St George for Spring break

This year for Spring break we decided to head to St. George.  We had SO much fun!  The added bonus was having Justin, Amber and Tucker come with us.  We ate, shopped, swam, even threw boiled, decorated eggs down our new "Egg hill"  I have the best family ever!

 

Easter

For Easter this year the girls each got a new dress.  They were so excited!  They all looked beautiful.  Before the gifts were given to them we sat and had a little chat about the true meaning of Easter and watched a clip off of LDS.org about Christ's sacrifice for us.  It was so great to have such a deep conversation with the girls.

We were so lucky to be able to have Aunt Heazy with us for the day, she even came with us to church!

Yea, these are my girls! :)

Of course we went to Grandma Marsh's house for the annual Easter egg hunt.  I honestly have no idea how many hundreds of eggs there were.

I think Jaylee was eating her candy as fast as Dave was getting it out of the eggs.  Jaylee LOVES finding eggs.

Carlee had a blast too and was great at getting the eggs that were harder to find.

One of the cousins spilled all his eggs - Chlo ran right over and started to pick up his eggs for him - this brought some other cousins over to help.  Thanks for being such a great example Chlo!  

It was such a great day!

Redecorating!

The last few weeks I've been having fun moving around a lot of things in the house.  With the help of my parent's (who were kind enough to take one of the nasty green couches to the dump!!), my dear friend, Sarah, who helped with the re-arranging of things my amazing friend Crystal who gave some great ideas on sprucing things up and my BFF, Mindy, who helped me sand and re-paint all of my bar stools the house looks great!  It's amazing how much of a change you can get just by moving around the things you already have.  I'm so thankful for the decorative eyes of such great friends!!  It's so fun!!

Sorry, I still can't figure out how to get these pictures to flip right!  Dang blogger! :)

Let the Battle begin!

This year Chloé decided to participate in the Battle of the Books.  It's where kids are given a list of 20 books to read and in March they battle it out with the knowledge they have of these books and their authors.  Chlo made it to the second to last round!!!  They were the last 3rd grade team left in the battle (it was 3rd and 4th in competition).  She did a fantastic job and loved reading all the books.  She had a really cute team and they had a great time.

Happy Birthday to me!!

I am a HUGE fan of any holiday -including birthdays :)  I was lucky enough to be spoiled rotten this year :)  The girls took my barbie collection and set it up on the fireplace.  I did get 4 new dolls for my birthday!

The girls came in first thing in the morning to give me my gifts.  I was so excited!

Jaylee chose a cute barbie with a horse for me.  She and I were playing with them and she told me I needed to share - so SHE played with the horse and barbie.  I'm glad she likes my gift :)

Carlee got me the COOLEST legos ever!  They're girl legos.  With her help I was able to put together my new beauty salon.  It was super fun!  Jaylee likes this gift too and has already lost one of the ladies... DANG! :)

Chlo got me one of my favorite gifts!  The Frankie Stein Monster High doll.  Chlo and I both share a passion for the Monster High dolls and I'm trying to catch up to her with my collection.

What can I say about these two??? Miss Heather (or Fergi as we call her) set up to come make me dinner and bring a cake!  I was so excited!  It was super nice not to have to worry about dinner or a cake this year - I always have in the past.  I felt truly spoiled!!  Dinner was yummy too - as was the cake!

Justin and Amber came with Brian and Heather to help celebrate!  I loved it!  Honestly, there is nothing I'd want more than to spend my birthday with my family!  Perfect gift!

With all three girls help I was able to blow out all my candles.  Do I still get my wish?? :)

Brian actually made this cake by himself which made it all the more special.  The fun fetti cake is a favorite and we didn't have much left at the end of the night.  Great baking big b!

Jaylee took turns playing with each visitor.  Brian and Justin were great sports.  It was cute to watch them play dolls with Jaylee.  They are such good sports!  I love Brian's face in this picture!  He was really getting into the "Big headed dolls" :)

Justin LOVED this Thor hammer.  He kept shooting the bullets out of the end.  He got pretty good with his aim too.  He can't wait to have little Tucker so they can get him cool toys like this. :)

I just had to post this cute picture of my little Mitzy dog.  She's such a sweet thing and LOVES attention and snuggles.  She was spoiled rotten with that with all the company.  She still was good to come back to me for some snuggles too.

Thank you everyone for the cute gifts, phone calls, emails, texts and messages on Facebook.  It truly was one of the best birthday's I've had in a super long time!  I am truly blessed to have so many great people in my life!!

My most beautiful girls

Today I took the girls out for a little photo shoot.  It's been a long time since I've done pictures so I felt a bit rusty.  I was thrilled with the way they turned out.  It does make it tons easier when the things you're taking pictures of are so amazing!  Thanks for toughing out the cold for 45 minutes tonight girls.  It was well worth it!  You are BEAUTIFUL!  I am truly lucky to be your mom! XOXO

2nd "year of Dave" activity

 So, the second activity for the "year of Dave" was a Monster Truck show.  It was AWESOME!!!  Our dear friend Heather Ferguson hooked us up with AMAZING seats!  Not only that but Dave, my brother Nate, and his friend Jeff were able to be the "judges".  We got to the show an hour and a half early so Dave could be trained on what he needed to do.  We also got pictures with one of the cars.  Funny enough - this car won 2 of the competitions.  He's from Utah too!  It was crazy to see how big the trucks were then to see what they did!

 This is when the "crush cars" were pre-damaged...  Well, you know what I mean. :)

 Heather sang the national anthem and did a spectacular job! I felt so special knowing a celebrity! :)

 This was my favorite car!  It was the Wolverine!  SO COOL!!!

 Because Nate, Jeff and Dave were score keepers the were on the big screen a lot of the night!  If you look super close you can see me taking their picture off next to Dave... Oops :)  They did a great job and had a ton of fun.

 Nate and Jeff got to do some race timing for part of the time too.  They did a great job!

 This was the winner Maximum Destruction's driver.  Him, being from Utah, got lots of extra cheers. He rolled his car at the very end but was of course okay.  It was AMAZING to watch!

 I didn't have my camera out when he rolled so I tried to take a picture of the replay.  It really was super crazy!

This was our fun group!  We even went to Crown Burger after and stayed until it closed.  Brian was super nice and took Dave to get the car so I didn't have to walk to get it.  During dinner we talked about stories when me and my brothers were little.  We were all laughing so hard remembering all the dumb and crazy things they did.  I'm truly lucky to have such an amazing family and friends!!  These "year of Dave" activities keep getting better and better!! :)