Harry Potter, here we come!!

No we didn't see the midnight showing of Harry Potter. Surprising, I know! Chad, really wanted to bring Austin and Alyssa this time, and we are too smart to bring them to the midnight showing!!( I can feel the glares of the other movie-goers now ) I really hope I am not jinxing us, BUT our kids do really well in movies!! I think it is my magic multi-treat treat bags that I make, and also the fact that I have snuggly kids. Alyssa AND Austin will snuggle up and will stay forever, no matter what I am doing. So at the theater, it's the same, they bring their blankies and have their treat bags and snuggle in for the show!!! I just hope it's not too scary for them. Don't laugh but I got a little scared on the last Harry Potter. Okay, I told you not to laugh. I don't watch scary movies and if a scary movie preview comes on a commercial I change the channel if possible or turn my head. I get way too scared, and it messes me up with bad dreams and paranoia, so I just avoid the whole subject! So I just hope it's not scary!! My awesome Brother in Law, Casey and his wife D, bought the tickets in June!!! So we are very excited. Chad is a little too excited, I am making him keep his Harry costume, wand and broom in the closet, I don't want to be pointed and laughed at :) totally kidding about the costume, or am I?????

Excited!!!

I woke up this morning to a sweet little 5 year old voice. His face about an inch away from mine, saying "I was just going to ask you if I can open my presents now?" Seriously how could I say no?!?! Chad has been wanting to give him his gift since we bought it!! Chad was so excited he even wrapped it himself and he is not a gift wrapper!! I usually wrap every Christmas and Birthday gift, so I was very surprised to see his gift wrapped and ready to go!

All of us, still in our jammies, made our way into the family room, and Austin got to open his present from Me, Chad and Alyssa.



Austin has been wanting a Nintendo DS since, as long as he has been able to know what one is. All of his cousins have one and he usually props himself up behind them so he can peek over their shoulder and watch them play. So as much as I am against video games, we decided we would get him one, and just have rules on time limits and such!!! He made my day when I got to see his face and how thrilled he was to have his very own DS!! Afterward he said "mom and dad I love you, and I love my new DS, thank you!!!" all of that said in his new baby voice that he has been talking in lately :)


Austin got a couple cards in the mail yesterday from his Grandma and Grandpa who are in Holland until September, and His Great Grandma Roundy in Escalante, and his Great Aunt Marilyn, so he pooled the money together and deposited most of it into his savings account, and then Chad took him to target and he picked out The Ghostbusters Game, which he bought with his own money, he was so happy!!
I can't believe our little baby boy is 5 years old!! We are getting excited for his birthday party on Saturday!! He just can't decide if he wants me to make him a ghostbusters cake or a batman cake...I am thinking to myself, that it doesn't matter which one he chooses, I am by no means a cake decorator and people are going to need to use their imagination when looking at my decorated cake!!

Austin is 5 years old!!!

I cannot believe he is 5 years old already!!! Where does the time go!!! I remember people telling me when he was an infant saying, take it all in and enjoy this stage while it lasts, it goes by fast!! Well, at the time I was doing the midnight feeding, the endless diaper changes, etc. So it felt like it was going very slow! But now he will be starting kindergarten next month!!! I am so not ready!!! Austin gets to open his presents from mom, dad, and Alyssa and then his birthday party will be on Saturday, with aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends!!! Austin, our dear sweet angel, we love you so much and are so happy that we get to be your mom and dad, what a special gift you gave us!!! We love you and hope you have a very HAPPY birthday!!!

p.s. thank you for choosing to have your birthday party at Bouncin’ off the Walls!! We are going to have so much fun!!!

My favorite 'F' words...

Get your heads out of the gutter I don't use those kind of words...

Food, Fun, Fireworks and FAMILY

Occupational hazard of being a mamarazzi....my kids HATE having their picture taken, therefore look like they are in pain, in photographs!!!

Cavity FUN!!!

Those two words are never said together, AND for good reason!!! A cavity is never fun!!!! Austin had a cavity filled last year, and the little bugger fell out, we went back in and the dentist fixed it, he said that in baby teeth fillings tend to fall out because blah, blah blah I don't remember, so when it fell out a second time, I didn't think anything of it, except the fact that he had a horrible tooth ache with it. So we called the dentist yet again, but now our insurance has switched so we have to go to another dentist, YAY this is always so much fun to take your kids to a new dentist. Luckily my fabulous sister in law used to work for a pediatric dentist which she loved so we thought we would give him a try!!!

This is where it gets "fun"! We take Austin in for his appointment he cried most of the way to the Dentist Office, then cried when they tried to take x-rays then cried when they asked him to sit in the chair, then cried when they just looked in his mouth!! And because of all of this...

We get to go to Primary Childrens on 06/25 and he gets to be completely put out, sedated, asleep, knocked out, however you want to put it, so that he can have a baby tooth fixed!!!!

Tip to all parents out there Brush AND Floss your kids teeth morning noon and night, and no sugar EVER!!! And don't let your kids inherit your super thin enamel and let them get cavities easily like you.

However I am so thankful that there is such thing as sedation dentistry otherwise, we would have to strap him to the chair kicking and screaming through the whole procedure!!! 

YA RIGHT!!!!  This poor kid is going to HATE the dentist when all is said and done!!!

Wish us luck!!! 

C.E.L.E.B.R.A.T.E.

Austin had his last day of pre school and to celebrate they had a circus day at school. Everyone got to dress up in any costume they wanted, and Austin chose Peter Pan!!! Austin has loved his teachers and school and has learned so much!!! He is all set and ready for kindergarten at his new school!!! I can't believe I am old enough to have a child in elementary school!! and when did that happen anyway, it feels like we just brought him home from the hospital...Austin we love you and we are so proud of the sweet little boy you have become!!

*Austin on his first day of school*















*Austin on his last day of school*

We are changing her name to DRAMA QUEEN

it's much more fitting!!! Alyssa has always been quite the DIVA but she is only 3 and she already has me and Chad worried and asking each other how we are going to handle the teen years!!!

Please tell me this is normal for girls her age... (notice what she likes to pretend she has)

Heaven help us!!!

Luckily I have been busy with pictures!!!

So thank you all for your referrals I really do appreciate them especially in a time like this!!! I absolutely love what I do, I just wish I could add more hours to the day, so I can fit more session and editing into my day, so thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
And keep sending all you know my way!!!

Chad got laid off

after almost 9 years at his job, Advanta Bank Corp, they finally had to let him go. They did a big layoff laying off 1/3 of the company in February and things still aren't looking good for them so they did another layoff and told them all in May. He is looking for something at IHC so he can get into the nursing program sooner, so if any of you have a connection, please let me know!!! His last day of work is June 30th so we are crossing our fingers that he will find something by then!!!

R.A.N.D.O.M.

I went to the nursery garden and let the kids pick out a flower that is theirs to water and care for. They would fight me for the watering can to water the plants inside and it just made a big mess, and when you have hardwood floors, water on the floor is just not an option, so this was perfect!!! They love to take care of their flowers and will check on them each day, it's so cute!!! I don't have any pictures yet, so you get a picture of our pretty cherry blossoms on our tree!!!
It's no mystery I like to take pictures, and people around me get pretty sick of it, so I always get them making goofy faces, well we got a little carried away and started making crazy faces and shaking our heads all around to see what we came up with so here is a little of that (kinda gross and kinda funny to see yourself like that):




however if you try this at home, still be aware of what your children are doing so they don't get into the sunblock and spill it all over!!!

We went to a Birthday Party!!

My niece, Grace turned 8 years old!!! She chose to have a friend party in her backyard, they had lots of fun games, and she gave these cute gift bags with their names embroidered on them...she and her husband have started their own business, I will do a post later about that... all the kids had a lot of fun!!!!
Alyssa loved hanging out with the older girls she thought she was just as big, and hasn't stopped talking about Grace's friends since!!!