Easter Easter Bo Beaster

Banana Fana, ok I won't finish. 

Here was our Easter:

Preschool bunny ears

Easter egg hunt and Grammy and Papa's

Adult 3 legged hunt

Yeah, we scored $40! I think that pic is blurry. so sorry.

 

Pinata for the little chicks

Sunday morning. They had a nice sugar rush before 8 o'clock church

Easter baskets aren't complete without candy pooping animals:)

I had my fair share of  butterfinger eggs.

Next week is diet time. No joke. Details to come.

T- Ball time!

Lane is on his first official sports team! He is LOVING every single minute of it. Practices or games can't come often enough for this boy. Our team is full of other boys from our ward so it makes it even more fun. Rusty, well. He enjoy's begging candy off of other people, almost getting ran over by a car after darting into the street to go look at the horses and crying bloody murder because he doesn't get a treat after the game like the players. I wish they had a T-ball team for 2 yr olds. GO DBACKS!

What's a birthday without a boat?!

We found ourselves on another boat! It was the fathers birthday so in honor of his 51'st year of life we went to Gainey Ranch for their gondola rides. When our huge group walked up the guy in charge took a big breath in anticipation of how they were going to fit us all in one gondola since they only had one running that night. He thought we would all fit so we took the challenge. Normally it seats 6 but 9 is pretty much the same. My mom was worried we would sink the titanic but rest assured that we wouldn't it was all aboard!  

We made it back dry! It was a little rocky getting in at first once we figured out that only one person steps in at a time (my bad, sorry mom!). And what do you know, who would have thought that our gondola driver person would be from Mesa and went to Mt View all they way in "Venice":)

Whip it....

... whip it good!

In the past week we have been collecting cans of whipping cream from different occasion's. You can't let good stuff like that go to waste. We have become creative on how to eat it up.

You can find our family doing whipped cream shots at night. 

Yep, straight out of the bottle.

Bottoms up!

 

Or dolloped on a no bake cookie.

My best concoction yet, strawberries dipped in my mom's homemade hot fudge with a sprinkle of peanuts and... whipped cream on top.

You can hear the fridge opening and closing around the clock with the nice sound of a fluffy spray. Now I know why I never buy it. Addicting!

Spring Break-ee

We had so much fun on our cruise for spring break! Ok I am kidding. We didn't go out of town like a lot of lucky people did. However, 2 trips to Chick-fil-a is pretty much the same thing, right?!

We went back to Tempe Town Lake with the boys this time... and Spinatos pizza. Sooo I guess we sort of went on a cruise:)

We had a March birthday party at San Tan Flats with Casey's cousin and fam.

4 of these peeps had a birthday in the same week!

"This is smores stuff. First you take the graham. You stick the chocolate on the graham. Then you roast the mallow...

...when the mallows flaming you stick it on the chocolate and cover it with the other end...

... then you scarf."

Well, we only roasted marshmallows but who can resist that famous line:)

We also played at the park with friends and Lane got to go to a spring training game with aunt Valerie and Kristen and cousins!

And remember in lieu of a vacation, Chick-fil-a is always there for ya!

Sailing into his 30's

Yep, that's right. As of Saturday March 10th, I am married to a 30 year old man! I still can't believe it. I think in my heart we will be forever 21 but tis not the case. Unlike Peter Pan, we must grow up and get...old. I am slowly learning that ageing is a good thing. One thing I do know though is that Casey is for sure the cutest 30 year old out there! But I could be biased:)

I wanted to do something big and fun to celebrate like a vacation. I thought of a few places we could go.   Coronado, Vegas, Sedona even Payson. I would book one then change my mind and cancel it. I did that about 2 times. For some reason I was feeling like we shouldn't go out of town, and still don't know why I felt that way. So once I decided we would stay home it helped narrow down my choices. But still his big day was coming closer and closer and I had nothing set in stone except that Stephanie was going to watch the boys all day. Instead of a short story too long (which sorry, it prob already is) here was Casey's big birthday weekend!

Casey requested that we make his birthday cake on Thursday. Since we would be gone all day on his bday, he wanted to eat on it for a few days instead of it going to waste. Wish granted!

On Friday we had a twinner birthday party with Travis and Sunni! You have to celebrate your 30th with your womb mate! Haha. The boys only knew that we were taking them to dinner but left the dessert portion a surprise:) We wanted them to have smooth sailing into their 30's so we rented a boat down at Tempe Town Lake. We brought cherry cheesecake aboard and toasted to their wonderful 29 years of life with Martinelli's. There may have been a mix up with the real deal, or so it seemed!

The boys ended up spending the night at Stephanie's so it was weird going home to an empty house! Don't get me wrong it was nice to have the night all to ourselves without the usual bedtime routine. Not having to do baths was a treat in itself.

The next day was his big birthday! We slept in longer than we thought so we skipped breakfast and had an earlier lunch. I forgot my license and credit card at the boat rental the night before so we went back to Tempe to retrieve it. The Aloha festival was going on so since it took 20 minutes to find a parking spot we walked around for a bit and watched the hula girls shake their hips (truly amazing). Oh and bought 2 raffle tickets to hopefully win a trip to Hawaii. ha. Wish us luck!

We went shopping for a bit then got an hour massage at Happy Feet. Such a wonderful place.

We ended his birthday night at Cheesecake Factory. I think our waiter had a crush on him. Seriously.

Even though we didn't do a huge blowout activity like I originally planned, I feel like it was a success.  We hardly ever get alone time so it was nice being together all day. You can definitely pack in alot without kids. 

Oh, and I had to add the card my mom gave him. Hilarious. She finds the best cards!

Happy 30th stud muffin!

Boy Stuff

Quads with daddy.

Unfortunate for the complete boy party, mom tagged along.

For picture purposes, you know:)

and so I could see their group effort loading skills

Picking carrots and finding worms with Papa

Papa is a pretty cool babysitter.

Love me some WARM WEATHER ♥ VALENTINES ♥ & SWEET BOYS

We had the most glorious ♥warm weather♥ a couple weeks ago. Like knock your socks off, put your hands in the air, holla, lets go outside and roll around in the sun awesome weather. Did you get the point? Haha. Non the less it called for a zoo day:) We recruited Val and cousins and even Grammy came! I believe this was Rusty's first time and boy did he have a blast! We all had a blast!

We had so much fun that we continued  at Tia Rosas for dinner. The balloon guy found his way over to our table...

We celebrated ♥ Valentines Day ♥. Our plan was to decorate dads truck down at the yard and leave his present on his seat for him to find after work. Weeelll, when we pulled in to do our sneaky business guess who was there only for a minute to get something out of his truck before going to his next job? Yep, Casey. We got busted. Of all days he actually goes to the yard mid day. So plan B. Decorate the shower.

you are so glad I posted a picture of our dirty shower for ya"ll to see. huh.

We had a lovely dinner at home then headed out to Yogurtland for dessert!

Mango Mixer, you had me at hello.

I looked up to see this ice cream lover making sure not to miss a drop

They boys were super excited to get a special Valentine in the mail from their cousin Collin all the way from NY!

 I was at a girls night where the host had Valentines quotes on a piece of paper. One of them was If love is blind why is lingerie so popular!!! I would have to agree. All in all it was very romantical (name that movie) day!


I am pretty sure I have two of the ♥ sweetest boys♥ ever. Rusty loves this baby doll. Baby takes naps with Rusty and goes to bed at night with him. Hi gives kisses and makes sure paci is in. Just like his routine. It doesn't sleep in the crib with him but has it's own sleeping spot on top of the blanket basket right close by.

Both boys have become super assertive. The other day I changed my toe nail polish color while Rusty was taking a nap. When he woke up I was getting him a drink and when he was walking away to play he looked down, pointed to my toes and said ooo, pretty toes mom. I was amazed that he even took notice of my toe nail colors. He also notices when I change his sheets and has the Enya cd that we listen to in the car memorized.

Then we have this boy. Oh how I love his costume creations from school! Casey took this picture because he wouldn't let me take one. Whats with that?!

Casey added some molding to our kitchen. While Lane was watching a movie I painted it white. Later that night when the kids were in bed I added the brown glaze. The next morning I was awakened by him running in saying. Mom, somebody got your paint all dirty! He was really worried I was going to be mad. Oh my sweet boys!!