Family night at the Temple!

We headed down to Temple Square for family night last night and had a blast!  

This basically sums up Tallie at 10 months!  EVERYTHING in her mouth, LOL!  She is one spunky girl.  I think she is basically a complete opposite of Lance at this age.  She is high energy, spunky, VERY LOUD, very smiley, laughs all day long, has to be moving all the time, and can't sit still for one second.  She won't eat any baby food or take a bottle.  She only likes what we are eating and drinks out of a sippy.  She makes every day exciting.  Love ya Tallie Tootles! 

I love this picture of Lance!  He is a thinker and takes time to notice the beauty, sounds, noises and environment around him. 

We had to take this as blackmail if they every got married!  Ella won't let go of her man!!! 

If you haven't been down to Temple Square lately to see the flowers, you must.  They are UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!! 

"We like to Party..."

Bring on Spencer's 30th Birthday Party 2010!

I had a "Rock Star" themed birthday party for Speen's 30th. We had people come dressed as their favorite rock star/singer, and we 'rocked' the night away!

Yours Truly - Tina Turner and Steve Tyler welcoming the guests!!!

Spencer's favorite food is "breakfast food" so we went with it - we had a fruit and yogurt parfait bar, fruit platter, cinnamon sticks and his mom's famous stuffed french toast and syrup!  YUMMY!

My brother and his wife (fresh off a float down the Weber River) were the "Beach Boys!" 

What can I say, if it is going to rain, at least we got a rainbow.  At the last minute we moved everything from the backyard to underneath our covered patio, and I must say it worked out well!

Tina and "Lady Gaga!"

Cindy Lauper!!! 

Tina walking down the "red carpet!"

A pregnant "Jamie Lynn Spears!"

Enrique Iglesias, Steve Tyler, and Tim McGraw

Dolly Parton

Billy Idol

Let the Karaoking and Dancing begin!!!

Sir Elton John!

"Girls just wanna have Fun!" 

What can I say, "We like to Party!"

               Happy Birthday Speen!

My Birthday Boys!

Spence turned 30 this last week! We had a really fun day on his birthday. He was able to golf 30 holes - yes 30, perfect start of his day. Then we got sushi for lunch, he went to work and had a fun dinner that night with my family.

We love our daddy!


I love that my boys birthdays are two weeks apart. It makes July such a fun month!!!

Oh Spence, what to say! Look at you - what a fun and crazy guy you are! You make life super fun. I love your adventure and enthusiasm towards life. I love that you are always up for having a good time. I love that you are such an incredible husband and dad. I love your voice and that you will always sing to us and that you utilize your talents. I love your testimony and what a good example you are to us. I love how you get excited about new opportunities and put your whole heart into them. I am so grateful for you - Happy Birthday Babe! I hope the 30's are "AMAZING!"


And my Mr. Lance! You are such a sweet little guy. You are very easy-going. You are so nice to Tallie and are the best big brother. They call the past year the "terrible twos," well, maybe you were terrible two times. Seriously, you are so amazing. I love your desire to learn and grow. You love learning. You mastered your numbers, letters, colors, alphabets, sounds, etc months ago, and are now starting to read words on your flash cards. You memory is incredible too. You love to play instruments and listen to music or to have people sing to you. You love your family, church with the guys, playing on daddy's ipad "the big shape game," and playing with friends. You can be silly and so funny! I want to tape a video camera to you so I can capture the funny things you say every day! You are such a joy to have in our family. Love you Lance!!!

You are so easy-going that you don't even mind wearing diapers... but let's change that soon buddy, ok?

Lance's Birthday!

Lance turned 3 on July 15th, and what a special day we had!!!

The Saturday before his birthday we had Spencer's family over for a little party, since they were going to be out of town on his birthday.

Here is Kelli and Lorin's little family and by little I mean 5 kids 6 and under! Wowsers, I can't imagine that, they are amazing parents!


Here is Lance wearing his special birthday hat!


Lance loved his pink cake decorated with skittles!


Then came his real birthday and the day could not have been better! Lance had been telling everyone the whole week "my birthday is on Thursday, July 15th!" It was too cute.

Spence and I blew up a huge pack of balloons and taped them all over the walls and filled the hallway out of his room, so when he woke up he was surrounded by balloons, he loved it!

He looks so old and handsome, I can't believe it!

For breakfast I put a candle in his waffles and sang to him. I think my families birthdays are my favorite days of the year!!!

Playing with his new toy!


Next, our friend Jessica invited us over for swimming and fabulous lunch with some of our favorite friends.





Later that night we had my family over for dinner, and then some of our friends came over for a little party!

Here is my dad with Tallie.


My parents gave him this cool soccer net.

Miss Tallie Tootles with my grandma!


Me and my friend Leslie!


Mommy and her big 3 year old!


Our neighbors are pro soccer players, they were showing Lance a thing or two about playing soccer!


And now the pinata! Wow, what a story. I swear every kid took a whack at the pinata and it wouldn't break. Finally Speen had to take one of his golf clubs and take a full swing to get it down. And the best news - it didn't even hurt his ribs, wahoo!





Love the cutting of the cake, singing happy birthday, and blowing out the candles, isn't that the best part of the night?





My parents giving Tallie her first and second and about 20 bites of ice cream! Yes, she did end up throwing it up!


Owen, one of Lance's friends. I really hope Lance gets potty trained in time for school, so he and Owen can be in the same preschool class.


Tallie literally sat on the grass like this for 30 minutes just totally caught up in all of the attention, plus she kept her party hat on!!!

Opening presents.


Me and my besties!


My love!

And Lance and his buddy Fatau!


Thanks to everyone for their love, support and birthday wishes to Lance!!!