Man its been awhile

It is so hard to get caught up once you take a break from blogging. I am going to try and get caught up just a little bit. We had such a fun summer it seemed liked we were always going some where doing something that summer just flew by. So here is a taste of some of the fun we have had this summer.

Lounging out by the pool with cousins

Drive in movies with the cousins
30th Birthday party for Uncle Isaac

Just having to much fun at the pool he cant stay awake anymore (:

I just love this kid!!!

Working on our tan

And having cousin sleepovers

Father & Sons

So here are my boys with their best buddies the Twilley boys getting ready to go to father & sons
These boys had so much fun. I am not going to lie I had fun while they were away!!! (:

So what do you do when all the men are away? You have a major party that's what you do!! We started off by having dinner at the new fast food Tia Rosa's. Then we all went back to my house and we had a bow making party. It was so much fun and I was able to have so many bows!! (I could not make a bow to save my life) Luckily my awesome friend Monica whipped me up some super cute ones!!

Michelle making super cute flowers!!



Pretty much all the moms had little girls that they brought here are a few of them making cute little crafts


So everyone brought some stuff and this is allot of what everyone brought it was bow making, flower making madness!! Super fun!!

Some of the girls that were there.

So this literally ended being an all night party! Even the little girls stayed up all night, they were in Emma's room making necklaces and bracelets listening to Justin Beiber as loud as they could.I think the total of little girls including babies was around 10 but I might be off. I didn't end up going to bed until after 4am. That's right!! 4AM is when everyone ended up going home!! But I had such a fun night!! I love all the girls that came. They just made it so much fun!! Thank you to all my friends that ended up coming. The super tired next day was SO worth it (;

Papago park

So back when it wasn't a million degrees outside we went on a little adventure. I have always wanted to climb these rocks, every time we visit the zoo I would say I really want to go check those out. Well we finally went and "checked" them out. Kael and Emma thought they were awesome. Aiden and Mylee had a harder time because they didn't like all the hiking.
Trying to tale a pic with the kids. That is my too cool for you Aiden behind the hat. he just makes us laugh with everything he does.



He appears and so does Mylee

The fun little "cave" the kids liked it in there, well Mylee of course didn't like because she is kind of a stinker!

Mylee always terrified, luckily daddy is there to make it all better (:

Birthdays!! So behind!

My little ones had a birthday!! So Mylee's bday is March 29th and Aiden's bday is April 3rd. So for a week they are always the same age. It was fun to say that I have two 2 year olds. Its not really fun I dont recommend having them 11 months apart. (: So they will forever share there bday party. We had a Carnival party theme and Josh did the invitations for me. Its so nice I just tell him what I want and he just whips it up!

I found on craigslist this super cheap bounce house and we had that put up in our backyard. Aiden thought that the bounce house was his present. He just didn't understand that it was only for the weekend. It was such a busy weekend that I didn't get any pics of the bounce house I really only took like 4 pics total!! The kids had so much fun. I had so much fun! My mom made the cute giant cup cakes for the kids Aiden LOVED his cake! He did not want to share any of his cake with anyone!!

The crazies! All the presents


Mylee getting ready to open her presents. She LOVED all her presents!!
Aiden with his presents. They had such a great day!!

Mylee's outfit was so cute! She wouldn't ever let me get a picture of it. I loved it and I love that skirt! She didn't like all the attention on her (:

Singing to Aiden we sang it twice. He loved all the attention that day

Thankyou to all the family and friends that came and helped out it was a successful party because of all you!! Thankyou!!

Ragnar

Michelle and I at the end of Ragnar. I love this girl!! I have said it before and I will say it again. I am so glad that I met her I am so glad that her cute family is in my life. They make me so happy. I finally feel like Arizona is my home. I have a place here and part of it is because of her and her wonderful family. I love you guys!!!

Ragnar was such a neat experience. My pictures are backwards of course from the end to the begining. My wonderful partner in all this was Michelle. We were the only girls in our van, but most of the men werent all that bad. (:



This was our team "Expect Delays"




Running into the finish line


Running for me just opens up my mind. It can put everything into focus and make me think about more than just me and what I am doing. I remember when they would bring me water I would ask them if I was almost done. They kept lying to me and saying yes almost. Wow it was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life. I am ready for more. I cant wait till next year!! (Hopefully my butt wont be that huge next year) (:


7 miles on a downhill incline on a dirt road. Very very hard.


Me getting ready to run 7 miles. I did 6 miles like 2 weeks before so I thought piece of cake no biggie.


Let me just say that Devin is AMAZING he was so fast and so focused that I was just in awe of him. On the next day he ended up finishing legs for some of the other runners because they needed help and he was right there ready to go. We went out to Dennys later after our run and people would come up to him and say "hey do you remember passing me by?" He was so fast. Devin was a superstar!!

This is Jeff he did amazing!!!




Michelle was the first to start off our van, so excited and ready to get going

Running

Well it all started by Michelle and I going to the gym together. It was tons of fun. Then we started talking about triathlons and 10ks and such and how it would be fun to do one. Well one Sunday night Michelle texted me about doing a 10k in 2 weeks. It was called 2 sisters one heart. So I said heck yeah lets do it that would be fun. And we began "training" for this 10k. Well 2 weeks went by real fast and our day was finally here, I was excited, nervous, anxious, and just ready to see if I could really even do it. WE DID IT and our time was pretty good for us!! We beat our practice run a week earlier. It was definitely an awesome feeling to reach the finish line and to have actually accomplished something that I thought was hard. I am so grateful for Michelle asking me to do this with her. Because of this run and other runs that I will talk about later, I have made a really awesome friend. I have not had this much fun in a long time. I know Heavenly Father places people in our lives for certain reasons and I think he placed Michelle (and Jared) in our lives to make Josh and I happier and to want to be better people. I am so glad they moved into our ward. They are such great people!!

This pic was taken after our 10k we were beat! But so happy!! I am so proud of us!

Random semi update

So my life has just been out of control crazy. I have really enjoyed it but it has definitely made me take a brake from blogging. this year we have had tons of fun so far. I have been a little lazy with my camera as well. Here is a little recap of some of the fun we have been having I will have more to put up whenever I get the chance (:

Kids club at the mall outside while its nice, all my Little's dancing away


I love him

The first graders got to go on a fun field trip to the zoo this is the only pic I took ):

For science all the first graders had to built a robot so this is what daddy and kael built. Its pretty awesome

Kael started piano with Sister Green our Primary chorister Kael LOVES it so far, and Emma is dying to join in on the fun

My kids were at their cousins house one night and when we picked them up this is what they looked like asleep everywhere Emma has her shirt partially on her head still (:

And Emma and Kael both had to go to the dentist and get some teeth worked on