Ava is 4!

 My sweet Ava turned 4 last week. She is truly an amazing person. She has such a personality that makes us laugh every day. I love that she gets so excited for party's. We had a "My Little Pony" party in our back yard. We invited all her friends. She is such a social butterfly that she had lots of friends there. Not gonna lie, I procrastinated this party. We were in San Diego for about 3 weeks and I didn't do any planning for it. So this was a "last minute" put together party. Ava still loved it and had a lot of fun! 

Ava woke up with balloons all over her room and streamers coming down her doorway (didn't get a picture go me)

Then before joy school she had her favorite breakfast Rainbow Dash pancakes, sausage and a rainbow sprinkle doughnut. Eat it while you can Ava...eat it while you can.

 

For the party I pre-ordered probably over 100 balloons from party city. Balloons that were not even blown up when I went to pick them up. Half of them popped getting from the car to our house because they were rushing and over blown them up. Same thing happened with Sienna's birthday. I'm not bitter.

 

We made "Pretty Pony Party Hats"

 

and painted our nails beautiful like Rarity.

 

We also went on a hunt for "cutie marks" but of course I did not take a picture.

 

We had push up cake pops and rainbow sherbet ice cream.

 

 

It was then time for Ava to open her presents. She got lots of great presents from great friends!

 

 

For the party favors the kids got "Apple Jacks Special Carmel Apples" to take home. I of course didn't take a picture.

 

 

She had a blast. Happy Birthday Ava Lynn!!

 

 

 

 

 

Easter

We had a great Easter weekend. On Friday afternoon my friend Annie and I put on egg coloring and cookie decorating party for the neighborhood kids. It was a lot fun.

 

 

 

On Saturday we had a neighborhood Easter egg hunt.

 

 

 

She was really good at it. I didn't have to help her.

 

Jac, Brooks and Ava

 

The stash (not sure why shes making a grumpy face)

 

Sienna wanted to help :)

 

 

After the hunt we walked about 30 feet to the next yard for our friend Daxton's first birthday party (didn't take any pics).

 

Later we went to the stake center for a musical production of The Lamb of God. It was really good. It really put me in the Easter spirit. The singers were very talented.

 

Sunday morning came and the Easter bunny left fun things for the girls.

Matching dresses, new shoes, and a basket full of goodies for Ava. (Next year Sienna)

 

 

 

It was tough getting a good picture of them together.

I love them.

 

With the weekend full of fun activity's we didn't forget to remember the real meaning of Easter. After church Tanner and I watch Elder Hollands talk from General Conference "None were with him". It made me feel so wonderful and grateful for our Savior and what the atonement means to me. When you get that wonderful feeling there is nothing else you can do than to get on your knees and thank your Heavenly Father for giving up his perfect son for me and my family.

 

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! 

 

 

Hard time

I'm not gonna lie, I do not like the way things are going right now. Its tough. Sienna is a very difficult baby. She cries...a lot. It seems like the only time shes not crying is when she is taking a nap but even then its so hard to get her to fall asleep. I'm very emotional...crying a lot. Lucky Tanner. I'm so sick. This pregnancy has been really tough. I thought I was over the "morning sickness" but it just comes back all the time. Its an all day event. I had great pregnancy's with Ava and Sienna so this is all new to me. I'm tired...all time. I don't remember being this tired with the other two. I have no energy which puts me in a depression funk. Tanner has been staying at the school a lot later because he has big tests coming up that he has to study for. He's bummed because he doesn't think he will do well on an Anatomy test on Wednesday. I was a nanny for 3 children but I told the mom I can't do it anymore. Not proud that I did that. We will see when I start feeling better if I'm able to watch them again. Some days are fine, other days I wish I was the little kid. It seemed so easy for my mom. Its weird to me that I am the mom. Do my kids get that same feeling about me as I did about my mom? That "everything is great because I have my mom, the safety net" feeling? I don't know if they do. I miss that feeling. Blah sorry this is so depressing. I know we chose to have 3 kids, 2 years into school and I wouldn't change it but it does come with its hard times.

Im back

I thought I was completely done blogging but this morning I got the urge to do it again. A lot has happened since my last post. We are currently living in the bay area where Tanner attends podiatry school in Oakland. Its a 4 year program with a 3 year residency at a different location. I'm not gonna lie I can't wait till this is all over. We, however, are having a blast along the way. Tanner is doing great in school! He loves it. I would like to thank BYU for having ridiculously hard science class, to the point where Tanner would come home on the verge of causing/dropping out of school ok a tad dramatic but it has made podiatry school come a lot easier to him. I think he secretly loves going but wont admit it nerd alert. I'm very happy hes happy. 




 

Ava is getting so big and so fun! She has a "I can do it on my own" personality. Some might say it can be a bit stubborn sometimes Tanner blames me. No she really is a blast and very sweet. She loves to help me cook, clean and take care of Sienna. We lucked out with her.

Since day one Sienna has been the complete opposite of Ava. Sienna is very needy, whinny and clingy but I wouldn't have it any other way. She entertains us so much. She has the best facial expressions and has the biggest smile. Oh and she eats non stop, but she is beautiful and I cant imagine life without her.

We are expecting our third in October and I'm quite nervous. Tanner will be in his second year of school hardest and most time consuming year. We will still be in a two bed one bath place. I will just have to make it work. But I am very excited about this one coming. It just means more memories.

Here's to life!

 

 

 



Change of plans

Well friends we are not going to chiropractic school. I think we just thought "fine we got in, lets do it so our heads don't hurt anymore." However, we didn't feel great about it. So we have a few other plans up our sleeves. We will let you know in the near future what we decide. I guess this time I should make sure that is what we are going to do before I post it.

P.S we cruise in 39 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weird

Ever since conference this past April I have made a goal to attend the temple once a week for a year. When I go I usually get into deep thought about what we are struggling with that week, what career path to take or things I need to work on. However, tonight when I attended I got into deep thought about what advise I am going to teach my teenagers to prepare for the temple. Really? I wont have a teenager for 11 years. I KEPT thinking of what I'm going to say to them to prepare for the temple. Advise that I wished I focused more on when I was a teen. I even came up with creative ideas on how to help them. So I hurried home and wrote it down in my journal to remember. It was weird though. It wasn't just for my children. It was for a group. My achievement day girls maybe? I had the whole talk done when the session was over. Tonight was definitely a different experience than what usually happens when I go.