Girls Night Out

On Friday night all of us girls went out for a very much needed girls night out. It was a blast!! We first all met up at Red Robbin where we ate and had Angie open her presents for her baby shower. It was a GNO/Baby Shower. Then later on that night we went and saw the chick flick Bride Wars. It was cute, perfect for the night. The movie didn't get out until midnight. During the movie Angie actually started having some contractions and ended up having her baby at around 4 in the morning. So next time girls if you want to have your baby, forget all the other methods and just have a crazy girls night out. Plus that's a way more enjoyable method then some of the others. :) It was so nice to be able to get away. I cant believe I was kid-less for 6 whole hours. GOOD TIMES!

The Group

MMy sis-law Mandi and me. I love her!!

Rachel, Edie, Me, and Carrie.

Angie just being silly.

In the theatre.

Waiting for the movie to start.

Me, Amanda, and Rachel.

Hey moms are aloud to be silly too!

After the movie, we still had a bunch of energy...maybe it was all the caffeine.

You would never guess that this was taken at midnight. We all look so wide awake. Can you believe that Angie had her baby just a few hours later? Crazy.

Just some SUPER cute pictures!

Emree loves her bath time.

She has such pretty long eyelashes.


Taking a bath is her favorite thing to do, she loves splashing and feeling the water hit her face. I just can't get over all of that curly hair she has!!

Gavin loves his little sister so much...he came to me and said "Mommy take pictures of me and Sissy". How could I say NO?

Posing for the camera, as usual.

I absolutely love this picture. He was just being so sweet with her. He tries to hold her but she is so big now, she almost makes Gav fall over.

Emree looks huge in this picture because shes leaning forward towards the camera and G is leaning back and as you can see trying to pull her back too.

The day has finally come...

The day is here....we finally bought a new computer. WOO HOO!!!! Rey told me the other night to go buy a laptop for my birthday and I asked him "Are you being serious?" He just looked at me and smiled... I said "Dont toy with my emotions, you know I have been having computer withdrawls, and I'll take you up on your offer," He said go ahead, so that day I went out and got one. Happy Birthday to me!!! Well its not like we didn't need one anyway right?? So now I get to keep up with all of your wonderful blogs and hopefully now I will be better at updating ours.

We've got some MAJOR catching up to do!!

Wow, its been over a whole month since the last time I blogged and the first reason for that is due to my lame computer. My computer is so messed up that it runs terribly slow and it takes like 15 minutes just to get the internet to come up, and I SO don't have patience when it comes to a slow computer. It was working there just fine for a while and then it went all weird on me again. Bottom line is...time for a new one. We don't use the computer all that often now that Rey isn't in school any more so we just have been pushing it aside. ANYWAYS, I just posted a whole bunch of pictures in this post and I'll write the captions below so you know what they are since this post includes pictures from like 4 different things. Some are from Gavin's 3rd birthday, the snow that we got, a few Christmas shots and a couple of random ones. Enjoy:)

I took these two of Emree because I wanted to show people that this girl has some curly hair (Just like her Daddy...I was hoping one of our kids would get his hair! Mine was really curly when I was little but now its totally strait). Whenever her hair is wet it gets this curly, once it dries it kinda straightens out.

As you can tell she wasn't cooperating very well with me, she was ready to go to sleep.

Just a cute picture of Emmers right before we went out into the cold to do some Christmas shopping.

Ok I tried to put all of the snow pictures together but then I realized I had forgotton this one and it is WAY too cute of my boys to be left out. Rey and Braxton stayed up late one night building this adorable snowman. Rey was so proud of it he called me out like 3 times as they were making it to check it out. It was pretty tall...keep in mind that Rey is 6'3 and it was just a tad taller then him.

This is at Gavin's birthday party, right before he blew out the candles on his cake. We celebrated G's birthday on Thanksgiving since we had Rey's brother, Ryan and his family over on that day. I love how he's looking at his cousin Hudsen in this picture. He loves her so much and gets so excited when he knows we're going to be seeing her.

Such a pretty little girl and a handsome little guy.

This is one of Gav's many faces that he does. Thats pretty dang scary dude!

Since it rarely snows where we live, we naturally don't have any snow shoes for the boys, so Rey got his creative ON. Every time the boys would go out and play they would come back in 5 minutes later saying that their shoes and socks were wet and their feet were freezing. SO Rey had the idea of putting plastic bags over their shoes. It actually worked very well. As you can tell Gavin wasn't liking the idea at all.

Braxton thought it was awesome that he had plastic bags on his feet. That's so Braxton.

This is our backyard at about noon that day. The snow didn't stop falling until early into the next morning. I know for you people that live in the snow every winter you're probably thinking "Gosh they get some snow and its like this huge deal". I thought the snow was pretty but after one day I was ready for it to be gone. I don't like driving in the snow and it stresses me out when I know that Rey has to drive in it. Rey had to call into work that night because we couldn't even get out of our neighborhood the next day, especially in Rey's little corolla.

Braxton would play out in it for hours. He would come in crying because his hands got so cold.

My three Fast boys. I think Rey was just as excited as the boys were that it was snowing.

Okay so Rey told me that I had to take a picture too....so here I am in my pj's, no make up, and my glasses on. You can't get much sexier than that!

This is my husband trying to show off his creative side. He called me out of the house , into the freezing cold cuz he said that he had made something for me. I was all excited and then I saw this. I started laughing so hard, he said he would have done my name but it was too long. Thanks Honey... I love it. :) Oh ya, if you can't tell he tried to write his name but the R and Y didn't come out so well. "Don't eat the yellow snow boys!"

I love that sweet smile.

This is Christmas at my parents house. My camera wasn't working right during the Holiday's (Gosh whats up with the electronics in our house?) so these are some of the snapshots that my mom took.

Smile Braxton. It wasn't his turn yet to open his gift and he had been waiting very patiently for his time to come but I think he was starting to get a little upset.

Emree on Christmas day...she wasn't feeling very good over the holidays. She has her "sick" look on her face.

Feeding the Ducks

Today we went and fed the ducks at the Park. This is one the kids favorite things to do. There are a ton of them, and once they realize that we have food they come and flock all around us. We stand on the tables because there are some mean geese (that are HUGE) and they sometimes will peck at us. Rey taught the boys to kick them when they are getting too close. Its funny because the geese aren't even afraid of the boys kicking them.

So precious

This one was at Braxton's request...he wanted me to take a pic of him getting ready to come down the slide.

Emree is just the happiest little girl ever!

Gosh, can you tell Braxton was tired?

I LOVE how she's looking at Gavin in this picture. She adores her older brothers.

Gavin's expression on his face while he was looking at all the ducks was so sweet.

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Some funny conversations with our kids....

1. "Look Mommy a snake". Gavin holding his finger up to me to show me his booger.

2. "You and Gavin need Yoga". Braxton said this to me this morning when Gavin and I were having a "moment" with each other. I asked Braxton "so what does Yoga mean?" and he said "Mom its a place you go to go calm down". (Thanks Braxton)

3. My conversation with Gavin about potty training...
ME: "Gavin do you want to wear big boy underwear?"
GAVIN: "No thanks, I want pancakes."
He has a way of changing the subject when he doesn't want to talk about something.

4. BRAXTON: "Mom I'm going to eat all of my cereal, because the Holy Ghost told me to."

5. GAVIN: "I want to see babies Holy Cow". Gavin when I'm getting ready to change Emree's poopy diapers. He calls her poop "Holy Cow" because when he sees it he says Holy Cow.

6. This happened just this morning while I was getting the boys dressed for the day.
ME: "I want you boys to brush your teeth really well before you go out tonight trick or treating because I know you will be eating more candy and I don't want you to get... (then Braxton interrupts me, and finishes my sentence for me)
BRAXTON: "I know mom, gravities."

Some Political Humor

I thought this was pretty funny...hopefully nobody gets offended by me posting this. I love it though! SO true. Oh and don't get me wrong I still love democrats, well only 2 I guess, which would be my Dad and my Grandma. :)

Braxton's B-Day Party and Cute Pics of Emree

I'm so bad... I am WAY late at posting Braxton's Birthday party pictures. His B-Day was on the 9th of this month. He turned five and he thinks he is SO BIG now. We had all of Rey's family here including his parents. We had a blast! Braxton loves his cousins and thinks they are the coolest thing in the world. As you can see I didn't get very many pictures, but at least I got a few. He is having another party still at my parents house this weekend so I will get more then. Oh and these are some pics I took today of Emree, I just wanted to share them because I thought they were too cute.

Paisli, Braxton, Cooper, and Colby

Gosh I love those CHEEKS!!!


Love those big round eyes

I love how shes puckering her lips in this one.

What a happy BABY GIRL!!

A Very Nice Sunday

I just wanted to say today was a really nice Sunday. When we were getting ready for church, there were no fights, and everybody got dressed when they were asked. We made it on time (HURRAY!), actually got to sit on a bench instead of the chairs in the way back and the kids were good during the meeting (minus Emree, but she's teething). I also got to start my new calling, teaching the Mia Maids in YW, which is a very nice change. Since we have been married I have only been in Primary. I love my little class that I teach, man I forgot how much girls like to talk, I'll be lucky if I can get through half of my lessons. It's ok though, I remember being that age and how easy it is to get off track and start talking about stuff that has nothing to do with the lesson (like hair, boys, and movies). So then we come home and I make lunch/dinner and then Gavin and Emree went down for a little nap while Rey, Braxton and I all hung out for about an hour. Before we knew it Braxton had fallen asleep on the sofa and it was just Rey and me, so we decided to lay down together and watch a few conference talks that we had recorded during General Conference. It was so nice and relaxing, we just loved the alone and quiet time we had together. As our family is growing, we realize more and more how precious our "alone" time is. I'm sure you all with kids know exactly what I'm talking about. Gosh its amazing how quiet the house gets when they are all asleep and how loud it gets the second they all wake up. It seems that everybody wants everything at the same time too. Once they were all awake we all just hung out, played games, watched the boys wrestle and play Power Rangers together. Side Note... I just have to say this because its so cute. Ok Gavin thinks he's really a power ranger and his famous thing he does around the house is he pretends to push a button on his arm , which is actually a chicken pox scar, but he thinks its his "power up button" and he pushes on it and then yells "Power Rangers, Power Up!" We love when he does that. Anyways this is turning out way longer than I wanted to but I just wanted to say I'm go grateful for days like this, It's not very often that a whole day goes by so smoothly and it wouldn't be fair not to write about the "good" days we have. We love and enjoy our kids so much!! Today was definitely a great way to start off a new week.