September UT trip

When Mom and Dad started planning their annual September Utah trip I asked if I could tag along again. This year it made sense for Mom and Katy to fly out and Dad and I to drive with the kids. We took off super early on Friday morning. Dad drove the CA and Utah legs and I drove through Nevada, While I was driving Mom's car hit the big 100 thousand mark!

We finally arrived! We met up at Riverwoods to enjoy some Bajio:)

I totally look like I've been in the car since 4 AM here:)

Everything is more fun with Aunt Katy. These two girls felt super special helping Katy make muffins:)

The whole gang got to watch Ruby's soccer game!

That afternoon we headed to Salt Lake for Grandpa Dee's 85th birthday party! There was a BYU away game that evening so we went with the theme:)

Great grand kids!

On Sunday we drove up Hobble Creek canyon and played at a cute park up there. Lucy was awed by how green the grass was! She thought it was the most beautiful place she'd ever seen. Poor CA girl:)

My happy place.

Becca and I got to escape at one point and I managed to drink a cherry coke, eat a whole cafe rio burrito and a Culver's salted caramel milk shake in one outing. UT makes me happy and seriously full.

On Monday we celebrated Ruby's birthday! We started the day at WaffleLove. We tried a bunch of waffles-we had to go back and buy a few more Cinnaloves--soooo good.

Ruby is the cutest 5 year old I know!

This shirt is the best.

Before we took off the next day Becca let me escape to Bajio for one more burrito. It was the best one I had the whole trip. The memory will have to sustain me until Thanksgiving.

  (* I needed to seriously detox when I got home to CA. 

That many burritos and sugared coke is not good for a girl.)

 Can you tell Danny missed us? Always love coming home to him:)

Back to School 2015

I dread the kids going back to school each fall.  For me it means back to a imposed schedule, homework and just more of a day to day grind. This year was especially nerve wracking (mostly for me) because Lucy was starting 3rd grade at a new school. The Sunday before we had our back to school dinner (which in our house is a totally normal dinner with paper crowns). The little girls were very excited that this year they got to wear Preschool crowns. After dinner Danny gave the girls blessings in preparation for the school year. More than anything I want to remember whole incredibly reverent my little girls were. They took it so seriously-it was incredibly cute.

Lucy said she felt less nervous about the school year after her blessing. I certainly did:) Every year I get a little nervous before school starts and it takes me a couple days to realize that Lucy is not me. She is way more outgoing, social and well adjusted than I was/am.  Lucy had a great first day at Valle Verde. She is in Mrs. Smith's 3rd grade class. There were a bunch of kids that were new to the school this year so she did not feel like the only one who was a little lost. She is sitting in the back of the classroom at a fun table of girls and has made several good friends already:)

We love walking to school! It takes about 10 minutes-it is so nice not to have to get in the car to go get Lucy.

With Lucy is school again it is just these two cuties (and Jack most of the time). One Friday we met Grandpa Greg at the mall and helped him pick out some new glasses. It was Force Friday when they released all the toys for the new movie-we loved hanging out in the Disney store and checking out all the new things!

One Saturday we fixed up Grandma Joyce's flower baskets. Playing in the water was a thrill with this terrible drought.

After Labor Day the little girls started preschool at Mrs. Perona's! They were SO excited.

Meeting the famous Poopsie and Sweet Pea.

Their class! We carpool with our friend Haylee Spurlock.

August

After my birthday surprise, the rest of August was unnecessary-but still very fun.

One Saturday we went in to the city to Danny's office for the morning. We went to this funny little restaurant that does carnival food. The mac and cheese the kids got was delicious and Danny tried this donut hamburger just to say he did, and he kinda liked it too. I could hardly look at it.

End of running club! We were really good about going every week this year. In the end Lucy (along with her friend Sarah) ran more than any other kid-40 miles. Both Joyce and Lydia ran 20 miles each-which as very impressive for their age as well. We had a very fun group and really looked forward to it every week. Until next summer running club!

My birthday table:) I woke up to a bunch of little girls singing Pinkie Pie's "Make a Wish its your Birthday"-so obviously it was a great day.

On my birthday we actually DID go to the outlets and bought me a few presents. As usual I was totally spoiled by my family. We ended the day with Swiss Milk Chocolate brownie sundaes after dinner at Roccos.

My new fave shirt!

I find tons of these kind of pics on my phone lately. Over the summer I've been working out in the morning and the kids patiently sit and watch Katy and I. We give them an ipad or a phone and they just quietly play. They're awesome.

I inappropriately took a bunch of pictures in sacrament meeting this week because these two were so cute together. Then I was ratty and texted them to my whole family:)