Matt's 30th Surprise Birthday Party!!!!

Yesterday was Matt's 30th birthday!! For the past month, I have been planning a suprise birthday party for him. I contacted old and new friends and family to get together with us to celebrate. After a lot of preperation and secret keeping, it was finally here and I think it turned out great. He had no idea, and I was really glad, because I am a horrible liar. I had told him that we were going to his parents house for dinner to celebrate, but as we were getting there I told him that we needed to stop at the clubhouse first, he looked at me and laughed. He said that he had just seen my parents car.
We went inside and everyone yelled "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!" All of my family was there, well except for my sister Becca's family who lives in Idaho. Matt's whole family was there. A few of Matt's friends from High School came, and some of our friends from our neighborhood. It turned out really great.
My friend Amber made this AWESOME cake for him. It is a Lake Powell cake. She made a boat with me and the girls in it, and had Matt on the back of the boat water skiing. She had red rock behind us and everything. She really did such a good job, everyone kept saying how cool it was.
Thanks for everyone's help that came and brought food. It wouldn't have turned out as good, without all of you there!! Happy 30th Birthday Matt!! I love you, and I hope that you had a great birthday!!

Easter Morning...

Easter morning, Makenna and Hannah came down and woke us up at 6:40!! They were excited to see what the easter bunny left them. They each got a new stuffed bunny rabbit. Makenna named hers Cotton, Hannah named hers Fefe, and Alexa's was named Cinnamon. Then they got lots of yummmy candy and a little Hello Kitty piggy bank.
I love the girls easter dresses this year, they were all the same, but different colors with big polka dots on them. They all looked so cute in their easter dresses. After church we went over to Matt's parents house and had a traditional easter dinner. Ham, funeral potatoes, rolls, and salad. Yummy!! After dinner the girls went out and had another egg hunt. They even found some quarters in their eggs this year. We had a gread easter!!!

Easter Egg Hung at GG and Papa's

Saturday, we went over to GG and Papa's house and had lunch and an Easter egg hunt with all the cousins. They all had so much fun looking for the eggs. We had them go out in groups of youngest kids, middle and oldest kids. The first group were the little ones, like Alexa, Bailee, Emi, and Samantha. They went out and got to find 10 eggs, they were so cute just going and picking up the eggs, not really caring.
The second group was Hannah, Nathan, and Abby. They cared a little more and were excited to go and look for them, it was funny, cause Hannah kept trying to get the hardest eggs she could find and walk past 10 eggs laying on the lawn.
The third group was Makenna, Lily, Olivia, and Matthew. When it was their turn, they were totally down to business, and took off running to get their eggs. They had harder ones that were higher in trees and such. They had so much fun running and getting the eggs.
After everyone was done, we emptied their candies into a ziplock bag, and my dad went out to hide the eggs again. They weren't as excited the second time around, maybe because they knew there was no candy in them. Thanks GG and Papa for lunch and the egg hunt! The kids had fun!!

Dying Easter Eggs

We dyed our easter eggs on Friday, and the kids loved it. Makenna was really into it, and making sure that the eggs were decorated perfectly with stickers. Hannah loved putting the eggs in the coloring, and Alexa just wanted to hold the eggs, she would try to eat them, then she would bang them on the counter, she must have thought that they were balls or something. We each made our own an egg with our names on it. The girls love having their own special eggs. I loved dying the eggs too! I get into it just as much as the kids!!

A milestone for Makenna....

For the last month or so, I decided to do a reward chart for Makenna so that she would stop sucking her thumb. So I made up a reward chart that had the numbers 1-30 listed on it, and each day that she didn't suck her thumb, she got to put a sticker on it. After she didn't suck her thumb for 30 times, she got a new bike. She needed one anyway because she was still riding the one that she's had since she was 2, and I just figured that this would be a good way to get her to stop doing something that she's now too old to be doing.
Well it totally worked. After about 2 weeks, so wasn't even trying not to suck her thumb, she just wasn't doing it anymore!! I am so proud of her. She has been sucking her thumb since she was 4 months old, so I knew it was going to be a hard habit to break. I have tried something like this a couple of years ago, but I don't think she was old enough and ready to really stop!! This time worked and I think it's great that I don't have to be saying to her all the time, "Get your thumb out of your mouth!!!"

Makenna's soccer

Makenna just got done with doing indoor soccer again. She did really good. She never actually got a goal, but the last game, she helped getting 3 goals in. She would pass the ball to someone and they got it in. She had fun doing it. I think it's good for her to do something that makes her run a lot. At the end of the games, she is always red and she really got a work out. Here are the pics from her last game and her with her soccer trophy!!