Family Pictures

So, it's been a while. Longer than I anticipated! After Halloween, Nate and I celebrated our 6th anniversary, I can't believe its been 6 years already! I have the best husband ever, I am so happy when I get to spend time with him. I surprised him with a date night on our anniversary - we went to eat downtown at the Hub. It was so delicious and fun. Do we look a lot different now verses then? They had this huge lit up sign right next to the Hub and it was too cool to not take a picture. 

We had family pictures taken in November by my friend Megan - she did a fantastic job! She has a photography blog at snaphappymom.com One of these days I will get a camera and Megan and her blog will teach me how to use it! I love love love how our family pictures turned out.

On November 26th, my Grandmother Janis passed away. She was one of the sweetest people I have ever known. I miss her so much, but I am so glad to know that I will see her again someday. Wasn't she beautiful?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Lately, we've been doing lots of fun stuff! I love fall in Arizona. More playdates at the park, holidays around the corner, June's the easiest baby ever, etc. Oh - and I re-opened my etsy shop! Since June was born, I've had lots of fun making headbands and bows, so go HERE to see. Shipping is free if you are close by ;)

Here are some fun pictures: UA red and blue game, my first attempt at chalkboard art, Nate playing indoor soccer, our 10k run, Isaac's quarter mile run, and trunk or treat fun! Sorry the pictures are grainy, they are all from my phone..

I made the chalkboard with the tutorial found HERE!

Love those chubby cheeks!!

Vacation!

So, we haven't been on any trips or vacations for a while, and we were feeling the itch/need for one! I think we were desperate for one despite the consequences of taking three young children on a trip. So we used some of Nate's free hotel points, and drove to San Diego! We left on Friday after Nate worked for part of the day, and the drive was actually fine. The kiddos did great on the drive. We arrived at our hotel at about 9:30pm, and the boys were so hyped up about the hotel, it took them until 11pm to go to sleep because of their excitement :) Not to mention we practically packed a house because of all the stuff we had to bring for them, which took a few trips to the car and back! Then they woke up at 6am :)  So here's how it started..

On Saturday we played at the beach all morning, Isaac and Luke's favorite part was building a sand castle. They were both terrified of the ocean and would even touch the water! I made them both go in the water up to their ankles and they were very upset. I think maybe we talk about sharks too much when we talk about the ocean, and maybe that had something to do with their fear of the water :) whoops.

Wildcat pride!

Nate decided he would show the boys how to not be wimps (since they were so scared of the water), so he went and jumped in. 

In the afternoon we went to mission beach, but we quickly realized that it was too hot, so we went to eat an early dinner instead. It was the worst dinner experience of my life - in terms of my children's behavior, so I am going to skip that part, thank goodness I have no pictures to remember! It is super funny now looking back on it, and it was even kind of funny (just because of how ridiculous everything was) at the time too!! Let's just say I'm glad I'll never see anyone at that restaurant again. 

After dinner, we went to sunset cliffs, which was beautiful!

This part scared me a little bit though. 

I thought they were all going to fall into the ocean. Sunday morning we checked out La Jolla cove, where we got this awesome picture of a wave crashing into the pier and getting us wet! We went to church at a beautiful building, and then went to the Mormon Battalion Center, which has a cool interactive presentation that is super family friendly, and the boys loved digging for gold. 

Later on, we went and visited the San Diego temple, which is always amazing and makes me feel so grateful for everything I've been blessed with, especially my family. 

And that's how we roll with three kids in a double stroller. 

Then Monday morning, we went to this street fair thing where we toured some ships and submarines before heading home. We had some tired kids by the end of this trip (and tired adults too) but it was super fun and I'm glad we were able to go! We are pooped though, so our next vacation won't be for a while :)

June's Blessing and Other Happenings.

June's blessing was early last month. I love baby blessings, especially ones that are within our family! We were lucky enough to have a lot of family attend. June squealed for a part of it, but otherwise did fine :) I am so blessed to be her mom, she is such a sweet little angel baby (did I mention she has been sleeping through the night for like a month now?!).

Isaac started preschool! I cannot believe how fast he is growing up. He was excited for preschool, and never looked back when I dropped him off :) 

June has the wackiest hair on the planet. She is balding, as you can see, but her swirl cowlick in the back makes her hair stick straight up. So basically she has a permanent mohawk. Some people go for this look on purpose, but what do I do with crazy hair like this? Stick a bow on it I guess? Right in the middle!

We had an exciting storm a couple weeks ago - we had no power for about an hour, and the wind blew our little playground all around the backyard. Luke was very worried about it. 

We went to a Tucson Padres baseball game with our friends the Hatch's. It was super fun, mostly because it was a pretty nice night and we left early (baseball games are too long for me). Isaac and Luke didn't really pay any attention to the game, but they had fun dancing to the music in-between :)

July Fun

What a CUTE bunch, I have to say :) 

I'm a lucky mom. 

For the 4th - we hung out with friends, went swimming, BBQ'd, ate too much, and stayed up late for the fireworks!

Luke was terrified of the fireworks when they started, it was hilarious.

We look tired, we were very tired after a long day of fun.

We dressed up like cows for the chick-fil-a cow appreciation day (free food). Isaac wore his cow costume, made out of paper, for like 3 hours before we left to go get dinner. Chick-fil-a has this event once a year in July, and it was super fun, we're definitely going again next year!

Here is an updated picture of June, since she changes so quickly! She has crazy hair, and now she is balding but Nate won't let me buzz her! She has been such an awesome baby - she only wakes up to eat at night, and she is pretty much never fussy. Before I had June, I heard a lot from other moms that having three young children is the hardest, and after that you can have any amount of kids and its not a big difference. However, so far having three kiddos has been great. The boys mostly love her, too much sometimes :) but they are already used to the noise and distraction of a sibling, so having June here really was not a huge adjustment for them. At least not yet! Going from one to two kiddos was much more of an adjustment (and that's a nice word for it) for me than this time around. I love that she finally has awake time during the day now, and I can't get enough of her smiles.