Mother's Day

I had a great Mother’s day this year. We started off with a yummy breakfast that Darin cooked along with a mimosa. In the afternoon I hosted a dinner party for some of my favorite mom’s. My mom, James and Jaret came over along with Julie and Ray (my neighbors) and Maree, Adam and Lilli. We had a delicious dinner and there was a lot of time to relax and enjoy each others company. Here are some cute pictures of the kids:

Lilli and Grey having a sucker

 Sharing his favorite toy "Buckley bear", children just love buckles

Viva Las Vegas!

I was lucky enough to go to Las Vegas on a girl’s trip with some of my besties the end of April. Darin allowed me to go to celebrate turning 30 this winter and not doing anything “big” with my friends. Since most of my friends turned 30 this winter we planned a trip to celebrate, but only three of us were able to make it this time. I guess we will have to do it again =)

We flew out early (8:00 AM) on a Friday and so it seemed like we had an extra day in Vegas. We stayed on

Fremont St.

at the Golden Nugget. This hotel was AWESOME! The rooms have just been remodeled and were very nice. The pool is amazing and actually has a water slide that goes through a shark tank. Maree’s husband Adam was nice enough to rent us a pool side Cabana as our belated birthday gifts. This Cabana had a flat screen TV, refrigerator, ceiling fan and lounge chairs and bed’s to relax on. We spent most of the early afternoon eating nachos, having drinks and watching the Royal Wedding on TV.

We spent three nights staying up too late, drinking too much and sleeping in to long.  I could not have asked for a better time. I don’t have many pictures because I was too busy having fun. There is one picture I will have to post later that was taken with Maree’s camera; it was all three of us girls with 10 members of the Las Vegas fire department. They were doing a charity where you donate money in their boots. Misty loves fireman so she donated a $20 if we could have a picture.  Here are a few:

Before:

 After:

 The Cabana

 Look at the annoyance of the camera guy on the left. He was trying to shoot an episode of Cops and I jumped in and wanted a picture. What do they expect trying to film on Fremont St.

Water slide going through the shark and fish tank

 Waterfall going into the lazy river that surrounds the fish tank

 We went to the Pawn Stars pawn shop. Misty loves this show and had to go there.

 Misty inside of the pawn shop.

Easter 2011

Our Easter weekend started with Grey having a fever of 104.7 and a horrible virus in this throat. After a trip to see Dr. Church on Friday and a lot of Ibuprofen and Tylenol, he was up to an Easter egg hunt on Saturday at Grandma Woodman's house.

I gave myself some blue lips by licking a blue Whopper and using it for lip stick.

 His first punch ball

Sunday morning uncle Jaret came over but we did not take pictures. We started off with Easter brunch and then had an Easter egg hunt in our back yard. My Dad is in Texas for a while so he was not able to come. However, him and Jaret bought Greydon his first RC remote control car. It is awesome and easy enough for a 2 year old to control. They also bought him a new movie.

Sunday afternoon we went to Grandma Diana's for another Egg hunt and a BBQ. I took my camera this time.

Greydon and Carter on the swing set

 Darin's clever way of hiding the eggs, he put them in nests.

 Uncle Ryan and John helping him get an egg that was up high

 It was a great Easter and I was so glad that we were able to get Greydon feeling good enough to go to all of the fun Egg hunts that were planned for him. He was spoiled rotten and has enough candy for the next year.

Fun times

Here are a few fun pictures from the last few weeks

Greydon found his Dad's glasses. He looked adorable even though they were upside down.

He got this large canvas bag from my Dad for Christmas. He likes to get in it with his Woody doll and have Darin swing him.

He found his old bathtub under his bed and loves to sit in it and pretend.

We bought this swing set from one of our friends. It is a few years old, but we don't care. Greydon loves to play on it.

We recently celebrated Darin's success at work with Pizza and Champagne. It is a very odd combination but Greydon loves to have Papa Murphy's pizza on Friday nights.

My three boys!

My handsome brother and his big red truck (He is single ladies)

George Strait and Reba

I have always wanted to see George in concert and the last time he came to SLC, I was in labor with Greydon. When I heard he was coming again I was Johnny on the spot getting my tickets. I waited until the second they went on sale and bought 4 of them. I ended up getting the tickets on the 14th row on the floor! We took our good friend Tyler and his date with us. We started out with sushi at Happy Sumo in the Gateway and then we headed over to the show.

The set up for the show had a center stage and there were people seated all the way around the Energy Solutions Arena. This meant for A LOT of people, but it was well organized and not too chaotic. We were able to walk up to the stage several times and be within 10 feet of both performers. It was so much fun and an experience I will never forget.

REBA

 George

Darin and I and what looks like the ghost of George in the background

Darin, me and Tyler and George



Arizona Vacation 2011

We just got back from a sunny Arizona vacation. We flew out of SLC to Phoenix. It was Greydon's first plane ride and we were all a little nervous on how he would do and he actually did really well. I don't have pic of the plane because I was too busy trying to keep Greydon occupied and happy. We made it to AZ tear free.

Once we got to Arizona we rented a Jeep Patriot and drove 2 hours to Quartzsite Arizona to visit Rick (Darin's Dad). It was a long day of traveling and we were glad to finally arrive. While with Rick we played outside in the sun, went for a 4 wheeler ride and watched a few movies. Rick had been saving a clothes dryer box for Gredydon to play in and he loved it.  We spent one afternoon in Yuma AZ visiting my step grandparents JD and Barb. They treated us to a nice lunch at Lutz which is a cool place with all sorts of weird things hanging on the walls. Darin's favorite part was they filled the urinals with ice in the men's room (guys are so easy to please).

On Saturday morning we made the 3 hour drive to Eloy to visit our good friends Dennis and Hailey Conroy and their new baby Reagan. It was so good to see them and we had so much fun! They have a really nice house that has a pool area with a kitchenette and exercise area. On Saturday we played by the pool and had a BBQ. I quickly learned that pools and toddlers are not fun. Greydon had no fear and wanted to jump in the water head first if I would have let him. I was a nervous wreck. Sunday the boy's went and played a round of golf and after all of us went to the Eloy airport where Dennis works and had lunch. We got to watch the wind tunnel which is like a sky dive simulator, it was way neat.

Monday afternoon we returned home and one again Greydon did great on the plane. In fact on this ride he kept putting Woddy (his doll) up against the window and telling him to look. It was really cute. I never thought I would love my son to have a toy doll, but they sure are great friends.

Here is a long list of pics:

Greydon and Woody in the car

 Playing in the rocks at Grandpa Soctt's (all yards are rock in AZ)

 Playing in Rica's kennel which was not a very clean place to play. He kept going in there and lying down and saying "nigh night mommy."

 The beloved cardboard box was so much fun

Looking out of the window at Dad

We found this beautiful cactus out in the desert on our 4 wheeler ride. The flowers on the end were beautiful and the needles were 2 inches long.

Lutz Casino for lunch

 At the pool

Hailey reading Greydon a book

Baby Reagan

Greydon had a hay day with this stroller. He took Woody and Reagan's pink bear for lots of rides.

I just realized that I am not in any of these pictures. I guess next time I will hand the camera to Darin.