On March 11th we celebrated Jackson's 6th birthday!! I can NOT believe that he is 6 years old already. Time flies by so fast! I just love that boy to pieces. He is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. He puts a smile on my face every time I see him! He had a great day it started out by waking up to his bedroom door being decorated with a Happy Birthday sign and balloons and then coming out to open his presents! After opening his presents he ate his favorite breakfast waffles and an orange julius. Later that afternoon he had a jungle birthday party with about 13 of his best friends. The kids had a great time decorating jungle hats, going through a jungle obstacle course where they had to crawl through poisonous vines, crawl through a bat cave, jump over quick sand, make it through the alligator pond and hop over spiders nests. They did a sticky frog throw and then went on a snake hunt. And what party isn't complete without a good old pinata, opening presents and eating birthday cake and ice cream? He had so much fun and all the kids were so good. And if all that wasn't enough excitement for 1 day just before bed Jackson lost his FIRST TOOTH!! Which was a pretty BIG deal around our house. Jacks has been trying to loose a tooth for about a year now. (He kept wiggling his molars and telling me he thinks they're getting loose)! It was a great day and I sure do love that boy!
Around the middle of March my cute hubby and I spent the weekend in Springdale, Ut. We met Vance and Mel Barrett and stayed at the Cable Mountain Lodge just outside of Zion National Park. It was sooo nice to have no schedule. It was a super relaxing trip! On Friday morning we slept in, went for a quick jog and then came back and hiked Angels Landing in Zions. That night we played hearts and then tried to get into the hot tub but after sitting in a luke warm hot tub for about a half an hour we decided that it wasn't going to get any hotter despite our efforts and the managers efforts to heat it up. The hard part was getting out because it was dang cold outside (in the 30's). The next morning we slept in again, went for our long runs Brandon did 14 miles and I did 12 (probably the hardest run of my life!! I wouldn't recomend running 12 miles by yourself it gets really boring)! After our runs we went back into Zions and did a couple of smaller hikes the lookout and the end of the Narrows. The sun was shinning and the weather was beautiful we couldn't have asked for a nicer day!! I just want to shout out a BIG thank you to my parents for watching our kidos and to Brandon's mom for watching them a night! You guys are the greatest thanks so much for taking such great care of them and for always being so willing to watch them. And a BIG thanks to my hubby. I had such a great weekend-just the 2 of us I love you more than words can say!!
On April 6th we celebrated Maggie's 3rd birthday!! My little girl is growing up way too fast. She is the sunshine in my life!! I love that little girl so much. She makes me laugh at the crazy things she say's. She is my 16 year old trapped in a 3 year old body. When she smiles her eyes light up and she has this little sparkle in her eye! I am so glad that she is a part of our family. Maggie has been talking about her 3rd birthday since Jackson's birthday so when she woke up in the morning the first thing that came out of her mouth was "daddy am I 3 yet?" She woke up to her bedroom door being decorated with signs and balloons, she opened her birthday presents and ate her favorite breakfast, cereal! Since she didn't have a friend party I wanted to take her somewhere special but all she wanted to do was play with Kate and Ginny (our 2 cute little neighbor twins). My mom and I were able to convince her to go to lunch at Wendy's with us. It was a lot of fun we met my dad and uncle Jeff down there. Once we got home she played with Kate and Ginny and the rest of the neighbor kids the rest of the afternoon until it was time for her party. Her party was a lot of fun surrounded by our favorite people! For dinner we had homemade pizza, rootbeer and lemonade (Maggie's favorite), opened birthday presents and danced to her new radio with high school musical and the cheetah girls blaring in the background!! The kids put on quite the show even Braden was getting into it! We sang happy birthday and she blew the candles out on her princess cake. What a great day!!!
On Saturday over Easter weekend I ran 17 miles!! This is the farthest I have ever run and I was so nervous about running this far since my 12 mile run was so hard. But believe it or not I felt awesome!! It was actually a really fun run!! Me and 3 of my friends drove our car up to Hobble Creek Golf course parked our car and ran up the canyon 5 1/2 miles and then turned around and ran the rest of the way home. The first 5 1/2 miles were hard because it was all uphill but once we turned around I felt great!!
On Sunday morning we decided to have our Easter egg hunt early since Brandon was flying out to Oklahoma that afternoon for work. We were on our way up to grandpa and grandma Jackson's house and just as we were about to pull into the driveway I swear we heard Braden say "grandpa" in his own baby lingo!! It was really exciting maybe he will talk after all! I sure love that little boy of mine!!
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Yeah a new update! I have been checking every day for a new one. I can't believe Jackson is 6 already, I miss the apartment days of playing with tiffy! Maggie moo looks like a 6 year old too! She has changed a ton since I saw her last. Man, can I take back wanting more updates? I makes me sad! Wish we could have been there for all of the fun birthdays! Love you all!
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