Picture overload....Music night and dance recital

Ok so I am going to play catch up with pictures and what this past week has entailed.  Last weekend David and I were able to enjoy a night to ourselves.  We went out to eat and then came home to watch movies.  Both of us were exhausted so we only made it through one and a half.  Saturday I spent the day with my kids.  We caught the tail end of the BYU fair at the pair.  We got signatures from two the gymnasts on the ladies gymnastics team and Aspen got a picture with the cougar and cheerleaders.  Then we spent the afternoon swimming at SHAQ.  The kids loved that.  And that evening David took us down to Mesquite for dinner for Mother's Day.  The kids fell asleep on the way down and then way back and they still went in the house and went straight to bed.  Guess they were tired.  On the way home we were watching an incredible lightning storm.  The wind was blowing like crazy.  That night our trash cans blew into the yard and soccer posts got moved from where they normally are.  Crazy wind storm but I would take that any day over the 12 inches of snow that Cedar City got that night.  They got the wind as well and blew down trees and branches.  Crazy!

Mother's Day was such a special one this year.  Aspen and Colt brought me back a decorated pot and some seeds for flowers from their dad's.  They also gave me a cute poem.  Then David surprised me with some green treats and green things to do in the summer with the kids.  A green cooler for picnics (or to hold water balloons), a container that will help fill water balloons and a green squirt gun.  I have a feeling we are going to have a few water fights.  After church we headed over to my parents where the boys made us steaks and we played games.  It was one of the best Mother's Day ever.  My kids mean the world to me.

Aspen had a Art and Music night at school this past week.  The first graders did dances from the 70's all the way to the present.  I don't know the name of the 70s dance that they did but then they did the twist, thriller, macarena, and ended with gangam style.  She was so cute through all of it.  The music teacher did a really good job with them.  Then Aspen had a dance recital the next night.  She was so excited for it.  Baylee did her hair.  She was excited to wear make up.  She was just ready for the show.  Luckily we didn't feel a threat of walking out of the show to 6 inches of snow.  Aspen did such a good job.  She knew her dances and looked so cute with her facial expressions.  Darcee was having a competition with another parent as to who could yell the loudest for their dancer.  Aspen loved hearing her name shouted out to her.  Celise also had a performance the same night so we had to divide and conquer with attendance.  David and his kids went to Celise's performance while my family and I attended Aspen's.  I was sad that they were on the same night so we had to miss someones performance but that happens at the end of the year.

4 more days of school and then let summer begin.  We already have things planned as far as activities go for the summer but no major trips as of yet.  Pictures will be random but finally on the blog.

 

The end is near...

...that is for the school year.  The weather has been extremely warm and that means that summer is close.  The kids are ready to be done with school this and Aspen and Colt are excited to start school next year at their new school.  At the beginning of April, we moved into a house in Santa Clara.  The kids have loved it so far.  Austin has a couple of friends in the neighborhood and there are plenty of little kids that Aspen and Colt can play with.  Baylee, Alyssa and Alanah will play with them outside but they are mainly enjoying having a room of their own.  The house is a little bigger so it works out for our nice big family.

Let's see as we wind down the school year all of the kids are keeping us busy with their activities.  Celise and Austin just had honors night last night for Tuacahn.  Celise got awards in Spanish and for being on student council.  Austin got a sportsmanship award in PE.  We are so proud of them and their hard work in school.  They are also excited to be attending Snow Canyon High and see what new things it has to offer them.  Aspen will be having a dance recital next week.  I think that she has enjoyed being involved with that and we will see if she wants to do it again next year.  Colten is still holding strong with his karate.  He seems to enjoy it unless he being told to get off the wii to go to it, then he hates karate.  But for the most part he likes showing off what he is learning.

David and I are ready to be done with the move and unpacked.  We are slowly working on the unpacking part and David was awesome with the packing part.  We are still getting used to being married and have our ups and downs but all in all we are loving it.  I found out in April that I will no longer have a job next year.  So I will be applying to graduate school and get my accounting degree and start a new chapter in my career life.  I have an awesome husband to help support me and make sure the family gets taken care of.

I hope to be better at the writing and posting pictures on the blog but can't promise anything :-s

Wow has time flown by

Well the good news for not blogging on a regular basis is that I am busy with my new family and especially spending time with my husband.  A lot has gone on in the past month and I hope that I will be able to at least give synopsis for it all.

David and I found a place to rent in Santa Clara.  We were unsure of when we would get evicted from his house.  So to avoid having to move out in a week, we got a new place and are slowly moving our stuff over to the new house.  The kids love our new house.  They each have their own room, except the twins who wanted to share anyway.  I will say that I love the new house.  It is big enough that the kids can have their space and so can David and I.

Let's see.  Colten finished off his soccer season strong.  He had at least one goal in each of his 6 games and he had about 4 saves.  His team has really grown over the two seasons and the moms are going to try and keep the team together.  Colt loves playing soccer and can't wait until next season.  He is still an electronic junkie.  He asks every morning if he can play the wii when he gets home from daycare.  Or he asks if he can go over to Jay's house.  We celebrated Colt's birthday this past weekend because we won't have David's kids on his actual birthday.  David and I got him a t-ball set up and Austin gave him his old bat.  We set it up on Monday night and Colt had a blast hitting the ball to Austin.  So between practicing his soccer and t-ball, we should be able to keep him off the wii for an hour :-)  Colt is still doing karate.  He is always pulling his karate moves on Austin and Baylee.  They are still able to take him down despite his moves but they had better watch out because he is going to be bigger than them one day.  Overall Colt seems to be loving life and can't wait to start school in the fall.

Aspen has been a joy and definitely keeping me on my toes.  I have a problem this year with her and buying school lunches/breakfasts.  I send her to school with a lunch and find out a week later that she has bought school lunch.  I had made a deal with her to get school lunch on Friday as long as she doesn't buy anything during the week.  And she did good for about a week, but then she started buying breakfasts.  I didn't find out about for like 3 weeks because I kept giving her money on Friday.  So I finally found out that she had a negative balance, I was not happy.  Then just last week, Baylee came and told me that Aspen stole a stuffed animal from the party store.  Agh what happened to my precious girl?  Aspen is still as cute as ever but we are now constantly working on telling the truth.  So when Aspen is not in trouble, she is busy with dance and gymnastics and wanting to go over to everyone else's house.  She made a friend with a neighbor girl her age, so she is constantly wanting to play with her.  Aspen is also excelling in her reading, she is reading well above grade level.

Over this past weekend, we had our Easter stuff.  I took the kids to the radio station's easter egg "hunt" on Friday.  Then on Saturday we went to the candy scoop up in Santa Clara.  Later that day we headed out to our usual spot to ride four wheelers, have dinner and do our own Easter hunt.  The older kids really had a good time on the four wheelers.  Austin would drive his sisters around and they would come back just screaming.  Alyssa and Alanah were in Tuacahn High School's production of South Pacific this past week as well.  We were able to go see them a couple of times.  On Monday, my dad took the kids out on the four wheelers again.  Then in the evening we had a birthday party for Colt and a celebration for Baylee.  My birthday was last week and it was one of the best I have had in the past couple of years.David cooked us breakfast.  I took the day off from work and just tried to relax.  I watched Tangled with my kids to their dismay.