Spring Break and Beyond

The rest of April was way too much fun.  It flew by sadly but I am excited it's May because that means summer is near!

The first part of spring break I deep cleaned Memphis' room and the hall and stairs.  2 rooms behind but I can catch up this summer.  My mom flew in on Wednesday during spring break and we had fun shopping, going out to eat, and as always spending way too much money:)  That Saturday we drove her to Layton to meet her mom and sister and they took her on to Logan to stay for another week there.  Spring break is always much needed but it is also brutal because it's a taste of summer and we just didn't want to go back to school!

While my mom was in town she watched the kids so we could go car shopping!  Yes, we have had many many cars since I met Danny.  9 to be exact!!!!  Well, for the last 7 years Danny has been trying to convince me that we needed a van.  I struggled with the stereotype but then thinking about this summer of long road trips and needing to take extra people places I finally gave in and said I would look at them.  I was hooked and Danny told me I had to admit that HE IS RIGHT!  HA HA!  Ok, I LOVE my new van!  Fully loaded with tons of awesome extra features, I AM SPOILED.  The van is definitely a keeper.  Now to pay it off so that Danny can get a nice new truck!

My mom also got new spring outfits for her grandkids.  She sure loves to spoil them:)  My mom knitted the little yellow shrug for Kayzee's dress.  I LOVE it!

The Thursday after Spring Break my sister Alicia and her husband Fausto drove over from California.  He has never been to Utah so we showed him around and we had to take him to Porter's Place for scones!  My sister kept asking what the weather was going to be like.  I kept telling her sunny and nice but the day before they showed up it SNOWED!  Random short snow storm, typical utah weather.  It lasted long enough to play in it so the kids were excited.  Then it all melted in time for a nice weekend.

We all took Friday off of work and school and drove to Logan for the weekend.  First we all met at Maddox for lunch.  My dad, brother, and sister, drove down from Washington and met us there as well as my mom and grandma.  So fun to see my family again!

My sister Alicia announced to everyone that she was expecting her first baby!  I AM SO EXCITED!!!  Finally one of my siblings is having a baby!  Another reason Alicia came up was to take some of my baby stuff home with her.  YAY!  Friday night we went over to my aunt's house to my cousin's little girl's birthday.  PARTY HATS!

Saturday was the reason we went up to Logan.  It was my grandma's 80th birthday party!  HUGE turn out!  About 100 people.  It was such a nice way to celebrate my grandma's life.

 I got to help decorate

 Some of my grandma's oil paintings.  I have been collecting a lot of her paintings.  They are all over my house now.  12!  I definitely got my artistic talent from her and my love of teaching.

 Great grandkids sang her a song

(Side-note) Danny pointed this out to me that we drove up North every single weekend in April.  1st weekend up to Brigham City for Easter, 2nd weekend to Layton to drop off my mom, 3rd weekend to Logan for the party, and the 4th weekend to Bear Lake.  Danny was not too happy to travel that much but he joked that he had all the billboards memorized.

Yes we made a nice weekend trip up to Bear Lake to stay at my grandma's condo.  No one else wanted to use it so we invited our neighbor friends.  I kept checking the weather and it said rain and snow all weekend but we lucked out and it only rained during the night.  It was a little cold in the evenings but it was a great weekend!  We had fun swimming in the hot tub, going to Paris, Idaho for a hike and to see the little town, playing on the beach and playground, and just having fun with friends.

Also during April it was what my school calls dad and donuts.  Dads come to read with their child and have a donut.  Well, with the kindergartners they introduce the lunch room to them for when they go to first grade so they let them have a pizza lunch with their dad too.  Danny took off work early so he could go to school with Memphis.  My class during that time was on a field trip so I got to go have lunch with them too!  It was so fun! Too bad I didn't get a picture:(

I have been upping my running because I finally registered for a 5k on May 16th.  I am so excited!  I haven't run in a race since my 1/2 marathon in 2007.  Getting back into running has been hard but I really do love it!  Memphis joined me one evening and ran 2 miles with me!  It was awesome:)  Love my running buddy.

My mom also bought me a bunch of new books for my birthday so I have been enjoying reading!

Memphis being silly one day!

Memphis' class was practicing for the dance festival at the end of the year and I just happened to be on my lunch break so I snuck by and took a pic of him dancing.  He was hammin' it up he is so funny!

Now we only have one more month of school and then it's time for SUMMER!!!!

HAPPY

Once again I have a lot of pictures to post and a whole month to catch up on.  We celebrated a lot of HAPPY birthdays and had a HAPPY easter!

We got invited to our neighbor friend's birthday party at a trampoline place.  SO FUN!  We are definitely going back.  HAPPY Birthday Landon!

We also went to a cousin's birthday party.  We love that we live closer to Danny's sister so Memphis and Kayzee can play with their cousins.  HAPPY Birthday May Lynn!

Kayzee and I so desperately needed our hair cut!  Kayzee's was almost down to her waist and I was getting sick of combing snarls out everyday.  Mine was getting too thick and long again giving me headaches every day.  My cousin cut our hair and did a fabulous job as always.  Kayzee was so mad that we didn't cut her hair as short as mine but I just couldn't part with all her beautiful hair.  HAPPY results anyways.

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Then a NOT SO HAPPY week occurred.  And yes, it lasted a week!  Memphis woke up with a fever on a saturday morning.  He didn't really complain about anything hurting he just wanted to lay in bed all day.  Not like him at all.  That night at 9pm I just had this feeling that I needed to take him to get looked at.  I didn't want to pay for the ER and the only instacare open was 40 min away.  But I am so glad we went.  STREP!  Sunday morning I woke up with a sore throat and fever.  NOOOO!  I went to the instacare and found out I had strep too:(  Memphis and I quarantined ourselves to my bedroom and Kayzee and Daddy hung out and slept downstairs.  Memphis and I watched a lot of movies and had a lot of popsicles. We also made sure we took our antibiotics so we could get better.  We stayed home from school on Monday.  Kayzee did so well entertaining herself all day in her room.  Memphis rested well and was feeling better by that night but I was so exhausted from taking care of the kids Monday while Danny was at work.  So glad Danny and Kayzee never got it!  Tuesday I took the kids to school and went home and slept all day.  Wednesday morning I woke up and decided to try and go to work.  It was awful!  I didn't have the gym so I had to go outside and it was freezing and so windy the kids couldn't play anything so we went inside and played inside games all day.  The school play was in the afternoon so I just sat and watched that.  When I got home I crashed.  I was up all night with a fever and my joints hurt so bad I couldn't walk.  I had been on antibiotics for more than 3 days so I should have been better.  It was so late, I couldn't drive myself and we couldn't leave sleeping kids so I called an emergency doctors line and the doctor said the antibiotic they started me on obviously wasn't working (not a good thing) so they called in a different antibiotic to try.  That one worked!  I stayed home Thursday from work to rest up and made it back to work on Friday.  Danny took Memphis camping so Kayzee and I were lazy all weekend so I could rest up and get feeling better!

Danny and Memphis went camping by Price with Danny's friend and on the way there Danny's jeep died just before the Canyon.  Danny called me and told me what tools to bring and I drove and saved them!  So glad Danny is a mechanic and can fix our cars.  We didn't have to pay for a tow and it didn't take him very long to fix it and get it running again.  Off they went camping and Kayzee and I enjoyed a girl's weekend.  Memphis got to try 4 wheeling by himself and took off on a jump a little too fast and got all banged up but he had so much fun.  I am glad they were safe and had fun.  Kayzee and I went to Swig so we could swing! And we also took a lot of naps together! HAPPY smiles all around.

Running makes me HAPPY!  I forgot how much I like running.  Before I got married I ran all the time.  I also ran in a lot of 5ks and 10ks and a few 1/2 marathons.  Once I got pregnant for the first time I just stopped running.  Starting my fitness journey back in January one of my fitness coaches/friends suggested a 5k.  I decided I was going to sign up for a race in May and that would give me time to start training.  Feels so good! I run at night after the kids are in bed.  I love the cool weather and no people around.  Just me and my music.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK!
I had such a great Birthday week.  Thanks to everyone who sent gifts and to all who helped me celebrate.

Sunday-We went and played at the park all day.
Monday-My wonderful specialty team took me out to lunch at Zupas.  YUM!

Tuesday-We had a family game night and played the wii.  I BEAT DANNY at bowling.  I had to take a picture because I never beat him.  I can actually beat him at everything else so winning at bowling was even more awesome!  That 3rd person is Memphis and Kayzee playing together.

Wednesday-We went out for ice cream.
Thursday April 2 MY BIRTHDAY!-My wonderful neighbor and friend Amy celebrated with me.  I took the day off work and took the kids to school so Amy and I could go out and get pedicures and then we went and tried a new restaurant for lunch.  Blue Lemon-soooo good!  That night Danny and the kids cleaned the house bought me a balloon and made me a yummy cake.

Friday-Every year I like to go to Brick Oven Pizza and this year our neighbor friends went with us.  So fun to celebrate my birthday with my little family and friends.  The food was so good!  The kids also got some balloons.

Danny messed up trimming his awesome long beard so he just shaved it all off.  We like to tease him...baby face!

 Waiting for our friends and a table...

Saturday-We had a party with Danny's family.  More about that below!

HAPPY EASTER!
Friday after going out to dinner we drove to Danny's sister's house in Ogden to spend the night and then we drove to Brigham City on Saturday to celebrate Easter and Conference with Danny's grandparents and lots of Danny's family.  We had a little birthday celebration for everyone who had birthdays around this time so that was fun.  We had a picnic, colored eggs, and had an easter egg hunt and piñata.  We drove back home that night and part of Danny's family came to spend the night at our house.  On Sunday we had a yummy ham and potato dinner and some birthday cake and ice cream.  We all had fun hiding each other's easter baskets and trying to find them.  Happy Easter everyone!

I did Kayzee's hair while we watched Conference.

Now we all have this whole week off of school for SPRING BREAK and my mom is coming to play with us.  So excited to see her!