Tea Party

May 17th is my mother’s birthday! This year we started a tradition that I’m very excited about, we are going to have a tea party. My sisters did a lot of work, they had beautiful decorations that the kids help make. The food looked absolutely perfect and tasted great. Best of all was the company! I thought it was so fun to watch the cousins dish their plated up with cookies and fruit with little sandwiches. PLUS each grandchild had their own tea pot that they used to refill their cup with fruit punch! Grandma Sharon likes to have a tea party. It started when she would drink out of a little tea cup her Grandma Amy. My mom still has the little tea cup from her Grandma. As my moms grandkids have gotten older she gives them their own tea set. The kids love to have tea parties with grandma and love to play pretend! Mom I love you and happy birthday!!

GRASS

We have grass, and could not be happier! We had family and friends over on Saturday morning to help put down our grass and it only took them an hour or so. We have been looking at our grass and just loving it. I think next week we are going to run through the sprinklers and next month we are going to sleep out side, why? Because we can now that we have GRASS!

This is our yard “BEFORE” pictures. Thank you so much to Grandpa PAT! He has done so much for us and helped us know what to do too. HAAAA I’m so excited to have a yard!! O and this is our Mothers/Fathers Day gift to each other!!!

For Mothers Day, (Well the day before), I had Grandma Healey and Grandma White over for a breakfast with my family. I also let the 2 grandpa come. It was a fun breakfast and when it was over I didn’t have any pictures, SO these are pictures of Grandpa and Grandma White that I took on the real day of Mothers day. Also on real mothers Day we went up to Grandma Sharon’s and had a Dinner!

Miss Longenecker

Cameron and I meet Miss Longenecker (Hailey) and her parents at an RSL game on the 6th, and due to the situation of Mrs. Longenecker (she is having a baby maybe on the 22), I asked if Hailey could come stay at our house until and weekend. YES, YES SHE COULD!! I was excited and I was sure Rio would be too! When we went to Grandpa and Grandma White’s to pick up Rio and Krey after the RSL game. Rio was so hyper; she was like a crazy woman. I was happy that the girls were going to get to hang out together for a couple of days. They played together really well and Hailey was very nice when Rio colored on her picture. Also Hailey would fold her arms and say, “I’m going to be a good girl and listen to my mommy and Dad”. It was so nice to have a big girl that would listen to me, and because Hailey was doing what I asked then Rio wanted to too. We all had a fun weekend!

These are my first loafs of bread! I was so excited to try this new recipe I heard about out. I was thinking that it would take a while before it would look like "BEAUTIFUL" bread, But I did it on the first try!! Mind you the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. YET, it tasted ….ok. I think that as I keep working on it I will be able to figure out how to make it to fit my liking.

Party time

Rio was invited to a DOUBLE birthday party. It was for her friends Mackay and his sister Bella! The party was pirate themed (from Mackay), but with a princess cake (for Bella). Rio had a lot of fun.

Krey

My son can crawl, BACKWORDS! We love to watch him get around, it is so funny. The other day while I was getting ready, Krey got stuck under this chair. Rio was going crazzzzy. She kept saying: MOM MOM HE STUCK, HE STUCK. Krey was only fussing a little, I think it was because he could not lift up his head.

Dinner

Dinner can be done while watching a soccer game! This is an example. Cameron feeds the kids while we watch. EVERYONE IS HAPPY

Baby Food

This is what it looks like when you make your own baby food. I did save over $30.00 but, got carrots in my hair. FOR THE RECORD: I was using a spoon to help mix the food, and it got stuck and that is when the carrots came up and out!

HALF MARATHON

This is my friend Julie, after we ran 13.1 miles! This is Cameron, dropping me off before the race! Yay, i did it and it is over

Dinosaur Museum

Rio, Krey, and I had a wonderful time at the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum. We went with our friends Amy, Tyler and Emily. We saw dinosaur bones, and don’t worry they didn’t get us. It was fun to go with Tyler, because he is older and knew how to do the hands on activates, and that helped Rio. Krey and Emily had a little fun before they both fell asleep, good thing they got in for free.

Day 6 *Got up and flew home to see our BABIES *Krey got a little dog, that I named Mac *Rio got a bird house that her and her dad painted!!

Day5 *Took the light rail to Hoboken Port and then continued onto *Liberty Island via a shuttle. *Went to Liberty Island and saw the stature of liberty *Saw Ellis Island and Governors Island *Went to Coney Island and eat a Nathan's famous hot dog *Rode the Cyclone roller coaster 2 times! *Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and eat dinner at Grimaldi’s a famous pizza place right under the bridge *Looked for a movie store but it was turned into a clothes shop *Ate at Black Dog Bakery

Day4 Sunday *Went to a thrift store, we wanted to see *Went to last half Easter parade *Got a leather book, and then we bought a cut out paper picture from a Chinaman *Went to FAO Schwarz and got the kids gifts *Walked around 5th avenue, touched a 2,200.00 purse *Tried to find a ribbon store but it is now a Quicksilver store *Went to Balthazar to get hot chocolate because it was so cold and windy *Went home at 4 to have Easter dinner with family and new friends

Yes Im very sure that my babies were WELL taken care of, thank you everyone! We are talking about Grandma Sharlon, and that she might come over today. O but Gretta will be over in one hour. And tonight we prayed for Talyor and Kaitlyn.

Day3 Saturday *Went to The Natural History Museum *Max Brenner *Went to Broadway and saw La Famiglis Dinitri

Day 2 Friday *Went to strand book store 18 miles of books *Ate lunch with Patrick at funny sandwich shop *Central Park and Central park Zoo *The metropolitan Museum of Art *Ate Tres Leches cake at Malcon *Went to Broadway and sat on the red stairs and then got ice cream

Day 1 Thursday *Fly to Minneapolis Minnesota *Took a cab to their (Lindsey and Patrick, Cameron’s cousin) new apartment *China town got 2 skirts *Little Italy for desert at CFQP Ristorante Italiano

Eating breakfast the morning of our trips. The kids to Grandmas, and the parents to NYC.

I’m going to post about myself. Yes, I feel wired but blogs are supposed to be memories for my little family right? So hear I go, a little post about me! So in November my girlfriend down the street says she likes to run marathons. I’m amazed and ask her about it. I say I think it would be cool to do something like that one day, because the only place I have ran was to the bathroom. Well she says she would like to help me do it, so I say sure, that sounds like I could try. Well she starts coming to my house at 8:00 am 4 times a week and drops her kids off while she runs. Then she comes and tends all of our kids while I then go run. I’m sure I never would have kept up with running if she didn’t keep coming. It was great AFTER the runs were over. I would get so excited about running after it did it. As the weeks went on I was able to run 3 miles with out stopping! Then January came and I still was running with my good friend down the street but she is having a little baby so she was going to stop running soon. Haaaaa, I was worried what I would do with out her support. Well I recommitted myself and signed up for the Salt Lake Half! So bala bla bla with more days of running and LONG runs on Saturday, with two other good friends on my street. Running sure can make good friends! Here is I’m running 10 miles in the snow! It took one hour and 47 min to run 10 miles. That is 10.30 min a mile. The fastest I have ever ran a mile is 8.15. Soon I hope to get faster! O and I needed the glasses not because of the SUN, but because of the horizontal SNOW!

Rio working on the important things in LIFE.... Oreos and finger-paints