Birthday muffin!

Bry had his 2nd Birthday on Thursday! His party is tomorrow so pictures and fun stuff to come! But I'll leave you with this:

The traditional birthday muffin. He tried two different times to eat the candle. I think he thought it was a sucker. Love this kid!

Cakes and stuff

It seems like I kinda had a dry spell and didn't get to make any goodies for a while! But in March I made a cake for our Relief Society Birthday Party. The theme was Dr. Seuss' Oh the Places You'll Go, so I played with that a little and came up with this. The Elephants I made out of melting chocolate.




Then my grandma turned 80 in April and I made some cupcakes for her surprise party. The top is a little 6 inch cake. I was excited to finally have a reason to make a cupcake tower. It was fun and they were super yummy!

Change

I have this thing with change. I don't like it. I am the one that always leaves the furniture just how it is. I get comfortable and when things change I feel out of my comfort zone. When I was younger I remember some of my friends rearranging their rooms and I thought, What are they doing? How can they just move things like that? Mine always stayed the same. My clothes always hang the same and my drawers are always filled with the same thing. If it isn't broken don't fix it.

Although I didn't see it coming, change is here. Kenny and I have recently had to make a decision for our family. He was offered a job up in Logan, and after much prayer, discussion, and faith, we decided to take it. It. was. tough. It is an opportunity that we we felt we couldn't pass on. It will be different, but we believe it will be a good move for our family. I know I am going to have a hard time leaving this house, our very first house, that we brought two of our babies home to, and raised our babies that aren't really babies anymore. And our neighbors, can we say awesome? We have been so blessed to have such a fantastic neighborhood and ward, and have felt so at home. The friends we have made have been so great, and thank goodness we will only be an hour away, so we can visit. A lot. I know changes can be for the better, but it takes me a while to settle into that change. We are thrilled to be closer to family. So we have been busy getting ready for this change in our lives. Our house is for sale, but we are trying to For Sale By Owner, before we jump into getting a Realtor. So if you could help, by passing the info along to anyone looking, I would really appreciate it. I made this blog:

House for Sale

Thank you to everyone for being a part of our lives. It is so nice to have such loving, supportive family and friends. Hopefully the next chapter in our lives will be a smooth transition.

Easter and Spring Break

Easter was fun, although I am a slacker mom and we didn't even color eggs! Can you believe it? My poor children, so deprived. But I did buy them cute outfits! Does that give me some kind of bonus points? They had to wear them before Easter though, since conference fell on Easter Sunday this year. Was that weird for anyone else?
Landon kinda looks silly, but still aren't they cutest? Love this little boys!!

They got to have an Easter egg hunt at Grandma Hansen's... in the snow.

The Easter Bunny found them, and spoiled them! We had the carpets cleaned the day before and so the furniture wasn't put back yet, they had fun testing out their new rides in my house!
On Easter Sunday we packed up and tried to head to warmer weather down south. My mom and brother and his family went too. We went to Vegas for one night, and stayed in St. George the rest of the week. It wasn't quite as warm as I wanted, but there was no snow so that was a big plus.
We headed to MGM to see the Lions. The boys were pretty impressed.
Bryson was loving the fish at the Rainforest Cafe
And Jack thought this alligator/crocodile (how do you tell the difference?) was way cool. I think Landon was a little timid and thought it was real :)
We had to go see the beautiful gardens at the Bellagio. Seriously, so pretty and so neat!

We wanted them to be able to see the fountains so we waited outside for a long time, only to decide that something was wrong and they were not going to go off. So we left, me being completely bummed but not wanting to sit around any longer. After the long trek back to the car, we pulled out of the parking garage and as we were passing in front of the Bellagio, the fountains were going! grrr. Of course since we left. But we got stopped at a light and the kids got to see some out their windows. Still not the same.
This kid seriously idolizes his daddy! No one compares in his eyes, well maybe Grandpa when he takes him on the farm.

We of course had to go to Jumping Jacks in St George. Unfortunately I didn't really get too many pictures, but they had a blast, Landon was a little spider man scaling the walls! I was surprised at some of the stuff he could climb by himself.

And what vacation is complete without swimming? Little fish! Jackson thought he was so big cause he could touch so he wondered around on his tippy toes.

This one screamed when we had to leave, not a happy boy.
It was a fun little family vacation, and thanks to my mom for coming along we had an extra set of hands.

Neglected

My blog has been neglected, and I don't even have a good reason other than... life. Of course we've been busy, but who isn't? I'm just going to skip Christmas, since, come on, we're almost have way to the next one. :) But I can't leave out this cute pic of Landon, on his first day as a Sunbeam back in January. Crazy to have two kiddos in Primary with me now. He loves it though and does much better than Jackson did. Landon is usually a pretty easy going kid. He's my buddy.


I was able to snag this of all three of them, doesn't happen often. Notice Landon's "Cape".

There is a lot of cape wearing at this house.

This little cutie keeps us going. He's going to be two next month and it hasn't quite sunk in yet. He's quite the little jabber box. He already thinks he's like 4, and wants to play with the big boys.

Last August he had surgery to probe his clogged tear ducts. Unfortunately it only fixed his left eye, so in February they had to go in again and put a stint (a small tube) in his right duct. Here's a before, taken in January. See the goop.


And this is the day of his surgery. The tube was stitched to the inside of his nose where the duct drains, that's why it's bleeding. He was not a happy guy.
But Hallelujah! No more goop, it worked! It is so nice not to have to worry about a crusty, red eye.

Half a Decade

5 years ago our little family grew to a family of three.
Jackson had his 5th Birthday back in December. Crazy how quickly 5 years can go by. He his such a fun five year old. I love watching him grasp and learn new things. I am amazed at some of the stuff he figures out. He is obsessed with Transformer's, and has been for probably the last 2 years. His daddy has his own love for them, which creates a special little bond. :) He's a happy kid with lots of enthusiasm. He is mommy's little sweetheart and tells me daily that he loves me, along with a big snuggle. Jackson absolutely loves his little brothers and helps me out so much! The minute Bryson wakes up from his nap, Jackson is in there pulling him out of the crib. And he always includes Landon in what he is doing. Words can't describe the Joy of watching those three play together. Jackson is getting so tall and he doesn't seem to slow down any. Seriously, that kids goes through pants like no other. Luckily we have two cute little boys that can wear the ones he grows out of!

We got back from our Cruise the day of Jackson's birthday, so my wonderful mom helped him celebrate a little bit while we were gone. Then he had his first little friend party a couple days later. He was so excited! We recently had just finished the basement and we put a home theater down there, which Jackson loves to watch movies in, so he decided to have a movie party!

The invite

The guests eating their pizza

He is so lucky to have such good little friends.

After they ate, they got to put their head in the picture to receive their movie award. I didn't know if they would even care to do this, but it was pretty funny how cool they thought it was. I do have pictures of all the kids doing it, and for all you parents, maybe one day I will actually get around to sending them to you.

Present time!

Thanks everybody! He got lot's of fun things!

Then we had some popcorn cupcakes!

Jackson got his very own extra large cupcake.

Then the kids ventured down to start the movie Bug's Life. Don't they just look so cute!

Then they had their concessions during the movie

And we finished the night with a pinata!

His strong cousin Austin I think was the breaker. He's got one hard swing!

Hope you had a great one Jack! We love you so very much and are so glad you are a part of our family! Mommy's gonna miss you when you head off to kindy!

The Cruise - Part 3 {Mazatlan & Cabo}

Our next stop was Mazatlan.
We took one of these taxi's to the "Golden Zone" which is like the main shopping and beach area.

Whenever we took any taxi anywhere we always stuck Brooks up front, it always made for an entertaining ride. By the time we got out we new the drivers family history and life story. =) Those of you who know my brother, know what I am talking about, he's just a friendly guy!

Very pretty coastline, cute couple too.
Kristina was just too nice! I had to take this picture of her "shopping" She did some pretty good bartering though!

After walking along the beach we found a nice spot and rented some boogie boards for a few bucks and had such a blast! I have never done that before and it was so much fun. The waves were fabulous!


Last port was Cabo San Lucas. It was our shortest day so we kinda just walked around the streets for a bit. Kenny couldn't resist posing with his best buddy =)
People swarm you wanting to take you out on their little boats so Brooks bartered this guy down to take us out to the arches. It was so pretty! That's our ship in the background.
The boat had a glass bottom and Cesar (I think that was his name) threw tortillas and they just swarmed us. It was pretty cool. I think I saw a couple Nemos and a few Dorys.

Then we had to say our goodbyes to Mexico. =(


It was so pretty watching us pull out from Cabo, and as we got going like 30 dolphins decided to give us a show alongside the boat. But every picture I took I missed them jumping and it was just a splash, we saw a couple whales too, amazing and just completed the trip. One more full day at sea and then we were back in California. As we boarded the plane to come home we couldn't help but feel a little sad to leave our fabulous vacation behind.

But we missed our kiddos and we were ready to get back home and squeeze them! Thanks again Brooks and Kristina for making it such a fun trip! Until next time!!