No more toddlers

We have now hit a new stage in our lives as parents. All the toddler toys are gone out of our back yard :( I was on craigslist the other day (one of my favorite sites) and saw a post that someone was looking for a play house. They have two boys ages 2 1/2 and 1 and wanted a play house for them. We had a play house that we bought 2nd hand 3 years ago. Our kids have long ago lost interest. I thought what a great way to pass it on and make a little cash :) always good. I sent a message and got a very happy response. In the conversation I was asked if we had more toys they would buy those as well. When they came to pick up the play house they picked up almost all of our other toys. We are very happy to see them go to a family that will enjoy them. However as I watched them drive off it hit me, I don't have any more toddlers. It is a new stage for us. It is a bit weird. Little Man And Princess G both now ride two wheelers and we even let little man go out and ride his bike with the other boys who live on our street. Little Man turns 7 this weekend. I think all of this is hitting all at once so I am a bit sad. I am sure I will get through this. Well I hope you all are enjoying your kids what ever age or stage they may be in :)

Public once again.

I have taken off the private mode. I have made some changes to the blog that we feel will keep our blog and our family safe. So once again we will be public. Happy reading to our friends.

This picture has nothing to do with anything, but it is cute.

June was a bit crazy...

Anya's Baby ShowerLas Vegas is HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!

Best Friends

June was a really fun and crazy month. I went to Las Vegas twice, then to Utah and on to Idaho. I was able to lots of great friends & family. I had a blast. The kids really enjoyed making new friends, seeing old friends, and playing with their cousins. Well let me recap ...

I went to Las Vegas for Anya's baby shower. What a great time. I am so excited for my very best friend and the baby girl that will soon join her family. Randy and Anya are really excited and have waited a very long time for this sweet little angel to come to their home. Celebating with her friends and family in Las Vegas was really wonderful. While I was in Las Vegas all of my family was showing up for our family reunion. It happened to be the next weekend, the same weekend as Alan's family reunion. So I was going to miss my family reunion to go to Alan's. Well as luck would have it all my family arrived early. I flew home on Sunday and decided to pack up the kids and the dog and drive back to Las Vegas on Monday. Hence my crazy month.

Las Vegas was so much fun. In addition to seeing my family, I was able to visit lots of great friends. I was able to see Lisa and enjoy a very Hot Vegas day in her pool. Thanks Lisa. Then I was able to visit with Audrey and see her very cute family. We had a very nice visit. I was even able to finalize plans for my 10 year high school reunion. It is always fun when you are able to get more then you plan on done. After a nice and Hot few days in Las Vegas, I once again packed up the kidos and the dog and drove to Salt Lake City. I made a short stop in St. George to visit another friend. (it is very nice to have friends all over)

Salt Lake City was my favorite place. It is where Alan joined us. (yeah I forgot to mention that Alan was not with us in Las Vegas) We where all very happy to be together again. Me more then anyone. Being a single parent is very hard. Alan's family reunion was very nice. He has a very large family. I met some of his first cousins for the first time, and we have been married for almost 8 years. I think I have met them all now. I will let you know. After two days in Salt Lake, we once again loaded the kids and the dog and now Alan and drove with his family to Bosie, Id. Actually Alan and his dad drove in our car with the kids and the dog. I drove Laura (Alan's little sis) in her husband's car. She can't drive a manuel, and I needed a road trip with out fighting kids. I was more then happy to drive for Laura.

Now we where in Boise, we spent the week visiting with Alan's brothers and sisters and our niece and nepews. We enjoyed play settlers of Catan, shooting off fire works, and just relaxing. All said and done we had a really nice trip. We where even able to get some nice family pics and some nice pictures of the kids. The time then came to drive home, yeah back in the car. It takes two days to drive back home. We left Boise and drove to West Vally and had dinner with an old roommate of mine. It was so nice to see Merri and her husband Ellis and their adorable baby boy. After enjoying time with Merri we drove to Provo to visit with one of Alan's old roommates, Damen and his wife Sybrina and their 3 kids. It is great our 3 kids and their 3 kids pretty well match in age. So once we got there we didn't see any kids until it was time to go. We left after a short visit and drove to Price, UT for the night. On Sunday we made it the rest of the way home. Finally!!! My bed, my house, my air conditioner... life is good.

This week we have been trying to catch up on sleep and life. It was a lot of fun and I am glad we went, however I am very happy to be home. Well to those of you still awake and reading this, Thanks for your interest. To those of you reading this and we missed seeing you on our trip (Amy) sorry.

Fun Pics

The first picture are Alan and I at the Tim McGraw concert. Anya my best friend, bought 2 mega tix good for 4 country concerts this summer. She gave me mine for my birthday, which is today. We went to Brad Paisley last week, and Tim McGraw last night. We have two more concerts later this summer. It has been so much fun. Last night we bought an extra ticket and Alan tagged along. What a great show. It is actually the third Tim McGraw concert I have been to. I could go to a hundred more. Ireally like Tim McGraw. He looks good, he can sing, and he is a devoted husband and father. He reminds me of the most important man in my life. Our summer is off to a great start.

The picture of Little Man I just thought was funny. He was watching cartoons and was just playing around.

As I said the other day I have really enjoyed reading all my friends blogs. As I was reading through my friend Natalis blog and found a link to a website with cute hair do's. I decided to try one on Princess G. It turned out so cute. Thanks Nat.

No pictures of Sunshine this time. :)

Going Private...

Alan asked that I please make our blog private. He is very concerned about our families safety. So we are now a private blog. I am a little sad, because I really enjoy reading other peoples blogs and finding other friends and reading those too. Now people can't do that through our blog. However it is more important to be safe and to respect Alan's wishes. I hope all of our friends and family will continue to check in regularly.

I may keep our blog private long enough to go in and take out the kids names like a friend of mine does on her blog. Then go public again. I will decided soon. If anyone has any ideas let me know.

Thanks so much

I Love to Blog!

I have to take a minute to say that I love to blog. I have been going back and reading our blog and it is really fun. It is neat to go back and see what has been going on in our life. I use to be really good at keeping a journal in high school. However I have not made the time for it in my adult life. To me this has been a great journal. I am really happy that I decided to keep a blog for our family.

I have found that I also love to read other families blogs. What a great way to see how normal my life is. I love to see the pictures and read the stories. It is the simple things in life to find pleasure in. I guess you can say blogging is my guilty pleasure. Now I ask to all my favorite blog authors, please keep blogging.

Pulling Little Man's tooth

We decided to get a little creative when Little Man's tooth was ready to come out this week. This is what we came up with. This was actually the third attempt. He didn't cry at all the first two times. We thought it was pretty funny. We have submitted it to America's Funniest Home Videos at Little Man's request. Enjoy!