It's been a CROCKIN long time....

It has been over a year since I've posted anything. I've been slacking. I guess life gets busy and some things take a hit. I'm hoping to do a lot better now. I love to preserve memories, which I do through taking a billion of pics all the time, but it's fun to write down memories too. Anyway, I'm almost 23 weeks prego and feeling like I'm 33 weeks. I don't know what it is this time but WOW! I'm super excited that I get another girl. I'm sad for Tanner since he wanted a brother SO BAD but he is such a great big brother that I know he'll be just fine. I really thought for awhile that Jocie would be the only girl I get. It seems like boys run stronger in our family line. Jocie is so cute and so excited for a sis. She rubs and kisses my belly everyday. She even has a stuffed animal picked out from her animals that she wants to give her. Come on October.....get here quick. However, I'm loving the summer.....just not the heat and humidity. Here is a cute pic of my kids that I'm loving! It really tells their personalities. Tanner is all about being tough like a ninja and Jocie likes to be cute like a princess. I love these kids!

Easter Fun

Tanner has been waiting for Easter since last Easter. He loves finding eggs and seeing what's inside of them. We had fun dying and coloring eggs. Easter morning, Tanner came up to Nate and I's bedroom and excitingly said "The Easter bunny came. He did pretty good hiding the eggs but I can see lots of them." He could hardly stand it to wait for Jocie to wake up so we finally went in her room and got her up so they could find eggs. They had so much fun. They found eggs filled with candy, some with change and then the silver and gold egg with a dollar in each one. I love how at this age any bill looks the same so you can get away with a dollar and they think they are rich. Too bad that won't last :) Then we went to church with both kids on a sugar high and in their cute new Easter outfits (thanks Mom and Dad). Later that evening we got together with some friends for dinner and had a little Easter egg hunt outside since the weather was so beautiful. It was a great day. I'm so thankful for my wonderful family and friends and most importantly for my Savior Jesus Christ. 

Spring Break Adventures

This post has about a million pictures and it's probably not even 1/3 of all the ones we took. Some are from my phone so the quality isn't the greatest. We had such a fun spring break!! We started out by going to the temple with some friends and staying the night. We've been wanting to go to the Nauvoo temple sine we've been here and am proud to say it finally happened. What a BEAUTIFUL temple....but aren't they all. We came home Sunday and then headed to Branson the next morning. Nate found an awesome deal at some cabins and they were AWESOME! I would recommend them 100%. They were so nice. We even had a hot tub on our back patio. I was in heaven! We went to the Hollywood Wax Museum, went through a maze of mirrors which was hilarious because Jocie kept running into them and laughing. She didn't quite get what was going on. We did a little shopping at the outlets since I had some Birthday money (wahoooooooo). We also went to the fish hatchery and let Tanner feed the fish while Nate drove around since Jocie fell asleep. We wanted to make sure she had a good nap for our 5:00 Dixie Stampede show. That was such a fun show. They asked Tanner if he would be in their show and help them swing the rope around getting ready to lasso a horse. I was surprised cause he did it and loved it. Then we came back home (we were SO bummed to leave there) and relaxed it up for the last few days. What a fun spring break!!!

NAUVOO

BRANSON

HOLLYWOOD WAX MUSEUM

                                       

SHOPPING

MAZE OF MIRRORS

FISH HATCHERY

THE DIXIE STAMPEDE (dinner attraction)