SuNnY St. GeOrGe

As always we took our anual spring vacation to St. George and had a blast! We stay in a condo instead of a hotel and it makes the biggest difference in the world! We can actually stay up and talk and watch movies while we put the kiddos in bed! My mom and Dad and sister and her kids came with us this year and they were sooo much fun! Here is Baylee keeping Hudson busy! She was all over him and I loved it! This is at the water "park" by the library. We went here last year but my kids just have a ball! This year they had bands playing and here Ethan was trying to show Bridger how to dance to the music and Bridger was actually giving it a try! It was funny to watch.

There is 2 friends that are a must for me to visit in St. George and one of them is Tami! We have been through it all together, even living 6 hours away from each other we always catch up and know what's going on with each other. She's pregnant with kid number 4 right now! Good LUCK!! The other friend is Kellie and she met me here too and I totally forgot to get a picture of her, but I just love her to death too and I was soooo happy to see her!

Here is my awesome Dad relaxing at the condo. He did great with all the rug rats wanting to play with him all the time! Couldn't have done it all without Grandpa!
And here is awesome Mom, soaking up my cute Hudson! Thank goodness for moms! She was helping me all day long with my 3 stinkers!I was sooo happy that my sister decided to come even though her husband couldn't make it! I haven't had enough sister/girl time with her and it was much needed! I've always looked up to her in sooo many ways! She scrapbooks - "oh maybe I should scrapbook too!" She has a cute shirt on - "Oh maybe I should by that shirt too!" The list could go on! I love her to death and I hope she knows that!

We went to the Washington pool and had a ball! Here's Cord with his new favorite thing, Goggles!! He looks like a dork right here so I had to post the picture

Here's the whole family in the water! I couldn't get everyone looking at the camera at the same time! Too much fun going on!

And poor Hudson, he did not want to be in that swing, but I thought it was sooo cool so I had to try it out!

The kids in the back yard of our Condo

A little girl time...

Andrea and KristyMe and AmyAnd our Bloopers....

A couple weekends ago I was able to get away from my day to day routine and spend the night with my girlfriends in Park City! We had sooooo much fun together, eating yummy food, hot-tubbing, shopping, the works! You can't beat having a little girl time to talk about the good old days, your current crave, or just chit chatting about nothing at all! It's soooo nice to have soooo many good friends that you can get together every once in awhile for BBQ's and parties and lunch, and then you have your good friends that you can get away for an over-nighter! They are all important to you in one way or another, and you spend your time with them differently! I hope all my friends know how important they are to me! I Love you all!

Crossfit

So this is a little taste of what I've been trying to do the last 2 months! I apologize ahead of time the little clip has a naughty word in the song, but it's a good clip to show you the kinds of things I'm doing. OBVIOUSLY I'm not quite that strong, but I still do the same workouts but with not as much weight! It is sooooo much fun, and soooo competitive! I feel soooo much stronger and have sooo much more endurance than when I started! I'm still not skinny, but I feel in shape!!! Now...... if only I could eat right....... :) (Clip is at the bottom right of my page)

Baby Animal Days...

The last couple years we've been making it a tradition to go to baby Animal Days in Wellsville with the Fillpot family. This year my boys had tons of fun! Heres Cord holding a baby chick... Cord going down the big slide. He was only supposed to go 3 times but he kept sneaking up there before I got my hands on him, the little stinker!

Hudson had a grand old time! JK He seriously did awesome for me! Thank goodness for my sweet Hudson!

Bridger absolutely LOVED holding the baby chicks! He made us go back twice! He was so sweet and gentle with them too, I was impressed!

Cord holding a baby turtle!

These bears were adorable. They were 3 months old and just kept putting their paws up to the keepers so they would hold them. It was pretty cute!

See that train in the background? That's what Bridger is grinning about. He LOVES choo-choo's! He kept watching it around so I took him on it and he had a blast!

Bridger and Cord feeding the calfs. I seriously didn't think Bridger would dare do such a thing, but he sure loves animals. I think I talked Chris into letting us get a dog next spring!

EaStEr FuN!!!!

Lots of Easter pictures to share, starting off with my moms famous Bunny Bread! It almost looks too cute to eat, but it's just as good as it looks! Me helping Bridger look for his Easter Eggs, he got very disinterested fast! He'd rather run around and have fun! Me and Hudson with my Grandma Likens! She is seriously such a great Grandma. We love her tons!!!

My parents got the 3 older boys a BB Gun for Easter! It has to stay with my parents and to be used only up at the property, but he LOVES it! I love this pic of my Dad showing Cord how to use it!

Here's Hudsons Easter gifts from my parents. A cute book and a Baseball toy.

And Bridger got this fun Bowling set! He's got his own set of rules on how to play this game!

Here's Cord searching for eggs from the Easter Bunny! I know, my kids love to be naked!

Hudson checking out his Easter Basket! And Bridger taking over the video camera. If he see's it, it's gone. We can't record anything because he HAS to have it!

And a fun little Easter Egg hunt at a park in the SNOW! Bridger did great at this one!

Here's Cord and his buddy Strider.

And the infamous Easter Bunny. Bridger wouldn't go near him!

And where it all started, coloring the Easter Eggs! Bridgers hands were dyed green and yellow for 2 days because he wouldn't stop putting his hands in it!

MARISA

Look at how BEAUTIFUL my new neice is! Marisa Joy Anderson. 9 lbs 20 in. Born April 2.

Hot Dog roast with the Coats!

Chris's parents own a home in Nibley that they rent out, and at the current moment they have no tennants, so we all went their and had a hot dog roast! The best part was (and I wish I had a picture) was Chris's Dad bought a bunch of pipe and made marshmellow guns! The kids loved them!! And they shot out hard and fast! Here's my sister-in-law Cami and her boy Stockton.

And Abbie holding my cute Hudson with her baby Marisa in her belly just dying to come out!

Happy St. Patty's Day

There's nothing more satisfying than getting your kids all color coordinating and getting a quick snap shot before sending them off on their way. Aren't they a cute bunch? Not much more to say except we proudly wore our green on St. Patricks Day!

Observation

I hope I don't ramble too much about Bridger and what's going on in his life too much, but his life is my life, and there is DEFINETLEY a lot going on with him right now. But My sister Brenda works for a bunch of online Scrapbooking companies and had the assignment to do a page about New Beginnings. She chose to scrap about Bridger and when her and my mom decided to bring up their worries about him and their thoughts about him having Autism. I thought it was such a cute Layout that I wanted to share it. Check out her blog it has some cute stuff on it! The Life of a Scrappin MomI kind of like looking at other peoples perception of what they thought of Bridger and these were my sisters words from her Blog: "For me - looking through all of my pictures, i started with Spring, went to babies and i couldn't help but going back to these pictures of my nephew Bridger. After he turned one my mom and I noticed every time we were around him - he was always upset about something. He didn't talk at all, he always put his hands a certain way - pinky pointed outward, he wouldn't connect with anyone (but mommy and daddy), i had watched him a few times and was always very nervous too, because he would never make eye contact with me and couldn't communicate well. He would watch a 2 hour movie barely blinking an eye - always the SAME movie : ). Finally my mom decided to bring up Autism to Karie (my sister). In the beginning, they didn't want to believe it, but as time went on....they tried to learn more, the became very active in changing his diet to see what things caused him to be better or worse, they put him in an early intervention pre-school and over time we have all learned to know what upsets him and what doesn't - what he can eat and what he can't. He still doesn't talk and just turned 3 in January but has made great strides, Karie and her husband do an amazing job at taking care of his needs and making his little world just the way he likes it. Sorry for the rambling - but the New Beginning for me - was looking at these pictures and seeing his smile and knowing that he just wanted to be understood!"

My 3 nAkEd LoVeS

Since it's the month of love, I will talk about my 3 boys that I LOVE soooooooo much! In a dream world I would have 2 boys and 2 girls and everything would be just dandy! But in my imperfect and crazy life, I have the best 3 boys in the world! They are all 3 soooo different from one another and thats why I love each individual boy so much. I think if they were all the same I would get a little bored with life. But Nooooo, I have Cord the social butterfly who is smart and good at anything he tries. I have Bridger who just adores mom and dad and shows soooo much emotion to us and is soooo smart learning his signs. Then there is Hudson, who is the dream baby in everyway! He is soooo easy to love and to hold. He is content and happy almost always. And last but not least, they all 3 are soooo handsome! I love you boys!

My SwEEt vAlEnTiNe...

Both years Cord has been in Preschool, they do a special Valentines program where the kids get to have a Date with thier mom and show off a little. He gets soooo excited to have mom in his territory and show me around. Look at that Smile!My special Valentine...Singing their cute Valentine songs... He made that cute little ladybug and attached to it was a beaded valentines bracelent he made just for me!!! I wish you could see it in the picture!

Snip snip...

Sometimes I wonder why I blog about certain things that I know nobody else cares about, but then I have to remind myself that I'm going to print this blog and I want to remember the big fun things, the small cute things, the hard times and the good times. So here's just some cute pictures of Bridger getting his hair cute. The funny story behind these pictures is that he was already done getting his hair cut, bathed and good to go, but for some reason when Cord was getting his hair cut he just whined, and threw a HUGE fit, and we finally figured out it was because he wanted to be back up in the chair with the black cover back on!!!!