Blue's Unbirthday!

Blue celebrated his unbirthday a little while ago, and I thought I should quit slacking and put some pictures up. This unbirthday tradtion invloves on the day six months from your birthday, when you are officially something and a half you get a special date just with Dad. The unbirthday child gets to choose the event. Blue was dying to go to a Phoenix Roadrunners hockey game. They got box seats, had some good Father Son bonding time and, Blue even got to finish off the night with a Roadrunner trying to eat his head. They had a great time.

The Hunt

Easter was pretty fun around here. It all started with an early morning egg hunt complete with jammies and lots of candy.

Cruz was very excited about this whole concept.

The big boys were very sweet about helping their little brother find some eggs.

Time to chill out and take inventory.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Here's a little bit of clover love from us to you.

Spacetastic

A few pics from Saturday's party. It was super fun, complete with robots, a rocketship, Little Kevin all grown up with facial hair, and a dance challenge with the Smith Sisters challenging Asian Persuasion. It was a pretty close call. For more pics including the amazing robot costumes my mom made look here.

Attack of the Tube Man

This is Tube Man, he is a superhero of sorts. He basically just runs after the boys in the back yard. For some reason you do not want the Tube Man to get you or you know what will happen - you will turn into a Tube Man yourself! AAAHHH!

Another reason I married Jason.

Mismatch Day

Today was mismatch day at school. Blue was all excited about this and woke up early to pick out his outfit. I walked him into school and it was so fun to see him walk in so proud of himself. He thought he should win some sort of award for his great outfit. As his mother, I'd have to agree.

Wild

Three boys = alot of wrestling. Anywhere, anytime. Here they are in the dressing room of Devan's store. Please pray for me.

Valentines Prom

Our Valentines Day was celebrated by dancing the night away at a very retro prom. Only a few seemed to get the memo that it was retro. Here is the before prom shot, waiting for our ride.

Sarah, looking ever so lovely and serious with her dozen roses. Notice her nice retro eyebrows, very unplucked.

Devz was sporting the "Moonlighting" dress complete with a faux cape. She called it, "When Claire Huxtable goes to the opera."

The sisters and the mother. Thanks to the mother for the wonderful silk corsages.

Happy Valentines Day!

Cruz and his Elephant

The cutest 1 and 1/2 year old.

Waiting to go Hiking

Blue and Slade got all ready to go hiking with Grandpa and their cousins. Here they are waiting on the sidewalk to be picked up.

Princesses On Ice

All of the Aunties (Chelsea included although I didn't get a picture of her) took Remi and Ava to Princesses on Ice last week. It was a fun girly girl activity while all the boys were home playing Wii. Kelli and Devan had actual tears going on from all that "magic." Kelli said it best, "Why can't life just be a fantasy?" I told her, "That's what they make drugs for." I love how Remi is just about as tired as she could be in this picture.

My Baby Sister Had a Baby!

My wonderful sister Chelsea had her baby girl Carma Nicole last night! She was a big cutie baby, 8lbs 12oz and 21 inches long. Chelsea did a great job. She was in labor for a good 30-something hours, with a threat of c-section but managed to prove everyone wrong with a normal delivery and the final product being the sweetest little girl you have ever seen. All four of us sisters were there to watch little Carma be born along with the grandmothers and Chelsea's husband of course. It was such a wonderful experience to all be together to welcome this sweet little baby into our family.

Hooray for Chelsea!

Snow Day

We had snow in Arizona! In our part of the country if you want snow, you just hire a company to make you some. My cousin Nicole had her 13th birthday party and they had snow to play in and hot chocolate for everyone. The kids had a blast having a little snow fight in our 60-ish degree weather. Hooray for Phoenix winters.

Happy 17th Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary BFF! It has been 17 crazy years since the MLK Day trip to the mall. Here is the journal entry to prove it. Wow, being eleven was great.