We are building a house!!!

We have been working for a few months to get our construction loan going, but it finally finished about a week and half ago! We broke ground the same day we finalize the loan. We debated back and forth about which lot to get and which neighborhood to build in. Ultimately we chose the first lot we ever considered. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the view! We are in the back corner of the neighborhood. There wont be anything built behind us in the fields for a LONG time. There are plans for a road to be built directly behind our house one day, but not for many years, and to the left there are lots of fields. That is the army depot land so nothing will be built there for a long time if ever. I love how it is quiet and I feel like we are in the country, but really we are just in a back corner. Check out that view!

Excavated!

Can you tell I am excited?!

Andrew standing in our future basement

We are very excited for this next chapter in our lives and we feel blessed to have this opportunity. We are very thankful for our family who is helping us with this!

Matthew got Tubes

A few weeks ago my sweet baby boy got tubes. Everyone said he would be so much happier and a completely different baby because he would feel so much better. Well, he is the happiest baby in the world so even though he had back to back ear infections for over 3 months he was still so happy, he slept through the night and all around just a great baby. Now that he has the tubes he is still happy as can be. Not much changed, but I am glad he isn't in pain anymore. The surgery went great. We got the hospital at 6:00am. He was a little confused as to what was going on, but as long as I was holding him he was fine.

The second I set him down though, he screamed. He got a little bored waiting for the doctor so they gave me a wagon to give him a ride in. He liked it for about thirty seconds, but then he cried for me to hold him again. The hardest part was handing him over to the nurse outside of the O.R. He looked so sad and his big blue eyes were so sad. It ripped my heart out. I don't think I could have done it if it had been a serious surgery. The surgery only took a few minutes and they let me back into the recovery room about 30 seconds after he got there after his surgery. That is one of the pros to doing it in a tiny hospital. He calmed down as soon as he got his bottle and me to cuddle. I have a wonderful sister in law who took the twins for the day so I was able to give Matthew all my attention while he recovered. The next day he was back to chasing his sisters around and being my happy little guy.

On a completely different note, look at that awesome hair! I love his curly hair!!! It brown, blond and even a little red! It kills me with those curls. It is always out of control and I just love it!

Girls Weekend

A few weeks ago my mom, sisters and I had a girls weekend. It was a blast! We have been wanting to do this for a LONG time, but between having babies and life happening we kept pushing it off, but luckily we finally decided to just do it. And seriously, it was so much fun! I LOVE these ladies. They are awesome and I am so grateful to have them in my life! 

They all drove up from St. George and I met them in Salt Lake. We ate dinner at the Cheesecake factory (Delicious!).  Morgan ordered a chicken salad and we all about died when it came out. It was almost bigger then her :)

After dinner we did a little shopping at the mall and then went back to our hotel room to relax. This is my awesome sister Kristine! We had some good times talking and laughing.

The next morning we went to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point. Here we are riding around in the golf cart. The three of us (Me, Morgan, Marsha - I couldn't have asked for better sister in laws. These ladies are great! My brothers did good) anyways, we had fun waving to people as we rode around on the back. We were even called the princesses by strangers as we did the royal wave.

 Kristine and I striking a pose in the middle of a field.

 Me, Morgan, My mom

 Kristine and I

 My mom, Kristine, Marsha, Me, Morgan

 Marsha, Morgan, Me

 Me, Morgan, my mom, Marsha, Kristine

After the festival we went to the outlets and shopped, then we drove around and shopped pretty much everywhere. It was great! We went to dinner that night with my Aunt Karla and her daughters who live in Provo. The next morning we went our separate ways and our wonderful weekend came to an end. It was a quick weekend, but since all of us have little kids it was all we could manage, but we intend to do it more often. 

St. George Fun

Andrew has been pretty busy with work for the past month or so. He is starting to slow down a bit so we get to see him most nights again, but for a while he left before we all woke up and was home after the kids went to bed and sometimes after I went to bed. Andrew knew he was going to have a crazy week at work a few weeks ago so we took the opportunity to go down to St. George and enjoy some really warm weather and spend some time with my family. I am glad we did because he ended up working 72 hrs that week! He's crazy!! I have to brag about him for a minute ;) He works so hard to provide for our family which allows me to stay home with our kids. He is doing so well at his job I am so proud of him! Even though it isn't his dream job he still works so hard and gives it his all. He not only impresses me but all those he works with. He is a pretty great guy! OK OK, on to the pictures of our St. George trip.

These pictures pretty much some of our trip. Sunshine, happiness, and LOVING grandma time. These 2 girls adore their grandma and they were in heaven all week!

Addie purple, Emma pink

Our trip started out a little bumpy. I woke up the first morning with a terrible earache. Luckily my sister was willing to take care of my kids so I could go to the doctor. I was in so much pain, it gave me A LOT more sympathy for my poor kids since they have gotten a lot of ear infections lately (6 ear infection between the three of them in the past 3 months and Matthew had some painful fluid stuck in his ears for a few weeks...poor kids). Anyways turns out I had an ear infection. Luckily my ear drum burst later that day and it relieved a lot of pressure and it started feeling better. Unluckily I am still dealing with problems from my eardrum bursting but it is slowly healing and getting better. Our trip may have started out a little bumpy but it quickly turned around and we had a great time! The highlight of the trip for the girls was when they got to go to my Uncle Chets house and ride one of his horses, princess. Emma loves everything horse and she loves everything princess so the two combined was a dream come true for her. She jumped on the horse so quickly. I was shocked! She didn't even hesitate. She can't get within arms length of cats, dogs, and chicks without freaking out and trembling, but she had no fears about getting up on the horse by herself and riding it around (while my uncle led with the reigns). 

Happiest girl in the world!

This was about 2 seconds after she got on the horse. She was a little cautious but nonetheless very excited. 

Here are some videos of Emma ridding the horse.

Adelyn was a bit more hesitant. She didn't want to get on the horse at first, but she changed her mind after she saw her sister riding the horse around like a pro. She had a lot of fun riding it but she didn't want to stay on too long, but she did go for al little ride. Here is a video of Adelyn.

Adelyn riding the horse.

The entire time Adelyn was riding the horse Emma kept asking to get back on. She was happy to jump back on as soon as Adelyn wanted to get off.

Emma did not want to get off the horse!

Once Emma took another ride I tried to convince Adelyn to go for another ride but she was scared. I finally convinced her to get on with Emma and the two took a short last ride together. 

Emma on back, Addie on front.

Matthew even got a chance to sit on the horse with one of my cousins.

A BIG Thank you to Uncle Chet for letting us ride his horse!!! We had such a great time!

It was Andrew and I's 5 year anniversary while I was in St. George. I was hesitant be 400 miles away from Andrew on our 5 year anniversary but we both knew Andrew was going to be busy working all day and night Thursday and Friday so sadly we didn't get to spend our anniversary together but my sweet husband sent me some beautiful flowers. 

When I asked my girls if they wanted to go to St. George they both exclaimed YES! and Emma looked at me and said "I want to go to grandma greats house!" Both of my girls love their Grandma great so much! I don't blame them, I love my grandma so much! She is such a wonderful kind person full of so much wisdom and love.

Emma, Grandma Great (Grandma Nina) and Adelyn in her arms.

Easter!

We have had a great Easter weekend. We had a family party with Andrews family and an easter egg hunt at the park with all their Stagg cousins, some easter crafts with cousins earlier this week and today we dyed easter eggs!

Potato painting/stamping. They were suppose to look like easter eggs. 

Ready to hunt some easter eggs!
Addie on Left, Emma on Right

Rummaging through their treasures!
Emma on left, Addie on right

Emma

Addie

Cousins happily going through their candy and eggs

Emma Easter egg coloring

As would be expected, they loved it!

This sweet boy has the curliest hair! When he gets out of the bath it is SO CUTE! I had to capture it and share. No, his hair is not that red it's just the poor lighting.

RaNdoM Happenings

We have been up to the usual the past few weeks. Lots of playing and having fun. Here are some pictures of randomness from the past few weeks.

For the past few months this slide has had permanent residence in our living room. It has been WAY too cold to go outside and play for more then 5 minutes so we brought the fun inside!

Every once in a while the sun comes out and we LOVE going out to play. This was the first time all 3 kiddos could sit in the wagon without crying. It was wonderful to be mobile with all three... even if it only last a few minutes.

Daddy bedtime stories are THE BEST! P.S. Isn't their room adorable. There is something about normal things in tiny size that is just so cute!

This sums up my Emma girl completely. She is a cute crazy fun loving happy little girl!

 These girls love their baby brother

 He loves them and tolerates all their constant hugging and kisses most of the time.

Lets be honest though, who could help themselves from loving on this handsome little cutie? Those blue eyes, that smile, he is such a funny happy little guy!

The warm(ish) weather is coming around more and more and these girls are loving every opportunity they have to go to the park. 

 I am one lucky momma! We have a lot of fun together.

 Matthews favorite place to play is in the fridge.

 Adelyn adores her baby brother. She loves to play with him.

There are ducks that live by the lake in Stansbury and we have lots of fun feeding them and running away from them. The girls love to feed the ducks and play with them but they get terrified when the ducks get too close. One duck bit Adelyn the other day. She didn't feed it the bread fast enough so the duck came up to here and helped himself to the bread in her hand. Needless to say she still has not forgiven them.

 Adelyn the diva all pooped out. She fell asleep with her glasses on upside down (according to her that is how you are suppose to wear sunglasses.

Matthew boy figured out how to stand up! It's fitting that the first time he stood up was to reach something on the higher level in the fridge. He is obsessed with the fridge.

Like I said, a bunch of randomness. I am so blessed with such an awesome family! I am one lucky lady! I have some fun postings about our trip to St. George a few weeks ago, our week at the zoo, and easter. Lets hope I can get these post up in a timely manner.