May is shaping up quite nicely!

So May has turned out to be pretty good for us, considering that some of our best friends keep coming into town! We love it when we get to see them:) We were able to see Tim and Ash as they drove through for just a day last week, but still had a great time! Man we sure miss them! The boys all had a blast, although we still have had a hard time getting a good picture of the three of them. We can't wait to see them again soon:)

WEEKEND FUN

So, this post is a little bit late-but I did want to get these pics up. We were lucky enough to go down to Southern Utah for the weekend a couple of weeks ago and had a great time with our friends from the good old college days!! We had a great time and the highlight of the trip for the boys was the farm we got to go to! The all got to ride "Sparkles" the shetlan sp? pony and see tons of great animals up close and personal! We roasted marshmallows around the fire, and had a great time all around. We were also able to go to the Dinosaur Museum up here in Provo a few days later and got some great pics! It was so much fun to see our friends, and our kids missed each other so much when they had to say goodbye:( Such great buddies, we love it!!

Barely a Twenty-Something

So yesterday I celebrated my 29th Birthday:( It is crazy that I will never have another "twenty" birthday! Wow, where has the time gone! Anyway, it was a fabulous day, I had a great time and have such wonderful family and friends. Noah was able to get off work around 11:30 am so we were able to spend most of the day together. Also, some of our really great friends from Texas were in town for just a couple of hours and it worked out perfectly that I got to see them on my B-day! We had Gandalfo's for lunch (which is one of my all-time favorites:) and hung out with our friends. Noah got me beautiful purple flowers, and the cutest ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins, YUMMO! We went to dinner at Tucanos as a family and had a great time! Hopefully the next year will be just as good!

Tip Toeing through the Tulips

Tip Toeing through the tulips, or rather running by them!! Noah's work has the most beautiful gardens. We just had to go out and get some spring pictures. Spring is my all time favorite time of year, and I LOOOOOVVVEEE tulips, and all the spring flowers. We had a great time, and got some really cute shots. We went with my brother and sister-in-law and had a fun time.

France pt. 2 EASTER

We had a really nice Easter weekend with even more family than we thought would be coming! It was so fun to see everyone, even Noah's cousin Claire ( the only girl born into the family out of 10:) drove for 8 hours to come down. The boys loved finding their Easter Basket, and we had a great egg hunt. Ronan was actually really good at finding the eggs, much better than we thought he would be! He found the ones that were just laying around for him, as well as the ones that were actually hidden!! What a stud. Anyway, there was plenty of CHOCOLATE to go around this Easter, as well as delicious pastries. What a nice time, and a fun experience to have Easter in France.

France part one

Hello to all. We are back from our trip, it was really great but also long. Well, mostly the plane rides were long, but that is always the case with two little ones! They are really both pretty good travelers in comparison though so I can not complain. We had a great time, and got to see tons of family which we all loved. It is pretty much an outdoor play paradise at Noah's grandparents, so Porter was in heaven. He told us that he "never wanted to go home, and we should stay here forever". We thought that was cute, and it definitely melted the grandparent's hearts. We had a great time with all of our usual "must do/haves" while we were there, great food and great shopping, but also got to do some new and different things as well. We made big fires in the fireplace this time and grilled several time, and we roasted "chamallows" and made his cousins and aunts/uncles their first s'mores! (or the closest we could get anyway:) The new big touristy thing that we did this time, and never before, just because we didn't know about it...(sorry meg and shelly) but anyway, turns out that Coco Chanel, was raised and learned to sew from the nuns in an orphanage/abby right by Noah's grandparents house! So really for anyone who just thinks that's cool, like I did, that is where we got to go. These are the pics from that Abby in a village called Aubazine. So anyway, it is where Chanel started her career of sorts! The rest are just fun pics from the trip. I also have tons of fun Easter pics too, but I'll post those in a separate one.

Chocolate Water

So just a quick one to remind me both how cute Porter can be, but also how much he is picking up on!! It is still amazing to me all of the little phrases that he comes up with. He talks like a little adult! So anyway, tonight with dinner he got to have some chocolate milk made with Nesquick. He loves to put the spoon of chocolate in himself. He had already had enough milk today, so when he asked for more we told him that he couldn't have anymore chocolate milk. He knows that he usually can get in a little bit of water before bed once we've hit the "no more milk" for the day so he started in on it. He suggested that he could just have some chocolate water instead. We laughed and went back and forth with him for several hours that he could have some water, but putting chocolate in it probably wouldn't be a great idea. We told him that he probably wouldn't like it, and it would taste funny. But as our ever persistent child threw out "come on Mom, it's WORTH A TRY at least!!" How optimistic:) I guess I've said that one one to many occasion to him for things he didn't want to do! But hey, at least now he seems to know that lots of things are at least "worth a try!" He took a swig, grinned and told me it was GOOD! ( he has not however, taken any more drinks:) He said he's done. I love my little guy, such sweet simple things make his world go round.