Mother's Day

Papa had so much breakfast he couldn't stay awake...
Grandma Gertrude, Deb, the girls and Nana

We spent Mother's Day at The Gathering Place in Gardner Village. They do a great buffet! We then came back to our house to open presents. Dave gave me a one hour massage...thanks honey! It was nice to have my Grandma up here. She just sold her place in California and we will be moving her up to SLC at the end of June. She will be living at Atria in Sandy, a senior apartment complex that cooks and cleans for her. We are excited to have her close by and see the girls grow up:)

Craig's graduation

I just wanted to give my brother a big CONGRATS for graduating from the University of Utah last week. He majored in Gender Studies and minored in German. He just went back these last three semsters to finish up after being gone for 11 years. It has been a tough road to work full time and complete his courses..but he did it and on a full scholarship nonetheless! Here he is posing with his partner Ian. As most of you know he is getting ready to pack up and move to London to live with Ian. We are going to miss him terribly...thank goodness for my flight benefits:)

Happy Birthday to me....

Ash and Aunt Cathy

The winner of American Idol 2009 is....

Playing on Pirate's Lair Island

Waiting for the gates to open.....

Ashley's favorite character

Ashley and Deb took a quick trip last week to Disneyland for Deb's 35th birthday. This year Disney lets you in free to the park of your choice for your birthday. So...Deb was free...Ash was free...we stayed at Grandma's house....free....flew down for free...what's not to like!! It was so nice to go the park NOT pregnant since the last 2 times I went I was pregnant with Madison. The weather this time of year is perfect and no lines since it was a Tuesday. Ash is now a stunning 40 inches tall so we went on Big Thunder Mountain 3 times in a row! She loved it. I had to beg her to go get food instead of riding a fourth time. Dave's sister has an annual pass and met us after work for the parade and a few more rides. I must thank Nana again for watching Madison so Ash and Mommy could have a little alone time together:)

Pee pee in the potty!

Evidently it helps to be completely naked:)
The finished product!!! So proud!

Ashley has started to wake up with a completely dry diaper in the morning...we make a mad dash to the princess potty and here are the results! We are making progress!

Scrapbook Retreat

The scrapbook room
All the fun gals, Deb, Cami, Jen, Whit, Amanda and Rachel

I love my husband. Just 4 weeks after the birth of our sweet baby he agreed to watch both kids for the weekend so I could go scrapbook with friends! We drove up early Friday and returned around 8pm Sunday. It was so much fun drinking, eating junk, hot tubing, laughing and oh yeah...scrapbooking! We go to a gals house in Eden Utah. She has a 6000 square ft house for the scrapbook retreats! The are enough beds for 8 people and she owns every scrapbook tool available for your use. Here is the link to her website http://www.darcysretreats.com/

Easter

Playing with the cousins
Filling her Easter bucket

Dying eggs with Aunt Katie

Nothing like playing in the dirt!

Checking out Dad's new toy

Peep's yucky Mommy:(

Heading out in the jeep with Daddy

Ash and Dave drove down to his parents cabin in Capitol Reef while Deb stayed home with Maddie. I thought to myself..."wow a whole 3 days and nights with just the baby...what a breeze!" By Saturday I was having a major meltdown after 2 days and nights without any help! I forgot just how needy newborns are:) Fortunately my mom came to the rescue and stayed the night and did all the feedings so I could get some rest. Thanks Nana! Next year Maddie will be old enough to go down to the cabin and have some fun! The only down side to the trip is that Ash woke up with a fever Easter morning and didn't even want to search for candy and eggs. Dave said she lasted 30 minutes before the meltdown hit and she fell asleep at the cabin for 3 hours. She cried the whole drive home and felt pretty crummy for the next 2 days. The hard part was keeping her away from Maddie..Nana again came to the rescue and was in charge of Ashley so I could touch Maddie and not get her sick. Better luck next year!

New family pics

Just a quick thanks to Whitney Fassio for taking such great pics!! Watch out for Madison's birth announcement coming soon:)