2020

Well my friends, it is now March 2015. 5 years ago I wrote a post predicting what life will be like at this time. But before you read on to how crazy-predicable my life is, I want to give you a little background to what our life was in March 2010. We had been married for 5 years, living in our townhouse in Riverton (that we WISH we could still sell right now), Easton was 3 years old, Nixon was 4 months old and Dan worked as an operations supervisor for an alarm co called Protection One...

Now read THIS (click on the link). 

Did ya read it?? I love how vanilla my life is. I wouldn't have it any other way! Besides a few minor changes, it's pretty right on. 

On to predicting further into my future :-) In March 2020 Dan and I will be celebrating 15 years of hard work to maintain a healthy and loving marriage. He will still be the smart, handsome, hardworking and most caring guy I have ever known. And at this time I can't imagine him working for any other company besides WireTech. I will still be doing my thing, mothering and photos. Hopefully by then my gardening skills will have emerged, because that hasn't happened yet! Unless something really unforeseen happens (and beyond our own choosing), we will be living right where we are. :-) Easton will be a TEENAGER! Yikes! He will be 13 and a 7th grader in Jr. High... holy moly. Nixon will be right behind him, a 10 year old in 4th grade. Not sure what the boys will be involved in as far as after school stuff goes. Whatever they want. Emery will be 7 years old and in 2nd grade and our baby (we still have no official name for this little guy coming in just 11 short weeks!) will not really be a baby. He will be 5 years old!! Yea... this game is no fun. I'm going to stop right here and go cherish my babies because holy moly they are SO little compared to what they will be. 5 years flies. 

Emery's Birthday!

My poor blog... it has had some serious neglect the past few years!

Nixon is finally 3!

On November 15th, our little Nixon turned 3 years old!! 

He was waiting so long to finally have a special day just about him! Easton didn't have his first friend party until he was 4, and I think I am going to stick with that for all the kiddos. Even though there wasn't a big party, we still celebrated! 

His cousin Miles is the same age (only weeks apart) and he came for a sleepover, and Nixon got to open all his presents as soon as he woke up!

The morning was spent playing with toys, and after lunch we headed up to the gateway mall to the children's discovery museum. It was the first time we had been there, and it was awesome! We will definitely be going back again.

A few pictures at the museum...

THEN MY MEMORY CARD WENT CORRUPT!!!! 

I didn't realize that had happened until the day was over and I tried to load them on my computer... so I went throughout the day, taking lots of REALLY cute pictures! I am really so sad about it, and it kind of makes me feel sick if I spent too much time thinking about it.

:'(

I didn't even get cell phone pics of the day. 

After the museum, we came back home and had his awesome birthday cake! 

I didn't get a get a picture, but it looked like this, and was soooo cute.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIXON! 

Halloween 2012

Can I say how much I LOVE Halloween? This year was especially awesome! I loved spending the day with my sister, and her family! During the day Dione and I went to lunch and then saw the witches at Gardener Village. When the older kids got home from school, we headed to a shopping center and trick or treated there. This year was yet again a very warm Halloween, and that makes it nice that I could bring Emery with us Trick-or-Treating! After our early day Trick-or-Treating we headed down to my other sister's house for dinner. 

What a fabulous way for a mom to spend a birthday. 

:)

Cousin Jonah & Easton were the Army Guys from Toy Story. We got their clothes from DI spray painted them to match. They LOVED their costumes! Nixon was a "police cop". I already had a lion costume for him that was Easton's. I tried all month to help him get excited to be a lion... practicing our roar. Then the day before he was so sad that he wasn't going to be a police cop so we quickly pulled this together! I thought it turned out pretty cute. It fits his personality MUCH better.

Emery the Elephant! 3 months old.

The police cop & his robber! Dan is such a good dad... I love him for dressing up with Nixon!

Cousin Allie, the witch!

These 2 boys got so many looks & attention at the shopping complex. EVERYONE thought that they were twins, and that made it more fun for them! 

easton's b.day interview

-->How old are you? 6

-->Who is your best friend? Tyson

-->What is your favorite thing to do? Play with cousins

-->What is your favorite color? Green

-->What is your favorite book? How to train your dragon series

-->What is your favorite movie? Harry Potter

-->What are you going to be when you grow up? A pizza delivery guy

-->What is your favorite thing about yourself? I am learning to speak spanish

-->What is your favorite food? Pickles!

-->Something you really like? My army guys

-->Something you really DON'T like? Barbies

-->Something you want to learn before your next birthday? To count to 900,000

Happy 6th Birthday to Easton!

On October 16th, our not so little Easton turned 6 years old! Since he didn't have an actual party when he turned 5, he had a small party this year with some of his cousins and a friend from the neighborhood! I kept it real simple, and it was really nice. 

He woke up SUPER early, because he was so excited! And we decided to let him open up some of his gifts right away. His party was a LEGO theme, and Dan had put together a Lego table (no pics... bummer) as his gift to Easton. So in keeping with the theme, I picked out a Lego set for him all by myself, and I was proud that I picked one that he LOVED so much! 

His special breakfast! We also had eggs, as per his request.