whirlwind trip

A few weekends ago me, my brother and my kids made quite the quick trip to Arizona to see my dad. It went something like this... Friday: drive from Salt Lake to Gilbert, AZ (12 hours-ish) Saturday: up at 4 am, 3 hour drive to Safford, 7 hours with my dad, 4 hour drive to Greer, AZ, few hours with fabulous friends Sunday: drive from Greer, AZ to Salt Lake (10 hours) With a 2 and 3 year old and almost 30 hours in a car in 3 days... all I can say, we must love my dad!

Saturday morning on the way to the prison-- nice pancake Mac

peek-a-boo

Sienna's attempt at peek-a-boo with a pancake

the only picture proving our visit with my dad-- and yes we were getting screamed at by a prison guard to not take this picture, but we got it!!

with that much distance you better believe we saw some beautiful scenery

THE END.

she did it!!

After we left the museum that day, we walked past a little jewelry store and I asked Sienna if she wanted to get her ears pierced and she said SURE! (Sidenote: Sienna has wanted her ears pierced for awhile now, so we took her and she freaked out, so we left and continued telling her it was just a quick pinch. I figured it would be years before we would get her in the store again.) I was shocked but did not take her serious because of the last time. She went right, wanted to sit on the chair by herself, and did not even cry.

Afterwards we ran into another store and here she is smiling at herself with her new earrings.

She is so proud of her new earrings and that she didn't even cry!

Happy St Patty's Day

We had the greatest St. Patrick's Day, we had Omar all day! We went to the Dicovery Gateway Museum for a fun family outing!

Ricky did it, FINALLY!!!

So 10 years ago, almost exactly, I was in a new singles ward and had a new FHE group, in which there was a freaking cool guy, who eventually became one of my best friends! For the next few years in Provo Rick and I hit parties together to assist with getting dates, plucked eachother's eyebrows, hosted weekly movie nights, and on and on... when he graduated he was off to Orange County for his first real job. Eventually I made my way to San Diego to get away from Provo and not long after Rick landed in SD too, he moved in with some guys he thought were awesome but he called 'young' (I must have forgotten who was talking--5 years my senior) so I ignored them. Time passed and the 2 queen beds in his shared room seemed to get closer-- that is when I noticed that amazingly hot 'young' Mexican who eventually became mine!! After Omar and I got married the fun single years contiued for Rick and we were starting to think he was hopeless in the love department, that is when Kristen came along... we are so happy that Rick has found his eternal companion and they can now work on catching up in the kid department!!

see how happy O is

waiting outside the temple for the newly sealed couple

my only picture of the happy couple

Rick and his boys

Rick and Zach acting like their normal selves!!

some of Sienna's faces...

One of Sienna's favorite things is to do her faces, so I tried to document a few!

mean face

sad face

crazy face

sweet face

silly face

happy face

week O fun

A few weeks ago we got to spend a week with some of our best friends while there parents were out of town...

we painted

went to jungle jims

we got treats

and lots more!! Thanks for all the fun!!

so innocent...

in pictures anyway... but aren't they fun to look at?!?!

posing for mama

this picture is so Sienna-- the dress, the purse, the cheese, the headbum (headband), the two different colored shoes (that both match her outfit, she says).

Even though most days with a 2 & 3 year old make me totally nuts, I have to love them!!