Cabin In Bear Lake

This group of people mean a lot to me, and I can't imagine going through life with out them.  They are friends that have become family and we love every single one of them. We rented a cabin in Bear Lake and went and stayed up there for a couple of nights.  It was so much fun and we had the best time.  Our kids just played non stop and then slept so good from being so tired.  The adults just hung out, played lots of games, ate a lot of food and relaxed while our kids ran wild.  We got there on a Friday evening and had dinner at the cabin. The kids played and then we put them to bed and the adults stayed up late chatting and playing games.

Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast and hung out in our pj's until late in the afternoon. Then the dads took the kids to swim at the public pool.  They all had a blast and us girls that stayed home also had a blast and enjoyed the quite time. 

The big kids watching the iPad while they waited for everyone else to wake up.

Ben, Drake and Jake

How cute that these two have the same swimsuit.

All of the kids waiting to go swimming.

The whole crew. They took up the whole pool.

That night we had a reservation at a restaurant. We were a little worried taking that big of group out to eat, but the kids did awesome and we had a really yummy dinner.

Liz wasn't in the group picture because she announced to us this weekend that she is pregnant and well... she was in the bathroom.  We didn't want to try for another group shot, so we got a good one of just the girls.

That night we went back to the cabin and put the kids to bed and stayed up late playing games.

Drake and Grace slept upstairs in the loft.  They laid there and giggled and talked for a while and finally fell asleep.  Sunday morning we woke up and went home early so we could all make it to our wards for church.  We had a great weekend and are grateful for such good friends that we can do these things with!

I Got A Haircut

I just don't have the type of hair that is thick and grows like a weed. I have been trying to grow my hair out for 10 years and it just stays at one length. So I decided I needed to give it up and just cut my hair so it looked good. You know when people by a pair of jeans and they do a size smaller than they need just because it is a small size but really if they bought the size they needed they would actually look a lot better?? Well this is how my hair is... I was trying to have size 2 hair when really I needed size 6 hair. So I cut it off and it feels so good!

And a few inches later..

It looked like this.

A Spontaneous Trip To Pocatello

Well these are the only pictures we got, but we decided one Sunday morning that we were going to go to Pocatello after church because Josh didn't have work the next day. So we packed up, got in the car, and drove up there! We had a nice Sunday dinner, played Back Alley and had a great day with them on Monday.  I am so grateful they live close enough that we can do that. Now we just need them to move a little further south so we can see them even more.

Look Alikes

Both of my kids look like Josh, so I was on a search to see if there was anyone on my side that Stella looks like.  She does look Lauren but I also found that she looks like my Great Grandma Bernice. She is my Grandma Priscilla's mother. 

This isn't the best picture of Stella considering she has a candy cane stuck in her hair, but it was the best picture I had that she had a serious face. I think she looks a lot like Grandma Bernie!

Drake on the other hand doesn't look like me at all or anyone on my side for that matter. He is all Wood.  He is Syd Wood's twin. It is really darling. He has his ears. Josh doesn't have those ears, so we are thinking it skips a generation.  I couldn't think of anyone better for Drake to look like and hopefully be just like him. He is a good man that I love dearly.

Princess Ball With Daddy

All of the guys signed up to take their daughters to a princess party at Castle Manor. It was their idea and so sweet. It happened to fall on the same day that I was gone at a dance competition so Hayley got Stella ready for me and kept Drake at her house.

These two are darling little friends.  Look how cute!

Stella idolizes her daddy and she has him wrapped right around that tiny little finger.

We happened to know Snow White and Stella thought it was pretty cool that she knew her name. That is my cousin Alex.  Doesn't she make a darling Snow White?

Cinderella

Sophia the First

Lumiere and Cogsworth

Belle

Anna and Elsa

Rapunzel

Olaf

Stella and her daddy look like twins in this picture.  She is one lucky girl to have him as her daddy!

A Blast From The Past

Errin is one of those friends that we can go weeks without talking and we just pick up right where we left off when we see each other. She is one of my very best friends that I love so much.  Her sister Ellie and my cousin Hannah are both on Logan High's drill team and so we were both at a competition to watch them.  It was a blast!  Both of us were kid free and were able to hang out all day. We talked and laughed so hard our stomachs hurt.  It was a blast from the past and I enjoyed every single second. Her parents were there too and we went with them to Costco.  When I got into the back seat of the car with Errin by my side I almost started to cry. It was such a great memory of so many times doing that exact same thing. Tim and Kolette taught me so many things and were and are such a huge part of my life and me being the person I am today. I love these people with all of my heart and am so grateful to have such a great friend!

The Hilo's did great and went on to win Region and take 2nd at State! That is HUGE!

Billy Goat Lane

Lexi started an etsy shop and the name of it is Billy Goat Lane. She make those darling Moccasins and those cute pants.  Lucky for us, Stella gets to try stuff out before she sells it.  Isn't that stuff the cutest!?

Hangin With The Neil's

It is guaranteed that we will always have a good time with the Neil's.  We get in some good laughs, good conversation, and our kids love to play together. While we were hanging out downstairs the kids were playing upstairs, and Hayley later found these pictures on her phone :)

These two are sweet little friends that really love each other a lot!

Later that evening we had a dance party.  These kids have some good moves.

And a quick game of limbo before we went home.

Those Neil's know how to have a good time!

Stella is Crazy

Stella has the most unique personality. She is sweet, sassy, bossy, loving, thoughtful, crazy, dramatic and just as funny as can be.  She does stuff to make people laugh. It is pretty impressive that she has learned this at such a young age.  She is such a joy to have in our household and we love her so much.  She bosses us all around and pretty much runs the show around here. Drake is a good big brother and puts up with her most of the time. We spend a lot of our time laughing at this sweet girl.

This is how we do FHE at our house.  We do it in style!

She took off her diaper and climbed in the sink for breakfast.  What the heck?

And to get one more laugh out of everyone, she took it one step further and started to clean herself with the dish scrubber.

She loves sugar. Anything sweet and she will go for it. Oreo's were a pretty big hit with this girl.

Captain Stella

I always find her in this sink.

She is obsessed with sitting on the toilet, but yet she still isn't potty trained? She just wants to be a big kid so bad!

We had a few nights of Stella not sleeping well. She would wake up in the night and scream because she was either hungry, thirsty, or scared and wanted us to sit in her room. During this time I was home by myself cause Josh was in St. George. I let her scream it out for a while and then went and got her. This was at 12:54 a.m. and she wanted something to eat. I gave in and I shouldn't have because not only was she up, but she spilled her milk everywhere and was pretty happy about it.

Just trying to make a smoothie with a full thing of yogurt and a toothbrush.

The next night she was up doing the same thing. She wanted some cheese and a glass of milk.

She then fell fast asleep in my bed with me.  She insisted on sleeping right next to me or on my back.  Lets just say I didn't sleep very good that night,

She gives some pretty interesting looks. She is the queen of giving the stink eye!

The two things she loves the most, sunglasses and her binky!

She asked for some purple orange juice.

She has the best bed head every morning.  Her hair is just crazy! And look at that darling little robe.

She likes to fall asleep on her chair sometimes.  We would have never let Drake do this.  We would have made him get in his bed because that is where we go to sleep. But with her for some reason we have lost all control and have realized that it really doesn't matter and she gets away with a lot more than Drake every did.  Poor Drake is going to be our guinea pig on this whole parenting thing.