Spring Sports

April always means spring sports! This year Carter is doing flag football and on the 49er's team - which he was stoked about. Mollie is still on her same Elite team. Brielle played rec for Elite this year and Rylee played for TC United! To say this spring season is busy is a major understatement! But I love that they all want to get involved and play hard. 

Mollie's team was honored at the ReAl game in SLC for winning the last tournament we played in. Chad and I took her to the game and left the others home!

It was a beautiful evening! And it was my first professional mens game. It was so fun! The energy is unreal in that stadium!

Her team got to run onto the field while they did all the opening stuff. It was awesome. 

They also got on the jumbo tron a time or 2. 

Hello Leo!

And Zhane came and found Mollie. They have season tickets and so she got to sit by him for most of the game. They are so funny...they barely talk to each other! It was a seriously fun night!

 

Thirty-seven

My birthday week was super busy! I was in cheer tryouts the weekend before my bday so we celebrated any time we could. I REALLY wanted to go to Canes and have chicken strips so Chad took me for lunch one day and they were EXTRA delicious. 

I cut 4 inches off my hair and got it dyed. Its so nice to have fresh hair!

My birthday was on conference weekend, as it often is, so we woke up, chad made me funfetti pancakes and later he took us to Thirst for beignets!

I then opened presents and got some really cool things! A new tiered tray with things to go on it and some Hey Dude shoes. 

Socks and treats and sweet cards were also given. 

For lunch it was Jalepeno cheeto mac and cheese. Its pretty darn good!

I started a puzzle that was SO hard! I started it and then put it away so we could do birthday things. 

A fun surprise was the Eash fam stopping by with some balloons for me. I kept them on my banister for quite a while!

Chad of course made me some cupcakes. I had a heck of a time finding the frosting I love so I ordered some online. I got 4 of them! When they showed up, 3 of them were cracked open. I sent them back. On my birthday I didn't get my favorite frosting but my mom made me some good ones with the 1 frosting can I had later on. 

That evening we had a bunch of friends over for cake and cupcakes and ice cream! Chad is too good to me and I felt really loved by all my friends. 

And by gosh I got this puzzle out later in the week and worked so hard on it and got it done! I felt very accomplished getting this 2000 piece puzzle done!
 

End and start of cheer

It's crazy a whole year went by of cheer. It flew! And there was hardly any time to breathe between the end of cheer and the start of cheer! I attended the banquet and enjoyed hearing the funny jokes and memories that had happened through the year and a nice Olive Garden dinner. The girls were so sweet and gave me some nice gifts. I took a pic the night of the banquet because I felt pretty!

All the cheerleaders at TCC and Tooele performed several numbers in an end of year performance. It was so exciting to feel the energy in the room!

And just like that, it was time for tryouts all within the same week! We didn't have as many girls as we have had in the previous years which was nice. And I was really impressed with the amount of talent that we had. I'm really excited for a new year and the chance to try again and make an even better team!!

The Seniors love to participate in the tryouts and gave some good feedback. After the list of who made it was posted, the Seniors go kidnap the team and take them to  breakfast. Such a cute tradition!

 Here we go, round 2!

Spring Idaho trip

We headed to Idaho for a few days of spring break. Our first stop was in Pocatello. I took the kids to Ross Park. This is the park where mine and Chad's story began. So its fun to take our kids to our place where our relationship blossomed. I still remember the giddiness I felt as we were swiging next to each other and Chads mom had called and he told her he had a girlfriend. I was ecstatic!

Then that evening, the reason we came to Idaho began! Our nephew, Chase, decided to get baptized! We were over the moon for him and we knew we had to be there. It was a very special day and I'm so glad there were so many family and friends there to support him. 

We stayed the night in Poky and Chad jetted back to Tooele for work the next morning. We went on to Rupert the next morning to hang at grandmas for a few days. She planned a fun pirate booty game that was fun and the kids all got a big pile of booty to snack on and play with for a few days. 

We went to dinner with mom and dad and Tony's fam too. It was a good time. I love this little squirt. He wanted me to dance with him in the mexican restaurant, so we did! 

We celebrated some birthdays. 

And I needed some exercise, so I went out for a walk on a cool sunny country morning. I loved the smells and sounds that brought back so many good memories. 

Ry  bug had some new teeth coming in so she wasn't loving life. 

We had the BEST weather one day so we played outside most of the day. We did kickball and flew a kite...of course on a fishing pole in true dad fashion.

We went to DI for something to do and all the girls found fun things. Grandma had them do a fashion show with all their new things. Then we pulled out some oldies...outfits I made in 4-H and Mollie tried them on. Talk about a walk down memory lane!

We ended up staying an extra day because we were just relaxed and having fun. When we went to leave, we realized at some point Carter had passed up grandma in height! We all missed it somehow! And then of course he had to measure with grandpa...not yet bud, but soon! 

Thanks mom and dad for the fun spring break, treats, meals and  4wheeler rides!!
 

Last Day

Its always hard to go home after vacation but after 7 days of fun, I was ready. All I wanted to do for our last day was sleep in, drink a margarita on the beach and watch the ocean. So that is exactly what we did. I ordered the BEST salad from this Cabo Cantina and they could make me a Pina colada, so that is just what we did!

We sat right here with our feet in the sand and wave watched. The seagulls were swarming so we ate quickly. 

I think he'd live here if I'd let him. He loves the ocean. 

Goodbye beach! We will miss you. From here we headed straight to the airport and back to home. It was a great trip and a perfect amount of time for me to feel a break from life and mommin. I was happy to be home and back with my kids. We were so grateful to chads parents who stayed with the kids and manned our crazy schedule for 3 days so we could do this. 

I was happy to be home but not be back to this! Just a few days later, we got another foot of snow! At this point, its not even fun to go out and play in because we all just want it gone! It was an icy snow and I was glad it didn't stay along too long. It melted pretty quickly.