Its a record. This is the longest I've gone without posting!!

Mothers day. My sweet mother with

a few of her grand kids playing outside.

Ranger rides are always fun.

Leah, Milabelle, Kim A, Brooke, Me & Casen.

Darin and his old college roomies, doing man things.

Drew not wanting to fall asleep like his brother,

so to keep him from screaming and crying

I gave him my wallet and he had a blast.

Memorial Day weekend on our way up

to Pinedale. I love the open mouth.

Tiffany is moving to Payson. So a bunch of us girls got together

to show her how much we love her and how much

we will miss her. Only 5 of us stayed overnight at the

JW Marriott in Desert Ridge and ate way too

much junk food, and stayed up pretty late. Swimming, laying

out the next day and shopping. It was so much fun.

I wish I could do that every weekend. She is the one

on the right end. Love you Tiff!

You better visit often!

Drew's first birthday. We invited some

friends and family and had pizza and cupcakes.

Fun Date night. A view of Tempe behind us. We hiked ASU mountain.

Baby of the family at Graduation.

Emilee, Josh, Jenna, me & Jaime in front.

I have not been a very good blogger lately. And I really don't care either. Sometimes when I'm on the computer I feel like I should write something, but it never happens. I have lots to write about too, but I just don't feel like it. I feel like doing other things instead. projects, house work, playing baseball with Casen, chasing after Drew, spending time with sisters and friends. Maybe one of these days I will get back around to the blogging world at full force. I would like to do that. When I do, I see a new look, and a new vibe to go with it all. But don't get excited because it won't happen soon.

But while I'm on here, I will post a little and tell you what we have been up to. We are having fun. I love my life and feel so blessed to have a sweet family to be here on earth with. I'm so lucky to have Darin as such a great support. He is easy to love. And I still admire him every bit as much as I did when I first met him. With him and our boys I feel complete and ready to conquer anything in this life.

Casen is hard these days. He makes me want to pull my hair out and when I hear him scream and yell and whine, and start a tantrum my heart starts beating so fast and i have to walk away and go hide just to calm down. How long does this go on? I'm so tired of tantrums and screaming for no reason. He can be so fun and sweet, but when he's in his crazy mode I am in crazy mode. Lately I will do whatever it takes to stop him or calm him down. A cold shower fully clothed has done the trick a few times so far. Heaven help me with this little one!

Drew is a sweet as candy. Such a joy to have around. He is becoming feisty. He is walking all over the place. He's doing so well. He hasn't crawled in weeks now. He's not a fan of all foods like Casen was at this age. Casen would eat ANYTHING and now hardly eats anything, so I hope that this will be the opposite for Drew and because he doesn't eat much now that later in a year or two he will eat everything and anything. But having sweet Drew while I have to deal with Casen is a blessing. It balances out my emotions and helps me deal with things better. I just hope Casen stops his fits before Drew gets to that stage because if they are like that together, then I QUIT!! No not really but I will just cry.... A lot.

Lately we have enjoyed watching Casen at his swim lessons. He is doing to well. Watching Drew and Casen interact and play. They are becoming buddies, it's too cute. Casen always asks where Drew is, and Drew is always following Casen. Hanging out with friends, having lazy Saturdays and Sundays. We had a fun Memorial day weekend with friends in Pinedale that was cut short due to bad allergies, and the stomach flu. My parents went to Hawaii for their first time with my brother Josh and his friends for their senior trip. My dad had kidney stones while there and had to be in the hospital for a day or two. Sad. Its a good thing they had plenty of days left after that to make up for lost time while they were at the hospital. My sweet hard working parents needed and deserved that trip. I'm so glad they went.