Tagged

Here is what you need to do
1. List Six UNIMPORTANT Things That Make You Happy.
2. Mention and link to the person who tagged you
3. Tag six of your favorite bloggers to play along, and comment on their blog to let them know they've been tagged.

My six UNIMPORTANT things that make me happy are:
1. Sitting on my front porch swing all day watching the kids play
2. Chocolate
3. Picnics at the park with my kids
4. Being under the same roof as Steve, which doesn't happen much.
5. playing duck duck goose as a family
6. sitting on the boat in the middle of the lake with the sun beating down on me

Thanks Jill for the tag, I tag: Jen, Jen, Kaydee, Megan, Ali, and Nikki

6 Months

Anna is 6 months old! I can't believe how fast time flies! So she had her check-up the other day and she is 17.2 lbs and 28 in long. She is getting so big. I moved her to a big girl car seat the other day and she loves it. She is getting better at eating solid foods, but still makes a mess every time. We just love Anna so much, she has really made our family complete!

Moab

Katie and her friend Jack

At Arches Natl Park

Hailey and her friend Tyler

Our beautiful toes after an awesome pedicure

In the nail salon

We went to Moab for Mother's Day weekend with all of our very best friends and had a blast! We got down there for lunch on Friday and stayed until Monday morning. We had so much fun swimming, hiking and sitting around the camp fire roasting smores and just talking and laughing. But the absolute highlight of the weekend had to be when the husbands surprised us with a pedicure! They found a salon in town that said they would do pedicures for us all after they closed for the day! I don't remember the last time had so much fun with my friends. Then on Sunday the kids surprised us with picture frames that they painted and decorated while we were at our pedicure, it really was the best Mother's Day for me. I can't wait until next year, because this needs to be a tradition for sure!

Easter

We woke up Easter morning to find that the "Bunny" had filled our baskets and hid eggs around the house. The kids had so much fun finding them. Then we had another egg hunt at Nana's house with a yummy french toast breakfast. At Steve's parents house we had another egg hunt, Katie had her own pink eggs that were peanut free (thanks grandma and grandpa). After we emptied out all of the eggs, it was time for the annual egg fight. Steve and his brother Scott pelted the kids with eggs as they ran around the yard laughing and screaming. It was a lot of fun.

Las Vegas

playing Whack-a-Mole

Harley Davidson Cafe

Rain Forest Cafe

On Sunday we flew down to Las Vegas with my mom and Emily for a couple of days, just us girls. We had so much fun, I can't believe how well behaved my kids are! They loved the airplane, especially because they had control of their own tv shows (JetBlue rocks!) Then when we got down there we went to the Rain Forest Cafe at the MGM. Katie was a little scared of the thunder storm, all the lights would flash, it was cool. Then we swam the whole rest of the day... yes it was 80 degrees !! All three of my kids fell asleep on the lounge chairs by the pool, it's exhausting to have so much fun in one day. That night I shared a bed with Katie... bad idea!! This was the first time I've ever shared a bed with her.. and the last. She is all over the place!!! So about midnight I went and squeezed into bed with Anna, she doesn't roll around much yet. Monday we went walking on the Strip and of course went to the MnM factory, where you can spend way too much on different colored MnM's. We also spent a lot of time in the arcade of the Excalibur, where you can spend way too much money on games for silly prizes, but the kids had a blast counting their tickets and redeeming them for stuff. We spent a little time at the outlet mall, not just any outlet mall, this mall had a True Religeon store where I found some jeans called "Becky", oh how I want them, they are so cute (too bad I'm poor). On Tuesday we saw the lion at the MGM. It was so cool, it came right up to the glass in front of us. The girls were so excited that it licked the glass right in front of them. Then we swam some more and caught the plane home. It was exhausting but so much fun! I have the best mom ever to do that for us.

4 months old

So Anna had her 4 month check-up today, everything went awesome. She's doing so well in every area.... but then there's her length! Holy cow this kid is long! The Dr. said she needs to be moved to a toddler seat in the car because she is too long for the baby carrier! What am I going to do with a 4 month old when I go grocery shopping that can't sit up in the cart yet?!

Baby Princess

Lucky Anna... she has two big sisters already teaching her how to be a princess!