10 years!

June 5, 2014--Paul and I celebrated 10 years of marriage. I tease Paul that it has been a LONG ten years but really I mean that it has been LONG for him! He puts up with lots of my moodiness and crazy town thinking!
To celebrate our anniversary we headed to Las Vegas! We hit the town hard! And by hard, I mean, we wandered the strip, hit a really expensive buffet, went to a Cirque de Soleil show (KA), watched the water show at the Bellagio, and people watched to our hearts content! We stayed in a fancy shmancy hotel room at the Venetian.  It was so fun to be just Paul and Tara again for a night--not mom and dad! We talked and laughed about our highs and lows in our marriage. We took more selfies than is even appropriate to admit to! We remembered our long nights in the hospital with Dylan (sharing a room--sticking to the plan of pretending to be asleep so the nurses wouldn't kick one of us out--not showering because we just knew the doctor was coming in to release us--and on and on!), our first night home with each baby, our honeymoon night and the cheap hotel Paul's dad got for us, buying a mini van on our 7th anniversary, and being completely happy with our three beautiful children.
We were going to go to the Las Vegas temple but on our way there, we got a dreaded phone call from my sister (who was watching our kids) letting us know that Dylan had the barfs! That cut our trip a few hours short. We raced home, repacked our bags and hit the road again to rescue my sister!

 

Baseball

This year Connor and Dylan both played baseball! They had so much fun. This was the first year I split them up and let them play on their own team. Connor has been pushing for a little more independence and wanting to do things like play with friends, play sports, and hang out--without Dylan and Sam! I love that he is wanting a little independence.

Connor got to play with a whole slew of kids from the neighborhood and school. I think he knew every kid on the team. He practiced hard and it really paid off. He hit the ball every time he was up to bat this year--ok, except twice. He was a hittin fool this year! He is catching on to the fielding side of the game as well. He played awesome and had a great time with all his buddies.

Dylan loves baseball! He loves all sports really, but he is so fun to watch play baseball. He can crank the ball pretty hard--now we just gotta get him movin those big old feet! He too, had so much fun playing on a team with lots of kids from school and in our neighborhood! His coaches were so fun and really taught their team about the game. Dylan loved wearing his bright yellow team hat all season long!

Summer Break: Day 2

Day two of summer break started out like this:

Lots of shoveling, and more wheelbarrows of rocks and dirt than I can even count! But it was totally worth it! The end result is just the beginning to an awesome summer break spent in the sun at our house....

I bought the ginormous pool at Target two years ago. It was on clearance and I just had to have it for the kids...and then I was too scared to set it up. Now, two years later we are ready to party! It is going to be a lot of work keeping it up and our water bill this month...well lets just say the kids will NOT be running in the sprinklers at all this summer! We are so excited to have a pool--we have to learn the ropes on keeping it clean but we have "pool friends" who are experts so we'll be hitting them up for advice!

Bring on the summer fun!

Happy Birthday Dylan

Man oh Man! It has been quite the day. Today is the first day of summer break and Dylan's birthday. I had high hopes of sleeping in--until at least 8:00--that was definitely wishful thinking on my part...both boys showed up in my bedroom at 6:07 this morning! I think they were both a little bit excited about Dylan's birthday party today!
Dylan picked a sports birthday party. He had quite the crew here. We hit a football helmet pinata, played with giant water balloons, ate pizza and breadsticks, and had a dance off on the wiiU. His friends got him some really fun presents this year! He has been riding his bike, playing xbox, jumping on the tramp, eating popsicles and playing with friends all day long....I'm pretty sure today has been a great day for him.
We got him a remote control car, a flipper for his bike, some spoke thingys for his bike, and Connor picked out Trash Packs??? (random boy toys!), and a video game.

Happy birthday Dylan! I am so proud of the young man that you are becoming. You are polite, a good friend, an excellent reader, and a great brother! I hope you have had a wonderful day today!