New Slide Show!!!

New slide show pics and we are headed to utah to be with family for the month, while Rich is on an away rotation in Ohio. Wish us luck! It's gonna be a long one... I shall leave you with Kailer's latest burst of creativity...
He wanted to paint his body to look like one of the monsters on the Michael Jackson movie :)

Jumping on the Potty Train again :)

Well it's time for round two here. Mei has started potty training herself so I decided to seize the moment and jump on the bandwagon again. It is exhausting and draining, but I really think she will be much faster and easier than Kai if we can just master wearing underwear without feeling like its a diaper. She's been naked for a week and its time to graduate to undies! We bought some elmo and tinkerbell undies and she's in love with them. She even tried to stick her cell phone in her 'underwear pocket'. I'm praying for strength to tackle this again. Wish me luck...

Also we spent the weekend in St George with rich's family. We did the parade for the 24th and the kids rode some kiddie rides afterwards. They even got their faces/bodies painted. Kai was so happy about his snake and Meili couldn't stop petting her butterfly :) We did a lot of swimming and ate great food! Kai loves his little cousins and he was sad to leave, but now that they are in mesquite the visits will be much more often.

Can't get enough of these babies...

Kai turns 4!

We had so much fun making these, Kai asked for spidey this year, so that is what I did! We took some friends to the local bounce house and kai had so much fun. Then they all came over for cake and icecream. Kai rocked at hitting the pinata and it was a huge 'hit' haha (no pun intended) with all of the kids. Too bad they are 20 bucks a pop or we'd do that everyday!Even Mei enjoyed herself, especially when she gets to wear a party hat!

We had so much fun and thank everyone for making his birthday fun :) He has great friends and loves them all so much. I can't believe he is already 4. Time is flying for me, I'm not ready to send him to kindergarten yet! Maybe in a year I will be, but I doubt it. He is my little buddy and he helps me so much. Not sure who will miss him more when that time comes, me or Meili. She loves him so much and he can't get enough of her. They watch out for eachother and I hope they continue to be buddies. Love you Kai man! 1 year closer to seeing that blue man group! oh and here's a list of his favorites, some of which I don't understand :)

favorite color 'blue red and green mixed'

favorite animals 'tiget and shark'

forvorite food 'pasta from the popeye rabbit restaurant that we never go to' don't ask me what this means.

favorite month 'spring'

favorite holiday 'christmas'

favorite things spiderman, darth vader and darth mal, transformers, dragons, and anything scary or dangerous :)

Family, fireworks, and the 4th!

Happy belated 4th :)

We went to the parade dressed to the hilt. It was hot, but we still had a lot of fun, we even had random people taking pics of the kids, haha. We went with rich's cousins. He was working, so it was really nice to have family to go with. Nate was pretty much the fill in Daddy for the day and took Kai's bucket and filled it with water so he could soak the people on the floats with his squirt gun at the end of the parade, which he completely rocked :) Later that night we had a big 4th of July party with our friends, whom we love so much :) It was such a blast, great food great company, and fireworks!

We went to fireworks with lots of family! Rich's cousins came with us, and Rich's brother was in town as well. Even my sister was there, we had a full house, but it was so much fun to be with everyone. This picture is after I threw a fit, because I hadn't been in a single picture all weekend and was sick of it. Everyone made fun of me and there are now like 30 pictures of me taken randomly by sarah, here is one.... Hahaha thanks sarah ;)Their sunday 4th of July outfits :) If you can't tell, I love to color coordinate :)

My sister and her family stayed with us for about 3 days. We had so much fun together. She made me 2 bathing suits and we went bowling, swiming, and to the strip. We had so much fun watching girly movies and just enjoying eachother. Can't wait to do that again :)Last but not least, here is proof of the newest relationship formed, Congratulations uncle sean, you have finally won her over :)

New Slide Show!!!

Raging Waters and More!!!

We spent the last part of our trip with rich's family at a hotel in slc. We went to the zoo, which was really busy for the baby elephants first birthday. The kids just love animals, so it was a day well spent. Meili was all about seeing the tigers, "go see tiger!" she kept saying. At the hotel we enjoyed lots of cousin time including swimming, feeding ducks at the lake, eating great food, and playing games. Unfortunately Rich caught the 24 hr puking bug, which left him damaged for a good 4 days or so. He was only really out for one day, the day we didn't do much so, we were happy to have him halfway back for our day at raging waters. The kids totally loved all the kiddie areas there, and totally rocked some waterslides myself. Gotta love girl time :) I did the 2 most intense rides there, so I feel pretty accomplished!!! I can't say I wasn't bruised the next day though.... haha. It was so much fun to hang out with family and we can't wait till next time. Now we are home and still have family here with us! We are so blessed :)

Oh and last but not least, here are a few of the women of "sean's smokehouse & bbq" in all our glory, enjoy :)