Showered With Love

This past week, my wonderful friends here threw me the most amazing baby shower! They did an awesome job with it, and it all turned out great! Thanks so much girls! I know it is a really crazy, busy time of year, so I was so grateful to all those who were able to make it! I was so spoiled and I was showered with lots of adorable gifts for the baby! Now I'm really anxious for her to get here, so I can use everything!


The super cute party favors they made.

The yummy food! Look at how pretty it all looks!

The delicious punch

Some of the girls doing the pop quiz about me. Congrats to Laura who apparently knows me amazingly well!

Opening my first gifts. My friend Katherine made me these incredibly cute dresses. Don't you just love them?! There is another one I hadn't opened yet in this picture, and she is working on two more! I'm so spoiled! She is very talented! I think they are the cutest things ever!

Thanks so much for all your hard work girls! And thanks to all those who made it to the shower!

Derby Party

As you can imagine, around here, the Kentucky Derby is kind of a big deal! Some friends in our ward through an awesome derby party full food, fun, friends, and kids running everywhere! We had a blast. They had a derby hat contest, and everyone bet on the race. I of course didn't pick the winners so well, but it was lots of fun anyway. I have decided we should always have a big Derby celebration! I don't know why, but I love Derby. Maybe someday we will actually make it to the races, but for now, we will just enjoy watching it on TV!
Our little family waiting for the race.
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Sarah showing off her prize for best Derby hat.

Natalie won the betting on the race.

I love Derby hats! So Katherine and I went on a hunt for cute derby hats the day before, but we didn't realize how expensive Derby hats are around here, so we opted for these 3 dollar hats and dollar store flowers and made them ourselves. Not the best imitation, but the price was right! Katherine's turned out lots cuter because she spray painted hers!

Thunder

This last Saturday was Louisville's Annual Thunder Over Louisville, that is the official kick-off to Derby Festival. It is a HUGE fireworks show that is incredible! This year they predict there were about 700,000 people who headed down to the Waterfront to take part in the marvelous event. There is also an air show during the afternoon and evening to help keep the crowd entertained all day. This year, we left the house at about 9 am to start our day of Thunder. We spent the ENTIRE day down there braving the crowd! IT was a lot of fun hanging out with friends and enjoying the beautiful weather. The kids did great, but it was a long day for them, and they were exhausted by the time it was all said and done!
These pictures are in a pretty random order, so sorry!

About fifteen minutes before the fireworks started, both the boys just couldn't keep their eyes open any longer! Kaeson miraculously slept through the entire fireworks show, but Parker did wake back up and watch. At that point, he was so tired, though that he really didn't enjoy it that much!

Our little family!

We put these ear muffs on Kaeson to help with the noise of the air show, since the F-16's are insanely loud and they scare all the kids! I was surprised at how much Kaeson loved them! Even when it wasn't loud, he kept putting them back on and he thought he was pretty cool in them!

We had a big load of stuff we brought with us, but you have to walk a ways so Parker just rode on top of everything. He thought it was great. (Until he fell off coming out that night)

Heather, Chelsea, Laura, Me, Janelle, and Katie hanging out earlier that day.

At about 3 o'clock, Kaeson finally gave in to his exhaustion and took a short nap through all the crazy noise of the air show. It didn't last long, but it seemed to be enough to get him through the day.

My cute little Parker! I was so proud of him, he was so good all day!

Kaeson cheesin' it up with the ear muffs.

We took a group shot, but unfortunately a few families had already gone home before we thought of it. So this is most of us who spent the day together. Not bad company!

Our Easter Weekend

We had a fun filled and exciting Easter weekend. We decided to take advantage of our beautiful spring weather and take the kids camping up at Taylorsville Lake. Other than a little rain Saturday morning, the weather was absolutely perfect and we had a great time. The kids had a blast. Parker talks about it everyday and asks when we can go camping again. They spent hours throwing rocks in the lake, playing at the playground, digging in the dirt, and playing in the tent. We came home Saturday, hunted Easter eggs, and had a delicious dutch oven dinner with friends. We dyed Easter eggs for family home evening on Monday night, and that too was a big hit. The boys both loved it. Kaeson threw his hands up in the air and cheered for himself after every egg he dyed or put a sticker on, then told his dad to throw it across the table. Happy Easter everyone!

When you're 19 months old...........

Conference is hard to get through!


I promise we were watching conference, but halfway through this session we lost our picture and just had to listen.

Yes that's crayon in my carpet, and yes he is extremely proud of himself.

Parker is 4!!!!

I'm a little behind, but here are some pictures of Parker's 4th Birthday party last week. He somehow got it in his head that he had to have a party at Chuck E. Cheese with all his friends this year. I didn't get home from my trip to SV until the day before his birthday, so we weren't able to plan a lot, but we made a few last minute calls and were able to get a hold of a few friends who could make it. Parker was in heaven! He opened his presents there, had cake with all his friends, and then got to play play play the rest of the night. What more could a birthday boy ask for?! He had so much fun and talked about it for days afterward! Thanks to all who were able to celebrate with us! It is so hard to believe that my little Parker is already four years old! It feels like just yesterday, we brought him home from the hospital! He is growing up into such a sweet, lovable, helpful, wonderful little boy and we love him so much!

Puzzles Fun Dome

We had a coupon for Puzzles' Fun Dome, so on Saturday we decided to give it a try. Parker thinks it is his new favorite place. They have a whole bunch inflatable jumpers and slides, a toddler play area, glow in the dark basketball, arcades,mini golf, and an art room. Kaeson was not a big fan of the inflatables, but he loved the toddler play area and the mini golf. We had so much fun, we decided to buy a family membership so we can go back all the time. We've already been once this week! I think lots of people should get memberships and we could all go together all the time!

Here is Kaeson at the top of one of the inflatable slides. He wouldn't come down on his own, so Parker went up and gave him a little helpful push. He wasn't impressed.

Kaeson figured out the best way to get the golf ball in the hole is to just pick it up and put it in yourself!

Kaeson watched Parker so many times going headfirst, he thought he should give it a try on a slide his own size.

Parker LOVED the slides! He went down them a million times in every way possible.

Parker mini golfing

Kaeson posing at the top of the little toddler slide.