Wow dude

Ummmm, the past few weeks have been CRAY. Family in town, activities, party prepping and planning, moving, 4th of July fun, painting furniture, running errands, stadium of fire, airport runs, 4 wheeling, para gliding, temple sealing, family photos, birthday parties.... We basically said, how much chaos can we fit in at one time... Then we did that times 100. 

BUT!

I SURVIVED, and it was worth it. 

First off, let me say I'm going to try and be brief and do a few smaller posts about all this so it's not chaos and over whelming. 

Story 1. Paragliding at point of the mountain in draper. Remember when we thought it would be AWESOME to jump off of a mountain?!?? Well, it was.  I was kind of freaking out at first, but once we took off, which was super smooth by the way, then it was no big deal. I thought I would get sick, or nervous but I was calm cool and collected. Epic! Photos to follow. 

Hanging out waiting for the wind to pick up. There were like 50 other people going at the same time as us, so people were taking off and landing all around us! It was so cool. Especially to look up and see that many people in the air at once!

They are tiny in this photo below, but there are a bunch of them. Even more took off after this photo. It was awesome! 

My mother in law did it with us, I was so proud of her! She was so brave, I was shocked when she said she wanted to go with us, but I'm so glad she did! She loved it and wants to go again! Goooo Louise! 

Here's David getting ready to go! His brother Adam also went with us! We all went tandem of course. Which means we were attached to someone who knows what they are doing! 

In my brain I thought, oh we will probably start off small since this is our first time.. Will jump off the mountain and just kind of float down to the ground below....Oh no! You jump off and they go higher and higher and higher! If the wind is good they want you to be up above the mountain! So crazy, so fun! 

My landing was smooth as butter, we just lightly glided right down and landed on our feet. Have you ever had a dream about being able to fly??? I have, and this allowed all my childhood dreams to become a reality!! 

If you ever get the opportunity to go para gliding, GO!!! It's seriously so fun. Beautiful views, amazing night. Love love love. I want to go again, who's going with me?!?! 

BUH bye! 

Greens

Sometimes I eat healthy. Today's healthy summer breakfast is...

GREEN SMOOTHIE! 

Isn't my new cup just the cutest?? It's plastic, BPA free, insulated, and came in a set of three with different color lids and straws! They are on sale right now at Costco!!! Get yourself a set! 

Anyway, I made the most refreshing and healthy smoothie today. 

INGREDIENTS

Spinach- couple hand fulls, I don't mess around with that. I put a LOT. 

Coconut milk or coconut water- About half a cup, I generally add a little more as my blender is blending if it's struggling to mix. I need a better blender! 

Strawberries- I did about 4-5, cut off the stems and threw them in! 

Pineapple frozen- I bought the already frozen bag at costco. It's good to have some fruit that's frozen in your smoothie so you don't have to add as much, or any ice at all! Mine didn't need any ice because I added a bunch of this! Probably did like 6-8 little cubes of pineapple. 

BLEND.

Dump into a super cute cup, I prefer one with a straw. So much easier to drink it this way!!

Enjoy! 

 

Cleaning fairy

Am I a loser because I'm doing a post about my new favorite cleaning item???? Yes. Do I care, NOPE! 

 We recently moved and the entire condo is 90% hard wood floors with a little tile here and there. I was a little nervous about this because I HATE sweeping. I always get so frustrated because I have very messy children and am having to sweep multiple times a day. PAIN IN MY BUTT, literally. Bending over trying to get every last crumb. Solution... INTRODUCING my new best friend. 

Swiffer SweeperVac!! OMG. 

this thing is GREAT for hardwood. It doesn't work very well on tile, so I wouldn't recommend it if you have tons of tile in your home. It doesn't have quite enough suction for the grout, but for flat hardwood it's perfection. If you are like me and have all hardwood, RUN!!! Yes RUN and buy one of these babies. It will save you from going crazy trying to sweep little crumbs and hair. You're welcome. 

Family reunion

Babes! We just returned from probably the best and funnest family reunion to date! My family is awesome. Everyone always gets a long great, there's always amazing food and snacks, and fun activities to do! 

Almost the entire group. Not quite though, a few families had to leave before this was taken! 

Alicia in front of the lodge! It had tons of grass around it, tennis court, a gym with toys, a slide and bikes for the kids. A bunk house, which was a room with a ton of bunk beds, with more toys and a slide from the upper level down into the bunk house. Then upstairs was pool table, air hockey, little play houses. They also rented a bounce house for outside by the play ground area and there was a hot tub. It was basically a little piece of heaven. So much fun, so much chaos, SOOO many little kids!

Dance party one night in the gym! 

Fishing and horse back riding at uncle richards pond. 

Playing outside 

Loving the bikes in the gym! We had a blast riding around together on them

Grandma with her flower pot! It has everyone's photos in it, with their face on a flower! 

 Well almost everyone! 

It wouldn't be a family reunion party without some sparklers, and illegal fireworks! Good times.

We did so much in such a short amount of time. It was a busy busy few days. But so fun! 

Our last day we went and spent a little time in island park. I grew up going there with my family multiple times a year to stay at our family cabin, and have some fun playing outdoors. I LOVED IT. 

On the way home we stopped at big juds for a delicious hamburger, and went to bear world! I'm not a hamburger person, but I must admit it was delicious! 

Bear world was super fun! Kayden and sway both got stuffed bears to take home.

Bears everywhere! We followed behind a truck that was feeding them so there were tons of bears all around our car. It was kind of crazy! 

Fun times! 

I could go on and on about how great this family vacation was... But I think all that should give you a good idea! Now to finish unpacking, we just moved and have a lot going on in the coming weeks! Ta Ta for now! 

Dear Swayze

Auntie Alicia loves you a LITTLE less for doing this while laying on her.. Just saying. 

Oh and this happened...

Poop party all week! Happy Friday!!

family

Bonjour! We are up in Idaho for a fun family reunion with my moms side of the family.

Alicia and I are sharing a purple princess room. The lodge we are in is huge and has tons of play areas of the kids! Kaydens in heaven. We are playing, swimming, hiking, fishing, partying, dancing, camping, eating... Basically everything fun there is to do on a family reunion! Just a quick update! Talk to ya soon!  

Xoxo 

Dear Blog world

Hi!! I'm still here, I'm still alive. We have been crazy busy running around doing tons of fun summer activities! I'm packing to head off to a family reunion tomorrow.. So this post will be short and random! I will try to play catch up when we get back or on the drive! 

Until then here are some photos from the last month! :) 

Baby girl is 11 months and almost walking! She is SOOO close! She also just got 2 bottom teeth! Kind of sad... They don't look like babies anymore once they get teeth! 

They both thought this was pretty fun!

I did a photo shoot for David for Father's Day of the kids in downtown Provo.... Here's a sneak peek! Yes, a big scary man who goes by the name of Bee Money walked up and scared the crap out of Swayze. He was sure he could make her smile. The look of sheer terror says it all.... Haha. Nice try B! 

Here is the final product! This was the whole idea, babies wearing head phones for the studio! Sway was super grumpy. But I think it still turned out SOOO cute! I wanted them to be in casual clothes for it, so I plan on doing a super girly photo shoot of Swayze for her first birthday to make up for it! It will be so fun!  My awesome cousin Glenna took the photos! She's amazing, thanks again pretty lady! 

Kayden hates costco... Swayze loved sitting in the big seat by her brother! 

Easter Sunday! 

Sporting my super awesome Aaliyah Rose shirt! David's brother designed this, he's really talented!! That is her actual signature recreated for the shirts! Thanks for being awesome Adam! 

My super cute bestie Sarah came and hung out with me during the final four competition for stadium of fire at the Scera Shell! The strike performed and a few of David's clients were in it. 

We are so excited for Stadium of fire! Aaliyah is in a competition right now to sing the national anthem for it! We hope she wins! She's against 64 people. We shall see! Goooo Aaliyah! 

The amazing John Allred! Always love seeing him perform live! 

Josh! He's an amazing keyboard/keytarist! Is keytarist word?? Maybe I made it up... I dunno haha.  He has cool gold shoes,and a rad mustache!! Love him. 

Lead singer of the strike! Chris! I went all crazy fan girl when they performed! I'm a huge fan! David tried to convince me to let him put me on his shoulders, but I resisted this plan in fear of eating it in front of hundreds of people. 

The guy who is opening for Carrie underwood at stadium of fire! Mimi Knowles! So excited for him! He's awesome, it will be such a fun show! 

Some of these are repeats from Instagram! Sorry!  I'll post more later. Hope you are enjoying your summer! 

Ta Ta for now!!