Like Glitters Raining Down on Me

Well it has been a super duper long time since I posted. Life just gets crazy, ha! Anyway, these 2 got really cold after insisting on drinking smoothies for breakfast and wanted to wear cute hats to keep warm. Happy Holidays!

School is In

Reagan has now started Pre-K. She's going to Stevenson Elementary M/T and TH/F. We had a Meet the Teacher night last Monday and she got to meet her new teacher Mrs. Barbie Formichella. She likes to be called Teacher Barbie ;) Reagan's first day was today and it went very smoothly. No tears, no melt down (phew)! She said she had fun and that she liked it. When I walked into the room to get her they were still singing their last song and Reagan was sitting in Teacher Barbies lap. Uh oh, teachers pet already!! She did mention (Barbie that is) that she thinks Reagan is going to be one of her little stars. Oh man! The tears were already welling up and it's only been a day!! HA! I posted pretty much every picture I took. I just couldn't decide which ones I thought were the cutest. So proud of my big girl! I can't believe she's going to "big girl school" already. Oh and in case you didn't already know she is very much into dressing herself. So all outfits shown are Reagan's choice, ha! She LOVES skirts.

Meet the teacher night

Teacher Barbie

First Day of School!!

Lalaloopsy (I love saying that word) backpack. I wanted one of these for Reagan so bad and it was the LAST one at the store. PLUS it was on sale since school technically started on Monday. Score!!

All ready to go. Poser :)

In front of her classroom

Museuming

We had the chance to go to the Arizona Museum for Youth today with Grandma Lisa and cousins!! Woo too! The kids loved it! It was a lot of fun. Sometimes I think that I'm having a better time than the children are. Oh well :) Thanks again Gma Lisa, we all had so much fun!

I Love to See the Temple

We went to see the Gilbert Temple construction site a couple weeks ago for FHE and I just forgot to post pictures. It was really neat seeing it. None of the glass has been installed yet but the Angel Moroni was put in place a few weeks prior to our visit so that was cool. They have people at the site that give information about the temple and you can go into the little onsite trailer and look at the blue prints. One of the walls was messed up during transport so they broke it up into a bunch of little pieces and you can take a piece home with you, so both kids have a little piece of the temple now! I love that! There was this helicopter that would come and circle every 20 minutes or so. I think people must be paying to get arial tours or something. The guide said it's been happening all day long for the last week. That would be such an awesome view! Can't wait for it to be finished!!

The gorgeous new Temple! See the helicopter in the background??

Thanks Devin and Marisa (and Brittany/Ricky/Brooke/Cohen, not pictured) for coming with us!

See Moroni?

Very excited :)

Little White Duck

Reagan's dance recital was last Saturday. It was too cute to even describe with words :) This is the 3rd recital that she has been in and she did A-MAZING if I do say so myself. It's really hard for me to tell if I'm being biased but I'm pretty (97.3%) sure that she was a ROCK STAR! She danced to "Little White Duck". The video that I took is really blown out because of the lights they had shining on stage but she was the one in the very center (naturally!!). I took a bagillion pictures before we left the house, mostly on account of the fact that she was A) allowing me to and B) REQUESTING me to. I just kept snapping for as long as her "obliging" mood permitted! I'm going to try and upload the video but it will likely just be the pictures. Oh and if you're interested in getting your super cute tiny dancer started then let me know. Reagan's instructor is really good and we have just loved having her be a part of Miss Chaney's dance team :)

She is no longer in the picture taking mood. Boo :(

Thanks Mimi for coming to the recital! Reagan loved having you there!

Thanks for filming Grandpa Scott, you're the best!

And Grandma Lisa OF COURSE!!

So glad Daddy was able to make it to this one. He was smiling from ear to ear (despite himself, ha)!

Nummy's

This boy loves him some Oreo's. He get's this from me, naturally. I could eat these delights pretty much all day long. The deal's off though if there's no milk. Just saying....

AZ Science Center

Thank you Grandpa Scott for the super fun tickets to the Science Center. We ALL had  blast! 

And this is what happens afterwards :)

 Don't mind Reagan's lack of clothing, she got soaking wet playing in all that water!

Easter and a Silly

Ok since it's technically still April I can still squeeze in my post about Easter. Really not too much that went on. We saved the egg hunt for later in the afternoon at Grandma Lisa's house. I DID however do a cute little basket for each baby with some goodies. And of course there was the jelly bean "trail" leading from their rooms to their baskets! This was a fun tradition that my parents did for us each Easter and I want to continue it with my kiddos. So cute! Once Lakai noticed that the trail was CANDY he couldn't shove them in his mouth fast enough. Hahha!

 Here is my Easter Lovely and my Easter Handsome! Reagan is always doing this silly side smile. I swear we're all doing it for our next FAMILY portrait, ha!

This one! She's a crack up. She loves to have you take her picture "like this", "now...like this". Changing her faces. The big one has me laughing for days. Oh my funny!

Happenings and Goings On

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you. {Without a dope beat to step to, step to...haha, never mind)! Anyway, naturally lots of things have happened since I last blogged. Especially since my last blog was technically just a plea for people to join our 5K, which I will have you know was a WILD success. We will be doing the same thing next year for our fundraiser. It was so much fun and we have a really good turn out. Very cool experience. So, onward. In March we went to Mexico. It was a beach blast like always, the kids had so much fun and it was fab being able to just chill on the beach and stuff ourselves with the local cuisine :)



The kids have been spending as much time as possible outside to enjoy this last little bit of wonderful weather before we head into triple digs. Yikes I'm really trying to stay positive this year in regards to summer and think OPTIMISTICALLY about all the fun that gets to be had when the weather is scorching. Lake trips, camping, playing in the pool all day. We will make it through and I'm going to try and complain as little as possible :) We shall see how I do!



And of course THE ZOO! I'm pretty sure I'm the bigger fan out of my family but I just can't help myself. I find the place a little bit enchanting. And I've been going to it since I was a wee girl myself so I have an attachment thing going on. Whatever the reasons, we love going and are trying to cram in as many visits as possible before going is no longer an option until October, ha! I will try to be better about posting. I thought these fun little collages would be easier to post than individual pix! Until next time....

FUNdraiser!!

We are having our Young Women fundraiser on March 24th. It's going to be a 5K (TR5K=trek, get it)!! Is that AWESOME or what?? Go to the site below to find out more and to sign up for the run/walk. It's going to be EPIC :)

TR5K for Values!