Famous Potato Race

Phil and his sister Natalie ran the half marathon this past weekend. Yeah, they call it running 13.1 miles. I call it insane. Saturday morning started bright and early for the runners. They had to be down at the park by 6:45am to catch the shuttle to their starting location, and then the race started at 8:30am. The cheerleaders {aka me and the kids, Jacob and Preston, and Grandma and Grandpa} arrived at the park at 10:15am. 

We only had to wait about 15 minutes before we saw Phil cross the finish line. Then 10 minutes later Natalie finished. We are so proud of them for accomplishing the race!

That afternoon, the runners need some recuperation time, so we just hung out at our house while the kids rode bikes. It was a fun and relaxing {well, for me} day! :)

Family Pictures

I just have to start out by saying thank you to my sister, Amber. She took our family pictures while we were in Utah, and they turned out fabulous! I LOVE them! There are more, but these are my favorites!

The next weekend, we had Amber take pictures for the Roylance family. The weather was drastically different than the week before. We waited all day for it to stop snowing so we could go take them. It was so frigid cold, but once again, Amber did an amazing job!

It is kind of funny to watch the kids faces get more and more upset! Anyway, thanks again Amber! :)

April Overview

 I just wanted to blog the other parts of April (Besides our trip to Utah and Easter). On the 18th, I celebrated my birthday. I feel kind of funny blogging about my own birthday, but let's face it, Phil definitely won't be (considering he hasn't touched his own blog in over two years). All day long I kept singing that song, "Just another manic Monday". I know that's not the title, but those were the words I was singing! Anyway, once Phil got home . . . with flowers! . . . we went out and celebrated with dinner at Olive Garden and shopping at the mall. Oh and don't laugh at my cake. My plan was to just grab a piece of Cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory, but Coleman insisted that I have a birthday cake. And I am HORRIBLE at cake decorating! See here if you need proof!

The rest of the month and into May has been spent working in the yard, going on picnics, and chillin' at home! Isabella is smiling all the time, and we are just starting to get a few giggles out of her. The other day, I went to check on her while she was napping, and found that she had spit out her pacifier, and was sucking her thumb instead! Over the weekend, we got sunglasses for Coleman and Teegan, and I found the boys yesterday wearing them while watching cartoons. Apparently the sun was in their eyes. They always know how to make me laugh! Not to brag, but don't I have the cutest children ever! :) Love them!

Easter-E-Activity

We celebrated Easter all weekend long. The previous week, we ran into the Easter Bunny making his rounds at the mall. On Friday, we colored our eggs! Coleman was so funny and wanted to eat them more than color them (luckily they are healthy)! Then on Saturday morning, our neighborhood had an egg hunt, where Teegan dominated the 0-3 year category, and Coleman was a bit of an underdog at the 4-8 year old category. Teegan was nice enough to share his loot (we're pretending that he chose and wasn't forced into it!)

On Easter morning, the boys hunted down a few more eggs and found their baskets. Then we rushed to get ready for church because we had Regional Conference that morning-which was so good! 

Can I just say, that I am having so much fun dressing and shopping for Isabella! I LOVED her Easter dress!

Spring Break in Utah

The afternoon after Talon's blessing, the kids and I headed to American Fork with my parents, while Phil drove back home so he could go to work. We were able to spend the week with my parents for Coleman's spring break. Phil was even able to get off a few days early so he could come join in on the fun! The weather was fabulous! One afternoon we had lunch at a fun park in Highland. 

These pictures are kind of thrown together at random, but Phil and I also celebrated our sixth anniversary. We headed to Rodizio Grill (Phil's choice) for lunch. I can't complain though, because we ordered a FABULOUS dessert! Thanks Mom for watching the kids for us! That night Phil made us dutch oven Chili and my sister Amber took some awesome family pictures for us! I'll be posting those in the near future! 

 That weekend was Conference and it was so nice to sit and listen to the sessions while the kids played with their cousins. On Saturday, Ashley and her family drove down and all the girls went to lunch, while  all the guys took the kids to the Aquarium in Sandy. That night, while the guys were at the Priesthood session, the girls made the cutest Easter wreaths. I forgot to take a picture of mine, so I guess you will just have to take my word for it! Then we met up at the Country Club for the "After Meeting Dinner".

On Tuesday, we went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point with Ashley and her kids, and my mom. The boys had so much fun exploring and running around with Autumn and River. Thanks Grammy for taking us!

We spent the rest of that week with the Roylance's. On Friday night, Natalie and her family came down, and we headed to Pirate Island so the kids could play. We all had a lot of fun, and ended up with an endless supply of tickets that the boys used to pick out some "treasures". Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking us!

Grandma held an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday morning. Unfortunately the weather wasn't cooperating (it was snowing), so we did it inside. It was lots of fun, and the kids got SO MUCH CANDY! Grandma always knows how to spoil them!

Saturday evening, we headed to dinner at Red Robin before driving back up to A.F. so Amber could take more family pictures. This time, it included all of the Roylance's and the grand babies. Again, I'll post those soon!

Sunday morning, we headed back home. I'm really impressed with how well the kids actually do on the 6 hour drive. Lets keep our fingers crossed that it stays that way! (We have a few trips this summer that include long travel days!)

Just Another Weekend in Paradise

Back in the end of March, we headed down to Paradise, UT to spend the weekend with my sister and her family. We first met up with them at Firehouse Pizza for dinner on Friday. However, I forgot to pull out my camera. It was quite the eventful dinner. Poor River fell and knocked his two front teeth loose and bit through his tongue. It was so sad. On Saturday morning, we got up and headed over to the farm to check out the new baby calf. Coleman even got to help feed him. After checking out the farm animals, we jumped on the 4 wheelers, and headed out to check on the cows and see all the other new calves. They were so cute. The White's also have a couple buffalo that we got to see. It was SO muddy, that we had to end our ride. The mud splashed EVERYWHERE, even on Isabella's face, which I thought was covered with the blanket!

That afternoon, my sister Amber, and her family came and joined us. Poor Ashley's house was CrAzY with all the kids running around! But we had so much fun! We went to dinner that night at the local diner, and then back to Ashley's to hang out. On Sunday, they were blessing Talon, so my parents and other siblings also came up. Thanks Ashley for the fun weekend! :)