Lake Powell

We went to Lake Powell in May with Trent's family and had a great time. The kids love playing together and I think Lucy averaged 14 hours a day on the beach. She had to be forced inside to eat! 

 Hiding from the storm and getting some fro yo.. 

Rubesy wasn't a big fan of the life preserver for obvious reasons :)

 Family Pic Time

 Rainbow Bridge

 This is how Lucy liked to tube.. hilarious. All the kids loved it. 

 Still blockin the face, can't get any water in our eyes..

 Beach Time.. alllll the time

 Lucy and Owen doin coool poses.

 My personal favorite

 And K-fed's/Trent's cool poses

 Obviously my picture taking was great this trip!

Ruby Jane Blessing Day - May 15th

I'm exactly one month behind on my blog! Ruby's blessing day was May 15th. What an absolutely wonderful day. One of those special happy days that makes you realize how blessed you are and how really the only thing that matters is being surrounded by people that you love. We blessed Ruby on the same day that Tay had his homecoming talk. Trent gave Ruby a beautiful blessing, Tay gave a great talk and everyone made fabulous food. It was a trifecta of awesome. I love my little family, and I feel so incredibly lucky to have such amazing friends and family. Ruby doesn't know how lucky she is yet!

Mind Over Body

Random post title right?? I thought so too, but its only fitting since that is what Lucy said to us the other day when riding in the car. Out of nowhere she goes... Mind over Body Mom, Mind over Body. Not sure where that came from but it was HIL-A-RIOUS, and a perfect random title for these random pictures. I am so behind on blogging because in the past four weeks we have... Sold our home not to mention eight billion things on Craigslist, (remind me to tell you the story involving Mace, Midnight, a Rainstorm and our Big Screen TV) Packed up a giant moving truck, Moved across the country, Tried to get settled in our new house, lost sleep over getting Lucy into a good preschool (who knew it was so crazy?), Ruby's blessing day and Tay's homecoming, Trent went to Moab, I went on a work trip to NYC that involved two red eye flights and some awkward pumping situations (TMI - too bad!), we went to Lake Powell and now tomorrow we are flying back to Columbus for graduation then flying back the next day. WHEW. Throw a 3 month old baby, a crazy 3 year old and a Mom that is still trying to figure out how to juggle two girlies and stick a fork in me folks, cause I'm done. These have all been such great and fun opportunities/blessings, but not gonna lie I'm looking forward to the day when my biggest concern is what I want to make for dinner. Mind over body, Mom, Mind over Body. Cause all my body wants to do is sleep. Ruby, help me out here mmmkay?

How can this girl - do this giant holographic puzzle by herself, yet still can't put on her own shirt??? Life's greatest mysteries I tell ya.

We LOVE Rex and Kacie and LOVED that they visited us for one last Easter in Ohio. This is a plug for them to bite the bullet and move back to Utah one day. 

Rubesy and Halle holding hands and making weird faces. A week apart, aren't they cute?? 

The Tuesday... Chubbier every single day. It takes a major amount of effort to find this girlio's neck. 

Dinner at Chocolate Cafe with CBUS pals. There are so many people missing from this shot that made Columbus home for us. I learned so much from all of the girls sitting at this table, and so many more that I met during our four years at OSU. These girls are flat out amazing and they all inspired me to be a better friend, mom and all around person. Miss em dammit, and miss the smores fondue too.

Side note: Lucy invents genius words that I have to remember..

Oopsily:  Mom I Oopsily dropped my lunch on the ground. Oops + accidentally = Oopsily
Lasterday: as in.. Lasterday I played with my cousin Izzy. Last + yesterday = lasterday
Betowards: Mom, move White Doggie betowards his friend. Beside + toward = Betowards.