memorize Tucka Tucka Stop Stop, but we finally got there!!!!

Ski Bunnies

Since I am prego this winter, I wasn't able to go Skiing with the kids for their first time,  but Regan traded in his snowboard for a pair of ski's to help the kids out. They went to Wolf Mountain right by our house 3 times so far and each time, they are getting better and better. The first time they went, the kids took a private ski lesson and 30 minutes into it, I called Regan and his response was..."What was I thinking-this was such a bad idea!" Basically, the ski instructors kind of gave up on the kids, so Regan had to step in and help themout. Next thing you know, both Riley and Sunny are begging Regan to stay on the 'magic carpet' bunny hill because they love skiing so much! The 3rd time they went, Regan took the lift all the way to the top of the mountain and they skiied down just great! WOW-this will be a fun family activity to do now that we live SO close to 3 ski resorts!

Christmas Time

                                    Christmas Even Talent Show-The McKell Family Trumpeters

                                            Christmas Eve Nativity-Elle: Sheep Sunny: Angel

                                         My Cute Kids on Christmas Eve @ Grammy's House

                                                               Riley-the Angel Gabriel

                                              Christmas Eve: reading our Christmas Book

                                          Christmas Morning: The Girls LOVED their Doll house

                      Riley LOVED his basketball Hoop which was outside and his bow & arrows

                                                   This girl could play with dolls all day long

                                                          opening presents with Grampy

                                     Grammy gave Sunny this Sunday coat I used to wear at her age

                                     Elle wearing 4 layers of new clothes while playing with Squinkees

                                                 Andrea's BIG Christmas present...a PIANO!

 BYU Basketball Game--Training our kids YOUNG to LOVE BYU!

New Years Even Games with Aunt Chrissy

We had a FUN Christmas Time this year!  We were able to have some fun times with Regan and with family. It was kind of sad to have Monday come and have Regan go back to work and Riley & Sunny go back to school. We had a fun time just being together!