Happy Birthday Amy Lou

It's hard to believe that our baby girl is really 32 years old!!  Amy and the kids traveled into Famous Dave's to meet me for lunch.  It was fun just sitting around eating lunch and visiting.

Happy Birthday Amy...and here's to many more.  It's been a fun journey watching what a beautiful young lady and wonderful mother you have become.  We love you!!!

Here yummy birthday dessert

Amy - 4 months old

A Quick Granny Visit

It was time for a quick visit with Ian, Damon and Jonas while Bea and Morgan took the fun bus out to Wendover.  It's always fun to spend time with my little buddies!! Dinner at Sizzler...several games of Uno...bedtime stories and this time it was also NBA semi-finals.  My Jazz made it into the first round of the finals...something everyone was a little suprised about...so our season was extended...even if it was just for four more games!!  Fun times!!!!

Damon planting a smooch on his "old" granny :-)

Easter 2012

It's hard to believe we have been gathering for dinner and an Easter egg hunt ever since Kenzie was just a little girl!! Now she is 16 years old.  Randy decided that since the kids were getting older, he would make finding the eggs a little harder and I think he succeeded!!  Logan and Wyatt were the first ones finished, then Gavin but poor Haylee and Taite had to come in and eat dinner and then head back out to find the rest of theirs.  I am making a mental note for next year...do NOT put chocolate candy bars in the eggs!!  This year we had a beautiful warm sunny day to do the hunt and heat and chocolate just to not go well together!! 

The cute bunny cake Holly made for dessert

Spring has Sprung

There is something special about the springtime.  I'm not sure if it's the new baby animals being born or all of the beautiful blossoms on the trees.  This is a picture of the blossoms on our apricot tree in the front yard just as the tree was starting to bloom.  Ahhhh...new life...everything and everyone has the opportunity for a re-birth!  That's what it is that makes this time of year so special!!

Here is the tree a few days later in full bloom

A Half-Birthday???

Brandi and her family have a tradition of celebrating their half birthday...which is 6 months after your last birthday and 6 months before you next birthday.  They were on their way home from their spring road trip and stopped by to spend the night on Jonas' half birthday.  As Bea was thinking about it, she realized that it was also Taites half birthday since Jonas and Taite were both born on October 4th.  She asked me if we could celebrate their half birthday...and since I don't mind a good party...we had the celebration.  Jonas wanted waffles for dinner, but the rest of his family talked him into homemade pizza.  He also wanted purple frosted cupcakes...which he got...and since the peach ice cream was such a hit for my birthday, we decided to have another batch for the half-birthday.  What a fun idea this half-birthday.  All kinds of celebrations going on all year long!!  So happy half-birthday Taite and Jonas and just another 6 months until you are a whole year older!!

Another Year Older!!

When you get to spend the day with all the people you love, it makes it worth getting a whole year older!!!  I decided to drive to Salt Lake to meet Brandi, Amy, Jason and my mom for a birthday lunch.  I thought I would be better for just one of us to drive through that awful traffic and road construction in Utah county!!  It was an AWESOME lunch!!

Jonas, Bea, Jason, Dominic, Mom, Me, Amy and Tailar

Then it was back on the road to head home to celebrate with all the rest of my family.  Holly made some yummy chocolate/raspberry cupcakes and we had some homemade peach ice cream.  Everyone that is close to my heart either took time to spend time with me or they called, sent texts or facebooked me.  It was a wonderful day!!

Logan, Kenzie, Gavin, Haylee, Taite and the yummy cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Dominic

It seems like it was just yesterday we were celebrating Dominic getting baptized and now he is another year older!!  This year Dominic had a new little someone celebrating with him...their new dog Bently.  Me and the new family member got along great.  Infact, he bumped against my bedroom door until he could get it opened and then he climbed on my bed and slept by my feet at the bottom of my bed.  Happy Birthday Dominic and thanks for letting me come celebrate with you!  Love you!!

Dominic, Tailar and Bently