Another busy crazy week

Well summer is getting closer and closer....... time to bust of the blow up pool and grab the popsicles. This equals hours of fun.

This weather is marvelous....we have been going to the park to enjoy it while we can. I didn't get Ryker signed up for T-Ball (oops) so dad has been taking him and trying to teach him. Ryker is a great hitter.

Our little firecracker!!! I think it is the piggy-tails that make her that way.

My highschool friend came into town from Utah so we had to get together and talk about the good old days =) Dionne reminded me that I introduced her to Jack-in-the-Box egg rolls in Highschool....I haven't had one in probably 10 years so I'm thinking I need to have one again. I love Dionne....she is my crazy political friend just like me!!!

Tiffany, Dionne, Julie, Me

Saturday I went to the Glenn Beck seminar....It was AMAZING!!!! I don't care if you all think I'm a right-wing radical....he speaks common sense and if you don't agree, I would LOVE to talk to you about it. I don't jump down people throats but many are still waking up and need help seeing the truth.

Last off, my adorable kids!!! They are my life.......they DRIVE me crazy but when they are being nuts-o I just remind myself......they have our personalities so I can't really get upset =) The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

We just took pictures with the whole Sellards gang.....and we were by water and guess who fell in while playing on rocks....yes Ryker. He was drenched from the waist down. Typical right.

Hope to see you there!!!!

The East Valley TEA Party presents:

TAX DAY T.E.A. Party With Sheriff Joe!

On Tax Day Thursday April 15, 2010
At Freestone Park in Gilbert, AZ

From 11AM – 1PM

Freestone Park,1045 E Juniper Rd, Gilbert
(At the corner of Lindsey and Juniper Roads-between Guadalupe and Elliot Rd)

Wrapping up the Past Week

What a busy and WONDERFUL week we had. Last Tuesday we went to the Easter Pageant with the Porters!! Holy Cow we owe them big time. They went 3 hours early and got 3 row seats for us!!! Thank you Porters!!!

Well we did buy them all DQ to say thank you for the awesome seats.

Ok so sometimes I wish I weren't so "manly" and "controling" but since I know what I want and do all the research, I sold our CR-V and bought our new van....yup a VAN. But guess what that means I'm just headed to that crazy time in life when I'm hauling kids everywhere and I'm so excited =) Bye- Bye CR-V......we had a GREAT 4 years together. You were very good to us.

Here is the new Beaut....we look forward to several years together!!

So you will notice we didn't take this crazy girl to the Pageant with us......for one, it started way past her bed time and second......she is the busiest 2 year old I know, just ask both our families, she is a pint size Tornado!!!!

Friday we went to the Mesa Southwest Museum with my preschool class. The kids had a good time. Ryker loved the T-Rex of course.

All the kids had a blast panning for gold. It was a great day.

Conference weekend and Easter Morning!!!! Ryker had to wait in bed with me for an hour before he checked out what the Easter Bunny brought him. We don't dare wake the Tornado up in the morning......we let her sleep as long as she can.

Amelia could care less about toys or games.....at 8:00am she wanted TREATS!! I let her eat like 2 or 3 than we moved on to some real breakfast.

He was so excited finding all the eggs around the house.

Ryker is just like his daddy and could care less about candy....he wants toys. He didn't eat his first piece of candy till late that afternoon and it was one starburst. Crazy Boy. But don't get me wrong HE LOVES cookies.

After the morning session of conference we went over to Nana and Pas for a breakfast brunch. Yum yum.....then Missy and I hide eggs all over the backyard for the munchkins. I hide one on the turtles back and it stayed on as he walked through the rocks.....Ryker finally spotted it.

Amelia doesn't understand the concept of Egg Hunting....she would find an egg, stop, open it and want to eat the candy right away....ok so I bet that is how I use to egg hunt......but we tried telling her to gather as many as she could, than eat the candy. Nope...she did it her way.

We watch the afternoon session then raced off to Grannie Annie and Bompa Jess' house, as we do every conference. We had a pot luck dinner, played a little baseball (well tried to teach the little kids how), then we gather in a circle to share our favorite thought or talk from conference.

Amelia was a mess by the time we left.....but she had so much fun running around with all the great-grandkids.

Ryker was in snail heaven....... he loves little bugs and insects and they found dozens of snails in my Bompa's garden.

Bompa Jess finding snails with the little ones. Bompa Jess turned 84 this year and I think he is still in better shape than me =)

Thanks to all the Family and Friends who make life so much fun!!!

Happy Easter!!

Wedding Bells are Ringing

In this picture, Ryker is driving his future bride to the temple to get married. Lately they have been into "pretending" they are getting married......possibly because every other weekend his dad is gone filming wedding videos so weddings are talked about alot in our home, or maybe it is the fact he plays with girls all the time. Well I was listening to the conversation before he started driving to the temple and it went like this:

Eden: Ok lets go Ryker (as she went to get on the scooter and drive)

Ryker: No no Eden, when Blake and Sarah got married, Blake drove HER to the temple so I need to drive

Eden: OK

What the gentleman =) They crack me up....so I came back ten minutes later to ask how the reception was and they were no longer at the reception, they were in jail because bad guys came and captured them. Oh to be 5 again =)

PS Yes I'm ok with my son playing "wedding" because hey at least they are going to the Temple =)

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 =)