It is officially FALL!

So it is officially fall. I am not sure if I am happy or sad about it. Craig is definitely sad. He hates the cold and if he could have it his way we would have moved somewhere warm 2 years ago. However, I thought I would list some reasons I look forward to fall.

1. DENVER BRONCOS football
2. Halloween (one of my very favorite holidays)
3. Kids are willing to come inside and spend time with me.
4. Dinners are usually planned and on the table. (no more excuses not to cook)
5. Cuddling in bed
6. General Conference
7. My house is a little bit cleaner cause kids are back in school.

Hopefully these thoughts will help me make it through the winter.

First Day of School

My two beautiful daughters started school already. Olivia is in 2nd grade and really loves her teacher. "She is the spice in her class," says her teacher.

Harley is a big 6th grader now. I think she is excited to finally feel like she is the boss and can act like the older sister. School comes easy for her and she loves her teacher too. In her class, if you finish your math problem the quickest you get to raise your hand to tell the whole class. Her friend keeps asking Harley, "can you please stop doing it so quickly nobody is getting a chance to answer." I thought that was cute and am very proud of both of my new students. Madi's first day is coming soon.

Cute cute neighbor kids

I just couldn't resist putting these cute kids up on my blog. This is only a few of them but they were so cute I couldn't resist. Brittany was kind enough to have some major slip n slides come to her house and invited the entire neighborhood kids. They had so much fun that day. I love all of these wonderful kids in our neighborhood and we are thankful to live among all of them.

Summer Fun

Our summer feels like it has just began with the weather being so crappy. We haven't planned any great vacations but we have been doing some fun things around town. "Cousin day" is every Tuesday where my mom and the cousins get to go do something fun. My kids love it. On the 4th we went to Sandy days and the kids got to make lots of fun things. We didn't have any great fireworks, trying to not get the fire department called this year. However, watch for the 24th. It is going to be spectacular. We also got out the slip-n-slide and had a lot of fun on that. Craig was brave enough to try it too.

Sand Dunes, camping and more sand dunes. Olivia and her two buddies (Brady and Aubrey).

She had so much fun with them.

Serendipity Cafe in Las Vegas. I was so happy to see this restaurant there so on Mother's Day we went there for dinner. Love the frozen hot chocolate. Yummy!!

Olivia's 7th birthday. She went to Red Lobster (mom's favorite, not) for dinner and than had family over for cake and ice cream. She was so thankful for everything.

We love spending time together in our trailer and riding our four-wheelers together.

Loving my kids!

Harley had her dance competition a couple of weeks ago and did so well. We love to watch her dance and it always brings tears to her mom's eyes. Her dance team took first place for their Hip Hop routine and then took overall high points for it as well. We were so happy!

Madi loves her tumbling class at HIP and hopefully soon I can get some pictures of her too. She is also involved in the temple celebration and will be dancing in that in May. We are so excited for this opportunity.

Olivia is also loving her dance class. She loves her dance teacher and going with her good friend, Avery. I am so proud of her and the wonderful girls she has become. She is always so thoughtful and always writing her mom love notes to leave on her bed.

Happy 12th Anniversary!

Craig and I were able to go to Las Vegas for our anniversary this year. We have been married for 12 years now (I can't believe it has been that long, time goes by so fast). We had so much fun eating and sight seeing. We were able to go see Mystere which is my very favorite Cirque performance down there. We walked the strip at least twice a day and then we had a great idea to run one early morning. Man were my legs paying for it the next day. I am so thankful for my husband and am so happy to be his wife!