Monday, September 20, 2010

Birthday girl!

Terrence and I had to go to Ogden for a Dr. appointment on Kylie's birthday, so Aunt Lysee picked her up from school and they went shopping shopping shopping! Then Elyse took both Kylie and Madison to the salon to get acrylic glitter toes! Talk about spoiled!
We took Kylie out to lunch to Olive Garden (her choice) and then sent Terrence off to work:(
When Terrence got home on dinner break, Kylie got to open the new roller blades and pad gear she has been begging for. She's slowly getting the hang of it but still walks more than skates. I was way too exhausted to make a birthday cake at that point, and we still had leftovers from Sunday's celebration so we went to the new specialty cupcake place in town. It was heavenly!
On Saturday, we had Kylie's birthday party at a park in town. Pretty much everyone that was invited came which is pretty shocking in Utah! We had a bug/flower party. The kids went on a nature scavenger hunt and played pin the bug on the flower. Then they paired up and wrapped one another up in toilet paper to make a cocoon. The first person to use their entire roll won! I think that was the kids favorite part.
After that, we ate pizza and hit the pinata. This was my first time making a pinata from scratch and I was impressed with the turnout. It was very time consuming and took a lot of patience to wait for all the layers of paper mache to dry, but it was actually pretty fun to make!

Then it was cake and present time.
The party was 2 hours long and we didn't have a minute of downtime. I was so worried that I didn't plan enough games, but it was a pleasant surprise! We are so grateful for everyone who was able to come to make her day special.
Madison didn't care to join in the game fun. She was doing this....
and this most of the time. Thanks Traci and Brian for letting my "little mommy" babysit the twins the whole time. ;) I have a feeling she is going to be so much fun when our little one comes this March. She is OBSESSED with babies!


We ended the day by going to the demolition Derby with some other good friends. Madison has never been this much fun at the derby before!

She was screaming and cheering the whole time! This facial expression isn't even a good example of her excitement. It was hilarious!
Kylie has had a pretty amazing birthday. It has lasted an entire week long, and she couldn't be more excited about that. Happy birthday princess. I can't believe you're 6 already!!!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!!

This is the special day...for those of you not on facebook, who haven't heard yet....

We will be having another one of these!

We are so excited. I think March is a perfect time for a baby. We're hoping for a boy this time of course, but we really will be happy either way. Now I just have to wait for this all day nausea to STOP! I've never been this sick for this long. Positive vibes anyone? ha ha

Labor Day

We went camping with the entire Mills clan (minus a couple people). Terrence's parents were even able to make it all the way from Kansas!
Madison did this most of the time. She's such a good dog sitter.
Kylie sat in the ATV's most of the time waiting for someone to take her on a ride. She got just about everyone there to take her at some point!
The trails were beautiful and weren't too rough so I justified going on a few rides myself.


The boys all went down to Cleveland Reservoir and fished pretty much all day every day. They caught some of those most delicious cut-throat I've ever tasted.



And of course there was lots of good cooking and yummy food to break up all of the playing;)




Uncle Bob and Aunt Lorraine were nice enough to let us sleep in their motor home since it was supposed to get down to 32 degrees Sunday night. I guess they felt bad for the pregnant lady and the little girlies. We slept great!


The girls each have their own pink helmets (another one of those things Terrence insisted on buying in pink as insurance to get a boy this time around) ha ha.
I was able to sneak a picture of Sharon. We were so lucky to have her and Clark there. We miss them and camping just isn't the same without them there. I wish I would have gotten a picture of Clark on the 4-wheelers. He looked like a little boy. So Giddy! Thanks for the fun everyone!