Valentines Day

We had an enjoyable night IN with the kids on Valentines Day. We made homemade pizza, it turned out super yummy and we had a great time making it...

heart shaped of course

We had dinner by candlelight, and gave the kids their Valentines... I wrote a letter to each kid telling them why we think they are great!!! Then we played a Valentine match game

Grandad stopped by to deliver a valentine treat so he played a round of match game with the boys!

We had fun evening as a family!! Love them!

Birthday Parties!

Well We've had a lot of fun lately, celebrating some of our good friends' birthdays!! My good friend Tamra turned 40, and we threw her a surprise Prom! Ya we did, and it was awesome!! You would have to know Tamra to know how perfectly this fit her...

~Z and Tricia, pointing at the fake wedding reception sign~

She was truly surprised!!!

One of the group photo's!!

We enjoyed some good food, good company, and literally danced the night away!!

just like the good ol' days!

wouldn't be a Tamra Party without a pyramid!

... and about a month later, our other friend Tom turned 40, so we did it all over again!! Not a prom, but another awesome surprise party!!

The guys kidnapped him and drove him around for an hour, torturing him...

my awesome friends aka the awesome party planning committee

we finished the night with some karaoke!!

I have the best friends ever! I love them all so much!! What would we do without good friends!!! Good Times! Good memories!!!

Max Kougar

Our Max turned 7!!! We had quite the celebration, we partied all week!

Our first gathering was the day before his birthday, Monday night with the Bevan's... dinner, presents and ice cream and cake

The next day, the 7th was his actual birthday, he woke up to 'blue' pancakes with a strawberry seven!!

7 years old on the 7th day of February~

we let him open one present before school, a new backpack!!! A BYU backpack!!

I saw this several weeks ago on my girls trip to St. George back in January, I knew I had to get it for Max for his birthday!!!

he of course, LOVES it!!!

later he got some more BYU gear and some X box games!

he was one happy camper

... then the Thursday after his birthday we celebrated with the Wade's! More dinner, presents and cake!

cute Nanny and Reesey!

Nanny got Max a mini Root Beer mug and Root Beer, cute!

 ~ mmm delicious ~

(Insert Happy Birthday song here)

And... to top it all of he got a friend party... wow, too many parties right! Well they only get a friend party every other year

so he invited some of his best buddies over to celebrate, I limit it to about 4 or 5 for my sanity's sake...  lucky for us the weather was fantastic and they played outside the whole time!!! Rare for our "winter" birthdays!!! It was great!!!

we did a pinata, played games and played outside...

and of course presents!!

He wanted a football cake every party, this time we switched it up a little, with some UTAH vs BYU... I had the kids sit on different sides and give a thumbs up or thumbs down for whatever team side of the cake they were sitting on... Jackson was our solo UTAH fan... haha, go Cougars!

I think he thoroughly enjoyed his many parties, and I'm just glad I'm not making a cake today... he had fun and is a fun boy! We love Max so much! He is such a joy and is a very interesting kid! He really is just fun to have around, I always love the perspective he has on things, and the ideas he shares...  Lots of personality and so many good qualities! We love our Max Kougar Wade!!!!

These are the youngest pics of Max I had on my computer, he was 3! Such a cute little boy! He's grown up a lot!

St. George Girls Trip

My girlfriends and I recently escaped to Sunny St. George for a fun little getaway~

Tamra is a St. George local so we crashed at her parents house... we woke up and made a yummy breakfast and had our own little body flow class thanks to Tricia

then we hit a "few" stores and went to lunch

I love you Paradise Bakery Oriental Chicken Salad

we made a quick stop by Tamra's old stompen grounds Pine View High! Go Panthers!

and ya, we made a pyramid of course!

Little snap shot of the successful purchases we all made!

We went to St. George  so some of the group could run in the

St. George Half Marathon, 

Tamra, Annie, Anna, Tricia and LuAnn

this was funny at the time, we were late getting to the race so we threw the cups out on the grass... had to be there I guess!

I had to take a picture of the cute note that Tamra's dad left for all the girls~Seriously cute man~! Her mom is fabulous too!!! Great, great people, love them!!

Z and I and mama Nelson were the cheering crew! We drove to several stops along the route to cheer our girls on,, and made a few awesome posters for the racers viewing pleasure~

After all our pit stops we drove to the finish to await our runners! One by one they came in!! Annie....

Anna

Tricia

Tamra

and LuAnn!!

Way to go Ladies!! They all did sooo awesome!!!

We had to snap a pic with all us girls who outnumbered papa Nelson big time!

At some point we hit this awesome ice cream place, that I can't remember the name of, but it was good!! We hit Paradise Bakery again and hit a movie, and drove home Sunday! Had such a great time with my bestest buddies! A girl needs good friends and I'm glad I can say I have some great ones!! We had a serious good time, lots of laughs, lots of uplifting moments and good times, good memories!! Love my gals!!