W-W-W, What's Happenin' Dude?

Okay so I know I have been a HUGE blog slacker! So here is another HUGE post about what we have been up to (oh and the title is from one of Becca's favorite videos right now -- Letter Factory).

April Catch-up

Lizzie's Birthday

Lizzie turned 2! We had so much fun at the party!

Me and Linds, I think this one was really cute of both of us!

Those crazy kids! They were adorable, each being crazy in their own way.

Look at that face! Oh I love this girl! When we got home from Lizzie's party Becca woke up and there was a package from grandma! We had to open it!

Birthday clothes for the summer! So cute!

Dinner with the Girls!
I went out to dinner at Buca Di Beppo with my girls to celebrate my birthday late. It was fun!

Erin and Sara!

Me and Dialma.

Crazy huge piece of cake. It isn't the same as they had before, but it was still yummy.

Blowing out the big candle!

Becca is All Grown Up!
We went to Wal-Mart and saw the perfect toddler bed, seriously for a wal mart price we got a bed that goes PERFECTLY with Becca's other furniture. So we went for it.


We took down the crib!

Becca helped us put together the new bed...

And promptly crawled in to go to sleep, she was so tired!

She loves it, and does really well in it for going down for naps and bed time!

This is just a random picture of Becca in one of the cute dresses she got for her birthday! She was too cute ot not get a pretty picture of. (Thanks Sara!)

Writer's Retreat in Midway!
Last weekend I went on my first writer's retreat in Midway at a friend's in-law's condo. ;)

What do you do at a writer's retreat? Mostly sit around and write! It was seriously awesome. I met some amazing people at various stages of writing (just starting, getting ready to submit to agents, agented, people editing for publication, etc.) It was so so great!

This was our "Snow White" room, also sometimes referred to as the "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" room. Yeah, we didn't go to bed at 1:15 Thursday night and 2:30 Friday night!

Nikki! This was "her" condo, she's working in the master bedroom right now to get some peace and quiet.

This was a common scene. Three people sitting around with laptops, some with headphones, others working with or on paper. This is Natalie and Joel (married, so cute that they can write and do stuff like this together!) and the awesome Heather who is working on revisions for her editor!

Brodi! She didn't stay with us, but came over from her condo to enjoy the atmosphere of hard work!

Friday we had to get out for a while, so we went to go feed the goats. Yep, the goats. Our original plan was to get Gelatto but the place was closed...so...goats it was!

Chersti nearly falling into the little river bank to hand feed a goat...little did we know there was a side to the gate up on the grassy hill where we could have just easily hand fed them all.

Zermatt, the condo place we stayed at, it was so cute and so nice!

Friday night we also decided to spend some time playing games. When the last person went out, the rest of us only had yellow cards! It was really funny!

Me in all my sleep deprived goodness trying to get in an hour more writing time before leaving on Saturday!

It was so much fun, and I had such a blast. It has totally motivated me! Sorry I didn't get pics of everyone, but you were all awesome!

And I thought MY Birthday was Busy!
On Saturday I booked it from Midway to Provo to start our day of not just one, but THREE birthday celebrations!

Sam's B-day
Tyson's brother Taron and our SIL Sam came down Friday night and we got to have lunch with them on Saturday (oh yeah, and they stayed at our house. ;) But I was gone for a lot of that). We went to lunch with Tevan and Lanae to Pirate Island Pizza! It was so awesome! I have never been, and the waiter spoke in a pirate accent, it was sweet!

We got balloon animals and Sam's Giraffe had these adorable lips she just had to kiss them!

Our family by the big Pirate Ship!

The big group! Tevan and Taron were fighting like crazy with thise swords!

Oh and Taron got a hat from off a table, nice pirate move there!

Brad's Party
Then we went out to Sandy to go to Brad's birthday party!

Here he is opening his SpiderMan Transformer. Yeah, I may not have a son, but I know how to shop for them!

Awesome Spiderman Cake!

Becca enjoying the sunshine and cake!

And the fun bounce house!

Me and my girls! It was good to see them all again! Happy Birthday Brad!

Bethany's Birthday
Then we had a bit of time to go home drop some stuff off and head back to Provo for my neice Bethany's birthday!

They had a really cool castle bounce house!

The girls loved it! Here they are jumping with uncle Josh, Bethany's uncle. Brooke and Becca fell down at the exact same moment, it was pretty funny.

Bethany and her super cute cupcake tower cake! It was good to see family and celebrate! We love you Bethany, Happy 6th birthday!

Mother's Day!
Mother's day was great! I had breakfast made by my honey, opened my present and had a really nice day at church. Tyson made dinner and brownies! It was great!

Me and Becca with my painting from Tyson! It's his first watercolor and I love it! For the last 3 years he has drawn and now painted me something new to put in our front room.

Me and my girl, the reason for it all! I love her so so so so much. Being a mom is the best blessing I have ever been given!

My beautiful red roses and white lilies! I love having fresh flowers in the house!

She was just too cute, with her messed up hair from pigtails eating her brownie and milk. This is why I do what I do every day!