Happy Birthday to Me!!

Tuesday was my birthday, and I had a pretty good, busy day!! In the morning, I took Makenna to her swim lessons, then my dad met me at the pool and took me and the girls out to lunch. After lunch I went back to the pool and met my friend Jamie and her boys and we went swimming.

At about 4 in the afternoon, I got roses delivered to my door, a surprise from my hubby!! When Matt got home, we went to dinner at Madelines and went and saw "Get Smart". It was such a funny show, I would highly recommend it. So now I am 27 and am feeling it. I am getting old!! I do like my birthdays though, so Happy Birthday to me!!

Manti Temple, Smores, and Fishing

This past weekend we went back down to the cabin with our friends, the Blackwells. It was fun, different from last time, because this weekend was so hot. We decided to go into Manti and walk around the Temple grounds. It ended up being a very fast walk because it was like 92 degrees and sooo hot!! We went swimming everyday, made smores at night and went fishing. It was a fun filled weekend!! Here is a picture of the Manti Temple.

Matt and the girls, outside the temple.

The girls and me outside the temple.
Our family, overlooking the valley.

Here come the smores. Here is Matt, Makenna and Hannah getting ready.
Makenna eating her smore.
Hannah with her smore.
Me roasting a marshmallow, Yum!!

Our friends, Jamie and Eric, with their sons, Carter, Drew and Landon who I think was in bed at this point.

Here is our little fishing adventure. We started at Electric Lake, but there just didn't seem to be a very good spot, so we headed out to Scofield Reservoir. We got there and Sanpete county had let a mosquito hatch out, and they were everywhere. We would pull over in the car to see if we could find a good fishing place and they swarmed to our car. It was gross. Matt got out of the car to talk to Eric, and I could see in the mirror, both of them swatting and dancing around at the mosquito's, trying to get them away. You can't even imagine how many of them there were unless you were there, like millions!!! So we ended up heading back to Electric Lake where we ended up just doing a little stream fishing.

Here is Alexa just hanging out.
Makenna with her fishing pole, being very patient.

Hannah lasted about 3 seconds, long enough for me to take a picture.
Matt and Makenna trying. Out friend Eric, caught the only fish. It was only about 3 inches long, but he brought it back to us so that we could take pictures. Makenna was really excited to hold the fish, Hannah, not so much!!

Alexa Crawling

Alexa is finally crawling. She is 10 1/2 months old and realizing that her legs do move and she just has to do it. I have known 10 month olds walking, so I figured that she will be taking after her dad, crawling at 11 months and walking at 18 months, we'll see. It's been a long time coming, she just woke up this morning and decided that today's the day!! So here she is crawling.

Happy Fathers Day!!

I just wanted to say Happy Fathers Day. I wanted to tell my Matt, how much I love him and appreciate him and how he is the most wonderful father to our children. Now I wanted to tell my dad Happy Fathers Day.

Dad, Thank you for everything that you have ever done for me. You taught my so much growing up, you taught me how to work, like picking up branches and rocks, and to repect mom and you. You always loved to take us out as kids, I will always remember how much you loved us, we were always going on family vacations, and going sledding, you always seemed to find something for us to do as a family, and I really look up to you for that. Thank you for teaching me about the gospel and leading me in the right direction. I know I can always come to you with questions and you'd have the answers. I am so proud of you! You are a great man and I love you so much!! I know that I am your real favorite, and I promise, I won't tell the others! Thanks for all that you do even now for me, you are a great, loving, humble, and honest man! Thank you for being my dad! I love you!!! Here is my dad, as a missionary.
Here is my dad, with my sister's and me. From Left to Right: Ami, Stef, Dad, Me, and Becca.
Here we are as a little family, probably getting ready to go out sledding. We always did that and we loved it!!!

Makenna's Preschool Graduation!!

Wednesday, June 11th was Makenna's preschool graduation. (If you read my next post, you'll know why I didn't post this till now) It was really cute. They sung songs, had a slideshow from this past year, which made me cry, and did the graduation presentation, with their dimplomas. It was really neat. I just can't believe she's done with preschool and will now be in Kindergarten. Time goes by so fast and I don't see it pass, it is really strange to me, that she's really that old and really growing up. Really, I don't understand where the time went!! Here are some pictures of her special day!! Here is Makenna with my mom and dad. (She didn't want to wear her hat)
Makenna with Matt's mom and dad, Susie and Grant. ( again no hat!)
With Mom and Dad. (she just wouldn't wear that hat)
Yeah!! My graduate (with her hat on, finally)

Makenna, Hannah and Makenna's friend Layla from school.
Makenna and her friend that we carpool to school with, Carter.
Makenna walking to get her diploma
Sitting with her class.

Makenna and her teacher, Miss Heidi.

I've had Pneumonia.

So last Sunday, I started to feel really achy and just not good. I had a fever and my body temp. was doing weird things, one minute I am freezing and shaking, then within 1 second, I am hot and sweating!! I have a cough, soar throat, everything. Not Fun!! I totally have felt like crap.
So on Tuesday, Makenna's birthday, I had all these plans, getting her ears pierced, going to Chuck-E-Cheese, so I sucked it up, and kept Tylenol in me. Well on the way home from Chuck-E-Cheese, I really was feeling sick, so I decided to stop into an Instacare. I get there and they check me in. The doctor comes in, gives me a strep test, says it came out negative. He said that it's just a flu bug. He gives me a prescription for my cough and tells me to fill it if my cough gets worse and is keeping me up at night.
So Thursday comes and I am still feeling all sick and I can't do anything, I have no energy, I am tired and trying to stop 2 kids from killing each other and the other one from crying, cause she's teething. And I just can't do it anymore, and I break down. I cry, and cry, and cry, and finally decide that I am going to go into my regular family doctor. So Matt's mom comes over and watches the kids and Matt's dad, Grant, asks me if he wants me to have him take me to the doctor, so I said, "Sure."
I get there and my Tylenol is started to wear off again, so here come the chills, the fever, the aches and pains again. I go into the doctor's office and my temperature is at 103*. I am totally shaking,cause I am freezing, and I feel like I am going to die, and am just glad I am in a Dr's. office. So my Dr. checks everything and comes back saying I have Pneumonia. They give me a shot of antibiotics, in my butt, and send me home with more antibiotics to take for the next 7 days!! So Grant takes me home, and I am so glad that he ended up driving me, cause I would have fallen asleep, or something. I was crunched up in a ball on the way home, and just shaking from the fever.
I get home and Matt's mom takes all three kids with her to her house and lets me rest. Then she comes back on Friday and takes them again, so I can rest again, and Matt just picks them up on his way home from work.
Needless to say I am so thankful to Susie and Grant for the much needed rest to get over this. I just couldn't believe that I had pneumonia. I have never had it before and I hope I never have it again, if this is what it is like all the time. Plus it must have been pretty bad for the Dr. wanting to give me a shot to get things going right away.
Saturday, I started to feel better, but I wasn't completely there, I still kept Tylenol in me, but today I feel pretty much back to normal.
So I was pretty upset that the Instacare Dr. couldn't tell that something was there, it was like he didn't really try. I don't know, I am just glad that I finally ended up going in to my family Dr. when I did and I really hope that nobody gets that, like I did, if you do call me and I will help with your kids, cause I know how it was!!!!

Chuck-E-Cheese

For Makenna's birthday dinner last night, we went to Chuck-E-Cheese with my mom, and Matt's parents. The kids loved it!! We just ate pizza, got a bunch of tokens and let the kids at it. They loved the little rides and games, especially getting tickets. They think it's such a thrill to get tickets and then get to go pick out something. With their tickets, Makenna and Hannah each got a bracelet, two rings, a fun dip, and a barrett. It was a really good, fun day!!

Makenna is 5 years old today!!

Today is my baby's 5th birthday!! I can't believe that my little 7 pound 1 oz. baby is now 5. I can't believe how big she has gotten and that she will be going to Kindergarten in August. Time sure does pass you by!! Makenna is such a sweet little girl and I love her so much. Happy Birthday Makenna, We love you!!! Here is Makenna today! 5 Years old.
Here is Makenna on her first day of church, so she was probably about a month and a half old!!!

Well for Makenna's birthday today, she wanted to get her ears pierced. She has been asking for the last month if it will hurt, and she gets teary eyed. I told her that we didn't have to get her ears pierced if she didn't want to, and she would say, "I want my ears pierced, but I don't want it to hurt." Well we went to Sweet & Sassy, today and got her ears pierced. She was so brave she didn't cry at all. After the first one, her eyes lit up, like "wow, that kind of hurts" But she got a hug from mom, and was all better and ready to do the second one. I was so proud of her for being so brave. I heard somewhere that red heads have more tolerance for pain. Maybe that is true!!

You can see that she has her eyes closed.
A Hug from mom!!

All done!!! She actually went with her baby cousin, Bailee and they both got them done together. Bailee screamed!!! I felt so bad for her, but they look cute!!

It's hard to see the earings in the pictures, but they are there. Actually, the first picture on this page, I think you can see them the best. They are little flowers in white diamonds, with a little blue diamond in the middle!!

Also for Makenna's birthday, she wants to go to Chuck-E-Cheese, so we are going there for dinner with my mom and dad and Matt's parents. Makenna has never been there before (she has just seen commercials on TV for it), so hopefully the kids will have fun!!

Birthday Party!!

We had Makenna's friend birthday party yesterday, Tuesday. Her birthday really isn't till next Tuesday, but this was the only time I could end up doing the party. It turned out really good. I did it outside, and I was starting to get worried because at like 4:00 it started to get really windy and cold, but by 6:00, when the party started it was really nice outside, so I was happy. We had a clown come and paint faces, then had cake and icecream, then the clown did a magic show, and all the kids helped make "magic candy", then the clown made balloons for everyone, then we opened presents. It was fun, I think that all the kids had a good time, and enjoyed getting their faces painted all cute!! Makenna and Hannah with their cute painted faces!
Opening Presents...

Makenna's birthday cake, I made it. This was the first time, I'd made a cake for a birthday. I usually end up buying one at the store.
Olivia, Makenna, and Lily getting ready to eat cake!!
The whole gang. They all had their faces painted. We had flowers, hearts, rainbows butterflies, and most of the boys were transformers.
Makenna helping out the clown, buttons with the magic show.
Here are all the kids watching the magic show, they all seemed to be really into it and enjoyed watching it. Overall we had a really fun 5th birthday party for Makenna!!!

Dance Recital!!

Makenna had her dance recital on Monday. She did a really good job, she knew the dances really good!! She was in two dances, "Early bird" (ballet) and "Teach me how to shimmy" (tap). In these pictures she's the one in the middle with the red hair, if you can't tell. She was so cute, in the shimmy dance there's a part when she shimmy's in a circle, and that is her favorite part, so she had a huge smile on her face!! The recital was really long. She was dance number 2 and number 43. So between the first dance, we waited about 2 hours to see her 2nd dance. We didn't wait for the finale, because it probably would have been another 45 minutes, but all she would have done, was walk out there and blow a kiss. I was so proud of her for remembering the dances and doing them with a smile on her face!!