Birthday Fun

For my birthday this year we decided to go to Sunsplash Lite or the Mesquite Grove Aquatic Center. All morning it looked like dark clouds were headed in and it rained off and on so it was the perfect day to go since we knew it wouldn't be crowded. All of the sisters and kids came to play. 

We played for a long time and the decided to go home and give our kids and ourselves naps so that we could rest up for Joe's farm grill that evening. Emily and Julia came prepared for Joe's with fry-sauce in tow.

Gabe was really excited for life. In his defense he had just woken up from a two and a half hour nap.

We hardly recognized Eden because in the middle of our festivites she went and cut off her long and luxurious hair to donate to locks of love.

After dinner, Devin and I went and saw The Amazing Spiderman. It was a very good birthday with lots of love from family and friends. And per usual it will turn into birth week since Emily is taking me out tonight and our family will have dinner on Sunday. My family is the best.

Just for funsies- I was looking through our pictures to upload these and found our pictures from my last birthday. Here we are at Joe's eating. I am pregnant and sweaty.

This year Devin and I spent our sixth anniversary by going to dinner and a movie. Original right? We mostly just spent the whole night wishing that Arizona wasn't so hot and thinking back to our fifth anniversary when we were in Oregon sans sweatstache.  We went to eat at a place called Zinburger, shopped for Julia's birthday present, and then went to see the Avengers. 

The next week we kept busy. We had Annie's seminary graduation and high school graduation. For seminary graduation, Annie graduated with Kimball stake and we got a picture of her with all of her Lyn Rae friends. 

Emily and Julia were working and couldn't come but the rest of us did. Amanda even wrangled her 4 kids so she could come and see Ms. Annie.

 

Two days later we had real graduation. We were a little rushed getting her ready and over to MHS so this is the best picture I took before she graduated.

We made lots of signs for her that mostly just sat on the ground because we go there too late to sit close enough for Annie to see them. 

We started our this summer by swimming a lot. Gabe loves to swim.

Now we only slave over Julia's wedding. It is so much fun... but I am pretty sure by the end of it my finger prints will be non-existent from the number of times I have burned myself from hot glue. 

Touchdown!

Lets just start by saying I am not a football fan. The only thing football is good for is providing me good food and decent commercials once a year. However Devin thinks football is entertaining and is determined to indoctrinate the boy at a a young age.

So the boy and his dad watched the Rose Bowl game on Monday. Oregon won so life is good.

I at least got a good picture out of it. See top of post.

The handsome lad SMILES!!!

New Year's Eve

It is a time honored tradition that for New Year's Eve we go to the Tostitos Bowl Parade. My mom's side of the family has been going for years and it only gets better with time. Sure you may think parades are lame, but it only happens once a year, there is tasty food and here are some of the things you might just catch a glimpse of.

1. Clubs of all varieties. The highest bike riding club, the comic book association of AZ, the Star Wars lovers group, the list goes on and one. This year our favorite was seeing a Star Wars rebel fighter in a jazzy. There is no picture. Sorry. But here is Darth Vader in his white convertible.

2. Camels. When is the last time you saw camels?

3. A cute baby and your sister asleep. Okay so maybe this parade wasn't as exciting as I am making it out to be. But it's once a year and it gets you out of your house and we heart it.

Side note. Here is a picture of Devin having his first drink of soda for a year. He went from December 28th, 2010 to January 1st, 2012 without drinking soda or having any sweets (cookies, candy, cake, ice cream and the like). We were supposed to do it together. I lasted until March.

Fail.