Birthday Fun

I sure had a great birthday yesterday. Filled with loving friends and family who made it a special day. Jeff surprised me with dinner and the Hunger Games movie the night before while my mom watched the kids. Then birthday morning we went to Denny's for my free grand slam, I helped my mom with a facial and then my Mom, Dad and Teona took me to the mall for my most favorite sandwich ever! I hung with the fam and then met Teona back at my parent for pizza. After pizza we went over to Jeff's parents for cake and a walk to the "guck" pond according to Jaston. That is where most of my pics come from. Except the sleepy one it's six and Skyler decided to curl up next to me while I was reading to get and fall asleep.

Fun in the Sun

My Aunt Pam and Uncle Kirk just got called to be mission presidents for the Winnipeg, Canada mission. So this past week they had a big get together with all their family down in Vegas before they leave for their three years of service. Since all of their family lives in Ketchikan, Alaska they don't have too much sun down there so they spent a lot of time in the sun. So the kids and I drove down yesterday to see everyone and hang out for the day. It was so much fun. Most of them I haven't seen since I worked there seven years ago. The kids LOVED playing in the pool. After we hung for the day we decided to hit the Cheesecake Factory in Caesar's palace for dinner on the way home. I mean since we're already there- why not?

 Friday some of my friends in our neighborhood headed down the trail by our house to the river. We stayed for hours and had so much fun. Here's a few pics from the event :)

Blue Angel's and a Great Weekend

This past week has been such a blessing having my grandparents from Idaho down for the full week. To finish the week off we went to the Blue Angel's air show. It was SO much fun! I think I enjoyed it more than the kids. We had an absolute blast and I got a lot of fun pics. So here's the array of many pics :) Enjoy :) We did!

We had a fun day Sunday too. Jeff and I spoke in our ward then we went to my parents ward and Kelsi spoke there and then Teona, Kelsi and I sung in the "instant choir." It was fun. For dinner we were blessed to have my whole family, grandparents, Gene and Darwin Mcphee (old family friends). 

Slip and Slide Party Time!

Our sweet friend Kristie invited myself and the kids to come have a slip-n-slide party and soak up this  AMAZING weather we have been having. So of course we couldn't pass by that opportunity. The kids were spoiled with slip-n-slide, pool, friends, popsicles, cupcakes and tons of fun!! 

Abigail wasn't so sure about this chaos

Michelle, Cherie, Me, Coy, Kristie, and Eliza

 Elise, Arie, and Skylee

 Eliza and Elise

Journey, Arianna, and Jaston 

We are so excited for the warmer weather!!

Skylee's First Admirer

So I got an email from a new friend of mine in our new ward. I thought it was pretty funny but also got me to thinking what is coming in the future. Not sure if I'm ready to start dealing with all the he likes-she likes etc stuff but it is coming. Did I mention my little girl is going to Kindergarten this year! Yeah, freaks me out a little. I can't shelter her from everything I have been trying so hard to for the past four and a half years.
    Anyhow, I included the note she wrote me- thought it might be fun to show Skylee years from now. Enjoy :)


Hi Telsha
I have to tell you that Devin thinks Skylee is so cute. He said going home from church that he wanted to go with Skylee and I said that he couldn't. So I said to him "Skylee is nice huh" and he said "Yes, but I don't love her I just like her..... I just want to be her friend" I think that it is cute that he notices that she is a nice girl, I told him that someday he will find a nice girl and take her to the temple and he said "Ya like Skylee" I am big on not having "girlfriends" at his age and he has a little friend in Preschool that is always talking about his girlfriends and breaking up with them and I tell him that he can't date until he is 16 and have girlfriends, so he know that she is not his girlfriend, but he really likes her and talks about her a lot! LOL I just thought that you would think it is cute that Skylee has an admirer :)

I Am a Child of God

Skylee called me into her room tonight and said "Mom! You know in the family home evening movie 'God' came to Joseph Smith? It's the same like "I Am a Child of 'God.' it's the same God!
I thought it was so sweet she made that connection and it also took me by surprise that those connections weren't there before. I think I just expect my four year old to understand these complex ideas. If I don't teach her she won't know.
So we had a little discussion abt God and Heavenly Father and it was a sweet moment. Not sure how she made that connection but just wanted to write it down before I forgot that simple but profound statement.

PS; wanted to mention everyone keeps mentioning how well Jaston is speaking right now. I just remember over night he was talking in full sentences. It takes him some processing time but he gets out what he wants to say most of the time :) a lot of people have mentioned how much darker his hair has become as well. Hard to notice when you are with him all the time but it is getting much more brown than blonde.
He has also been starting some terrible two characteristics like talking back to the mother... And NOT being quiet during church ( any advice for this would be welcomed ). So story - a few weeks ago during a prayer he was jabbering away in his outside voice and I put my finger to my lips hoping he would hush. Yeah, not so much, instead I get a pointer finger to the face and what felt like a scream "Your be quiet!" and that is the fun stage we are going through.
But oh my heck how cute this kid is too! I can't get over this sweet little man. He is constantly making me smile and giving me loves and tackling me and just being the sweetest, tenderest little guy. He really. really is all boy though. Can't get enough of this little man even if he is a stinker a lot of the time.

Disneyland and Legoland!! :)

This past week we took the kids to Disneyland and Legoland. Holy Cow so fun! We had a blast. We did Legoland on Monday. It opened at 10 and we played til about 2 and then a big storm moved in so we went to the aquarium. The kids loved it. Then Tuesday we got to go to Disneyland! So much fun! The kids had a blast. We learned our lesson: You can't just go to Disneyland for one day. We have learned a lot for our next trip- hopefully soon. :) So believe it or not I narrowed down our pics to ten collages... :) 

 Have to comment on the AMAZING ice cream. Don't know how but Disneyland's ice cream is HEAVENLY :) This was the one thing I insisted on.

Yeah, we ran them hard for two days. We all slept well that night :)

 We waited for an hour and a half (well really my mom did) to see these three princesses... I think she thought it was worth it.

 We are SO SO glad Grandma came with us. The kids LOVED it.

 Skylee, Jeff, Jaston and Me as MUMMYS!

 The awesome aquarium. Jaston was in heaven.. I think he liked it more than the rides.

We had so so much fun. I'm so glad we decided to take the kids and go. It was so much fun looking back over the pics too. :)