Spring Break 2015

Day 1: At Knott's Berry Farm with our friends the Neilson's!

Bottom two pics on this collage are of Clark on this up and down ride. On the right you can see he's happy about going up. On the left you can see his face change to terror as it drops. Poor guy! The girl next to him felt the same way. They stopped the ride for the two of them. Maybe next year he'll like it.

I hung with Clark on the little kid rides since I couldn't go on any of the big kid rides this year.

The kids were much more daring this year. The older 5 all went on Ghost Rider. Max and Hanna went on Silver Bullet and Hanna and DAISY went on Montezuma Revenge!



We always have so much fun with our friends the Neilson's!

It was a great day with this wonderful family of mine!

Happy 10th Birthday Hanna

I love the tradition my mom did with me as a child, bringing me to lunch on my birthday. 

Now I do the same thing with my kids.

Hanna chose to go to Chili's.

We had a small party, with a few friends staying late and a couple slept over.

"Happy Birthday to you..."

Make a wish! Mom made her favorite, ice cream cake!

Gifts! This one is blurry, but it was a surprise from mom...tickets to Lego-land!

Her friends that stayed the night.

(2 BFF's from Pahrump Briley and Savanna, Rylee and Cousin Ruby, who had to leave early).

I'd say she had a Happy Birthday!

Happy 3rd Birthday Clark!

Hanna made Clark a #3 pancake for breakfast.

I can't believe my baby is 3 years old! Seriously, where does the time go?!

He asked for balloons and brownies and his wish was granted.

Cards with money from Grandma Susan and Grandpa Ernie & Grandma Debi.

He also got a little t-ball set from his brothers and sisters.

Happy Birthday Clark! We are so grateful to have you in our lives! We love you!

Mother Daughter Activity

Had such a fun night with Hanna at her mother-daughter activity for Activity Days! The theme was "Spa Night" she painted my nails and then I painted hers.
She had filled out a question/answer form about me and one of the questions was, "What is your mom's favorite animal?" Her answer was, "Fish." I laughed out loud! I don't know if I have a favorite animal, but the reason why she said fish was because this is the only animal I have allowed the kids to have. (And they died within a week). Too FUNNY!

(I forgot to take a picture of us at her activity, but here's an old picture of us together).

Four Kids in Basketball

Max is developing his basketball skills more this year, it's been fun watching him play ball! Here is a video my friend got of him rebounding the ball and shooting up 2 baskets within a minute apart. 
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 Max with most of his team he's the tall one in the back next to his coach.

(Yes, Max is the same age as 2 of these boys).

Hanna is playing basketball for her school and a league as well. She played in 4 games on Saturday. She scored in our last game and is also developing her skills a lot this year. I've had fun coaching her school basketball team! 

Van scored his first basket last week!

Walt was able to score his second basket Friday night when Uncle Jeff was at his game. After he got a chance to score, anytime he got the ball he would pass it to Van. He really wanted Van to be able to score while Uncle Jeff was watching. I love when my kids are thoughtful of each other.

Way To Go Andrew

My nephew Andrew won The Bonanza High Bengal Pageant! He was hilarious!

Bath Time

Oops I filled his bath up a little too high! He's enjoying his "pool".

Bike Ride

Love the path behind my house for bike rides and walks! Went on a walk/bike ride with these 4 cuties the other day. The weather has been so nice!

Sedona

We had to pick up our van in Flagstaff, so we decided to stay

 in Sedona for a night since we heard it was beautiful.

There were a lot of cool places to hike, but all these kids wanted to do was swim!

We at least hiked Bell Rock and drove up to the Chapel of the Holy Cross 

and drove around the town, but then we let the kids swim!

It reminded me a lot like the Valley of Fire, which we love! What was way cool about it, was it was like the whole town was built inside the Valley of Fire. Beautiful!

Our New Van

This is our third passenger van in the past 6 years. This one is luxury compared to the others!
Our first one looked nice, but had no rear A/C which is a must in Las Vegas. I would have to spray the kids with a squirt bottle to cool them off. The last van we had at least had A/C so that was the up-grade, but the outside looked bad for the first year or two because it had stickers that slowly got scrubbed off. The inside seats got worse and worse over the past year or two. So this van is the first one we bought that was in great looking condition inside and out! Plus it drives quiet!

Now lets hope the captain seats cures all the fighting!

Got my license plate and family stickers put on!

Valentines Day 2015

I woke up early and made the kids there own "love" notes and candy bags. For breakfast I made them heart shaped pancakes.

We went out with our good friends the Leavits for our traditional Valentines Date Night. This was our 10th year going out for Valentine's Day together. This year we went to Gordon Ramsey BurGR inside the Planet Hollywood. It was good, but a little pricy.

Date With This Sassy Goose

We went to Stacks & Yolks for breakfast and Daisy was able to eat Gluten Free pancakes! 

She is such a Sassy Goose! Love my Daisy girl!

All About Daisy and Walt

My Buddy

Clark got his first black eye. While jumping on the trampoline he fell and hit his eye on the side bar.

Visiting Grandma and Cole. Sleeping in the van.

At the park. On a bike ride/walk with mom.

I love this buddy of mine!