HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREN!!

I can't believe it's been 3 years since our little baby Lauren was born! Where does time go? It's so fun to watch her grow...but also sad to see my baby growing into a big girl!

Lauren's birthday was Saturday the 19th, so we celebrated by going to see Kung Fu Panda and to dinner. Then of course we had presents and cake!

We are so blessed to have Lauren in our family! She is such a sweetheart and full of personality! She brings so much joy into our lives! We love you Lauren! Here are some pictures of the past 3 years.

Our little princess...brand new!Lauren turns 1!! (in need of a bow!!)Lauren at 2 years old!

Lauren's 3rd birthday!!We love you Lauren!

My Pirates!

For some reason lately I keep finding my kids half nude doing crazy things!! Here we have our 1/2 dressed little pirates! I had to laugh when I saw these 2 running by with swords, guns, fake coins, and a magnifying glass tucked away in their pants/diaper! They definitely keep me laughing. Oh and don't mind Lauren's soggy, falling off diaper! I am getting inpatient with potty training...hopefully she will start cooperating on that one!

**And just so you know right after those toys were washed completely!

4th of July Weekend!

I love the 4th of July! Fireworks are my favorite! Not so much Lauren's! Maybe next year she will enjoy them! We did enjoy hanging out all weekend, going to Old Town Monrovia for a fabulous firework show, while enjoying tunnel cake and snow cones. Then on Saturday we hit the beach and had a blast!! It was a fun filled family weekend!

LITTLE ROCK STARS!!

I went to tuck my kids in bed last week (slow posting) and I found them rocking out! I usually am uptight and would have told them to get in bed, but I couldn't resist capturing my little ROCK STARS!!
Oh and yes those are Lauren's pj's...it's been so stinkin hot my kids prefer being naked!

20 YEAR TAG

I was tagged. So here goes the 20 Year Tag.

20 years ago...
1. I was 7 years old with no worries at all!
2. I lived in Kanab, UT and followed my big sister around everywhere!
3. My baby brother Sam was born. I thought he cried a lot. but he sure was cute!

10 years ago...
1. I was 17 years old. (I still feel that way...to bad don't look that way)
2. I was a senior at Copper Hills High. and loved hanging out with my friends. Especially loved going with Betsy to McDonalds every single day for lunch! Sharing #2! How was I skinny then!
3. Moved to Cedar City, UT and attended SUU for 1 semester. Didn't study very much but LOVED my roommates! Camino Manor... was the sweet apartment we lived in....

5 years ago...
1. Gerry and I finally got to tie the knot! (SLC Temple) It was the happiest day of my life! (I say finally...but really we only dated 1 year, but I was so excited!)
2. Zach was 2 years old and so much fun! I love that age! We just played, played, played!
3. We were so excited for Gerry to adopt Zach and be sealed as a family for eternity! (Mt. Timp. Temple)(tied for the happiest day of my life!)

3 years ago...
1. Our sweet little Lauren was born 7/19/05.
2. I got to be a stay at home mommy to my 2 babies, Zach and Lauren!
3. I got braces! I love my straight teeth! Thanks mom!

1 year ago...
1. We were living in South Pasadena, CA
2. I started cosmetology school...and dropped out 2 weeks later! Awful story!
3. We enjoyed the beach every Saturday!

So far this year...
1. Gerry and I spent 9 days in Hawaii! The best vacation ever!
2. Zach turned 7 and graduated from 1st grade!
3. Lauren has started to talk so much! and is doing so well at speech therapy.

Yesterday...
1. I did my visiting teaching.
2. Watched the bachelor w/ Gerry. Major upset! I was so mad she let Gram go! I still think they will get together!
3. Scrapbooked.

Today I...
1. Took Zach to swim lesson's at 8:30
2. Did 2 loads of laundry...2 more to go!
3. Not sure what I am making for dinner...I think we should go out!

Tomorrow I will...
1. Take Zach to swim lesson's
2. going to the movies in the morning w/ the kids
3. Take Lauren to speech therapy

In the next year...
1. Zach will be in 2nd grade, Lauren starts preschool and I will start taking some classes again...never ending story.
2. Gerry and I will celebrate the BIG 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY (7/22/08)! Time flies!
3. Maybe....just maybe... think about #3.....Not an announcement! Just a thought!

I tag YOU if you are reading this! You better do it!

Father's Day Mishap

On Father's Day Gerry was taking a nap. I was cleaning up dinner while talking on the phone with my mom. I saw Lauren dragging the iron and my hot glue gun by the cord. And thought oh what the little stinker. I didn't think anything could come of her getting in my stuff. Well my mom asked to talked to Lauren...while they were chatting...I am sure my mom was startled when she heard me yell, "LAUREN LUCILLE LIND!" I grabbed the phone and told her I would call her back. Well I found Lauren's toys, aka the iron and a hot glue gun plugged in and laying on the carpet...HOT! I am just lucky that I caught the iron before it left a major mark. Good thing is we are renting. haha. I am joking! and who knows how much they will charge us for it! Little squirt!

My favorite!

So each season I get so EXCITED for So You Think You Can Dance! I just LOVE it! Doesn't it just make you want to dance? It does me! Anyways last night I loved this performance. LOVED IT! The judges didn't think it was the best. What do you think? Plus Gev is from Utah...that just screams amazing! I think this is the best dance of the night! ENJOY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLARK!!

I want to wish my brother-in-law Clark a very Happy Birthday (a day late)! I plan ahead...and forget the day of! I am sorry! That is the big problem living away from family...otherwise we would be celebrating with ya!

Anyhow, Clark is such a great brother to Gerry, fabulous bro-in-law to me, and amazing uncle to the kids. We just love being around Clark. The kids honestly swarm to him. They literally are sitting on him the second they see him. Even when Lauren was a baby and super shy, she still loved being with her Uncle Clark! and Zach just can't get enough of him. Even living far away...Zach would love to just sit on the phone and talk video games with Clark....all day! Clark is such a fun, sweet, nice guy! We love all the fun times when we get together...there just needs to be more!

Clark we sure miss you and hope you had a WONDERFUL birthday away in NY! We wish we could have celebrated with you! We are so thankful that you are in our lives. We sure love ya and hope to see you soon! .........so come visit!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

I just wanted to wish Gerry a Happy Father's Day!! He is such a great little daddy to our kids. He is so good to them and I couldn't ask for a better dad for my kids! I am too blessed to have you Gerry! Thanks for taking care of our family and being such a wonderful dad! We love you!

I also want to wish some other father's in my life a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

I am so thankful for my Dad! I was blessed with an amazing Dad. I am thankful for all he has taught me and all that he does for me! He has always loved me, even when I was that not so lovable teenager! Thank you Dad for being such a great Dad! I love you and hope you have a wonderful Father's Day!

I also want to wish Gerry's Dad a Happy Father's Day. I couldn't ask for a better father-in-law. I don't know how I got so lucky! Ed you are great. I am so glad that Gerry has you as his Dad. You are great example to us! Thank you for being so good to our family!I also want to wish my Grandpa Heslop, and Grandpa Lynch, and of course Gerry's sweet Grandpa Lind and much missed Grandpa Hunter, a very happy day. What amazing men! I am so blessed to have such great father's in my lives! I hope you all have a great Father's Day! Love you all!

WAY TO GO ZACH!!

Zach graduated from 1st grade today! I am so proud of him and how well he did in school. I don't want to brag...but it's my blog, right? Well he was top in his class in math. For reading the CA reading fluency is 80 words a minute and Zach read 111 words per minute! What a smartie! He gets that from Gerry...of course!

I told Zach last night I was excited to have him home all day in the summer. And that we are going to have lots of fun together. He said, "yeah..." and as I was walking off said, "...but we don't really have that much fun!" Ouch...I have to admit it hurt my feelings. So after he was in bed. I went straight to the calendar and planned out the FUN outings we ARE going to have!!

Congrats Zach!! You are the best little 1st grader! I am so proud of you! I LOVE YOU!

And here we come summer FUN.......

Fun Facts!!

Anyone ever seen this? Yeah, one member of our family (not going to mention any names) didn't really think this was for real. I will say it wasn't me! I believed in the seat without having to get a ticket. Well we experienced this last Sunday. Dang it! I told Gerry if we lived in Utah, a street away from the church, we wouldn't have come to believe this theory so quickly. Well $93.00 later and we are ALL now firm believers!! We now CLICK IT!!Another fact. Well for some reason it's almost been a week since I finished my antibiotic for bronchitis and I am still sick! Last week my doctor called me in an inhaler to help the coughing spells...I was fed up with peeing my pants every time I coughed...I know way to much information! Well I now am experiencing along with my nasty cough, white spots all over the back of my throat...yes, this is known as strep! Can you give me a stinking break! Why am I always sick? My doctor called in another antibiotic and said in all the years she has only seen 1 other person who is resistant to the medicine I was on the 1st time. Crazy...I made the charts for #2. Lucky!

Doozie!

I am going to be a downer for just a minute! It's been quite the 2 weeks! I tell you ever since we got home from Hawaii...it's been a Doozie! Just to tell a little...or you may not enjoy reading my blog again. Well when we got home from vacation I got sick with this nasty cough, which Gerry also had. Anyway long story, I ended up getting bronchitis. Then the next day woke up with pink eye. Why? I don't know. but it just adds to the grand time we were having. During all this, not last Tuesday but the a week before (almost 2 weeks) Gerry went to young mens, where they were playing basketball. Within 40 mins of Gerry leaving he called me and said he got hurt and was on his way home. Well poor thing landed wrong on his ankle. Sad. (this is right after)

The next day he was in so much pain, went and had x-rays, and was told no brake. Well a week and half past...he is in tons of pain, unable to care for his sick baby with bronchitis (me), and me not to capable of taking care of my crippled baby (Gerry) finally call the doc.

(This picture was a couple days after the accident...not yet the worst. I didn't get a picture at it's worst...it was too nasty!)Gerry ends up having to go see an orthopedic surgeon, who takes one look at Gerry's enormous ankle which is bright red, realizes he tore 2 ligaments and it got infected...not a good thing. So now he is on crutches, in a boot, and on medicine and doing better. And will see the doc this Tuesday.So we are on the up and up. Honestly my house is a terrible mess, I am a mess, my kids are a mess...can I say I want my mommy! I honestly have wanted to cry. But I am not coughing up my guts, as much! So this week I may clean my house!

How sad...here I am a mope! We truly are blessed. My kiddies haven't gotten my sickness...knock on wood. and these things are only minor. I do think Gerry also wants his mommy! He said he is not sure who is going to take care of him when he is old. Sad! I have been sick too! :) I did manage to get him a bowl of cereal!

But on a happy note... it was a beautiful day yesterday! The kids enjoyed slippin slidin in the backyard and we hit In-n-Out and the park for a picnic yesterday evening. So we are a little slow with the "hopper" but we are mending.

Hope you all are happy and healthy! Have a great week! Becca

Hawaii!!

I can't believe we have been home a week now! Life has been busy. Gerry and I finally got to take a vacation other then to Utah! As much as I love Utah...Hawaii was absolutely fabulous. We flew out early morning on the 17th and flew into O'ahu and spent the day in Honolulu at Waikiki Beach and just hung out. We were overwhelmed with how busy it was and thought it was an upscale LA. We flew out that night to the island of Kauai, also known as The Garden Island. Which exactly what it was. Covered completely with beautiful scenery. Once we got there we decided this was our kind of vacation. There is a rule on the island that no buildings can be built bigger than a palm tree. Also Kauai is a very small island...you can drive around it in 2 1/2 hours. It was absolutely amazing. If you have never been then you MUST go! We stayed up in Princeville area, which is on the North Shore if you are familiar with the island. It was gorgeous! We hit as many beaches as we could. Some days we would beach hop, others hang out at our favorite ones. It's funny because one morning while eating breakfast we were watching Good Morning America and it was naming Americans most beautiful beaches. And ranked #2 was Hanalei Beach, Kauai Hawaii. That day we were laying out on that beach! Crazy huh? It was the most relaxing vacation ever. One day we did do a little work... we went on a kayaking/hiking tour. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. We started with a 45 min. kayaking then hiked 30 mins up to a beautiful waterfall, had lunch, then kayaked back 45 mins. It was so stinking fun. We also rented snorkeling gear and enjoyed seeing the fishes. Gerry is more expert in this area...and went out a lot further in the ocean then I did. He actually got to see a bunch of sea turtles, 2 different times. He said it was so cool to just sit there and watch them eat, and swim to the top for air. I took his word for it. I was too chicken to go out that far! It was tons of fun! Our absolute favorite thing was to eat their famous shaved ice w/ macadamia nut ice cream on the bottom (yum) and layout, read, listen to music, and enjoy the beautiful beaches! Our last day we flew back to Honolulu and went to lunch and did some souvenir shopping and went to see Pearl Harbor, we didn't go in because it was Memorial weekend...packed...but we enjoyed the beautiful sunset there and then had an overnight flight back to LA. It was perfect. and a much needed vacation. Thanks to Grandma Lind for making it possible and coming out and taking care of Zach and Lauren. Who thought they were on vacation too, with all the fun they had with Grandma and Aunt Rhiannon!! What a great time. We will be back...it honestly is the most beautiful place. Love it! It was also great to have sweet Zach and Lauren's hugs when we got home!! Here are some pictures from our vacation. I took over 300...I just couldn't get enough!!

**Sorry pictures look like crap on the slide show. Just on the slide show not sure why they are so grainy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACHARY!! (May 24th)

I can not believe my baby boy is now 7 years old!! It honestly seems like yesterday that I had him. Time truly flies. My life has never been the same since I had Zach. I am so blessed to have him!! He brings so much joy and happiness to our family! He is the best boy! I love him so much!

Happy Birthday Zach! You are the best boy ever! Thanks for coming to our family! I love you!

Love, Mom

Gerry and I were on vacation for Zach's birthday so no pictures of his birthday...yet. He was lucky to be able to celebrate with Grandma Lind and Aunt Rhiannon while we were away! but we are celebrating today!