here, there, and everywhere

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost 5 months since I’ve last posted…that is really bad.  So here goes a summary of the last few months of our lives.
Before school started in August we took a family trip to visit our friends, the Barton’s in Orange.  We went to the beach a few times, it’s [...]

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stay-cation

Mandalay Bay has been having great deals for locals, so last weekend we took a little family stay-cation.  The kids were so excited to stay in a hotel!  We went swimming a ton at their cool beach.  Saturday morning we were in the pool at 8am.  There was hardly anyone there that early.  About 30 [...]

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fireworks & robots

We went up to Utah for the 4th of July.  Some highlights of our trip include:
-Annie running and jumping off the diving board a million times, making sure to scream each time
-Going to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house with our kids
-Seeing new baby Ava
-Fireworks
-Going to Ice Age III
-Going to bed way too late
-Playing with [...]

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{The Monster Who Ate My Peas}

Have any of you read “The Monster Who Ate My Peas” by Danny Schnitzlein?  It is my new favorite children’s book.  My kids think it’s so funny.  The rhymes flow so perfectly, it’s just begging to be read aloud, It’s a lot of fun.  So if you haven’t read it, go check it out at [...]

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hot, hot, hot

Wow, it has gotten so hot here in Vegas, but I shouldn’t complain since we’ve had it really nice so far this summer and I way prefer the super hot over the super cold.  We have been spending our summer days either swimming, running through sprinklers, going to the water feature at the park, anything [...]

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{catch up}

Here’s a little recap on what we’ve been up to.  Easter Weekend was great.  Tyler’s little sister was in town with her cute family.  We went and saw Monsters vs. Aliens 3D.  I’ve never been to a 3D movie before.  Pretty cool, however some of the kiddos did get a little scared.  I got this [...]

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conference weekend

I know…I haven’t posted forever and then I do two posts in one day.  I’m just trying to get all caught up.  Hope you all had a wonderful conference weekend.  These are my favorite weekends.  Saturday morning, everyone in pjs (except for Anniston, she insisted on wearing a Sunday dress for conference), the cinnamon rolls [...]

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March Madness

March was the busiest month for me.  So busy for the first time in 8 years I didn’t have time to fill out my own bracket for March Madness.  Anniston turned 5 on the 14th.  We had a friend birthday party for her, she had 4 of her best friends come over.  The girls had [...]

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Valentine’s Day~

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day.  Mine was probably the best Valentine’s Day yet!  Not because we did anything outrageous, but because we made it so simple & wonderful.  Tyler brought home roses Friday after work.  Then Saturday, we woke up & went to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast.  Then spent the day with kiddos, [...]

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gum…

By the looks of it you’d think that not blogging was one of my New Year’s resolutions…We had a great Christmas & holiday.  It seems way to long ago to blog about it now.  I will say one of the highlights was that we had all kids in bed and ASLEEP by 7:00 on Christmas [...]

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