Indroducing the HOA Board..Egg Hunting Style

Back in November my partner in crime and I decided to run for our HOA Board of Directors, really for one purpose.....to bring our neighborhood together and get to know our neighbors. Hey I'm stuck in my house for a long time so might as well make the best of it right? Well let me just say we got more than we bargained for but it is nice knowing we are making a difference in our community. So we had our first neighborhood even and it was a huge Easter Egg Hunt with a game, face painting, a craft, bounce houses and food.

Here we are at the end of our event....we had a great turn out and we good lots of positive feed back so things can only get better from here on out.

500 doughnuts and 250 muffins.....we had lots of food.

Ryker was ready to hunt some eggs.....I owe him a HUGE thank you. Ryker and I stuffed 1,200 eggs. He loved helping me and I couldn't have done it without my Ryker man.

So with over 2,000 eggs total.... the kids had a blast finding them.

Ms. Millie was so excited to show me all her eggs.

Ryker spent most of his time in the bounce houses and huge blow up slide. All the kids were so respectful and not one injury.

I was running all over the place I forgot to take a picture of the craft table but Shuan snapped a picture of our AMAZING Young Women who helped with the face painting. Ok honestly we couldn't have done this with our our many ward members...so many people stepped up to help and we are so blessed to have a ward family to help out and that we can count on.

What a fun day and everything worked out great!!! I'm looking forward to our Fall Carnival and hopefully we can come up with something fun for the summer =)

PS sorry for some fuzzy looking pictures....the next day I realized their was a huge fingerprint right over the lens....probably mine.

So Lucky

I hope you all had a wonderful St. Pattys Day!! We sure did. With this being such a fun mini-holiday, I take advantage of wearing green, talking about gold and rainbows and of course trying to catch us a sneaky Leprechaun. I mean just think, if I can get my hands on one of those little guys, we would be set for life. I would make him take me to every rainbow and fork over his pot of gold =)

So the night before we built a little trap for him....We covered our trap with gold and Ryker drew a rainbow, to attract him.

Well, we woke up to find ALL of our gold gone and our milk and cookies were turned green. He left a note and some treats in the trap for us. Well better luck next year. Good thing Shaun didn't quit his job.

Later that day we had a few friends over for a little St. Patrick's Day fun. We started out by painting these pots black.......

Then what do you know...I rainbow showed up and it was a pot of gold, well candy gold.

This was my favorite. For lunch we had Rainbow fruit and cheese roll-ups on GREEN tortillas....mmmmmm I never knew a rainbow could taste so good.

The kids played outside for awhile then when they were getting to hot and sweaty we can in, cleaned up and decorated shamrock sugar cookies.

Thank you so much for the fun day. Everyone had green on so I could pinch anyone and I know next year will be the year I catch me a leprechaun =) Happy Spring Break!!!

Daddy's Girl

Under that thin bird hair is a wild sassy girl who loves her dadda. When I go to get her out of her crib in the morning, Shaun is always already gone for work but the first thing she says to be is 'Daddy, where's daddy?" I tell her he is at work and she grumbles. Then in a sad voice says "Daddy Yo Ho". Shaun has tainted Amelia and she is to OBSESSED with Disneyland and loves when her dad sings her the songs. Yo Ho Yo Ho, A pirates life for me, is her favorite.

She loves playing with daddy before bedtime. It is so cute to see her love her dad so much. It just goes to show you how the roles of Fathers are so important. =)

Riddle TIme.......

So what does it mean when I drink Sonic slushies everyday for the past 11 weeks and

go to bed early, sleep in and still take a nap everyday????

Wild child # 3 is on his or hers way.........October 5th to be exact.

We are so excited and can't wait to meet the new addition to the family. This pregnacy has been the same as the last 2, I'm lucky enough not to get sick but I want to sleep ALL DAY long and I don't have much energy. I'm sure most of you figured it out by now.....my mid-area is growing faster than I would like. But all worth it!! And yes I'm telling you the big news with my blog......what can I say it 2010, at least I didn't just text you....which I wanted to but Shaun said NO =)

A little Giving, a little Getting

My Aunts organized a day of service for the Give a Day, Get a Day thing that Disneyland is offering. They planned a fun event for those families who have a child with Down Syndrome to come and be pampered. My sisters and I were in charge of the bow making booth and all the girls could come and pick out the ribbon they wanted and we made them either a headband or hair clip. It was lots of fun and so cute to see them walking around with their hair all done and a new cute bow in it. So yes we go to Disneyland often but my whole family did this, so we will be going on a trip to Disneyland with the Sellards gang and they haven't been for over 7 years or so. It should be fun.

First of March

Well March is here....I love this month......possible because St. Patricks Day is this month and with Green being my FAVORITE color, I go over board with this day. But March also brought a new fun event, Ryker is going to finish out the last 3 months of preschool at Boulder Creek Elementary. We both thought it would be good for him to have a different teacher besides his mom and give him a little more independence. He loves it.

Well I just had to share this picture. This is what happens when Daddy gets the kids dressed. He can't do piggy tails so poor Amelia has to sport the mullet if dads around. Or he turns her into Rambo with what is supposed to be used as a belt!! Well at least he tries =)