Change is a brewin...

Regan put together these bunk beds because we needed to mattrice to Elle's toddler bed to go into the crib for the baby! We are 6 weeks away from seeing this little guy, and so change must be happening to make room for him! Sunny LOVES sleeping on the top bunk while Elle LOVES sleeping on the bottom. Let's just say Riley is super duper jelous of this sleeping arrangement because he has always wanted a bunk bed to share with a little brother.

My VERY smart 1st grader

It's brag time for me...I just cannot believe how smart my little 1st grader is! He has never NOT gotten 100% on his weekly spelling tests {if you can see the words above, they are pretty difficult too!} and he started bringing home chapter books in his baggie books!!! WOW! I am one very proud mom of my great, smart, cute 1st grader!!! Go Riley!
{Did I tell you he is flying through book 2 in violin? He is so awesome!}

A Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak at Baby Boy's room {I say that because we still don't have a name picked out!} Thanks to my awesome sister and brother in law {Bretth & Ashley}http://mckella.blogspot.com/  {They helped me paint the brown and blue all last weekend!!!} and my amazing friend Manon http://blog.seethalers.com/  {She painted the tree and owls by freehand-no stencils, no pencil, no vinyl! She is simply amazing!}
I am seeing the beginnings of a baby room! There is still more to be done in this adorable nursery, but the point is, it is starting to look like a nursery instead of a study! Oh ya, thanks to my hubby for moving all of the furniture and for hanging things in the future with no complaining !!! :)

My Adorable little girls

Can I just tell you how blessed I am to have these 2 adorable little girls? First of all, I get to dress them twinners everyday, I get to do their hair so cute, I get to listen to their cute little voices play together with their doll house, and I get to watch them give each other hugs and kisses because they love each other so much! Life is good with 2 little girls!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

I think that Riley and Sunny heard a lot about St. Patricks day and leprachauns from school, because they both had high expectations of this special day! In my mind, it is just a day you wear green so kids don't pinch you...and memories of my mom putting green food coloring in our milk for breakfast and I wouldn't dare drink it! {I have major issues with color, texture and other yucky things associated with food!} Anyway, I couldn't dissapoint the kids, so last night after mutual, I got a few little goodies {I mean the leprachaun did!} and put them in Riley's little leprachaun trap! I must say that I was very impressed with his trap. He had NO help from anybody. He found the box, taped up the holes, got a stick and a scarf to put underneath the box to be able to CATCH the little green guy! He even wanted to sleep on the wood floor next to his contraption so he could see if he caught this poor made up guy! Needless to say, he was highly disspointed that he didn't trap this leprachaun!!!   I do have to mention that something very wierd and mysterious happened last night. At 1 am, the ipod that Riley was listening to his Suzuki Violin music last night started to play a KT Tunstall song very loud!!! It freaked me out, so I went in his room to turn it off and Riley didn't even flinch! He just stayed asleep even though the music was right by him!!! I think this secret leprachaun played a trick on us last night after all!!! So next year, I will have to play up the leprachaun thing myself instead of leave school teachers to do it!!!
{On a side note, last year on this day, Regan and I were in Sydney, Australia and went to an AWESOME St. Patty's dinner, got pictures with a CUTE koala, and went to about 5 pubs to see all of the people who wish they were irish chug as much beer as they could! It was actually the funnest St. Patricks day I have ever had!}

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!!!!