Playing Catch up

Wow, I am sooo behind and I am soooo tired. So please overlook my terrible gramar and spelling, because I really should be in bed, but I am trying to play catch up. We are back from South Dakota, we are moved into our new home (well kind of). And, I have lots of pictures to post. I don't have any pictures of the house yet, it's still a pretty big mess, pictures will be coming soon. But, here is a recap of our 2 week vacation in South Dakota with my parents! We had so much fun hanging out with grandma and grandpa for 2 full weeks, the time flew by way tooo fast, it always does.

We relaxed a lot, the weather out there was in the 80's and 90's, it was beautiful (unlike this crappy weather we returned too, what the heck is up with Utah???) We spent lots of time outside enjoying the weather, blowing bubbles, taking nightly trips to the ice cream shop, and taking walks on their nature trails. They have the coolest walking trails in my parents neighborhood, it's like being up in the mountains, without having to drive to the mountains. There are squirrels and rabbits and little ponds and ducks all over. It's sooo fun to take walks with the kids and look for cute little animals!

We picked up some pine cones on our nature walk and Isabella and grandpa made bird feeders out of them, we had so much fun making these!

Isabella LOVED mowing the lawn with grandpa, she helped mow the entire lawn. I think we need to invest in a riding lawn mower, endless entertainment for the kids!!!

Grandpa took us up the Terry Redland museum. The kids loved looking at all the art and walking around.

We cooked YUMMY smores!!!

Eva wasn't so sure about the roasted marshmallow, but she loved the grahams and chocolate, who can blame her?

We also spent lots and lots of time with Grandma on this trip. She was able to take quite a bit of time off of work, so we had lots of fun shopping and eating!!! The girls loved all the attention from grandma and grandpa!

While we were out in South Dakota, my parents took the kids for 3 days and Chris and I took a road trip for our anniversary. We haven't taken a road trip alone since we've had kids. So we were really excited. We drove to Minneapolis, which is about 3 1/2 hours from my parents house. When we hopped in my parents car, my mom had this cute bag she had put together for our anniversary trip, loaded with goodies. My mom's so cute!

While in Minneapolis we were able to watch the Yankees play at the Twins stadium. We went to game 3, and the Yankees had already won the first 2 games, let's just say people in Minneapolis weren't so nice to those who were wearing Yankee apparel. It was pretty fun! Chris was eating it up!

On a side note, this was our 6th anniversary. I was joking with Chris that there is a serious trend with our wedding date. On our honeymoon, there was 2 nights we had to spend in the hotel room watching the Laker's play off's, Our real anniversary this year, was on the 8th of May, and I spent it alone while my hubby was down at the Energy Solutions Erena watching the Laker's play the Jazz, and then to celebrate our anniversary, we went to a Yankee game. Are you seeing the trend??? So I politely reminded my husband that next year our anniversary is to be spent doing something that doesn't involve sports, he politely reminded me that I married him during NBA playoff season. Hmmmm......this would have been nice to know BEFORE the wedding, LOL!!!!!

We had to much fun with my parents, we wore them out, and they wore us out, and we are missing them like crazy!

We got home and took Eva to her 1 year Dr's appointment, here are her stats:

Weight: 18.9 pounds (14th percentile)

Height: 29.5" (60th percentile)

She is seriously just a tiny little thing, and I don't know how.....this kid eats like there is no tomorrow!!!! I was trying to get some dishes done the other night, and so I was trying to keep her busy....lost track of time, and came back to the table to find this.....

We moved into our house on Saturday the 5th of June. We are soooo excited. It has been such a busy week trying to unpack boxes, I have huge bags under my eyes, because I stay up way too late unpacking and Eva loves to wake me up at 6:30 the next morning. My goal this week is to get some rest!! Friday night I was able to catch a super cute pictures of the girls. We decided that we needed to do something fun with the girls at the new house, so we thought we would break in the new oven and make chocolate chip cookies. I didn't think about this when I bought our appliances, but I bought a double oven, and the lower section of the oven sits on the ground. The girls were in heaven just sitting on the floor watching their cookies bake. It was priceless!

Give me another week to finish unpacking and I will post some pictures of the house!!! Yeah, I can't even tell you how excited we are to be moved!!!! Thanks to everyone who has helped us move, clean and watch the girls, we LOVE you all!