Girls Night Out!

I love my kids, but I love girls night out without them too! We had so much fun. First we went to dinner at the Olive Garden (very tasty, I love love love those breadsticks). Then, off to my good friend Britta's house for a fun night filled with games and treats. And of course, my team won every game! (j.k., I'm such a loser). Anyway, it was way fun to be out with the girls talking about all the girly things that we talk about. Thanks so much to Justin for staying home with the kids all night by himself while I had such a good time. I didn't get home till after 11pm and he was crashed! Poor boy, those kids wore him out! Huge thanks! Your the best!

Happy Canada Day!

I just found out that today is Canada Day! For those of you who don't know, Justin's dad is from Canada and most of his family still lives there. I also had two awesome roommates in college from Canada, Celeste and Brittany. So, for all of our Canadian family and friends. . .

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

My Hero

After doing a bit of blog surfing this morning I realized that I never mentioned my dad on father's day. Guess I don't get daughter of the year award this year! But, since he's so awesome (and forgiving) I thought I'd make a mention now.
My dad has to be one of the coolest guys I know. I've always had a great relationship with him and especially in the last several years since moving out of the house (growing up and maturing I suppose). We've become so close and it's a friendship I cherish above most. I know I can call my dad and bug him at any time and he'll drop whatever he can to hear about all my adventures of being a wife and mother (all of which he's heard before, but graciously pretends he hasn't each time). He is seriously one of the coolest guys. When I was in high school my friends would tell me just how they couldn't believe how "cool" my dad is and I believe most if not all of my siblings had that same experience. Everyone loves him and for those of you reading this that know him, you know just what I'm talking about. We all want to be like him! Not to mention he sooo good looking! (I've had friends tell me that as well!) He sort of look like Richard Gere, don't you think? Especially in this picture below! Thanks, dad, for being so "cool" and for being my hero!

Oh! The Places They Can Sleep!

Rylee loves to make little beds for her and pretend sleep. Lately she has discovered a new spot. The bottom shelf of the bookcase in our living room right next to the dogs kennel. There is barely enough room for her on that shelf, but she balls herself up and fits in there. Today, she did just that, and fell asleep! She cracks me up! I love that kids can fall asleep just about anywhere that they land.

Here's a Catch up

Well, I've been spending a lot of time trying to get my new mommy blog just right that I have somewhat neglected our family blog. Here is a few videos to update you.

This video is of Rylee braving the diving board at a relief society pool party I took her too. She must have done this over a dozen times. You won't be surprised to here that her floaty is now not so floaty anymore. It popped! So sad! I promised her a new one.

This video isn't anything special, mostly for the grandparents to see how cute thier grandbabies are and how messy thier room is all the time because of all the toys they buy them! (Gotta love being spoiled! I know I do!)

I Changed The Name!

Okay, so I wasn't lovin' the name of my parenting advice blog, so I came up with a new one that I like better. Hope you like it's new look aswell!

The link is www.mommytrina.blogspot.com/
check it out!

My New Blog!

Justin came across someone's financial blog the other day and thought that it was a good idea. Since I love blogging so much he thought I should set up another blog about parenting and other related topics in order to use the education we've paid so much for and to be a way of sharing all my ideas and opinions in a non-obtrusive way. So, I set it up! I'm really excited about it and have a ton of ideas to put on there and I've just barely begun!
Please, check it out. You'll see all sorts of advertisements on my sidebar which are there for you to look at and click on. Thanks for taking a look!

The blog site is www.conceptiontograduation.blogspot.com

Hot Justin

For those of you interested in reading the short article written about Justin and his win, here is the link http://http://www.arizonamoms.com/justformoms/mesa-man-voted-valley-s-hottest-dad
If the link doesn't work (because apparently I can never get them to work) you can go to arizonamoms.com and to the right is an article titled "mesa man voted valley's hottest dad."

Arizona'a Hottest Dad!

Well, it's official! Justin is Arizona's hottest dad! He won the grand prize in Arizona Mom's Hottest Dad Contest! His prize is a 47" LCD HD TV! We're so excited! Huge thanks to all of you who voted and were kind enough to let me vote for you each day. I know of 266 votes that he got, and I'm sure there are a ton more that I don't know about! Afterall, he is Arizona's hottest dad! Congrats Justin! And thanks again to all our family and friends!

Also, there will be an article printed about him on the website and I think in the paper so when those are posted I will put a link on our blog.

New Love

Well, it's official. Rylee doesn't want to have anything to do with anything girly. She recently told me that she doesn't want to take dance anymore because she doesn't like it (break my heart!) I told her I would be sad not to be able to watch her on the stage anymore and she told me "I'll just sing instead!" There goes all my dreams of watching my dancer daughter on the stage. Maybe Gracie will comply! But, trying to be a good mom, I didn't tell her how sad I was that she doesn't want to do it and got excited with her when she discovered this (see video) new sport. She seems to be quite natural at it. You can't tell very well from the video, but just before I took this one she was hitting almost every other ball that was thrown and hard too! That ball went so far at times! I guess she is meant to be an athlete in more boyish ways than girly ways. But anyhow, I love to watch her at everything she does and I still feel so proud when she hits that ball!