Taylor's First day of school....

So Taylor started first grade today! She was so happy last night to meet new people until we went to school this morning. Hopefully she'll have a good day today. Everyone told me she had the teacher that all the mom's try and get their kids in, so that's good! She has her cousin Ethan who is in Second grade going to the same school as her too which she was pretty excited about. We'll see what she has to say when she gets home from school...it seems like a great school though and everyone is so friendly!

Date night (sort of)

So we finally moved down to San Elijo Hills, San Marcos but not into a house yet. We are still waiting (patiently...kindof) to hear about the short sale house that we have an offer on. So now we are in a 3 bedroom apartment. We have our cousin Baily visiting us for a few days and Rob and I have been so stressed out so I decided to sort of make tonight a date night. :) I made fruit with dip, taco soup and chocolate chip brownies. I had Taylor and Bailey write the menu and a sign that said "please wait to be seated" for Rob when he came home from work. The girls got so excited to help out and it was really fun and gave us an excuse to sit down and talk. It was nice to have the girls serve us (even though of course I had to make the entire dinner)! Hopefully we'll have an update soon about our house.
ps. We REALLY miss orange county and our friends soo very much! :(

A wedding reception

We went to a wedding reception this last weekend and it was a lot of fun seeing people we haven't seen for over 5 years. (of course I don't have any pictures of any one at the reception except for my family...kind of embarrassing!) With all of the pictures we took you would have thought we were the ones celebrating something that night! :)

Knott's Soak City...

Every year my sister's and I go to Knott's Soak City and it's sooo much fun! My kids LOVE it and it's really pretty easy to take them since they are playing with their cousins the whole time! The only thing missing was my sister Meghan and her kids! :(

Gifts for my sister's new baby...

How fun would it be to get all of this in the mail! I just finished making it for my sister and her new baby Lilly! You can take a closer look at these things on my craft blog! Love you Meghan!! :)

A visit to St. George and Salt Lake...

The girls and I drove to St. George to visit Rob's family. When we first got there, Robert's brother scott and his wife and kids were there. My girls were so excited to see them; they had to leave the next day and my kids were really sad to have their cousin Allie leave them! The first night we got there, the girls made a tower out of ice cream cones and icing.
A few days later (with the help Robert's mom and sisters) I was able to go see Meghan have her 3rd baby. I drove as fast as I could and thought that I would for sure miss the whole thing, but I got there at 11:30 and her baby wasn't born until 3:30. Meghan had an adorable baby girl named Lilly; she's so sweet and Meghan looked beautiful of course! :)

I drove back from Salt Lake the next day and when I got back to St. George we all went to see Tarzan at the Tuachan theater. It was so unbelievably amazing and Taylor loved it!!

It was such a fun trip! I also went to St. George because Michelle's boyfriend just came home from his mission and we might have spied on him at the airport and spied on him a few times at his house. :) It was so much fun and they are so cute together. :)