We love the water park! (:

We have been spending a lot of time at the water park this summer! Bransyn absolutely LOVES it there, he asks to go ALL. THE. TIME. And it's free, so that makes it even better! (: Tais doesn't mind layin' out, enjoying the sun all the time, either ;) Too bad she's still too small to actually play in the water, though. She's gonna love it just as much as her brother next year!

T's birth announcements

I finally got all of Taislee's birth announcements out {I *think*... let me know if you haven't received one & I will get one to you!} almost 2 months late! haha. I had them printed when she was about 3 weeks old, but I kept forgetting to get envelopes for them.

They're nothing too extravagant, because I made them myself & I don't have any fancy editing programs to use, so they are pretty simple. But I still think they turned out nice. And I actually like them more than the ones I had made for Bransyn at Costco!

gambling with the girlssss.

Last night, I went down to Mesquite to hang out with my friend Savannah. She lives in Wyoming & has been visiting her mom in Mesquite, so I decided to go hang out with them before she headed back home! She just turned 21 a few days ago, as well... so we decided to go gambling together! (: I wasn't alll that excited about the gambling part, because well.... I sucked BIG time when we went this past weekend, haha. {even though I didn't lose any money on the slots, I still didn't WIN any, haha!} We went to the Virgin River first, and I got my free players card! Then Savannah & her mom, Tammy, kind of helped me understand what I was supposed to be doing. It was actually pretty fun once I {sort of} got the hang of it! (:

Having soo much fun at our first machines! (: haha

{sorry these pics are blurry & weird colored... they're from camera phones!)
You may notice that Savannah is just a teeensy bit excited. Well, I'm sure you could guess why. haha, Yes. She won biiiig moneys on this machine. Which, may I point out, I was at just a FEW minutes before she won! haha. We switched machines cause my free plays wouldn't work on that one :( Anyways, she won a little over $90! Talk about LUCKY! hahah. If we hadn't switched machines & I had been the one to win, I would of won on the CASINO's money, since I was using the $5 that comes on the card. Oh well, it was still so exciting to see her win that! (:

After she won on that machine, we decided to go to different ones. I chose the Sex & the City machines, since well, I love that show & the movies. I made a good choice, too cause I won on this machine! I put in $1 and won $31.15! (: My first time winning more than I put in! haha. Oh, and mind you I only went down there with $15 TOTAL. It was pretty exciting! (:

So there I was, alll proud of my winnings, & we run into Savannah's mom who had the most SHOCKED face, ever. Come to find out, she had won $90. Put my $31.15 to shame! hahaha.

I had a great time with them, and winning a little bit of extra money wasn't too bad, either ;) I actually think gambling is pretty dang fun now, but I definitely won't be doing it very often... It's kinda hard to walk away! hahah.

Celebrating my 21st!

This weekend, we decided to go out for my birthday celebration. I didn't wanna do anything super crazy, like go to Vegas to all the clubs & what not, so we settled on going to mesquite for dinner & I wanted to try gambling! (: Ryan invited his business partners & their girls to come with us, as well! It was my first time leaving Taislee with someone other than Ryan for longer than an hour {& to do something other than go to an appt or grocery shop} :( it was HARD & I almost just said never mind, but I was in DESPERATE need of a break, and I had the chance to go have a little fun outside of my kiddo's, so I just sucked it up & went!

The girlssss.

The boyssss. Oh & don't worry... they're not throwing up random gang signs, lol. It's supposed to be a B & a W, for Boostworx... which is their business' name, haha.

When we got to Mesquite, we went & ate at a restaurant in the Casa Blanca. Then we went to gamble a bit. The boys went & did their thing, while us girls tried to figure out how the heck this gambling thing worked! haha. Oh, and Jazzmin bought me my very first legal drink, for my birthday! (: Long Island iced tea... my fav! (:

And I randomly ran into my friend Sara in the casino! haha

All of us! (:

After we gambled a little bit {and by gambled, I mean stuck the money in the machine & had no idea what anything meant, so we just pressed cash out, haha!} we went over to another one of my friend's moms house to hang out for a bit! (:

It was a fun, and very much needed {adult only} night out! (:

Guess what?

a little someone went poo in the potty for the very first time today.



can you guess who?





Yep. This boy RIGHT HERE!

{don't worry, that is a candy bar (his reward) in his hand... I didn't make him hold his accomplisment}


Wahhooooo, go Brans! So proud of you!!! (:





Now lets hope he continues to do this!

Twenty one!

I finalllly turned 21 this year! (: Seems like it took for EVER for me to get here! haha. Although, I'm pretty sure I looked forward to it a LOT more when I was younger! Being 21 has a little bit more of a different meaning to me now, than it did 4 years ago. Back then, I was excited to be able to drink, gamble, go to {21 +} clubs, pretty much legal to do ANYTHING. But now, I don't really care about any of that stuff. I mean, yeah it'll be fun to be able to order a drink every once in a while when we go out to dinner {with out kids, of course} or something like that. But my life is VERY different from the 'typical' 21 year old, and I am VERY okay with that! (: There's no place I'd rather be, than right where I am today, with the love of my life, my 2 1/2 year old & my six week old!

Anyways, I'll move on to what I did for my birthday! (:

I woke up to the two cutest smiling faces ever, after a FULL nights sleep. Yes, that's right. My 6 week old daughter slept through the night for the 2nd night in a row. Seriously, that has to be the best birthday present a tired mama could ever ask for!

Since Ryan had to work & it was just me & the kiddos, I thought it would be fun to make some birthday muffins with my Brans! So we went into the kitchen & started to get everything ready, when I realized we didn't have milk :( I reallly didn't feel like changing out of my pajama's & hauling 2 children to the store {it's harder than it looks! haha} just for MILK.

I felt bad, cause I had gotten Brans all excited to cook with mommy & I didn't want to let him down, of course. So we decided to make some Kool-aid instead. Yeah, not the same... but he sure had fun helping me pour everything in the pitcher & stir it all together! (:

He thought it was super delish, too! (:

After we had breakfast, I got myself & the kids ready for the day. I had to go renew my license {since I am a HUGE slacker & put it off for 2 months & it expired ON my birthday, ha!} So we headed out to hurricane. I walked into the building, stood there for about 10 seconds, then turned around & walked right back out. It was SOO packed, there were about 10 people just in LINE waiting to get numbers, then almost every single chair was filled with people waiting. I was definitely not dealing with that by myself with 2 children, so I'm gonna go do it tomorrow instead, when I have a babysitter (:

After we got back into town, I didn't feel like going home & just sitting around, so we headed over to my moms house, since we were going to have a bbq over there later anyways! Amanda was there, so we just hung out with her & Camden until Ryan and my mom got there later!

They all made me a deeeelish birthday dinner, with all my favs! Grilled chicken, twice baked potatoes, dorito salad, jello salad... it was all SO yummy! They also made me a cute cake, that was freakin' amazing.

Bransyn & Camden helped my mom decorate it for me (:

They had so much fun! haha

And they helped me blow out my candles! Best helpers, ever... even if they did spray a little bit ;)

After cake, my favorite little girl helped me open my presents!

My mama got me a griddle - I have been wanting one for EVER! I was SO excited, haha. She also got me a cute outfit, and an outside chair! She always gets the BEST gifts! (: Thanks mama, I LOVE them allll!

My dad also got me a BBQ grill! Ahhh, so nice! It has sucked having to cook all of our grilled chicken on our little George Foreman. haha. Oh, and my cute new chair is in this picture, too! (:

I had such a great birthday! Got to spend it with the people I love the most, and got some pretty awesome stuff! (: Thanks to all that wished me a Happy Birthday, and helped make my day so great!

Fathers Day 2011

We started out the day by going to The Egg & I for breakfast, which was a request from this cute daddy:

B & Ry colored while we waited for our food.

And then they ate B's pancake together. And by 'they' I mean Ryan, because this child NEVER eats anything, even when it is full of chocolate chips.

And this cute little lady was an angel & slept the entire time! (:

After breakfast, we went home & just relaxed for a few hours, until it was time to go to Red Lobster for dinner with Ryan's family. I didn't get any pictures there, because, well I just suck at life & forget when there is food in front of me & needy children wanting my attention ;) hahah. After dinner, we went out to my mama's house to hang out for a bit.

^ BEST daddy ever.


My kiddo's are SO dang lucky to have such an amazing daddy. Seriously. He is always playing with Bransyn and teaching him new things. I absolutely love watching the daddy/son bond that they have! Melts my heart. I can't wait to see that {but a daddy/daughter bond, of course} between him & Tais when she gets older. Not that he isn't already amazing with her, but she's still so little that he can't really do much, but hold/love on her & make her smile ;)
Thank you for being such an incredible daddy to our babies, Ry. I could search the whole world & I would never even come close to finding a better dad for my kids ♥ We are soo blessed to have you.

Three in one day.

My very cute, sweet, lovable little boy is really trying to make his mama go craaaazy.
Why, you ask? Well let me show you:

Reason #1:

He found a pen, took it in his room & gave himself some nice 'tattoos' while I was changing his baby sister's diaper. he REALLY takes advantage of the time it takes me to feed or change her. And he's a quick little sucker!


Reason #2:
Okay, this one is really pretty funny actually. But, the story behind it is what's gonna make me go crazy. Every time he asks for applesauce, I of course give it to him. Well, the past couple of times I will open it & he won't take a single bite. So when he asked for some earlier, I told him no, because he never eats it. I told him to go put it back. Well, it seemed like it was taking him quite a while to just take it back to the pantry, so I went to check on him & found him sitting on the pantry shelf, slirping the apple sauce right out of the cup! It was seriously hilarious! I just hate when he doesn't listen to what I tell him to do (: But from now on, if he asks for applesauce, I'm just gonna give him the dang applesauce so that I don't have a nice mess of it in my pantry.

Reason #3:
I made him a nice dinner of chicken & broccoli casserole & he threw it ALL over the floor, ALL over the blinds & ALL over the back door. This stuff is SO messy & a pain in the butt to clean up. At what age do kids stop throwing their food? Because if it's not in like 3 seconds, we're getting a dog to clean it up for me. Oh, and I'm pretty sure he didn't even take a single bite of it.





This boy is cray-cray, but I sure love his guts! ♥