Dance Dance Dance

Kylie finally got to start dance this week. She has wanted to be in dance for a while now. She is always dancing around the house and loving it. She was sooo cute. She is so girly, cause once she was dressed and ready to go she insisted that she put her lip gloss on so her lips would be shiny. This is a whole new experience for me too and I am loving it.
She is in class with Emma, her good friend. I got to watch her on the first day and it was the cutest, funniest thing I have ever seen. She was trying so hard to do the moves, but couldn't quite get them , but I don't think she even realized she wasn't doing it right because she was having so much fun. She kept looking over at me and smiling so big. She is such a sweatheart and I love watching her grow. Looking forward for more fun times to come.

A Birthday in August?

So, we decided to do a surprise birthday party for Carson this year, 4 months early. His real birthday is a week before Christmas and he has always wanted to do a summer birthday. He will be turning 12 this year so we decided this would be a good year to do it. He has been asking me every year to do a summer birthday, and this year the asking started in May. I kept telling him that I didn't think it was going to happen. He would give me his look of disappointment and walk away. Finally I decided we would surprise him at Snowbird. Here are his friends waiting for him to show up for the BIG SURPRISE!

The plan to get Carson to Snowbird without him being suspicious was to make up a story that David had to meet a guy up there for work reasons. I left early that morning and picked up all his friends and we drove up to Snowbird so could surprise him when he walked in. When he saw all of us standing there, he was confused at first until I said "Surprise, Happy early birthday." He had a huge grin on his face and was still in shock cause he didn't know what to say. All he could do was smile.

He got his own cell phone for his birthday. He was pumped about that.

Opening more gifts.

We did the all day pass at Snowbird. They have these trampolines where you are hooked to a bungee and you can jump really high or do flips like crazy. They also have a zip line, alpine slide, climbing wall, mechanical bull, and the TRAM.

David and I had some fun too. Here we are riding the mechanical bull. It was fun!

This is Carson, and his cousin Laken on the zip line. The funny thing about this birthday is that Carson wanted a summer, warm birthday and we ended up with the coldest day of the summer. It was about 55 degrees at Snowbird that day and when you took the tram to the summit it was a whopping 45 degrees at the top. Regardless of the weather, we had a great time and pulled off a great surprise for Carson.

Store bought cake this year, cause we couldn't ruin the surprise.

We love you Carson and we hope you had a great EARLY birthday.

Kylie's 1st Day at Preschool

Here is little tootsie before she went to preschool for the very first time. She was so excited! She would keep telling me, "I am so exciting to go to school." She has been waiting for this day for about a year now. We even went school shopping for new clothes. Look how grown up she is :(
Here she is coming out of preschool sportin' her new apple headband that they made. She is standing with her teacher, Diana Brown. I am excited for her to go to preschool, but I am also sad because she is my baby. That means I will have time all alone. I don't think I will know what to do with myself.