Harry Potter

The last movie came and gone. I have been going to Harry Potter movies on opening night for almost a decade now. It's no secret that I am a Harry Potter nerd. I will be one of those weirdos going to Harry Potter conventions in 20 years. Yep, that's right. Anyways, it was fantastic. I loved it. I might be a little sad that I was never accepted to Hogwarts;) Good times were had.

Six years ago...

...this was Ezra

And this is him today!

We celebrated his birthday a couple weeks ago by going to Chuck E Cheeses. He had been talking about it for months. He wanted a cowboy theme. This is what he told me "I want a REAL cowboy theme not Woody from Toy Story!" So funny! Anyways, I think he had a great time!

We also had a celebration at my parents and of course he was spoiled:)

I'm trying really hard to deal with all the crap life has been throwing my way lately. It's okay to cry every once and a while, right? Well, I hate crying so I'm over it:) The scriptures have been on my mind the past little while so why is it so hard for me to read on a regular basis, I don't know but it is. Doesn't make much sense to me either. My goal.... read everyday. EVERYDAY! I need that spiritual uplift everyday. So, with that said there are two scriptures I want to share. I'm not trying to be all churchy but this is for me.

D&C 24:8 Be ^apatient in ^bafflictions, for thou shalt have many; but ^cendure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the ^dend of thy days.

D&C:7-8 My son, ^apeace be unto thy soul; thine ^badversity and thine afflictions shall be but a ^csmall moment;
And then, if thou ^aendure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy ^bfoes.

I love the scriptures. Makes my heart happy.

Just for record. I'm fine. My family is fine. Everything is fine. I have so much to be grateful for. More so than I deserve. I just don't think I handle stress very well.

one year older

First, I have to say I have the best parents ever! I just had a lovely birthday and my parents got us a room at the Golden Nugget. Mainly for us to use the pool. The pool is amazing! You can swim up to a shark tank. It's almost like you are swimming with the sharks. Almost:) The kids were in heaven. I even rode down the slide a few times:) It goes through the shark tank so that's pretty cool. I had a great time and I'm pretty sure the fam did too. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the pool but here are the few I did get.

Ezra's movin on up

I can't believe Ezra is going to be in first grade! Holy moly, when did I get old enough to have a 6 year old. Weird. Ezra has grown so much in the past year. He is a little sponge right now. Kindergarten was good to him. He loved it! I think he had a little crush on his teacher too. We couldn't have asked for a better Kindergarten teacher. She was amazing!!

Looking good

Family Picture

Ezra and his teacher Ms. Matecki

Abby and Ezra

The best part was getting home and Ezra being so excited to take a picture with dad in their graduation outfits:) Aaron is a good sport

Picture time

Here is an update of the last couple months. First thing is our camera completely crapped out on us oh back in February-ish so don't mind the sucky quality pictures:)
We celebrated Aaron's birthday last week. No pictures. Lame, I know. I love love love my man. We celebrated by doing a session at the temple followed by lunch at La Palapa, taking a little nap, going down to Fremont street to go on the zip line but after watching it we decided it wasn't worth our money. It's really short. So we people watched instead and for the first time tried fried twinkies and oreos. Yum! After walking around a while we went to dinner at a place in China Town and for some reason I am blanking on the name but it was amazing! Then we followed that with a game of bingo and ended the night at the drive inns. It was a great day. Hopefully Aaron feels the same way:) I love you babe!
Mother's Day was good. I was spoiled. I love my boys and I love that I am their mom. I'm one lucky lady. I also want to say I have the best mom in the world. I love her! She is such a good example of the mom I want to be:)I've been trying to do more crafts with the kids so one night we made duct tape wallets. Don't let the look on Ezra's face fool you. He loved it, I swear:)Easter was very low key but good. Lucky for the kids, uncle Eric and aunt Whitney gave them Easter baskets because the Easter bunny was a total slacker on his duties.Lincoln fell and cut his head open. We don't have insurance so we decided it didn't look bad enough to take him to the emergency room. So, this is what we came up with. Ghetto, I know but it worked.And we found him like this one night.First time going to the drive inns as a family. We pumped up our air mattress and all crowded in the back of the truck and watched Rango. Good times:)

Ragnar Socal

I did another relay race last weekend. It was a blast! We started in Huntington Beach and ended in Coronado. It was a total of 200 miles and I ran 21 of those miles. Fun fun and good times:) Our team name was "I've made a huge mistake" it's from the TV show Arrested Development. If you haven't seen it, watch it because you are missing out on some funny stuff. I loved our team. I love all the girls I ran with. My van was crazy:) I so wish I got more pictures but this is all I got. Some of my favorite moments were: My team not being there at 2 of my exchanges! HA! I must be super fast or something;), People thinking we were all super creepers because we had analrapist written on our car (note back to Arrested Development, it's not was it seems), me signing a waver for my 2 leg because there were possible dangers like rattlesnakes, hornets and dragons what?? Ha just kidding but not really that leg was a beast, some guy running next to me saying I had a good pace so I asked him what it was and he looked at his nifty little garmin and I was running a 9 min pace!! That's fast for me and being in a van full of awesome girls. I do want to mention that Megan got so sick after her 2 leg, she was puking her guts out all night. The next morning she said she wanted to run her last leg and I thought she was crazy but she insisted and did awesome!
Yeah, I'm done with my first leg!Van 1 (minus Joni she was running) at the Angels stadium at least I think that's what it's called.Van one hanging out at Lake Elsinore while van 2 was running is some nasty heatMe getting pumped for my 9 milerJoni, Me and Heather enjoying our victory dinner at some mexican place. Delish but note to self: running 21 miles then stuffing your face with mexican food = a really bad idea.Missy, Melissa and Katie ( and Megan isn't in these pics because the poor girl was sick)Now I am ready for a little Redrock relay action in September:)