Roos N More

It is almost Madison's Birthday and this year instead of having big parties we decided to let the girls pick a fun place to go as a family. Ashlyn picked Chuck E Cheese which, even though it grosses me out, was still fun. Recently I saw that someone from our ward had gone to this zoo called Roos N More in Moapa, NV. So I asked Madison if she wanted to do that for her birthday. There is only a few times a month that they are open to the public so we had to go this weekend. First let me tell you that I have always wanted to hold a Capuchin monkey and FINALLY today I got to do that and more! It was so much fun! It is a smaller zoo, but so well kept. You get to go on an hour long tour which takes you to see all their animals and you get to hold and pet almost all of them. My favorite is still the monkeys, but it was still fun holding the baby kangaroos.

The Capuchin monkey climbed onto me and hugged me so tight and then started licking my neck!!! It was hilarious, but it was the sweetest monkey. All the kids and people were gathered around my stroller to look at it when it decided to take a nap on the top.

Ashlyn is 3!!!!

I can't believe Ashlyn is 3 already. Time goes by too fast. We had a fun day filled with fun activities we could do as a family. It was nice to not have a big birthday party and just spend time together. We just let her pick somewhere fun to go and she picked Chuck E. Cheese. Not my first choice, but it was actually really fun and only smelled like pee a little. ;) HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEACHES! WE LOVE YOU!

Shelby and other stuff

I haven't updated my blog for a while so I figured it was time. Shelby is getting bigger everyday and is so cute! She smiles alot and has just started giggling a little bit. Madison and Ashlyn are so good with her too and help me out a lot. We had a really good Easter this year too. We had an Easter egg hunt at home in our backyard and then just spent the rest of the weekend relaxing and watching Conference. This past weekend we traveled to Utah for my niece Gracie's baptism. It was a really good weekend full of good food and good family. Madison has been playing T-ball every Thursday now and it has been so fun to watch her. Today Aaron and I celebrated our birthday. It is so fun to share the same birthday. It makes the day extra special when I can share it with him. We decided to make our birthday dinner instead of going out to eat somewhere. We made baby back ribs that we smoked on our grill and they were SOOOOOO good and then I made a berry cheesecake for dessert. Overall it was a pretty good birthday. We also found out we have a little lizard family living in the backyard.

Corny Love Songs

So a few years ago Aaron started singing corny love songs to me. He would walk up and give me a big hug and then start singing some hilarious love song. It was so funny and so sweet at the same time. This one's for you Aaron.......

I don't know much
But I know I love you
And that may be
All I need to know

Maybe someday I will learn to play the piano and he can too and then we will be like these people.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=RI-l0tK8Ok0

Andy got married!!!

I'm so happy for my brother! He got married on March 6th in Salt Lake City in an awesome old LDS church in the Avenues. It had beautiful stained glass windows. It was such a sweet ceremony. You could look at them and see how much they loved eachother. I still get emotional looking at the pictures. I had to steal these from my sister's blog because I left my camera in the trunk of my car. My camera is kind of hard to take pictures while holding a baby. I can't wait to get to know Lisa better. My kids already think she is the best Aunt.

Mystery Diagnosis

Shelby woke up from her nap yesterday and I noticed this on her arm. My first reaction was, "How did Ashlyn do this without me knowing?" then I realized Ashlyn was outside playing with Madison and didn't go back where the baby was sleeping at all. My next thought was "What weird disease, parasite, etc.... does she have that would make her wake up with bruises?" I blame this thought completely on my fascination with watching shows like Mystery Diagnosis and Monsters Inside Me. They have made me completely paranoid. Every headache I get now I instantly think I may have a ball of worms in my brain (true story! a guy had them in his). So after a few seconds I figured out the real cause. She had given herself a hicky! Ha Ha Ha!

The Thing I Realized this Saturday

I have gremlins living in my house that keep undoing everything I do.

It seems like everytime I clean a room I leave to the second room only to return to the first and find that the gremlins have messed it up again.

I HATE CLEANING.

I finally caught up on my laundry. I washed it, folded it, and put it in the basket so it could sit there for a week until I put it away. I left the basket in the Living Room and left to go check on the baby in my room. I returned and found that the gremlins had scattered the folded clothes all over the floor.

I HATE LAUNDRY.

I wiped the mirrors off in the bathrooms with windex. I left to the next chore and came back only to find that the gremlins had made toothpaste spots on the mirror.

I HATE TOOTHPASTE SPOTS.

I swept the floor in the Living Room. Minutes later.....The gremlins had spilled uncooked Top Ramen noodles all over the floor.

I HATE UNCOOKED TOP RAMEN NOODLES.

The list could go on, but you get the picture. Then as I was picking up dress up clothes off my bedroom floor I looked over and saw these...................................

and I realized that

I LOVE MY LITTLE GREMLINS!