Happy Easter!

We did have an Egg Hunt full of fun baskets and surprises, but I did not capture any pictures of that once again. Grandma & Grandpa Saul spoiled the kids rotten, and made sure they were fully supplied with goodies before they headed to Wyoming.
They did have baskets full of candy, eggs, sidewalk chalk, games, hula hoops, and Cade even got his very own basketball. They were thrilled.

I did happen to take a few pictures of the egg coloring adventure!

Jaida loved that she could use her apron she made in Activity Days!

Smiling for the camera!

Cade carefully working on an egg.

And Preston showing his true colors!

We also did have a special family home evening talking about the true meaning of Easter, and Preston shared with us a favorite story out of the friend!

I promise to do better with pictures in the future.

St. George

At the first part of April Eric's parents came to visit and stay for a few weeks to be here for Alyssa's baptism! Eric and I decided to take advantage of this, and go on a little "get away" to St. George for a few days! We had just had our Anniversary a couple weeks before, and it was my birthday weekend, so it was a perfect time!
We just headed down to St. George for a few days! We had some temple names we had been working on and were able to go and finish them. We spent about 5 hours in the temple that Friday and it was wonderful!

Neither one of us had ever been inside the St. George Temple, so it was a very neat experience.

Also that weekend I had an Usborne Booth. Why not make the whole trip a tax write off right? It was the St. George Kite Festival. Never in my life had I seen so many cool kites.

The wind was perfect, and it wasn't overly hot. Just perfect!

Here is a pic of my booth! Overall we had a great time, and really enjoyed the time away!

Jaida's 10th Birthday!

Jaida had to share her birthday this year with Alyssa's baptism. I don't think she was very happy about it. Not everyone could stay, so we hurried and fed everyone after the baptism, then later that night she FINALLY got to open her presents.
New jeans!

A new watch, and her bedspread in the background.

Her choice of dinner was waffles! Since we had already had dessert earlier with all the family, we stuck a candle in her waffle and sang to her again! :)

Best enemies....uh I mean Best Friends. ha ha

Cards with money! Always a good thing!

Her Justin Bieber shirt that she begged for after Alyssa got one for her birthday. After I bought it she decided that she hated Justin Bieber. When she opened the shirt a little over a month later she was "disgusted". It was pretty funny. She will not wear it in public, and only wears it for sleeping. Whatever. I can't keep up with the fads. At least the shirts were only $1 at Walmart.

And last but not least, Jaida's "new" room! She had dark green walls, so she picked a fun, bright green color. She also had a cute bedspread to match, but when we got it out I had accidentally bought a full size, so we had to take it back. When we returned it, she found this one she liked better. I like this one better too!

I really liked how this room turned out too. I was able to get her dresser painted white, which helped, but she will have to wait on the blinds. Little bits at a time, so we will add to hers probably at Christmas too! Anywyay, she loves it!

Happy Birthday Jaida!!! We love you!

Alyssa's Special Day

April 9, 2011
Alyssa's Baptism Day
Everyone who was able to join us for her special day!

Our little family!

Alyssa with Grandma & Grandpa Saul

Alyssa with Grandma & Grandpa Robison

We love you Alyssa, and are so proud of you!

Celebrating 14 Years!

This year Eric and I celebrated our 14th Anniversary.
On April 4, 1997 we were married in the Manti Temple.

I can honestly say after 14 years, he is still my best friend and I can't imagine life without him.

We had plans to go to St. George for a few days later in April, so I will post about that trip later. Happy Anniversary honey. Here's to another 14 wonderful years!!

Preston's 12th Birthday!

I feel like such a crappy mom because for some reason I
have NO pictures of Preston's birthday. :(

We did have a small party for him. Our family, Grandma & Grandpa Robison, his Aunt Celia, Uncle Jeff, and Cousin Whitney went to Pirate Island! Other than having to wait FOREVER for the food, we had a good time. They have Karaoke, which was entertaining to say the least. :)

Preston turned 12 this year, got the Priesthood, and started passing the sacrament. He was so excited, and loves every bit of it! He has thoroughly enjoyed young mens, and scout camp that he got to go on this year.

For his birthday he got money from Grandpa & Grandma Saul, money from Grandma Wittick, some new ties from Grandma & Grandpa Robison, from all of us he got a really nice sleeping bag, a Star Wars Wii Game, the Fablehaven 5 book, and a new tie tac.

We love you Preston, and are so proud of you!

P.S. Just last month he was made the new Deacon's secretary in our ward.

Alyssa's 8th Birthday!

Finally catching up!! First up: Alyssa's Birthday!

This year for the kids birthdays I wanted to do something cheap, fun, but different. I decided to buy a huge bag of balloons and blow them up while they were at school. Since Alyssa's birthday is first, she got the first batch. Here is a couple pics of 72 balloons all over her room.

It would have been fun to do twice this many, but trust me 72 was enough. She loved it and thought it was so cool to have that many balloons in her room!

For her birthday she wanted Kentucky Fried Chicken, so we invited Grandma & Grandpa Robison over, and just ate, and opened presents. First off she got a new bedspread (you can see it in the background.) The jammies she is also holding were from Grandpa & Grandma Robison.

One of her favorite other gifts, a Justin Beiber shirt!! Also, the sheets next to her new bedspread are from her Great Grandma Wittick!

Next up was a really cute scripture bag from Grandma & Grandpa Saul.

And finally, her very own brand-new set of scriptures engraved with her name!

She was so happy! Here is a final shot of her checking out all her stuff. We let Preston take the photos, so we didn't end up with a shot of cake, or grandma and grandpa sitting there on the couch.

This year we also decided that instead of just adding to a already full toy collection, we would do a "room makeover". (Thus the new bedspread, sheets.) Here is a quick pic of her newly painted room and bedspread which she knew about and picked out herself along with the paint color. We still need to paint her dresser, and add a few more accessories, but it is a start. You can see before pics in the top picture of this post with the balloons.

Maybe we can add a bookshelf, along with a few more things for Christmas. We also need a valance or some curtains too! At least it's a start!

We love you sis! We're glad you had a fun birthday!

Don't Know Where to Start....

Believe it or not I have wanted to blog many times over the last 6 months. I love reading others blogs, and I have just decided mine is too boring.

I have a hard time writing creatively, or finding things that I think are worth blogging about. Something will happen, and I think, "that would make a good blog post." Then by the time I get around to bloggin about it, I don't think it's that exciting anymore.

I love pictures on blogs too, and I seem to be lacking in the picture taking department. That is another reason for my hesitation. We didn't even get pictures on Halloween. How sad is that?

I have sat down a few times trying to organize what pictures we do have and from which events, picking a few to highlight and give anyone who may be reading this an update. Needless to say my follow through has been at level 0.

So at this point, I am just going to bullet a few things we've been doing since my last post!

September:

*We went to the CentraCom summer party! My kids had a ball with the bounce houses, retaining wall, games, cotton candy, and snowcones. Eric works for such a great company, we are SO blessed!

*Eric marched in the governor's day parade. I did get some cool pictures of this. It was hot, but it is always neat to watch this event.

*Eric got promoted to a Sr. Master Sergeant in the Air Force. WAHOO!!!


October:

*Grandma & Grandpa Saul came and stayed with us for a few weeks! It was so nice to have an "RV parking" driveway for their motorhome. It worked perfectly.

*Halloween was fun as usual. The kids love to dress-up, and this year we had a new ward, new school, and new neighborhood. It was great. Preston was an army guy, Jaida and Alyssa were both witches, and Cade was a cowboy again. Our ward had a big dinner, then a trunk or treat. The kids were also able to go trick or treating around the neighborhood, and go to a haunted house that our neighbors put on every year. They thought it was pretty cool!!

November:

*This ended up being a big Usborne event month. I had a booth near the end of October. It was quite successful, and I ended up booking 3 preschool book fairs, and 4 home shows. I already had a few events scheduled as well, so this really kept me busy through the end of the year. It was great! I really love what I do!

*For Thanksgiving we were able to go to Eric's uncle Jim and Aunt Barb's house in Baggs, Wyoming. This was so much fun. We thought the weather might change our plans, but it turned out to be nothing. We loved seeing family and spending a few days together.

December:

*In December we enjoyed a few Christmas parties, and getting ready for the holidays. It was fun to decorate in our new house.

*Christmas was wonderful. The kids were able to get some fun things, and we just feel so blessed to be back in a home again. We had a few ups and downs in 2010, but overall it was a really good year.

January:

*Eric turned 41!!! :) (He will love that I posted that. Ha Ha)

*I attended Usborne regional training. It was great, and I love getting together with all my Usborne friends!!

February:

*Eric had 2 guard drills this month. The last one being a HUGE inspection. They passed with flying colors and he was thrilled to get it overwith!!

A couple other things are in the works and changing for us, but I will post later about that. We have also already started our family's birthdays for the year, but I will create posts for that soon too.

Watch for more updates, hopefully soon!