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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

*Jaden says...*

I got this idea from you Lez, on the cute things my kids (at the moment only Jaden) says. So many times Jaden will gently hold my face in his hands and say " mama your beautiful"  totally melts my heart!

Tonight as I was laying down with him for bedtime he turns over to me and gently with his hand touches my hair down to my face and says "Aww I have a beautiful mama" again my heart just melts like butter. 

I hope this sweetness continues on to his  wife someday! Love that sweet, crazy, handful of a son of mine!!

Monday, August 25, 2014

*These two*

The picture says it all!!

Friday, August 22, 2014

*Six Years Wedding Anniversary*

We have made it a whole six years!! I know it's not long compared to 30 year marriages that both our parents have had haha but we are headed there! Seven years together, six years married, two beautiful baby boys later and still hot for each other! Our marriage is not perfect and we of course have our bad moments, but I wouldn't want to spend forever with anyone else!

This anniversary was sweet and simple, just dinner and a movie (very bad one too lol) but it was so fun anyways! My mom came over and watched our boys (she is the best) and said stay out late and have fun. We were  home by 9:30 and sleeping not too much later (haha we are old). Anyways, here is to another year together as husband and wife plus eternity to go!
Now and....
Then!!!

Friday, August 15, 2014

*Riding at the Park*

These pictures were taken back in April when the weather was still actually nice. Josh restored his little brother's old bike for Jaden, so now he loves to ride it whenever we go to the park. Jaden is seriously a natural at anything he does and picked up riding a bike super easily.






*Messy Face*

I'm on a blogging role haha, well that and just trying to get all the pics off my camera too. Here are some cute messy face pictures of Eli, probably taken a few months ago.



This is probably the cutest messy face ever, awww love him!

*Second Lake Powell Trip 2014*

Just a few weeks later for the 4th of July we headed on back to Lake Powell again, but with my family this time. We took up our toy hauler trailer and camped on the beach, which was also so much fun and a bit easier to watch the kids. We met up with some of my relatives as well, and they are so much fun to be with especially since their older kids LOVE to play with my little ones (so of course I get tons of relaxation time!!). We unfortunately did not see many fireworks because you have to drive into town and my kids were just exhausted from playing all day, but I don't think we were too sad to get to bed early that night and miss out.

I took this picture on our drive up of this absolutely beautiful Arizona sunset!

Eli and Grandpa having a starring contest haha.


My sweet Macey pup!

My parents's spiffy new boat!

Jaden helping (watching) Grandpa clean the boat.

Daddy and Eli

Grandpa and Jaden

Mama and Eli

Jaden and Eli having fun with their cousins!

Eli relaxing on the beach!

Jaden had tons of fun building his usual sand castles.



Cuddles with Grandpa

 Jaden had hours of fun shooting this squirt gun with my cousins. It brings so much joy to me to watch my babies having fun and laughing, it makes life so worth living to see the smiles on my kids faces!!


Such a cheese ball hahhaha

Really the pictures explain our whole trip so not really much more is needed to be said. I had an absolute blast on this trip and it was super relaxing too. We will be going back to Powell one more time for Labor Day weekend, so hopefully I will get around to posting it sooner than later.

*First Lake Powell Trip of 2014*

I am super behind on blogging about our summer vacations, mainly because all my pictures are on my new camera, and well if it's not at the click of my phone it pretty much won't happen for a long time haha. Also our computers are ancient and have no more room to upload the huge picture files, so I have to use Josh's work laptop which of course I don't get till night time and then I'm too tired.

Anyways enough excuses, I'm doing it now and that's what counts. I'm going to just pour on every picture I have from my camera, so there are going to be multiple blog posts with TONS of pictures, but hey who doesn't love a good post to read!

So we started out our first summer vacation with Josh's family back in June at Lake Powell. This year his parent's bought a time share with some other friend's on a houseboat so we were all super excited for that. Of course with being excited I was also super anxious about it because little toddlers and house boats don't mix well together. You really have to watch them every single second and that can be a bit stressful since there were a lot of people on the boat. However, Everything turned out fine and we of course are all safe and had a great time.
"Summer Obsession" was the name of our boat

We were on the boat for an entire week so lots of fun in the sun and playing in the water. We arrived late on a Monday night and slept on the boat at the marina. The next day we set out on the open water in search of a nice spot to park the boat for the week. So we found a nice spot, got all settled in and started our houseboat vacation.

Eli checking out the boat!

Love this face!

Captain Eli
Captain Jaden

Eli and Uncle Tate

Jaden and his cousin Brityn (these two are the best of friends as you can tell) love them!!

Jaden, Brityn and Papa

Jaden and Grandma
Our little family!

Daddy and Eli (love Eli's cheesy smile haha)
Love!

This face!

Josh's mad wake boarding skills
Then there is me hahah I'm not that good but I can hold my own on a wake board.
Papa rented two jet ski's for the week, so these three basically lived on it and had the time of their lives!
Family photo at the end of our awesome vacation
I took this while just relaxing on the deck of the boat, such a beautiful full moon that night.

My main squeeze and I...love him!

I love the lighting in this picture and how the sun is reflecting off of Eli's hair

Every time we were on the boat Jaden would take a seat behind Papa in the driver seat, and just hold on haha. He loves his Papa!
AMAZING vacation and super excited to do it again next year. I love Lake Powell so much, and am now on to blog about the second Lake Powell trip we took a few short weeks later with my family!

*For time and all eternity*

*For time and all eternity*

Suns Game

Thinking of a game plan

A kiss for good luck at the game!

*Honeymoon*

Josh and I went on a wonderful honeymoon to Cancun, Mexico for 8 day 7 nights in an all inclusive resort. We had a blast from relaxing on the beach, swimming with the dolphins, snorkeling, all the way to taking a tour to the Chichen-itza Pyramids (that was Josh's favorite). All and all it was a very fun and romantic honeymoon and we owe it all to my new in-laws for making it possible!

Honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico

Honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico
Us in front of the beautiful ocean

Swimming with the Dolphins

The dolphin giving me a smooch!


Eating dinner at the HardRock Cafe

Snorkeling!

Yummy Pina Coladas