Parkinson Pics & a whole week of FUN!

We got a GREAT Picture of the two of them......

now we just have to work on our family ones :)

Hailey (5 months)Tyler (20 months)

So these pictures are from when we went to Jessie and Adams Wedding last week. It was beautiful! The colors, the decorations, the food and the dancing! We had a great time!
Jessie is Davids sister Kellys sister in law, so they were in town too! Christy (Davids sister too) also came in for a day to film the wedding. It was great to see everyone and spend some time with them.
Kelly and Richs family were here for about a week. It was fun to hang out with them and their fun, energetic 3 boys. Parker is the same age as Tyler (they are 2 weeks apart) and it was great to have them play together. They are getting at the stage when they CAN play, so it was so nice that they got to spend time together. We went to Outback one night, just the adults, luckily too bc we ended up waiting for about an hour, but we did get some free appetizers so its all good. On Sunday we all were at his parents house and had some yummy steak! We then played ticket to ride, a great game! and Stacey won! The next few days were busy for them with wedding stuff, so we got back together on Thursday. We let the kids play at McDonalds before dinner at Magelbys, hoping that would get a lot of their energy out before a sit down dinner, yeah, that wasnt so...lol. No the kids did great, but yes it was a busy dinner. Then we headed back to the house to talk and play games. We played Carcassone this time around and David won, again! I dont think he has ever lost that game, CRAZY! So all in all we had a great time seeing the Evansons and wish them all the best on their move to Georgia, hope to see you soon! We love you!
Then off to St George, Kyle was going through the temple so were happy to be there with him. I stayed home with the kids and I now know what it would be like with 3 little ones...it would be....A LOT OF FUN! Ha ha, it was a hand full, but they were all wonderful! Then everyone got home and we had some pizza, went to urban renewal (great little shop) got some ice cream at Blue bunny and then headed down main street to this little water attraction they just opened. Everyone was there! It was fun..... Kate especially love it! I forgot my camera at Daves parents house, hence not very many posts, its STILL there! anyways, so Brittney has all the pics we took. Tyler is not really that fond of water things like that, David did make him get in though...he started to have fun for a bit. Hailey was with the grandparents just hanging out in the beautiful weather we had. We stayed there until we had to come back and get ready for Kevins eagle ceremony! It was great! Kyle was able to give Kevin the eagle. My dad and Dan spoke and they both did beautifully! Then we had some homemade cookies Rocio made and they were DELICIOUS!
We went back to moms to pack to get ready to leave, but we never want to leave when we are with everyone, so we talked and talked and talked and eventually got out of there at around 10, yeah we didnt get home til Sunday! lol. It was a great weekend! Dan, Britt and Kate will be coming up this weekend for a wedding, so we'll get to see them, then the next weekend we are off to Cali, we can't wait!!!!!

Conference Weekend

We had a great weekend, not only because we were able to be together watching conference but we had family come in town and we all got to hang out.
My cousin Laura and her cousin came in from Miami on Friday for Lauras mission reunion and for conference. They were able to go to the sessions on Sat AND Sun. They were really excited and we were happy they got to go. During priesthood session, Laura, Paola and Wendy hung out with me and we decided to have a cousins dinner. So Sunday after conference all the cousins came over and we had dinner, dessert and a lot of FUN!

Roland, Andrea, Andy, Andreas brother Paul, Wendy, Laura, their cousin Paola, Anthony, Kyle, David, Tyler, Hailey and I feasted on some chicken and rice, with bread and salad. I dont think David and I ever made a dinner for that many people, but it came out great! Gotta love the crock pot! Then we talked a bit, everyone played with Tyler and Hailey and then leave it to Kyle to bring out a new multi player wii game and we were all hooked.Oh so the story with Tylers lip....On saturday morning, David and I decided to go skiing (yes we did listen to conference on the radio) anyways, so we head over to his parents house to drop the kids off and as we were heading out, we see Tylers hat was in the car so I tell David to go leave it with his mom. He was taking a little longer than expected so i head in and hear Tyler crying. Apparently he decided to follow us out and tripped and fell and cut his lip WIDE open in the process. Davids dad came up and said he might need stitches. WHAT!!! and why david didnt come running out to get me when he saw Tyler crying with blood all over instead of cleaning it up so I wouldnt see it if I walked in, thats another story :)
So my poor child is so sad but he is a trooper, after a drink and a banana he calms down, the wound doesnt look that bad and he goes to grandma. We say bye and head to the mountains.
We had a great time, it was cold, i was scared, but i got over it and had a great time.
So back to the pictures, that is the mark on the bottom of his lip, it is probably all healed by now, but it was weird, when i first saw it, it looked like he already got stitches because it was a perfect, i mean perfect X under his lip, it was weird, but yeah so hes fine and we're very grateful!

This was funny. Every time Tyler saw Paola, he would run to her and give her a big hug and want her to hold him constantly....does that sound familiar, yeah, thats what he does with my MOM, crazy huh, we think he thought Paola was my mom. When Laura and Paola came in on Sunday, Laura came in first, Paola followed and Tyler started running toward them and then jumped straight into Paola arms, totally skipping Laura, it gave us all a big laugh. But yeah we couldnt believe how he was acting, luckily Paola didnt mind holding him and playing with him all weekend, Thank you!

Tyler and Paola aka Grandma for the day

Pictures....yeah they werent all ready...

As I said Kyle brought this new wii game, you had to do some crazy things with the remote, it was very involved. You would need to stand up, twist, hold the remote to your nose and oh watch out if you got the "big cheese" who knows what you would end up doing, lol!

Kyle

Anthony

Lindsey

We had ice cream and brownies for dessert. I usually dont make dessert for our meals, so this was a treat, especially for Tyler

ummmm....I'll say he really liked it!

I guess Kyle did too!
What do you expect from a poor, starving for home cooked meals, college student getting ready to leave for his mission, I'd look this excited too :)

Hailey loved having everyone over, she especially LOVED Laura. Laura would take her and talk to her and Hailey could not stop giggling everytime she had her, it was very cute!
p.s. thanks for holding her so much she loved it!

Our smiley baby Hailey

Tyler and Uncle Kyle

First attempt........

Second attempt.....
YAY we got everyone looking!
Back: Wendy, Anthony, Paola, Laura, Lindsey, Hailey & David
Couch: Andy, Tyler, Roland, Andrea, Paul (Andrea's Twin) Kyle & we cant forget Precious

Thanks guys for coming, we love spending time with all of you, come again any time! We'll have to do it again very soon!

Easter

Easter Sunday was spent going to church, Brittney, Dan and Kate came up! We tried to take family pictures, but church ended right when the kids needed naps so we snapped some quick ones, Brittney took them so we'll have to see how they turned out. We put the kids to bed, ate lunch, talked, kids woke up and then went to Rocio's for an Easter egg hunt. My mom got Hailey and Tyler cute easter baskets with some neat little things, the Dyes also gave us some nice presents (you guys are always thinking of us, Thanks!) At Rocios, Roland and Andrea hid a bunch of eggs for us around the house and we all participated in the hunt for them!
Once Tyler figured out what was going on, he had a great time!

Look at his big basket of eggs...

looks like its pretty heavy....

just lookin' around for anymore eggs....

This was the end count, 13 eggs and a WHOLE lot of candy! quite a bit thanks to the help of all the family! Thanks guys! Tyler not only loved the easter egg hunt but he also LOVED the candy. We really have never given him any candy before, so this was kinda his first time to have some and what do you know, he loved all the sour kind, just like his daddy!
After finding the eggs and eating candy, Tyler especially had to run all that sugar off so we went outside and TRIED to take some pics of the grandkids....

We tried to get a cute picture, maybe Brittney got better ones

Kate was being funny, she is becoming very active, she was grabbing everything, Haileys bow, ears, everything! so we moved Hailey out of the way and poor Tyler was left, Kate went right for him, trying to climb over him, poking at him, he did push her down once, she got right back up and keep going :)

He was very gentle with her though, good job Tyler!

After getting away from pictures he was just playing around in the back. This kid loves to be outside and even more when the weather was as perfect as it was in St George that weekend

I know there are a million pictures, we take so many so that hopefully some will turn out, but I liked most of them, so I am posting them!

We love how happy she is! and the box was great mom, very cute!

EGGS!

She was having fun in her little box

It fit just right!

I love that we can now say smile and he'll smile!
well, most of the time that is :)

Our attempt to get both the kids smiling and then Tyler got up and started playing with the eggs

Tyler and I

It was great to spend time with our family, we can't wait for Cali
Love you all, thanks for a great weekend!