We had the most wonderful weekend. A few weeks ago I got a bee in my bonnet to go camping. Angie and Doug just got a tent trailer for Christmas so we called them and started planning. Aaron had the most wonderful idea to go to gobblin valley. We had so much fun. The kids were totally entertained all day playing in the sand and climbing the rocks all around our camp ground. I packed them a ton of toys that they didn't really play with but oh well. We got off to a very late start but finally got to camp about ten thirty thursday night. After setting up camp we all just mostly went to bed. Brian and Kristynn got to camp on friday early afternoon and after setting up camp for them we took a nice nap. The kids had been climbing over every rock and up and down every hill around by then so we were all tired. Friday night for dinner we had tin foil dinners and they were sooooo yummy. I forget how good they are. Saturday we went and explored gobblin valley. The kids loved it so much but they did get tired earlier then we thought. They were up and down all the hills and rocks though. Angie did a way yummy dutch oven dinner saturday night which even my kids loved so that is always a plus. Well I am so in the camping mood so if anyone wants to go let me know and I will find a way to tag along.

Also please remember on April 19th is my young womens fundraiser and we are having a fiesta. Please come and support me and the young women in my ward. There will be way yummy food (a taco bar and enchiladas) and some entertainment going on through out the night also. It is from five thirty to eight thirty and come and go so please put it on your calenders.

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During their weekend together they also ventured up to an igloo Jason had built the week before while off work and bored.

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For aaron's birthday his wonderful younger brother Jason , whom cabhan jason is named after (i think i cursed myself on that one he already is a dare devil and climbs everything in site)and him decided that they wanted a weekend to spend with eachother and just hang is what they said they would do. Well as you can tell from the pictures they didn't keep their promise not that I thought they would but it was worth a try. He had a wonderful weekend, thanks jase, and if he ever gets a few minute he will add his experience as well.

Ciaran Turns Four / Pirate Bowling Party

Holy Cow I can not believe I have a four year old. I don't know why but that seems so much older to me than three. For Ciaran's birthday he has been saying for months that he wanted to go "real" bowling and have a pirate party so his wish was my command. I actually started planning it back in January and Aaron kept telling me I was crazy and his birthday was still two months away and that he needed to get past today before we started planning Ciaran's party three months away. But you know me I need things planned way ahead of time.
So we had quite the party. A lot of the adults even ended up bowling so it was way fun. The kids love bowling and it is very fun to watch them. Check out the pictures.

Dawson Turns Two

Thursday, March 6th was Dawson's second birthday party. Angie had it at jungle jims which the kids couldn't have been happier about. They love that place. I have been fighting a cold lately so I wasn't as excited to be there as usual and didn't ride any of the rides with the kids. The kids had a grand old time though and as usual didn't want to leave when it was time to go. Happy Birthday Dawson!

Busy Busy

Holy Cow Life is toooooo busy. I have been working pretty much full time since Jessica had her baby and I am getting nothing done. We are living out of laundry baskets because I dont have time to fold laundry. Hopefully this weekend I can catch up but we do have Ciaran's 4th birthday party on saturday. We are having a Pirate Bowling party. He is sooooooo very excited that we get to go "real" bowling. They both love to bowling and it is quite funny and entertaining.
This week has been so busy. Just a recap. Tuesday night we took Ciaran and Cabhan shopping to Toys R Us to pick out Ciaran's Birthday Present. He has said all along that he wants a Guitar (he loves playing dads and is very careful with it) and a new bumble bee transformer and another optimus prime transformer. Well at the store he wanted what ever was in front of him at the moment. We ended up getting him a Pirate ship to have at his own house. He has one at Grandma Doloris's and Grandma who calls grandpa Mike's (grandma Gwen) houses now but not his own. Well we also wanted to him a scooter since it is starting to get warm and he loves being outside but decided to wait for Easter and then we could get both Ciaran and Cabhan one.
Wednesday night I had the opertunity to go to New Beginnings at our ward for the young women and meet all the new beehives that are coming in. It was a very fun night. They now have a nursery every wednesday night for the kids of all the leaders for mutual which made it very nice. I didn't have to find a babysitter or anything which made it very nice and stress free. To bad we didn't think of that when we were in young womens huh quinn. Duh I dont know why because they always have it for the RS activities.

TENDER MERCIES

As I am sure everyone knows my younger sister Jessica gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on February 20th, 2008. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 20 inches long. I have not done a post on her yet becuase I dont have a camera and so I didn't have any pictures of her but my mom emailed me some so now I can finally do it. It was a long day of waiting for all of us especially Jessica and Jay. They arrived at the hospital around five and the nurses almost sent Jess home around seven am because even though she was having major contractions she wasn't dialated at all and you have to dialate for them to consider you in labor I guess. Thank goodness her doctor was there and making the rounds around seven and came in and told her if he could break her water she could stay and have this baby today. So after a long day of just waiting and never dialating past a 2 the doctor gave her a choice of having a C-section and Jessica agreeed. She was tired and ready to be done with waiting.

Jessica was born with a cleft pallit cleft lip which always made her nervous to have kids not wanting to pass that "defect" on to them. I remember when Ciaran was born she would just stare at his lips and nose at how perfect they were and I just new she longed for that in her own kids oneday. Well she did deliver a perfect little baby girl with the most perfect mouth and nose that you could ask for. Infact in most of the pictures that I have at the office people ask if she has lip gloss on. Her little perfect lips just glitter and shine like saying look at me. This was such a tender mercy for all of us to see Jessica get this perfect gift from our Heavenly Father after all she has been through. She has had so many surgeries we have all lost count but this last surgery she had (C-section) she received the best gift ever and and I think it was Heavenly Fathers way of saying good job sticking through everything you have been through and here is my reward to you. Congradulations Jessica and Jay you have a beautiful perfect baby girl and she is certainly a gift from heaven.