Kid History

A couple of weeks ago, my mom showed us these video clips on youtube. They are cute and funny so I thought I would share the link. For those of you that have never heard of Kid History, it is a bunch of kids telling stories while the adults act it out. They move their mouths, but it is the kids voices coming out and it is all in sync with each other. There are 5 different episodes, so if you need to laugh go check it out here (this link is for episode 1). Enjoy. :)

Happy Birthday Baby!

Thursday was little B's 1st birthday. I can't believe a year has already passed. Tally and my family came (those that live close) Since he was born on Cinco de Mayo we had a pinata and chips and salsa to snack on. I also made fruit salsa and cinnamon chips. We also had cake and ice cream. I spent the day with my neighbor making a baseball cake for Braylon (which he never really dug into. He mostly just picked at it) and a jersey cake for everyone else. I would love to take cake decorating classes and learn all the fun techniques. It was a very fun day. I am blessed to have this baby in my life. He makes me laugh all of the time. He has such a cute personality. We love him so much.

Hapari Swimwear Giveaway

So my friend Robin is having a giveaway on her deals blog for Hapari Swim Suits. They are super cute and modest. Head on over to this fun website for your chance to enter this giveaway and for great deals posted daily. :)

Hawaii

We just got back from Hawaii on friday (April 1). We (meaning 20 people - 11 adults, and 9 kids all 5 and under) spent 9 days there. We flew out on Tuesday March 22. It was so beautiful and warm. I loved it. My whole family went as was Natalie's wish before she died. We felt her sweet spirit with us. She promised my mom before she died that she would be there with us and I believe that she was. We did a lot of fun things. I put the pictures in a bunch of different collages below. (They will also be slide shows if you want to see the smaller ones a little easier)
We spent time at the beach, a few of us went on a catamaran to do some whale watching, we ate shaved ice at Matsumoto's, we went to the lovely Polynesian Cultural Center, We went to the Dole Planation and saw thousands of pineapples, we hiked into a botanical garden called Waimea Valley and at the end of the hike was a beautiful waterfall that you could swim to and under so we did that. It was awesome. We ate Hawaiian food. One of the best or highlights of the trip was going to the Temple. My brother Tyler turned 19 while we were there. Last year on his 18 birthday we found out that Natty was terminal so that wasn't a fun birthday, but this year was better. Tyler received his mission call right before we left. He leaves in June to serve in the Chile Osorno Mission, so on his birthday this year he went through the temple for the first time to receive his endowments. It was neat to have ALL of us there (Nat was there). I am so excited for him.
It was a fun trip. Sorry for the picture overload. I didn't know the best way to post them. It is nice to be home, but I do miss the warm weather and just the beautiful place that Hawaii is.

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I feel like I am in a rut. I have spring fever, Colsten has spring fever. I am ready to have the nice weather and be able to play outside. I never feel like I have anything interesting to talk about. I feel like I do the same thing day in and day out. Sometimes I feel like a crappy mom. I was reading my sweet cousins blog the other day (I hope she doesn't mind if I mention it) she just had a baby a few months ago, she is sleep deprived and she feels like she yells at her older two children all of the time. As I was reading it I thought that sounded like me. I am not sleep deprived, but Colsten and I beat heads all of the time. I feel like he does things just to get under my skin and then I yell at him, I put him in time out, I take away privileges. Sometimes I don't know what to do. I know that the poor little kid just wants attention. I love him so much, but it is very clear he is a daddy's boy, and I know he loves me, but he prefers Tally do everything for him. And my poor Braylon. He is our sickly child. I feel like a couple months after he was born until now (he is 10 months) he has been sick. Seriously I think out of the 10 months he has been sick off and on for 8 of them. We have made multiple ER visits and doctor visits. It is enough to drain anyone. Anyway that is the negative I guess.
I love my boys very much. I wouldn't want my life to be any other way. They both make me laugh on a daily basis and I am so blessed I was given these two beautiful children to raise.
Colsten is all boy. He loves everything that is boy. Our living room and kitchen run together. We have wood floors in the kitchen. Well this winter my kitchen and living room have been turned into a basketball court, a baseball field, a soccer field, a wrestling arena, and most recently he has taken up a love for Hockey. So my kitchen is his hockey rink. He puts my socks on his hands for his gloves, and a pair on his feet for his ice skates, he will find random objects to put in his mouth for the mouth guard. He gets his hockey sticks out and his puck and "ice skates" in my kitchen. He even goes to the "locker room" when the Zamboni comes out. He cracks me up. Tally's mom is Canadian, and that is where Tally was born was in Canada. All of Tally's uncles and cousins have played or do play. So it must be in his blood.
Braylon is growing so fast and has such a sweet personality. He is totally a mommy's boy. Just ask grandma. He does not like to go to her at all. :) He is 10 months and is walking everywhere. He loves Colsten and wants to be right in the middle of everything that he is doing. He follows him everywhere. Colsten loves him as well. They wrestle on the floor and both will just laugh. Colsten can usually always get Braylon to laugh.
Anyway this is what is happening in our family. I will try to post pictures. The boys never want to cooperate when it comes to pictures so I don't get a lot. But I will post some soon.

Natty's Wish

One of Natalie's greatest wishes was to form a non-profit organization to help other young adults diagnosed between the ages of 18-25 to have a trip with their families. Make A Wish had to draw a line and that line is 18 years old. Natalie wanted to give the same experience to other young adults, and so "Natty's Wish" was born.

My older brother Scott, has spent hours and hours and hours getting through all the legal stuff to get "Natty's Wish" up and running. We are so excited to announce our very first fund raising effort.

On MARCH 7, we have a give back day at all the CHILI'S in UTAH. That means if you take one of the coupons to a Chili's on that day, they will attach it to your bill and then 10% of whatever you spend will come to "Natty's Wish". I am putting the flyer and the coupons on the photo gallery. I think you will be able to print them off. Please print some and pass them out to everyone you know. This will be a great way to start growing "Natty's Wish" so we can help other young adults and their families!
(You should be able to right click on the coupons and save them to your computer to print them out)