SKIING & CAKE

Here are two things that everyone should love, skiing and cake. For Valentines Jaclyn got me passes to go ski Deer Valley. It could possibly be the best resort in Utah. My parents came along and we had tons of fun. Jaclyn has finally fallen in love with skiing. She had the most fun she has ever had. She has improved so much this year. Here is a video of us, (Jaclyn first, then me) make sure to watch the middle of the screen, because that is were we come down. Also here are some pictures of us and one of my parents. I hope that when I get older I can do as much as they do.

Also Jaclyn's birthday is tomorrow so I decided to make her a cake. We were only up until 12:30am making it Sunday night. I decided to add some pipping to the fondant for a better effect. Jaclyn had the idea of pipping the white icing all over. I think the cake turned out pretty cool.

THIS IS A MUST READ!!!!!

A friend of ours, Kristy, posted a blog that we thought was creative. We decided to take the plunge and respond to her blog, and here are the rules :

The first 5 people to respond to this post will receive something made by us for you.

We get to pick what we make for you, but it will be especially for you.

But here's the deal:

~1 We make no guarantees that you will like what we make! (But we'll try to make something cool:)

~2 What we create will be just for you.

~3 It will be done sometime this year.

~4 You have no clue what it will be.

~5 We reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch?

The catch is that you must repost this on your own blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on their blog.The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling us they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by us!! So come and play along!

A Very Long Weekend!

I feel like there is so much that has happened since our last post. I'll start with first things first. Peyton is learning how to feed herself. It is so nice to have a little freedom but I am really going to miss nursing. Nursing started to make me sick and she started to need to nurse every 1-2 hours 24/7. It was killing me. We started giving her bottles except for at night, and now she sleeps from 11 p.m.- 8:30 a.m. which is just fabulous. I'm starting to feel like I can function again. (I don't do well without sleep.)

For Valentine's Day we went to a dance at Thanksgiving Point. It was a lot of fun. We went with some friends in the ward. We all had a really good time. I wore the wrong shoes, (It's really hard to dance in 4in. heels) They served dinner and I learned that Ryan can't dance. I can't dance either but I'm definately better than him. We dance until ten when it was over. There was a live band and they were actually really good. The singers were married so it was cute to see them sing the love songs. I really enjoyed to excuse to get dressed up. We plan on going again next year.

Ryan had President's Day off and we wanted to do something fun with the kids so we decided to spend the money and go to Discovery Gateway. First you have to know that the kids had a lot of fun, but it was not worth it. A few years ago, we went to Seattle and went to their museum, and I think I keep comparing it to that. The one in Seattle was awesome. So the one at gateway seemed a little lame, especially for the money. If I wanted to spend $40 to play Lincoln Logs, I would have just bought some. Having said that, I'm sure we will go back. Apparently we went on one of the busiest days of the year. So all the older kids (5-11) just kept pushing the little kids out of the way. Some parents thought that it was a babysitting joint. Ryan told some kid to get off the top of the helicopter (he was hanging from the blades!!) and he told Ryan he could do whatever he wanted and that it was "like his third time". It was really hard to teach Braxton and Chloe that you have to wait your turn when the older kids would just push them out of the way and butt to the front of the line. The thing that made me the most angry (I have never wanted to hurt a little kid before), was at the very end I gave Braxton a penny to put in one of those things (where it spins around and around until it finally goes in the hole at the bottom) and some little boy, he couldn't have been older than 4, comes and starts pushing Braxton out of the way because he wanted to see the penny. So I told him to be nice to Braxton. Two seconds later, I look over and the kid smacks Braxton across the face. Well, Braxton was so shocked he just stood there and looked at the kid, so the kid smacked him again, harder!! When Braxton still didn't get mad or cry the kid wound up and smacked him even harder. I yelled at the kid and told him we DON'T HIT. It was so hard to contain myself. So that was our trip to Discovery Gateway. If you ever go, make sure it's not on a busy day so that your kids can actually play with the stuff without getting beat-up.











Here's some pictures I took today that were pretty funny. Chloe found my chocolates and fell asleep in Peytons play thing. They're pretty funny. Enjoy!!

WORTH THE WAIT!!!!!

The time has arrived! Here is our latest installment of our music videos. This one we shot all around Lehi, we even went to the DI so that we could buy real, authentic trucker hats. We had the wonderful pleasure of having Brittney and Brent join us again. Also Jaclyn did all of the editing on the video, and I think she sure did a good job! We will be taking requests shortly for our next shoot. ENJOY...

Sleepover!!!

Today we had Oaklee over. She slept over last night and her and Chloe shared a bed. They all slept really well (surprisingly). It was so much fun to have a friend to play with. Oaklee and Chloe definitely love each other. They did everything together. I think it was hard for Braxton since Oaks has always been his little buddy but now that they are in to more gendered toys and playing they don't get along as well. They did have a lot of fun playing save baby Jesus from Swiper the Fox. Oaklee got to hold baby Jesus (her blanket) and Braxton got to protect them from Swiper. It was really cute. We played a lot of games and played with lots of toys. Can't wait for the next time we get to have her over.

Skiing Our Lives Away!!!

On Saturday it was my Dad's birthday, so we went as a family up to the Canyons to go skiing. It was such a blast!!! Unfortunately on the way up my dad's truck broke down just before the pass in Parley's Canyon. Luckily we were able to get someone in Park City to go back and tow it. The weather was perfect and the snow was soft. Jaclyn did the best she has ever done. She started the day skiing blues and didn't look back. Also for the first time in six years she crashed, not only once but twice. And contrary to the image in her head, she didn't roll all the way down the mountain and off a cliff. Good news is, Jaclyn is already asking when we can go again. It was such fun!! Here are a few pics that my sister sent over!