My Flower Girl

Rachel is just the cutest when it comes to showing me she loves me. She doesn't go outside any time without picking a flower for me. She always hands it to me and tells me she loves me. Colt and Olivia usually follow suit but Rachel is the one, my flower girl. She picks any kind she sees and always wants me to hang on to it. Oh I love you Rachel!

She is growing up, or should I say grown up! She loves clothes now and likes to pick her own stuff, and give me some modeling moves as you can see in these next pictures! She loves music: Justin Bieber and especially One Direction. She still says the funniest things and I wish I wrote more down.

She didn't want to eat her carrots the other night and I told her she needs to eat them, she never eats vegetables anymore. Rachel says, "Yes I do, I eat the broccoli every time we get Chinese food." Can't get anything by her!

She tries to get me to give her candy all day long, she tells me not to drink diet pepsi, she still sucks her thumb and loves her cat. She is the meanest in the middle of the night when she is sick, she orders you around and yells at you with this attitude, I can't help but laugh at her, poor kid. She still likes to be the boss of Livy and usually chooses to go to her room instead of cleaning up, she doesn't mind taking a nap! She's still got a recall that amazes me, and her vocabulary too.

She loves barbies, music, icarly, swimming, jumping on the trampoline, polly pocket, playing with friends and dogs. She continues to amaze me as she loves to collect bugs, play dinosaurs, and tells me she would rather play soccer than dance. I love that she loves so many different things but I never know what she will like next because those are the things I would never have guessed for her last year! She likes more "adult" food like shrimp, fish, chili, and steak better than typical kid foods. And most of all she loves her sister. It is amazing to see them at night, they always end up snuggled right next to each other. I guess it feels like home to them.

Look at that happy kid! I love you Rachel!

Puerto Rico, sin ninos!

Mid-March Eric and I got to go to Puerto Rico with my parents, siblings and spouses. It was such a great trip! Rachel, Livy, and Colt stayed with Eric's parents and Ellie stayed with friends of ours, the Iveys. What an amazing thing it is to go away without kids!! Sorry kiddos, I love you more than anything but it was so nice to just sit if I wanted to or swim, or read, or sleep, or do anything I wanted to! Thank you so much for keeping the kids Grandma and Grandpa and the whole Ivey family! You made it so easy for us to relax when we knew they were in such good hands, thank you thank you!

Here are a bunch of pictures from the trip. Not in any particular order. It was a great week of sun, surfing, sunburns, games, eating, scuba diving, property searching, paddle boarding, birthday partying, mafia guessing, puzzling, and most of all laughing. Thank you so much for the awesome trip mom and dad! What a great idea and get away!

I love when they are all laughing :)

Testing our "draw something" skills with old school pictionary!

Empanadas (meat pies)-finally tried the stand that has been there forever!

After a bad day of sunburn Katie started this puzzle that we became obsessed with.

More to come.....

I'm 30!

The big 3-0! That's right, I turned 30 this year. It has always sounded like an "old" number to me but I honestly don't feel old! But that is what all the "old" people say, and it's not such an "old" number now!

Happy Birthday with Eric and the kids! We caught a late movie that night and had just gotten back from a trip the day before.

We got to celebrate my birthday in Puerto Rico with my parents and siblings! We had such a great "adult only" trip! Thanks for my cake Erin!

That's a lot of candles!

Some friends in our ward at church had a pajama party for me for my 30th! It was so fun to get together and talk and eat some yummy food! We watched a movie and then hung out for a few hours and snacked on delicious treats!

Thanks for putting this together for me Tiffany and Jenina! I really loved it!