Happy Birhdays!

So, May is a freakishly busy birthday month for us and we've been absolutely horrible about getting a HAPPY BIRTHDAY out to everyone so here goes:



Happy 35th Birthday Bret!











Happy 25th Birthday to Josh Huff AND to Blake Nelson!











Happy 60th Birthday to my Mommy tomorrow!!

SO much to Celebrate!

Happy Mothers Day to everyone! Being a Mother, Aunt, Grandmother, babysitter, every woman has the opportunity to touch the life of a child for good. So thank you! I wish I could list everyone, other than my dear old mom, who has been an influence for good in my life.
To name a few; Tammy, the best babysitter ever! She taught me how to have fun when caring for children, and how to enjoy them. Sharon Lees, my second in command mommy, she is always a great example of love and compassion. Shellee Lewis, she continues to teach me about the tender joys of being a mother. My grandmothers, they were both so good at spoiling us and loving us, and reminding me where I came from. Tiffany Cheeseman, how much I have learned from her loving example of what a caring mother is. Kelly Lewis, for showing me the importance of patience with children.
Now that I've reached an age in my life where most of my friends and family have children, I have realized how important a good example is to a child. Again, thank you to my friends, sisters( all 11 of them!), grandmothers, mother in law, and of course to my mother for being wonderful examples for me.

Lose WHAT?

So I had a doctors appt the other day and he said that my Triglycerides are sort of high. Ok, whatever that means, I don't really know. He said I should try to lose some weight and to stay away from Carbs, like pasta, rice, potatoes, that sort of thing. Really, I say, does that include cookies, brownies, and cakes? Because that's really where my weakness lies. Of course those things are included. Hmmmm, I thought about it and decided that I could do this, but that Saturday would be my eat what you want day. And I did. Then on Sunday we went to a party, wouldn't it be rude to pass up dessert? Which was great, just an assortment of cookies and brownies, not kidding. I was doing really good today when Dustin got sick, sad I know. He needed orange juice, so I ran to the store at 10pm to get him some and wouldn't you know it, the store also carried Turtle Chex Mix (BTW thanks Lori:) I don't know what it looks like to pass up a good thing so I bought a bag. I actually poured myself a "small" bowl of it and as I walked over to the computer to do this, I licked up a piece out of the bowl, really I couldn't contain myself a second longer!
The doctor asked me before I left if I needed to see a nutritionist, I told him, no, I think I can handle it:)

Yippeee!!

I'm SO excited! I decided we(Dustin and I) needed a vacation, so I booked us a cruise! I can't wait, we're going the last week in August to Mexico for 5 days. If anyone wants to come along, feel free, yo hablo espanol:)

No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed!

What a whirlwind of visitors! So, this past week was spring break for Dustin's brother, Trevor and his family(Jen, Tyler, Davin, and Ryan), and of course they came down to visit, who wouldn't? The kids had so much fun! Here are Davin and Damen, enjoying our guest bed.


We went to the beach with them and Damen and I went to Disneyland with them too.
At Disneyland this fountain was a big hit, I don't think the kids would have minded if we left them there!








We are blessed to have such great family, especially cousins for our kids!! Thanks for coming, we're really glad we got to see you guys:)

Bon Jovi ROCKS!!

So, last weekend my sister Lori came down to visit. We had lots of fun shopping and hanging out, but the best was going to see Bon Jovi on Saturday night, it was awesome! Chris Daughtry opened for him, which was awesome too. Poor Damen was sick all weekend, but he enjoyed the attention from Aunt Lori, which he wouldn't even try to say but learned to sign after showing him how once. Thanks Lori for coming, do it again!(soon)

Family Fun

For Christmas we decided to buy ourselves a bike trailer for Damen. We both have bikes and it seems more economical to buy a trailer that can hold two children, than to buy a child seat that only carries one child. Yes, we realize it's April, we're what you call procrastinators, but we got it just the same!
We took our first ride last night over to our friends and took their little girl, Olivia out for a ride too. Damen seemed to have a good time and hopefully this will be a new activity we can do together, often! (not to mention it's also much needed exercise!!)