Easter Egg Hunt

On Saturday morning we had our ward annual Easter Egg hunt!  it is always so much fun to see all the kids run and get excited over something simple like plastic eggs and candy!

 Ty lined up with his buddy Logan...ready to go

 and Blaine with a few of his big friend buddies!

Hoppy Easter to these cute little bunnies

dance, dance, and some more....DANCE!!!!

i feel so lucky, i've been able to dance and teach dance sooo much lately.  i really love working with these kids and have so much fun!  they all did so awesome!

 these pictures are from my 2 regular classes.  i had a little class ages 5-8 (plus little sydney in font who is 3) and an older class ages 9-12 (plus a couple younger who were ready to advance).  this was the last day of class before they "Performed" for their parents.  i made those little tulle skirts and the girlies looked sooo cute.  i also made shirts for my older kids with "afterparty" on the front and their name on back!   both classes were AWESOME!!

 my future B-boy Ty guy....he was ready for class too!  haha

 then, i was approached by the local Jr High to help with a number.  i told them I DON'T CHEER...but they wanted to do something more "hip-hoppy".  i was super honored that they wanted me and we really had a great time.  this was my biggest group number and such a great learning experience for me...oh and did i mention, the girls were AMAZING!!!!  i was so glad i was able to work with them and had such a great time.  this was their FINAL performance of the year and they really went out with a BANG. showing off their stuff!!

 the girls even taught me a couple things...and we were able to add some stunting in the routine.  so fun!

thanks again girls for letting me come and play!  :)

Lets go Fly a Kite

we had a pretty windy day over spring break, so we thought it would be fun to go fly some kites!!  ty really wanted to do it "All by himself", but was having a hard time getting his kite up off the ground!

 he ran up and down the street and across and around and all over trying anyway he could....

 but only ended up getting tangled in the process.  it just wasn't working!!!

 leave it to BIG BROTHER to come to the rescue. 

 together, those 2 can do anything!  i'm so grateful for sweet moments like this.  it may seem so simple to some people, but i really hope ty realizes how much he needs his brother, and that with him, they can FLY!  (cheesy i know...but true)

i love these boys so much!  xoxo

Day in Phoenix

For the first time ever in Jake and I's married life, we actually have to travel to get to a temple...granted 2 hours each way isn't that bad.  (before AZ we have always been within 30 mins of a temple)  But since it takes a good amount of time in the car, we try to make it a whole day event...drive up in the morning, each do out sessions, then hang out and play in Phoenix before driving back.  

 going to the temple now is something i really treasure now...it's not a "convenient" thing that i take advantage of.  now i feel like when i can get down to the temple it is really special because we have to make an extra effort to go.  i really enjoying getting there when i can.  it's also really neat watching my kids see how important it is.  they get excited to go too.  we bring them with us and switch off watching them so it really is a whole family affair.  in the past, we could leave them for just a couple hours, go real quick together and get back to pay a babysitter.  now atleast 6 hours is waaaaay too long to leave our kids.  we look forward to when the tucson temple is built and also when blaine is a little bit older so he can babysit (or do baptisms with us).  for now i enjoy the garunteed family time we get whenever we go to the temple.

 we have passes to a Science museum here in Tucson, but the super cool thing about this pass, is that we can use our pass at several other science museums all over the USA.  there happens to be a cool science museum in Phoenix and decided to go check it out!  the boys had soo much fun!

 i love how different my boys can be...Blaine is over learning and trying to figure out how pipes and drains work....Ty only cares about the cut in half toilet!  haha   Fun day!

house warming gift?!

we woke up to this little beauty today!  we have a mysterious flamingo bandit in our neighborhood!

we managed to solve the mystery....thank you ALLEN's for making us feel so welcome to the neighborhood!  xoxo

MoNSTeR TRuCKS!!!!

Jake got us tickets for a monster truck show through his work and it was AWESOME!!!!  i used to love monster trucks as a kid, so this was so fun for me.  Blaine and Jake really enjoyed it too!  ty did for the first hour or so, but it was SUPER loud.  being indoors didn't help!

 Ty had his fingers in his ears the whole time!!

 it was getting louder as the night went on, so we decided to buy these super expensive ear muffs to help with the sound, but it didn't seem to work.  he was still crying and clinging to me until i finally took him outside.  he had just as much fun outside, playing with his new ear muffs.  he says he wants to go again next year, so we will see and maybe try again.  either way, it was awesome to see those big trucks!!

weekend with the Allen kids

we decided to see what it would be like to have 6 kids and watched our friend's the Allen's kids for the weekend!  it was actually a blast!  i don't know who had more fun...the kids or ME!  

 we made yummy cookies

 and stayed up way too late playing games, painting nails, just dance, and of course a midnight run to mcdonalds for shakes!!  i stayed with the girls at their house, and the boys stayed back at our house.

 then in the morning we all got back together for an EPIC battle of capture the flag.  we built forts and came up with strategies to get the flags.  girls vs. boys naturally

and what would a weekend be without ms sydney teaching us all a dance!  she has some sweet moves, so i'm glad she taught us some too!  such a fun weekend!!