SYTYCD and Grandma Shoell's Bday

Had SO much fun Tuesday night at the show. It was awesome. Dance=chills for me. Had them the whole night!















This was about as good as it got as far as pictures of the show. We had pretty good seats thought and saw everything really well!















Mom, me and Chels. Love my family so much! Thanks Mom for the yummy dinner at Ruby Tuesday's before!















Mom and me.















Chels and me. Thanks girls for an awesome night that I will never forget! Next up was Grandma Shoell's 80th birthday celebration. Stupid me...I didn't even get a picture of her. I'm too occupied getting pictures of Peyton all the time! We love her so much though and appreciate everything she means to the family!















Peyt and Alaynah playing in Grandma's playhouse. It's so cute...I'll post pics sometime of it. These two are so good together and I know love each other :) It's her bday on Monday and we're going to her party tomorrow! Yeah!















Peyt LOVES the phone...caught this at the right moment :)
















Grandma has so many fun toys at her house including this car. Peyt LOVES cars!















All the kids getting ready to surprise Grandma Shoell!




















We started teasing Peyt by tying one balloon to his pants...he ended up with several! He was a good sport though.

Happy BDAY to my amazing sister in law Melissa TODAY! She's such a wonderful, cute, smart, mature person and we love having her in the family. I LOVE dance and she's been a dancer her whole life so it's fun to talk to her about it...along with many of our other shared loves including SHOPPING! Love you Melis!

Update

I used to be so good at updating this a few times a week. Lately it's been about once a week. I'll try to be better :) We've had a fun couple of weeks! I got to go to dinner a few times with a few different groups of friends. Birthdays are the best! On Saturday I had fun up at the outlets in Park City with my sisters Melissa and Ashley. The boys cut wood for my in-laws at their property in Coleville (I think that's how you spell it) so we decided to go shopping while they worked! I found some cute things for Peyt and I and even a few shirts for McKay. We came back that afternoon and Wayne and Pam made us all a delicious dutch oven dinner to celebrate my, Melissa and Alaynah's bdays!















It's been fun because my friend Sarah has been in town so we've gotten everyone together a few times to hang out. The first picture is from our dinner at Texas Road House...yum! I love that place. The pictures below are from our park adventure today. Steph told us about a fun, old park in Alpine. It had some fun toys...but Peyt just likes to RUN away from me and go everywhere and anywhere. He's really hard to take anywhere with open spaces and moving vehicles :) We managed though and it was fun to get together. Our friend Christina came who I hadn't seen for years! It was really fun to see her. Thanks everyone for a fun afternoon. Tonight I get to go to the So You Think You Can Dance show and I'm SO excited. I'll write about it soon!

Birthdays...

I must admit I love birthdays. But honestly it's much more than mine. I've always been so grateful that every person on this planet has a day of their own to be recognized. I look forward to family birthdays and especially my own children (well, right now, child). Anyway, today has been a wonderful day and I have to thank so many of you for nice notes, texts, phone calls, gifts etc. THANK YOU! So blessed :) Funny thing though. I had to get a new SIM card for my phone and lost almost everyone's numbers. So I did get a few texts from people and I don't recognize the numbers because I could just look for your name in my phone :) So if you texted me today, leave a comment so I know who those lovely people were. I'm guessing it was my family, and I think I recognized a few numbers...duh...look what cells phones do to us! Few pics below from today. I CAN'T believe how big Peyt looks in that picture. He's my big boy!

McKay and I also had a fun date Saturday night at Tucanos followed by The Dark Knight...it was a dark movie just like everyone told me...oh well. Thanks babe for all you did for my bday and all you do for me everyday! When we bought our house there were three cabinets in our kitchen that bugged me...REALLY bugged me. McKay let us redo all of the cabinets and I'm really happy with how they turned out. LOVE YOU!

Fun Find and Peyton...

I saw this at IKEA a week or so ago with Lisa and thought it was cute...she had thought it was about $40 so I decided to think about it. We went back there today and guess what...$15! I was so excited. Peyton absolutely loves cars so I know he'll love driving them around on it. Now I just need a playroom in the basement to put it in :)















You can just call Peyt Mr. destruction. It does not take long for him to pull things out and make a mess. I can't do the dishes with him awake because he takes the silverware out as soon as I put it in. Good thing I love him so much :) I wanted to write down a few things he's saying right now...

Mom (I love it when he says mama)
Dad
Papa
Car
Goggie (Dog)
Cookie
Cheese (one of his favorite foods)
Treat
Duck
Ball
Gabage (dirty diapers :)

This is SUCH a fun age because he's starting to repeat a lot of what he hears. The words above he's just mastered so you can understand them every time :) So awesome to be a Mom to him.















Also just thought I'd post this picture of my girlfriends at Beth's shower. I LOVE these girls. It's fun as we get older and make our own little families how we can look back at so many memories we've had and just laugh. I have funny/crazy/wonderful memories with each one of these girls and I'm so glad we keep in touch!

Happy Birthday Chels

My beautiful sister turned 21 today. I'm so grateful to have a sister. It's an incredible relationship that you will always have...no matter what life brings or where it takes you. As I get older I appreciate all relationships so much more, but definitely this one with this little lady. She is an amazing person and I don't know of anyone who doesn't like her. She's so great with Peyton and sorry to all the other relatives out there, but her name is one of the only ones he's saying so far (Sheshee!) She's also a fabulous hair stylist and usually comes to my house and does it when Peyton is in bed (I know I'm spoiled!) By the way, she works at Mark Anthony's salon in Springville if you need someone to go to :) Anyway...love you so much Chels! And thanks to my parents for a great dinner at PF Changs and my Mom's famous chocolate mousse cake!