Fun times!!

So we have had a fun, but busy weekend!! We started out by going to a school carnival thing with my sister, nephew, and niece. My sister is an amazing kindergarten teacher... it was fun to see all the people... and especially kids... that know and admire her. Bree did something that she's never done before. And I swear to you I don't do this... I think Bree picked it up from her aunts Shan, Anna, Mel, and Heather!! lol

I think it's hilarious and cute. We'll see if she wants to keep doing things like that.

Anyway~ the next day we went to the aquarium... just the 4 of us.

It was so incredibly nice and fun to be just doing something just us, relaxing, and having a good time... even if my kids were tired and cranky :oP

Breeann's 2nd birthday

So... this is almost a week late, but you know :P Anyway~ Especially with fairly recently getting back from Nebraska, and with Bree still not quite being old enough to care... we did a small birthday party after dinner. We had my brother, his family, my sister, and a couple of family friends over for cake and ice cream... opened a few presents.

It was the perfect little party, I thought.

What to say about my dear precious Bree. She is Heavenly Father's way of pushing me to become patient :P Breeann loves life! She takes her time doing things and soaks it in. She LOVES playing, singing, and listening to stories. Despite all that life has thrown at her, she has embraced it with love. And she doesn't let anything stop her.

Breeann is, however, cautious! She hates trying new foods and learning new physical milestones (ie how to pull herself up on the couch). Once she gets over that initial shock, she's good and loves it, but it takes some bribing to get her to that point.

She hasn't quite picked out favorite characters, toys, etc yet... but Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and little critter's sister are definitely up there. Although, I would have to say her absolutely favorite person in the world is her dad. She just lights up whenever she's with him and she's always asking for him. Breeann's a daddy's girl through and through.

I think that about sums up our little angel. WE LOVE YOU, BREE!!!!

Random Pictures

As mentioned, we went and spent some time in Nebraska! These next two or three post will all be from when we were there. And Mel, I've never used a picture collage app so you'll have to teach me if you want me to try using it :o) Anyway~ NE has a really awesome children's museum. We went a couple of times, but I didn't do pictures the other time. :oP

Our little shopper!

These next few pictures are a little show they had called dancing with a princess

 They had an amazing area ... whole bunch of balls and fun litlle contraptions you can put them in

Now he's a mechanic!! Jack of all trades

They had a carousel

And they had an awesome slide area... wish i would have gotten better pic of the whole area

My birthday

This year we spent my birthday in Nebraska. Jared's bro, Brian, and his family were able to be there to join us!! It was a blast. I won't lie started out shaky... but ended up being a blast. So ... in the morning, Breeann needed a test at the hospital that ended up taking all day. More on that later... Anyway~ When we got back from the hospital, we walked into the apartment we stayed at and saw this...

It totally made my day!! Especially since the hospital hadn't been so great. We started out by opening presents:

After presents we had lunch, put the kids down for a nap, and then Jared and I got a couple of hours to just us. We got a smoothie and just talked... it was perfect!! We went to dinner at a yummy Chinese place and then went back to the apartment for cake and ice cream

Bree had her very first ice cream!!! Brian and Tawnya were so sweet and bought her chocolate coconut milk ice cream

It was a hit!! And definitely something we'll keep around here now for her.

Thanks so incredibly much again for everything Brian, Tawnya, and girls!!! And also thank you to Jared for also making my birthday special. I've definitely been so blessed to have incredibly family and friends!!! I love you all!!!

Ayden's tooth

So yes, I am behind in blogging!! I will try to catch up... but bare with me please. Let's start with Ayden loosing his first tooth. Yes, it's odd! He's not quite three yet. So here's the story:

Jared was taking his turn in the nursery with Bree... The ward we attended in Nebraska (another post for later) only has one nursery, so Jared got to keep an eye on both kids. Anyway, I guess during singing time, Ayden all the sudden got hysterical and when Jared goes to check it out, Ayden tells Jared that his mouth hurts. Ayden opens his mouth and his tooth was all but out!! CRAZY!!! So they come get me out of Sunday School, we get a hold of a pediatric dentist... when all was said and done we pulled the tooth out and just went to see a dentist here at home in UT. Our dentist, a family in dentist, doesn't want to risk anything so he's making us see a pediatric dentist. So much for minimizing number of doctors I work with :oP Anyway~ so that's pretty much the story of how Ayden lost his first tooth.

When we told him the tooth fairy was coming, at first he did not want her to come. He was tired that day... but I think he was scared, didn't quite get what she does either. But the next morning, after she came, he was so so excited and will still ask every once in a while if she's come again. Anyway~ here's pictures from the whole ordeal.