*Annie*

My mom bought tickets to see Annie at the Tuachan last night. Just the girls went and we had a great time! We ate dinner at Olive Garden and then headed to the show.. Brooklin loved it and was so excited to have Annie sign her ticket, we had to stand in line to get pictures with all of them. Thanks mom for a fun evening :)


*annie *

*maddy durbin (from mesquite) played tess the orphan*

*miss hannigan*

*daddy warbucks*

*mom & b*

Splash Pad

Just a few pics from the splash pad Tuesday night!

*brooklin * mason * jackson*

~QuaiL LaKe~

*mason spraying everyone*

*cute as a bug*

*dad * mason*

*mason pouring water on him*

*we're ready to tube*

What a fun and tired weekend we had.. it started Friday night with Nick and I playing in a softball tourney, we played at 11 and 12 (games were an hour behind schedule). After playing some ball we helped Kirstin move into her new place and finally made it to bed by 3:00 am!
Saturday we got up at 9 and headed to Quail Lake for the day. We had such a blast! My mom brought the kids up along with Kasey, Meridee and Jackson - Ashley & Chaz joined us and later in the afternoon Bohne's and Ludvigson's came out. It was the perfect day to be on the water. We tubed, went water skiing, kneeboarded, went cliff jumping and just hung out on the rocky beach :) We played until 5:30 and decided we better get going since we were playing ball again at 7. My mom took the kids home with her (a BIG thanks for keeping them this weekend) and we played at 7, 8 and 10. Thankfully we lost because I was dead tired.

*brooklin jumping*

*mason getting dropped*

*can you see me jumping*

*kirst and i debating who's going first*

*love the tube*

Living at the PooL

I think the rec center has been our second home this summer! We are there dang near everyday or night. The kids love swimming and going down the big slide and just recently jumping off the diving board. As of this week, Mason is now swimming (2 1/2 yrs) just like his sister was at his age. This is very exciting because he hasn't been too interesting in trying, he wasn't afraid to put his face in but he didn't want to learn. It must have clicked because he started jumping off the board to me and then he'll swim to the edge. He has made his momma proud this week :) Way to Go Mason!!!!


*proud momma*

*1 2 3 JuMp*

*B is always doing some trick off the board*

My LittLe GuY...

is getting soooo BiG! I haven't been strict with potty training Mason but he's starting to use the potty more and more. At first he would sit on the toilet and now he's a big boy and can stand. It just cracks me up every time I see him doing it... he has the whole holding thing, shaking it when he's done thing down!! Good job Mason :) Don't you just love the tan line???

PaRaChuTe & SeConDhAnD SeReNaDe

Last night Chrissy and I, along with every teenager in St. George headed to the Parachute and Secondhand Serenade concert. It was outside at the Dixie Sunbowl and we had a great time! We got up there early so we could do a little shopping and eat at Cafe Rio (for the 3rd time this week)! Thanks for going with me Chrissy, it was a blast :)

*chrissy * steph*

*parachute*

*secondhand serenade*

What's in a Name?

So I'm taking this idea from Evonne's blog and telling about how I came up with the kids names. There's no big story to them but if I write them down then my kiddos will have it to read at a later time!


BROOKLIN ANN

As most girls I know, I too have a running list of names that I love. I have had them written down for many years but Brooklin came about when I was going to school in Cali.. I hate to admit this but she is named after a Beastie Boys song - No Sleep Til Brooklyn. I never really thought about Brooklin for a name but it must have stuck with me. I just changed the spelling because I liked the "i" better!

Once I found out I was pregnant and after finding out it was a girl, Brooklin was set in stone! There was no other name out there, both Nick and I agreed that is what it would be. I wasn't planning on a middle name but Nick's mom had got cancer and we weren't sure if she was going to make it to meet our little one. She was able to meet Brooklin and that is where the Ann came from.

Brooklin is quite funny with her name - she likes to be called B or Brooklin, none of this Brook or Brooky stuff. It's B or the real thing :)



MASON NICHOLAS

There's not a huge story for my little guy's name. We pretty much had one name picked out from the get go and that was Mason. I had taught swimming lessons to the cutest little blonde hair, blue eyed little boy years ago and his name was Mason. I loved that we could use Nicholas as a middle name so his initials would be MnM (like M&M)!