Happy Fathers Day

These are some pictures that my friend Celeste and I took out on our swing on our balcony!! They turned out so cute! Thanks Celeste for helping me with my project, and I am really impressed with your camera skills!!I gave these to Tom, my dad, and Toms dad for Fathers day and I am so happy with how they turned out.













Today is Fathers day and I would like to say how grateful I am for Tom and all that he has done for our family. Tom Thanks for being the best dad to our two little girls, thanks for being a great friend and putting up with all my crap, thanks for working hard every day so that I can stay home with the girls, thanks for doing anything and everything to make your three girls smile, thanks for being a great example to us all, and thanks for not making me watch sports center every night (just sometimes when it's really important):)I love you and the girls love you so much!!

Also I would like to say Happy Fathers Day to my own dad! I love you and thank you for being a great dad and teaching me so many things. I am so grateful that you gave me so many great experiences as a young child because those boating trips and camping ect. are all things that I want my girls to experience. Also, thanks for being a great papa to my girls because they enjoy every fun party with their papa!!

Happy Fathers day to Toms dad Jerry!! Thanks for being a great dad to Tom because he would not be such a great person without you. Thanks for always being there for our family and being so supportive of all that we do. Last thanks for being a great Grandpa to the girls becuase they both love to see you and the boys.

Happy Fathers day!!

St. George

So this is a little late but about a month ago we went to St. George camping and boating with some friends and seriously had so much fun even though it was 120 degrees by 7:00 in the morning!! After Sophie had a terrible night sleep we had a great morning on the lake with perfect water the entire time. It was amazing to be the only boat on the lake!! After that the weather did not allow us to boat again so we all went hiking. Bree loved every second of the hiking, and on day two of bad weather we did a little hike or should I say all the little people did the climb up this Narrow crack!! Tom and Bree went up together and when I reached the top to meet them only Bree had made it out!! The weather turned for the worst so we went bowling which is always fun, and it was Sophie's first time.

Bee's Game

We went to the Bee's game last Thursday night and we had so much fun!! Tom, Bree, Sophie and I rode Trax down to the stadium and met the rest of the crew in our great seats. We ate yummy hot dogs, corn dogs, cheese fries, and Bree's new favorite cotton candy. The girls loved the Bee's mascot Bumble and Sophie would go crazy for him every time he would come out. Towards the end of the 7th inning we went with Ty and Celeste to ride the free train they have for little kids. When we came back to our seats Kevin and Tom were of course trying to get free goodies from the Bee's girls in front of us. The girls completely ignored them!! It was great fun, but we did miss our friends Robbie and Tenley and Brooks who were supposed to come but maybe next time:)

Bree's first Dance Recital

A couple of weeks ago Bree had her first dance recital and seriously I had so much fun watching her experience all the fun. Bree and I had to go early for her dress rehersal, and thank heavens Celeste took care of Sophie for me because I would have gone mad with her there!! Anyways Bree takes dance from my teacher that I took from since I was three. It is so funny to hear Nancy(her teacher) scream because I remember it and at first it would give me butterflies in my stomach like I was in trouble again. Bree was amazing, I thought she would be scared of all the lights and the big stage but she loved it. My mom came down and took me and Bree to dinner and then I had so much fun getting Bree ready for her big debut. She loves makeup so I let her have everything even mascara!! I then dropped her off backstage with some of the older girls and then watched her do her thing on the stage. Of course I thought she was the best and it will be fun to see if she enjoys dancing as much as I did. Here is one of the scrapbook pages I have done. I love her funny pose because she loves to do all these weird poses whenever I take pictures of her and I think it comes from watching Americas Next Top Model with me it is so funny.

Also everyone asked how I did all the pictures from the wheeler farm post and I will try to explain as much as possible how to do it. So most of the pictures were blury so I had to be creative to try to fix them. So I use photoshop Elements(the free version for 30 days!!) but if you have any of the fancier ones I bet they would work better. Anyways, I played around with different filters and so you can add sepia or black and white or pink ect. there are a ton of different ones. You just click on those and it will layer it on your picture super easy!! The pink ladies picture is a little bit trickier so if you are interested let me know and I can try to explain. But it is pretty cool because you can have any black and white picure or sepia and then bring out any flowers of rosy cheeks or whatever and make the color show through the picture.I love photoshop and I really just play around and try different things and then tada you have something kinda cool.Also there are so many tutorials out there that take you step by step on how to do things from croping a picture to whitening teeth.

Wheeler Farm

Last week we went to Wheeler Farm with Bree's Preschool class and these are some of the cute pictures of Bree and her friends. Bree had so much fun feeding the Sheep and watching the farmer rub the pigs down. She was terrified of the tractor and finally her teacher was able to get her on it for a picture. After we had a picnic with her class, most of the kids went and fed the ducks bread. I think all the animals were so active because it was 9:00 in the morning which really made Sophie happy because she was able to talk to the sheep with her wonderful bark!! She has dog sounds and sheep sounds mixed up it was hilarious!! Bree has made some great friends at preschool and almost every day she asks me which friend she gets to play with today. Thank heavens all the girls are in the same class next year otherwise I think Bree would probablly have been fine but confused about where all her friends were.

Updates

So I have been cheating on blogging because I have started Digital scrapbooking and I seriously would rather do that than blog!! But I have so many fun pictures to share that I thought I could do one long post that covers the last month of what has been happening at our house.

These are two of my pages that I have done and I really think that this is the best way to scrapbook because there is no mess and other than buying photoshop it is seriously free!! I have also finished two of my files which would have taken me ages with normal scrapbooking (because I am slow, even ask Celeste she can finish hers and help me on mine when we do scrapbook club)!I really have to thank Quinn in our ward for telling me and Celeste all about how awesome it is!If you want to see some awesome pages go to Quinns blog she is amazing!




This is a picture of Bree blowing out her candle for her family Birthday party. So I have to tell the truth Tom had to light the candle four or five times because I could not get a good shot of Bree. oh well!



Sophie and Bree with sidewalk chalk outside on a nice day!! Bree decided later to color uncle Kobys door and stucco so we had to take the chalk away!


This is what the boys are up too at Koby's house and Bree just loves helping!



Princess Sophie!


Bree on her Birthday with her cute new Doll!


Bree has a new tattoo kit and one day she put them all over her body and all she was wearing was her underwear. I was laughing so hard and I let her do it because I was told that they come right off in water but they really don't so she had tattoos everywhere for a couple of days.



Aunt Stacey and Sophie at Sophie's Birthday party



These next couple of pictures are so funny! So we were hanging out with Celeste and Ty and Sophie just loves to hug and kiss him constantly. Ty likes it when she is being nice but then Sophie starts to hit and I think you can tell in the pictures he is like pleading for help!! Celeste and I were laughing so hard. Ty is such a ladies man because my girls just cannot get enough of him! Sorry Ty

Bree's Birthday

So I really cannot believe that my little Bree is turning 4 tomorrow it just seems crazy because time has gone by so fast. Bree is an amazing little girl that I adore so much and I am so grateful for her every day. She is the most caring and loving little person I have ever met.I guess I always thought that little children did not care how there parents feel, but Bree is always worried about me and Tom and everyone for that matter. Her preschool teachers actually told Tom and I that she is the little mom that is so worried and caring about how her other classmates are feeling. Bree will tell me a million times a day how much she loves me and she also adds lots of hugs and kisses on top of that. I am so grateful for all the love she brings into our home she really is an angel that teaches me so many things about myself. Bree loves to go boating and camping and swimming and anything that includes being in the outdoors. Bree is so lucky to have so many people that love her and care about her. Some more things that Bree loves to do is sing, dance, watch movies, read books, pink anything, chesse anything, treats of any kind except cake, find and kill bugs outside and play dress ups with anyone. Bree we love you so much and enjoy every minute of your fun and loving sweet spirit. Because Tom and I take millions of pictures I thought I would share half of them in the slide show below. Happy Birthday!!