Will's first birthday!

I cannot even believe where the last year has gone...

My friend Erin took his one year pictures and I am in love with every single one!!!

On Will's birthday we went out to lunch and then spent the afternoon at Cherry Hill.  (so don't judge his swimming hair!)  Then we had some cupcakes from the Sweet Tooth Fairy (Yum!)

My parents came over for a little bit to give will his toy.  He LOVES cars!  (Confession:  I didn't buy him a single thing for his birthday!  He doesn't know the difference, and I had a hard enough time coming up with things for everyone else to give him, there was nothing left!)

The next week we celebrated with Danny's family.  Danny's dad makes the kids these amazing toy boxes!  (I could NOT get Canyon and Caydence to get out of the pictures!!!)

More yummy cupcakes

Happy Birthday sweet Will!  (actually a month ago- July 26)

Faster, Higher, Stronger (Olympic Party)

When we heard the Olympic opening ceremonies were 100 days away I decided we needed to party!  Then I found out they were the day after Will's first birthday, so we decided to throw the 2 of them together.  Who doesn't love the Olympics?!  And who doesn't love a reason to party!

The decorations:

 Cupcake medals podium

 The prizes!

It drives me CRAZY that it puts these pictures in sideways!!!

But here are the favors I made.

 Javelin:

 Even Grandma Betty got in on the action :)

 Discus

 Richie setting up the cups for slingshot.

 (Another sideways picture)  Just had to show you the shirt I got for Will to wear at the party!

 The banner we made for the garage

 Will's toy from my parents.  Unfortunately this is the only shot I have of Caydence's shirt (in the back)

We finished the night roasting hot dogs and watching the Opening Ceremonies.  It was a blast!  I love an excuse to get together and party!

Defying Gravity

If you've seen Wicked, you know that is the BEST PART of the whole show!!!  So my mom and Paige got tickets to Wicked for Christmas, so we all went down early to enter the lottery for tickets.  There were WAY less people than when we went 3 years ago for the lottery.  We still were nervous about winning, but Paige AND my mom won tickets!  So we had 6 tickets (since they already had 2).  They sold their tickets and came up to the front with me, because the tickets in the lottery are AWESOME (4th row!)  So it's the 3rd time I've seen it, but it was just as magical as the first!!!

On a random side note, I just read this and it made me a little crazy:

"Brown's attorney Don Karpel told TMZ he plans to sue the Century 16 theater, which is owned by Cinemark, for having an exit door that was not equipped with an alarm or guarded. (Holmes reportedly left the theater through the exit door, propped it open and returned with his weapons.) Karpel also said he may sue Warner Bros for releasing violent movies that may have inspired the shooter, as well as the suspect's doctors, if he had any, for hypothetically not monitoring James Holmes' mental condition properly."

Really people?  What is this world coming to?!?!?!?

4th of July

The 4th of July is hands down my FAVORITE holiday!!  And this year was definitely a success (judging by the fact that I slept in til 9, Will slept until 9:20, and Caydence slept until 10!)  We had a blast and loved hanging out with friends and family.

We started the day at the Kaysville parade, of course.  I just LOVE Kaysville!  The tradition, the sense of community, etc.  The Kaysville parade never disappoints.  And this year we were lucky enough to have some friends from our new ward join us and it was great!

 Danny's "mini me"

 So lucky to have Paige to entertain Caydence!

 This is supposed to be a star :)

We then hosted a BBQ for both of our families and we had a blast!  We had some baseball, croquet, water fight, good food, and nice family time.

 Fell in love with these firework straws!

 Patriotic treats

 I made this tablecloth with some bandannas.  It was so easy and I love it!

We ended the day at the fireworks, which Will hated and Caydence paid zero attention to, ha ha.  But it is always one of my favorite things!  I wish I had take more pictures of the PEOPLE who came, but I'm just not good at remembering to get out my camera!  But we had a great day, and that's what really matters!

Baby time!

Ha ha, I realized after I picked that title that it probably freaked some of you out. It's not for me, it's for my SIL Lauren. I hosted my first baby shower and I had a blast preparing! The pictures just don't do it justice, but here they are:

The spread. (kind of dark) I went with gray and pink, and my wall just happened to match perfectly! I had a lot of help from my silhouette (love that thing!)


I went with elephants for the gray.


Love the striped paper straws that are everywhere!


Made my first cake pops. They turned out so cute! (and yummy!)


My mom made this gorgeous fruit bouquet.


C for Claire


Pinwheel boxes from pinterest as party favors.


We are so excited to meet baby Claire and for Caydence and Will to have a new cousin!!

-Tarin