Mom & Dad's Birthday

Both my mom and dad's birthday's are just two weeks apart in February. My mom loves Red Robin so we all went to lunch. I had offered to bring a cake, but my dad had already gone to Costco and bought a massive chocolate cake. They had some friends over the night before and had eaten a couple of pieces. It was hard to fit ALL those candles on half of a cake. (Ha Ha) My dad decorated the top of the cake and it was so cute.

The first round was for my mom. When they blew out the candles their was so much smoke that we thought the fire alarm was going to sound. My mom would feel bad if I gave her age, but I want her to know that she doesn't act nor does she looks her age. Happy Birthday Mom!

Round two was for my dad's birthday. We added a few more candles and their was even more smoke. The kids enjoyed sitting on Papa's lap licking the chocolate off the candles. Happy Birthday Dad! We all had a really fun day.

PRO-BOWL 2009

Nick went to the Probowl this year with his friend Keoki and his brother Mike. It was the last year they were holding it in Hawaii, so they used that as an excuse to go.

They were lucky enough to find front row tickets to the game, so they got some great pics of the players and performers. (Archie Manning, Colt Brennen, David Archuleta, Ciara, and Enrica Iglasias??) were all standing right below him during the game. So he said it was cool. I just wanted to see the pictures of David Archuleta. He liked this pic of Tony Gonzales catching the first touchdown of the game.

Aloha Stadium had 59,000 people there for the game.

This is Nick and his brother Mike at Kapiolani Park in Waikiki at the NFL experience Day. They have alot of events and performances that day in the park. They have alot of jump houses and obstacle courses for the kids and most importantly pro players their signing autographs. And I guess that is what Nick spent most of the time doing standing in lines for different players signatures. He said he got more this year than in the last 2 years he has been going. They had a great time....I am just glad football season is over for a couple months.

Bubbles, Bubbles and More Bubbles!

Nick and I got free rooms for the weekend at Mandalay Bay. It was so nice to spend quality time together. We went to dinner and a movie, ran errands, and on Saturday night went and saw the Kings Tournament at the Excalibur. That was one show Nick had never seen. It was a little corny but we had a good time together. While we were off playing the kids were playing even harder.

My mom and dad watched the kids. They love going there because they seem to get away with a lot more than we would ever let them do. Kasen had decided he wanted to take a bath in their jacuzzi tub. Of course grandma and grandpa let them. Before they new it the bubbles were coming right out of the tub. My mom said they were a just laughing hysterically.

Where is Avery?

Kasen and his big beard!

Grandma teaching them how to make homemade sugar cookies for Valentine's Day. The decorating looked as bad as the kitchen, but the cookies did not taste half bad. Thanks mom and dad for watching the kids. These are the experiences and memories they will always take with them. They love you guys!

Kamden 2 months

Time flies! It fills like just yesterday that I delivered Kamden. He has brought our family such joy! Kasen and Avery love to hold, kiss, and play with their baby brother. Kamden had a couple of fussy weeks, but as you can see from the pictures he is now a very happy baby. I had to go back to work which has been one of the most challenging things I have had to do. Knowing that Kamden was getting great care at the sitters, I still cried every morning for about a week. The first morning I didn't cry Avery said, "Mama good job for not crying today. Don't worry we will take good care of Kamden." Kamden has adjusted very well and we sure do love our little guy!

Thanks to my babysitter who loves and adores my children.

Museum

We were headed up to see my friend Carrie and her family when I got the call. Her daughter had few days earlier had come down with the stomach flu. She called again Friday night and said she still had a fever. I told the kids that we would not be able to go and the tears started streaming down their little faces. We felt so bad that we told them we would take them to the museum and then they were o.k. Early Saturday morning we left for Vegas and headed to the Natural History Museum. The museum was very old and run down but my kids absolutely loved it. They had a shark tank, dinosaurs that roared and a WHOLE lot of stuffed animals. After the museum we went to my mom and dads house where the kids continued to play. Nick and I got to sneak away to the movie Marley and Me. It was a great movie but very sad. Though the kids were still a little disappointed they did not get to see their friend Kadence, it was a fun day spent with our family.

Kamden- 6 Weeks

Kamden Moore

6- weeks We sure wish he would sleep this soundly at night! :)

Mammoth Creek

At about 8:00p.m. Friday night we decided we would go up to Mammoth Creek, Utah early Saturday morning. Nick's mom and dad called us at about 9:00 a.m. to tell us the highway we needed to take was shut down due to snow. We had to take this very long detour through Panguitch. The rodes were icy and very slick. Luckily we took Julie and Carl's Jeep Commander.

We tried and tried to get a hold of Nick's parents and could not get through. We even started watching the side of the rode in case the got into an accident. We reached Mammoth Creek at about 4:00p.m. Tried to drive to the cabin and there was two much snow. About 3feet to much. Again we couldn't get a hold of Nick's mom or dad and we did not know what to do.

We went to the only parking area in which we got our vehicle stuck. We waited and waited. Nick finally found someone who would snow mobile him to the cabin. On the we we found his parents stuck in the snow. They had been stuck for 6 hours. They had to hire a guy to dig a path to their cabin. They told us it would be done in about 45 minutes. It wasn't.

We had to sit in the car with two hungry kids for 31/2 hours. I think Nick only had to get out of the car once to let out a scream or two. We had left at 8:45 a.m. and finally got to the cabin at 8:00p.m. that night. I told Nick that is what we get for being spontaneous.

After we finally got settled into the cabin we did enjoy snow-mobiling, making snowmen and sitting by the warm fire. Avery still hates wearing all of those snow close. On are way home we stopped to see my grandma in Beaver Utah. She loves visiting the kids and giving them rides on her walker.