I'm a soccer mom!

Today was Bailey's second soccer game. We signed her up through the Parks and rec to play soccer with the 3-5 year olds. On Saturday mornings, they practice 30 minutes, then play against another team for 30 minutes. The little kids are so cute running around not sure which way to kick the ball or exactly what to do. Bailey would stand with her hands in her pockets just looking around until we would tell her to run after the ball.


Bailey and Nick waiting for everyone to arrive

Bailey running after the ball. She scored a goal this game and one last game too!

Team meeting

The Green Machines

After the game, Bailey had a princess birthday party to attend that she has been looking forward to all week!

A wonderful Easter weekend

We had wonderful weather today in the Treasure Valley. It was nice and sunny and warm. We had a great Easter weekend filled with Egg hunts, A ward Breakfast, egg dying, a perfect ham dinner and of course church filled with lessons on the Savior.

A few pictures from the eventful weekend


Bailey, Nick and their friend Lexi at our early morning ward breakfast and egg hunt.



Nick enjoying dying Easter eggs for the first time


Bailey woke up first and is waiting by her basket





Family Easter egg hunt in the back yard. The kids enjoyed this one the best because the eggs were actually hidden and they loved finding them!





Even Bentley was enjoying himself in the nice warm sun! Do you see the egg behind him?



Here are their Easter pictures ( I wish I had remembered to take some before church this morning, oh well....)

YMCA vegetable garden

This month I was in charge of the preschool field trip. I decided to ask the YMCA if we could come and learn something about nutrition and being healthy. They taught the kids about eating healthy and then let them help plant seeds in the YMCA garden. The vegetables from the garden will be used to help feed local families who are in need.

Bailey and her friend Sydnee


Nick loves playing in the dirt and was happy to help!

Nicks 2 year Birthday pictures

My little baby has turned into such a big boy!






I sure do love this guy!

Largest caucas in the US

On Super Tuesday, I woke up and read an email that my dad had sent me telling me and my siblings to vote. My dad has always wanted us to do our civic duty and be up to date in politics and news and VOTE.

Well this year in Idaho, we voted at a caucas, not a small polling station. This caucas was in downtown Boise at the Boise State Taco Bell Arena. It started at 7. Since I knew the kids would not be good while waiting, only one of us could vote and Trent happily volunteered to stay with the kids.

I arrived at 5:30 (so I didn't have to wait in lines in the freezing weather) and happily waited in the warm arena until 7. Then we got the announcment that there were still a few thousand people outside waiting in line so we had to wait until they got in. We ended up having almost 10,000 people in attendance, the biggest caucas in the US.

About 45 minutes later everyone was in. After a few short speeches from each candidate's representative, we started the voting process. We were each given a newly minted penny, and dropped it in the bucket of the one person we wanted.

Then the counting started, counting each penny in what seemed like hundreds of small buckets. Then we waited another hour and a half (Squished between people on both sides, in the middle of a row) And, If one person did not win by 51%, the process would start over eliminating the lowest candidate, and so on and so on until there was one winner.

By 10:00 I was starving, thirsty, hot and tired. Finally the results were in and LUCKILY Romney won with just over 51%.

I sat for 5 hours by myself and by the last couple hours I was bored out of my mind. This will be the LAST time that I will caucas by myself,and maybe, just maybe will I go back if I can go with someone else.

It was really interesting how the process worked, but my goodness, it was a LONG process. Another 45 minutes to get home and end the evening at 11:30. What a long night!

Nick's 2 years old!

I can't believe that Nick just turned 2! That means that we have now been in Idaho for 2 years also! Time has sure been flying for us here and we have been enjoying the ride.

We had a small family party for Nick and invited over a few of our friends to have some pizza, cake and ice cream. Nick was sure happy to play with the kids.

A little fun fact about Nick- He loves sports. It's weird since his mommy and daddy aren't exactly sporty people, but Nick seems to be. He loves football and basketball and has to have any type of ball that he finds.


Here he is getting ready for his party!


His basketball and baseball cupcakes!


And his football cake!








and ejoying his new toys!



Happy Birthday Baby boy, I love you so much!

Daddy daughter Ball

When it was announced a few weeks ago that our ward was doing a Daddy Daughter Ball, Bailey was so excited to go. She has talked about this to everyone...including a sales lady at Ross who heard every detail about the ball that Bailey was going to with her daddy. She found the perfect dress, asked mommy if she could wear her wedding tiara, and helped daddy make the perfect dessert. Daddy also took her to dinner beforehand and Bailey got her favorite, cheese enchiladas.


Here is my princess all ready for the ball...



Her and matching daddy



And...a few after pictures...a little worn out


And Tired!


Trent said that Bailey had a blast and even got him on the dance floor to boogy with her a bit!