Grandma Greats.

We have been so blessed to have such amazing family surrounding us, which includes Dereks grandma and grandpa Downey. They are the sweetest people and always welcome us with warm hugs and cheerful grins. Everytime we go and see them the kids have a blast. Grandma always has a snack or two to share, the live across the street from horses, and grandpa has his infamous train that he built. So grateful to have these fabulous people in our lives!!

Here is little Zacky on our way up to grandma greats in my glasses.....So stinkin cute!!

Kali at her last week of first grade. She had an amazing year. She loved her teacher, met some new fun friends, and learned a lot.

great week

This last week Derek and I decided to do a little "get away." We have never left the kids and taken a vacation so we thought it was time. We decided to go to Vegas since it was close and WARM!! We had such a blast. We went and saw 3 shows while we were there which were absolutely out of this world amazing!! It was so nice to sleep in and stay up late, and my favorite was of course hanging out by the pool for hours each day. It was a much needed get away.

Then the day we got home Kali had a mothers day program at school put on by the first grade. They sand lots of cute songs and quoted some poems, it was adorable. I love that little girl and it is days like this that you love being a mom!!

Our little twinkle toes

Lexi has been taking dance this year which she loves.

We had her dance recital this week where her class played the little birds in "Hansel and Gretel"

She did such a cute job and I loved that she got to have her own special night.

Afterwards we went to brick oven to celebrate Lexis special night. Love you Lu!!!

VB champs!!

So one of my passions is still volleyball. I get to play once a week and love every minute of it. I have loved so much getting to play with old college friends and honestly we laugh like crazy and have such a ball together. Orem city champs baby!!!!

Fun with the kids

I took the girls this last week to go and see the play at Oak Canyon "Alice in Wonderland" Our babysitter played the caterpillar and did such a darling job. The girls loved the play and especially loved afterwards getting pictures with the girls. Lexi did get a little nervous though with the queen of hearts....it was adorable.

We decided that for my little nephews birthday we were going to take the kids to the zoo. They had a blast and the weather was so beautiful. The boys favorite part of the whole thing was the ride on the choo choo train. They spoted it when we first walked in and the whole time just kept saying, "Lets go see the choo choo" go figure....

New updates

I haven't been doing very good at keeping up on our blog, so here are some pictures over the last few months.

This was the Yankees first game of the season so of course dad is a happy guy!!

Lexi lost her first tooth, and the tooth fairy made it to our house. Which Lexi just thought was fabulous

Lexi's pre-school class took a field trip to the fire station and learned all about fire safety.

Kali had Dr. Seuss day at school and she dressed up as Cindy LuHo!! Doesn't she look darling!!

So those are some of the latest at our house. We are just truckin along and enjoying the ride!!