Mexico

About 2 weeks ago Jason and I were lucky enough to go with some of our friends and spend the weekend in MEXICO without the kids! We had such a blast. We spent the days on the beach or swimming at the pools. The swim up bar had the best tacos and pina coladas ever (ours were virgin of course). We bought some great stuff from the venders. Every night we went to this bar/restaurant called Changos and had a blast. They had this Mexican guy singing American songs who was actually pretty good. On the way to Mexico we were saying how Garth Brooks has the best Karoake songs. So when we get to the bar on the wall they had a sign that said "I have friends in low places" So of course us girls had to take a picture of it. Then the last song the band sang was "I've got friends in low places" and the whole place was singing it so loud. We had such a blast and we can't wait to do it next year. One of the funniest things that happenend was when we were all on the banana boat and my sister was so scared to ride it and the boys were jumping on it so it was bouncing so much. Lindsay was in the middle of telling Erin don't worry it won't flip when all of a sudden she goes flying off with Jason and Rusty's foot was caught and he was getting dragged along the side of it. The poor boys lost their new sun glasses but thankfully they had there cheap ones on. And Lindsay just hurt so bad she didn't even want to ride it again.

Where in the world is Erin?

It was so humid outside. As soon as we went to take a picture the lens would fog up.

Me and 2 of my very bestfriends!

Me and my hubby!

Happy Birthday to me!

Today was my 26th birthday. Crazy I can't believe I'm that old. It was a great day but I should say it's been and is still going to be a great week. Jason always teases me because he always says my birthday is a celebration that lasts a week and it's very true even though I don't mean it to be. Sunday we celebrated my birthday with all my family. Tuesday night my in-laws took us out to eat for my birthday and gave me a gift card to go shopping with. And today is my actual b-day and I woke up to a dozen red roses on my night stand thanks to my handsome husband. I told Jason the only present I wanted was to go shopping for my birthday which I got that but he also surprised me with new sun glasses that I love so much. Then my best friend Jaymie took me out for lunch at Crackers, then my parents and sister took me out to eat at Olive Garden for dinner since Jason had school till 10:30. That was a bummer but he is taking me out on a date Friday night. Then on Saturday I get to be spoiled. I'm so excited I get to have a facial, massage, my hair cut and colored and then a pedicure and a manicure. I'm so excited for this I can't even wait. So far turning 26 has been really good to me.

First day of dance class!

So we have now entered into the world of dance. Maddix has been asking me for the last couple of weeks if today is the day she goes to dance. Well this moring she knew she was going and she woke up and ran around the house yelling, "I get to go to dance today, hurray." She had her first class ever and she loved it. I was so proud of her. She went right into class and put her ballet shoes on and listend to her teahcer. She came home and showed everybody her new moves and she was so happy to tell us all about it.

She posed all by herself for this picture. Thats my super star!

Maddix

Maddix just looked to cute for her 3rd day of school I just had to share!

The end of swim lessons

Swimming lessons are over. I have to give a big thanks to Mrs. Carolyn, she is the best teacher. Thanks to her, my kids have no fear of water and are really great swimmers. Maddix can jump off the diving board and swim the whole length of the pool and even take her breaths. At night she does laps with me and my mom when we go swimming, it's pretty fun. She can also do her butterfly, corkscrew, and her back stroke. She is an awesome little swimmer. And Brady did so well. He is such my little dare devil. He loves kicking his legs and will just walk off the edge anywhere and swim to us. He loves, and I mean LOVES jumping off the diving board. He will just keep going back and back until we get tired and have to drag him away from it. It was such a great summer and we can't wait until next season.

Look how good he is at grabbing the wall by himself.

Maddix is doing her canonball!

Maddix's first day of Pre School

Look at my little girl I can't believe she started Pre School. She has been looking forward to school all summer long so when the day came she was just so excited. We pulled up to her school and she looked at Brady and told him "This is my school, you don't get to come." And then she made sure to tell me and my mom, "You guys are dropping me off all by myself and your not staying, just I'm staying." I took her inside and she went straight to hang her back pack up and get out her show and tell item. I told her that I loved her and she gave me a kiss and then I was out the door and she didn't even notice that I was leaving. Even though I'm sad that she doesn't need me in ways like she use to, I'm even more proud of her for being such a strong little girl who is not afraid of what she wants. I love her so much and she is doing so great at school and she loves it every time she goes.

She did not let me pick out her outfit, she had to pick out what she wore on the first day and just look at that huge smile on her face. Nothing makes me more happy than to see my kids smile.

Family Camp Out

So my family and I decided we are starting a family tradition to go camping every year together on Labor Day weekend. So my parents went up early and got us the most beautiful spot right next to this huge creek. It was so perfect we had tons of forest around us with this beautiful creek behind us and right in front of my parents they put in 120 pounds of fish. We were all excited it was going to be such a fun weekend. So most of our family came up Friday and and it was such a great day the weather was perfect Jason and the kids went fishing and we had so much fun. Saturday morning the day started out perfect Jason and the kids went fishing again with my brother Mike and they cought 4 fish in like 1 hour so they were happy. Well Jason and Mike decided to go paintballing with a bunch of friends and about an hour after they left the rain started. So the kids and I went running to the tent just to find that our tent was leaking so bad that everything inside was getting wet. My wonderful brother Damon and my Dad helped me get tarps put over my tent but there wasn't enough to cover the whole thing. So I spent 2 and a half hours wiping up puddles and keeping 2 kids entertained in the tent. Maddix was pretty funny and she was mostly keeping us entertained. Her and Brady were in his porta crib that we had in the tent and all of a sudden she was standing in the corner of it and yells out I am Nacho and then tackles Brady! I was cracking up laughing because the weekend before we were watching Nacho Libre in Payson. Well Jason finally got back to camp and the rain just came down even harder so being stuck in the tent for 7 and half hours with a 3 year old and a 14 month old we decided to pack up camp in the pooring rain and so did everybody else because the rain just wasn't going to stop. We headed on over to our Cabin in Vernon for a nice warm and cozy place to stay. We finished the weekend off by riding quads, shooting guns, playing with the kids outside and having a Thanksgiving feast that my wonderful Uncle Mike and Aunt Chris made and it was so good. We had a blast hanging out as a family but I think from now on we will move the camp out to Memorial weekend when it's not the rainy season.

The kids are making a chocolate mud pie. Yummy.

You think this kid needs a dog? Brady loves animals. He spent all weekend rolling and laying on the dogs and sweet Angus just let him do whatever he wanted.

We were really bored being stuck in our tent so the kids staring making funny faces making us laugh.

My Uncle Arden loves Jason and he gave him his hunting riffle awhile ago and we had to go pracitce shooting it. We took along some shot guns for fun too.

My brother Damon always cracks us up!

Payson

A couple weeks ago Jason and I took the kids up to Payson to spend the weekend up there. It was so nice to get away and just play with the kids. One day we took Jason's grandparents out to lunch. They are so sweet and we love seeing them. We played at the parks and just had such a great time enjoying each others campany. I love my family so much!

I love this picture because this is so Brady. He is always teasing us and he is always on the go. Those poor ducks never got a chance to rest he was chasing them every where.