4th of July Celebrating

The 4th of July is such a wonderful holiday! Pool parties, BBQ's, Parades, fireworks make it one of my favorite holidays. I love spirit of Patriotism that fills the air.

On the morning of the 4th I woke up to the sound of a torch and flame of a hot air balloon, I jumped up to look out the window to see a big hot air just coming up over the hill, it was so close we could see and hear the large flame. I quickly changed out of my PJ's and ran with my husband and three year old boy outside to see and wave to the people in the hot air balloon.

Every year the Provo Freedom Festival hosts a hot air balloon festival, they get at least 20 or 30 hot air balloons that launch off at the same time from the field by the hospital.

This balloon almost landed on University parkway, it was literally right on the shoulder of the road, but they pulled it over into Carterville park where they would rolled it away.

Celebrating Our Six Year Anniversary

We had a wonderful day away from our crazy kids. We took our car (not van hehe) opened the sun roof, went shopping, went to the theatre and saw the movie "Now You See Me" and then dinner at Brick Oven. It was so good to just be together and enjoy each others company uninterrupted.

My hottie - love him more everyday!!!

Pictures from the past and dating years.

Outing to Bridal Veil Falls

Our family went to Bridal Veil Falls and for a picnic. Our children were able to feed the fish, run around and we got some good family pictures!

There is a small pool that is full of fish our kids loved feeding them. It drew a lot of attention :).

Childrens Play

I love watching my children play. They are so creative! They were so excited to sit behind the steering wheel in out car and pretend to drive haha. They also didn't especially enjoy sharing the drivers seat, its funny how mad/frustrated they can get with each other.

Cake Pops

Cake pops are so fun to make. I've made them a couple times now, they can be a bit tricky but each time I learn from small mistakes. Reguardless of the mistakes they still look pretty good!

How to make them:

Bake a cake, let it cool (trust me on this I learned the hard way by not letting it cool)

Crumble cake and slowly mix in any favorite icing (chocolate, vanilla homemade or store bought) Don't mix in too much icing, I also did that :). If you mix in too much it gets too sticky and is really hard to dip into the chocolate dip without it dropping off the stick into the mix.

Roll out into balls (one cake mix will make about 50 balls). Refrigerate

Once cooled, dip the loli pop sticks into the chocolate melt (or you can use vanilla or whatever flavor or melts you prefer) and then stick the sticks into the cake pops. Put back into the frig to set.

After cooled now dip into melted chocolate or whatever flavor of melt you like (I used chocolate and white chocolate) then you can dress with sprinkles, coconut, nuts etc.

The most helpful video on this was by Stephanie Jaworski. She has tons of wonderful advice. The video is a little long though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DfL6B6Vpus

Family Outing to See New Provo Temple

We went for a little stroll through downtown Provo to see the new temple construction. What an incredible engineering feet! They have completely dug out the the existing building to add a basement. We so loved seeing this.

Here are some links to other great info and pictures of the project. http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24203973&nid=1164 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rCR4q1Oqk3A

New Baby Niece

Congratulations to my Sister and her husband who recently had a beautiful baby girl. Their little baby is adorable and I'm so excited for them.

Travel: Our Trip to San Francisco

We had so much fun in California. Rob has an amazing family and I feel so blessed to be a part of them. It was so wonderful to see everyone. Many of which have kids close to my kids ages so its so fun to see them play and interact together. One of my favorite things about Rob's family is that they LOVE to eat, and they eat good! Wow! There are some incredible cooks in that family. I just can't stop eating, and they keep insisting you eat! Ahh. Such a vicious cycle for someone (me) on a diet :). But we had a blast! Even with such a beautiful park with tons of fun toys our kids favorite thing was chasing the pigeons. Playing with the girls

Triplets at the Park

Lately we have really tried to go on outings that we all enjoy, so for our Friday night date night we went to the center street park in Provo. We often go to parks but we like to vary it up a bit and go to different parks, ones that we haven't gone to before. We had a blast and we all had fun! Our girls loved the swings, but there were only two for small children (bummer) so we put two girls together and it worked out perfect. They loved it!

Wonderful News!

I'm excited to announce that I will be featured in Fine Garden Magazine!!! Fine Gardening is one of my favorite garden magazines and I'm so so very grateful for this opportunity. I will be in the Sept/October Issue. I completed in a design competition/challenge and my design was selected! Here is the design I guess its a "sneek preview" hehe! Here is the "Before" Picture.

Luck of the Draw

For years Rob and I have gone to various parties (work related and other) and have put our name in the hat in hopes of winning a new TV, trip to Hawaii, blue ray DVD player or other exciting prizes. Every year we are again disappointed after getting our hopes up and still not winning. Now at any "prize lotteries" we go with almost a sure knowledge that we aren't going to win anything so as not to get our hopes up and then let down again in disappointment. It's to the point that we barely pay attention anymore because we are positive winning just won't happen. We often joke that we are always "unlucky" at these lottery/prize games. After all the odds of winning one of 30 prizes at a work party of 120 employees are much much higher than winning a sweepstakes of 1:1000,000 chance. At last years annual work party it occurred to me that we are probably the most lucky couple there, we had spontaneous triplets! Having spontaneous triplets is about 1:90,000 chance (according to my doctor), very rare! With the chances of winning such a "lottery" so low we were extremely fortunate and blessed. I don't mind if I never win a single TV, DVD player, or Hawaii trip again because I feel my "win" was by far the best of all.

18 Month Pictures

These pictures were a lot of work to get, after taking 50 pictures this one sort of turned out. The rest of the pictures had at least one of the triplets refusing to cooperate. I take that back, usually it was consistently the same girl refusing to be a team player (little blondie).

Landscape Design

Spring is here! My phone is ringing away with callers interested in a landscape design. Here is a rough draft of one that I am working on. I love the dry creek bed as well as the splash pad for kids. Then of course the firepit for adults. This yard will be so much fun for the everyone.

Our Son

We got some balloons when we were shopping for carpet at RC Willey, he loves playing with balloons and since his sisters weren't too excited about them he got all hang onto all three.