happy {heart} day!

thank goodness for Pinterest this year!  We had so much fun making our own Valentines.  

I got Olivia and Ivy's idea from my very crafty friend jane!

I found the bug idea here.

they LOVED their valentines this year!  Boston wanted NO business in passing 

out Valentines, except one! haha  

I took Boston and his friend Jake the night before to pick out something for their valentines. 

Oh boy!

I made the kids a yummy French toast breakfast with strawberries and they

 got some yummy treats from mom and dad!  then off to school where i surprised them 

with a valentines lunch. 

I went to help out with the twins party, they made their own valentines bags and played a

few games, it was a bit exhausting!  then to top it off, i helped with the 6th grade 

party AFTER School.  It was their very first Valentines party with a bunch of

 Wii's set up in different rooms and then pizza, popcorn and soda.  

These kids had a blast!  sometimes 6th graders are a bit obnoxious, 

but luckily i had a diet coke so i was able to hang until 4! ha

cory and i had a valentines day Lunch at Cafe Rio and so we spent the evening 

hanging out with our sweeties eating some Papa Murphy's pizza and watching "Dolphin Tale."  

Cory made the kids strawberry daqueri's that were Delicious!

we love staying in on Valentines night, it's way to busy out there!

and the winner is...

Thanks to all the entries for this awesome giveaway! 

be sure to follow Hapari on twitter and fb for more giveaways...

Congratulations to...

Hapari swimsuit giveaway!!

It's that time of year that i LOVE!  

swimsuit season is upon us and who doesn't love a "GIVEAWAY?"  

i am so loving these new Hapari swimsuits and designs this year and can't wait

to get my hands on them.

here's what you have to do to enter to win...

*****

~go to Hapari's website and see what swimsuit you LOVE

{i am loving the new ruffle cinch tankini}

~ come back to my blog and leave a comment with what one you want

 ~go to hapari's facebook page and like them!

tweet it and facebook it for more entries!!

{leave an extra comment for fb and tweets so i know}

also to all you local readers... tune in tomorrow on abc 4's "Good Things Utah" 

to see the new hapari 2012 swimline!!

on to the tournament!

Boston's Bantum Basketball team is going in to the tournament 

as the #1 seed! woop woop!!   

They are so much fun to watch!   This is boston's first year playing on 

a competitive basketball team and he loves it, he plays daily and practices all the time. 

 it's fun to see him love the sport so much.

16 years!

you know you are happily married and comfortable with your spouse when on your 

anniversary you would rather hang out at home and watch your fav dvr'd shows 

that you have been dying to watch! ha!

we had our anniversary on a friday and also 2 basketball games along with another 

one on saturday night at 9pm! Cory is coaching Boston's bantum bball team so 

we couldn't miss out on these games.

we decided to spend our "sweet sixteen" doing what we love best! spending it with our kids

and our ultimate fav burger joint!   we all love "Sammy's" and since it was early out

we grabbed the kids from school at noon and spent the afternoon together.

the best part about it, is we Loved it! this was one of our fav anniversaries... 

sometimes it's best just keepin it real!

"sammy's" is famous for their Pie shakes! My ultimate favorite is their pumpkin pie shake! 

 run don't walk to their new location in Pleasant Grove. 

Their hamburgers are TO DIE FOR!

Ivy dresses herself and this was probably one of my favorites of hers.  

performing on stage in her JB shirt! ha

Rick Robinson's "Move" show...

my little olivia danced with her company team at the Covey Center on saturday night in the

 Pre show for The VIBE!

I missed her dancing because i was with my sisters in california, but 

Cory was there to support our girl.

i heard the Show was ridiculously AMAZING!  

my niece witney was in a ton of the dances and olivia loved watching her.

Liv dances on a hip hop company team along with her jazz petities team.

cory video'd and i about died at how cute it is!

good thing i have such awesome talented friends that took all these 

pictures and did her hair for me! haha

thanks jamie and amy!!

xo

this is her Petites company team

{liv is bottom left}

she is the very far left!!  so cute

  and her hip hop company team. "poppin petites"

{far right}

 very far right ::front::

 {front right}

 cutest one in the middle ::wink::

olivia with some of her dance buddies!!

Sisters Trip 2012!

Every year my sisters + sister in laws & our mom go on a sisters trip! 

usually in the summer but this year we all thought it would be fun to do the first ever 

"Tinkerbell Half Marathon and 5K" at Disneyland!

who knew Disneyland would be so much fun without your kiddos?  Seriously we had a blast! 

the weather was incredible, we even got to hang out a the beach for a bit and shop around.

It was a quick trip but a lot was accomplished!

we ate our favorite spots we love in Cali, like Togo's and of course "Roundtable pizza!"  

My beautiful mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a couple years ago and knew she

would not be able to walk a whole lot at Disneyland.  So we talked her in to letting us push

her around in a wheel chair!  she liked that idea! 

good thing too, because we got some front of the line passes!!

my mom was a trooper the whole weekend,  we dragged that woman around both parks

and even ran her in the 5K race at night!  

luckily we stayed at the "Grand Californian Hotel" so we were close enough 

to go up to the room and rest a bit before the race

 started at 10:30 PM!  isn't that crazy to start a race that late?

It was super exciting to run through all of Disneyland and California Adventure for our race.

Characters were there, along with pirates and tinkerbell, captain hook, peter pan, etc. etc. 

so much fun! 

my mom said she felt like she was riding a motorcycle between my sister

 rachel and I pushing her! haha

yah best motorcycle race of her life! 

She even ran through the finish line with a little help!  That was Awesome!

i LOVE my sisters!!!

we were missing 1 sister {darla} and 1 sister in law {cassy} boo!

after we played for a bit at California Adventure we went back to our room to relax before the run.

this was right before the race started on main street.

they had 4000 runners for the 5k

& then on 17,000 on Sunday for the Half Marathon

Tinkerbell along with fireworks were lighting up the sky!

breakfast with the characters...

my baby girls...

My uber talented friend kari with Treasurelayne Photography, took these 

pictures of my girls in november and i am in love...

Park City!

   we have had a very mild winter this year and we are DYING!  we are the family that 

actually loves the snow to come and love our Utah Skiing!!
  I love skiing and when the day that all my children are skiing on their very
own i will be oh so happy!   

{seems so far away sometimes! ha}

When we finally had the first snow storm of the year {Jan 23rd} we jumped at the 

opportunity to take our kids to ski some fresh powder!  you can imagine how 

excited they were to know that we were skipping school to head to

Park City for the day! 

Boston loved that they had the terrain park right next to the lift we
 were taking the twins down.  This was their first time skiing ON THEIR OWN!  

yes, finally they are skiing!!ha

We love Park City!  

It's one of my favorite resorts.  It's very family friendly with wide open ski runs!  It's also 

great for my 12 yr old who was bored {after the first two runs} to ski down some 

expert runs that were packed with powder!

The weather was GORGEOUS that day {major +} we were all sunburned when we got home!
Utah seriously has the "Greatest Snow on Earth!"