Making new memories with old friends!

I had so much fun last night! My old "homie" from college, Cherice, (we weren't roomies, cause we didn't share a room - we were homiez cause we shared a town-house!) was in town so we got together to do a little swimming at my mom's house with the kids. My four and her one! LOL. We were talking and decided to call anyone from high school whose phone number I had in my cell phone and see if they could do a girls-night dinner tonight.

We had seven of us there and it was SO MUCH FUN! We ate at Boston's in Layton and just sat and chatted for three hours about kids, guys (both now and then), relationships, labor, work etc. It was great to reconnect with these people - most of whom I do have their number but I don't use it nearly often enough!

So thanks to Cherice, Shara, Jenn, Joan, Amanda, and Amy for letting me get out of the house, away from kids, and have an awesome time reminiscing! Let's do it again soon!

The Princess Celebrates Two Years of Life!!

I know, I can't believe it either! Miss Maveri Jean is TWO YEARS OLD! Where has the time gone? She is getting too dang smart, I can tell you that much. She talks constantly, and usually it's "talking back"! She's hit the "two's" in every way imaginable, but mostly in her absolute adorable-ness! She makes me smile every day with her silly "shake-a-booty" dance, her "i talk nana on phone" insistance, her hugs and kisses (LOVE those kisses), and her love of all things girly! She finally has just enough hair to do "piggies" which she loves. She also loves having her nails painted to be "futiful", and will ask Aunt Erynn to paint them every time she goes over there!

She had a great birthday party at Nana & Bompa's house. We had dinner, opened presents, went swimming and ate pink cake! Good times. I will have to say that her favorite present was the bubble mower - HUGE hit, but she also loved everything else. She's very much into purses, and dolls, and stuffed animals etc. So different from the three boys, it's been an adjustment!

Here are some highlight pics from her birthday party!























And now here's a few pictures I found from the past two years that we've celebrated with this beautiful girl. I always said "girls are scary" and I stand by that - they are....but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I love my baby girl.

Independence Day Fun!

We had a great 4th of July weekend. Matt and I both had Friday off so we took the kids to the Splash Pad. The boys LOVED it, Maveri hated the water part, but loved the playground part.

That night we went out to Plain City with Bryce & Sally. Only, their dinner turned out to be super expensive for a sandwhich and beans, so we went to the store and decided to play "what can we get for what we would've paid there". We went back to Bryce & Sally's with Steak, Pork, Corn, Cherries, Salad, and Root Beer Floats! Way Yummy.

Saturday we woke up uber early and met out in Plain City again for breakfast. This time it was a much more reasonable price, and a very good breakfast. From there we watched the small parade, and then we hung out there for a little bit looking at booths, the kids played on the bouncy things, and Blaine even got into the fish pond and caught himself a real live trout with his bare hands! (and yes, I cleaned and cooked it for him on Sunday - bleh)

That afternoon we went to my parents house for a little Holiday Swimming, and then we ended up staying there and having burgers and dogs, corn, salad & pie with my parents. My poor mom is still sick with kidney stones (it's been a week now), but she did manage to eat some corn and pie.

And for fireworks that night we went out to Mike & Liz Staten's house. We haven't seen or hung out with them in so long, so it was a lot of fun to see them again. The fireworks were good this year (you never know with Riverdale, sometimes it's not so great ;) ). Only Mr. Quinten could fall alseep in the middle of a fireworks show, but that just goes to show how hard he played all day long!

The kids and I had painted matching shirts for the day on Thursday. They were so excited to get to wear them, and I think they turned out pretty darn cute!

Here's a few pics to highlight the weekend!