My Birthday, Camping & Fishing

So since my birthday was over the 4th of July weekend, all my friends were out of town. So my good, wonderful friend Jocelyn called me the Wednesday after and wanted to take me out to dinner with some of our friends! So Scott offered to watch the kids for me while we went out to Samurai 21... My favorite restaurant! It was so much fun. I love my friends! They are the best. So here are a few pictures of them at dinner with me! Thanks Jojo for taking me out for my birthday!

Mykenzie, Candiss, Alie, Rakai, Me, Mike, Brittney, Bethany, Scott and Jocelyn!

Me & Bethany

Mykenzie & I

Rakai & I

Alie & I

Mykenzie, Me and Candiss

Jocelyn & Scott

So for the actual weekend of my birthday, my husband surprised me with a fun camping trip with our friends from SL. Their family owned some property in Salina and invited us up there to hang with them for the weekend. So we went up there on Friday morning and stayed till Sunday. It was so much fun. We went four-wheeling, fishing, played a lot of games, and hung around the campfire. It was the perfect birthday present!! We love this group of people and enjoy spending time with them so much. So here are some pictures of the trip! Thanks again to my parents for watching Layla and Isaiah for us to be able to go! Love you both!

dancing around the campfire

I loved these sunglasses.... they remind me of Kanye West! :)

My Birthday Brownies!

A few weekends before the trip for my birthday, Scott and I took the kids camping up in Pine Valley for the night. We went fishing and hung by the fire and just watched the kids get dirty and run around. It was a fun time with just us as a family. I actually ended up catching three fish and that was Scott's and Isaiah's dinner for the night! Layla and I aren't fish eaters so we settled for hot dogs:) But it was a lot of fun and here are some pictures from that weekend.

Weekend Up North

This weekend we had to go up north for a few different reasons... first my annual doctor appointment with my heart specialist up there and great news, I am good to go!! I no longer have to go up there for appointments, unless there's a problem. But they said everything looks great and its all healed and closed up. I just can't believe its already almost been a year since that happened. I just feel really lucky that it didn't get worse and we were able to fix it. And I have to say that I'm really happy I did get that tattoo that will remind me the rest of my life about that and makes me appreciate things a little more each day! Then later that evening we went to dinner with Scott's sister Wendy and his cousin Judd... We went to a nice restaurant and talked for hours. That was a lot of fun. Then we had my sister Carolyn's wedding up there to go to on Friday. It was really beautiful and the day went so smoothly. I thought it was a great wedding and we all had a blast together. I'm really happy for my sister and our new addition Jason! love you both!

Bride & Groom with their Flower girls

Then the next day on Saturday we had Scott's brother-in-laws 40th birthday party and his other sisters kid's dance recital. So we had a good time watching her cute kids perform and then went to the party! It was a lot of fun and I love hanging out with Scott's family. They are so much fun and I feel like one of them when I'm with them. Then Sunday we all hung out at Scott's parents house and celebrated his niece's birthday. Everyone came over and we had dinner and cake. Then we had to drive back home. I hate that drive so much but the trip is always worth it! Anyways overall it was a really fun weekend! Here are some pictures from all that we did...

Isaiah's Preschool Graduation

Our little boy Isaiah just graduated from Preschool a couple weeks ago... I really can't believe that he is this big already. He will be turning five on Sunday and it makes me feel so old! It was a really cute graduation and he did such a good job... He sang and pulled on his shirt a lot and kept giving me the thumbs up, cause he knew he was doing a good job. I was really proud of him. He has learned a lot this past year. Sadly Scott wasn't able to be there because of work. But whats good is he is going to Preschool one more year, so we can watch him graduate again! I can't believe how much he has learned and how smart he is. We are so lucky to have such a handsome, smart little boy. Isaiah, we love you!!!!!

Mother's Day... shout out to my momma....

Since my mom is in Uruguay visiting her dad and family, I thought I would just do a little shout out on my page and hope she sees it:) I just want my mom to know that I love her very much and appreciate all the things she does for me.... She's a great mom and a wonderful grandmother to my kids. We're lucky to have her in our lives!! So thanks mom for letting me be your daughter:) love you and Happy Mother's day!

Night Before Surgery

So here I am at home getting things ready for tomorrow. I had to run to the store at 10' o clock at night cause I forgot about the antibacterial body soap I have to use to shower with tomorrow. Yeah lots of fun stuff.... no lotion, makeup, deodorant, jewelry, contacts, etc. So exciting. My nerves are starting to get to me a little bit too.... So I got onto Google and looked up the surgery and watched a few movies, and gross!!! That is a nasty procedure and it freaked me out a little more than I wanted to be. So anyone out there that has had this procedure done and can calm my nerves would be greatly appreciated... I also don't go in until 12 pm tomorrow, so that means starting midnight tonight I can't eat or drink anything. So in the morning when I wake up I have to wait and can't have anything. I will be pigging out tonight up until midnight. I hate it. I'm trying to stay up as late as possible so I can sleep in and not have to be up too long to be hungry. Okay, so done venting and wish me luck. I will be at home for a week recovering, so I'll be here blogging some stuff and maybe if the pictures aren't horrible I will put some up. Goodnight!!!