YAY! SPRING IS REALLY HERE!! FOR REAL!

I am always so excited for spring! It makes me want to put on my sexy (joke :0) yard work capris and dig in the dirt to make something BLOOM! Hope you're all having a great spring so far! I took some photos of the kids in front of my favorite trees in the yard in full bloom. It just makes me happy to think about those trees...hmmm :) Anyway, the kids don't look too bad either!


We are loving being outside to wiggle on the grass! Dandelions and all!

Elly turns 1 year old!

Elly was too cute. She was pretty apprehensive about eating the cake until we gave her a spoon! Then she was happy to dig right in! She loved the attention of going through this "photo shoot" but was a little confused why everyone was watching her. Our baby is growing up so fast. Sigh.

The Polar Express!

Our family had a fun little outing to Heber City to ride to the North Pole! The kids were sooooo excited! We had a real hard time taking good pictures, but still wanted to share the fun of it!




True to the book, we came dressed in jammies (well the kids did. If Derek and I had the train wouldn't have pulled out of the station!) We were served hot chocolate and cookies, the conductor came through the cars and punched our tickets, and at the end Santa himself gave each of the children a magical bell. Oh what fun! The kids were bragging for a long time that they had now seen the North Pole (a light display outside the trains stopping point) and ridden on the REAL Polar Express!

Fall Fun!

We love to get out in the brisk weather of fall! It is refreshingly different from the heat of summer, and showing changing colors and seasons all around us. We went to a corn maze near our home and had a great time getting lost. Drew and Abby made the decisions of whether we turned left or right, and amazingly we found our way out (eventually)!

Relishing those little things

I am writing today to celebrate and remember the small and simple joys in life. I love to look back on our old family photos- especially on the baby pictures. Every wise woman will tell you that when you're in the middle of the "baby years" with feedings, spit ups, diapers, and all the other less than glamorous experiences in raising a baby, to simply "enjoy it." How easy to forget, and how much we miss those little tiny milestones that were measured in weeks and months instead of years and lifetimes. My babies are growing too fast. I am so happy we have photos to remind me of these cute stages. Now my goal in life is to be happy where I am. Not where I'll be in a few years, not what I wish I had, not how I wish I looked. I want to be happy now. Here. Right where I am. And LOVE it. I hope you all feel the same and enjoy your life. NOW.

My First 3 Digital Scrapbook Pages

This is a learning process and new obsession of mine- Digital Scrapbooking! So, don't laugh at the elementary level of my skill, but enjoy the fact I finished them without scraps of paper all over the house, and wall to wall paper supplies for the next 2 weeks! Here's my first 3:

Kids Birthdays!

We had a great celebration! Drew turned 3 on the 2nd. and Abby turned 5 on the 5th. We had a party at Grandma and Grandpa Davenport's house and all the cousins were able to be there! We had cakes- Abby wanted a pink and brown cake with butterflies and flowers. Drew wanted cookies. He got them on a stick frosted green with all the sports balls on them.

The cousins were great to plan some games including marshmallow shooting


and then set up a great gift "memory" for Abby and Drew to go into a tent that was full to the ceiling of balloons!

Abby and the others had fun popping them .Drew was a little more apprehensive, and preferred to pop his balloons outside.
Then we finished up with pinatas-

Abby painted her own butterfly, and Drew got 3 sports balls- baseball, basketball, and soccer ball. 4 pinatas allowed enough turns for everybody to hit them!
Thanks to everybody that came and helped out too!
We love you all!