The Pinewood Derby!

Andrew had his first Pinewood Derby a few Saturdays ago! He and Kevin were so excited to work on his derby car. Andrew painted it red and then we took him to the Lego store so he could build his own driver for the car!

Here are all the cars from our troop! I think all the boys did such a good job working on their cars they are so creative!

These kids are so great and half of them boys are in my primary class!

The Wolf den getting ready to race!

Andrew did really well with the races! He won some and lost some but no matter what he had a great attitude and I'm so proud of him!

Field Trip!

So today was Hunter's very 1st field trip and I was so excited to be able to go along with his class. We went to the Arizona Museum for Youth! There were 4 parents who went and we each were given a group of kids to watch. I had 4 boys in my group and they decided our group name would be the Star Wars group!

They look like Jedi Knights in training right?

At the museum they had several hands on projects for the kids to do. This one here was making a point of interest with a map of the world. Our group decided on Australia as the point of interest! By the way Hunter said Jedi's don't smile, I guess the other members of my group didn't get the memo!

So for this project they made paper patterns!

Here is the Star Wars group's finished patterns!
And Hunter's smiling!

Here they learned more about patterns and got to play with kaleidoscopes!
just so you know the little boy next to Hunter is his friend Samuel and now I know why Hunter wants me to comb his hair into a mo-hawk everyday!
Sorry Hunter you are not getting a real one!

Crazy eyes!

Here is our picnic lunch at Freestone park!

Here we are finishing our lunch by the bathrooms after it started raining!

And here we are running to the buses as a huge storm hit and we have to finish our lunch back at the school!
Good thing I wore my boots and skinny jeans today, I hate it when the bottom of my pants get wet!

Despite the rain it was a fun trip and I'm so glad I was able to go with Hunter and have so much fun!

Freestone Park!

A few Saturday's ago we took the kids to Freestone Park which is this beautiful park in Gilbert. There is tons of stuff to do and it is an amazing place to take pictures. The kids loved it and had so much fun!!!
This is us taking a train ride around the park!

Here's one of the many views at the park! Bye the way I don't know who that kid is!

The boys had a blast on the miniature wave runners!

The boys first Ferris Wheel ride! It was so adorable. They were all giggling and waving every time they would come down and rise back up!

My pictures of the boys on the carousel didn't really turn out but...

I love, love, love Carousels. I think they are gorgeous and so romantic. I really love King Authors Carousel at Disneyland. Fun fact did you know that motifs from Sleeping Beauty (my favorite Disney movie) were used in 1955 to replace elements of the carousel and that the Princess and Jester head motifs have been redone in 18k gold leaf!

In all it was a great day at the park and I look forward to returning and spending more time as a family there having fun and making memories!

Valentines Day!

Growing up my Dad on Valentine's day would always buy my Mom a big bouquet of flowers than he would always buy my sister and I a rose. I loved getting a spacial Valentine from my Dad. Even though I don't have girls I have still wanted to carry on that tradition so we get our boys a little something special.

Since we have 8:00 church we decided not to make the kids wait and opened our presents to each other before we left. One of the things we did for the boys was in their little gift bag we put popcorn cups with their favorite movie candy. When they pulled the cups out we told them that we were taking them to the movies tomorrow (since there's no work or school)

If you couldn't guess the movie we are taking them to is Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

So Kevin being a big Lego fan obviously got more Legos from me which he loved!

Kevin asked me what I wanted and I told him that I really wanted a new book to read. He tought I was crazy for just wanting a book so he also got me a pedicure. Love him! He did take the boys out to buy me flowers while I was getting my pedi and the boys picked out the little devil bear pictured above. I thought I was really cute and sweet of them. They asked me if I was going to sleep with it at night!

We started our Valenitnes day yesterday by going to dinner and then to the Temple. I love my husband and boys so much and if there is one thing I want to teach my kids and to learn from all of the flowers and gifts is to be like their Daddy who is thought full and sweet and surprises me year round, not just on Valentines day! I want my boys when they are older to treat their wives the way that my Dad treated my Mom and the way that Kevin treats me!
I love you Kevin, Happy Valentines day!

London's Run!

Yesterday I ran my first 10K along with my friends Kristi and Melissa! The run we did is called the London's Run which is an annual event that benefits Queen Creek families dealing with cancer. The first run was held for London Solomon, a little girl who was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after her seventh birthday. She passed away before the first run, which is now held in her memory.

The two Queen Creek students Natalie 15 and Dustin 10 have been through a year of cancer treatments and are the two featured cancer patients who will benefit from this year's London's Run. Both of them were at yesterdays event and there were over 1100 runners! It was so awesome to see so many people come and support these children

Here's Kevin's shot of me getting ready to cross the finish line. My goal for this event was to run the whole 6.2 miles without stopping and I'm happy to say after 10 weeks of training 6 days a week I was able to run the whole time! I really enjoyed training for this run it was hard work but totally gratifying not only did I accomplish my goal my legs have never looked better and I lost 2 pant sizes in the process so it was totally worth it!

Now that this run is over I will be running another 10K in 2 weeks for a family in our last stake who have conjoined twins. I decided that I want to run a few more smaller runs this year so that way I can tackle the 1/2 marathon at next years London's run!

There is no way I could have done this without Kevin! I want to thank my wonderful supportive husband who got the kids ready for school every morning so I could go out and do my training, he new how much I wanted to do this and I love him for everything he has done to help me achieve this goal! I love you Kevin with all my heart!

10 Years and Counting!

When years are passing by like days,
and in my hand your hand is placed,
a knowing smile crosses your face,
a simple touch can still make my heart race.

When I can see my soul in your eyes,
and you see your soul in mine we realize,
that a love so deep can harbor no lies,
where our only tears shed were happy tears we've cried.

I love you as much now as I ever did before,
if possible, I may even love you more,
all starting from a feeling we did not ignore,
a feeling of connection we chose to explore.

I don't know what it is that you saw in me,
what I saw in you was the utmost happiness
that can ever be,
even more so on the day when you and I
became "We",
I can still smile and say with love and
truth Honey, I love you...Happy Anniversary.

Baby of Mine!

I know it's late I have been so crazy busy I just wanted to get this posted before Christmas.
My baby Parker turned four on November 28th, I can't believe how time has flown by and how big he has gotten. He is the cutest most ornery little boy and he knows it. He makes us laugh and smile with the things he says. We love him and feel so blessed to have him here with us.

I promise more to come later with pictures...