Pioneer Day Parade in Vegas!

Yes, I know, weird that we could catch a parade in Vegas celebrating Pioneer Day, but we did! There is a stake here that puts on a parade every year and we found out about it through some friends, so we decided to partake! It was the most candy filled parade we have been to in a long time! We knew when we saw kids carrying plastic bags and pillowcases that it was going to be good. Kailer actually almost got bored of chasing after candy. He got really selective towards the end of the parade, only choosing his favorites! Meili was just happy to be and Kailer was happy to be eating candy. Then we went into the park for some free fun activites. Kailer won a frisbee and he actually is really good at throwing frisbee. He threw it right to Rich and now we even play it in the house cause he's pretty controlled! That, and it is too hot outside to do anything but swim!

On a side note, Meili is going to be 1 in a month and I can't even believe it. She loves to walk with us holding her hands and I can't wait for her to walk and stop being a human vaccuum. She eats everything off the floor and she gets so dirty! She is super sweet, crazy, and emotional all at the same time! What a little ball of hormones, poor girl.

One More Video

This is for you Dan
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Birthday Man!

WARNING: TONS OF PICS AND VIDEOS!!!!
So, here's how our day went. About every half an hour all day long I would say, "Hey Kai" "What Mom?" "Happy Birthday buddy" "Thanks MOM!!!" It was funny, he had the same amount of excitement every time! I asked Kai what he wanted to do for his birthday and he said swim at the waterslide pool. So we went to his preschool class and then went swimming with a friend and then came home and got ready for the party. He had his shoes on 2 hours before we were ready to leave. He could hardly contain himself. Ok so I'll admit I was up to 3 am working on this dinosaur cake, but it turned out so cute even though I was super low on sleep the next day, to think I had thoughts about working on it during the day. Crazy really. We made little cupcakes with dinosaur sprinkles and plastic dinosaurs on top. He even got dinosaur balloons. On the way to his party he said to me, "Mom! Stop! I need a party hat!" Alright, random, but alright so I made a quick call, as rich was already at the party store filling balloons and by golly we had party hats. What the birthday man wants the birthday man gets right? He had 5 or 6 little friends there and he had great time playing all thee games. Peter Piper Pizza is a mini chucky cheese. Games, tokens, and pizza. The whole time Kai was begging us to sing the birthday song so he could tear into his cake and presents. The cake was destroyed in about five seconds. He dug into it with a fork and was literally shaking from frosting overload. He got a couple of spiderman toys, playdough, and a train set. He was so excited and on such a sugar rush from eating nothing but cake for dinner that he was up till 10:30 playing. He slept till 10 the next morning, can you say party hangover?!! He got a Jedi with a bunch of plastic guns, a picture of christ, and some illegally mailed fireworks from uncle Daniel while on his mission. What a combo right? We gave him a tee ball maching since he's signed up for that in the fall. Thanks everyone for making it so much fun for him! ps 2 Nights in a row with dry underwear!

Prepare Yourselves

(Yes this look is a daily occurance at our house except not the naked part)

Watch out world, here he comes! He turns three today and I can officially say without a doubt that he is potty trained! I kept him naked for the first couple of days so he could feel when he needed to go. He only peed on the floor twice and then that was it. Then I put him in underwear and clothes after a couple of days and the habit of going on the toliet stayed with him. We're so proud of him! I can't believe it went as well as it did. I haven't changed a diaper on him since a week ago Sunday and I am so excited about it! He hasn't had an accident yet! He's still wearing a pull up to bed and we will keep working on that, I just need to get up the courage to put him in underwear overnight. Scary. Can't believe it has finally happened! We love you Kai and we are so excited for you! Happy birthday my baby.

Sisters

I didn't want to put this in my other post because it deserves its own one! I was so glad to get to spend some time with my sister from Minnesota. They drove all night to get to Vernal as quickly as possible. She's a great person and a wonderful Mom to her four kids. Oh wait, she has three. That's ok, her husband counts! JK TIM! We had a great time hiking with them and enjoying family time! Love you Bre!

Finally!!!

Ok, so I finally added new slideshow pics! Check 'em out!

Yey for Red, White, and Blue!

My parents helped me drive home with the kids on Thursday and stayed through the weekend. Rich and I got to go on a wonderful date to the cheesecake factory. We don't ever get to go out because we don't get babysitters, so it was a special treat for us. Then on Saturday we went to the parade and Kailer got some candy, that's pretty much why we go to parades. Although, this parade had the second half of the floats water fighting floats. People brought coolers full of water for squirt guns and water balloons to throw at the floats. It was a huge water fight and we're going to have to participate next year. Then we drove out to the Bass Pro Shops and spent like 4 hours in the store doing free things. Kailer made a birdhouse, shot b-b guns, shot a bow n arrow, did lazer tag, and lots of other little games. They were having a family fun camp there. He enjoyed himself, he's a mini Richard! Then we had a great dinner at the silverton buffet. We're almost getting our moneys worth now cause Meili eats almost as much as Kailer! We met some friends for fireworks in Boulder City and the show was great. It was pretty long and really close, so it was really fun. We didn't get home until about midnight because of traffic, but it was worth it! It was great to have my parents in town and we're now getting back to our schedules at home. Wish me luck with potty training! That's my next adventure!