Happy 40th Dennis!!

So I have to give a shout out to Dean's brother Dennis! He just turned 40 in February, but the SURPRISE party wasn't till this past weekend!! His lovely wife did such a good job of making sure he didn't find out! And I think she did pretty well until someone that couldn't make it text him and was like "sorry, can't make it to your party"... yeah.. who does that??? So he knew when he came in, but he did a good job of acting surprised! There were alot of people there! It was held at the "The Canyon Inn" which is a really nice bar with food and pool tables and a live band! We all had a great time and I just wanted to share it all with you!!! LOVE YOU DENNIS!

Dennis, in the shirt that Dean had to have for him. I actually went through a bit of hell to get this on Ebay, but the brothers were proud of it!!

Hmm... which one should I blow out first???!???!???!??

The Parents

Us

The 3 Amigos

Just something to share....

So Dean, I am so sorry, but I just had to share this. I want you all to know that this is what I live with on a daily basis. And don't get me wrong. I am so very thankful!! I have the most amazing man in my life that lives life to the fullest and whom never lets a dull moment happen! And so I just have to give him a shout out and let him know how much I appreciate all he does for our family! But most of all I need to let him know how much I appreciate his happy go lucky mood and that damn witty box of his in the back of his head!! Now here is the story for the following picture!! I had bought him this shirt oh many months back, cause Peyton loves spider man so we thought it would be cute for Peyton to see him in it... and I also got him the guitar hero boxers as a joke, because "Santa" had brought us guitar hero for Christmas! So never in a million years did I think this outfit would happen (I know I know, I should have known better)! But we were playing guitar hero one night with our friends.. and Dean excuses himself to go to the bathroom, well this is what happened next! For those of you that know him, you know that he is a drummer, and so this whole picture just explains so much about him!! But it just shows what a care free guy I truly have and I just can't ever tell him enough how much I appreciate that about him! Love you baby!!!

MoNsTeR jAm!!

So I'm a little late on this one, because we actually did this on Valentine's Day, but I haven't had time to get my camera unloaded. Anyhow! We took Peyton to Monster Jam at the Energy Solutions Arena on Valentines Day. It was his first one, and really technically one of our firsts too!! We weren't too excited, but when your parents, you do what your kids want to do!! So we took him! We got to our seats and the lights all went out in anticipation. I was trying to get ear plugs ready, but I didn't quite do it soon enough and when the engines roared, I thought Peyton was going to cry. I could tell he was a bit nervous and didn't expect it at all. But once I got the ear plugs in his ears he was fine!! The show lasted a couple hours and we were all deaf by time it got done! But we had an enjoyable time. Of course, I would have been better off giving him $100 and let him go to Target and buy whatever for the amount of money I spent on food and souvenirs! But it was still a good time! Here's a few photos from the lively event!

Valentines Day!

This year was such a fun one for me. It was the first year we got to do a Valentine Box with Peyton for school. I was more excited than he was Im sure. But I was planning on just doing something cutesy.. red and what not. Well Dean said that was too original and that we should be more creative in our making. So here is what we came up with!

He was so proud of it. Unfortunately we have all been so sick at this house, so he didn't go to school on Friday, but me being me of course.. took him in for just the Valentine party because I couldn't let him not enjoy the festivites and the joy of the Valentine Box showing. So he had such an enjoyable time and so did I! However he better enjoy this damn box because it was quite the spendy thing once we got all said and done with the project!

We decided to take all the kids and go Cosmic Bowling! It was so late and we were there till 1 am! But they were such troopers and loved playing in the dark with all the crazy lights!

We went to Johnny Corino's before going bowling and that was quite an adventure with 6 adults and 4 kids and 2 babies!! But we made it through with tons of food in our bellies! I wish I would have gotten more pics of the kids... but I will have to steal those from Ashley and Kasey! :) We just want our friends to know how much we love and appreciate them and all the fun times we have! Its always a good time and very memorable! We are excited to now have Nick and Ashley in our little group of friends! They are such a fun family to be around and our kids all get along great! Anyhow! Check back for more another time!

So, New Years Day we got adventurous and decided to go tubing up in Park City! It was actually quite a decent day! It was pretty busy, but still alot of fun! Peyton could only go on the smaller runs since he wasn't 6 yet. So Dean and I mostly did the small runs with him while Kasey, Mike and Madi took on the big ones! This was so much fun! It isn't so fun when you are waiting in line though, so since then we have decided that when we get another snow fall, we will just go up to the mountains and find our own hill. However, the hill we went to in Park City has a tow rope that takes you up to the top. We won't have one of those if we just find a hill in the mountains.. we will be much more tired I think after the next trip!! HAHA! This ended up being a full day thing. The Greens were probably sick of us by then as we had spent all New Year's Eve with them and the whole day eating and tubing on New Years!! We are getting quite used to just spending our weekends with them and we love it!

I don't even know where to begin since it has been so long since my last posting! I will start at New Year's I suppose! This year we had a very low key New Year's get together at our house. Mike and Kasey came and brought their two daughters Bayleigh and Madisen. Kasey's sister Ashley came with her husband Nick and their 3 kids, Easton, Hallie, and Chaz. My mom was also there for a little while! Anyhow, we had so much fun! The kids all had a blast and took out every toy out of Peytons toybox! It was insane, I have never seen his room look so awful! You couldn't even open the door, I don't know how any of them survived the evening! Luckily they did and there were no injuries! Us adults had a great time playing guitar hero and ping pong! Between those two exciting activites we all had plenty of entertainment! Once midnight hit, we all watched the ball drop and sipped on champagne... but the fun part was yet to come! Every year we blow up the gingerbread house in the back yard, this was a tradition Dean had before I came along, but we have instilled it in our new life as well! Anyhow, the kids were sooooo excited for this! So we got it outside amongst all the snow and it was so cold, but they didn't care! And Dean proceeded to get some fireworks and blow it up! They were so happy and were jumping all about! Its a fun thing and the kids enjoy it so much. Not to mention Dean probably loves playing with fireworks.. Anyhow, so here are some picutres from the night! :)