Thursday, January 1, 2015

Year 2014 in Review & all the mushy stuff in between

Well, another year has come and gone & I got to tell ya this year 2015 just might be the Best year yet for us :)  Rather than doing a little Flipagram slide show, I decided to write a blog. I wanted to show ya some fun highlights of the past year. 


The first of which being at the beginning of the Year we went to Nitro Circus!  Peyton LOVED it.  Can't wait to go back again in May. :)
At the beginning of the year we got this picture taken at Fotofly.  Still the sweetest picture I've ever seen in my life.  seriously.  Can't believe this picture is a year old!
Us girls did our 3rd annual park city trip
We headed to Saint George with the kids in February :)

We went on a BAHAMAS CRUISE!  I feel like it's not so much the places you've traveled when you were single but the places you've traveled with your best friend by your side.  This trip was so much fun.  We loved Atlantis and spending it with my brother & sister in law & some of our closest friends.  We went on our 1st cruise to the Western Carribbean when we were married for 3 years.  This was our second cruise together.  



 One of the cutest little pictures of the boys that I have from the past year.

 Easter time :)  Our little J is still a Etsy model for a few shops.  she is such a joy :)


 Our little B got his tonsils & adenoids removed.  It was pretty rough.  Glad it's over & that he's sleeping better at night. 


We took at trip to Logan to see Savannah & Quinn for her 1st birthday


 Peyton turned 5!



 Miss J turned 1!



 like....seriously....:)



The kids & I took a trip to Saint George in May :) 
this was a picture at Zions


We headed on down to Lake Powell in June! 



I cut 9 inches off my hair in the summer time




In August we celebrated our 6 yr anniversary- we did a couples massage & went to the Anniversary Inn.  



We headed to Tremonton to meet up with my Mission Prez @ a park. Still can't believe it's been 7 years!


The boys made a softball team & won 1st place overall for Eagle Mountain City!
Then went on to play another 2 months in a Sandy league


Joyce & I went to Wicked

Mr. B turned 3



We both turned 30 in 2014.  This was Steve's party 


A difficult decision we had to make this past year was deciding for Peyton to do another round of pre-school and to not go into Kindergarten.  I feel it's been a good choice for us to make.  We love Learning Dynamics & his teacher has told us that Peyton is the furthest along in the class.  He's reading and doing everything so well. Bradyn loves school too.  His teacher said he's doing really well.  We sure love these two boys.  My only regret is we didn't start Peyton in pre-school when he was 3! {The other night we talked about how we are planning on holding B back from K too not only b/c of his August birthday but b/c we want the boys to have a grade in between them at school :)}


One of our very first outings with Nichole!!


One of the Biggest highlights from the year 2014 was pulling off this amazing event.  haha.  ps. I can't believe I didn't write a separate blog about this event!  My brother Parker & I have always talked about doing something epic when he finds the girl that he wants to marry.  And after meeting Nichole, he & I talked about if she seems the type to like something epic & he got that validation was a yes. haha...so we pulled this off!  It was so so much fun.  I called and called and called every mascot in the SL & Utah County, every news station and harassed as many as I could to be there & we ended up getting 3 mascots to come, so I thought that was great.  Fox 13 news showed up & that quickly made everything that much more exciting.  I had pulled together 4 practices with the girls & we did it!  It was an adrenaline rush and am so happy how it turned out!  I'm forever grateful for the ones who took the time to memorize the song and who really got into it.  I'm also so happy she said Yes! haha! what would parker do w/o me?:) To date, we have over 10 THOUSAND views on Youtube!
In October my friends and hubby surprised me with seeing SHANIA IN VEGAS!!  It was so much fun to head on down South and to have a couples weekend.  We are so grateful for our friendships with these guys and love seeing them often :)  It really makes married life so much fun with such fun close friends to share it with :)

While down South for the couples weekend, we decided to get a family picture nearby Dixie Rock :) Love it! 


Jordynn in her little Tinkerbell costume.  She so photogenic, i love it!  She sure is a great little Etsy model :)She's growing up soo fast...These are her words that she says: kitty, please, thank you, what's that, book, love you, mama, daddy, shoe, more, owie, papa, hi, bye, parker, outside.


For my 30th my mom took us girls up to Park City and spent the weekend up there.  These girls got me the cutest gifts for my birthday.  It was so fun!! Loved having Nichole with us :)  Fun memories :)  For my birthday- Steve & I also went out while Aubs watched the kids as well as my friends all took me to Red Lobster & back to Jen's to hang for the night.  Love it!
Jamie came into town & we threw her a baby shower:) she finds out what she's having soon.  eeek!
 Parker & Nichole got married!! YAY!! They got married Dec 13th :) we did a cute dance for her reception.  So glad we did it!


 Love this dude!


ah...i love our tree!


For christmas we got my parents a canvas of this picture for their wall 

This is little Jordynn at her 1st & 2nd christmas.  We got her a Cinderella doll this year :)
-These are the sports the kids did in 2014-


aside from these highlights were fun trips to the zoo, swiss days, bees game & waterparks :) aaaaannnnddd... i got 3 new nephews this year...their names all start with the letter K.  In fact, funny fact 5/6 of my nephews start with the letter K haha.

This year was so fun & there are so many memories to look back on & smile :) 

**Thanks for stopping by! 
Happy 2015!**

Monday, December 29, 2014

Oh my heart

I had to document this in my blog. This blog is like journaling for me in many different ways... It's so fun to print out blog books each December of the past year and to reflect :)
 so... As my heart is just brimming over the top--- my little baby girl.. Leaned over tonight to kiss me & stared into my eyes (not joking) and said "Love You Mama" just when I thought she couldn't be any more perfect... Sigh.... Seriously in heaven right now. Great ending to a really great day:) 

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Couples Retreat

The trip that we had literally planned for, for over like 9 months came to pass!  We headed to Saint George to stay at my parents house for a Couples Trip.  The Boyds and Us got in on Thursday & that evening went to see "Meet the Mormons…"  (gotta be honest, a tad boring….zzzzzz….I LOVED the very last story though…) We also had some Red Lobster, too.  




The next day we went to see "Maze Runner"…..we still have no clue what the heck we saw! The most confusing movie ever!  haha.  It was entertaining though :)  Afterwards we ate lunch @ Jimmy Johns and headed to Snow Canyon. 


While at Snow Canyon we went caveing..Poor Katie, I didn't mean to scare you guys!  haha!  Steve and I have become so accustomed to this cave that we didn't realize how tight spaces and drop offs were that big of a deal….ooops..  Love you Boyds!  






That evening we met up with the Koellikers for dinner at The Pizza Factory…..yummmy!  By that time we hadn't heard from the Merrills or the Arthurs…and soon found out the Merrills were involved in a car accident & were at the ER in Beaver.  it was super sad :(  I didn't realize how devastating it was until after seeing a picture of what had happened.  I am just so glad that they were all alright!  We sure missed them! Later we were able to get a hold of the Arthurs to find out that they were ok. 


 We then played some games & the next morning the boys went golfing.  4 in a half hours of golfing!! like what? haha.
We then went to my most favorite yogurt place, Krave.  Afterwards we headed to Vegas.  


We at here:

And then went to see SHANIA!!! wahoo!! It was so fun to dance around and sing.  I started crying at one point during the concert seeing all of her old music videos!  i just love her!

Although this one is blurry- it's my favorite :)


























But I must say…..my most FAVORITE picture ever from this ENTIRE weekend has got to be this one…..Like seriously……I'm so happy to have photogenic kids….this picture was definetly NOT easy to get…but so worth it….I just love these people…Oh my goodness I seriously just wanna squeeze Jordynn…her little stance and everything is just TOO CUTE.  I love Peyton's smile in this picture alot. And love how Bradyn's playing with my necklace and his little round cheeks.  And my Steve, my rock…(he had a hole in his jeans so we were trying to hide it:)) lol!  I really didn't have intentions of replacing our large picture in our living room, but after seeing how this picture turned out…i'm convinced! we gotta do it!  haha!


Just love my baby girl! I have way too many perfect pictures of her…keep em' coming :)  



It was a great weekend and we are so grateful to have such great friends in our life! 
Have a fun & Safe Halloween!!

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

jordynn is 16 months old!!



So let's just talk about this picture for a second….This little girl just LOVES tinkerbell.  Everytime we put it on, she just squeals and spins in circles, it's so cute.  So we thought naturally, let's have her be Tinkerbell for halloween.  When her package came, the day we'd been waiting anxiously for :)  haha…it was her and i at home and I lifted it up out of the box and no joke she put it up to her and began marching around the house and squealing, it was ADORABLE.  I then put it all on her..took her outside, told her "Ok Jorbears….we are gonna take a picture of you…." I'm NOT even kidding…she put her arms up behind her head and just gave her biggest grin and just held in this pose…like what?!?!?!  Is she my daughter or what?!  haha!! Oh my goodness, i just am so in love with her.  yes, I love my boys..but seriously….a girl is the FUNNEST experience ever…I just LOVE it.  She pretty much is the reason that made us decide that we are for SURE having more kids…I would gladly have 3 more girls.  They are just so so so precious!!!:)  (that's not really our plan, but still haha)  Anywho.. today I took her to her 15 month check up…

weight- 20 pounds 0 ounces- 32 percentile
length- 30.5 inches-- 35 percentile
head- 18 inches- 46 percentile

She tries to do everything her brothers do…if they are drawing..she wants to and she WILL.  haha.  If they are playing seriously any game, any activity any THING  she insists that she is included and strives to do exactly what they're doing.  It's so funny :) oh we just love her!!

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